Huntsville gazette., 1886-11-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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taken to Albany and laid to rest in Rural
Cemetery.
ALL the Russian steamers on the Dan
ube have been ordered to proceed to
Odessa.
THE idea has been broached in WASH
ington to make the occasion of the Ma
tlonal drill there next spring conspicuous
by carnival pageant after the order of
similar events in st. Louis, New Orleans
and other cities.
A DESPERATE fight occurred on the 22d
between the police and a mob at Listowel.
County Kerry, Ireland, in which several
OF the latter were wounded before they
were dispersed.
a HzavY southeast gale prev@ JED q,
se,, tl-e aasi e.sao.-.ss
damage to shipping.
The appropriation committee of the
House of Representatives met in Wash.
ington on the 22d, and assigned the various
appropriation bills to the sub committees
which had them in charge last session.
The Yale freshmen have challenged the
Harvard freshmen to an eight-oared two
mile straight away race, TO be rowed at
New London next June.
FIRE at Marysville, Pa, on the 22d, de-
stroyed seven buildings. including
stable, hotel, five dwellings and two
stores; loss, $4,000.
MICHAEL GEEGLE was instantly killed
and J. Austin fatally injured by falling
scaffold at the new cyclorama building at
Detroit, Mich, on the 22d. William
Reader and George Phillips also sustained
serious injuries.
THE wheat crop of the Red River valley
proves to be larger than the estimates,
and the elevators and warehouses along
the line of the Manitoba road are all full
to overlooking.
Grief SIGNAL OFFICER HAZEN laments
the discontinuance Of Fort Never as a
port of instruction.
A SENSATION was created in the Madi-
son Avenue Baptist Church in New York
on the 21st by the advent of fifty live IN
dians, in full border costume, into the
sscre edlice. They were Sioux, Paw
nees and Cheyennes, connected with Buff
falo Bits show.
Two half breeds, Pierre Larocques and
his uncle Basil Richard, met at St. Vital,
Manitoba, on the night of the 2fst, and
during an angry discussion the former
shot ihs latter dead with shot gun.
The murderer was arrested.
The American Base Ball Association
held special meeting at Cincinnati on
the 22l to take action on the matter of the
withdrawal of the Pittsburgh club from
the association. There was large at
tendance.
AUSTRIAN diplomates and officials be-
lieve that the rupture between Russia and
Bulgaria will facilitate the solution of the
crisis in the Balkans.
CIvIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER EDGARToN
says il there is any lesson to be learned
from the late elections in Indiana, it is
that the opponents of Civil-Service re-
form had hard time.
EX-PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS wants the
committee W no presented him with three
hundred dollar clock to raise thirty dol
lars to pay for damages sustained in its
transit to him by express.
THE Adams Express Company is de-
fendant in suit for $4,000 damages
claimed by E. D. Coleman, the sick man
in Topeka, Kan, who was placed under
surveillance by detectives, who ransacked
his private baggage and papers on sus-
picion of his Icing the express robber.
A RUMoR was in circulation in New
York on the 22d that ex- Alderman Full
graft, whose testimony proved him to be
a periurer, had committed suicide, but it
lacked con firmation.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY
STONE, of Pennsylvania, has written
letter to the President asking to be rein
stated in his position, denying that he
neglected his duties.
The Italian faster Merlatti is said to be
still vivacious, but he suffers from pain
in the stomach. and has terrible dreams
at night. He will. if he succeeds in his
present experiment, have no desire for
repetition.
E. A. MAYNARD shot and killed w. Fl.
BiddIe, blind man, near Anderson, Ind,
on the 22d, and then sent tullet through
his own brain.
THE one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Karl Ven Wefer, the composer,
will be observed ON December 10 with
operate performances throughout Ger
many.
IT is intimated that Secretary Lamar
" i'll make some important recommends
tions in his report concerning territorial
grazing lands.
THE captain and seven Of the crew OF
the French man Of war Pengouin were
,nassacred recently by natives OF Am
badu.
AN attempt at Who'll esale poisoning was
made in Springfield, Mass, on the 22d,
thirteen persons being made severely
sick by drinking tea with which trough
on rats" had been mixed.
IT is now stated that til ere will be nc
strike in the Connellsvllle (Pa.) coke re.
gion, owing to the opposition of the
knights of Labor.
A DISPATCH from Mandalay says that
the Shan country is the scene OF much
fighting and anarchy, and that friendly
natives are appealing 10 the British for
assistance.
REPORTS come that hog cholera prevails
Eelr Urbana, o. One farmer has lost
eighty hogs out Of herd Of two hundred
from the disease.
BALDWIN GARDINER, president OF the