Huntsville gazette., 1886-09-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the lower part of the city. Where they
came from is an unexplained mystery.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened in
all the principal cities of the country for
funds to aid the homeless and needy suf-
ferers by the Charleston earthquake, and
the responses are generally quite liberal.
SOUTH BEND (Ind.) dis a.atch of the Sd
says Mrs. Emma Molloy attempted to COM
NIT suicide at that place by drowning.
ANOTHER slight shock of earthquake
was felt at Charleston, s. c., on the night
of the 4th. The shock was also felt at Co.
lumbia, s. c., and at Savannah and Au-
gusta, Ga. There was another shock also
on the night of the 5th.
REPORTS from Philadelphia are to the
effect that Hon. Samuel j. Randall is very
i'll at his country residence near Paoli, Pa.
1t is his old enemy, the gout.
THE one hundred and twelfth anniver-
sary of the meeting of the first American
Congress was celebrated by the American
Protestant Association in Reading, Pa,
on the 4th.
In letter received from ex-President
Arthur by friend in Washington, he
says his health has very much improved
since his sojourn in New London, Conn.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria has
abdicated. He told his officers he could
not remain in Bulgaria, because the Gear
would not permit him to do so.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, British Am
bassador to Turkey, has been recalled,
and he has been succeeded by Sir William
White, late minister at Bucharest.
THE Government of Peru has decreed
that Chinese residents may enjoy the same
rights and privileges as other colonists. .
THE German Compositors' Society, one
of the strongest unions in Germany, has
just secured a concession from the Frank
fort employers of an increase in wages
and a reduction of hours of labor to ten
hours daily.
A VERY heavy lumber and mill fire oc-
Cured at Milwaukee, Mich, ON the 4th.
The loss was very heavy, nearly twenty
acres of mills and lumber and shingle
piles being swept away.
The exhibition of South American pro-
ducts, which will he opened in Berlin on
the 18th, promises to be of great interest.
The Argentine Republic, Chilli, Brazil,
Venezuela, Uruguay and Bolivia will be
| represented.
THE venerable w. c. Corcoran, of Wash
| ington, D. c., sent his individual check for
5000 to aid the Charleston earthquake
sufferers.
AFTER thorough survey of the damage
done by the earthquake in Charleston it is
estimated that the damage will reach
S10,0O0,010 At least four out of five of all
the buildings in the city are damaged.
IT is announced from London that Han
lan's challenge to Beach will be accepted.
Hanlan has cabled for quarters at Putney,
and will sail for England in few days.
JAKE ScHAEFER, the champion billiard
ist of the world, opened his new parlors in
st. Louis on the evening of the 4th. The
visiting experts were given a grand BAN
quet by Schaefer during the evening.
FIFTEEN families were made homeless
by fire in New York on the 5th
MAYOR CoURTENAY of Charleston, S. c.,
arrived in New York from Europe on t-e
5th and left on the first train for the
ruined city.
GENERAL AUGER, who was shot by a
negro some time since at Washington, is
rapidly recovering.
POLICE and customs officers of New La
redo, Mexico, had a battle with Ell Coy
ote's bandits on the 4oh, and were de-
feated. 4. a
LEVI PRoBsT, of West Point, Neb., COM
mitted suicide at Reading, Pa, on the 5th
by jumping from a train while on his
wedding trip.
SAMUEL MORLEY, prominent cham
pion of Protestant non-conformity and
former member of the British Parliament,
is dead.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 5th, Officer
George Woods chased man named Ed
ward Henning; both fell over precipice
and are supposed to be fatally injured.
THREE female telegraph operators by
laughing at an Italian doctor at the Occi-
dental Hotel, New York, on the 9TH,
created a row that finally landed the doc
tor in jail.
Ex-PREs1DENT ARTHUR is againreport-
ed in a serious condition.
THE freedom of Limerick is to be pre-
sented to Mr.. Gladstone.
LABOR DAY was appropriately celebrat-
ed at various cities on the 9th.
SPECIAL ENVOY SEDGwICK has left the
City of Mexico and gone to Chihuahua.
CLoUTMAN s. BINGHAM, boot and shoe
manufacturers, Boston, have made an as
signment.
IT is believed at Sofia that the departure
of Prince Alexander will result in civil
war.
c. w. DYE, a fireman, was killed in
collision on the Lehigh d Susquehanna
railroad on the 9Th at Clendon, Pa.
KING MILAN of Servia, who was on his
way to Gluckenburg, decided to return to
Belgrade ON account of the situation in
the Balkans.
1T is now definitely settled that Consult
General Porch did write the message to
Secretary Bayard concerning Mr.. Sedg-
wick.
PARNELL, it is reported, has come to
terms with the British Government, and it
is thought in consequence that Parliament
will adjourn September ID.
GREENBAcK and other two dollar bills
in considerable quantities have been taken
up by the treasury at Washington and re-
placed by silver.
TT js rumored that Turkey is making eX-