Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FRENCH Canadians at Quebec have
banded together and subscribed funds TO
defend the half-breeds in the comm
trials.
THE Spanish Minister of Marine has
decided to permit the inocul ation of the
officers and men of the Spanish navy on
DR.. Ferran's system.
LIEUTENANT SCHUETzE will sail, July
9th, for the Lena Della, to carry the re-
wards of the Government to the natives
who aided the survivors of the Jeanette
expedition.
WILLIAM HAYES, sixteen years old, was
found hanged with his hands and feet
tied, on the 26th, in Harrison County,
Iowa, supposedly the work of tramps. He
was a harmless lad and left homo on the
22d to go to church.
MILO JUMP, porter at the Whitmore
House, at Northu mberland, Pa, was shot
on the 26th by John Cox proprietor of the
Palmer House. Jump lived but few
minutes.
The building occupied by the Dckins on
Grass and Field Seeds Company at Chi
cago. was partially burned on the 26sh.
Loss, $25, 900; fully insured.
DEs MONIES, IA, according to a census
just taken, has population of $4,000.
A JURY has been obtained to try the five
Italians, charged with the murder of Ca
russo, a fellow countryman, in Chicago.
CABLE telegraph rates to Chicago have
been placed on level with those of New
York.
LARGE numbers of Cinnamon are leav :
ing the Pacific coast for the Eastern
States.
THE Southwark woolsn mills, Philadel-
phia, Pa, have shut down, throwing 1000
men ou5 of employment.
JAMES D. FISH, ex- President of the
Marine Bank, New York, was sentenced
to ten years at Auburn Penitentiary, and
has been taken to that institution.
THE President has made the anxious1y
awaited appointments in New York city.
EIGHTEEN miners were killed by an ex-
piosion at D1dweiler, Germany, On the
9th.
BIDS have been received at Washington
for the erection of floating dock at
Brooklyn.
Rev. Mr.. STURGEON has created a great
sensation in London by sermon against
vice in high places.
The Standard Oil Company has OBJ
tanned possession of the Continental Oil
and transportation Company.
A LONDON rumor says the Queen is de-
srous of ending her reign on its fiftieth
anniversary next year.
MISS SHAFFER, q young lady at Ciarks-
Vile, Ia, was brutally whipped by two
women named Forney one of whom was
her rival in love.
BALFoUR Chief Secretary for Ireland,
| is in favor of home rule, but has his own
| IDEAS as to what the term means.
GENERAL ScHoFIELD says he has in
| formation that the Ute Indians in South
ern Colorado are behaving themselves.
| BURCHARD has been suspended and DIR.
Jas. P. Kimball, of Pennsylvania, is ap-
pointed Director of the Mint.
| ANOTHER of the murderers of Mrs. Ha-
| zall at Elkhart, Tex, has been lynched.
| He was caught in Grayson County.
| COMPLETE stagnation exists In financial
circles in London.
A GREAT strike of weavers, at Lyons,
France, is imminent.
1T is now said Mrs. Frank Leslie is to
marry Albert Pulitzer.
REV. c. E. LAUGHLIN and sister were
the upsetting of skif.
GENERAL BoLANGER. military COM
mander in Tunis, has resigned.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH has been placed in
the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum.
The Nationalists are urging Sir Charles
Dixie and Chamberlain to visit Ireland
and post themselves.
Mr.. BEECHER's sixth sermon on "Evo-
lution," on the 2Sth, dealt with design in
creation.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done to
property in Baltimore on the 2Sth by a
great rain-storm.
WAR is again being vigorously wagsd
between the two factions in Rowan Coun-
ty, Kentucky.
WILLIAM O'NEILL was drowned by the
on the 2S5h. His three children, who were
riding with him, were rescued.
j. F. MANSFIELD has been appointed re-
ceiver of the New York, Pittsburgh &
Chicago Railroad.
ACCORDING to Indian war news from the
front, there has been little blood-letting
On Mexican territory.
CITIZEN soldiers are assembling from all
directions to partic pate in the National
encampment at Philadelphia.
A REPORT has reached Gainesville, Tex,
of the lynching of five more horse thieves
in the Indian Territory.
A FACTION quarrel in a Polish Church at
Toledo, O., on the 28th, eliminated in
riot in which two men were killed and
number injured.
THOMAS DRUGAN and Michael Murphy,
of New York, fought on the 2Sth about
the latter's attentions to Mrs. Drugan and
Murphy was killed.
JOSEPH C. MAcKIN's trial for perjury
began at Chicago on the 29th.
The political difficulties in Kashgar are
becoming serious.
The Catholic Knights Of America met
at Louisville, KY, on the Both.
Hon. WIN. HENRY (PINAFoRE) SMITH
has been reelected to the British Parlia-
ment.
THREE children were burned to death
at Beaver Dam, Wis, on the E95h.
IT is said that Salisbury and Bismarck
will have an interview in August.