Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1T is rumored that Kirk and Sayles. the
| indicted ex-aldermen Of New Y ork. have
| fed
FIRE at Punxsutawney, Pa, on the 9th,
| caused loss of $165,000.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER delivered
his farewell lecture in London on the 11th
| MORMON elders are establishing mis-
sions and delivering lectures in London
ON more extended scale than ever.
SENTENCE of death was passed on the
9th on the Chicago Anarchists by Judge
Gary. December is the day of doom.
The American exhibition buildings at
London will be completed by early spring.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT discharged
thirty one more employees on the Sth from
the Government printing office.
The Marquis of Harrington denies tn at
he has promised to support the new Iris h
bill.
THE fishing schooner Stockbridge of
Gloucester, Mass, engaged at Greenland
in halibut fishing, is given up for lost.
ENGLISH Conservatives deny emphati-
| cally that the cabinet is preparing Home
Rule bill.
IT is thought at Washington that Mr..
Ferritt, of New Orleans, will get the ap-
pointment of supervising architect of the
treasury.
THE King of Belgium has been in London
recently trying to negotiate loan for
purposes of defense.
REV. j. M. PENUELL, q member of the
Maryland Methodist Conference, laid his
head on the rail in front of freight train
on the 9th, and was instantly killed.
WIN. E. HAMILTON, secretary and treas
urer of the Sly Point works at Minneapo-
lis, Minn., is supposed to be sojourning in
Canada with $4,000 or 5000 of the COM
pany's funds
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S pro-
gramme of reform meets steady opposi-
ton from the clubs and older Conserva-
tives.
N. M. NEELD, partner in the firm of j.
G. Ferguson & Co., Chicago, is said to
have issued bogus warehouse receipts to
the amount of $400, 1000, and is supposed to
be in Canada. The firm is practically
stranded.
THE United States Supreme Court met
on the 11th.
EX-SENATOR YULCE, Of Florida, died on
the 10th in New York.
SEVERAL Bavarian editors have been
sent to prison for criticisms of the min
istry.
CANADA has rejected the proposed draft
of the new treaty with Great Britain.
VIM DUNN was scalded to death on the
| 10th in a vat of boiling water at Long Is
| land City, N. Y.
| THE League of the Cross, a total absti-
nence society, paraded the streets of Cork
on the 10Th.
Hon. S. S. Cox, United States Minister
to Turkey, arrived at New York on the
10th.
GENERAL BooTH, of the Salvation Army,
arrived al Halifax, N. S., on the 10th.
In tenement house fire at Cincinnati
on the 10th Mrs. Lenck and her daughter
| Anna lost their lives.
| TIE bodies of Lynn Graves and John
Goodrich, reported drowned in Wolfe
| lake, Ind, have been found, they having
been murdered.
GEO. S. DAVIDSON, carpenter of the i'll
fated La Mascotte, has died of his in
juries, adding another to the list of vic
tins.
The steamer Anchoria arrive at Hall
fax, N. S., on the 11th; passengers all
well.
A PETROLEUM spring has been discov-
cred at Sligo, Ireland.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN received news
on the 18th of the death Of his father at
Richfield Springs, N. Y.
THE Repu5,iqne Francaise says English
annexation of Egypt would amount to
casus belli.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, is excited over an at
tempt to assassinate Rev. Father Meske-
witz, a Polish priest.
MCNEIL WHISTLER, the English artist,
is coming to America to exhibit his pict-
ures and lecture.
DELEGATES to the Knights of Labor con :
vention at Richmond, Va, devoted the
day on the 18th to a grand parade, in
which several thousand Knights partici-
| pated.
PoRTIoNs of the British press pronou zee
the story regarding the governments in :
tention to propose new Irish bill ca
nard.
THE British steamer Alert has returned
| to Halifax after an absence of four months
| in the Arctic regions.
A COLLISION occurred on the Baltimore
& Ohio railway near WashIn gton on the
18th, iniuring an engineer, fireman and
several passengers.
MATT HUGHES, the hero of the Mascotte
tragedy on the Mississippi, gives strong
evidence against Captain Ebaugh.
TIE first act of the new Spanish Min
| istrv will be to raise the siege, and 1T Will
| endeavor TO check the disaffection in the
army.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT laid off twen-
ty-one more men en- the 18th, making over
| six hundred since he took hold OF the
| office.
THE New York Supreme Court has
denied the application of Blind Toms
mother to have his mental condition in
| quired into.
NONE of the pork packing establish
| ments at Chicago had opened their doors
up to the evening of the 1lth, and none OF
| the men had offered to return to work on
| the Ten Hour basis.
COLONEL KAULBARS was met at Shum-
| la. on the 18th, by crowd of five thou
sord ,,arcapS and was informed by their