Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Crystal wlndow-g glass works at
Bel,aire, O., burned on the 9th. Loss,
$50. 900; insurance, $34, 900.
THE Jury in the case of Sam Archer, on
trial at Shoals, Ind, for participation in
the murder of Farmer Bum, found a ver-
dict of guilty on the 9th, and the pris-
oner was sentenced to be hanged July 8.
THE riotous strikers in Charleroi, Bel
gium hare ipaugurated a perfect reign of
terror. ant she military seoH powerlcss to
cope with them.
Nor in the history of Newfoundland has
destitution prevailed to such an extent as
is now prevalent. Hundreds of families
are said to be on the verge OF starvation,
being entirely dependent ON government
aid to keep them alive.
Two mounted United States inspectors
had a skirmish with Mexican smugglers
near Tombstone, Ariz., on the 9th, in
which one Of the Mexicans was wounded.
A WHITE boy, apparently ten years old,
was found by General Crook a captive in
Geronimo's camp.
AT Vaudeville, ten miles north of Tex
arkana, Ark, on the 2Sth, the militia on
board an Iron Mountain freight train cap
tured fourteen men who were tampering
with a switch.
THE principal car and locomotive manu-
featuring shops of the Northern Pacific
destroyed by fire on the 2Sth. The loss is
100000. This includes the damage to
building and contents. The car patterns,
which were of great value, were saved.
UNDER decree of foreclosure on the
first mortgage bonds amounting to $780,
900, the Chicago & Great Southern Rail
road was sold at public auction at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 9th, by the master in
chancery. The only bidder and the pur-
chaser was Henry H. Porter, of Chicago,
who represents the bondholders, the con-
sideration being $501 900, 81 600 more than
the minimum amount fixed by the court
REV. RICHARD FRENCH, D. D., formerly
Archbishop of the Dublin diocese of the
Church of Ireland, is dead.
FOUR ladies bitten by supposed rabid
dog at Athens, Greece, have gone to
Pasteur at Paris for treatment.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND was re-
ported sick abed on the 29th.
AUSTRALIA opposes the annexation of
the New Hebrides by France.
TIL Union Pacific Railway Company
has cut the rate from Omaha to the Pacific
coast to five dollars net.
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN voted against the
Government on the crofters' bill in the
House of Commons on the Doth.
A GENERAL court-martial is ordered to
convene at Fort Meade, OAK, April 20, to
try such cases as may be brought before it.
SEVERAL French newspapers accuse Bis
marck of having melted the recent riots
in Belgium.
In reply to cable inquiry, Mr.. Parnell
Association, which was condemned by
Patrick Eagan.
THE Pope has deci ded against the Bishop
of Nottingham in the dispute between him
and the Tories.
THE death of Barney Macauley, the actor,
in New York, was reported on the 29th.
THREE HUNDRED strikers made an attack
on the Mariemont colliery at Mons, Bel
gium, on the Goth, and were fired upon by
troops. The number of killed and wound
ed was fourteen.
HENRY PAULsoN, ON trial at Valentine,
Neb., for shooting and killing Henry
Stephens last January, has been convicted
of murder in the second degree, and sem
fenced to fifteen years.
SENATOR FAIR introduced the Morrow
Chinese bill in the Senate on the 29th, with
an amendment changing from twenty to
ten years the period during which the en-
trance of Chinese laborers into the United
States shall be prohibited.
ALL efforts of the Greek Government to
obtain loan having failed, the Chamber
of Deputies have been summoned to grant
credit to the government.
THE foreign diplomatic agents have in
formed Prince Alexander that unless he
adheres to the proposals of Turkey the
powers will proceed on their own course.
THE employees at London, Ont, of the
Grand Trunk railway have decided to re-
ject Mr.. Hickson's proposition for partial
restoration Of the reduction in wages and
to demand return to full pay. 1t is stated
that the employees at all other points of the
Grand Trunk system are working in uni
son with those at London on this question.
SENATOR PAYNE and Mrs. Whitney left
Washington on the Goth for Cleveland.
O., to attend the funeral of Mrs. Paulina
Simmer Perry, mother of Mrs. Senator
Payne, who died there on the 2Sth.
In the House of Commons on the Goth
Mr.. Gladstone said that on April 8 he
would ask leave to introduce the Irish
government bill.
THE Steinitz- -Zukertort chess match
wound up at New Orleans on the night of
the 29th with another victory for Steinitz,
giving him the championship of the world
The game was the eleventh played in New
Orleans and the twentieth of the great
match.
The Jeans Manufacturers Association
of the Ohio valley met on the Goth and
decided to cut working hours from eleven
to ten hours day, advance pay five per
cent. an hour and to curtail production,
owing to the state of trade.
THE visible supply of grain in store and
afioat in the United States and Canada on
the 9th, was as follows: Wheat, 49,774,-
900 bushels; corn, 16, 1877 ,079 bushels; oats,
1850 ,929 bushels; rye, 545, ,6o6 bushels; bar
ley, ,039, ,704 bushels.
The total values of the exports of mer-
chandise during the twelve months ended
February Is, 1886, were 1868, 723,574, and
dnr;ng o. the preceding twelve months $74S,-