Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

do and Utah.
CAPT. j. w. DAVIDSON, Post Com
mander at Fort Custer, died recently at st.
Paul, MINI. The deceased was in command
of department in st. Louis during the war.
He was also married in that city, and his re-
mains were taken there for burial.
II is reported at Piedras Negras that
several American railroad engineers were
killed in the interior of Mexico, in conse-
quence of dispute regarding the right of
way, but no particulars have yet been OBJ
tanned.
REPORTS of recent Indian troubles in
Western Colorado and Utah have been great
ly exaggerated.
DICK WOOD, noted desperate of
Western Texas, has been hanged by the vig-
ilantes.
THE convicted murderers of the late
Abdul Aziz, nine in number, have been sem
fenced to death. They are Midhat Pasha,
Mahmoud Pasha, Nowr Pasha, Ali Bey,
Nedjib Bey, Fahri Bey, Hadji Mehmer, Mus
tapha the Wrestler, and Mustapha the
Gardener. Izzet Pasha and Zida Pasha,
implicated in the murder, have each been
sentenced to ten years. penal seryitude.
AFLYING column of infantry, caval-
ry and police assisted the Sheriff in enforc-
ing evictions at Mitcbellstown, County Cork,
Ireland. Persons against whom writs have
been issued paid the rent in every case, thus
proven ing eviction. Trees were placed
across several roads to delay the progress of
the column, which as it entered town found
anumber of carts thrown across the streets.
The military and police charged the crowd
until the streets were deserted. 1t is stated
thirty persons were injured.
EX-CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN, of
Georgia, died on the 30th, aged 70. He was
on the bench for upward Of fifty years.
A. D. BARBER, E. R. Phelps and G..
A. Edwards have been indicted by the Grand
Jury at Albany, N. Y, for bribing or fur
nishing money for the purpose of bribIng
State officers. ae
A YACHT was capsized off Bridgeport,
Ct, on the 28th, by phenomenal squall
which lifted it completely out of water, and
five persons were drowned. A survivor de-
scribes the battle of the elements as simply
appalling.
4 SUOIIu VI b1c LCbu was WluC-
spread and severe. At Cherokee, Iowa, the
residence of Mr.. Stevens was completely de-
molished, two children being instantly
| killed and his wife receiving fatal injuries.
An old lady named Oberch, of the same
place, also was killed, her house being over
turned. At Meridian a Miss Pierce was
killed by lightning. At Keller Station, Ind,
a train Of fourteen freight cars was blown
from the track and down an embankment.
The cars were lifted so neatly that not a
link was broken. Near Lewiston, Pa, a
baggage truck was carried fifty yards and
dashed to pieces.
SANDERsON's stage from Lake City
was robbed by two masked men twelve miles
west Of Alamosa, COL, on the 30th. There
were six passengers, five men and one
woman. The robbers secured between $500
and 5000.
The President has appointed R. S.
Foster United States Marshal for the District
of Indiana, vice VIM. w. Dudley, appointed
Commissioner Of Pensions, and Robert G.
HALEY, Of Vermont, U. S. Consul at Barba-
does, vice w. II. HALLS, suspended.
THE Chicago Saengerfest began on
the 29th. The opening concert was grand
success.
SEVERAL hundred Scandinavians who
recently went to the Sandwich Islands un-
der labor contracts, are said to be practically
held in a state of slavery, being disposed OF
by lot among the planters and kept under
the most rigid surveillance. This report
was brought to San Francisco by Swede
lately arrived from Honolulu, and caused
great excitement among the Scandinavian
residents, who at once took measures to
warn their countrymen against Hawaiian
emigration agents.
AARBURG, a large village of the
Canton of Berne, Switzerland, has been de-
were killed.
THE Memphis Board Of Health have
issued an order, to take effect July 10, that
no boat Of any description arriving at that
port from below shall land any articles such
as rags, paper stock, old rope, secondhand
clot hing, bedding and upholstered furni-
ture, nor shall any other freight which may
have been carried in contact with such ar
ticles, nor any person from such boat, be al
above classes of merchandise should be
shipped in sealed barges past that port for
the next ninety days.
Mr.. JOHN M. HUBBARD, a prominent
adherent Of Blaine at the Chicago Conven-
tion, who was recently removed from the
position Of Superintendent Of Delivery in
the Chicago Post-office by Postmaster
Palmer, visited Washington and obtained
letter from President Garfield to the Chica-
go Postmaster to the effect that the Pres-
dent did not wish any removals made for
political causes. Mr.. Palmer now tells Mr..
Hubbard that the letter does not affect his
case, inasmuch as he was not removed for
political reasons.
YALE defeated Harvard by two boat
lengths in the race at New London, Conn.,,
on the 1st.
ADAM THOMPSON, colored was hanged
at Dallas, Texas, on the 1st, for the murder
of Johann Shumaker, an aged German, for
the purpose of robbery.
NINETEEN persons were seriously in
iured by collision on the Chicago & East
ern Railroad, near Kensington Station, IS
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