Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

mediate dissolution of Parliament,
In faction fight between Protestants
and Catholics in County Tyrone, Ireland,
on the 18th, many heads were hurt.
7. B. MCDONALD and five companions, of
Indianapolis, Ind, were caught in the act
of incendiariSm on the 10th and were land
ed in Jail.
Mr.. JOHN WALTER, of the London
Times, has written letter on Irish-A
ican sympathy for Ireland.
In the suit brought in New Y ork by the
widow of DR.. John C. Harmon to recover
from Mary Irene Hoyt $12 900 for services
OF Dr. Harmon as medical expert in the
contest over the will of the late Jesse
Hoyt, verdict of $1,000 was awarded the
plaintiff.
CONSIDERABLE opposition has devel-
oped in Congress to the division of Da-
kota.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND goes to New
York and Brooklyn on Decoration Day.
The congressional labor investigating
committee has returned to Washington.
The cigarmakers are leading the fight
of the trades unions on the Knights of La
Dor.
ON account of book kbetting being pro-
hibted at the Louisville (Ky.) race course,
J. B. Haggin, of California, has Cancelled
stable to Latonia.
MRS. MARY COLLINS, of Hoboken, N. j.,
was found murdered in bed on the 18th.
QUEEN CHRISTINA Of Spain gave birth
to a SON on the 18th.
GEORGE r. WOOD, the old theatrical
manager, died penniless at New York on
the 18th.
SIR THOMAS ERsKINE MAY, recently ele-
waited to the British peerage, died on the
18th.
A NEW trial has been asked for ex- Alder
man Jaehne, convicted of bribery at New
York.
LORD RosEBERY, who stands very close
to Gladstone, has stated that he will soon
be out of Office.
THOMAS FLANAGAN is under arrest at
Jersey City, N. j., on charge of numbering
Victor Colquitt.
BEACH, the champion sculler, has ar
rived at London in robust health, and will
shortly challenge the world.
THE wife of Louis Schwenk, living near
Stroudsburg, Pa, has made a deposition
charging her husband with the murder Of
Edna Bittenbender in 1880, thus giving a
tangible clew to what has thus far been
one of the most mysterious crimes in that
State.
On the receipt Of the news of the birth of
a male heir to the Spanish throne at Ha-
vana on the 18th there was great rejoicing.
Cannon were fred and other manifesto
tions of pleasure INDUCED in.
MRS. THOMPSON was confirmed by the
Senate on the 18th as postmistress at
Louisville, KY.
A JOINT resolution was adopted by the
Senate on the 18th authorizing Rear -Ad-
cept medal conferred upon him by the
King of Norway and Sweden.
CHARLES J. NOEL, his wife, mother,
grandmother, young son and boarder
were all poisoned at Plainfield, N. j., on
the 18th, by eating greens.
PAUL M. POTTER, editor Of the New York
TOacn Topics, was arrested on the 18th on
a charge of criminal libel.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR'S case is pro-
nounced hopeless one, aud it is hardly
thought he will ever again leave his house
alive.
RECENT frosts have resulted in much
damage to fruits and vegetation in Michi-
gan.
The widow of Louis Riel is reported ly-
ing at the point of death at st. Vital, Man.
She has never rallied from the shock of her
husbands execution.
SPEAKER CARLISLE says if the House
should attempt to consider all tie special
orders it has already made and pass the
appropriation bills besides, it would be in
session un til next November.
MISS Oracle MORSE, eldest daughter of
Rev. j. B. Morse, of Tarrytown, N. Y,
and niece of the late Commodore Van
derbilt, eloped on the 18th with the family
coachman, George Minton. Rev. Morse is
q missionary preacher attached to Black
Wells Island penitentiary.
THREE thousand London volunteers and
one hundred officers have offered to join
the Ulster rebellion against home rule.
OFFICER THOMAS REDDEN, another of
the policemen wou nded at the chicago
riot, has died of his injuries.
AT st. Louis, Mich, on the 18th, Nora
Fetters, a seventeen-year-old girl, shot
and killed Adel Welt, who was abusing
her invalid father.
The following was the visible supply of
grain on the 18th in comparison with that
of a week previously: What, $3.50, $50
bu., decrease, 1856 ,801 bu.; corn, 9,S17, ,s61
bu., decrease, 80o,O42 .bu.; oats, LAST, 767
bu., decrease, 45,1O1 bu.; rye, 317,35o bu.,
decrease, 53,O61 b IT,; barley, All 1893 bu., de-
crease, 124, ,229 bu.
The American fishing schooner, Ella NJ.
Doughty, has beer seized ny Nova Scotian
authorities at Cape Breton for alleged in
fraction of the Canadian fishery laws.
THE President will rsview the Grand
Army of the Republic parade in Brooklyn,
N. Y, in the forenoon of Decoration Day,
and will attend the exercises at the
Academy of Music in New Yerk in the
evening where Postmaster General Villas
will deliver the grafton.
The recent heavy rains have lessened
somewhat the former excellent outlook
for spring wheat in Nebraska, Wisconsin
Minnesota and Dakota. The gret raian-
fall has also occasioned some injury to the