Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"A ACLANDESTINE Masonic organization
in Connecticut is said to be comforting de-
grees up to the thirty third, in one or two
evenings. for ten dollars.
AT a lumber camp near East Tawas,
Mlch., one teamster recently severed the
head OF another with blow from an ak.
He was promptly hanged with log g-chains.
1t was said that a riot subsequently oc-
Cured, in which several men were killed.
TREASURER GRITZ, of MadisonC County,
Nebr., on seeing that he had not been re-
elected has fled. His books show. a dis
crepancy Of $25, 900.
The mill of the st. Joe Lead Works
at Bonne Terre, Mo-, were destroyed by
fire on the 25th. Several hundred hands
were thrown out Of employment and prop
erty valued at a quarter of million dollars
was consumed.
KERR, the embezzling clerk of Chi
cago banking house, was reported arrested
in Australia on the Gath.
having been dismissed the service, com
mitted suicide.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
given the Government vote Of conide
HARRINGTON, the imprisoned Land
Lacquer, has been elected member of the
British Parliament for Westmeath.
The New Albany Qnd. Relief Com
mittee announces that no more aid is needed
from abroad.
REAR ADMIRAL CLITz has ordered
an inquiry as to the cause of the loss of the
United States war-ship Ashuelot.
TIE President, Cashier and book
keeper of the wrecked City Bank of Jersey
City, n. j., have been taken to the Peni-
tentiary.
SEVEN inmates of the Western Luna
tic Asylum, at Staunton, Va, were fatally
poisoned recently, the medicine having been
tampered with by patients.
JOHN HAYES, en- route for Arkansas
with his family, lost his hat and jumped
from the train after it, near Evansville, Ind.
Search was made but he could not be found.
His family reached St. Louis, No., entirely
destitute.
NATHAN S. BENNETT has been ar
rested in New York City for buying at about
Ouc-S6Ntutu lts Ndiuo 4It,VOU WOltu VI jew
! elry stolen from ex-senator Christiancy.
THE Augustinian Society, a Roman
Catholic banking establishment, formed to
| receive deposits from parishioners, at Law
renee. Mass. has failed disasirously.
FIRE recently swept away the Catho-
lie Church and parsonage at Riviere du
Loup, valued at 500, 900, and the post
Office block at La Crosse, WIS.,, causing a
loss OF $25, 900.
GEORGE f. WILSON, of Providence,
R. l., left 100000 to Brown University and
$50, 900 to Dartmouth College, but his
daughter has contested the will.
Four masked men entered the farm
house of Porter Brown, near Fenton, Mich,
recently. and after binding Brown and his
wife, stole $2, 400.
In the post-office at Ballydehob, Ire
land, parcel was deposited to the address
of Earl Spencer the other day containing
several ounces Of dynamite and fuse.
JOHN GILBERT, the actor. has brought
suit for $4,000 against the proprietors OF
the late Newhall House at Milwaukee, Wis.
MRs. MACRAE died in Montreal,
Cana, recently OF drunkenness, and her
husband rendered her corpse to a medical
college.
a NEW pest-house has been estab-
ished at Leadyllle, Colo, and the public
schools have been closed on account Of
smallpox.
AN employe of mining company at
Ishpeming, Mich, accidentally exploded
$50 pounds of giant powder the other day,
and not fragment Of his remains could be
found.
A. B. WILLIAMS, one of the attorneys
for the defense in the star-route trial, and
Detectives McEIfresh, Miller and Coombs OF
the Washington Cd. c. force have been in
dicted for receiving stolen property.
A LEPER sent from Honolulu to Phil
adelphia, Pa, some months since, for treat
ment by an eminent surgeon, has been re-
turned uncured. Z.
THE man Hayes, who jumped from a
train in Indiana the other day and could not
be found, fell in an overflowed creek, was
washed ashore by the freshet, picked up by
farmers and sent on to st. Louis, Mo. He
was crazed from the effects of an injury to
his head.