Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

IHE procession in London, on the 9th.
on the occasion of the induction into Of
nee OF the new Lord Mayor, was devoid
OF the usual pageantry, and was a tame
affair generally. The weather was fine.
GUSTAV WIEHE, grocer Of Cincinnati,
was Fatally stabbed, on the 11th, by Will
lam Buckton, wire worker employed
by the Bromwell Manufa curing Com
| pany.
SENATOR Quay and Colonel Dudley ar
rived IN Washington on the 11th. They
will make their headquarters at the Re-
publican National League building hence
forth.
Hon. JNo. 7. BUSH, one of the most
prominent men of Niagara Falls, N. Y,
died, on the 10th, aged seventy nine years.
A WARRANT was issued, on the 10th, by
Justice Walter Of Washington for Repre-
sentative Glover, OF Missouri, charging
him with false swear ing
| The story that the United States steam
| er Kearsarge had sailed from Ports
| mouth, N. H., for Hayti, is denied at the
Navy Department The Boston is already
at Hayti, aud the Kearsarge sailed, on the
| 10th, for Hampton Roads.
| AS AN evidence of the demand for DR..
Talmage's work, 'The Pathway of Life,"
| 25O,O copies have been bought from the
Historical Company by Messrs. B. F.
| Johnson & Co., OF Richmond, Va.
| CHAPLAIN DANIEL KENDIG was, on the
| 10th, placed on the retired list of the army
| on account of age.
POSTMASTER EDMUND R. JOHNSON, at
| Marshall Hall, Nd, has resigned his Office,
to take effect at once.
JOSEPH FowLE, aged fifty, the colored
| candy Einp pf Rnctnn paI
| the 10th, oD charge of cheating Lawyer
John B. Appleton, and larceny from the
| Collateral Loan Company, and commit
| ted to Jail.
THE football game which was to have
been played at the Polo Grounds in New
| York, on the 10Th, between the New York
Athletic Club and the Orange Athletic
| Club, was forfeited to the former by the
| nom appearance of the Orange Club.
| McCUEs' carriage factory, Pringles'
shoe factory and Fink & Schindlers' fur
niture factory at San Francisco were
burned on the night of the 11th. Total
| loss about 100000 insurance, $50, 900.
A PARIS (France) reporter who wit
messed an experiment with the Lebe1
rifle, writes to his paper that at distance
of six hundred metres the weapon drove
a ball through five mannikin soldiers,
shattering the back of the fifth as COM
pletely as it had the first.
AN examination will be held at the
rooms of the Civil-Service Commission
in Washington on the Goth inst, to fill a
vacancy at a salary of $1,000 per annum
in the Geological Survey as a proof
reader.
THE Congressional committee investi-
eating the question of contract labor and
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Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th. There are
number of cases under both heads that
have been brought to the committees no.
tice.
THE One Hundred and Fourteenth Penn
sylvanie veterans, on the 11th, dedicated
the imposing bronze figure-a Zouave
in the act of ramming the load in his gun
at Gettysburg. 1t stands cap piece to
monument which they dedicated in
July, 1886, in front of the Sherfyr resi-
dence on the Emmittsburg road.
A GENERAL order has been issued by
the Post Office Department organizing
the eleventh division of the railw ay mail
service, with George w. Hunter as super
intendent with headquarters at Ft
Worth, Tex, and placing the States of
Louisiana, Arkan nsas, Texas and Indian
Territory under his jurisdiction.
THE Washington EUening Post says that
one reason given for the reticence OBJ
served by the Endicott family in regard
the engagement and marriage OF their
daughter to Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain is,
that the Secretary of War and his wife
have from the first been opposed to it on
account of the great difference in age.
MARTIN /. NEWMAN, who was arrested
in Washington, on the 9th, for obtaining
money on promise of marriage from
Kate Smith, department clerk. inally
offered to marry the girl, and she begged
for his release, but as the police had
found in his room evidence that he had
wife in Tennessee, he was held for trial.
THE Church Congress of the Episcopal
church, which begins in Buffalo, n. Y,
on the Goth, promises to be one OF the most
important and interesting ever held IN this
country. Among the distinguished gen.
tlemen who will attend are Prof Clark,
of Toronto; Prof. Nelson, of Virginia;
President Potter; Hon. Andrew u.
White: Rev. DR.. Crummell, of England.
Bishop Coke of Western New York dlo-
cese will preside.
THE entry list for the fourteen-inch
baIk-line billiard tournament which
opens in Chicago on the 265h will close
on the 10TH Among the participants VIII
be Eugene Carter, of Cleveland; john
Houlds, Thos. j. Gallagher and William
Cation, of st. Louis; Frank E. Ives and
William Hartley, of Chicago, and +.
Maggioli, of New Orle ans. Schafer Will
give exhibitions during the tournament
which will continue for eleven days.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the
10th, reported the number OF National
hank notes outstanding as follows: Cur
rency, S23s, 719 SO; gold notes, SIS, 9o1;
National bank notes issued during the
week. SAT-, 900; National bank notes de-
stroyed during the week, 1858, oil. The
amount of funds held at the close of bus
mess November 9, 1885, for the redemp-
tion of the notes of National banks failed,
in 1iouidation, and reducing circulation.
was $ss 7s1, ,52495.
ASA party of young girls were return
ino from the Convent of st. Joseph to the
Catbedr al at ST. Augustine. Fla, on the
nth. two young men drove up, and selz-
inc one of the girls, attempted to place
her in their carriage, but were thwarted
bv the Sisters, who bravely resisted the
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