Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

dered with his companions by Bedouins in
November last, near Cairo, Egypt, We're
buried on the 9TH in st. PauPs Cathedral
at London, Eng.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN fell on the
steps of his residence at Columbus, Ohio,
the other evening, and broke his arm.
1T is estimated that the Labor bill re-
Gently passed by the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture, imposing fine and Imprisonment in
the case of the employment of children un-
der fourteen years of age, will throw 5000
out of employment in Milwaukee.
The date of the annual meeting of the
Society of the Army of the Cumberland has
been changed from September 10 and 20 to
October "a and %, at Cincinnati, o.
AMERICAN lard has been made sub
ject to Board of Health inspection at Ha-
vana, Cuba.
SERIOUS riots were reported between
Jamaica and Carthaginian laborers en-
ployed on the Panama Canal the other day,
in which some twenty of the former were
massacred.
ONE of the acts Of the recent Socialist
Congress at Copenhagen, Denmark, was
the adoption of a motion providing for the
collection of funds for a monument to Karl
Marx.
A POWDER magazine at Passo Cor
rese, Italy, exploded the other day, killing
forty people.
Two brothers, named Dauria, and
two named Corbo, all Italians, fought with
knives in a saloon at Newark, N. j., few
days ago. The Daurias were taken to the
hospital, one probably fatally cut. The
Corbos fed
A MAN was mobbed at Manchester.
Eng, the other day for expressing SYM
pathy for Whitehead, the alleged Superin-
tendent of dynamite factory.
A BREAK occurred in the levee at
New Orleans, La, on the 7th, doing consid-
cradle damage to property in the rear of
that city.
THE American schooner Estella and
the Mexican pilot-boat Teodorita were lost
with all on board Oft Tuxan a few days
ago.
G. q. JACKSON and j. ID. Duncan
have been indicted in Chicago, ILL.,, on ac-
count of alleged frauds in the street de-
partments said to reach 100000.
AN incendiary fire broke out in the
City Engine-house at Chippewa Falls,
Minn., few days ago, and that building
and the City Hall were entirely destroyed,
together with the records of the city, which
were not protected by a safe.
IT was reported on the Sth that two
negroes in Virginia Jail had confessed to
the murder at Ashland, KY, of which Neal
and Craft were accused.
In prize-fght between Tom Slavin
and Mike Cavanaugh at Nanticoke, Pa, the
other day, the former was knocked down
twenty-one times.
JUDGE MCCoMAs and wife, recently
killed by Indians in Arizona, were buried
at Fort Scott, Kans., on the Sth.
ANOTHER hotel horror occurred on the
morning of the 7th in the destruction of the
Ende House and several other buildings at
Greenville, Tex. Nineteen persons per-
ished in the flames and the best part of the
town was totally destroyed.
LOSSES by recent fire at the Hotel
Berkeley, Boston, Mass, aggregated $780,
600, of which $150, 900 was on personal prop
ertV ana f2U,UUU OH
P. H. BURCH, who styled himself in
numerous advertisements in Chicago, st.
Paul, La Crosse and st. Louis papers as the
"Union Manufacturing Company OF Ga
lena," H., has run away with from S3o,ooo
to $4,000 received through the mails in re-
mittances for goods advertised by him and
which he failed to forward.
THE State Agricultural College at Des
Moines, Iowa, has been temporarily closed
on account of the breaking out of scarlet
fever among the students.
The appeal Of the Augustinian So
ciety of Lawrence, Mass, was not re-
sponded to generously, and the society has
decided to file petition in insolvency.
THE death of Rev. DR.. Alfred IT,
Partridge, for twenty-seven years rector OF
Christ Church, Brooklyn, N. Y, occurred
few days ago.
JOHN MCGAHEY, a weaver, called the
attention Of the authorities to the fact thai
the Griswold Mills at Darby, Pa, employed
children under thirteen years of age, and
twenty-five of them were discharged. In
retaliation the operatives would boycott
McGahey.
The Society for the Protection OF
Destitute Roman Catholic Children, at But
falo, N. Y, has been sued for $1,000 dam
ages by Peter Fassett, a former lnmate,who
alleges false Imprisonment.
CURLEY MORRISON, who was arrested
at Luling, Tex, more than year ago for
marrying a negro woman, has been con-
yicted in the District Court at Lockport OF
miscegenation and sentenced TO the Peni-
tentiary for five years.
HUGH GLADSTONE. a cousin OF the
British Prime Minister, committed suicide
in Liverpool on the 9th inst.
NINE buildings were destroyed by fire
at East Liverpool, O., few days ago.
THE Tewksbury (Mass.) Alms-house
investigation on the 9th brought out testi-
mony regarding the smothering of infants
and inhuman treatment of insane inmates.
THREE men have been arrested and
confessed the completely in the recent mur-
der and robbery of Count MaJlath Won
Szekehly, President of the Hungarian Court
of Cessation.