Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE extensive crockery and fan,

Drookigns N. H., was destroyed Dy nre the
other night. The loss was estimated at a
quarter of a million dollars. Adjoining
buildings and.t stocks therein were dam
aged to the extent of $4,000.
The failure of the builders of the new
law courts in London, Eng, was reported
recently.
Two woolen mills at Newburgh, n
", The other day Shut down until the
market improved, and three others it was
said would reduce the wages of employees.
Two hundred men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
A CoLORED waiter of Long Branch
hotel was arrested in Philadelphia, Pa, a
few days ago withrseveral thousand dollars
worth of diamonds, which were stolen last
summer.
IT was said four indictments for en-
bezzlement and forgery were found in New
York against George.J. Rice, x-Presdent
of the Utica, Ithica 81 Elmira Railroad a
few days ago.
A FEW days ago the cashier of a
National bank at Muncie, Ind, received a
package from an Indianapolis bank by eX
was found to contain slips of muslin and five
II bills, the seals being in good order.
A MUNICIPAL bank at Sapojok, Rus
sia, recently suspended payment, having
only twenty mine rubles in its vaults. The
liabilities were said to be well up into the
millions.
RECENTLY Philadelphia (Pa.) editor
| abs ~ ctoa ino dc
from the prothonotary's office.
LIZZIE MCDONALD, Sister of Chari-
ty, was the other evening married to Mr..
| Moore, in the Cathedral at Baltimore, Nd.
by'Father Devine. She bad spent eleven
years as a member of the order, and taught
| in schools at Milwaukee, Wis, and Chicago,
| Ill.
THE steamer City of Brussels, Captain
Land, from New York for Liverpool, was
run down in the Irish channel by the Glas
Cow steamer during fog the other day and
ten persons were drowned.
The death of William A. Seaver,
editor of the "Drawer" in Hdrper's Maya :
zine, occurred at Mount Vernon, N. Y, the
d other day.
A MEDICAL student named Roderic
Meignon, of Montreal Cana, was arrested
with body stolen from the cemetery in his
possession the other day. The student was
on his way to Bishops College when cap :.
! tured. F
Two butchers were arrested by the
authorities at Reading, Pa, the other day,
charged with selling the meat Of three hogs
which were bitten by mad dogs and died of
rabies. It was alleged that number Of
persons became sick after eating Of the
pork. -
NEAR Glendon Station, Pa, one man
was killed and two others We're seriously
injured by locomotive backing up for a
train few days ago. ! -
| A MULATTo farm laborer at Roches-
ter, Vt, named John Edwards, abducted
the young daughter Of Charles Marsh, his
employer, the other day by calling at the
school house with double sleigh. They
spent one night at Montpelier hotel as
John Andros and wife. Citizens were in
search OF them from Rutland to the Canada
line.
FOR two years the wife of a Toronto,
Cana. druggist named Robert Coombe, had
been of unsound mind, and the other day
her three grown daughters became SINH
tarly afflicted.
EIGHTY citizens of Cheney, Washing
ington Territory. took from Jail a China
man, arrested for killing and robbing a
Chinese woman, and hung him to atree a
few days ago. .
A THOUSAND dollars was received at
Washington, DC, by Treasurer Gifillan
4 few days ago, contributed by the citizens
OF Lyons, France, to the Garfield Hospital
fund.
RUPERT SPENCER, who recentlyleaped
from the fifth tier of cells to the basement
of the Baltimore (Md.) penitentiary, died
few days ago, surrounded by his family.
The event, it was thought, would be fol-
lowed by the death OF his venerable father,
who was lifted FROM his carriage into the
prison. Young Spencer had large fortune
of his own., In. an outburst of passion he
shot political opponent at the polls.
HENRY RICH, a New York merchant.
disappeared recently since which time his
wife had been deluged with letters and per-
sonal advertisements demanding money.
She arranged to pay,S30o for the return Of
her husband from an insane asylum the
other day, and in the negotiations the-deiec-
tives capturedxa "a genteel. fellow named Har-
risof, who was held for hlackmail. -
WILL1AM MILLER Sons, Turkey-red
Divers, Glasgow, Scotland, failed few days
ago. Liabilities fl2t,000.
DURING the burning of a house at
Easton, Me-, the other day, the family
Jumped from the windows to escape. Ed
win J. Howard, who supposed his sister
was in the house, rushed back and was
fatally burned.
"A coLORED woman at Dallas. Tex,
gave her six-months .old child a dose OF
laudanum the other night to m AXE 1t sleep
while she went to a ball. She returned to-
ward daylight and found the child dead.
THE other night a party OF Italians
placarded the Italian Consulate at Marseiles,
France, as follows: 'Death to the Emperor:
Of Austria; we viii avenge overdank."
The grand jury of Philadelphia, Pa,
the other day indicted ex-Storekesper Jam'
f. Brown, of the Aims house, on charge