Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Perry County, Ark, troubles are
in fair way of adjustment. Writs have
been issued for score of persons, and are
being served as rapidly as possible. The al
legged murderers of Editor Matthews were
arrested on the Sd. Their names are James
A. Isom and w. S. Payton. They offered no
resistance, but surrendered to the posse, re-
marking that they were not guilty and would
prove it. An alleged accomplice named
Kennedy has also been arrested, and the
officers are hunting for eight others charged
as being accessories. The Jail in which the
prisoners are confined is guarded by the
militia, and every precaution taken to pre-
vent their release by outside parties.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, the fourteenth
victim of the explosion at Woolner's distil-
lery, Peoria, died on the 4th, leaving only
four of the injured alive.
The notorious ussanctimonious swindler,
who under the name of the Rev. CASTOR de
Iouhan was sentenced TO the Missouri Pen
itentiary in 1879 for five years, but escaped
within year, has been again operating sue
cessfully in Nova Scotia, but has been again
detected and is now lodged in the Halifax
Jail. The history of his misdeeds runs back
for nearly twenty years, during which time
he has operated under various names in
nearly every Catholic community from Can
ada to California.
BISHOP HAVEN, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at Salem, Oregon,
on the 1st, after brief illness. He was six
ty years of age.
THE excess of exports of merchandise
over imports during the year ending June so,
1881, was $3.50, ,726, 254, against $167 ,6S3,912
during the previous fiscal year. The excess
of imports Of gold during the past fiscal year
was $9i ,16S, $50, and the previous year
SO, ,S91 391. During last fiscal year the value
of exports of merchandise amounted to
S902, ,319, ,473, being larger than ever before in
the history Of the country. The value of
imports of merchandise was $642, 593, ,219,
which was larger than during any previous
year with the exception of the year immedi-
ately preceding.
RENEWED attacks by mobs on the
shops and synagogues of the Jews are
reported in various places in Pomerania.
Some shops were wrecked. The mobs were
dispersed by the police.
THE National Catholic Total Absti-
nence Union has been in session at Boston.
Archbishop Elder, Of Cincinnati, was elect
ed President Of the Union, but declining,
the Rev. J. B. Cotter, of Minnesota, was
chosen.
NATHAN 0. GREENFIELD, six times
sentenced formurder Of his wife,in 1875, was
hanged at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 9TH.
FOREST fires have swept the country
north of Bay City, Mich, destroying farm
buildings, fences, and much standing tim
ber. Trains on the Michigan Central Rail
way were delayed by clouds of smoke and
| ashes.
| The Indian troubles in New Mexico
are assuming alarming proportions, and ev-
| cry day brings news of fresh atrocities COM
mitten by rowing bands Of savages. A party
! of ten Americans from Chloride City, rein
forced by twenty Mexicans, recently had
an encounter in Red Canyon with large
| party Of hostiles, said to have been under
the personal command of Mana, the redoubt-
ed chief, in which several were killed and
wounded on both sides. A dispatch from
Socorro, 5th, says news has been received
there OF the killing of Col. Robert III. Staple
ton, formerly Of the United States Army, at
Mornea Springs, where he has been running
mill. He commanded regiment in the
Mexican war, and has long been prominent
in the Territory. A subscription is being
raised to offer a reward of $50 for every In
dian scalp brought into town.
The City of Brooklyn, having post
poned its Fourth Of July celebration on ac-
count of the attempted assassination of the
President, had grand gala day on the 4th
of August, as token Of rejoicing for the
Presidents convalescence.
The Irish laborers' strike has as
sumed large proportions, and there is
general agitation for an increase Of wages.
The employers, with few exceptions, resist
the demand.
THE verdict in the case of Cadet
Whitaker has not yet been made public, but
the finding is said to be unanimous that he
is guilty of having committed the alleged
outrage upon himself, and recommending
that he be dismissed the service.
ORvILLE l.. GRANT, only brother Of
Gen. U. S. Grant, died at the Asylum for the
Insane at Morristown, N. j., on the 9th, As
years Of age.
A LETTER threatening the Gar with
death was found on a table in his bedroom,
supposed to be thoroughly guarded and to
which access can be had only by the most
thoroughly trusted of his attendants. The
officer on guard and four servants of the
palace have been arrested.
THREE daughters of D. 0. Barley,
farmer living near Sherman, Texas, aged
respectively seven, nine and eleven years,
playing beside stack Of new mown hay.
were struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
JAY GOULD has purchased an interest
in the National Stock-yards at East st.
Louis.
AT Petersburg, Va, John w. Green,
commission merchant, and w. T. Lee, of
Littleton, N. c., used knife and pistol upon
each other with fatal results. The quarrel
grew out Of a refusal to drink on the part Of
the latter.
HARTMANN, the self-confessed Mill
ist, recently arrived in New York, has
taken hasty departure for Canada, owing,
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