Huntsville gazette., 1885-10-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

MINISTER FOSTER arrived at Washing
ton on the 4th. and his successor will
probably be appointed soon.
FIVE persons were killed and thirty or
forty wounded by the collision. on the
4th, of two circus trains on the Fergus
Falls branch Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road.
MRS. DRUsE- who murdered her hus band
at Little, Falls, N. Y, and afterward cut
his body up and burned it in a stove, has
been convicted of murder in the first de-
gree.
c. w. WALLACE, who killed John Cling.
ersmith at Glenwood, Ia, two years ago
and was discharged at the examination,
has been arrested again on the ground that
new evidence has been obtained.
The statement of the Gear that he would
endeavor to secure accord among the
powers to effect pacific solution Of the
Roumelian difficulty has caused great re-
joicing at Philippopolis.
ISAAC REYNOLDS, an old hand at the
business, was surprised by the police and
captured at his home in Indianapolis, Ind,
on the evening Of the Sd, while in the act
Of making counterfeit half-dollars.
RETURNS of emigration from Germany
show a decrease for the past eight months
of sc, 900, as compared with 1884.
IT is stated in Washington that Mr..
Kasson and Secretary Bayard have had
several!conferences in regard to Bismarck S
attitude toward Cuba, the indications being
that the German Chancellor IS anxious to
add that island to the German posses
sions.
ENGLISH sympathies being with the
Christian races in Turkey, it will be next
to useless for the Porte to look for help
from England in the present and prospec-
tive difficulties.
RUSSIA is said, and generally conceded,
| to be the real power behind the Bulgarian
| union.
AU DIToR PRIMEAU of Keokuk, Ia, is
| shown, as the result of an official investi-
| CATION, to be 5000 short in his accounts.
SIR CHARLES dixie was married on
| the Sd at Chelsea, London, to Mrs. Mark
| Patterson.
| FORTY Nihilists were arrested in War
| saw on the Sd for conspiring to murder
| the Czar.
The imports of general merchan lise a
the port of New York during the week
ended the Sd were valued at $4,66i,5S 6,
and of dry goods at 81, 692, ,904.
THE total death list from small-po in
Montreal and vicinity during September
foots up 998. For the week ended the ) l
the total was 800.
SEVEN veterans were recently dis
charged from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Upon representation of the case to Secre-
tary Whitney they have been reinstated
in their positions.
GOVERNOR SwINEFORD arrived at Sitka,
Alaska, September 10Th, and at once en-
tered upon the discharge Of his official du-
ties.
The people of Bayard, Guthrie County,
Ia, are considerably exercised over the
ravages of hydrophobia among horses and
cattle. caused by their having been bitten
by rabid dog few weeks ago.
HoN..F. HAssAUREK, theiprincipal owner
and editor of the Cincinnati Volksblan,
died in Paris, France, on the morning O..
Sd. He had been in Europe the past two
or three years for his health.
NINE. NEVADA received autographic con-
gratulations on her marriage from the
Prince of Wales, Ismail Pasha, ex-
Khedive of Egypt, the Russian Grand
Duke Nicholas and Prince Alexander.
GENERAL TooMBs is slowly dying at
Washington, Ga, and it is thought thai
at most he can live but few weeks
longer His mind is said to be seriously
affected.
COMMODORE W. w. QUEEN has been ap-
pointed to the command of the Washing
-
deceased.
The social purity movement, founded
on the recent revelations made by the
Pail Mall Gazette, is steadily gaining
strength in England.
Snow, the first of the season, was re-
ported in Michigan on the 9Th.
Work has been suspended on the South
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Two more deaths occurred on the 55h
from injuries received by recent boiler
explosion at Pittsburgh, Pa.
AN unknown vessel went ashore near
Tennanto Harbor, Me-, on the 9TH, and
went to pieces.
In the elections at Paris on the 4th the
Conser vatives made great gains. Two
members of the Cabinet were defeated
r.,
new Civil Service Commission will be ap
pointed.
The Diet of Denmark opened on the 9Th.
A stormy session is promised on account
of differences with the King.
CONSUL EwING's health is still bad, and
his leave of absence from his post in the
City of Mexico has been extended to Oc-
tober 18th.
A SMALLPOX patient at Montreal es-
caped from the hospital on the 5jh, and
for hammering on a door was beaten
badly before his assailants discovered his
condition.
TRERE was to have been an explosion at
He'll Gate on the 55h, but it was postponed
to the end of the week.
MEMBERS of the Indiana Constitutional
Convention of 1850 held reunion at In
dianapolis on the 9th and 6 h.
H1aH-roNED burglars at Boston entered
an art gallery on the night of the 4th and
stole a number Of very fine paintings.
AT Constantinople memorandum has
been agreed upon by the ambassadors of
the powers on the Roumelian affair, which
,x,;Il ho fret suhmittad to the powers and