Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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DENHINo & WALsH's agricultural ware
house at Edinburg, Ind, burned on the 1st. i
BISHOP HANNINaroN, engaged in mis-
sionary services in Central Africa, has
been seized by King Mombasa, and win
probably be put to death.
UNITED STATES CouNseL-GENERAL
WALLER gave q brilliant New Years re-
ception at the rooms of the st. Georges
Club at London. A great many notables
we're among the callers.
AT Sidney, Neb., Jim Reynolds was
lound guilty Of murder in the first degree
for the murder of James and John Pink
ston, of Fairville, Salem County, Mo.
IT is iutimated that the British Govern
ment will oppose the revival of the bill for
the construction of a tunnel under the
English Channel, between England and
France.
FIrzHUaH LEE was inaugurated on the
1st as Governor Of Virginia with much
pomp and ceremony.
Mis- Elizabeth B. Van Verst, lost her life
in New York on the 1.t. by her clothing
taking fire at an open CRATE. She was sixty
five years of age.
C. B. MAURER's Touring mill at Tall
madge, O., was entirely destroyed by fire
at an early hour on the 1st. The loss on
the building and machinery is $50, 900, and
on stock 5000 to $1,000. There is an in
surance of $17,25O on the building, and
So 900 on stock, distributed among dozen
or more companies.
DURING January the commissions of
over 100 Presidential Postmasters will ex-
pire.
OIL has been discovered at Park Hill,
Ontario.
THE 200 Eastern cigarmakers who are to
take the places of Chinaman have arrived
at San Francisco.
THE Canadian Parliament has been pro-
rogued until February 18th.
CAPTAIN GERRocI of the schooner Racer
is under arrest at Boston, charged with
scuttling the vessel. The penalty is death.
AN old man named Nallen and his wife,
of Perth, Ontario, were burned to death in
their dwelling on the 3D.
A LARGE number of persons in the vicin-
ity of Spring Grove, Mimi, are said to be
afflicted with leprosy.
THE Newark IN. J.) children who were
treated in Paris by M. Pasteur, sailed for
home on the Cd.
AN old scheme has been revived in
France to connect Marseilles with the River
Rhone by canal.
OLIVER DoUD BYRON was convicted at
Cincinnati, O., on the I'd, of violating the
law prohibiting theatrical performances
on Sunday. He was not present to receive
sentence.
EXTRAORDINARY numbers of Jews are
going to England from Germany, Russia
and Roumania.
DANIEL OSBORN, arrested for forgery,
near Columbus, o., on the I'd, was shot and
killed by the Marshal while attempting to
fire at the latter.
A CONVENTION of steel manufacturers
will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 7th
to consider the advisability of advancing
prices.
THOMAS w. KEENE, the actor, was
stricken with paralysis at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the Sd.
THE Southern Hotel, New Orleans, burned
on the Sd. and one unknown lodger lost his
life.
THE funeral Of the Fenian Buckley at
Cork, Ireland, on the Sd, was made the
occasion for a great political demonstra-
tion.
BISMARCK has withdrawn his opposition
TO the marriage of Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria with the daughter of Crown
Prince Frederick William of Germany.
A DESPERATE attempt was made on the
3D. to burn the town of Tarentun, Pa.
G-~l sSI, t;cl
Koshey, in the Soudan, the Arabs lost 800
men.
THE twenty fifth anniversary of the ac-
session of Emperor William to the throne
If Prussia was observed quietly at Berlin
On the Sd.
FRESH trouble has broken out among the
naval cadets at Annapolis, Md, and
,ourt- martial is probable.
GUsTAvE and Herman Knoch have been
arrested at Detroit, Mich, charged with
he murder of their mother.
SEVERAL West Virginia farmers have
been swindled recently by accepting
checks from itinerant dealers in
pay for stock.
FREDERICK FIsHEL, Of New York, who
tole $75,O 900 from his employers, went to
Canada, was captured, taken back and is
low lodged in prison for it.
The body of George A. Cooper was
ound in the woods near Columbus, Ind,
N the Sd, with the head badly beaten, one
,ye and part of the nose gone and several
,ullet holes in the body. Evan Fox, sus-
,ected of the murder, is under arrest.
SENATOR MILLER, of California, contin-
les in ill-health at Washington.
THE Ohio Legislature met at Columbus
m the 4th and organized in both houses.
M. De FREYCINET has concluded to form
new French Cabinet. Several of the old
Ministers will accept portfolios.
FRESH cases of pleuro-pneumonia have
oeen discovered on the farm of A. 8. Frye,
lear Masonville, Pa.
SMALLPOX has broken out at Laredo
md other points along the Texas Mexican
border.
THE British expeditionary force in Bur-
nah has reached Bhamo, $50 miles north
# Mandalay.
FIVE prisoners, four Of them murderers,
escaped from the jail at Charleston, W.
Va, on the 4th by overpowering the
guards.