Huntsville gazette., 1882-07-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

immense throng. Wilson won the money.
The United States Fish Commission
has made special report to Congress, which
will be the most exhaustive work on food
fishes ever printed. 1t will make three quar-
to volumes of eight hundred pages each, and
be profusely illustrated.
AT meeting of the Ohio Republican
Association in Washington, d. c the other
night, q letter from Mrs. Garfield, offering
to sell the family residence, at the corner OF
Thirteenth and 1 streets, was read. She set
forth that she preferred to have the place
fall into the hands of such an association,
which would cherish it for the memories
connected with it, rather than let it 60 to
some private party who might alter it. She
said that Gen. Garfield had told her once.
that it was worth $4,000 but she would take
$4,000 for it. Real estate dealers value the
property at $1,000.
PARTICULARS of a riot between color
ed railway laborers and some whites living
near Carterville, Ga, have just been re-
ceived. Several weeks since white man
named Hicks, desperado, shot at several
railroad hands for slight cause. The other
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the neighborhood with peaches to sell, and
while trading negro boy was charged with
stealing some fruit. One of the whites
aimed a gun at him, but did not fire; but
after leaving the store one Of the fruit ped
dlers turned and fired into group of negro
workmen, who returned the fire and pur-
sued the whites, about fifty shots being ex
changed but no one hurt. The next day
Hicks quarreled with number Of the me-
gro hands who were gathered at the store,
disarming five, and was in the act Of dis
arming sixth when the negro, resisting,
was shot and killed. This tragedy wrought
up the negroes to the highest excitement,
and forming mob they attacked Hicks
with great ferocity. He ran for his life,
but before he had got fifty yards away was
literally riddled with bullets. More whites
appeared upon the ground and four ne
groes were badly wounded, but the former
soon fled before superior numbers, and
the negroes patroled the counties of Pauld-
ing and Polk all night and the next day,
defying two sheriffs and posse.
AT De Soto, Mo-, July 16,John Casey
stabbed and killed Oliver Sauburg, q Sec
ton foreman of the Iron Mountain Road.
The cause of the murder is unknown.
Casey is under arrest.
VIM. L. Yancey, an OctOrOon barber,
committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 10Th by shooting. A letter to a friend
explains: "From the hour that was driven
from my home by the unjust suspicious Of
my wife, I have not enjoyed happy mo-
ment, and my life has been utterly unsup-
portable to me. loved my wife and my
home, and to be thus cruelty and wrong
fully driven from them is more than can
stand.'
THREE burglars attempted to enter a
house in Kalamazoo, Mich, the other night,
where officers were expecting them. There
was.a scrimmage in the dark, and George
Stephenson received a fatal wound in the
spine. The other crooks escaped.
THE famous suit of James r. Lang
don and others against the Vermont & Can.
ada Railroad, asking for foreclosure on
the property, has been decided by the Ver-
mont Supreme Court in favor of ex-Gov-
ernor Smith.
A DISPATCH from Cettinje,< Montene-
gro, says the Governor and Judicial Chief
and twenty five soldiers were surprised and
slaughtered by insurgents the other day.
IT is alleged that the liquor interest
in Milwaukee, Wis, has been boycotting
temperance advocates, causing the cancel
ing of S12, 900 order for furniture and the
withdrawal of insurance risks of $4,000
from an obnoxious agent.
Mrs. HUFENBROCK, wife of Adolph
Hufenbrock, of the Lockport Brewery,
near New Philadelphia, o., committed sui
eide the other day. She was sick and hope
less.
Rosa and Lilly Dunnigan, aged 9 and
II years respectively, were drowned in a
pond at Sedalia, Mo-, the other day. Rosa
got into deep water and her sister went to
the rescue.
THE Venezuelan Government has re-
ouested the Government of the United States
to detaiu the piratical steamer Gallon, for
merly the Cantabro, should she make her
appearance in American waters, and the
Secretary of the Treasury directs all Custom
officers to take the necessary steps to that
end.
THE Massachusetts, Federation of
Trades and Labor Unions completed or
ganization on the 10th. The federation in
cludes the mule spinners (women) OF Law
renee.
EDWARD MCKINLEY, Thomas King,
and an unknown companion, circus men,
were seated in the door Of a box-car on a
train near Lykens, Pa, the other day. In
passing siding McIlinleys legs came in
contact with car, he was thrown with
great force against his two companions, and
all three were knocked from the train.
King fell under the cars and was instantly
killed, Mckinley had heel crushed, and
the third man was badly bruised.
AT Millville, Mo-, two years ago, a
Young physician named Keys killed DR..
Roberts, an old and popular practitioner.
KEYS got off on plea Of insanity and was
sent to an asylum. A few days ago he was
pronounced sane and set free. Fate led
him back to the scene of the tragedy, where
be was shot three times by Charles Roberts,
a son of his victim. Public sympathy is
with the ayenger.