Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Glldden and J. d Mo0ltOn,3 suspended.
Mr.. Tingle's compensation is fixed at the
rate of $40 per day and MI. Ryan's at the
rate of s. per day and expenses.
HEALTH officers Of a number of the lead
ing cities held q conference at New York
on the oath to agree upon uniform meas
ures to prevent the introduction Of cholera
THE President rs appointed Henry p.
Kernochhne, OF LdG(eiapa.tp be Naval Or
ficer u tussp Of NV Orsaars, and sssr-
nelius Schenck, Of Oregon, to be appraiser
of merchandise in the district Of Villa
mette, Oregon.
THE trial of Richard Short, who stabbed
Captain Phelan in New York, is set for
the Goth.
THERE are now 10000 Russian troops in
Poland.
AMERICANS, 500 strong, entered the city
of Panama on the 25th, but have since
been withdrawn.
GENERAL HENRY J. HUNT has been ap-
pointed governor Of the Soldiers Home at
Washington, D. G.
Two more cases of Asiatic cholera are
reported in Spain.
GENERAL GRANT and family will 60 to
lUOuuU mCdIoSOI al uAo IL WIG 00uoA al .
health will then permit.
JUDGE WYLIE, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court Of the District of Column
bia, has resigned.
THE Egyptian ministers are firm in their
refusal to apologize to France.
GRUNDY, the county-seat of Buchanan
County, Virginia, was almost wiped out
Of existence by fire on the 25th.
A GENERAL increase in regimental
officers in the Russian army has been
ordered.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales had
an enthusiastic reception at Londonderry
on the 25th. They will visit Rome early
in May.
The Indian Commissioner on the 18th
heard the complaint Of Red Cloud against
Agent McGillicuddy, and the latter's re-
ply.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has appointed a
committee to investigate patent and
plant the Navy Department purchased for
very large sum of money.
GENERAL MIDDLErON's troops had an
engagement with the half breed rebels in
the Northwest Territory on the oath. The
troops appear to have gotten the worst of
the fight, their losses being ten killed and
about fifty wounded. The rebels are re-
ported to have lost twenty-fiv men.
VIcE-PREsIDENT HENDRICKS thinks that
the object in electing a Democratic ad-
ministration was to clear out the depart
ments so that the clear light can shine
therein.
IT is thought that war will last at least
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mence hostilities.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY of Illinois issued a
proclamation on the 25th quarantining
against Missouri CATTLE and urging prompt
action in Illinois to prevent the spread of
pleuro pneumonia
LATEST advices from London are to the
effect that Russia is trying to force En-
gland to fight.
EIGHTEEN build ings were burned at the
village of Rand olph, N. Y, on the 26th.
The anniversary of General Grants
birth was celebrated at Washington on the
9th.
AUSTRIAN papers think that England
will certainly make an alliance with Tur-
key in the event Of war.
PARIS papers are urging the French
Government to show its "spunk" in deal
ing with that Egyptian affair.
GENERAL GRANT, according to the state
ment of the doctors on the 26th, was bet
ter than he has been in several weeks.
In Germany the movement for total
closing of all shops of manufacture and
trade on Sunday grows daily.
WESTERN UNION operators at Chicago
decided to wait until May 1st on the COM
pany, in reference to extra pay for extra
work.
AT Jamaica, L. l., on the 26th, man
who was not invited to a wedding fired
into the building while the ceremony was
being performed. The bride was wounded.
DURING the past month the Russian mill
itary authorities have sent 10000 troops
across the Caspian Sea.
THE President OF the Coal Miners As
sociation at Pittsburgh, Pa, has issued
card to the striking railroad miners de-
claring the railroad strike at an end.
THE town Of Strathroy, in Ontario, had
a narrow escape from total destruction by
fire on the 26th.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch Of the 26th
from Sonora reports a terrible battle be-
tween MeXlCduS 0uU AAul1ASs UAO AOA AA0A
being defeated with heavy losses.
C1RCAssIA is preparing to revolt against
Russia in the event of war with En-
gland.
CITIZENS of Louisville, KY, visited the
Penitentiary at Columbus, O., on the 25th,
to gather points about the building, to be
used in an article describing the escape OF
General Morgan during the war.
SUNDAY, the 26th, was the sixty-fifth
anniversary of the founding Of Odd
Fellowship in the United States.
GENERAL GRANT celebrated his birth
day on the 9th by a drive In Central
Park.
ODD FELLOWS DAY was observed at
the New Orleans Exposition on the 9th.
FLOODS in New Brunswick are the most
disastrous in fifty years.
PROSPECTS are good for an unusually
la rye peach crop in Delaware.
Ell MAHD1's forces recently attacked the
garrison at Senaar and were defeated.
By the collapse Of q building during
fire at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, two
men were killed and several injured.