Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

by means of a key made out of a comb by
an eleven-year-old boy.
THE President will visit the fair OF the
Virginia State Agricultural Society at
Richmond on the 21st inst. Mrs. Cleve-
land will probably accompany him.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT decapitated
seventy more employees Of the Government
printing office on the I'd, making in all 400
discharged to date, among them being thir-
teen ex-Union and two ex-Confederate
soldiers.
A DEFALCATION Of nearly $4,000 in the
Union Dime Savings Bank Of New York
has just come to light, Otto Baumann, the
receiving teller, being the defaulter. The
bank is thoroughly solvent.
ADMIRAL PORTER is reported as lying
very ill at Newport, r. l., as the result of
a carriage accident at Milford, Mass, sew
eral days ago.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
and Messrs. Barry. Hayes and Bailey, of
the general executive board of the Knights
of Labor, have gone to Richmond, Va, to
attend the general assembly of the order
at that place.
THE court-martial of General Villa
campa and other officers implicated in the
recent emeute at Madrid, began on the I'd.
The court condemned the General and
thirteen others to death, and it was ex-
pected the executions would take place on
the 4tb.
IT is said that the second annual report
of the National Bureau of Labor, now in
course of preparation, will be a much
N, oro couor,roho on eivo docuu,opt than tho
report laid before Congress last winter.
THE committee on the Irish parliament
ary fund gave a banquet to Justin Nc
Carthy at the Hoffman House, New Y ork,
ou the evening of the I'd.
ONE white man and four negroes took
from five to twenty lashes at Newcastle,
DEL, on the I'd for various offenses, princi-
pally larceny.
A YOUNG man named Ed. Roe was IA
tally shot by the accidental discharge of
his gun while coon hunting near Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, on the I'd.
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE preached on
the Sd in Brooklyn on profanity, Bias
phemy and Rum"
A BAND of Salvationists were arrested
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Sd, and COM
conduct.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN will leave England
for C Constantinople this week on a Euro
pean tour.
GAY FOSTER, the slick New York swim
dler, is said to have played poker with
Ferd Ward in prison and got pointers
from him.
LORD LONDONDERRY and wife were
greeted at the Gaiety theatre, London, on
the night of the Cd, with mingled, cheers
and Kisses.
THE cornerstone Of the new st. Paul
Roman Catholic church was laid at Wash
ington, d. c., on the Sd by Cardinal Glib
bOns.
AN explosion with terribly fatal results
occurred at Altoft's colliery near Wante-
field, Yorkshire, England, on the Sd.
THE Cameron-Lonsdale affair is be-
lieved to be an advertising dodge to which
De Bensaude, the ''injured husband" is
willing party.
THE annual meeting of the American
Academy of Medicine will be held in
Pittsburgh, Pa, October II and 13. About
two hundred delegates from all parts of
the country are expected to be present.
THE Alden Canning and Evaporating
Company's factory at Benton Harbor,
Mich, burned on the Sd. Loss, $4,000.
Stock insured for $4,000. The fire was
caused by the night watchman overturn-
ing lighted torch.
IT is Mrs. Folsom's intention to break
up housekeeping in Buffalo, as she will
make her future home at "Pretty Pros
hnrna tn
which he drives out with his wife every
pleasant afternoon.
Mr.. GEO. BANCROFT, the historian, who
is sojourning at Newport, r. l., received
numerous letters on the Sd congratulating
him upon the eighty-sixth anniversary OF
his birthday. He accepted an invita- ton
to dine with Mr.. and Mrs. John Astor, OF
New York, and was called upon by many
friends during the day.
AT the opening of the Knights of Labor
convention at Richmond, Va, on the 4th
the delegates were welcomed to the hos
pitalities of the city by Governor Lee, and
Mr.. Powderly made fitting response.
COLONEL NICHOLAS SMITH, son-in-law
of the late Horace Greeley, is soon to mar
ry wealthy kentucky belle.
The body or an UNKNOWN Hah "oS
found hanging to the limb of a tree near
Columbus, N. Y, on the 81. The features
were 50 decomposed as to be unrecog niz-
able. sit't
WESLEY OLEwElLER, of York Coun ty,
Pa, accidentally shot himself in the ab-
domen after returning from hunting ana
died almost instantly. He was under the
influence of liquor at the time. @3-sS
A POLISH rabbi in Cincinnati has been
discovered running private divorce mill
among his parishioners. The authorities
are looking into the matter.
The schooner Seth Stockbridge, which
sailed from Gloucester, Mass, for Green
land seas with q crew Of sixteen men, sew
eral months ago, is supposed to have been
crushed in the ice and all hands lost. i.'
THE New York branch of the Irish Ma
tional League of America has begun to
call halt on contribu tions to the Parneli
parliamentary fund, having become con-
.vinced that their money is being squan-
dered and no good being accomp lisned IN
the, direction of ameliorating the condl-
tion of the tenant class in Ireland.
SERIOUS charges are made against ex-