Huntsville gazette., 1885-09-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ternal Revenue Bureau was held at Wash
ington, D. c., on the 11th, to take suitable
action in regard to the death of E. A.
Rollins, formerly Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenua. Appropriate resolutions
were adopted.
The imports of merchandise at New
York for the week ended the 18th wers
valued at $6. 492, 25S
The Spanish people are clamoring for a
war with Germany. or, failing that,
revolution
CONCORD, MASS, celebrated the 250th
anniversary of the incorporation of the
town on the 18th.
MRS E. A. CANFIELD was killed by the
accidental discharge Of pistol at Yonk-
ers, N. Y. on the nth.
AN effort is being made to form a nion
between the English Liberals and Irish
Conservatives against Parnell.
RIDDLE, ex-President OF the defunct
Penn Bank. at Pittsburgh, Pa, has been
discharged from custody.
FRANCE is agitated over the discovery
that German spies are haunting nearly
all the fortified towns of the country.
ROBERT GREENWOOD, an old citizen of
1Au ldudpOilSp 1uu., Iell uOWu MS SbalTWd
On the 10Th and was killed.
The Russian Govern ment is very active
in the matter of building Notifications
and defenses at Sebastopol and other
places.
A BAND of Apaches recently raided a
ranch in the Santa Fe Valley, New Mexi-
CO, and killed man named Pollock.
A TRAIN on the Denver & South Park
Road was wrecked on the 18th, and a Mrs.
| Cronkhite of Denver, Col, was seriously
| injured.
CLARENCE and Herbert Morrison, of
| Muskegon, Mich, went sailing on the
lake on the 18th and are supposed to be
| lost.
| TWELVE glass works factories resumed
operations at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th,
| giving employment to 900 men.
FRANK HArToN has sold out his interest
in the Burlington Ha,okeye, and is now
editor of the Chicago Euening Mail.
WILLIAM BRADLEY was fatally and
James Hamilton seriously injured by
fire damp explosion in the Ashtabula
Coal Company's at mine Guffey's Station,
Pa, on the 12th
A CHINESE loan of sd Oo),O0) has been
negotiated at Paris and Berlin.
THERE are no signs of abatement of the
smallpox scourge at Montreal.
| A PREACHER named Andrew D. Hunter
was killed in the Chickasaw Nation on the
| 10 2.h by man named White, who el oped
with the reacher's daughter.
THE Spanish Amhass ador arrived at
Berlin on the 18Th with complete
apology from Spain to Germany.
| A STAGE was held up between Fort Nc
night Of the 11th, by robbers, who sue
ceeded in capturing Wells-Fargo's treas.
| ure box.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN was arrested by the
smallest man on the Cleveland police
! force on the 18th for pitching game of
base ball in violation of the Sunday law.
PETER DAILY, Thomas Fitzpatrick and
David Naughton have been arres ted
charged with causing the dynamite explo-
sion in Garry Bros dry goods store in
New York last February.
SENATOR MALONE und artook to cow
hide some young men-associates of his
son, Butler-at Petersburg, Va, but failed
in the attempt and had narrow escape
from bein : stabbed.
A MOB surrounded the house Of Warren
Coon, e-beater, at Chester, Neb., on
the 18th, and were about to lynch him,
when the prayers of his wife, supple ement-
ed by his own, induced them to give him
an other chance to reform.
THE Puritan won the first race Of the
series with the English yacht Genesta on
the 14th, beating the latter by four min
utes and forty seconds.
The Order of the Cincinnati had a
grand pageant at Cincinnati on the night
of the 18th.
FREELAND won the special sweepstakes,
value $1,000, mile and quarter, at Brigh-
ton Beach on the 14th.
CHANNoNG has been proclaimed the new
King Of AMMAN.
DANIEL DORSEY, proprietor of Barnum's
Hotel, Baltimore, Md, died on the 14th.
THERE were 12S deaths from smallpox
in Montreal last week.
AFAMILY named Gedion were poisoned
at Shamokin, Pa, on the 14th, by eating
toad-s tools.
THREE of Prestan's lieutenants have
been captured and placed in Jail at Pan
anna.
Two cases of small -pox have been dis
covered among children in New York
school.
A TENEMENT fire at Ann Arbor, Mich,
on the night of the 14th, dest royed the
life of Mrs. Ausman, colored woman.
A GREAT socialist meeting was held at
Rotterdam, Holland, in favor of general
suffrage.
IsMA1L PAsHA, -Khedive of Egypt,
has been refu sed permission to visit Con-
stantinople.
WILLIAM TAYLOR shot his wife and
himself at Worcester, Mass, on the 14th,
and both were thought to be fatally
wounded.
GENERAL C. W. FIELD retires from the
race for Doorkeeper of the National
House of Representatives.
The first section of the Panama Canal,
twelve kilometers in length, will be COM
pleted in October.
LuCIUs A. WHITE made clean breast
of the Brazilian couuterfeiting scheme in
ourt at Waco, Tex, on the IA b, giving
full details Of the whole matter.