Huntsville gazette., 1881-09-17
Personal AND GENERAL. sIsI..AI !.


Some $50 citizens. on the other, the In,
diars lost 800 Killed and wounded. The 9TH
er party had twenty -eight Killed and a num-
iberEwonnded. Is Previous to this fight the
Indians attacked Esquipals,' and killed the
Captain in command, IA tcemmissary, and a
lIyoung telegraph operator, named Yega. The
! slaughter Of various, individuals followed. ;.
some OF them Indians who bad refused to-
join the malcontents, and horrible .outrages
were inflicted upon others. If
y The Jeacish Worlu says: Russia is at
last taking active steps to suppress vigor-
iously any further outrage on the Jews.
i The village of Reichenbach, in the
Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, was almost
destroyed by fall of stonesaialloaI
THE Memphis {. Cotton Exchanges
bulletin fol-, August reports generally unfa-s
yorable weather, on, account Of excessive
drouth plant fruiting badly, with serious
shedding of forms and bols. Worms have
appeared in some localities, but no serious
damage from this cause is apparent.
IA DENVER dispatch Of the, 9th says:
The police last evening arrested five women
and three men belonging to q notorious
band OF robbers, and detectives are on the
| track Of other members, who are operating
| in other towns. This band is mostly from
| Missouri and Kansas, where they are said to
have blown. open over fifty safes within two
years. Over $1,000 worth of plunder was
recovered among them Kid Laureas, the
supposed leader, was among the eight ar
rested. tasy,Yr-tt t-.ftt FHi4-DJ Ill I'LL fE
SIDNEY LANIER, the poet, died on the
| Sth, at Lynn, Polk County, N. C., where he
| had gone to recruit his health. All ~ ~ y
I !, FIVE murderers were hanged at Fort
| Smith, Ark, on the 9th, for crimes commit
| ted in the Indian Nation. They were Amos
and Abner Manly, Creek Indians, aged. re-
I.spectivelyl 49, and 20, and VIM. Brown,
George w. Padgett and Patrick McGowan,
white men. 4HW =rk -hIGU# 1-f}
| OWING to the number of recruits re-
strength, the standard for artillery and in
fantry is fixed at five feet four and upward,
weight 12O to 100 pounds; for cavalry, five
! feet four to five feet ten, weight not to eX-
ceed 165 pounds. Recruits and officers are
being ordered. Arizona. ss13s -44.1aT-
NEAR Savannah, Ga, Engineer Ed
ward King was Instantly killed and fireman
Thomas Mattox mortally wounded by an
accident, caused by an open switch. The
wood -passer was seriously wounded in the
| head, but will recover.
5n The Georgia Legislature has passed a
temperance bill. 1t provides that on petit
tion of one-fourth of the: qualified voters of
any city in the State, the people in said
| ,ioiya cho1I how riU IN, hold
election to decide whether Intoxicating Ii
quors shall be sold in the limits. 1t also pro-
vides. that no intoxicating liquors shall be
soldat any given point in the county, except
with the consent OF majority Of the quail
fed voters living within three miles.
A SERIOUS accident happened on the
Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Short
| line Railroad, on the night of the Sth, caus-
ing the death Of seven persons and the seri-
Gus injury of several others. The train to
which the accident occurred left Louisville
at p. m. While approaching the bridge
over Floyd's Fork, few miles beyond An
chorage Station, the locomotive struck
COW with such force as to throw
the entire train off the track.
1t continued to course along by the roadbed
until it reached the bridge, which was
wrecked by the concussion, and bridge,
train and all went into the chasm, about
thirty feet below. The train consisted of
two passenger coaches, baggage-car and
locomotive, and had about 100 persons
on board. Nearly every one on board was
more or less hurt. Those taken
dead from the wreck We're:
Col. f. Neel, Robert Jones, VIM. Maddox
and Walter Scearce, of SheIbyville; Jas. F.
Harding, of SimpsonyilIe; Mike Perry, of
Louisville, and Capt. Perry Wentworth, of
California. Those seriously injured are: III.
Alfred and Thomas Buchanan, Louisville;
VIM. A. Smith, Taylor's station; Miss Anna
Jones and Mrs. Money, of Shelbyville. With
the exception OF the fireman, Gibson, all of
the employees escaped with slight injuries.
ROBERT WILLIAMS, residing near
Whtmell, Va. quarreled with his wife the
other day, and she complained to magis-
trate, who issued warrant for his arrest,
appointing Williams own son special con-
stable to execute the warrant Arriving at
the house, young Williams found the dead
body of his father lying in the yard, the head
nearly severed from the body, and a bloody
axbeside it. Two daughters, missing when
Mrs. Williams returned, have been charged
with the crime, and warrants issued for
their arrest. ,i,-.f3s atft3i. ssil saf
The Prefect of Constantine, Algeria,
has received a dispatch announcing sixty
one persons burned to death in one day by
forest fires. Many persons were wounded,
and 6S2 dwellings destroyed. The value of
cattle, grain and other articles deroured by
the flames is 100000 francs.
The poisoning of the O'Leary family
in Cincinnati is ascribed to the eating of
canned mackerel. 1t is supposed that
acetate Of lead or some other salt Of lead had
been formed in consequence of the mixture
of lead with tin used in manufacturing the
sheet tin from which the can was made.
A DISPATCH of the 18th in reference
to the recent Missouri train robbery says:l
The names of the parties SO far
arrested are: Matt and Y Greed
Chapman, John Burger, VIM. Murray, An
dy Ryan, John Land, James .Wilkerson,
Charles Fisk and William b histillwel.
Posses, are coming in and the gen.
eral belief is that the search will be aban-.