Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OoiioO 11Ilid. IeTu, Oh the 10Th.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has adopted a rule that a days work
is to be nine hours actual service, without
Sunday labor, or seven hours labor at
night, Sundays included, all service in ex-
cess to be paid for as extra.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg,
Russia, on the 18th said several Jews had
been murdered in Ostrog.
THE steamer Niagara, of the New
York and Cuba mail line, was reported
burned off the coast of Florida on the 18th.
News was received scnsthe sametsy that
the bark Pimpas was wrecked near Fayal,
and all on board, numbering about dozen,
drowned except three.
LOUIS WALES, the Indian chief died
at Lake George a. few days ago, aged 100
years. e ftF
Two men were killed by an explosion
at the Dupont powder-mill, at Wilmington,
Del, a few days ago.
ANDREW WHITE. wealthy farmer
living near Dwight, ILL.,, became deranged
and was placed in an asylum. He made
his escape a few days ago, returned home,
and, after numbering his wife and two
children, killed himself.
HARRIsONBURG, Va, was flooded by
freshet the other night and part of the
town badly damaged.
DREYFUs, editor of La France, was
wounded in duel with Judet, of La
LonteTpe, at Paris, few days ago.
ROsTOv, Russia, city of $4,000 in
~ IL ,%aI hxvn Ia
fiagration on the 18th, which menaced the
whole city.
A TROOP of cavalry left Fort Bowie,
Aiz., on the 18th, to bring in seventy-fve
Chirichuas who were waiting near the
boader to surrender.
A REFRIGERATOR-CAR containing
thirty two large carcases of dressed beef,
covered with mold, was seized by the cattle
inspector at East Buffalo, n. Y, the other
day and the meats were sold to rendering
company for Sl92.
By the fall Of stone weighing two
tons distance of forty feet, at Fall
River, Mass, the other day, one man was
killed, and another severely injured.
THE boiler in saw-mill at Millsdore,
Wis, exploded with such force the other
day that half of it was hurled three hundred
feet, the flying mass passing just over the
heads of twenty men. An employe was
slightly injured. At Ludington, Mich, an
explosion wrecked a shingle-mill and caused
the death of one man and the wounding of
several others.
THE failure of j. p. Macheca & Co.
fruit dealers, New Orleans, La, has been
announced, with liabilities estimated at
100000.
A GREAT fire occurred at Liptoszent-
mike, Hungary, on the 18th, by which
number of persons lost their lives. Eight
twenty others, including the Prefect Of
of Police, were missing. Many people were
made homeless by the fire.
In st. Mary's Industrial School, at
Baltimore, Nd, there are 450 boys. Measles
of most malignant type had broken out
amongst them and ten had died up to the
18th.
AT Roubaix, France, there was riot
on the 10Th, in which the Commissary of
Police was struck with a stone. 1t was
thought he would die. Six of the rioters
were arrested. They were armed with
bludgeons and revolvers.
Mrs. GEORGE LOTTA, whose home
was near Van Buren,, Ark, heard some gos-
sip about her husband which troubled her
SO she took poison the other day and died
in a few hours.
MANY arrests OF army officers were
being made in Spain on the 10Th without
the charges being made pnblic. 1t was be-
Iieved another conspiracy had been dis
covered.
They had sure enough duel in
Berlin, Germany, on the 18th. Two students
of Wurzberg University fought with pis-
tolls. One was killed. The other, deScrlb-
ed as German-American, fed.
SECRETARY CHANDLER's mother died
at Concord, n. H., on the 14th. She was
eighty-two years old.
DURING rain-stOrm at Barnsley,
Eng, the other day five children, who had
taken refuge in a culvert, were drowned by
a sudden rush Of water. The corpses were
swept distance of two miles.
RUFF MCDONALD killed Elijah Hayes
near Paris, Tenn, the other day, and i'm
m0dlately aICerWdTu Icll uSao iOhi "a
citement and remorse."
THERE were fifty-five deaths from
yellow fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
seven days ended on the 14th.
A RECENT .cablegram from London,
Eng. announced that two thousand weav-
ers at Ashton. under -the-Lyne had struck.
SEVERAL pursuers Of the murderers
of the Polk City (Io.) Postmaster arrived
at Des Moines the other morning, having
disposed of the two men-one by shooting,
the other by seeing him safely in jail at
Harlan, Shelby County. u tJsff 81
FIRE at Cokato, Mimi, which was
supposed to have been started by a stroke
of lightning, destroyed nearly every bust
ness building in the town the other morning,
three men being burned to death in hotel.
The wife of one of the victims, named
Willigman, became insane from grief.
FRENCH imports for June increased
GA .oO0, 900 francs as compared with June,
1882. Exports decreased p 100000 francs
THE Toronto Cana. authorities
seized $4,000 cigars the other day for in
fraction of the revenue laws. - -.