Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-07
Personal AND GENERAL.

promoted.
THREE hundred and fifty emigrants
left Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland, the
other day for America. An immense throng
OF people witnessed the departure.
LOUISE MICHEL has been arrested
at Paris, France, charged with taking part
with mob in plundering a bakery.
AN Austrian Count, President of the
Court of Cessation, was found murdered at
his residence in Ofen few days ago. He
had been strangled and his tongue had been
cut out. The house was ransacked by the
murderers. hussar, who was on the
premises, has been arrestd.
AN analysis of explosives seized in
Liverpool, Eng, the other day showed
them to be of a composition so easily COM
bustible that it was said to be a wonder they
did not explode while being carried through
the street.
BY a landslide on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, forty miles from Gin
cinnati, o., on the 30th ult., train was
wrecked and sixty persons injured, some it
was thought fatally.
Mrs. MEAKER, protesting her inno-
CCHCc " tiit IdSU, WAS 0dnpeu Oh Ine oUUQ
ult., at Windsor, VT, for the murder of her
little niece. For the murder of f. N. Nc
Dowell, Oliver Bristow was executed at
Camden, S. c., and Charles William Bea-
yer paid the penalty of an assault on a
little girl with his life at Leesburg, Va, on
the same day.
A FOREST fire was reported raging on
the Blue Mountain, near Lehigh Gap, Pa,
on the 30th ult., and much valuable timber
was being destroyed.
THE failure of Antonio Lewis, Schultz
& Co., general merchants and cigar I'M
porters, London, Eng, with liabilities of
fS2. 900, has been announced.
THE death of Rev. Derment Cole
ridge, son of the celebrated poet, occurred
at London, Eng, few days ago.
LIEUTENANT VEsY, United States
Navy, and other members of the expedition
sent by the American Government to Pata-
gonia to take observations of the transit of
Venus, arrived at Liverpool, Eng, on the
29th on their way home.
DAVID WHELAN, an informer, was
shot dead at Marlborough, Ireland, on the
10Th. One arrest was made.
THREATS having been made to blow
up the Post-office at Cork, Ireland, that
building was being guarded by military on
the 30th ult.
REPORTS from the Scottish coast on
the 30th ult said terrific and destructive
gale had visited that section. Three YES
sells had gone ashore in the vicinity of
Aberdeen. A bark was reported ashore at
Hollyhead and the crew of twenty three
persons drowned.
DR.. GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, son of the famous bogus diploma
doctor, John Buchanan, was convicted re-
Gently of having caused the death of Eliza
beth Holstein by criminal surgical oper-
ration.
DURING the recent terrific gale off
Yarmouth, Eng, six fishing smacks went
down and forty sailors were lost.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in a
drugstore at Rushville, Yates County, N.
Y, the other morning, and stole over $780,
600 in notes, bonds and mortgages, and
$1,000 cash.
THE towboat Polar Star blew up the
other afternoon near Henderson, KY, and
from fifteen to twenty-five persons were
reported missing
1t was reported from Cork, Ireland,
on the 1st that the police believed an in
fernal machine factory had been estab-
lished in that locality.
In the collision the other night on the
Vandalia Line near Brazil, Ind, William
Stewart, fireman, was instantly killed. and
William Brennan perhaps fatally hurt.
The loss to the railroad was large.
The ST. Petersburg (Russia) police
raided a house full of Nihilists recently,
capturing eight and about IA pounds of
dynamite. Three of the officers were
wounded and one Of the Nihilists committed
suicide.
A BOILER explosion at st. Dizier,
France, on the 1st killed twenty-six per-
sons and injured thirty-eight.
THERE was a promise OF trouble In
Memphis, Tenn, the other day over the
desecration Of the Catholic Cemetery by the
original proprietor of the ground, who
claimed that part of the purchase money
had never been paid.
A FLEET of thirty-seven barges,
loaded with 10000 bushels of coal, broke
loose at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 3lst ut,
and swept down the river, sinking four
steamers and tearing everything afioat that
lay in its way.
The charge of embezzlement against
Asa F. Leopold, Treasurer of Crystal Lake,
Mich, was withdrawn the other day and
Leopold has commenced suit against George
Bunkel, the accuser and who caused his
arrest, for $4,000 damages.
NINE thousand dollars in gold certlfl-
Gates was alleged to have been distracted
from the cash-room of the New York Gus
tom-house the 18th of March. An investl-
CATION was in progress on the I'd inst.
THE session of the Missouri Legisla-
ture was brought to decorous close at
noon on the I'd.
THE debt of the United States on the
1st. less cash in the Treasury, was $1,5l6,-
93I .2SS. The decrease since June 30 was
nearly $112, 100000.
Isaac LEHMAN, a well-known Bleek-
er street manufacturer, had mysterlously
disappeared from New York on the I'd and
Io:,.<~ o,v;ouelu S0uphf nv his rela-