Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

oho iaho iioho III tHe vicinity or what IS
known as the sea wall, forty small houses
were totally destroyed by wind and water
and their occupants had to fly for their
lives. Several persons are known to have
perished
HALF the town of Stockton, Utah, was
burned on the 18th.
w. w. GoRMAN committed suicide at
Philadelphia on the 17th-
The British steamer Juliet is reported
lost off the Bahamas
FIRE destroyed the Sherman Hall block
at st. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th inst
The South Boston (Mass.) IRON works
have suspended operations.
THERE are no signs of settlement of
the switchmen's strike at Minneapolis.
LINsEY MCKINLEY, who killed John
Marlin at Evansville, Ind, on the 18th,
was indicted on the 10th, before his victim
was buried.
SERGEANT BRAINARD, who was with the
Greedy Arctic expedition, proposes an
other tr ip to the polar regions.
IT is understood that Joseph Nimmo,
Jr., is TO run for Congress in the Long
Island district against Perry Belmont.
IhH oSuoOlCl " luu d ClcN VI
tUenty-six men, is reported lost on the
west coast of Newfoundland.
HARRISON TERRELL, who has been ap-
pointed laborer in the Paymaster- Gen.
erals otfice War Department, was the
body servant of General Grant for many
years and his attendant up to the time OF
his death.
j. l.. HODGES, who was until recently
register of lands at Glenwood Springs,
Col, has resigned his position because Of
the fact that he has been nominated by
the Republicans for county judge of GAR
field County.
A PARIS newspaper says President
Grevy has decided to annul the decree of
expulsion of the Due d'Aumale.
IT is reported that the German War
Ministry has ordered the rapid build
ing of 1000 railway carriages at Augs-
berg.
THE acting Secretary of the Treasury
has issued circular calling the attention
of collectors of customs and others to the
recent proclamation of the President re-
viving discriminating duties against i'm
portations in Spanish vessels.
LEON VANDERMIssEN, the wife murder
er, was found guilty at Brussels, Belgium,
on the 10th, and was sentenced to ten
years. imprisonment.
The French and German press deny that
there is any fear of war between France
and Germany, as rumored in British
newspapers.
CHAMPION OARSMAN BEACH has decided
upon his final retirement to private life.
He has authorized the statement that he
will never row another match. He has
beaten all the prominent scullers and,
therefore, considers himself justly untitled
to rest on his laurels.
The President has complimented his
wife ty giving her cousin, Ben jamin Fol-
som, an appointment as Consul at Shef-
field, Eng. The consulate pays a salary
of s., 500 per annum and is regarded as
one of great prominence and commercial
Importance.
AN inforner who had long been con-
cealed by the police in the barracks at
Castle Island, in Ireland, has escaped and
fled
MRS. LEADER, wife of a London butcher,
threw herself and five children into the
Thames river on the 10th, and all except
ing one child were drowned.
COLONEL CHARLES WHITTLEsEY, the
geologist, died at Cleveland, O., on the
18Th.
KING BROTHERS & Co., cotton factors,
Cincinnati, have assigned.
IT is semi officially denied that Russian
occupation of Bulgaria Is imminent.
GENERAL DARNEY H. MAURY, has been
appointed Minister to Colombia.
HERR SONNET, state director of Aus
trian railways, died at Vienna on the
18th of cholera.
GENERAL BACON MoNTGEuERY acci-
dentally shot and killed himself at Lama
la, Mexico, on the 18th.
MARY ANDERSON has subscribed 81
500 for the benefit of the Garleston SUI
ferers.
THE National convention a rN1e Brother
hood of Brakemen is in session at San An
tonic, Tex.
A PANTHER escaped from menagerie
at Paris on the 18th, killed policeman
and lit many persons.
TIE Rudolph Finer Tobacco Manu-
featuring Company, Louisville, has made
an assignment
ARCHBISHOP WALSH of Dublin says that
an Irish parliament alone can solve the
problem OF Irish education.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has subscribed
500 to the fund for the relief Of the Buff
falo storm sufferers.
Sol SAYLEs, Eondsman for II. l..
Sayles, New York's Doodle alderman who
fl ed to Canada, paid $4,000 into court on
the 1Sth
AS result of contest in the French
Chamber of Deputies the ministers OF Ag-
riculture, Public Works and Interior have
resigned.
The strike of the Chicago pork packers
has been formally declared at an end, the
men returning to work Internationally.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at London to
erect memo. ial church in honor OF the
of the fiftieth year of Queen
Victoria's reign.
HENRY SoUDER, of Toledo, o., was
found dead on the fS,h with bullet
through his heart. Whether murder or
suicide not yet known.
The bill for the completion of the French
navy proposes an outlay of $4o,00O.o00.
A NATIONAL convention Of brewers and