Huntsville gazette., 1886-09-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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included in the 143d call, recently made,
about one million dollars are held to Sc
cure National bank circulation.
| THE business failures occurring through
| out the country during the seven davs
ended the 18th numbered for the United
States 152, and for Canada SO, or a total of
| 1S5, as compared with total of 17S the
preceding week, and 100 the week previous.
| OVER eight thousand Odd Fellows from
various points in the West and Northwest
left Chicago on the 18th for Boston, to at
tend the meeting of the Supreme Lodge.
There were 175 carloads of them.
| Mrs. ANNIE HUBBELL, wife of W. H.
| Hubbell, of New York, drowned her six
| year-old daughter in a bath-tub on the
18Th, and then hanged herself. They had
been dead about six hours when the hus-
| bund and father returned hone and found
! them.
ABOUT a dozen cottages at the Johanna
Heights Methodist camp meeting
grounds, near Reading, Pa, were burned
on the night of the 18th as the result of in
cendiary efforts.
A SUBSCRIPTION list for the sufferers by
the recent earthquakes at Charleston, S.
sulates in Germany, and liberal contribu
| tions are reported.
| THE Emperor William has sanctione d
the appointment of Count Herbert Bis
marck as Secretary of State with plenary
powers to represent the Chancellor in the
Foreign Depa rtment
/ The Marquis of Londonderry, accom-
panied by his wife, arrived at Dublin on
the 18th. They were sparingly cheered in
their ride from the railway station to Dub
| lin Castle.
ASHER p. DURAND. the oldest American
painter of note, died at his home at South
| Orange, N. j., on the 18th.
THE President and party signalized their
~last week day in the woods of the Adj
rondacks by bringing down fine buck,
and the ladies captured twenty five pounds
of splendid pickerel.
SAMUEL P. LEE, of Attleboro, Mass,
was convicted at Taunton, Mass, on the
18th, OF bigamy. He is only twenty one
years of age.
| DOUGLAS SMITH, former examiner of
mails in the New York post office, is found
to be a defaulter to the amount of $1,000.
SEVENTEEN Mexican revolutionists re-
Gently captured by government troops,
were Immediately shot.
The cholera returns from Italy on the
18th showed eight deaths and twenty five
new cases at Tarento, and twenty mine
new cases and fourteen deaths in all other
| infected districts.
THE Republique Franchise urges the
| French Government to take advantage of
the fact that England has her hands full
to enforce the French protectorate over
Madagascar.
THOMAS ROGERS, a printer, made des-
perate but unsuccessful attempt to end
his life in New York on the 18th. First he
stabbed himself twice with picture nail,
and finally tried to cut his throat with a
broken bottle. He recently inherited q
fortune, and this is one of the results
THERE was desperate rioting in Belfast
on the 10Th.
AN Irish-Italian riot at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 10Th, resulted in two persons being
fatally injured
BUSINESS has been fully resumed at
| Charleston, including telegraph and tele-
| phone service.
1T is denied at the State Department at
| Washington, that Secretary Manning is to
! take the Austrian mission.
| IT is understood that Sir William White,
British Minister at Bucharest, will soon
succeed Sir Edward Thornton as ambas-
sador to Turkey.
The organized workingmen of Indian
apolis, Ind, united in grand street pa
rade and picnic under the auspices of Dis
trict Assembly 106 and the Central Trades
and l. Dor Union on the 10Th. The pro-
cesslon consisted of numerous labor or
CARNATIONS and contained 1900 men.
ONE of the largest gatherings of Knights
Templar ever assembled in one place on
this continent recorded their arrival in st.
Louis on the Goth, and the city was filled
to overfowing with other guests. The
city was Illuminated for the first time this
year on the evening of that day, and be-
tween the beautifully variegated lights
and many -colored bunting and flags, the
picture was one suggestive OF Falryland
invaded by mortals, and once seen never
to be forgotten.
p. S. GILMORE, with his band of sixty five
musicians, arrived in st. Louis on the goth
and gave two concerts in the Exposition
He received royal welcome from the
thousands who packed the grand Music
Hall to listen to them.
THE Philadelphia City Council on the
Goth, by vote of 40 to So, decided to i'm
peach Mayor Smith on charges of mall
feasance in office, in accordance with the
recommendation of the committee to in
quire into the matter.
Hon. ALLEN G. THURMAN, who is in
Cincinnati ON legal business, was sere-
naded at his hotel on the night of the 10th
bv the Thurman Club. He made a brief
ad dress, in which he said, 81 VIII never
hold an office again"
CHOLERA returns from Austria Hungary
on the Goth were: Trieste, five new cases,
no deaths; Pesth, thir teen new cases, four
deaths; Fiume. one new case, two deaths;
Polo, two new cases.
STocKowNERs in the vicinity of Creston,
Ia, are in state of alarm over the intro
duction Of Texas fever through recent
sh ipment of cattle received there.
UPWARD of thirty cadets who engaged
:, West Point on AuouSt 2S