Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

APPLICATIONS nave been received at the
Interior Department from the Globe and Bell
Telephone companies asking for an extern
sion Of the time during which briefs may
be fled in the telephone case. An extern
sion of a few days has been granted by the
Secretary of the Interior.
Two ladies, Mrs. Woodward and Miss
Phillips, were induced to go from Chicago
to Dallas, Tex, on promise of employment,
which they found to be work in variety
dive. This they refused and arc stranded
there.
THE United States Supreme Court me
on the Goth and adjourned until the Sd
inst, in respect to the late Vice-President
Hendricks. Justices Matthews and Blatch-
ford attended the funeral.
WORK is practically suspended in the
Fourth Pool mines on the Monongahela
River, the workmen being intimidated by
the strikers.
THE Porte has asked Prince Alexander
to stop the advance of the Bulgarian
army.
SENIOR NICOLAS AvALLANEDA, EXPIRES.
ident of the Argentine Republic, died at
sea while en- route to Europe.
The steamship Greyhound, trading be-
tween Hong Kong and Pakhoi, was seized
recently by number of Chinese pirates
who had taken passage on board and
watched for a favorable opportunity to
carry out their plan. The Captain was
murdered and thrown into the sea, the
ship plundered and the pirates and their
booty taken off by three junks, two of
which were afterward captured.
JOHN J. KELLY, former employe of
Lord & Taylor, New York, has been ar
rested charged with embezzling $11 900
| from that firm by means of false entries.
| AN attempt was made early on the
morning of the 2Sth to assassinate Mr.. Sam
uel Britain, aged seventy years, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, in the Office of his son, where
| he slept. He was found later uncon-
scious in pool of his own blood from two
pistol shot wounds. The affair is shrouded
in mystery.
! MARcHEsE RITA CANDICE, daughter of
Mario, the tenor, and Grisi, has been sem
fenced to eighteen months Imprisonment
at Berlin for swindling.
! NEWS is received of the killing of Gram
| ston Gregg, formerly of Milwaukee, Wis,
by Charles F. Wahl, at Tin Cup, Col.
THE body of Warren G. Yates, of Oma-
ha, Neb., the Yale student who was blown
out to sea while duck hunting few nights
ago, was found at Batting Hollow, N. Y,
ON the 2Sth.
THE boiler of the Tropic Furnace coal
shaft at jackson, o., exploded on the 2sth,
| killing Andrew Dobbins, day engineer, and
Lincoln Ingles, night engineer. A son of
Dahhinc1 h10xyp Gffu faat hnt ba
not seriously injured.
SENATOR MILLER, of California, is too
| i'll to go to Washington at present.
A SPECIAL messenger, bearing dis
| patches from Queen Victoria to Prince
Alexander, is said to be on the way to
Sofia.
Mr.. GLADSTONE made speech at Car
Isle on the 28th, in which he expressed en-
couragement over the prospect.
THE Jones Hotel and several other build
ings at Omaha, Neb., burned on the 29th
and several persons came near losing their
lives.
MARSHALL CLEMENTS is to be hanged at
Saguache, Col, on the Sd, for the mur-
der of his brother and sister -inlaw.
ELECTION riots are reported from many
places in Ireland.
A CURIOUS story comes from Portland,
Me-, of the failure OF firm caused by
supposed robbery. Investigation showed
that one of the partners a sleep walker,
hid the firms funds, which were after
ward found.
KING ALFoNSo's remains have been
placed in the palace of the Escurial.
ALL is quiet among the Pittsburgh
miners again.
SAVANNAH, Wayne County, N. Y, was
nearly burned out on the 30th.
SERvIA wants peace, but Is not willing
to pay Bulgaria war indemnity to getit.
WIN. .SCAGGs, of Charlottesville, Ind,
committed suicide on the 30th.
THE new Spanish Cabinet has been ap-
proved throughout the kingdom. The
state of siege, where declared, will be
raised as soon as deemed prudent.
REV. w. w. Downs was expelled from
the Baptist Conference at Boston at a
meeting of ministers on the 3Oth.
GERMANY refuses to allow the German
Telegraph Company to land cable.
JNo. w. LAUER, who claimed to have ac-
cidentally killed his wife at Omaha, Neb.,
was held for trial without bail on charge
of murder.
THE Chamber Of Commerce and other
public buildings in st. Heliers, Isla nd OF
Jersey, off the English coast, were burned
ON the 30th.
THE Farmers National Congress began
a three days. session at indianapolis, Ind,
on the ID.
THE Warner House, at Emporium, Pa,
burned on the Goth, and several persons
were severely injured.
GENERAL CACEREs, at last accounts, was
three miles from Lima, Peru, and with his
forces was giving battle to the Govern
ment troops.
RUSSIAN newspapers say Austria's atti-
| tude is equivalent to openly siding with
| Servia in the Bulgarian war.
THREE children of Patrick Fitzgerald, at
| Providence, R. l., were left in the house by
| their mother while she went on an errand
| on the 3Oth, and were burned to death.
ROBERT GooDALE was hanged at Nor
wich, England, on the 30th, in such a
bungling way that his head was actually
Sow, h hodu f0 the great horror