Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

-Four foundries are idle. Steps are being
taken looking to an arrangement.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, Of Illinois, on the
1st ordered that four companies of the
Fourth Regiment State militia be sent to
Joliet at once to queu the riots among the
quarrymen at that place. Adjutant-Gen-
eral Vance and Captain Bell loft at once
for Joliet. The Sheriff of Will County
stated that threats were being made to
burn Joliet.
was taken possession of by the Govern
ment on the I'd.
THE executive committee of the Nation
al Civil Service Association has voted to
hold the next annual meeting in Newport,
R. l., in August. Mr.. George William
Curtis will preside and deliver the ad-
dress.
The area sown in spring wheat Is re-
ported much less than last year.
MINISTER LOWELL will be given fare
well banquet at London.
Hon. GEO. H. PENDLEroN, Minister to
Germany, sailed for Bremen on the I'd.
QUEEN VICTORIA and Princess Beatrice
have returned to England.
j. ERNEST MEIER., of Colorado, has been
appointed Consul to Nagasaki, japan.
THE Oh illcats, of Alaska, are uneasy
and dscl are they will have no more white
men among them.
EDMUND YATES, the London editor, is
to be given great banquet as consola-
ton for his recent imprisonment for libel
NEWS received at Winnipeg from the
front on the I'd confirms the massacre Of
the priests at Frog Lake.
A POSSE started after gang of cattle
thieves in Indian Territory on the I'd. The
latter offered strong resistance, and four
of the posse were killed.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the
Burnet House, Cincinnati, on the I'd, by
which one man was instantly killed.
1T is thought at Chicago that the body
found in trunk at Pittsburgh, Pa, was
that of Phillipo Caruso, and it is believed
by some of the Italians that he was MUIR
dered for money.
EARL GRANVILLE thinks the trouble be-
tween England and Russia will be peace
fully settled.
The capital of West Virginia is now at
Charleston, the change from Wheeling
having taken place on the I'd.
A JAPANESE village located in London.
Eng, in which 100 natives lived and
worked, was completely destroyed by fire
on the Cd.
The British Minister at st. Petersburg
informed his Government on the I'd that
De Giers wanted time to consider the
agreement of March 18th.
THE Catholic College of the Holy Ghost
was dedicated at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Sd.
GENERAL GRANTS condition is reported
better than it has been since he was taken
sick. He has been smoking cigars occa-
sonally within the past two weeks.
The British Government has decided to
postpone making any decision as to the
revival OF the crimes act in Ireland.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered that the
approaching marriage of Princess Bea-
trice be solemnized without any ostenta-
tion.
WA1NwRIGHT's brewery at Pittsburgh,
Pa, caved in on the Sd, causing loss of
over 100000 No ono hurt.
THE London Standard says that strug-
gle between Russia and England for su-
premacy in Asia has begun whether the
formers reply is pacific or not.
MoRMoNs held meetings in several of
the Territories on the I'd, and drew up
declarations of grievances. They contend
that their rights as American citizens are
trampled upon.
EIGHT persons are known to have per-
ished in tenement house fire which oc-
Cured in New York on the night of the
I'd.
JAMES GORDON BENEFITS yacht will
race in july against that Of Sir Richard
Sutton, of England.
DIR. WIN. CLENDENIN, one OF the Oldest
and best known physicians of Cincinnati,
O., died of pneumonia on the I'd.
THE Mexican Government announces
that no concession will be made to Nor
mons coming to that country from the
United States.
IT is reported that the Canada Southern
and Blue Fast Freight lines have consoll-
dated and that the general headquarters
will be rem owed to Detroit
VEsUyIUs is again in q state OF erup-
ton, A copious str cam OF lava is issuing
from the principal crater and flowing
toward Tore del Greco and Po mpeil.
FIVE million feet of choice grade lumber
belonging to Sorren & Wadleigh, OF Stew
ems Point, Wis, were destroyed by fire on
the Sd.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made on
the Sd to blow up the Cape Rouge ice
bridge in Canada.
REV. DIR. BuRcHARD, of 'R. r. r." fame
preached his farewell sermon as pastor OF
the Murray Hill Presbyterian Church,
New York, on the Sd.
SEVERAL of the prominent insurgents at
Panama have been captured are in con-
finement.
A NUMBER of Cossack regiments have
been ordered to reinforce the Russian
troops in Central Asia.
PAT BENAN, murderer of Deputy Sheriff
Kohl, at Marquette, Mich, was captured
at Escanaba on the Sd. At first it was
thought he would be lynched when caught,
but this is no longer feared.
Two men, Davis and Snyder, we're
drowned on the 1st, in Elkhorn River, four
miles below Waterloo, Neb., while cross
ing in a boat, which upset Both were
drunk. The body Of Davis has been re-
-. +ho ctbar hodv has NOT vet been