Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

orleans from huaban, honduras, on the
7th, and reports great excitement on ac-
count of American filibusters.
UNDER the Gladstone government, the
following officials in Ireland have been ap-
pointed: John Naish, Lord Chancellor;
Samuel Walker, Attorney General; The
McDermott, Solicitor General.
GOVERNOR RUsK Of Wisconsin has par
doned two sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Merroot
and Mrs Margaret NJ. Cooley, convicted of
perjury nine s~onths ago,
fUNFAyoRARs-E stories are published at
Washington concerning the eccentricities
of Judge Stallo, minister to Italy.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS of Baltimore ha 8
received from the plenary council in Aus
tralia a circular letter of congratulation,
addressed to all archbishops and bishops
in America.
MAYOR SMITH of Cincinnati has sus-
pended Edwin Hudson, Superintendent
of Police, and appointed Arthur G.. Moore
in his place.
A FIRE in the synagogue of the Congre-
cation Bnai Jeshurum, New York, on the
9Th, badly damaged the edifice.
A MANIAC named Charles Hysen, at Jer-
sey City, N. j., made a murderous attack
on his mother and sister on the 9th.
GEORGE LORILLARD leaves the bulk of
his property estimated at So 200, 900, to his
wife.
EGYPT asks to be relieved of the expense
of maintaining the English army of occu-
patton.
FIVE men, convicted of larceny, were
publicly whipped at Newcastle, Del,
on the 9Th.
THE National conference of charities
will meet in st. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th of
July.
AN arrest has been made at Paris of the
supposed murderer of M. Barreme, the pre-
feet killed recently in railway car.
THERE is an Indian scare in the vicinity
of the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota.
THE schooner Maud M. Story is sup
posed to have been lost in a recent gale in
the Gulf of Mexico.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
February was S277,s2O. The issue during
the corr esponding period of last year was
$214,99S.
MAJOR GENERAL POPE, United States
army, is to be retired next month.
NJ. RocHEFoRT rendered his resignation
in the Chamber Of Deputies at Paris on
the Sth.
EDWARD BRYANT shot and killed Elijah
Lee at Keokuk, Ia, on the Sth.
A PUBLIC meeting of mechanics in Ira
falgar square, London, on the Sth, resulted
in great riot lasting several hours, dur
ing the progress of which much damage
was done to property.
A FURIOUS riot of coke strikers took
place at the Henry Clay coke works, near
Bradford, Pa, on the Sth. rs
Two full divisions of the Servian army
have been ordered to go into camp imme-
dately.
R. T. GARRETT, charged with murder,
was taken from Jail by mob at Paris,
Tex, on the Sth, and lynched.
IT is claimed that in case of a renewal of
hostilities, 10000 Servian troops can be put
on the frontier in ten days.
JOHN GIBBS, furniture merchant of
Halifax, N. S.. has committed a large
number of forgeries and ran away.
PRINCE ALEXANDER ToRJoNIA, who was
noted for his great wealth, and for having
carried out many extensive public works
in Italy, is dead.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL KoHLER filed Pc
tition in the Ohio Supreme Court on the
Sth in the quo warranto action on relation
of Mayor Smith of Cincinnati, to deter
mine whether Governor Foraker had the
authority to remove the Cincinnati police
commissioners.
GENERAL WILLIAM WALLACE died at
his residence in Philadelphia on the Sth.
He was Colonel of the Fourteenth Ohio
volunteers and was breveted Brigadier-
General.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL Err
WINS went to Eufaula, l. T., on the Sth, to
arrest Henshaw, the notorious whisky ped
dler. The latter refused to surrender and
a desperate fight ensued, in which the ped
dler was badly wounded, but finally ur-
rendered.
Springwell's Dry Dock Company at
Detroit, Mich, recently gave notice to their
men that beginning with the Sth they
would be required to work ten hours in
stead of nine. A committee OF the men
was informed that no proportionate ad
vance in pay would be given. This was
reported to the men, several hundred in
number, who refused to work at the reduc-
tion. The company was given until the
morning of the Sth to consider the matter,
and just before time for starting work the
men were told to go to work on the old
terms.
THE militia at Seattle, w. t., fred vol
ley at the anti Chinese rioters on the Sth.
killing one man and wounding three
others.
IT is authoritatively stated that Greece
will disarm if Turkey cedes Epirus in ac-
cordance with the Berlin treaty.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has par
doned Joseph Bosk, ex-city treasurer Of
Buffalo, who embezzIed over 100000, on
the ground that his testimony in the case
against Lyon, entities him to clemency, he
having already served a considerable por-
tion of his term.
No action had been taken by the War
Department up to the Sth in regard to the
anti Chinese troubles at Seattle, W. T.
The President had not been called on for
troops, and consequently had not ordered
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