Huntsville gazette., 1886-03-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

A FEMALE six-days' types setting match,
two hours and twenty minutes each day,
closed at Boston ON the 9th The final
score was: Miss Kennin, "a, $50 ems Miss
Davis, 24,65O; Miss Franers, 24,495; Miss
Hammond, 1885.
SPECIAL detectives from London con-
tinue to guard the Prince of Wales at
Cannes, the reason for which is not re-
vealed.
PERCY WOOD, the English sculptor, has
lust completed bronze statue of the In
dian chief Thayendenega for citizens of
Brantford, Ont
THE Rothschilds have issued a Brazilian
loan of $4,000, 900, bearing interest at five
per cent, at ninety five.
FRED w. MARVIN, cashier of the Mer-
| chants and Manufacturers Bank of De-
troit, Mich, has resigned. by request, on
account of a social scandal in which he
was involved, which recently came to
| light.
| FROM all points in the East reports were
received on the 9th of the severity of the
prevailing blizzard, together with ac-
counts of serious damages resulting.
REEsER DAVIS was instantly killed by
tuo 1881 tA press Ou tu6 NEW i OTk, 0nu-
sylvania & Ohio railroad, at New Portage,
O., while attempting to cross the track
ahead of the train.
THE agitation by the British seamen
against the employment of foreign sailors
in the merchant marine is spreading to the
northern seaports of Great Britain.
MICHAEL DAvITT has great hopes from
Mr. Morley's efforts as Chief Secretary for
Ireland.
A BROTHER Of Congress sman Laird, of
Nebraska, was found dead on the railroad
track near Albuquerque, N. NJ, on the 9th,
having been run over by freight train
while under the influence of liquor.
L. P. MALLORY, the son of respectable
and wealthy parents in Towanda, Pa, who
has been leading rather fast life in the
West during the past ten months, has been
brought up with a round turn by reason of
getting numerous checks and drafts
cashed at New Mexican and Colorado
banks without having funds forthco min 9
to meet them.
MARTIN VAN FLEET, the defaulting
treasurer of Huron County, o., has been
held for extradition by the Dominion Court
at Brantford, Ont, on the charge of forg
ing and altering the county records.
THE Lutheran Cemetery & Cypress Hill
Railroad Company's depot at Brooklyn,
N. Y, burned on the 9th, together with
forty cars, seven motors and quantity OF
harness, involving loss of 100000; par
TALLY insured.
FIRE destroyed the Canadian Pacific
railway depot at Winnipeg, Man., on the
1st.
THE British steamer Missouri, from Bos-
ton February IS for Liverpool, was re-
ported on the 1st as stranded off Holy
! head.
! THE dry-house of the Miami Powder
works, near Xenia, O., blew up on the 1st,
| killing three men. The force of the explo-
sion was felt for sixty miles.
| In speech in Lancashire, on the 1st, Sir
Henry James spoke in Justification of the
secession of Ireland.
MRS. PHELPS, wife of Minister Phelps,
was received in private audience at Wind
sor Castle on the 1st by Queen Victoria.
GREAT anxiety is felt owing to the nom
arrival OF the British man -of-war Belle
rophon at Barbados, where she was due
February II. The Bellerophon is an ar
NOR plated ship Of 1850 tons, $3.50 horse
power, carrying fifteen guns.
AT a meeting Of the members composing g
the Extreme Left in the French Chamber
of Deputies the immediate expulsion of the
French princes was favored by a vote of
80 to 6.
FIRE started in Bodine Bros.' lumber
yard at West New Brighten, Staten Is
land, on the 1st, with stiff gale blowing.
Engines from neighboring towns were
called to assist in fighting the flames. At
ten O'Clock at night the fire was thought to
be under control. Loss, $75 900; insurance,
S31 900.
BAscoM's block, containing stores, Of
fees and club-roomS, at Nashua, N.
H., was burned on the night OF
the 1st. Loss, $4,000. A falling ehim-
ney buried three fremen, Lester a.
Morrow, skull fractured and will probably
die; Frank Farnsworth, three ribs frac-
tured and probably fatally hurt, and Geo.
Campbell, seriously injured.
Two buildings belonging to the e1ten-
sive il-cloth works of George W. Blabon
& Co., at Philadelphia, burned on the 1st.
Loss, $50, 600; partly insured.
THE Mexican troops are much dissatis-
fed Last month they received but $1,000
in all, or less than twenty per cent. of their
pay. Men and officers find it difficult to
live. The police also receive no pay.
SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, was reported
worse again on the 1st, but the doctor
thought no serious apprehensions need be
entertained.
THE promised message from the Presi-
dent stating his position on the subject OF
removals from office was sent to the Senate
on the 1st.
A snow storm prevailed throughout
Great Britain on the 1st. In many places
the snow was drifted in great piles on the
railroad tracks, seriously impeding traffic
The sufferings of the poor were greatly in
creased by the storm.
THE issue of standard silver dollar from
the mints during the week, ended Febru-
ary 81, was S305, 900. This issue during the
corresponding period of last year, was
| $1S6, ,497. The shipments of fractional sill
yer coin during the month of February
amounted to $230, ,O89.
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