Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-27
HUNTSVILLE. ALA, SATURDAY, APRIL q. 1885,
THE Fairmount collierv, near Pittston.

THE Fairmount colliery, near Pittston,
Pa, operated by Morris & Co., has sus-
pended. The colliery employed about
three hundred men. 1t was old and
pretty well worked out, and had been
Improbable for some time. The liabili-
ties are unknown, but are thought to be
heavy.
The United States man of war Dolphin
arrived at Singapore, India, on the 10Th,
| and sailed the following day for Bombay,
stopping at Colombo. All on board were
well.
On the 21st five steamships landed 8, ,293
steerage passengers at Castle Garden,
New York City. Thirty-five Arabs and
Greeks were detained at the Garden as
paupers.
On the night of the 21st, while Easter
services were in progress at the High
Street M. Z. Church, in Newark, N. j., a
large congregation being present, a boy
in the gallery shouted Fire" three times,
causing panic. One woman was injured
IN the crush. The boy was arrested.
The Prohibitory amendment was de-
feated III Massachusetts, on the 22d, by a
majority ranging from 35, 900 to 10000.
Boston gave 10000 majority against it.
SEVEN Cardinals, it is stated, will be
created at the coming Consistory at Rome.
THE Lancashire handicap steeple- chase
plate of 1000 sovereigns was won by
Magic, owned by the Prince of Wales, at
the Manchester Easter steeple- chases
and hurdle races.
A NUMBER of packages of prepared
| opium, valued at $1,000, found concealed
in the steamship Oceanic, which arrived
at San Francisco recently from China,
were seized by customs officers on the 22d.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of opium
was seized there during the month.
| On the 22d there was great rejo icing on
wharf and steamer as the gallant Mis-
souri, landed at Philadelphia with 365 Of
| the passengers and crew of the aban-
| doned steamer Danmark.
| OVER 100000 people rushed into the
promised land of Oklahoma on the 22d.
| On the 22d the largest show of horses
ever held in the East if not in the coun-
| try, opened in Boston, and interested in it
some of the best-known horsemen and
owners Of horse-fesh. The most noted
trotting, saddle and coach horses in that
part Of the country were included in the
| list
| On the 22d the riots growing out of the
! strike in Vienna were renewed. The
| strikers attacked and smashed several
tram cars, and were charged upon by the
cavalry patroling the streets. Many Of
| the mob were wounded and about one
| hundred were arrested.
| THE United States ship Thetis, Com
mander c. H. Stockton, has sailed from
| San Francisco for her regular summer
cruise in Alaska.
THERE will be twenty-seveE thousand
offices in the departmental, customs and
| postal service under Civil-Service rules,
| after the consummation of the proposed
| application of rules to the Railway Mail
| Service.
THE Civil-Service Commission has is
sued general circular, embodying fund
OF information to persons contemplating
an examination for appointment to the
five thousand positions of the Railway
Mail Service. 1t requires that applicants
for examination shall be citizens of the
United States, not under eighteen or over
thirty-fve years Of age. Veterans Of the
war may be examined without regard to
age.