Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE President, on the 9th, approved the
Logan and Blair pension bills.
THE Presidential nominated Brigadier-
General Crook to be Major General.
THE Treasury Department reports net
decrease in the monetary circulation dur
ing March of So, 167 ,514.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
April were as follows: For the United
| States, 199; for Canada, 2S; total, 227
For the corresponding week last year the
| total failures numbered 223.
THE London Standard believes that the
| government intends to drop Mr.. Balfour's
Land bill, and substitute therefor bill
| for the prolongation of the term of the
land commission. Also appointing
additional sub commissioners.
BY advice of his physicians and at the
solicitation of his friends, Congressman
Mills has gone TO ForS. Is Monroe for
rest arecuperation from his recent i'll
ness.
THE Republicans made clean sweep in
the supplementary election in Rhode
Island on the 7th.
IT is rumored in Washington that Min
lister Phelps will not return to his station
in London.
MEXICAN officers and troops have been
the fate of the Nogales offenders for in
vading the territory of a friendly power,
and to call halt when they reach the
American border.
THE Republicans of Northampton
County, Pa, in convention, on the 1th,
declared in favor of the nomination of
Mr.. Blaine for the presidency.
CAPTAIN ANTHONY L. BARGAMIN, a
Dia1,, -, y l. fn1-
up his residence in Canada, with from
$1,000 to $4,000 of his employers money.
THE "rating- -up'' order, recently issued
by Postmaster General Dickinson, has
been enioined by a Syracuse On. W
Judge, at the suit of Wick Brothers, Of
Rochester. This temporary injunction is
to stand for four weeks, pending argu-
ment for a permanent injunction.
THE scale proposed by Mr.. Carnegie to
his employees in the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works, was rejected, and Mr.. Car
negie himself denounced for asking the
men to work twelve hours day, at
mammoth meeting at Braddock, Pa, on
the 7th. The vote stood 1000 to 2.
JAMES BAILEY, a coal miner, of Shamo-
kin, Pa, reduced, with a large family, to
the verge of starvation, by participation
strike has fallen heir to fortune of ST.
100000.
THE failure of an Italian banking estab-
ishment in the City of New York, on the
7th, left large number of poor people
and laborers to bemoan their losses. The
proprietor, Aurstio De Yoanna, has dis
appeared.
THE funeral services over the remains
of Jacob Sharp were conducted by Or.
Thomas Armitage, in a little room over
the vestibule of No. 352 West Twenty
third street, on the 7th, in the presence of
members of the family and friends. Mss.
Sharp was not able to attend. The body
was inferred at Greenwood Cemetery.
IT is said that the Canadian Government
contemplates the annexation of the British
West India islands in the event of the
pending negotiations for the absorption Of
Newfoundland being successful.
MISS ANNIE PEARSON, aged sixteen, OF
Newton, Mass, was aroused suddenly
from sleep, on the Sd, and becoming badly
frightened, tainted away, remaining in q
comatose state until the 9th, when she
went into commissions and died.
MRS. JOHN RITCHIE, of Paterson, N. j.,
accidentally shot and killed her husband,
while shooting at target in the garret of
their house, on the Ith.
LILLIAN OLCoTT, the actress, died on
the Sth, in New York, of Inflammation Of
the stomach.
Roscoe CoNKLING was reported better
on the Sth.
EMPEROR FREDERICK attended divine
service in the private chapel at Chariot
tenburg on the Sth.
JACKSON C. HEAToN, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, guardian of Isaac Mccormick, an
insane pensioner, was indicted for with
holding and embezzling the pension
money of his ward, on the 7th.
LEWIS j. WILLIAMS, medical director,
U. S. N, retired, died at Baltimore, Md,
on the Sth, aged sixty EIGHT.
NEAR Latimore, Pa, a desperate fight
occurred among large number OF Hun
earians, or the sth. Fence pickets and
clubs were used, and one man was killed
and many Others badly handled,