Huntsville gazette., 1886-06-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

| merchant vessels for war purposes.
| THE President and his bride attended
| divine services in DR.. Sunderland's church
on the 18th, and as one of the ladies who
saw the bride remarked, she wore ssiust
plain black silk"
| 1T is asserted that large sums Of money
are being sent from Boston and other
American cities to aid the secessionist
! movement IN Nova Scotia.
| THE coroner's jury in the case of Mary
Reilly, one of the victims of the recent
riots in Belfast, Ireland, returned ver-
| dict OF ''wilful murder" against the police
who fired into the mob.
THE President had in his hands on the
| 10Th 1874 bills, which he must examine
within ten days or allow them to become
laws bv default.
| WASHINGTON politicians are talking
about President Cleveland as a second
| term candidate.
A MEETING of fully eight thousand cti-
zens at Melbourne, Australia, on the 18th,
deplored the defeat of Gladstone's Irish
| measures.
DR.. DINDER, the new German Arch
| bishop of Posen, was enthroned at Posen
on the 10Th with great ceremony. The no
bility were present in large numbers.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
has increased it's stock by $6,000,O00.
A DISPATCH of the 14th said Vancouver,
B. c., was in ashes and 5000 people were
homeless.
The Apaches continue their depreda-
tions in Sonora and Arizona.
THE Bulgarian Roumelian Assembly
was opened on the 18th by Prince Alex
ander in person.
AN Episcopal conference of the African
M. E. Church began its sessions at New
York on the 14th.
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD, the Canadian
Premier, is closely engaged with the
fisheries and other important matters.
| A LAWYER and land agent named Aiken,
who had been engaged in crooked prac-
tices, was tarred and feathered and
marched through the streets of Rushville,
Neb, on the 14th.
AN old couple named Hall walked from
Illinois to Washington to see about PEN
sion, and attended the Presidents recep-
ton, on the 14th.
QUEEN VICTORIA offered the Comte de
Paris the use of Claremont Castle during
his exile, but the offer was declined.
KING LUDWIG Of Bavaria committed
suicide on the evening of the 18th by
drowning in Starnberg lake. His physi-
clan, who attempted to rescue him, was
also drowned.
THE United States man. -of-war Kear-
sarge is at Constantinople, where she will
remain for mo nth.
BISHOP DUHAMEL of the diocese of Otta-
wa, Ont, has issued circular denouncing
the Knights of Labor and warning Catho-
lies against joining them.
JOHN RoEssLER, engineer at William
GoodalPs stone works at Cincinnati, fell
dead on the 14th while trying to extin-
guish fire caused by the collapse of the
boiler. He inhaled steam.
COLONEL LAMONT says that the recently
published reports of the Presidents pla,,-
for the summer are incorrect. The Presi
dent has not. as yet, decided on any par
| ticular programme for his vacation.
| AT Pekin, o., on the 18th, Mrs. Noah
Mossholded, aged sixty -one, attempted to
save the life of little child which had
wandered on a railroad track before an
| approaching train, and both were Instant
ly killed.
|
| dent of the Argentine Republic.
| FIVE members of the signal corps sta
toned at Fort Meyer, Va, have left there
for Fort Bowie, Ariz., for.duty under Gen
eral Miles in his operations against the
| hostile Indians.
| ANDREW s. PERRY and Leroy Plaisted
| were playing near a sandbank four miles
! from Chardon, O., on the 14th, when the
bank caved in, burying the boys. After
| diligent digging the bodies were recov-
cred.
| THE issue of standard silver dollars from
| the mints during the week ended June IL,
| was $511 1888. The issue during the corre-
| spending period of last year was S511 800.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
since June to that date amounted to
$222, ,676.
| A MEETING of prominent residents of
Louisville, KY, was held at the Calf
House on the 4th, at which resolutions
will form an auxiliary company and will
subscribe $25 900 toward the capital stock
of the American Opera Company.
The Hoffman House (N.Y.) Parliament
ary fund committee held meeting on the
14th, at which $4,000 were subscribed to
| be sent at once to Parnell. Joseph P.
Caberry, of Cincinnati, sent cheering
| message. At a meeting of the Brooklyn
Asso citation in the evening $6,1S6 was SUBJ
scribed.
| ELLEN HINMAN, aged seventy years, was
| found in a starving condition in miser-
able garret in New York on the night of
| the 18th, and was taken to the hospital
and cared for, but she was too far gone,
and died soon afterward. She had been
of respectable standing through life and,
being unable to work and too proud to
beg, had crawled where she was found to
| die.
| THE chief of the bureau of statistics re-
ports that the total value of the exports of
dairy products during the month of May,
| 1886, as compared with similar exports
| during the corresponding period of last
| year was as follows: May, 1886, $685., ,S33;
May, 1885, $6a4, ,O2s.
| AT Kilrush, Ireland, on the l4th, five