Huntsville gazette., 1886-06-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

-NAAAASAs O~AAsA<AoA<1
is receiving the assistance of Kentucky
men in Congress.
The executive committee of the Brook
lyn IN. Y.) branch of the Irish parlia-
mentary fund forwarded 5000 to the Par
nell fund in England on the 10Th.
AT Avoca, Ia, on the Goth William Far
| rell killed watchman named D. Heller
and then blew his own brains out
The injurious effects Of whole sale hand
shaking at the White House is pointed out
by Washington lady.
BISHOP MCQUAID of Rochester, N. Y,
in contributing one hundred dollars to the
Irish parliamentary fund, writes a letter
urging agitation until Ireland's rights are
conceded.
The Parnellities appointed to take
charge of the Irish vote in Great Britain
are actively preparing for work.
A DEPUTATIoN of Ulster Protestant cler-
gymen and magistrates will address pub
lie meetings at London in favor of home
rule.
Four miners, convicted of the murder of
superintendent Watren at Decazeville,
were sentenced on the 10Th to terms of
from five to eight years penal servitude.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH, in an ad-
dress to the electors of Bristol, said the
Government scheme would be dishonora-
BILE to Great Britain and disastrous to Ire
land.
Mr.. GLADSTONE address ed another
large and enthusiastic meeting at Edin-
burg on the 21st.
CARDINAL TAscHEREAU was presented
on the 21st with an address and purse of
$5,5,4 by the people of Quebec.
The Detroit base ball club turned the ia
bles on the Chicagos on the 21st, and
came within one of shutting the ''record-
breakers" out. The score stood to l in
favor of Detroit.
THE English yacht Galatea will sail for
New York on the Goth to compete for the
Americas cup.
A DEMAND has been presented in the
Spanish Congress for the concession Of
home rule to Cuba.
BENJAMIN MORAN, for many years Sec
retary of the American Legation in Lon
don, and afterward Minister resident in
Portugal, is dead.
THE ind ictments against Mrs. Molloy at
Spring field, Mo-, growing out of the Gra-
was held on bail until new indictments
can be found.
Ov -~'sons We're pois-
oned by something eaten at a rman
| festival at Petersville, N. j., and an ex-
| animation of the food partaken of reveal
ed the fact that the meat from which sand
wiches had been made wasbadly impreg-
mated with poison, absorbed from the
cans in which it was packed.
DURING thunderstorm at Crete, Neb.,
on the 2lst Martin Collins and Frank Po
lansky were instantly killed by lightning
while digging well. Collins was badly
disfgured, being burned in some spots to
a crisp. The back of his head was torn
off.
Hon. L. A. BRUNER, Speaker pro tenn. of
the Sixty ysixth General Assembly of Ohio,
and editor of the Seneca Advertiser, died
at Tiffin, o., on the Dist, of heart disease,
aged sixty years.
The London Daily Telegraph says Able
Liszt is i'll at Weimar. His physicians fear
his condition is hopeless.
THE Senate has ratified an extradition
treaty with Japan and one for the resur-
vey of the boundary line between the
United States and Mexico.
The Treasury Department issued call
on the 21st for 100000 three-per-
bonds for redemption.
SPAIN contemplates the construction of
a number of speedy and powerful cruisers.
THE woman who played the recent en-
gagement in st. Louis with Orth Stein,
the journalistic and general fraud, has
shown up in Indianapolis, and claims
that Stein swindled her badly, robbing
her of everything she had of value.
MRS. CLARA RICHARDSON, of Memphis,
Tenn, wife of j. H. Richardson, mer-
chant there, was removed from the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, to Bellevue Hos
pital on the 2lst. as she had shown unmls-
taxable signs of madness. She is thirty
five wears old and very handsome
Parsons, the Chicago Anarchist, who
has been hiding since the night of the
Haymarket riot, walked into court there
on the 21st, in company of his attorneys,
and surrendered himself.
Mrs. MACKENZIE, who was shot by her
husband, the American Vice Consul at
Dublin, is recovering.
The New England Institute Fair build
ing at Boston was uoStlOy GU ny hiO ou ohO
21st, and twelve persons are known to
have been burned to death. Eight charred
bodies were recovered. The building cost
100000.
REV. WALDO MEssARAs, of the North
western Independent Presbyterian Church
of Philadelphia, is the central figure of
scandal that eclipses the Downs case.
Mr.. PARNELL is to stump England and
Scotland to allay, if possible, the religious
excitement raised over the prospect of
home rule in Ireland.
A SEVERE storm struck the Austrian
capital and vicinity en- the 21st, destroy
ing bridges, roads, railways and uproot-
ing hundreds of trees in Ringstrask park.
THE President sent to Congress on the
2lst fifteen veto messages. Thirteen Of
the vetoed measures are private pension
bills; the others provide for public build
ings at Sioux City, Ia, and GAINESVILLE, 0.
A MEETING of thousand people was
held at Zurich, Switzerland, on the 21st,
to protest against the Governments ac-