Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Two VESSELS of the United States navy
were anchored off New Orleans on the
9th.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated in
Washington to bring out ex-senator Thur
man, of Ohio, as candidate for Vice
President.
Mrs. Villas, wife Of the Secretary of the
| Interior, will go to Atlantic City, N. j.,
early in the season, and spend part Of the
| season there, in search of health.
A PACKAGE purporting to contain
| S41,0 900, sent by the American Exchange
| Bank of New York to United States
Treasurer Hyatt, was found, upon its re-
ceipt at the treasury, TO contain nothing
but brown paper. The treasurer refused
| to receipt for it.
IT was reported from Washington, on
the 9th, that an effort would soon be made
to reopen the much tried telephone case
in the Supreme Court.
SIXTY veterans of the First Massachu-
| setts regiment, who had been visiting the
battle fields of Virginia, were received by
| the President on the 9TH.
BUFFALO BILL" with his ''Wild West'
show, sailed from Hull, England, for
America, on the 5th.
| M. HoBERT, who killed NJ Dupius in q
duel recently, has been set at liberty by
the French authorities.
THE municipal election in Nantes,
France, on the 9th, resulted in COnserva-
tive victory.
THE Emperor of Brazil is seriously i'll.
On the 9th the physicians who had been in
consultation with the attendant doctors,
were summoned to his bedside.
AT Clay & Woolford's sale of thorough
breds, at Paris, KY, on the 9TH, a full
brother to Hanover sold for $500, the
highest price ever paid for q yearling at
auction.
MINISTER PENDLEToN has entirely re-
covered from his recent attack of pa
ralysis.
The Patriotic League of Paris issued a
manifesto, on the 7th, proclaiming Gen
eral BOulanger the leader of their party.
THE King and Queen Of Italy opened
the exhibition at Bologna, in the presence
of the Prince Of Naples, the Italian Min
listers and many other high dignitaries, on
the 9Th
j. B. PALMER, Boston broker, has been
arrested, charged with embezzling stocks
belonging to q client.
ANDREW LOGAN, q lad of seventeen, was
burned to DEATH on the 9th, in his moth
er's dwelling, at Nashville, Tenn, which
caught fire while he was asleep.
THE London police prevented the hold
ing of a meeting in Trafalgar Square
on the 9th.
Four counterfeiters were arrested at
Lloydville, Pa. on the 4th.
MISS HELEN BARRY, the English actress
arrived in New York on the 9th.
OVER two hundred brass workers Of
Cincinnati struck, on the 5th for the Sat
urday half holiday.
LIGHTNING struck a school house near
Delaware, o., on tie 9Th, killing one, and
severely shocking many of the children.
THE steamship Egyptian Monarch put
In at Falmouth England, on the 7th, with
a hole in he1 bow. She had struck some
wreckage off the Scilly Islands. Her for
ward compartment was filled with water.
TREASURER HYATT claims that the Treas
ury Department, having refused to receive
the bogus money package, alleged to con-
tain S41 900, sent by the American Ex-
change National Bank of New York, the
question Of responsibility for the loss is
one between the bank and express COM
pany.
BRISBANE (Australia) advices to the Tth,
are to the effect that riotous anti-ChineSe
demonstrations have occurred there. A
number Of shops belonging to Chinese
were demolished.
THE trial of Mr.. Joseph Condor, MI. f.,
was concluded at Dublin on the 7th. He
was sentenced to fortnight's imprison-
ment for melting to unlawful assembly.
Trial for other offenSes charged against
him was adjourned.
Four Germans went out in a sailboat on
Lake Erie from Westheld, Pa, on the 9th,
and the wind driving them out into the
lake their boat was capsiZed and August
Reich and William Brown were drowned,
and G. Bader and George Smith were
taken off the boat in an insensible con-
dition.
THE Morgan line steamship Eureka
came into collision with another. steam
ship. on the night of the 9th, near Nor
folk, Va, and sunk. Nothing was known
of the crew, which. including officers, sail
ors, deckhands and engineers, numbered
thirty-six persons in all. She was a
freight boat, and carried no passengers.
JUDGE CALDWELL, of Cincinnati, decld-
ed, on the 7th that the Owen law was
strictly constitutional, and the trial OF
the saloon keepers arraiSned hereunder
was proceeded with.
THE Chinese treaty was ratified by the
Senate, in executive session, on the ith.
ADMIRAL KRANTZ, French Minister OF
Marine. denies the report that the East
ern squadron has been ordered to Ioko-
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