Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DoZeman, Mont, had quarrel the other day
with Irving Hunter, another farmer, and
the next morning Hunter was found dead in
his field, where he had been seeding, with
his gun near him. The Lays had fled, but
the Sheriff's posse were after them.
ANDERSON THOMAS, who had been
fearfully stabbed by Sim Wilson, died at
Dallas, Tex, few days ago. The Coroner's
Jury returned verdict charging Wilson
with the murder and he was remanded to
Jail.
WILLIAM H. STEWART, the post-office
clerk who was arrested at Cincinnati re-
Gently for stealing from letters, made con-
fession on the 22d, and seemed disposed to
make restitution. He was in good circum-
stances, the son of respectable, well-to-do
citizen.
A RECENT San Francisco (Cal.) spe-
cial recounts the discovery of an embezzle-
ment in the Office of State Harbor Commits
sioner John S. Gray, who fed when the
shortage, estimated at $4,000 to 100000,
was discovered.
THE statement of Malster & Raney,
ship-builders, Baltimore, Md, who made
an assignment recently, shows nominal as
sets of S22S, ,436; available assets, S74, ,449;
liabilities, $144,0
The jury in the case of George w.
Levi, on trial at Louisville, KY, for COM
plicity in the City Hall frauds, disagreed
on the 22d and were discharged. A number
of other indictments remained to be tried.
THE other night three boys under
sixteen years of age, students of Wabash
College, at Charlottesville, Ind, were ar
rested for setting fire to the south hall of
the College. They made a confession, and
also said they broke into store in the city
some time since and then set it ON fire.
The deficit of Ray, late bookkeeper
for the Merchants Bank, Montgomery,
Ala, is placed at 100000. The cause was
cotton futures and cards.
THE following persons were indicted
for completely in the recent Philadelphia
/ (Pa.) Alms-house frauds William E. Cur
rem, John G. Albertson, Charles Fl. Kirke,
J. H. Parke and Henry H. Myers, contract
ors; ex-Store-Keeper James F. Brown and
Boarding-House-K Keeper Kate Adams.
AT daybreak on the 23d, at Lake Val
ley, Colo, Major Fountains command sur
prised two notorious rustlers-Jack Walls
and William Gillard. They had 200 yards
start when Fountain ordered his men to fire
and both rustlers fell dead riddled with
bullets.
The jury in the case Of Nugent and
twelve other members of the Armagh As
sassination Society on a charge of con-
spiracy to murder, at Belfast, Ireland, re-
turned verdict Of guilty on the 23d.
TwENTY-THREE smacks and one
hundred and thirty-five persons were lost
in the recent gales on the English coast.
EDRIE A. BLAKE, the defaulting Cash
ier of the Chicago & Alton Railway freight
office at Bloomington, ILL.,. and who was ar
rested and taken back to Bloomington from
Massachusetts, had preliminary examin-
alton the other morning, and was held to
bail in the sum of 5000.
NEAR Scranton, Pa, Peter Ward, a
farmer, killed his mother-in-law the other
night. He said she made his life miserable.
A VERDICT of guilty has been rem
dered in the case of Nugent and his twelve
associates in the Armagh (Ireland) Assas-
sination League. The crown counsel, in
closing, charged O'Donovan Rosa, P. j.
now in the United States, with promoting
conspiracy.
CAPTAIN CAREY, who commanded
the party of English soldiers with Prince
Napoleon when killed, in Zululand, died
recently.
M. SIGISMUND LACROIx, a Radical,
has been elected to the French Chamber OF
Deputies in Gambetta's district in Paris.
The Williams sewing-machine fac
tory at Montreal, Cana, burned the other
night, causing loss estimated at about
quarter of a million dollars.
THE steamships Fuldy and Salier,
which arrived from Europe on the oath,
brought 2,155,O00 francs in gold for this
country.
Ii was reported on the 25th that the
public buildings in London, Eng, were
guarded by two thousand soldiers.
AN explosion of gunpowder occurred
near the office of the Department of Justice
at Rome, Italy, on the oath.
The levee fronting the town OF Ihi-
bodeaux, La, at the mouth of Bayou Terre
Bonnie. broke on the 24th anu great fears
were entertained that the town would be
submerged.
BY boiler explosion at knightstown,
Ind, the other day one man was killed and
| another seriously injured.
A BUILDING was nearly demolished In
Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day by an ex-
plosion of escaping gas. Two women were
badly hurt.
In Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
| dancing contest for purse OF 5000 be-
| tween Joseph Morton and the Dublin dam
| Ger, Horace Wheaton, was won by Morton
| in twenty steps, Lancashire style test.
A BAND of prospectors, while inspect
| ing some coal fields near Charleston, Arizo-
ma, recently, were attacked by incJans,
| and several of them killed
AFEuD between cattlemen culminat-
ed in a fight near Fort Huachcua, on the
| Mexican border of Arizona, lately, in which
| six men were killed.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
| from the Mints for theweek ending March
~f.1A lac or