Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PoSoCh-
gers on the Etruria, which landed at New
York from Liverpool on the 10th. He re-
ports the single-tax idea rapidly growing
in favor in England.
TERRIBLE storms ragged, between the
18th and 18th, in the Department Of Pyr-
enees- -Orientales, France, flooding vii
lagos and causing wrecks and much loss
of life.
THE Berlin National Gazette denies that
the German Government has the slight
est concern with the Russo-Persian dis
pute.
THE Frank Adams Woolen-m mills, at
Pittsield, Mass, resumed work, on the
10th, on full time.
CHIEF-JUsTICE CHARLES E. BOYLE OF
Washington Territory died OF pneumonia
at Seattle on the 10Th.
THE Prince of Wales, on the 18th, re-
placed in the coffin, in the private chapel
at Windsor, the relics of Charles l., which
were removed on the occasion of the in
vestigation in 1918.
ON account of smallpox in the vicinity,
several Union Pacific switchmen have re-
fused to work in the transfer yards at
Omaha, Neb.
On the 18th, Vice President Elect and
Mrs. Morton concluded their visit to Gen.
eral and Mrs. Harrison and left for home.
THE latest revised returns place the ag-
gregate popular vote at II, ,340,51S. In the
twenty-five States classed as the North
Harrison obtained 466, $50 more votes than
Cleveland, while Cleveland led by 5l4, ,26e
in the sixteen ex-slave States. This
makes Cleveland's plurality 1Ol, ,43S, as
compared with 81 ,6S3 in 1884. The aggre-
gate vote in 1880 was 9,204, ,426, and in 1884
10,04S,061.
MRS. ANNA DE GRoTE, of Millbury
Mass, the wife of a iaboring man, has sue
cessfully given birth to four babies, al
girls, the average weight being four and
half pounds. The last was the smallest
measuring eleven and half inches. Inc
mother is doing well, but the youngest OF
the quartet failed to rally, and died shortly
after birth.
INFORMATION is wanted as to the where
abouts of Theodore It. Gibson, VINO lett
Brooklyn ten years ago to go west, py
Jacob Brenner, a New York attorney
Gibson is heir to 100000.
AT Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, y.
". on the night of the 10th, Harvey Lup'
bington, aged fifteen, threw char at ms
father. fracturing the old mans skull
and causing death. The boy was an
rested.
ALFRED DUENwEG, book-laeper fol
Bauermeister & Busch, at Terre Haute
Ind. has absconded. The firm do no.
know where he has gone, or now mucl
they are out, but say the books nave oeeI
doctored for long time.
COLONEL JAMES F. CASEY, who married
a Miss Dent, sister of President Grants
wife. was reported dying, on the night o.
the 18th. at his ONE in Georgetown, u. Z
JOHN BRIGHT, the great English states
man. had another relapse on the lIth.
THr French man-of-war Destalng ar
rived at Zanzibar on the 18th.
PANAMA canal shares were quoted al
o. francs and 70 centimes on the French
bourse on the 18th.
O1AFP. OLSEN, charged with the killing
of Mrs. NeIse Lindman, at st. Paul, Mimi.
for 1900. which she had in bank IN ms
name was, on the 18th, found guilty o.
murder in the first degree. HIS VIII pe
the first hanging in st. P aul since 1875.
| THE Alabama Methodist conference, II
session at Mobile, adjourned, Oh the l'tn
after adopting report looking to the es
enlistment of society for the support o.
snnerannuated preachers OF the CONFER
ence. +r
his canital. He has been directing certal
ral;eious sacrihcial ceremonies, which art
designed to defeat the schemes OF 'h'
white peas