Huntsville gazette., 1892-12-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DYNAMITE scare has been caused in
CadiZ, Spain, by the finding of eight
bombs in sewer.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the 10th, number,
for the United States, 279. and for Can
ada, 26: or total of 304, as compared
with 297 for the previous week, and
335 for the corresponding week of last
year.
The American delegates to the inter-
national monetary conference at Brus-
sells are booked to sail on the steamer
Lain, from Southampton for New
York, on the 21st.
The pension payments for the first
half of December were very large,
amounting to IS, 95o, 900. The internal
revenue receipts for the same time were
$7,S72, 900.
NELSON P. EVANS, who was con-
victed of misappyling the funds of the
Spring Garden national bank of Phila-
delphia, of which he was director, was
sentenced, on the 10th, to pay fine OF
$500 and serve five years in the Eastern
penitentiary.
SECRETARY FOSTER and Assistant Sec
retary Spaulding have formulated plan
for the reduction of the immigration
service to correspond with the reduced
revenue from immigration. 1t involves
the dismissal of ftwenty-fveimm
and contract-labor inspectors along the
frontier and a considera BILE reduction in
the immigrant force employed at Ellis
island, New York harbor
A BLOCK of warehouses in Bootle,
near Liverpool, was burned on the 18th.
More than 5000 bales of cotton and Is,
900 sacks of -four were destroyed. Five
fremen We're injured. Loss, 100000.
AT a council Of Spanish ministers, on
the 18th. it was decided to make a spe,
cial government grant to assist Spanish
artists in exhibiting their. works at the
Worlds fair in Chicago.
The house committee on appropria-
tions has vigorously slashed the fortifi-
cations appropriation bill, and as it will
be reported to the house by Mr.. Breck-
inridge, of Kentucky, chairman of the
subcommittee, the bill for the coming
fiscal year carries an aggregate appro-
priation of about of about 35 per cent
less than the total amount for the fiscal
year. The total amount appropriated
by the new bill is 81, 735, 055, while the
act for the current year aggregated
| So, 734, ,276 reduction of s999, ,22l.
JOHN PETER THoREL, known to al
travelling men as an old hotel man, died
of heart disease at the breakfast table
at Danville. KY, on the 10th. He was
60 years old and a native of France
He had been very wealthy, but lost his
fortune by buying and improving Crat
Orchard Springs and afterward meeting
with reverses.
MRS SARAH BERRY, living some miles
north of Mount Ayr. Ia, aged 20, was
strickenwith apoplexy, from which she
died at 6 o'clock on the morning of the
| 10th Her daughter, Mrs. Amanda Nc
Dowell, aged So, of Mount Ayr, went tc
attend her, and was also stricken with
| apopleXy, and died few hours later.
QUEEN VICTORIA arrived at Osborne
house, her Isle of Wight residence, OF
| the nth, and will remain there unit
February.
SIR RICHARD OWEN, one of tn,
| worlds famous specialists in compara
tive anatomy, died in London on th'
| 18th.
FIRST SERGEANT GEORGE LLOYD.
Troop, Seventh cavalry, one of the old
est soldiers at Fort Riley. Kas.. com
mitted suicide on the nth by shooting
himself through the head. Sergt. Lloyt
had been wounded number of times
At the battle of Wounded Knee he wa
shot through the body and was left TO
dead. 1t is thought he was demented
NJ. CHARLES DE LEssEPs and hi
fellow-prisoners, arrested in Paris fo
connection with the Panama cana
frauds, are protesting against thu
rigid seclusion to which they are sub
fected. They say they are confined
like common prisoners and subjected
| to the same treatment as offenders o
the vilest type.
THE Branch elevator at Martinsville
Ind. was completely destroyed by fir
on the evening of the nth, with all it
contents. including $4,000 bushels o
wheat and 1900 bushels of corn. Tota
/ loss. sSS. .ouo: covered by about SIS,
| insurance. The FIRE caught from tn
engine-room.