Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

'Ae Cdptdin ana Mate were drowned.
The British House of Commons has
passed the bill providing for grants to
Lord Alcester admiral Seymour) and Lord
Wolsley for services rendered during the
war in Egypt.
GEORGE AINswoRTH & Son, cotton,
Eng, have failed, with liabilities of f95,-
600.
The value of exports of provisions,
tallow and dairy products from the United
States for the month of May was Sc, ,265 ,415
The President has recognized Aratu
Tatsuta as Consul for Japan at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
JAMES TAYLOR JONES has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats of the
First Alabama District.
In an interview at Peoria, ILL.,, the
other day Bishop Spaulding corroborated
the statement that the Archbishops of the
United States were commanded to arrange
programme for Plenary Council to be
held in America.
AFTER the bombardment of Majunga,
Madagascar, the French occupied the town
and are collecting customs.
GRANT GRANVILLE, a negro living on
Major Palmer's place, near Brinkley, Ark,
was lynched between eleven and twelve
O'Clock the other night. He had murdered
a white man.
IT was said on the 18th that the esti-
mate of half million dollars as the cost of
the Government in the star-route cases
was considerably under the true figures.
A DOCK laborer cut the throat of q
laundress and then served himself the
same way in Chicago, ILL.,, the other night.
She died; he would recover.
AT school exhibition in Metcalf
County, KY, the other day, revolvers were
brought into play to quiet some noisy fell
lows. Mcfarland, bystander, was killed
instantly; Town Marshal Beauchamp was
mortally wounded; Miss Phillipot was shot
in the cheek, and a negro was missing and
was supposed to have crawled off into the
bushes and died.
BERNHARD j. MAHAN was fatally
stabbed in the neck by woman in Boston,
Mass, few days ago. She used a shawl
pin.
AT Las Gatos, small town fifty-six
miles from San Francisco, Cal, the other
day, two Mexicans named Garcia and
Marvales had quarrel over cards, during
which Garcia plunged knife into Mar
vales' bowels, killing him instantly. An
hour afterward the Constable cut down
Garcia's dead body from bridge near by,
where he had been hung up by vigilantes.
The failure of McGeoch, Everingham
81 Co., for some time past the heaviest
provision dealers on the Chicago Qll.)
Board of Trade, was announced on the 10th.
The break in lard, which caused the failure,
is said to have been the biggest ever known.
Several other failures were reported in
Chicago and Milwaukee.
AT Mansfield, La, few days ago
Rev. J. Lane Borden, President of the
Mansfield Female College, was shot and
killed by Rev. Benjamin F. Jenkins.
JAMES M. DARRow, one of the best
known railroad men in Missouri, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed about six
O'Clock the other evening while making up
a train in the yards of the Hannibal & st.
Joe Railroad in Kansas City.
CHARLES MUNHALL fell from third
story window at Indianapolis, ,Ind.,t the other
day and was killed. His wife has been ar
rested on a charge of having pushed her
husband from the window.
In Sunderland, England, at an enter
tainment given by a sleight-of-hand per-
former on the 10th panic occurred among
the large audience Of children and 1SS were
killed on the stairs.
GRAY's Opera-hOuse at Boston, Mass,
was destroyed by fire few days ago, and
many people had narrow escapes from the
flames. The loss would reach probably
100000.
In the course of an alteration among
negroes at Twelfth and Morgan streets,
ST. Louis, Mo-, the other night Charles K.
Morton fired shot at a man named Wilson,
but missed him and killed Paul Lassoux,
a bystander.
A MAN and woman who started in
Marseilles, France, the other day were
picked up next day at sea.
Four Polish poets have been arrested
at Leipsig, Germany, for giving informa-
tion to Russian revolutionists regarding
movements of troops.
The remains of Mrs Bertha Blechen
and of Mrs. Cornelius Wolberg, both of New
York, were cremated at the Lemoyne Fur
mace, Washington, Pa, few days ago.
The Mexican Congress adjourned on
the 18th. The most important measures
passed were the authorization to the
President to settle the national debt;
amendment to the Constitution submitted
to the States giving control of mining and
commercial laws to the Federal Congress,
and several railroad grants. The most i'm
portant gives charter with subvention to
the State of Michoacan over the route for
which the Mexican National Railroad for
feited its charter, after having spent large
sums in construction.
The trial of seventeen members OF
the Black Hand Society at Xeres, Spain,
for the assassination of Benacoaz, MEM
Der of the society who was suspected by
the chiefs of being ready to turn informer,
was concluded on the 18th. Seven of the
prisoners were found guilty and sentenced
to death, eight we're sentenced to seven
teen years Imprisonment and two acquit-
ted.