Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ny IOrce OF AlDanlanS.
WILLIAM C. MOORE was arrested in
Atlantic, To-, a few days ago, charged with
embezzling 900 from a bank in Victor
NY.
IHE Treasury Department requires
cargoes of tea received in San Francisco
for Chicago dealers to be tested by sample
in New York
IHE three powder mills of Latin &
Rand, at Newburgh, N. Y, were blown up
the other day by lightning and one man was
killed. Loss, $4,000. Work would be sus-
pended a month.
WILLIAM STEVENS, once a noted
oarsman, was found drowned near Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, a few days ago. He had
been missing since December 3.
A POWDER magazine was struck by
lightning at Scutari, Turkey, the other
day and terrible explosion followed.
Many persons were killed.
The liabilities of Jesse Oakley & Co.,
the New York soap manufacturers, who
failed recently, are scheduled at $500, 900;
assets, 100000.
Gilbert M. STEPHENSON was hanged
at Lawrenceville, Ca, on the Sth, for the
murder of his aunt.
A SEVERE storm occurred at Reading,
Pa, the other night. Two barges were
struck by lightning, and church at Amity-
vile, was damaged. Cattle and horses were
killed in various parts of the country.
The steamer Ariadne caught fire in
the hold when near Flint's Island, short
distance above Cannelton, Ind, on the Sth,
and the boat had to be scuttled to save her.
She sank over the boiler deck. 1t was be-
lieved the passengers and crew were saved.
THE Barber brothers, Ike and Bill,
whose recent doings and pursuit and cap
ture, near Tripola, Iowa, have furnished
material for sensational items, were hanged
at Waverly, Iowa, on the sth by a mob.
A FALSE alarm of fire caused panic
in a New York school the other day. Sew
eral scholars were badly hurt in a jam on
the stairs.
KINGSTON and Gibney, the alleged
Dublin murder conspirators, have been
admitted to bail. Their trial was pos
poned.
IT has been officially announced that
the law prohibiting the landing of free ne
| groes in Cuba, except on payment of 81 900,
has been repealed.
SHERIFF DoNCKLEY and T.W. Waller
fought a horseback duel near Patrick
Courthouse, Va, the other day, during
which Waller was fatally wounded. They
were opponents in the late election.
ROBERT BIssETT, chief engineer of
the Havana steamer Saratoga, and SUBJ
ordinate have been arrested at New York
on the charge of smuggling cigars.
CHARLES KLYNE, aged seventeen;
Henry Tunky, aged twenty-five, and Will
liam Bonhalt, aged twenty, students of
Calvin Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, were
drowned the other evening while bathing
in the river near the Infrmary.
The other night vigilance commit
tee patrolled the town of Silver City.
Colo, and placarded the city with notices
to the effect that the first man connected
with incendiarism or a shooting affair
would be hanged. Several attempts had
been recently made to set fire to the town.
The action of Agent Wilcox in refus-
ing to receive the refugee Chiracahuas
from Mexico has been approved by Secre-
tary Teller.
A PARTY of leading Mormons passed
through Denver, few days ago, on their
way to Conejos County, Colo, to inspect
the Mormon colony there and to arrange
for the purchase of more land for the con-
verts now crowding into Utah.
Ten thousand dollars worth of stocks
and securities were stolen the other night
from the office of the American Railway
Supply Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
THE grain warehouse of Douglas,
Stewart & Co., Chicago, Ill, burned the
other morning; loss, 100000. fire in the
clothing house of Willoughby, Hill & Co.,
of the same city, did about $40, 900 worth Of
damage.
WoNG CHIN Foo, editor of the Chi
nese paper in New York, has been indulg-
ing in personal journalism and one of his
countrymen tried to assassinate him few
days ago.
TIMOTHY KELLEY, the last man con-
victed of participation in the murder of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Sec
retary Burke in Phoenix Park, was hanged
in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, on the 9th.
He was the fifth one executed for these
murders.
MARSHAL CARGnE, of Millersburg,
KY, was fatally shot by a concealed assas-
sin late the other night.
TWENTY cadets were refused the priv
ilege of graduating at Annapolis, Nd, on
the 9th, because they applauded class
mate in defiance of the rules.
BIDGooD, JONES & WILSON, London
(Eng.) wooden warehousemen, have failed,
with liabilities estimated at $4,000.
THREE men were killed and two 9TH
ers probably fatally hurt by an explosion
at the Ausonia Rubber Works, Long Island,
N. Y, few days ago.
SIX hundred assisted emigrants
sailed for America from Galway on the 9th.
A RECENT Washington special to the
Cleveland Herald states that POSTMASTER
General Gresham denies the published
statement that he has decided to exclude
patent insides' from the mails as second
class matter" In view of the law Of Con-
gress passed in 1874, providing shat news
papers, one copy to each actual subscriber,
residing in the county where the same are
nd 1ic1o 1od