Huntsville gazette., 1882-10-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

hope.' William E. Dodge electrified the as !.
sembage by offering to double his sub
scription, an example which was instantly
followed by dozen gifts of $1,000 EACH A
| touching appeal by DR.. Webb, OF Boston,
caused fifteen hundred men and women to
rise to their feet simultaneously and pledge
twice the sum they had previously offered,
the total amount secnred being $5o,00O
| MEXICAN robbers at Tacubaya killed
Frederic Hubbi, the tax collector, mortally
wounded his wife, and took $4,000 from
the safe.
GEORGE ScOvILLE, of Chicago, has
| filed in the Cook County Court an affidavit
that his wife is insane, and asks that pro-
| ceedings may be instituted to determine the
question. Not having the Sc to pay the fees
| he swore that he and the patient were
| paupers.f .EHH FFylw-f- Dry
| JOSEPH Fry, an aged miser of Vim
cennes, Ind, has Just closed his career of
money getting. Inside his shirt there was
found mass of greenbacks amounting to
81, $50. His chief avocation has been the
collection of cigar stumps, and he died from
attempting to live on green apples. His will
gives $3.50 to the Catholic church, and the
remainder to a sister in Germany.
| A BURGLAR who was surprised in the
residence of Mr.. Pierce, at Dallas, Texas,
threw lighted kerosene lamp at the gentle
man, and the house was burned to the
| ground.
| | ANDREW ESENHARDT, merchant at
| Iberville, Quebec, has followed his fourth
| failure by absconding to the United States.
| He was formerly a member OF Parliament,
and three times compromised at % per
cent. His present liabilities are $50, 600, and
be is thought to have carried away con-
siderable amount.
| GEORGE Downs, the only child of a
widow, iu Dover, N. H., died two months
ago. The blow finally rendered the mother
insane, and earlv the other morning she
was found digging up the casket in the
cemetery, in the hope of restoring her boy
TO life. ..
| LEOPOLD FURRER, President of the
Board of Supervisors at Yuma, Arizona,
was shot dead by William Douchy for re-
fusing to pay an alleged debt. The latter
was taken to the Penitentiary for fear Of
| lynchng.
AT Galveston, Texas Oct. (, q little
daughter of Charles Werth was crushed to
death by the wheels Of dray driven by
Andrew Conrad.
A BOILER explosion at Longford Mills,
Ontario, killed Fireman Ellis and Frederick
Grey. David Roberts and several others
were seriously injured.
| VIM. MARTIN, Is years of age, called
at police headquarters in New York City,
the other morning, and asked for permit
TO carry pistol, saying he wanted to shoot
President Arthur. He was committed for
1 examination. -.t .4f 4t1 .4t ~
GEORGE HUNTINGTON, of Amesbury,
Mass, his wife, and four children were
| drowned while boating, Oct. 7.
| JAMES HAY SMITH, agent fora manu-
| featuring firm in Montreal, Quebec, either
committed suicide or was murdered and
| thrown in the river, at Chicago, the other
| day.
| JAMES A. WATKINS, amember of the
! Virginia Legislature fromAppomattoxC Coun.
| ty, has been indicted by the grand jury for
| accepting 500 from E. s. Brittingham as the
price Of an appointment as guard at the
PenitentiarY.
| In collision near Bridgeville, Del,
on the 7th, Edward Webb, colored, was
killed and three other trainmen were seri-
ously injured.
JOHN POLLING, proprietor of the
European Hotel at Plattsmouth, Neb., and
j.. Mather had some words the other day
/ about letter said to have been received by
| the latter from Mrs. Polling. The two men
met on the street, Oct. I, and went to the
| hotel, where, after closing the doors Polling
| pulled his pistol and made fatal wolind'in
| Mather,s head, after which he walked out
and surrendered to the sheriff.
L. G.. HEDGES, an estimable young
| man. in bllsiness-at Des Moines, Iowa, acci-
dentally killed himself while examining
revolver before retiring the other night.
| w. F. SALTER and w. A. Ward have
been arrested in Washington for conspiring
| to obtain plates and fiber paper from en-
ployees Of the bureau of printing and en-
| craving. 80 l1'an
| HOWARD CARROLL, journalist of
New York, whose name has been mentioned
/ as the Republican candidate for Congress
man -at-large, sends out a card stating that
/ he will pay nothing to secure an election.
nor, il elected, will he take any notice OF ap-
plicafions for office. 6t sa
H..eC.t MEAD,aof Waupaca, Wis, was
murdered in a bank-robbery which occurred
at that place the other night.
/ THIRTY persons have been poisoned
| at London, Ontario. from eating head cheese
| manufactured by local butchers. Physi-
| clans attribute the trouble to bristles chop
| dup with the skin of the pork, causing
/ Irritation of the stomach's inner coating and
producing spasms and vomiting. Some of
the sufferers are very low, but it is supposed
| that all will recover.
THE Chicago brewers have decided
that in view of the failure of the hop crop
and the high price of barley it would be-
| come necessary, within the next two
months, to increase the price OF beer by the
barrel.
THE German steamer Herder, from
New York, Oct. 8, for Hamburg, with 2sS
passengers, went ashore on the Newfound-
| land coast the other night. All the passen-
gers and crew were landed without accident.