Huntsville gazette., 1886-09-18

the trunk was checked was arrested
NOTWITHSTANDING Envoy Sedgwick's
denial of the disgraceful allegations as to
his conduct in Mexico, and Secretary Bay-
ards acceptance of the same, the evidence
is accumulating that the affair was fully
as black as it was painted.
PRESIDENT FITZGERALD of the Irish Ma
tional League of America has ordered
10000 copies of Mr.. Gladstone's pamphlet
on the Irish question.
MUCH excitement has resulted in En-
gland over the alleged ordnance frauds,
and an official inquiry is inevitable.
ONLY four OF the defenders of Baltimore
at the battle of North Point in the war of
1872 survive, three Of whom are ninety one
and one ninety-two years of age. They
were given dinner at the Hotel Rennert,
Baltimore, on the 18th.
MISS CARROLL, daughter of ex- Governor
Carroll of Maryland, is soon to marry
Baron Louis de la Grange. Miss Carroll
has three nieces who are respectively, the
Duchess of Leeds, the Marchioness of
WELLESLEY and Lady Stafford.
DIR. STEPHEN H. TYING, of New York, is
in Paris, and is said to have embarked in
an enterprise out of which he expects to
realize a fortune.
ATTORNEY BAKER of Iowa
proposes to apply to the United States
Supreme Court for writ of quo warranto
to compel Iowa railroads to comply with
the law.
JOHN WILLIAMS, of Omaha, Neb., has
sued Judge Hamer for $4,000 for manag
ing his (WilliamsO defense in a murder
case in such a manner that the case was
lost and the defendant spent ten years in
the penitentiary.
THERE appears at present to be an epi
demic of savage crime raging in France,
some of the details of which are of the
most revolving description.
Hon. DoRMAN B. EATON publishes a
lengthy letter in reply to the charges of
undue partisanship in the examination Of
Pension Office examiners made by Com
missioner Oberly.
Mr.. HENRY WATTERSoN, of the Louis
Vile Courier Journal, is in Switzerland,
and is almost wholly recovered from his
severe illness.
A CoMPoSIToR named Reborn, in an En-
glish printing Office in Paris, shot the
foreman dead and wounded an appren-
itce out of revenge for having been dis
charged.
Two engines and several cars were
wrecked and several persons injured by a
collision on the Burlington & Northern
railway, near Potos, H., on the 11th.
Two tramps were killed in a collision on
the Union iPacific railroad at Rogers
Station, Neb., on the 11th. Both engines
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but no other casualties occurred.
OIL has been struck at Manstee, Mich,
at a depth of 1920 feet.
Ex-Governor PINCHBACK of Louisiana
is said to be big winner on the English
turf during past season.
THERE was great rejoicing at Philipop-
polls on the 11th, on the occasion Of
Prince Alexander's fete day.
CoNEY ISLAND was struck by a heavy
southeast gale on the 18th, which did con-
siderable damage.
CARDINAL GIBBONS dedicated the new
st. Joseph Passionist monastery at Brook
lyn on the 12th
A BANQUET was given to Frederick
Douglass on the night Of the 1lth by the
Wendell Phillips Club of Boston.
A MAN named James Greene, who had
taken a farm from an evicted tenant, was
shot dead near Innis, Ireland, on the 18th.
REPORTS received by the Farmers Re-
uieao indicate that the corn crop is well
past any serious danger of frost.
BRANCH O'BRIEN, the advance agent of
Miss Viola Allen, a new star in the thea
trical armament, began life as a newsboy
in ST. Louis.
A RUMoR was current at Grand Haven.
Mich, on the night of the 18th that the
barge Oracle Baker, with two hundred
passengers on board, had sunk in Lake
Michigan somewhere south of that port.
The report could not be verified, but great
anxiety exist ed.
THE latest rumor regarding the origin OF
Mr.. Blaine's fortune is that h. c. Kerens,
of st. Louis, gave him an interest in the
"Small Hopes" silver mine OF Colorado,
which has proved bonanza.
THE first snow of the season fell at Ish-
peming, Mich, on the 18th. 1t was not
very heavy and soon melted away.
THE Bulgarian National Assembly is in
session at Sofia.
LEWIS APPLE, editor of the Panora (la.)
Vidette, committed suicide on the 18th.
OUTRAGEs by moonlignters are reported
at Dublin and at Tralee, County Kerry,
Ireland.
THE yacht Volta was propelle by cleo
tricity from Dover, England, to Calais,
France, on the 18th, in three hours and
Fl fly -one minutes.
TIE workmen of the New En- gland Ship
Building Company's yard, at Bath, Me-,
are out on a strike.
FIFTEEN persons were crushed to death,
thirty seriously hurt and over hundred
slightly injured during panic in church
at Padua, Austria, on the 18Th
IT is reported that change will take
place in the Northern Pacific directory at
The coming election.
RUSSIA, through her agent at Sofia, ad-
vises that public opinion be allowed to
calm down before new prince IS elected
to the Bulgarian throne.
AT the election in Maine on the 18th the
Republicans elected their candidates, but
in some ca ses by decreased figures.
CAPTAIN MARKHAM, vino accompanied