Huntsville gazette., 1888-08-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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newborn Prince of Greece will be named
Christopher. zaa O.. ..tfps
A RowBoAT containing eight men was
upset in the East river, opposite New
York City, on the 18th, by the wash of a
| ferryboat, and Solomon Refs, William
Lawrence and an unknown man were
| drowned. E4f
| THE Yacht CLEAN, of the New York
Boat Club, from which its owner, Harry
| Garrett, recently lost his life, has been
sold to New York parties for $4,000.
THE machinery of the steamship Um-
bria, from Liverpool, became slightly dis
| arranged eight miles outside of Fire
Island, on the 18th, and the vessel made
port under canvas.
Mrs. SARAH ROBINSON died at Forest
Hill, Nd, on the 18th, at the age of one
hundred, in the house she entered as a
bride in 1897. She had never seen a
steamboat or steam cars. ga g
Mr.. BLAINE spent the Sabbath, on the
18th, at Manhattan Beach, much of the
time being passed in company with the
Republican leaders. = 49,
JUSTICE STANLEY MATTHEWS is reported
, to be much broken in health at his Pitts
field (O.) summer home.
SECRETARY AND MRS. ENDICoTr recalled
invitations for dinner party out Of res
pect for the memory of General Sheridan.
REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON, of Califor-
MIA, thinks that his State, and probably
Nevada and Oregon, will certainly be
carried by the Democrats in November.
THE cornerstone of the new Catholic
college of st. Thomas Aquinas, at Scran-
ton, Pa, was laid, on the 18th, with i'm
pressive ceremonies. conducted by Bishop
O'Hara, assisted by twenty-five priests.
GENERAL oULANGER, while driving in
an open carriage in st. Jean d'Angely. on
the 18th, was shot at five times by Prof
Perrin, of the Lysee. NJ. Ratapan, friend
of the General, received one OF the shots
in the back, and two other persons were
wounded.
THE Cuban Government reports that an
agitation is being carried on IN Cuoa,
with the assistance OF influential Amer
ican politicians, in favor of the annexation
of Cuba to the United States.
IT is feared that the dory Ozark Secret "
en- route to England,Lhas foundered In
one of the recent gales.
THE situation at Jacksonville, Fla,
over the yellow-feve epidemic, amounts
to almost panic. Fires are being resort
ed to in efforts of publication.
SMALL Pox has broken out IN the State
nrison at Trenton, N. j. Every precau-
ton is being taken to prevent an cpl
demic.
THE almost entire failure of the wheat
crop. following the destruction OF S3o,oo
worth of hogs by cholera, has reduced
the Wabash County (Ind.) farmers imam
ciallv to a condition they have never
known in previous years.
THE President is said to be so attracted
bv the quiet surroundings of Oak View
that he spends the greater portion OF his
time there, leaving the White House de-
serted.
THOSE who saw Colonel Fred Grant at
caneraI Sheridan's funeral at W ashing-
to,, cav that since he has turned out full
heard he furnishes striking resemblance
of his late father.
THE Sprague motor, storage ana ilhe
oomhination of electric power has been
formally put into operation on the Cen, ;,
tra1 Street railway at Davenport, Ia:s ana
annears to give great satisfaction. -.
troroNEL JOHN HARMON, OF Detrolt.
Mich. for many years a. Appointment hgure
&C che third ho1sein Washington, is dead.
H. ue was upwards Of eighty years OF age,
T. tbono} ew-would give him credit tor SO
nany wears, owing to the alnkya blacAAlnT ~ 8 :
- 10 hair and his, erect CARRIAGE he
nod some Narragansett Indian blood ln
him.