Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

violence. The trouble originated in the
prosecution, by order of Judge Harris, of
two delinquent Deputy Sheriffs, Green Myers
and James Isham. The Times published
several articles rejecting upon the delin-
quents, soon after which an attempt was
made to burn the printing -ofice. The Judge
and the editor then received written notice
through the Post Office to leave the town
within fifteen days, under the penalty Of
DEATH They left. Judge Harris arrived at
Little Rock and had an in erview with the
Governor, who promises him all the assist
ance needed to protect the lives of threat
ened parties and to maintain the law.
ANTHONY w. GARDNER has been
elected President of Liberia, and Rev. w.
F. Russell, Vice President. They are
pledged to the education of the masses and
numerous other needed reforms.
A PHILADELPHIA patent-lawyer, Mr..
Connolly, is said to have received $250,0O0
from the Bell Telephone Company for SIM
pie device, of his invention, by which cen
tral telephone office can be done away with.
JOE FLINT, notorious Chicago thief,
received fatal injuries while trying to escape
from two de- eiectives at Kansas City, Mo. He
was run over by train which he attempted
to board, both legs being severed.
HAYES WHITE, colored, the murderer
of Sheriff Beattie, of Crittenden County,
Ark, was hanged at Marion on the 10th.
A MAN named Herman and his son
were killed by lightning near Baltimore,
Md, on the 9th. Another had thigh broken
and several others were stunned by the
shock.
| A NUMBER of workmen were badly
scalded by the explosion of boiler near
Pottsville, Pa, the other day, three of
| whom can not recover.
GEORGE G. GATLING, of San Fran
cisco, Cal, suspecting his wife Of inideliiy,
decoyed her into beer garden and stabbed
her to the heart.
A HANDSOME female burglar, aged Is
years, and named Frances Merch, has been
captured by the Cincinnati police and locked
up.
WEST POINT IN. W graduates were
addressed by President Garfield, Gen. Sher-
man, and Secretaries Hunt and Lincoln, on
the 10th.
A DISPATCH from Halifax, N. S., says
the NoTWtPIaH DaTque Mctte MdISOttHo WIS
wrecked off St Paul's Island. The captain,
first officer, carpenter, two seamen and boy
were drowned.
j. MARTIN, a merchant of Belknap,
Tex, was called to the door of his residence
by three men, seized and carried a short dis
tance from the house and shot dead. After
killing Martin they went to his store and
ransacked it,
DURING the eclipse On the night of
the 11th, about 200 men rode up to the Jail
at Greensboro, n c., and demanded the
keys. The JaiIer refusing to comply with
their demands, they broke open the doors
and seized John Taylor, negro confined for
an assault upon white woman, whom they
took off distance of several miles and
hanged to tree.
Two brothers, Rub and Sidney Pat
rick, living near Golden, Cole, quarreled
over the ownership of dog. Sidney shot
and instantly killed his brother. The MUIR
derer was arrested.
A BREAK in the Erie Canal, near AL
bion, n. Y, caused much damage on the
18th. The water flooded all that section,
carrying away fences, bridges, ETC., and
working destruction in general. A woman
and two children were saved by getting on
pig-pen, which floated about mile before
they were rescued.
VIM. HENRY, Samuel Buckner and
Peter Cook were fatally injured at Lafayette,
Ind, the other day. They were tearing
down the roof Of the Court house, when it
fell.
THE Italian exploring party which
started from Assab Bay, Abyssinia, con-
sisting Of a subaltern officer, ten sailors and
four soldiers, has been massacredi in the inte-
rior.
A PASSENGER train on the Ohio &
Mississippi Railway, at Vincennes, Ind,
dashed into wagon containing three men.
James Bradley was seriously injured and the
others badly bruised
Miss LIZZIE HUTCHINSON and Miss
Cox were killed and Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchin-
son injured by lightning while driving near
Archer City, Texas.
ANDREW D. robson, nephew of
ex-Secretarv Roheson, of New Jersey, was
killed by lightning near Hunnewel. Kans.,
on the 18th. His clothes were literally torn
from his body, his watch chained melted,
and his face and body much torn.
REIMHEILER, the German who shot
and robbed al Angel, near Irish Grove, Mo-,
recently, was taken from Rockport Jail on
the 10Th by some twenty-five men and
hanged.
A coLoRED boy who was bitten by a
spider, at Natchez, Miss, the other day,
died soon after in great agony.
AT Kingston, n. c., Quincy Gardiner
and James Bryan engaged in a cutting affray |
which proved fatal to the former. They
had taken up quarrel begun by their wives, |
who We're compelled to witness its sanguin-
ary termination.
JOHN SCHsRALM, prominent busi-
ness man of Canton, Ohio, died on the 18th |
from paralysis of the stomach caused by |
drinking iced seltzer-water.
Mr.. ALLEGED CRIswELL, farmer re-
siding near Raymond, H., was returning |
with his family from a meeting in town on /
the night of the 18th, when in crossing the I
track of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific |
Railroad his wagon was struck by the ex- |