Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CARDINAL MCCLOsKY was seventy five
years old on the 10th. Many callers Of
fered congratulations.
CHICAGO was visited by disastrous
conaagration on the 21st, in the burning
of the Langham Hotel. Several lives were
lost.
THE Shenandoah County Bank, at
Woodstock, Va, has suspended.
The fourth Italian flotilla for the Red
Sea was about to start on the 22d.
THE French remain practically in state
of siege at Kee Lung.
HEAVY snow drifts were reported in
some of the Eastern and Middle States on
the 21st.
The paper of Oliver Bros. g. Phillips, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, has been signed by all
the creditors, and they will resume.
ATTORNEY GARLAND has cut
down the force of examiners in the De-
partment of Justice.
The Continental Sugar Refinery store
house at South Boston with 10000 barrels
of sugar burned on the 21st.
In collision at Lockport, N. Y, on the
21st, an engine and fifteen freight cars
were wrecked and set on fire.
OLA uuuUrcU Ll6u are tuTOWu OuU OIL Gill
ployment by the shutting down of nail
mills at Pottstown, Pa.
IT is reported that the Prime Minister of
Russia has resigned.
REPORTS that China has made over
lures for peace are discredited in Paris.
ON his march up the Nile the Mudir of
Dongola is being joined by many friendly
Arabs.
THR Delaware River at Easton, Pa, was
frozen from shore to shore, on the 21st, the
first time during the season.
A LARGE portion of the State Capitol
building at Trenton, N. j., was burned on
the 21st. The chancery records were de-
stroyed.
THE British will send a powerful feet to
the Baltic within few days if the neces-
sity arises.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has called
for the designations of a number of Post
| Office Inspectors in order to reduce ex-
penses.
| A RUSSIAN military organ declares that
| the English must be cleared out of the
Turcoman Territory.
GENERAL GRANT receives about twenty
applications day for his autograph, but
it is physical impossibility for him to
comply with the request.
OF the present members OF the British
House of Commons it is said that almost
half will decline to stand for re- election.
GENERAL HATCH telegraphed to Wash
| ington on the 21st that about 800 boomers
| were congregating at Coffeyville, Kas.,
with the intention of moving into the ter
| ,-itn lie oot \,
| GENERAL GRAHAM has received the pipe
| line apparatus necessary TO furnish his
army with a full water supply during the
march to Berber.
The r. E. Lee Camp of Confederate
veterans at Richmond, Va, adopted a
preamble and resolutions rendering Gen
eral Grant their heartfelt sympathies in
his severe affliction, and the hope that he
may soon regain his health.
A SKATING rink at Girardville, Pa, was
blown up by dynamite on the night of the
21st. No one was hurt.
SIR HENRY PARKES, British Minister to
Pekin, is dead.
THE heaviest snow-storm in ten years
ragged at Fortress Monroe, Va, all day on
the 22d.
THE foundation of the monument to King
Victor Emanuel was laid at Rome on the
22d.
FRITZ SCHNEIDER, Of Allegheny City,
was found on the 22d in an clubhouse in
badly mashed condition.
The French sustained loss of 1893 killed
and wounded at Kee Lung in the recent en-
gagement.
The Mahdi is said to have sentenced
many natives to death for not revealing
treasure supposed to be hidden at Khar-
toum.
COMMUNISTS of New York celebrated the
fourteenth anniversary of the Paris COM
mune with ball and concert on the 22d.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has rented a
pew in the First Presbyterian Church, of
which Rev. DR.. Sunderland is pastor.
GERMAN day was celebra ated at the New
Orleans Exposition. Large attendance. A
congratulatory dispatch was sent Emperor
William.
MRS. E. B. CROKER, of Sacramento,
Gala, has proposed to deed her art gall
lery, valued at 100000, to the city, pro-
vided 100000 is subscribed by citizens.
JUDGE GRESHAM was reported lying i'll
at Chicago on the 23d.
M. V. MONTGOMERY, the new Commits
sioner OF Patents, qualified on the 23d.
AN Anarchist was arrested at Berne,
Switzerland, on the 23d, for posting infiam-
matory placards.
TWO young children were literally
roasted alive at Ithica, Mich, on the 23d.
The visible supply of wheat on the 23d
was S,452, S4S bushels; corn, 1874, ,414
bushels.
The decisions of the recent Plenary
Council at Baltimore were presented to the
Pope on the 23d
CHARLOTTE COOPER, daughter of j.
Fennimore Cooper, died at Albany, N. Y,
on the 23d.
SECRETARY MANNING is taking steps to
reduce the force in his department.
PATRICK LEARY, charged with being a
dynamiter, was sentenced at Cork, on the
23d, to twelve months imprisonment.
THE glove fight between Jack Burke and
Alf Greenfield, at Chicago, on the Esd, re-
suited in draw.
THE Swedish diet has voted to admit at
Of hot