Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| BUFFALO Bull and his Wild West show
| arrived in New York on the 10th.
| BILLS are pending before House commit
| tees for the erection of statues in Wash
| ington to Generals Logan, Hancock aid
| Shields.
AT a meeting in Phoenix Park, Dublin,
| on tie 20th attended by six thousand per-
| sons, the Nationalist manifesto against
| the Pope's decree was unanimously in
dorsed. Ne priests were present.
! THE Queen Regent Of Spain opened the
! exposition at Barcelona, on the Goth, in
| the presence of the Duke and Duchess uf
| Edinburgh, Prince George Of Wales, tho
| Duke of Genoa. the officers of the foreign
squadrons aid an immense gathering Of
| the populace.
| IT seems to be settled that whatever
| time Mrs. Cleveland may spend away
| from hef husband this summer will be
passed with Mrs. General Greely, at Pitts
field, Mass.
INDIAN CoMMrsstoNER ATKINS has hand
ed in his resignation, to take effectJune 49,
THE President continues to receive in
vitations to celebrations of various kinds,
and if he accepts tenth part of those
which are coming to him he will have 10
| do great deal of travelling before elec-
| ton time.
THE passenger and freight stations at
South Sudbury, Mass. used by the Old Colo
ny and Central Massachusetts roads. were
burned, together with their contents, on
the 2Gth. The fire was incendiary, and
this is the fourth Old Colony depot burned
by incendiaries within four months.
AMONG the cabin passengers on the La
BretaSne on the 20th were Minister Nc
Lane, from Paris; Minister Bell, from
The Hague; Mr.. and Mrs. Astor, and
Fletcher Harper.
A WOMAN whose name was given as
Josie Williams died at Beverly, N. j.,
and was buried on the 18th under cir
cumstances of some secrecy and mystery.
On the Goth it was stated that she was
Josie Mansfield, who became notorious
at the time Of the Fisk Stokes tragedy in
1872.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN has bought one
third interest in J. B. Doris circus, and
will travel with the show through the
United States, beginning about June 80.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland are
established at Oak View, their country
seat, for the summer.
COMMISSIONER ATKINS and a number of
clerks went to New York, on the 21st, to
open bids and award contracts for Indian
supplies for the next fiscal year.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office, on the 10Th, restored to entry 1885,
553 acres of land within the supposed
exterior boundaries of the Las Animas
private land grant i'll the Pueblo land dis
trict Colorado.
COUNSEL for McQuade, the convicted
Doodle alderman, of New y YOrk, served
notice of an appeal, on the 10Th, from the
decision of the General Term to the Court
of Appeals.
REV. EDWARD J. SOURIN, S. J. of st.
Mary's Catholic Church, died in Baltl-
more, Md, on the Goth, in the eightieth
year of his age. He was one Of the best
known priests in the country.
THE seventy fourth anniversary meet
ing of the American Baptist Union con-
vened in Washington on the 21st The re-
ceipts for the year We're reported as $500,
5S6-exactly covering the expenditures.
THE following bonds were offered to the
Government on the 21st: S114,oW reg
istered As, at 1867 to 128: 500 coupon
As, at 127: S67.5)0 registered AIS, ct 10S to
10S3s. Total, $1S1,G00. The following were
accepted: 5000 registered Is, at 126A;
500 coupon As, at 12I; 500 registered
AIS. at 10S Total, $500.
Sbl< COlil.lSICC CctIiGlltO1S h0"S
virtually completed consideration of the
River and Harbor bill. The aggregate
amount of the bill, as passed by the
House, has been increased by $l,50o,OO by
the Senate committee.
A SPECIAL of eight palace cars made the
run from Philadelphia to Baltimore,
ninety-two miles, on the 21st, in one hour
and fifty-nine minutes, the fastest time
ever made on the division.
In the Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly, at Baltimore, Nd, on the 2ist,
the temperance question was again dis
cussed. In the case of Rev. Mr.. Wood
row, of South Carolina, the convention
decided to allow each Of the gentlemen
who will take part in the discussion four
hours.
GEORGE WILLIAM HAYWARD, aSed
thirty -four, unmarried, committed SUI
eide at Woburn, Mass, on the 29th, by
shooting himself with apistol. For year
past he had suffered severely from dyS-
oa,,sie which made him deSponQent,