Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

UEEAT damage 10 crops anu Otuor prOp-
erty is reported from Southeastern Kan
sas, where violent storms have been rag
ing.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany have taken steps to put their wires
under ground in Washington, D. c.
SERIOUS trouble was expected the
morning of the Sd in Chicago, when an
effort was to be made to run street cars.
The entire police force of the city were
were detailed to take hand in the busi-
ness.
The South American Commission from
the United States has made it's report on
Chill. 1t received very little encourage
ment there-a chilly greeting, so tospeak.
Mr.. KIMBALL, the new Director of the
Mint, entered on discharge Of the duties OF
that Office on the Cd.
EUGENE SALISBURY, who killed Peter
Miller at Union City, Mich, in May, has
been convicted of manslaughter, and SEN
fenced to ten years in the States prison at
Jackson.
EDWARD HALL and Isaac Lawrence
were convicted in the United States Court
in New York, on the I'd, of conspiring to
counterfeit Guatemalan currency.
VIM. MEINRIcKs was hanged in the jail
yard at Binghamton, N. Y, on the I'd,
for the murder of Katie Bredhof.
A BANQUET in honor of Judge J. B.
Stallo, recently appointed Minister to
Italy, will be given at Cincinnati, o., on
| the 7th, under the auspices of the Ohio
| Club, the same organization which hon
ored Minister Pendleton in a similar way.
| GENERAL GRANTS book is nearly COM
pleted.
A SPORADIC case Of yellow fever has oc-
| Cured at New Orleans.
ROBINSON, the st. John IN. 3D. default
er, has been heard from in Mexico.
MRS. GARFIELD aud family arei visiting
at Stockbridge, Mass.
GEO. II. DUNBAR was murdered by un-
known parties at Pittsfeld, Mass, on the
5th.
HENRY WARD BEECHER has concluded
his series of lectures ON Evolution.
The French press has assumed a more
friendly tone toward England.
FRANCE has adopted precautions against
the introduction of cholera from Spain.
AN unknown man had his clothes stol-
en- at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th, over which
he went crazy and died.
GENERAL MCCooK writes letter ar
raigning the Government for its course in
the matter of Indian leases.
WIN. VAN VoART and Charles Maxwell
were killed by the remature explosion of
a cannon at Utica, N. Y.
MAYOR HARRISON of Chicag, issued a
rrocl amation on the 5th forbid ding g the
people to cougreg ate in large bodies along
| the car lines.
THE remains of Louisiana's war Gov
ernor, Henry Watkins Allen, were re-
moved from New Orleans to Baton Rou e Q
on the 5th, and buried with honors.
LOUIS HAssoN of New York, spent the
Fourth ON the top of Storm King Noun
tain, near Newburgh, and wound up the
day by killing himself, after trying to kill
his wife.
| GENERAL GRANT spent quiet !day on
the 5th, and was feeling in good spirits.
| Senator Chaffee was among the visitors.
IT is said that the State Department has
been informed that Ecuador and Chilli
| have arranged some sort of an offensive
and defensive alliance, and there is cer-
tain amount of anxiety regarding the re-
port.
| TEN large tobacco warehouses were
burned at Stoughton, Wis, on the 5th,
and 5000 cases of tobacco were destroyed.
The losses will aggregate 100000.
! THE New York Worlds special Sunday
train made the run between New York
and Boston on the 9TH in five hours and
seven minutes, the quickest time yet made
| between the two cities.
Ex-UNIrED STATES CONSUL GENERAL
FRYE was banqueted at Halifax, N. S.,
the evening of the 4th. All the prominent
business men were present.
The overdue Cunard steamer Gallia ar
rived at Queenstown on the 9Th. Her en-
gines were disabled by breakage in the
tunnel shaft.
LATE advices from japan state that the
conf1agration which occurred at Toyama,
May 18th, destroyed 5,917 houses.
The workers of Cleveland were
still out on the 9Th.
DETROIT, MICH, entertained the Mexi-
| lean editors on the 9th.
| The British Parliament reassembled in
| London on the 9th.
| TURKEY has stopped fortifying the Bos-
phorus.
ACTIVE war is being made on liquor sa-
looms at Dubuque, Ia.
| Two hundred moulders went out on a
strike at Rochester, N. Y, on the 9th.
IMPROVEMENT is reported in Emperor
Williams condition. He attends the the
aters and other entertainments.
SIX hundred saw mill employees at Bay
City, Mich, are on strike.
AT Coblentz the New York rif1emen were
reviewed by the Empress Augusta on the
9th.
EX-MINIsTER JOHN RUSSELL Young
has arrived in San Francisco from China.
The Anamese object to French rule, and
hostil tiles have opened again.
EFFORTS to compromise Tennessee's
debt are attracting attention in New
York.
A DAUGHTER has been born to the Ouch
ess Of Cumberland, at Vienna.
STANDARD doll ars issued from the mint
during the week ended July 4th, $467 ,99S
CHAMBERLAIN and Dixie on their Irish
tour will make no public speeches.
A. E. STEVENSON, of Illinois, qualified
ASr;efopt stu,a a star. Gauaral at