Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ably, but the can Ger Is slowly uudermin :
ing his strength, and the end may come at
any hour.
THE Chinese proposals of peace stipulate
that Tonqrin is to be ceded to China and
that NO indemnity shall be exacted by
France.
GENERAL BADEAU is authority for the
! statement that General Grant is clearly
aware Of the hopelessness of his case and
desires to die.
M. HENRI BRIssoN has accepted the task
of forming a new French ministry.
The Coiutv de Paris arrived at NaDl Is
on the 9Th t, 1neet the Due de Chartres to
talk over the prospect of the re-establish-
ment of monarchy in France.
T. B. BUNTING llte. chief of artillery of
Guatemala, and now in New York, does
not believe the report that General P.arrios
has been killed.
The mother of Hon. S. S. Cox, Minister
to Turkey, died at GAINESVILLE, O., on the
4th.
Ex-SECRETARY FRlCLINGHUYsEN is re-
ported quite ill at Newark N. J.
| THE Prince and Princess of Wales In
tended to leave for Ireland on the 7th.
| The Pail Nall Gazette thinks that Rus
sia's reply to England is most concilia :
tory.
THREE Cinnamon were cremated in q
| burning building in San Francisco, Cal,
| on the 4th.
| GENERAL GRAHAM has moved his entire
| force back to Suakim.
The district convention of the Anal
| gamated Association of Iron and Steel
o,Eo of oh a
4th.
| IT is asserted at London that Gen neral
Graham has been instructed to open peace
negotiations with Osman Digna.
| THE annual conference Of the Mormon
Church met at Logan, Utah, on the 4th,
instead of at Salt Lake City, as customary
1T is said that owing to the sickness of
the troops, the British will be ordered to
withdraw from the Soudan to Egypt.
| THERE is great Indignation in Dakota
because the Winnebago and Grow reserva-
tions have been declared not open to settle
ment.
q PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON advises hi!
followers to oppose the immediate dissolu
tion of the French Chamber of Deputiesi.
The Ladner Brothers, the Philadelph ia
| bankers, who were recently convlcte d,
were sentenced to three years each in the
County prison.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin is again in
| a di emma concerning the displaying OF
the flag during the visit of the frincs OF
| Wales.
HosTLITIES between Guatemala and the
allied republics have been suspended, and
an armistice of one months duration ha.
been announced.
DANIEL B. BLATT, who lives in the nest
house in Youngstown, O., and who is G
deacon in the church, confesses that he is
forger to the amount of 5000.
The British Government has received
information that there has been recently
an immense increase in the number OF
Russian troops in Turkestan.
A SON of DR.. Stephen H. Tying, Of New
York declares that his father is of un-
sound mind, and unable to attend to his
affairs, and wants Mrs. Tying appoil tied to
look after his affairs
THE British Cabinet held a session on
the 4th and considered the Russian re-
sponse relative to the Afghan frontier
matter, but could not agree to anything
more than provisional acceptance.
LORD DUFFERIN, Viceroy of India, sends
word to London that the negotiations be-
tw cen himself and the Ameer of Afghan
istan are satisfactory to both the British
and Indians.
No change in General Grants condition
was reported on the 9th.
MRS. GENERAL Tom THUMB married the
Count Rosebud on the 9th.
THE British Government is arming the
fast ocean steamers.
M. BRI. SON, it is stated, has succeeded
| in forming the new French ministry.
The Mayor of Philadelphia, Pa, has
prohibited sparring in theaters.
RAINS have improved the wheat and
barley prospects in California.
GENERAL CAMPENoN has been re -ch osen
as French Minister of War.
THE Secretary of the Navy hasordered
400 more marines to start for Panama.
They were to sail on the steamer Acapulco
on the 7th.
BISHOP COFFIN, of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Southwark, London, died on the
9th.
THE Democratic city ticket at Dayton,
o., was elected by 800 majority.
A REVIEW of the British and native
9th.
THE annual meet 'ng of the Mexican
Central Railway Company was held at
Boston, Mass, on the 9th.
OsMAN DIGNA's son was shot in the re-
cent engagement in the Soudan.
DEMOCRATS elected their entire ticket
at Evansville, Ind, by increased major
tiles.
THREE people were burned to death in a
house near Asheville, Tenn, the night of
the 9Th. Foul play is suspected.
THE heat is SO intense at Suakim that
the sickness among the British soldiers is
\ increasing.
SIxTY-FIvE British officers embarked at
Brindisi for India on the 9th, having been
ordered to rejoin tn cir regiments.
THE visible supply of wheat on the 9th
was 47,567,3 3lS bushels; corn, S,SS5, 1868
bushels; oats, 2,664, ,49S bushels.
LONDON papers generally declare Rus
sia's answers regarding the Afghan from
tier dispute to be evasive and unsatisfac-