Huntsville gazette., 1886-07-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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136, ,3s4; reduction of debt in June, $9,O61, :
S97.'
| FIVE New York boycotters have been
convicted and were sentenced to the peni-
| tentiary on the I'd.
QUEEN VICTORIA reviewed the troops at
Aldershoot on the I'd.
| PARNELL and Maurice Healey have been
elected to represent the City of Cork.
The Irish cngae kw sens so far, from
I headquarters at Detroit, Mich, 1000 to
Ireland to aid in the parliamentary cam.
| paign.
THERE will be an adverse report on Ran =
dall's tariff bill by the ways and means
committee at Washington.
| GLADSTONE has been elected in the Mid
| lothian district and also in the district
known as Leithburgs.
| PARNELL is escorted everywhere he goes
by body-guard of personal friends, all
stalwart young Irishmen.
| TEN men were killed and many injured
on the I'd by an explosion in the At
lantic Giant Powder works, situated be-
| tween McCainsville and Drakesville, N. j.
GENERAL dissatisfaction is caused in
Germany by the new telegraph rules.
WATsoN's spinning mills at Kiddermin-
ster, England, were destroyed by fire on
the I'd. The loss is $500,000. One thou
sand persons are thrown out of employ
ment.
THERE were six births in the steerage of
the steamer Hammonia (German), which
arrived in New York on the I'd, during her
voyage from Bremen.
| AT religious anniversary at Marseilles
on the I'd, two thousand Royalists made a
demonstration in favor of the Count of
Paris. They carried tricolor flags and
copies of the counts manifesto.
The total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the week ended
the Cd were valued at 81 ,9O7, 1856, and the
amount thrown on the market ST ,S93, ,694.
THE Swiss Council has decided to expel
from the country all foreign Anarchist
workmen who assisted in the strike at Zu-
rich.
THOMAS MORGAN was fatally injured
and j. T. Davis and VIM. Lloyd were bad
ly hurt by an explosion of gas in a coal
mine near Canton, O., where they were at
work.
DURING the fiscal year just closed the
pension Office, Washington, issued 81, ,422
certificates.
THE Temes and Bega rivers, in Eastern
Hungary, have again risen, flooding the
surrounding country. Two villages have
been destroyed by the floods.
j. A. CHRISTIAN, eX-president of the
National Millers' Association of the United
States, died at his cottage at Lake Minne-
tonka, Mimi. on the Cd. His death was
caused by cancer of the bowels, from
which he had been suffering for some
time.
In the inter- collegiate boat race at New
| London, Conn.,, on the I'd, the Yale crew
beat the Harvard's by seven lengths in
20:4 IA
The First Comptroller Of the Treasury
has made a decision that wherever labor
ers, workmen or mechanics employed in
any of the executive departments are re-
I quired to work more than eight hours a
| day. they are entitled to compensation
for the extra work, unless otherwise spec.
fled by contract.
| JOHN MEASURES and his wife and two
| children, aged seven and ten years. of
Stoneham, Mass, driving in a buggy, were
instantly killed at the Albion street (Bos-
toni crossing of the Boston & Maine rail-
road on the evening of the I'd, being struck
| by an express train. The vehicle was
smashed into hundred pieces.
M. BELDERoCK, Socialist, formerly in
the service of the Belgian Government,
| the act of posting placards insulting the
King.
JUDGE JOHN 1. NIXON, of the United
| States District Court at Trenton, N. j., has
| been stricken blind. He is sixty six years
| of age, and the recovery of his sight is
| doubtful.
| ONE hundred carloads of excursionists
attended the reunion at Gettysburg on the
4th
| A FIRECRACKER thrown into John K.
Boas' lumber yard at Reading, Pa, caused
a loss of $4,000.
THE hop crop of Central New York is
| greatly damaged by vermin and the
blight known as honey dew.
| HUGO MICHAEL, Wisconsin farmer S
| son, ran away from, home, got lost in the
woods and starved to death.
JOHN DALEY, the reformed Catholic" !"
was roughly handled by mob at Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the 4th, and was prevented
from making an address.
| CARDINAL JACoBINI protests to Pre- tmier
DeFrey cinet against the treaty between
France and Corea, and threatens that the
Holy See will itself assume protectOrate
over Corea.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND had, up to the
9Th, vetoed seventy seven bills, seventy
two of which were for pensions.
| THE postal authorities at Wash
ington say they anticipate no trouble
from threatened designations of postal
1 clerks.
| SENATOR CocKRELL's little boy Frank
was severely burned about the face by an
explosion of gunpowder at Washington
on the 5th.
A FAVORABLE report has been made on
the claim for a pension of Mrs. Pavy,
widow Of DIR. Pavy, who perished with the
Greely party.
Hon. ALoNzo SESSIONS, x-Lieatenant-
/ Governor of Michigan died on the Sd