Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ISAIAH NOBLE, farmer living near
New Holland, o., accidentally ran reaper
over his little four-year-o boy, crushing
his head and instantly killing him. The
child was lying asleep in the track Of the
machine.
| A STOCK train on the Union Pacific
Railroad ran into freight.train near Law
renee, Kansas, on the 9th, killing Christo-
pher Stark, of Perryyille, Kans., and seri-
ously injuring several others.
FRED HYLAND and Mark Folsom,
both about u years of age, were drowned
in Coon Creek, near Des Moines, Iowa, on
the 7th.
A SUBSCRIPTION OF S250,000 is being
raised by the New York Chamber Of Com
merce, which will be invested in United States
bonds and deposited with the United States
Treasury Trust Company, and the income
therefrom be paid to Mrs. Garfield during
her life and at her death be equally divided
among her children, in appreciation of the
noble character of the President.
SOLOMON MERRICK, James H. White
and James Alexander Bartum, the latter
colored, were killed outright; James Cox,
colored, mortally scalded; Edward Sheehan
badly, though not dangerously scalded, and
four other hands badly injured by the ex-
plosion of a portable engine on the farm OF
Edward Sheehan, in Talbot County, Md,
on the 9th.
A TERRIBLE wind-storm passed over
Sioux City, Iowa, on the 9Th. At Perry VAL
ley, seven miles north, the house Of a farmer
named Coe was entirely demolished, and his
wife and two children seriously injured.
The house of George w. .Chamberlin was also
wrecked, and the occupants fatally injured.
The storm moved eastward. Its path was
but 100 PAGES wide.
The Governor of Kentucky has ap-
pointed Thursday, July A. a day of fasting
and prayer for the recovery of the President.
GIUSEPPE EPosITo, alias Radazzo,
an Italian bandit, has been captured at New
Orleans and sent home in an Italian man of
war. He has been running fruit schooner
to the Mexican Gulf islands for twelve
mon his past.
AT Rangely, Me-, fifteen men were
injured by the falling of a new roof they
were putting on meeting house.
DISPATCHES to Tunis say the French
commenced shelling Sfax on the .5th inst.
and the fire was returned from the town.
! PROF. G. V. RILEY has been appoint
ed Entomologist of the Agricultural Bureau
, by Commissioner Loring, in the place of j.
HI. Comstock, resigned.
THE creditors of Mrs. Howe's Wom-
ans Bank at Boston will receive five cents on
the dollar.
LIGHTNING struck barn near Deca-
tur, Ala, where a number of people sought
refuge. Four were killed outright and eight
seriously injured.
LEROY, who murdered Gould on an
English railway and threw his body out of
the window, has been arrested and has con-
fessed.
Mrs. PRETEBARD, of Asbury Park,
N. j., committed suicide the other day, it is
said in consequence of mental anxiety for
4 President Garfeld's condition.
A DAUGHTER of Major-G General Fyres,
of England, recently fell overheard at
Hyenes, France. Her mother and two sis
ters sought to rescue her, and all four were
drowned.
THREE Montreal strikers were
use pistols in dispensing mob.
THE vast comet in the northern heav-
ems which has been seen by everybody has
naturally attracted much attention, and there
have been many speculations as to who will
receive the 5000 prize which Mr.. H. III. War
ner, the well-known proprietor of the cee-
brated Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and
founder of Warner Observatory, Rochester,
| N. Y, has made. Whoever receives the
reward, one thing is certain: the cause of
science has received great impetus by rea-'
son of this immense comet, and the interest
which has been taken in it..
SAMUEL TRIvIAs was hanged in AL
exandria, Rapides Parish, La, OH the Sth,
for the murder of A. j. Hanna.
THE Ute Commissioners have re-
turned after months trip in Western Col
orado and Utah. They have selected To-
cation, and the Indians will be removed to
it as soon as the requisite arrangements can
| be made.
POSTMASTER G. E. Carman, at Lyons,
Mich, accidentally shot and killed his IA
year r-old son the other night. The boy had
wandered out on the roof in a fit Of somnam-
bulism and his father mistook him for bur-
| glar.
THE large feeding barns of J. Ter
niinch, near Buffalo, n. Y, containing about
800 cattle, burned on the Sth. Nearly one
half the stock persisted.
THE British bark Beatrice, Captain
Stewart, for Rouen, with oil, was struck by
lightning while off Reedy Island. The fluid
ran down the mast into the hold and fired
the cargo. An explosion followed and the
main hatch was blown into the river, carry
ing sailor with it, who was drowned. The
captain, steward, mate, and two sailors were
injured by the tying timbers. The vessel
burned to the waters edge.
A SINGULAR case of piracy has been
discovered in Saigon (French Cochin China).
| A native vessel driven ashore in stress of
weather was searched for contraband opium.
In the hold, concealed, were about fifty fe-
male children, whom investigation proved
| to be for sale.
EX-SENATOR HITCHCOCK, of Nebras-