Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The newly appointed French Consul at
Panama fell a victim to yellow fever.
CHARGES of shameless crookedness in
the Tee ner regatta are made by the Pitts :
burgh Commercial Gazette, which Teemer
stoutly denies.
The battle of Calam ar was not a sue
cess for the Colombian Government
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, who was
| overcome by the heat on the 23d, is recov-
| ering.
GUATEMALA and Venezuela have ap-
piled for twice their former amount of
space at the North, Central and South
American Exposition at New Orleans.
INCENDIARIEs caused loss of 500, 900
roubles' worth of property near Moscow
on the 25th.
AB UT 300 mechanics have quit work
in the West Shore Railway shops because
their wages have not been paid them for
nearly three months.
CONTRIBUTIONS of the reported death Of
| Ell Mahdi are still coming in. As fast as
| they kill the Mahdi they bring Oliver Pain
to life, and vice versa. .
FALL RIVER (Mass.) mill corpora tions,
representing over million spindles, have
agreed to shut down for four weeks be-
tween July 25th and October 1st
THE Oxford crew pulled across the El-
glish channel from Dover to Calais on the
18th, starting at 1915 a. m. and arriving
about 8 p. m.
THERE is strong opposition in Washin :
ton, and to me extent in New York to
burying General Grants remains in Gen.
trail Park.
A GERMAN syndicate is fnrming g
scheme for a plantation system i'll the
Cameroons country.
A FL z at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
26th damaged the Nico1et House to the
extent of $1,000
IT is reported from Moscow that the
Gear declares he has reach ID the furthest
limits in Central Asia that he desires 10
go.
RICH developments are promised when
the investigation of the coast survev bu-
reau is made.
BY the collapse of a pier at Chatham,
Eng, on the Goth, eighty persons were
thrown into the water and it is thought a
number were drowned.
| RUSSIA will withdraw her troops from
the advanced positions in the Zulfcar
Pass provided the Afghans do not occupy
the pos tions evacuated.
DISASTROUS floods are reported from
Colorado. Bridges and houses have been
swept away and several persons drowned.
MISS DICKINSON, . school teacher livin G
alone on a homestead near Valentine
Neb., was brutally outraged on the 25th
by Sioux Indian.
MRS. JOHN ASH, living near Lonoke,
Ark, gave birth to four boys on the 25t h,
their aggregate weight being twenty lone
pounds. All were doing well.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill is reported
to be forming pool to fill orders of iron
and steel mill men whose works are closed
by strikes or other causes.
A BAND of returning Apaches were in
tercepted at the pass leading to their
reservation, near Bsbee, Ariz.. on the
25th by Captain Lawton's command and
seven were killed.
A FIRE in a workshop and factory quar-
ter of Paris on the 25th consumed five
blocks of buildings. Several fremen are
reported missing and it is feared they are
killed.
THE flagship Tennessee arrived in
Hampton Roads on the 26th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to be in
favor of turning all the Indians over to
the tender mercies of the military branch
of the Government.
JOHN STcvER has been convicted Of mur-
dering Archilta Scraper in the Cherokee
Nation, and sentenced to be hanged Octo-
| Der 10Th.
| CONGRESSMAN HoLMAN's Indian inves-
| tigating committee visited Northern Me-
braska agencies and started on the k26th
| for Montana.
| AT What Cheer, Ia, on the Goth, the
Postmaster drove off mob that attempt
ed to seize lot of liquors stored in his
| office by the Prohibition League. In doing
so he killed two of them.
CAPTAIN HAYES, native of St Louis.
| in command of dredge boat at Panama,
shot himself through the head on the Sd
inst, from grief at the drowning of his
wife and child.
The strikers in the Saginaw Valley,
| Mich, are resuming work at reduced
wages.
| THOUSANDS of idle colliers are reported
in Wales.
The annual meeting of Captain Eads'
Ship Canal Company shareholders was
held at Jersey City, N. j., on the 9th.
KHALIFA ABDooLA has assumed the
leadership of the Mahdi's followers.
ROBERT WOLF was convicted in the In
dian Territory, on the 9th, of the murder
of Frank Stockbridge, companion.
| PRESIDENT GR svY received the Chinese
ambassador on the 9th with military
honors.
| IT is thought that reduction OF coal
miners wages in the Tuscarawas Valley,
N. Y, will cause strike of LOO miners.
SERVICES at Westminster Abbey in
memory of General Grant will be held
| August 4th. the Dean of Westminster and
Canon Farrar officiating.
ROBERT w. KERR, the Saltwater, Mimi,
defaulter, committed suicide near Que
bee, Canada on the 9th, while on his way
home in charge of an officer.
A COMMISSION has been appointed at
Paris to determine the frontier between
China and Tonquin.
The damages by Saturday nights
floods at Colorado Springs. Col, are esti-
mated at $25, ,0O0 The body of Mrs. Eaton