Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DR.. EDsON, Of New York City, and o
staff of assistants, boarded the steamship
Brittania on the Both and vaccinated the
Italian emigrants on board, after which
all except about seventy-fve were per-
mitted to land.
The Emperor and Empress of Germany
dined in Berlin on the 1st.
A LONDON cablegram on the 30th con-
| firmed the report of a loan of $14, ,000, 900 by
the British Government to the Canadian
Pacific, also: a concession of S3,000,000 to
the road for giving up its monopoly.
JACKSON COUNTY, w. VA, has been suf
fering from an epidemic of hydrophobia
among animals Of all kinds.
THE instability of French cabinets of
late years has become the subject Of un-
favorable comment in English Govern
ment papers.
THE Danish Ministry was overthrOwn on
the 31st on the question involved in the
Governments Financial bill.
THE British steamer Swallow struck on
| some rocks off Naoma Island on February
odd and sunk, and thirty-one lives were
lost
FANNY DAVENPORT has applied for q
divorce from her husband, and it is ru-
mored that if the decree is obtained, she
will marry Melville Mcdowell, her leading
man.
MN. FLooUET, De Freycinet and Gobelet
held conference on the 1st, and ar
ranged the principal points of the pro-
gramme of the new cabinet. NJ De Frey
cinet declined the Ministry Of War, and
will take that of Foreign Affairs.
THE New York Brewers Employees AS
sociation decided on the 1st not to strike,
but to boycott two or three brewing firms.
E. A. PAUL, principal of the Washing
ton High School, while riding his bicycle,
on the 31st, was run over by a horse and
dangerously if not fatally injured.
A MEETING of treasury officials, over
which Secretary Fairchild presided, was
held on the 31st in, the Treasury Depart
ment, to take suitable action in regard to
the death of ex-Assistant Secretary Smith.
A committee was appointed to prepare
resolutions and to appoint committee to
attend the funeral.
THE second fire at Harrisburg, Pa,
within the last thirty days destroyed four
teen buildings on the 1st, causing loss Of
$4,000.
THE residence Of Congressman VIM.
Walter Phelps, two miles from Engle-
wood, N j., was burned on the 1st. The
fire was caused by an explosion OF gas III
the art gallery. The house was Of stone,
and one Of the finest in the county.
NATIONAL bank repositories held, on the
1st, $61, ,231 ,647 of Government money.
THE Republicans of Defiance, O., elect
ed their candidate for mayor, on the I'd, for
the first time in fourteen years.
THE Town Hall of Arnprior, Ont, con-
tanning all the fire apparatus OF the place,
wae burned on the ID
THE Democrats made gain and scored
a victory in the Evansville Qnd.) munlc-
ipal election, on the I'd.
THE Democratic majority of seventeen
to three in the Sandusky (O.) City Coun-
ell, was transformed, by the election on
the Cd, into o minority of nine to eleven.
REV DIR. JOHN HI. PAXoN, of New York
CITY. having scarlet fever in his family,
established a quarantine against the
members of his congregation on the 1st
PROF. f. A. PAUL, principal of the Dis
trict High School of Washington, who was
run over by horse ridden by colored
man. on the 31st, died on the ID.
on the ID. Representative Grain, Of
Texas. moved to pass, under a suspension
of the rules, the joint resolution propos-
ing a Constitutional amendment, chang
ing the Ilule VI 1ilo HlS0t1hS " OoHSi oo''
The resolution was defeated-yeas, so,
nays, 154.
THE public land committee OF the House
decided. on the I'd, to report lbllls forfeit
ing about forty million acres of the North
ern & Southern Pacific railroad land
grants on the Ontonogan grant.
THE result Of the charter elections
throughout Michigan, on the I'd, are
claimed to be, on the whole, encouraging
to the friends of the Administration.
AN immense ice gorge in the Missour
river at Elk Point, Oak Jon the 1st. caused
a sudden rise in the stream whichlover-
flowed the town, driving the inhabitants
into the second stories of their houses,
from the windows of which they were res
cued by boats,