Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

QUEEN VICTORIA, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry Of
Battenberg, left Florence, Italy, for Ber-
lin on the 22d. The streets were crowded
with enthusiastic admirers to bid them
farewell.
1T transpires that the Emperor's physi-
clans expected fatal termination of his
illness on the afternoon Of the 22d and it
is said that the Emperor invested the
Crown Prince with sovereign powers in
all matters save questions of principles
and policy.
GIRDIE GROVES, the female rifle -shot of
the Wild West show, quarreled with
Buffalo Bill on the Goth, and, without no.
tice, embarked at Liverpool for New York.
Upon arriving at Queenstown, however,
she relented, and started back, when she
was detained and searched by the GUS
toms officials, who mistook her for a
Fenian in disguise.
PROF. G. STIBLEY HALL, of Johns Hop
kins University, has accepted the presi-
dency of Clark's University, at Worces-
ter, Mass.
ANDREW BIEBEL and Mary HEM, low
ers, were drowned while crossing the
south fork of the Grow river, four miles
above Delano, Mimi, on the 21st.
THE great irrigating tunnel near Du-
range, Col, intended to fertilize 100000
acres Of land, was completed on the Goth.
1t is over mile long, and runs under one
of the ranges Of the Rocky Mountains.
FIVE bishops and sixty priests occupied
seats within the altar rail Of the recon-
structed st. Peters Cathedral in Alle-
gheny, Pa, on the 22d, and participated in
the imposing dedicatory services of that
magnificent structure.
THE Edgar Thomp5o on Steel-works re-
sumed operations on the 23d with COM
paratively full force of non-union men.
JAMES CUMMINs, resident manager of
Dun's Commercial Agency at Dayton, o.,
becoming financially embarrassed, COM
mitted suicide on the 22d, leaving wife
and children.
THE Pope is about to issue document
condemning the Irish plan of campaign
and boycotting, and forbidding Catholics
to adopt either.
BISHOP WILLIAM TAYLOR of the Congo
Mission Station arrived in New York, on
the Umbria, on the 22d. He came to at
tend the Methodist General conference.
BRIGADIER- GENERAL DWIGHT, who en-
tered the army as Colonel Of the Seventh
New York, and was appointed Brigadier-
General in 1862 died in Boston on the
odd
In Difference to the Queens wishes, no
public reception was given upon her ar
rival in Berlin.
THE decision of the United States Circuit
Court for the Western district of Virginia,
perpetually enjoining the State Auditor
from distraining rolling stock belonging
to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
for taxes, was affirmed by the Supreme
Court Of the United States on the 23d.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland have
been invited to attend the musical festival
at Petersburg, Va. on the Sth OF May.
MINISTER PHELPS was visitor on the
floor of the Senate, on the 23d, and was in
troduced to the Senators by Mr.. Hawley.
THE Young Mems Democratic Club of
New York, on the 23d, adopted unanimous
ly resolution indorsing Grover Cleve-
land as a candidate for denomination to
the presidency.
DURING an argument in the French
Chamber of Deputies, on the 23d, regard
ing the appointment Of civilian to the
war Office, M. Freycinet, the War Secre-
tary, declared that he knew his duties, and
would perform them. A vote OF conf
dence was afterward passed.
THE Paris Municipal Council, on the
23d, passed vote of confidence in the
Ministry, and discu ssed motion look
ing to the suppression Of the presidency
and the Senate.
THE British gunboat Falcon sailed from
Gibraltar, on the 23d, for Cape JUDY to
protect the Northwest African Company's
depot against the attacks Of the Sultan of
Morocco's troops.
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite oc-
Cured in Thomas Nestor's lumber camp,
twenty miles from Baraga, Mich, on the
22d, by which Billy Morrison and Paddy
Ratigan were instantly killed, and Peter
Somerville had a leg blown off. Several
other men were injured.
RED LEARY, a noted bank burglar, died
in New York hospital, on the 23d, from
concussion of the brain, caused by being
struck with a brick by a thief named
Train, in drunken quarrel.
The town of Erie, Pa, was flooded on
the 23d with counterfeit silver dollars of
1887. The coin is not stamped, but
nodded, and is the best imitation ever
seen in silver. Rochester and Buffalo,
n. Y, were dos ed with the same coin a
few days previously