Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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on Christ Church. Lexington, Ky, and all
We're seriously injured.
j. A. JACK, well-known telegraph
operator, jumped into the river at Kansas
City and was drowned. He belonged at To-
ledo, o., was steady young man, and the
cause Of his suicide is mystery.
AT Fort Worth, Texas, on the 18th,
Henry Hitler had difficulty with Deputy
Sheriff Highnote, of Corsicana. Hitler was
stabbed five times, and died. He was a
German of high standing. Highnote was
captured and lodged in Jail.
AT Elizabeth, n j., Martin Magic, a
young man Of good family, shot Miss Fam
ME Walker, a dressmaker, inficting merely
flesh wound. He then put two bullets into
his own body, causing almost instant death
Magic had been verging upon insanity for
some time, and his friends had intended to
place him in an asylum, but had criminally
neglected to do so. He was a suitOr for
Miss Walkers hand, and jealousy was the
immediate cause Of the crime.
A COMPANY has been organized at St.
Louis, with capital of S2,500,000, to build
the Chester, Iron Mountain & Western Rail-
road, running from St. Mary's, Mo-, nearly
opposite Chester, ILL.,, on the Mississippi
River, directly west through Ste. Genevieve
County to Pennington, thence west to Iron
Mountain, and so on through Iron County
to Salem, in Dent County, where it will form
connection with the branch from Cuba Of
the st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. A
branch will also be run from a point near
Pennington directly north through st. Fran
co.'s County to Bonne Terre, where the St.
Joseph and the De Lassus lead mines are sit
uated.
A DETROIT grave-robber has been
sentenced to five years in the State-prison.
AT Lockland, o., the little daughter
of Marion Thompson, one year old, being
| left alone in bed, crawled to the foot Of the
mattress and fell through between the Stats
of the bed, hanging suspended by the head
She was dead when discovered by the ag-
| oniZed mother.
| THE residence of Mrs. Gilman, a
wealthy widow of Kittery Point, Me. burned
one night recently, and she was supposed to
have perished in the flames. 1t is now evil
| dent that she was murdered and the house
| set on fire TO destroy evidence of the crime.
| CHARLEY ALLISON, Henry Watts and
Lewis Perkins, three noted highwaymen,
who have committed many crimes in New
Mexico and Colorado, and for whose arrest
heavy rewards were offered, have finally
been captured.
THE 106th anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill, June 18th, was celebrated at
Boston, A specially interesting feature of
the day was the formal dedication of a bronze
statue OF Col. VIM. Prescott, the hero. of the
fight.
WHITAKER, the colored West Point
cadet, who was granted court martial at
his own request, has been declared guilty of
having inflicted upon himself the injuries
charged upon his fellow students. His
friends are dissatisfied with the verdict,
which they claim is not justified by the evil
dence, and will appeal to the Judge Advo-
cate for a rehearing, or to the President to
set aside the verdict.
A NUMBER of employees have been
discharged from the United States Senate by
Sergeant at-Arms Bright, including one who
has been retained more than twenty years,
having been originally appointed by the
Democratic Sergeant alarms before the re-
belIion.
RICHARD JOHNSON, a New York
groom, was killed by vicious horse, which
first knocked him down and then stamped
upon his head and chest James Murry was
almost killed while dragging Johnson's body
from the stall.
FRANK w. FELT, agent Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway at Oswego, Kans., and
his assistant, Ed Gibson, were shooting at
telegraph pole the other day, when wild
ball struck Mrs. Wilmoth, an aged lady, in
the back, wounding her it is thought fatally.
Mrs. Wilmouth was milking COW about
seventy-five yards distant, and could not be
seen by either of the gentlemen.
T. H. BURNEs and 0. III. Richardson
were killed by collision OF trains on the
Texas Pacific Railroad near Baird, Texas.
VIM. Monroe was run over by an entire train
near North Vernon, Ind, and lived few
hours. Ed. Tucker was cut in two near
Bowlin Green. KY, number of cars pass
ing over him.
A RECENT anti-Italian demonstration
at Marseilles at one time threatened to as
Sume very serious proportions. w nen the
first detachment of troops returning from
the Tunisian expe dition marched past the
Italian Club House, some of he habitues
gathered on the steps and at the windows and
hissed, which so infuriated the French pop
ulace on the sidewalk that in a few moments
there was hardly an unbroken pane of glass
in the entire front of the building.
1T is reported that DeLesseps' canal
project on the Isthmus of Panama does not
progress favorably. Stations have been
abandoned, brigades disbanded and many
engineers have returned home and work
men have been discharged. The Star and
Herald says: "We would like to see little
more accomplished on the isthmus, and
little less blowing in Paris about the busi-
ness"
In the little village Of Portland, Ash
ley County, Ark, recently, a peddler named
Gilmore was iaccosted by colored man who
asked if he had a license to sell. A quarrel
ensued. DR.. d. Flemings, a prominent cit
izen, appeared on the scene, and was drawn
into it. Highly incensed by remark made
by the peddler, the Doctor drew pistol and
shot him dead FIemings fed and is still at