Huntsville gazette., 1886-07-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NhChEIAhf MANNING health is SAID to
be improving.
TIE Berlin municipality has voted
2,OO0,OOO marks for the exhibition to be
held there in 1888.
THE Washington Cd. CO. granite cutters
decided on the och to accept the bosses'
offer and go to work at nine hours a day
and forty cents per hour.
THE King of Portugal will visit England
in August.
ROBERT HILL and wife, of Chillisquaque,
Pa, were run over and killed by the cars
on the 9th.
CARDINAL MANNING has pronounced in
favor of home rule for Ireland.
AN unknown, well-dressed man COM
mitted suicide by drowning at Blackwell's
Island, N. Y, on the 9th.
SENATOR BECK admits that his bill for
bidding Senators to act as railroad attor-
neys, will be defeated.
DESCENT was made on the Starr gang
at Webber's Falls, l. T.. on the 9th, and
three were captured, including the noto-
rious Belle Starr.
GLADSTONE has called on John Bright to
retract or produce proof of his recent
charges that Gladstone formerly opposed
home rule.
BURGLARS broke into Prof. Merriman's
room at Beloit, Wis, on the night of the
9th, and shot him in the neck.
PRINCE LUITPoLD was formally sworn
in as Regent of Bavaria on the 28th.
Hon. JAMES q. BLAINE has let it be
known that he is preparing great speech
to be delivered when the fall campaign
opens. .f.
Two men sailed from the Clyde on the
2Sth for New Y ork in boat nineteen feet
long. They carried provisions for two
months.
THE sheriff read the ri Il act to the Lake
Shore strikers at ChcSgo on the 2Sth,
ed. 4
THE names of Prince Mhrat and his son
have been stricken from the rolls of the
French army. ,.
SECRETARY MANNING in recent inter-
view discusses the principle of local gov
ernment and home rule in America and
England'
Mr.. GLADSTONE addressed the electors
OF Liverpool on the 2Sih and was received
with boundless enthusiasm. Henry Ward
Beecher was on the platform.
THE municipal authorities of Milan,
Italy, have decided to found Pasteur in
stitute.
The revenue cutter Forward returned to
Mobile on the 2Sth from a search for Gu
ban flibusters reported to be. fitting out in
New Orleans. She overhauled the steam
er Marco Aurelia, but found nothing sus-
picious. s
The Porte has ordered the withdrawal
of 10000 Turkish troops from the Greek
frontier.
The inland revenue officers at Montreal,
Can, have lodged information against
four dealers of that city for the adultera-
tion of coffee. In one case seventy-flye
per cent. OF foreign matter was discov-
cred.
THE Balruderry mansion at Dundee,
Scotland, owned by Martin White, OF New
York, was destroyed by fire on the 2Sth,
loss, $250,O0O. trfis e
CARDINAL GIBBONS received a cable
gram on the 2Sth from Rev. DR.. O'Connel,
secretary of the American college at
Rome, announcing that Rev. Father A. A.
Curtis, of Baltimore, had been chosen to
succeed Bishop Becker of the diocese of
Wilmington. 4aE
THE corner stone of the great Peoples
palace in East London was laid on the
2Sth, with imposing ceremony by the
Prince and Princess of Wales. The struct-
ure will cost $1,000,000.
QUITE a sensation was produced in Buff
falo, n. Y, on the 2Sth by the publication
lx,1 .<1f
the Court of Sessions grand jury, setting
forth that lawyer named Charles T..
Whitcher had attempted to tamper with
them by letter and postal card concerning
a case in which he desired an Indictment
found.
"A SERVANT in a family in Bucharest,
Servia, murdered his master and mistress
and their fiv children on the 20th, stole
10, 900 francs and then fed to Bulgaria.
a EDWIN BIBBY and James Faulkner wres-
tied at the Grand Opera house at Cincln-
natl on the night of the 18th, catch AS
catch can, for 500 a side and the middle
weight championship. Bibby won, taking
the first and third bouts.
AN attempt was made on the evening of
the 9th, by some unknown person, to wreck
train on the Northern railroad by put
ting two ties on the rails near Closter, n.
j. The engineer saw them in time and
stopped the train when one tie was under
the pilot of the engine. ..-yrg
A BOY named Gaff, aged seventeen, liv-
ing a few miles east of Nevada, Ia, at
tended a camp meeting on the 9th, and.
while returning home, lay down by the
track and went to sleep. He was run over
by the cars and crushed beyond recogni-
tiop. ......,{..,.., ..t.
THE first through train to Vancouver on
the Canadian Pacific railroad left Mon
treal on the evening of the 18th. Many of
the most prominent men in the city, in
cluding representatives of all commercial
bodies, and thousands of other citizens
witnessed its departure, and field bat
terry fired salute Of fifteen guns.
The President, on plea of the pressure
of public business, declined an invitation
to attend the ceremonies in Baltimore at
tendant upon the comforting the beretta
on Cardinal Gibbons. aA4 A2 l@At t2etf
PROBABLY the largest petition ever fled
in Con was that nrecpntad bV Mr.