Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DIR. NoRvIN GREEN gave the Senate
Labor Committee further light on the sub
ject of telegraphy on the 31st.
The President and party started on
their return trip on the 31st, and expected
to arrive in Chicago September 4th, where
they would remain three days.
THERE were six deaths from cholera
in Alexandria on the ist; fifty in Upper
Egypt and nine in Lower Egypt.
PARIS dispatches of the I'd said that
M. Harmand, French Civil Commissioner
for Tonquin, who negotiated the treaty of
peace with Anain, had returned to Hanoi
from Hue and resumed the direction of af-
fairs in Tonquin.
AS the train from Berlin was passing
st. Eglitz on the ID, it ran into a crowd of
people who, intending to take the return
train to Berlin,were pressing forward to en-
ter the carriages on the wrong side. The
number killed and wounded was estimated
at forty.
A young man named Shea was
drowned at Rockaway Beach on the I'd.
John Mccoy, although unable to swim, ran
into the water with his clothing ON and
was carried out, but rescued after hard
struggle by Captain McEnroe, life guard.
Hardly had he brought him ashore when
he was obliged to go out again to rescue a
hotel waiter also drowning. He was like
wise saved.
A TRAIN from Atlantic City, N. j.,
on the Narrow-gauge Railroad, jumped the
track about half mile above that place,
tIa of tl,a +lo
baggage car were thrown down an embank
ment. No persons were injured.
THE police of New York report that
6,9S5 men and one woman have permits to
carry pistols, and the number who go armed
in that city without permits is estimated at
$4,000.
A FREIGHT train going west on the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad ran off
an open switch at Crescent City, Ia, ON the
1st, ditching the engine and six cars. Cen
ductor Wesley Mum and Engineer John
Mahin were buried underneath the cars
and instantly killed. The fireman escaped
| by jumping clear of the wreck A tramp,
aged seventy-fve years, was buried be-
meath the train, but was taken out alive.
| A FEW days ago five children play
| ing on the Union Pacific track near Uin-
tab, Utah, dared each other to a wading
match in Weber River, and as a result
Henry Priest, son of John Priest,of Uintah,
got in too far and was drowned.
A COLLISION occurred on the Vermont
Central Railroad on the 1st, causing SER
ious mixing up of the colliding trains, and
the injuring of about twenty persons, some
I,,f NJ 1oc+
A SALT LAKE (Utah) dispatch of the
I'd says Mrs. Jane Darlington Young, one
of Brigham's wives, had been relieved of
the presence of a lizard which she had swal-
lowed fifteen years ago.
A FIRE involving loss of several
million fiorins occurred in Vienna, Austria,
on the I'd.
POLICEMAN FRANK HILL was fatally
stabbed at Norwich, Conn.,, the evening of
the Sd by Emanuel Montero, a Portuguese.
Hill arrested Montero for some minor Of
fense. Montero served term in the State
Prison for shooting one McCabe in 1873.
The funeral obsequies of the Count
de Chambord took place on the I'd, and was
an imposing affair.
A CITIZENS committee visited the jail
at Florence, Arizona, on the Sd, took out
Len Redfield and Joe Tuttle and hung them
to the corridor of the Jail. They were two
men engaged in numbering Messenger Col
lins and robbing Wells & Fargo's Express
near Riverdale on the 10th of August.
The Tsnes-Star publishing house at
Cincinnati burned out on the Sd.
Two HUNDRED persons charged with
brigandage have recently been arrested in
single province of Italy.
The Corean Embassy was in San
Francisco on the Sd, and intended leaving
there for Washington on the 7th, stopping
one day in Chicago en- route.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, appropriated $780,
600 for the Willard reception.
CHARLES READ, of the firm Of Read
& Carroll. wood-workers, Springfield,
Mass, disappeared a short time ago.
He is supposed to have only about $500
with him. He was always considered a
man of good habits.
A PASSENGER train went off the
track at high speed on the New York &
New England Road on the Sd, smashing
some cars. No one was killed.
GEORGE WAGNER, a private watch
man at Columbus, O., went to Green Lawn
| Cemetery the night of the I'd, where he shot
himself three times in the head and fell
across the grave of his daughter. He could
not recover.
S. H. WALTER, book-keeper of Bos-
ton yeast-powder company. disappeared on
the Sd with some funds belonging to the
| firm-raised out, so to speak.
THERE were five deaths from cholera
in Alexandria on the I'd, and 150 in Upper
Egypt.
RECENT storms have been so destruc-
tive to crops in the south of Ireland that a
renewal of rent agitation is feared.
THREE British men-of-war had been
ordered to the Straight of Sunda to make
a survey of the changes brought about by
| the volcanic disturbances.
A HURRICANE passed over the City OF
Paris on the Sd, spelling the fete at the
Tuilleries for the benefit of the poor. An
| improvised theater was demolished. Nc
| lives lost.
A MAN boarded a train at Smithfeld,
Utah, at late hour the night OF the I'd
covering eight passengers and two train