Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WHILE swimming III the HUDSON river
near Troy, N. Y, some boys were chased
by crocodile which had evidently es-
capped from imprisonment. The sreptile
was captured.
HEAVY rains, on the night of the 9th,
wrought considerable damage in Sioux
Falls, OAK. and vicinity.
JUDGE THURMAN slept well all night aft
er his attack at Gilmore's Garden New
York, on the 6th and awoke much re-
freshed in the morning.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is seri-
ously i'll at her summer residence in Sag
Harbor, N. Y. She is in her seventy
seventh year.
THE betrothal of the Duke of Sparta,
the son of King George, to Princess
Sophie, of Prussia, has filed Greece with
Joy.
THE spinners in the Narragansett mill
at Fall River, Mass, struck, on the 7th,
against working overtime to make up a
few lost moments.
PRAIRIE fires are doing great damage in
Edmunds and Mcpherson counties, Oak.
The fire has burned strip twenty five
miles long and three miles wide. A large
number of farmers have lost their entire
crops and farm buildings.
The early resignation of Secretary
Whitney is looked for among high Gov
ernment officials.
DIR. II. B. DEALE was horsewhipped by
DR.. McKone, a rival hos pital physician
of Washington, on the 9th, for criticism
Of the latter's treatment of hospital cases.
Two candidates for Congress were
placed in nomination by the Tenth New
Jersey Congressional district Demo-
Al, fha ~ ~
concilable split in the convention
REFUGEES from Jacksonville, Fla, will
not be allowed to enter Tennessee WITH
out clean bill of health.
BARON OPPENHEIMER, of Cologne, Ger
many. has subscribed 14O00 marks to the
Emin Bey relief expedition fund.- stlpu-
latinp that the money shall be used for
relief and not for colonization purposes.
THE next delegation to wait upon Gen
eral Harrison will be that of the irish
Americans of Chicago on the 10Th.
IT is rumored in Berlin that Emperor
William has authorized DR.. Bergman to
pubIish a further reply to DIR. MacKen-
zie,s forthcoming book if necessary.
THE corn crop in Northern Michigan
has been damaged fifty per cent. DF Ine
drought and recent frosts.
LADIES' Jacksonville Relief Associa-
tion has been formed in New York CITY.
GENERAL HARRISON received VISIT. on
the Sth. from 100 girls and misses OF In :
dianapolis, tastefully uniformed with
red. white and blue ribbons, and carrying
naner lanterns of the same colors.
THE Minneapolis Chamber OF Commerce
opposes the proposed changes III the
grading Of wheat.
DAVID H. BENNETT, aged seventy-ro
a broker in Wall street, New York, was
found murdered in his bed at his resi-
dance in Jersey City, N. j., on the morn
ing of the 9th.
HoN. CHAUNcEY M. DEPEw is home
rard hound. He is described as plump,
cheerful and much improved by his stay
~ Homburg. "where he wisely refralned
from taking the waters"
ApRE LIszT's posthumous oratorio
uVia Crucis." is announced for lmmeol-
ate publication. ;. tho
The forty third annual report OF tne
~ commission of New Hampshire
aIows the condition of the one state
hanL the three trust companies, and the
a;~tv mine savings banks OF the otale.
s,,sa number of depositors is lo9, 9of'
a-oount due depositors, S53,955'oio' IL
"resse in deposits, $3,e46,312'