Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-25

Museum the lnteies' oiiiy w oo uSou W 'no
association.
JACOB GEssERT, lately Superintend-
ant o, Police at Cincinnati, killed himself
With revolver, leaving wife and nine
children.
DrPHTHERIA has within four days
swept away four children of John Wander
an, of Cleveland, o., and they were placed
in one grave at Riverside Cemetery.
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THE town of Columbia Texas, has
been inundated from the Brazos River. The
inhabitants gathered in the churches and
were supplied with food by boats.
GENERAL SHERMAN and some staff
officers are to spend two months in an in
spection of the Department of Texas and q
visit to the Yosemite and San Francisco.
THE report of the commission on the
cattle plague, which was sent to the Senate
by the Secretary Of the Treasury, shows that
no lung disease exists in the Western centers
of livestock traffic.
The Treasury investigation has led 10
the resignation Of Norton, clerk in the
lighthouse board, and Skeen, foreman Of
laborers in the Treasury Department, and
the removal Of Hatch, the storekeeper.
JOSEPH Z. SHEFFIELD, who died in
New Haven, Conn.,, recently, has given for
educational purposes no less than 5000, ,000, /,
one OF his good works being the scientific
school attached to Yale College. He leaves
to widow and six children an estate valued
at s., 900.
RUSSIAN Jews in village near Kichi-
nef were attacked by peasants, ten OF the
former being nearly beaten to death.
Vienna correspondent asserts that in seven
important towns no less than 25O persons
were outraged by -baiters.s At Odessa,
petroleum was poured on a Hebrews head
and set on fire.
The Virginia oyster pirates have sur
rendered to Gov. Cameron and his forces.
After a brilliant engagement in which no
one was hurt, six schooners and one sloop
hauled down their colors and sixty -one law
less rakers cried for quarter. Eighteen
shots were fired through the rigging Of one
Of the schooners and she was chased 50 miles
before being brought to.
REVENUE officers raided an illicit dis
tery near Franklin, Macon County, n. c.,
on the 14th, making two arrests. Jesse
Estes and Noah Wilson were left to guard
the still, while Ray and Birch marched the
prisoners to jail During the night Estes
was killed by bullet from the woods, and
Wilson managed to escape by crawling
through the bushes on his hands and knees.
In recent report to Congress the
Secretary of the Interior says there are no
lands in Indian Territory open to settlement
or entry, the tracts to which the Govern
ment holds title being reserved by treaty
stipulations. A proposition that the GRIM
nal laws of the United States be extended
over their lands has been made to the Indian
delegations now in Washington, and will
evidently meet their approval.
HE conhagration at Haverhill, Mass,
feb' Il, destroyed nearly the entire city.
nelosses Will reach over $4,000, 900, with in
Surance OF about 81 100000. Over 100 shoe
manufactures, with their contents, were
burned The scenes were indescribaby
grand The loss OF life has been narrowed
uo"n to three, though many persons are
missing. The telegraph office and wires be-
sg destroyed, reliable information could
not be obtained.
FATHER O'FARRELL, an esteemad
Catnolic priest, committed suicide in Peo-
ma, H., on the 18th, by cutting his throat
ana vein in bis arm. For several wear, he
had suffered from painful dropsical COM
pialnt, and got into the habit of taking
drugs to relieve the pain. The doses were
recently reduced by his superiors because
t'ey thought he was taking too much. It
supposed these circumstances produced
temporary insanity.
LIE Pennsylvania Military Academy,
a. %s0hester, burned on the. 10th. The entire
uss 0 viii foot up 100000; Insurance, not
O'ef s'o,OOo All State and Government
piVpefly was saved. The students saved
~ Vi 'nelr personal effects. Fire origi-
n'lig r",'ng IN Meisenheimer's clothing store,
d'oolnson County, Hans, on the same day,
ues'Foyed every business house in the town
O'pt one, twelve stores, two hotels, the
ros'-oince and one dwelling being swept
way Loss estimated at $4,000.
4 DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres,
u"'eu january "a, says particulars have been
..Tei'ed OF the massacre Of the inhabitants
~, = scot by Peruvian soldiery. Col. Mas
"''n ooo troops from lea attacked Villancn-
No' routed him, and with the aid OF his men
p,oceeoed to sack Piscot. A thousand pipes
VI "ihe We're distributed among the troops,
"no burned the houses and murdered the
luaoitants. Four hundred foreigners at
oon onp'ed to resist and were cut to pieces,
~ oeing killed, including the French Con-
9ui. The total number of victims was 1000.
~ said Col. Mas has since been shot By
HsFq'a calderon's troops, r