Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Of the French Chamber of Deputies, but
| was averted by the interference of friends.
MANY Of the mills at Woonsocket, r. l.,
were flooded by from three to six feet Of
water on the 13th. The water was three
feet dsep in the ssreets.
THE shortage in the accounts of s. r.
Sterling, late treasurer of Rockingham
| County, Va, it is now thought, will ap-
proximate 100000.
! THE newspapers of Cracow, Russia, are
urging the merchants of that city to break
| off their relations with German business
houses. The medical society of Cracow
has decided to boycott German medicines
and medical instruments.
RANCHMEN report favorable winter in
Manitoba, the cattle coming through in
prime condition. The snow is fast disap-
| pearing and the outlook is good.
| MR.. HENRY WATTERsoN's disease is
| spinal meningitis and he is not expected to
recover.
GEORGE ST. JOHN, engineer, and A. l..
Lewis, fireman, were killed and several
passengers injured in wreck on the On
tario & Western railroad near Liberty, N.
Y, on the 13Gh.
MRS. GENERAL SHERIDAN, who had been
quite i'll for several days, was re-
ported on the 18th as rapidly regaining
her health and strength
Ex-Governor ST. JOHN of Kansas lee
tured on Temperance at the South" in
Chickering Hall, New York, on the 14th.
GENERAL CROOK, in an order to the
troops under his command, announcing
the death of Captain Crawford, pays a
high tribute to the dead soldier.
PERRY, who killed Mike Gleason at Red
Cliff, Col, was lynched on the night of the
18th by mob.
A SALOON at West Pennington, O., kept
by man named Hawley, was blown up
with dynamite on the 14th.
PLACARDS in Athens threaten the mem
bers of the government if they comply
with the order of the Powers to disarm.
THOMAS H. CASEY, stage driver, has
been arrested, charged with the robbery of
the stage between Chadron, Neb., and Fort
Robinson about two months ago.
The House coinage committee voted ad-
versely on Mr.. Bland's silver bill.
THE officers of the naval steamer Dol
phin are charged with brutality toward
the crew.
A CONFERENCE on the silver question has
been called by the London Chamber of
Cnr-,r,, ,n,-aa = .s4.
The convention of third and feu1th class
postmasters was opened at Chicago on the
10th.
THE British steamer Douglas, trading To-
cally in China seas, is reported wrecked at
Sawata. The captain and seventeen Chi
nese were drowned.
FIVE men were seriously injured, one
fatally, by falling wall at Tompkinsville,
! Staten Island, on the 18th.
Mr.. WATTERsoN's symptoms were more
favorable on the 18th, but he was still in a
very critical condition.
SENATOR VEST of Missouri has recov-
cred from his illness and has taken his
seat in the Senate again.
The Irish question was the principal
subject for consideration at the meeting of
Gladstone's cabinet on the 10Th.
ADOLPH DADOwSKY and an unknown
man were killed on crossing near Gin
cinnati on the 10Th by railroad train,
SIR CHARLES dixie has decided to ad-
here to the policy of silence in regard to
the disclosures at the recent trial.
THE Texas and United States commits
sion to determine the true status of Greer
County, Tex, will hold meeting at Gal
weston on the 22d instant.
A CABLEGRAM from Paris was received
at Washington on the 18th announcing the
death in that city of w. E. Johnston, we'll
known as the American physician and the
Paris correspondent of the New York
Times.
PETER FALvEY, New York post Office
clerk has been arrested on the charge of
stealing and destroying letters. Marked
bills and postage-stamps were found in
his possession. He confessed all.
The fund for the widow of the late Gen
eral Hancock at last accounts had reached
So, 900.
THE soft coal pool was agreed upon at q
meeting at Philadelphia on the 18th, on a
basis of ,265 900 tons to the Pennsylvania,
1,035 900 tons to the Baltimore & Ohio and
500, 900 tons each to the Norfolk & Western
and Chesapeake & Ohio.
Two Americans have been expelled from
Holstein, Germany, for making them
selves obnoxious to the authorities.
BuRMAH is to be garrisoned with 10000
British troops and the martial laws con-
tinued until November.
EIGHT THOUSAND unemployed working
men held mass meeting at Birmingham,
England, on the 18th, which degenerated
into an attempted riot, but was suppressed
by the police.
DocToRs who have been examining into
the mental condition of Baron Artand
Hausmann, who is under arrest at Paris
ON charge of having attempted to mur-
der Count Montauzan, pronounced the
prisoner sane. He will accordingly be
tried.
REPORTS from the flooded districts of
the East up to the night of the 10th were of
a rather gloomy nature, indicating much
suffering and much loss. In Boston alone
the damage is estimated at over million
dollars.
J.B. MANNIx, late assignee of Archbish
op Purcell, who had been confined in Jail
since his recent arrest, was released on the
10Th by Judge johnson, who reduced the
bail to $4,000 to appear for trial on the