Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

which the knights were interested.
JAY GOULD is said to have lost three
pounds of flesh as the result of the anxiety
attending the trouble over the recent
strikes.
COMMODORE TRUxToN fell in an epileptic
fit while being shaved in the Ebbitt House,
Washington, on the Sd, and, striking his
head upon the marble floor of the room,
sustained severe scalp wound and was
rendered unconscious.
STARTLING disclosures of crooked work
in regard to land grant legislation have
recently been made which may cost sew
eral Canadian members OF Parliament
their seats.
REPORTS received on the Sd detailed Sc
rious loss of life and property in the South
as the result of the recent floods. Govern
ment aid was called for to save the suffer-
ers from the horrors of starvation.
THE total imports of merchandise at the
port of New York for the week ending the
Sd were valued at $S,234 ,12O, and Of dry
goods at s., ,256,4S9.
The Pittsburgh (Pa.) street car strike IS
ended, mutual concessions havin e been
made.
A BODY supposed to be that of Russell
Nourse, of New York, was found on the
4th in the Thames, at London.
ROBT. GRAHAM, secretary of the Church
Temperance Society, and DR.. Funk, Pro-
hibitionist, debated high license in Masonic
temple, New Y ork, on the 4th.
PRINCE ALEXANDER is to be appointed
Governor of Eastern Roumelia for five
years.
ACCORDING to dispatches from London
on the 4th, Gladstone's cabinet is about to
go to pieces.
DURING a snowballing fracas between q
party of boys at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Sd, strange boy who had been made the
special object Of attack fatally stabbed
James Glunt with jack knife.
AUGUST FREIS, German, was acciden-
tally shot in a Baltimore (Md.) sum-
mer garden on the 4th by boy who was
examining pistol which he did not know
was loaded and in whose hands the
weapon was discharged.
SECRETARY MANNING was reported i'm
proving on the 9Th.
SAFE BLOWERS robbed the post Office at
Attica, Ind, on the night Of the 9Th, of
s., 800.
THE anniversary of Greek independence
was celebrated on the 9th.
CALEB w. WEST, of. Kentucky, has been
nominated Governor of Utah.
THE German Bundesrath has approved
the Anti-Socialist law passed by the
Reichstag.
GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana will not in
terfere in the case of Phillips, the wife
murderer, and he will be executed accord
ing to programme, Notwithstanding the
tender condition of his neck.
In the contested election case of Camp
bell VS.. Weaver, of Iowa, the House elec-
tion committee at Washington decided in
favor of Weaver.
THE mayors and projects of France have
been instructed to do their utmost to pre-
vent Frenchmen from emigrating.
PRoF. FOSTER, the Iowa meteorologist,
predicts very heavy and dangerous
storms throughout the Northern States
and Mississippi basin during the last ten
days of the present month.
A WOMAN named McWatts was lodged
in jail IN Brunswick County, Va, on the
5th, charged with the murder of her babe,
whose remains, SeVeT6u III tWO3 Wei 10 lOuuA
hidden in the woods.
RIGHT Hon. VIM. f. FORSTER, NJ. P. for
Bradford, England, and formerly Chief
Secretary for Irel and, died in London on
the Jth.
IsApoRE SEIDENBAUM, of Milwaukee,
Wis, eighteen years old, killed Annie
Rosenstein, fifteen years of age, at her
home there on the 5th, and then commit
ted suicide.
THE services in celebration of Prince
Alexander's birthday were attended on
the 9TH by representatives of all the pow
ers except that of Russia.
IT was announced in the British House
of Commons that Greece had not accepted
the advice of the powers in regard to her
course in the troubles with Turkey.
MRS. W. SHANNON, q widow seventy
wears of age, was burned to death by the
destruction of her house, near Viroqua,
Wis, on the 5th. Murder and arson is sus' :.
pected as the widow is known to have had
money with her.
AT the polls of Precinct A, Fourth Ward.
Cincinnati, on the 5th, Peter s. Kelly and
Mike HAYES had an alteration which re-
suited in Hayes drawing pistol and firing
several shots. One bullet pierced Kelly's
arm and another struck John Murphy in
the hip. Neither men were dangerously
hurt.
THE stables of VIM. Mcmahon, at Park
vile, L. l., were burned on the sth. Out
of the stable, consisting of Reva, Charley
Kempland, Chiocha, Spartacus, Counter
felt and Perilous, all owned by VIM. Nc
Mahon, Chiocha and Perilous were alone
uninjured. They escaped with few slight
burns. Reva perished in the flames, and
Charley Kempland had to be killed.
Counterfeit was fearfully burned about the
head and shoulders, and will lose the sight
of one eye. Spartacus was terribly burned
on his back, the blanket having been al
most Immediately consumed before re-
moved. The loss on the racers is at least
81 900.
S,R HENRY HALFoRD. the well-known
.-.lgiish riAeman, is said to be dying of
Bright disease of the kidneys.
A NUMBER of Charleroi (Belgium1 riot.
ers have been sentenced to terms of from
three months to live years. Imprisonment.