Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the Bulgarians were defeated.
REV. w. w. Downs and Mrs. Annie
Taber have been indicted by the Boston
Grand Jury on three counts for adultery.
TWELVE persons were burned to death
and number injured in tenement-house
fire at Plymouth, England.
THE funeral of Louis Riel took place
on the 18th at st. Boniface, French sub
urb across the river from Winnepeg. 1t
was attended by a large number of rela-
tiyes and half breed sympathizers.
WIN. REYNOLDS, a one-armed veteran
was stabbed to death by his son during a
drunken quarre, at Ciarksville, o., ON the
18th.
DURING the year just drawing to close
1905 building permits have been issued in
Washington, many of them for first-class
residences.
THOMAS G. MORROW, editor Of the Wash
ington Cd. Co. Gazette, has been arrested,
charged with conspiracy in procuring the
appointment of Government clerk.
MISS MoLLIE Villas, daughter Of Post
master General Villas, has been elected to
the Presidency of the society OF Washing
ton young ladies who annually give a
Christmas dinner to poor children. Nellie
Arthurwas formerly President of the So
ciety.
| THE finding of a treaty between France
and Burmah, at Mandalay, has been con-
| firmed.
Mr.. GLADSTONE publishes an open letter
thanking those who have congratulated
| him on the results of the elections They
| are too numerous for individual replies.
COLONEL GoLINDA, with 200 revolution
| lists, had a fight with the municipal author
tiles at Linares, Mexico, on the 18th, in
which the revolutionists were defeated.
| HOSTILE Apaches, after numbering two
men at Lilies Cabin, N. NJ, were surprised
by troops who wounded several of the In
dians, and it is thought, killed two
A SON of Messonier, the celebrated
painter, was badly bitten by a rabid dog
and was sent to Pasteur at Paris for treat
ment who says his recovery is certain.
THE French parliamentary committee is
| equally divided on the question of raising
| the duty on American cereals and cattle.
| THE spinners' strike at Woonsocket, r.
| l., has ended.
THE sacred white elephant of Burmah is
dead, and there is mourning in the land.
MANDAN, Oak, asks Congress for au-
thority to tax railroad lands.
THE proposed Baltic Canal will save
twenty -tw 0 hours in time from London to
Baltic ports.
A GAS explosion at the Mill Creek Mine,
| Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 14th seriously
burned number of miners, two fatally.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
| sustained the Utah conviction of Cannon
| for having plurality of wives.
SIR CHARLES dixie says the Radicals
will not obstruct but will endeavor to
shape the Tory policy.
J.O. WEAVER, a business man of York,
Pa, became demented at Dallas, Tex, on
the 14th, and had to be taken charge of.
ATa meeting Of the English Cabinet on
the 14th, Lord Salisbury decided to meet
Parliament and submit a programme for
legislation.
DELEGATE CAINE,Uf Utah, in an elabor-
ate interview in New York, defends the
Mormons and says they are misunder-
stood.
THE English royal family attended me-
mortal services at Frogmore on the 14th,
in honor of the Prince Consort.
SENATORS SHERMAN and Miller and Sec
retary Endicott have offended the Painters
Union of New York by stopping at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, which is being boy
cotted.
MADJID PAsHA, envoy of the Porte, left
Constantinople on the 14th for Philippopo-
lis to confer with Prince Alexander.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 14th
transmitted to the Senate the papers and
70 fba int-
ment of Mr.. Kelly as Minister to Italy and
to Austro- Hungary.
ADvICEs have been received at London
that the Chinese Government has sent
remonstrance to Russia against intrigues
of Russian officers with the Kuldjam Ma
hommedans.
PRINCESS LOUISE and the Marquis OF
Lorne are preparing an article for GOOD
Words on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
THE agricultural group in the French
Chamber of Deputies have resolved to op-
pose the importation Of American salt
meats.
IT is officially announced that the Sails
bury Ministry will take the earliest oppor-
tunity to ascertain whether it enjoys the
confidence Of the House of Commons.
Four persons were drowned at Missig-
moo Bay, Lake Champlain, at Philipsburg,
Quebec, on the 18th. Henry Burke and
Annie Scroggie, a teacher, while skating
broke through the ice, the latter being
saved A blind man named Caderette and
two children while crossing the bay broke
through the ice, and all three were
drowned.
THE Lower house of the Hungarian Diet
has adopted measure providing that the
duration of each Parliament shall be five
years instead Of three, as at present.
SENATOR EDMUNDs presided at meet
ing of the bar of the United States Su-
preme Court on the 14th, called to Sex
press their profound regret at the loss they
have sustained in the death of Hon. Rich
ard 7. Merrick."
THE wrecking tug Winslow arrived at
Port Huron, Mich, on the 18th, with the
passengers and captain of the steamer
Oconto, aground and frozen in near Chari-
tv Island The tug was unable to get
within three miles Of the propeller on ac
count of the ice. Two men were left on