Huntsville gazette., 1883-02-03
miscellaneous Items,


Miscellaneous Items
Capitalists the other day offered to
supply Hot Springs, Ark, with electric
lights within four months, if, by ordinance,
the necessary right and privilege was &C.
corded them.
Four revenue officers of Louisville,
penetrated the moonshne region OF Gallo
way, Ky, and in a daylight raid destroyed
two Illicit stills.
Two cases of smallpox were discov.
cred at San Antonio, Tex, lately, and the
afflicted persons were conveyed to the Pest
house. There was no fear Of the disease
spreading. The cases were supposed to
have been taken there from Ell Paso.
At Washington the other day a COM
munication was sent from the Interior De-
partment to the War Department suggest.
ing that no land be taken at Hot Springs,
Ark, for hospital which would necessi-
tate the destruction of buildings now stand
ing. This will, in a measure, satisfy cisi-
zens of that place, who feared that their
City Hall and two bath houses would be de-
stroyed.
At naass-meeting in Louisville, Ky,
the other evening, SIT, 900 was subscribed
toward the cotton exposition, making the
amount pledged $2j0,0G0. Work on the
building it was said would begin at once.
The Coroner's verdict after an in
quest over the body of Mary Lewis, poor
woman found dead the other morning in a
room where she had been living alone at
Louisville, KY, was death from cold and
exposure.
KY, left her" fftrhfie afts'9 s'9iaet: GHjngsvile.
house the other day TO go to the spring for
water, distance of about a quarter of q
mile. On her return she found the child
lying on the hearth in front of the fire, her
clothing entirely consumed, and the little
one fairly roasting in the flames.
1t was reported recently that citizens
Of Hot Springs, Ark, were greatly agitated
over an act of Congress authorizing the
building OF hospital at that place, and that
they we're sending to the Secretary OF the
Interior numerous protests.
Judge Zinn Hunt, a prominent citi-
zen, who went to Dallas, Tex, when it was
a village, died there few days ago, in the
sixty third year of his age. He represented
Austin County in the Legislature in 1852 and
in lS6O-62, as he did in the Constitutional
Convention of 1866. He also held several
other offices Of trust. gA1 hsi tsf
A fire at Cochran, Ca, the other
morning destroyed property worth SAC, 900.
James McCabe, a wealthy merchant
of Town Creek, Ala, was killed by Tom
Mathis, at Chattanooga, Tenn, few days
ago. McCabe had elected Mathis from his
store several davs before.
The trial of Grant White. colored,
for murder, was progressing at Orange, Va,
before jury composed entirely of negroes,
the other day, the first jury OF the kind ever
impaneled in that county. On panel OF
sixteen there were four white men, who
were stricken off by the defense. .-.4.
William Graham killed himself re-
Gently at Larkinsville, Ala, in the presence
OF his entire family. Cause, ruined for
tune by paying security for debt.
At Corsicana, Tex, Judge Bradley
the other day sentenced Joseph Millgrove,
a white man, to four years. imprisonment In
the Penitentiary for marrying a negro
woman.
David Steinschneider, recent Secre-
tary TO the Austrian Legation at Washing
ton, D. c., was found dead in his bed at
the residence Of his brother, at Owingsyile,
Ky., the other morning. He had lately re-
signed his position at Washington on ac-
count OF ill-health and went to Owingsyille
to recuperate.
At Beaver Dam, KY, the other day,
in quarrel about horse, G. c. Hoskins
shot and killed Thomas Stevens.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
designated G. C. Bentley, OF Sherman, j.
E. billiard, Of kaufman, and j. p. Smith,
OF Fort Worth, commission to select site
for the new public building at Dallas, Tex.
It was reported from Lynchburg, Va,
the other day that the unprecedented cold
had produced widespread destitution
among the poorer classes there, especially
among negroes, hundreds of whom were
out of employment in consequence OF the
SUSPENSION OF work in tobacco factories on
account of the tax question agitation.
At Pine Hill, Ky, the other day some
workmen attempted to dry Hercules pow
der cartridges, the result being the loss Of
three lives. e "3
A.C. Kemp, of Atlanta, Co., killed
himself in the presence Of his wife she other
night and it was said she had since thfest'
anad In snie;da