Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

RELATIONS are strained between Spain
seizure of the Caroline Islands.
Two brothers named Colbert have been
arrested near Lincoln, Ill, for a murder
committed at Shawneetown.
IT is rumored that the President in
tends to reorganize the Soldiers Home at
Hampton. Va, Dayton and Milwaukee,
because of mismanagement General
Pleasa nton is spoken of for commander
| at Hampton.
A PRIEST at Cairo, Egypt. is positive
| that Olivier Pain died of fever.
AN oil we'll yielding twenty five barrels
an hour has been struck inear Washing
ton, Pa.
BISHOP KEANE, of Richmond Va. has
written a letter of coincidence to Minist ter
Kelly.
The Mudir of Dongola says the Mahdist
| movement is killed.
The tobacco crop in portions Of Penn
| sylvania has been seriously damaged by
recent hail-storms
CHINA has contracted with an English
| firm for the building of 10) miles of rail-
way.
ANTONIO DARING was suffocated in q
burning house at Cincinnati, O., on the
23d.
! A YACHT, the Kalafsh, was run down
off the Coast Of Scotland on the 22d, and
all the crew but two lest.
| In quarrel about a dog, near Xenia,
O., on the 23d, George Holverstatt shot
| and killed Joseph Wolf
| DoNaoLA has been captured by 1000
dervishes.
ACCORDING to the ST. Petersburg Herald,
| Russia has determined to give up the Zul-
fkar Pass.
SHIELDS, the receiver of stolen horses
at Des Moines. Ia, had 200 on his person
when arrested. y---a. %.
HATMAKERs and fnishers are endeavor-
ing to prepare union label to be placed
on all manufactured goods.
The International Telegraph Confer
ence at Berlin has confirmed the modified
tariff proposition.
FRED. BERKLEY, in a drunken frenzy,
at Salem, Ind, on the 3d. shot number
of persons and then killed himself.
IT is estimated that France will be re-
quired to import 1900, 900 hectolitrss of
wheat to make up for the shortage in this
years crop.
THE Burlington & Missouri Railway at
Omaha had big force at work on the 23d
laying track, supposedly making a point
against the Union Pacific
SINCE the 1st Of June $12, 500, 900 in gold
! has been transferred from San Francisco
to the New York sub-treasury.
| A LOVE feast at OceanlGrove, N. j., on
the 23d, was partici pated in by 1000 per-
sons. One hundred and fifty ministers
| took part in the services.
A. p. GoDoYKooNTz and F. 81. Cass,
citizens of Vinita, l. T., were found mur-
dered near the Sac and Fox agency on
the 23d. No clew.
CHAs. JOHNSON, brakeman, was scalded
to death and several cars were wrecked in
a collision on the Fort Wayne Road at
Lucas, O., on the 23d.
| DEPUTY POSTMASTER HEATH, of Kear-
ney, Neh, is charged with having run
away with something like $1,000 of regis
tered letters. .-r
| A RAILROAD disaster is reported to have
occurred on the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
road on the 23d, near Powell Station,
Arz., in which two white persons and an
Indian were killed.
| THERE was fatal fire on the 23d at Hox-
| ton, poor and crowded quarter of Lon :
don. Owing to the lack of room it was
impossible for the firemen to work effect
lively. There was terrible scene when
a lodging house full of people took fire,
and in spite of gallant efforts to rescue
the inmates a man and two children were
burned to death.
A PRIVATE soldiers monument is pro-
posed at Caldwell, 0.
JAMES BRADY was shot and killed in
New Albany, lad, on the Oath, by Elmer
Mchaels.
MEXICO proposes to stand by the fund
ing law of June ODD.
HEAVY frost, extending over the great
er portion of the Northwest Territory,
was reported on the oath.
ANTI-GERMAN demonstrations have
been held all over Spain, and they may
lead to an open rupture between the two
countries.
LIZZIE ST.. QUENTIN denies that she was
cowhided by Molten, the tenor OF her
opera company.
OvERTUREs have been made to the
strikers by the Cleveland Rolling-M Mill
Company which will probably be ac-
cepted.
s. S. IDLEMAN, a Methodist minister at
Green Springs Run, w. Va, committed
suicide on the oath by jumping from
window.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's brother in
law denies that the President contem-
plates a visit to Ohio during the cam
paign.
The rumored circulation of petitions
asking for an English protectorate over
Egypt Is denied.
The whisky pool will expire September
1st. The Cincinnati men do not regard
the prospects for Reorganization as brill
liant.
THE embfems of mourning, which were
placed on the various public buildings
out of respect to the smemory of General
Grant, were removed on the oath.
CHARLES A. GAMBRILL, a wealthy Bal
timore merchant, died at Philadelphia on
the oath, under. circumstances making an
investigation necessary.
TaE Peace society at Paris have taken