Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

has been: ARRESTED at East Saginaw on
charge of melting q conspiracy.
The Secretary of War has instructed
General Miles, in command of the De-
partment of the Missouri to hold troops
in readiness to enforce the Presidents re-
cent order in relation to cattlemen on the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation.
MRS. BAYARD, wife of the Secretary Of
State, has sufficiently recovered from her
recent illness to proceed to seaside re-
sort near Gloucester, Mass.
SIR JOHN KIRK, British Cons ul General
in Zanzibar. is accused by the German
press of intriguing against Germany.
A LIGHT frost was observed in Northern
Michigan on the morning of the 10Th. But
little damage resulted.
HUGH II. BaooKs, alias Walter II. Len
nox-Maxwell, alias T. c. D'Auguier, the
alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller at
the Southern Hotel in St Louis last Easter
Sunday, arrived in st. Louis from New
Zealand on the morning of the 10th In the
custody of Detectives Tracey and Badger
of st. Louis.
JAMES BERRY, a resident of Dyersville,
Ia, was instantly killed on thea 18th by
falling down the stairs of tho Dyersville
House and sustaining a fracture of the
skull
The total exports of specie from the
port of New York during the week ended
the 18th were $3.50, 522.
LOUIS HENKE, member of the Atlanta
(Ga.) base ball team, died on the 10Th
from the result Of a rupture OF the
liver sustained the day previous in run
| ming against the knee of first baseman
Marr of the Nashville team, with whom
the Atlantas were playing.
CHRISTINE NILSSON sailed from En-
| gland on the 18th for Scandinavian
| tour.
| The Grand Army men of Ohio are con-
sdering a project to purchase the lot at
| Point Pleasant, O., on which stands the
house in which General Grant was born.
AN audience of 10000 people attended
the opening exercises of the Southern Ex-
position at Louisville, KY, on the night
of the 18th.
| LORD CoLERlDGE, Chief Justice of En-
| gland, and Miss Augusta Jackson Law
ford, daughter of the late Henry Barring
Lawford, of the Bengal India) civil SER
vice, were privately married at the resi-
dence of the BRIDES mother at Kensing-
ton on the 10Th. This was the ALTERNATIVES
| of heavy breach of pr omise suit.
THE Adams Express Company threat
ems to bring suit for breach of contract if
the Treasury Department transports the
surplus silver from New Orleans by other
means than through them, they holding q
valid contract executed by Secretary
Sherman in February, 1s79
ELLA RUSSELL, an American prima
donna, has achieved a grand success in
Berlin in "Traviata."
AN epidemic of typhoid fever has made
it's appearance in the New; Jersey Asylum
for the Insane at Morris Rlains, N. j.
THE fish, tug Sea Wing was found off
Charlevoix, Mich, the morning Of the 18th,
half full of water, and containing the
corpses of William Gibson and Edward
Gallagher, of Beaver Island
WASHINGTON people are agitating the
removal of General GRANTS remains to
that city.
IT is reported that Osnan Digna has
forsaken his followers and fed to Kor
dofan.
INTERESTING developments are promised
by the investigation Of the Geological
Survey Bureau.
EDWARD FULLER, a driver for Sells
Bros' circus, was killed at Saniusky, o.,
on the 10th, by the upsetting Of wagon.
A HAND grenade or bomb was thrown
into the residence Of Hugh Kinney at
Shawnee, O., on the 10Th, seriously injur-
ing Kinney and his wife.
FoUR boys, named Charles and Mark
Rich, Courtlandt Aklers and Jacob Mish-
Ter, were drowned at Pitts burgh, Pa, on
the 18th, by the upsetting of their skiff.
Work has been commenced on a ship
canal to connect the Caspian Sea with the
trans Caspian.
JOHN Fl. ODELL, just released from
his wife and attempted to shoot two men
at Paterson, N. j., on the 10th.
AN order has been issued by the New
York Central and West Shore Railroads
increasing the passenger schedule to two
cents per mile.
A CIVIL war has broken out at Khartoum
and Ell Mahdi's successor and other Off
cials have been killed.
The iron trade is improving in the
East.
CHAMBERS is said to exist to some ex-
tent in Parke County, Indiana.
REFUGEES from Marseilles are spread
ing the cholera.
MISS REGINA KHAN committed suicide
by drowning at Milwaukee, Wis, on the
18th.
MEXICO is about to open a vigorous
camp ign against smugglers on the Rio
Granue.
AN intense religious revival is prevail
ing in Madison County, Indiana.
MINISTER PENDLEToN has abandoned
his proposed visit to Kiel, on account of
illness.
RIVER coal miners will shortly hold
convention at Pittsburgh, Pa, to establish
a uniform rate of wages
LORD CARNARvoN, who is making tour
of Ireland, was warmly welcomed at Gal
way on the 18th.
STANDARD silver dollars issued from
the mints during the week ended August
18th, $500. AL
ITALY is perfecting a scheme to send
90, 600 soldiers to secure control over
Eastern Soudan.