Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


stration of any account was made.
THE Loyalists of County Tyrone, Ire
land, held a meeting on the goth and re-
solved to oppose home rule and to main
tain the union.
HENRY JOHNSON, a bachelor hermit and
miser, died at East Perkinson, Pa, on the
10Th. He was so penurious that during the
recent oold v-oathos foT wanG of nre, his
feet were so badly frozen that the soles
mortified and dropped off. He left val
liable estate.
THE Duke of Connaught will shortly go
to India as chief in command of the Brit
ish forces at Madras.
THE President on the Goth granted
pardon to ex-postmaster Cooke OF Union
vile, Conn.,, who was sentenced to eigh-
teen months in jail for misappropriating
$4,000. ,ss
THE total exports of specie from the
port of New York for the week ended the
20th were $3,113,773.
A HoMICIDAL mania seems to possess
Paris and vicinity. During the week
ended the Goth seven murders and two
aSortive attempts were reported.
PoUNDMAKER and twenty EIGHT of his
companions were recently baptized in the
Roman Catholic faith by Archbishop
Tache in the Northwestern Territorial
prison at st. Boniface.
THE large wholesale liquor store of Thos.
Pollard at Pittsburgh, Pa, caught fire
from natural gas stove shortly after mid
night Oh the 21st and was totally destroyed.
The loss is estimated at S250,OO0; insurance
not known.
REPORTS from all parts of the country
on the 22d indicated very general OBJ
servance of Washington's birthday. Good
weather seemed to prevail everywhere.
THE Greeks are clamoring for war with
Turkey
SAMUEL J. TILDEN has sent 500 as his
contribution to the Hendricks monument
fund.
COLONEL SIR EDMUND HENDERSON, head
of the metropolitan police force, London,
has resigned.
A NATIONAL convention of coal operators
and miners opened at Columbus, o., on the
23d.
WAsHINGToNss birthday was celebrated
at the City of Mexico by the laying of the
corner stone of an American hospital.
MRS. MEIER, of Cleveland, O., was chlo-
reformed and robbed of 5000 by negro on
the 22d.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL made sew
eral speeches on his way from London to
Belfast, and was enthusiastically received
by the people.
MARQUIS DE MoREs has a great scheme
to slaughter cattle on the ranches and fur
nish meat first hand to consumers in cities.
THE Hungarian Prime Minister denies
that Austria aimed at the annexation of
the Western Balkans or that Russia Fought
to annex the Eastern Balkans.
A WRECK on the Buffalo, New Y York &
Philadelphia railroad, near Mount Morris,
N. Y, on the 22d resulted in the serious in
jury of eighteen passengers.
IT is stated that instructions have been
given to the police and military in Ireland
by Chief Secretary Morley which render
it impossible to effect oppressive evictions.
JUDGE WYLIE at Columbus, O., on the
22d, refused to sustain habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in the case of Dalton, the Hamil-
ton County clerk, and he must produce cer-
tain ballots or go to jail
LORD RosEBERRY has been notified by
Count Won Hatzfeldt of the establishment
of a German protectorate over the Mar
shall, Providence and Brown islands.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, over one hundred or
namenters and rubbers employed at
Barnes Safe and Lock works, struck on
the 22d for ten per cent. advance in
wages.
TIE armistice between Servia and Bull
garia will be prolonged. Servia has with
drawn her troops from Pirot to Nisch.
In the Roman Catholic churches in Otta-
wa, Ont, on the 2lst, a mandament was
read from his lordship, the Bishop of Ot-
tawa, denouucing the Knights of Labor,
the Telegraph Operators Union and all
secret societies.
The Paris Manufacturing Company's
factory at South Paris, Me-, was burned
on the Dist. The loss is $4,000; insurance,
$40, 900. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The factory will be rebuilt at once.
The Balkan peace conference met at
Bucharest on the 22d and adjourned indefi-
nitely. Servia's draft of treaty of
peace is considered inadequate.
In accordance with the invitation of the
commander of the man of war Yantic, the
vessels in the harbor of Havana, Cuba,
both National and foreign, were covered
with flags on the 22d in honor of the ami
versary of Washington's birth.
EARLY on the morning of the 23d the
armory rink at Buffalo, N. Y, which un-
til the last few weeks has been the head
quarters of the Seventy fourth regiment,
caught fire and was destroyed.
N.NE HUNDRED convicts in the central
prison at Thouars, France, revolted on
the 22d and mastered the guards. A force
of troops was dispatched and succeeded in
suppressing the outbreak. The details OF
the affair have been kept secret by the au-
thorities.
A TEAM of cricketers picked from the
various clubs at Jamaica and Bermuda,
West India Islands, will visit this country
in August, and will play in all the prin-
cipal cities of the United States and Can
ada.
A CRY of fire was raised in Havlin's
theater in Cincinnati, during matinee
performance of "a Midnight Marriage" on
Washington's birthday, and a serious
panic was only averted by the prompt as
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