Huntsville gazette., 1883-02-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

w. A. CHUD, prosperous merchant
OF Mo itgomery, Ala, was arrested few
days ago, charged with rfling the mails. 1t
was thought his mind was deranged by
spiritualism.
The high price of crude India rubber
was the reason given by the leading factories
in the United States for closing up the other
day, throwing eight thousand persons out Of
employment.
The telegraph and elevated railroad
litigation, which had been in progress in
New York City for some time, was reported
compromised on the 10th.
Two prisoners made desperate at
tempt 10 escape by jumping from the PEN
itentiary wall at jefferson City, Mo-, the
other day, but were recaptured.
During the excitement over the
lynching of negro at Paola, Kans. the
other day, bank forger who kept perfectly
cool negotiated a spurious check at the
bank in that place.
A YOUNG man named Freeman, who
eloped with farmers daughter near Char
lotte, Mich, few days ago, was pursued
by the father and shot in the head, it was
thought fatally.
THE Arlington cotton mills at Will
mington, Del, closed a few days ago on ac-
count of strike. Five hundred hands were
thrown out of employment.
B. F. GRIER's aw-mill, at Charlotte,
Mich, blew up the other morning, Instant
ly killing the elproprietor and the engineer.
RONDoUT, N. Y, had a serious fire on
the 11th. A steamboat and several business
houses were destroyed.
AT a late hour the other night a mail
pouch in the baggage room at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, was broken open and 140 registered let
tiers taken. The amount of the loss was un-
known, though it was thought to be consid
cradle. No clew to the robbers.
LOUISA MONTAGUE, the $4,000
beauty, recovered $3.50 from Adam Fore
paugh recently, for breach of contract, and
had sued for damages on account of falling
from the back OF an elephant while in H.
linois two years ago. SIZE received salary
Of 800 per week during her travels.
HERMAN HARNER, dealer in dry
goods at Jersey City, N. j., having been
convicted of knowingly receiving 10000
worth OF stolen property, was recently SEN
fenced to State prison for eighteen months.
AT an auction sale of uncalled-for
packages in the express office at Pueblo,
CoIo., the other day, James Thompson
risked one dollar on a box which he found
contained two gold bricks, worth over
| $1,000.
CITIZENS of Chihuahua, Mex, or
! rar,iz zoH att yad har Of
Apaches recently, killing twelve of them
and capturing thirty-three. In fight on
the border of Sonora, Mexican troops killed
one hundred Indians and took sixty pris.
| Oners. t
AN organ valued at $4,000, which
was to be removed from the old into the
new First Baptist Church of Denver, Colo,
was the other day damaged s., 600 worth
| by vandals, who broke the pipes and cast
| ings.
WILLIAM BARLOW was arrested in
New York City few days ago on suspicion
of being the man who robbed Miss Ish-
erwood, daughter OF the Chief Engineer Of
the United States Navy, on the streets Of
that city some time since. Miss sherwood
identified Barlow as the highwavman.
AT New York bartender named
| Charles D. Seebach fired upon party OF
| bows VINO were snowballing him the other
| day and killed John Noonan, aged nine
| years.
MORE Sophomores were ordered to
leave Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me-, Z
| few days ago on account of their connection
with hazing. This made twelve who were
obliged to leave within two weeks.
THE places of the striking cotton mill
operatives at Wilmington, Del, had been
filed on the 12th, and the mills were run
ming.
| AT St. Petersburg, Russia, three ex-
Directors of the Mutual Credit Society and
four other persons, convicted of forgery and
! souandering funds Of the society, were re-
| Gently sentenced to loss of civil rights and
| exile.
| ALL the visible assets of the coal and
iron firm of Rogers & Co., one of the oldest
houses in Chicago, ILL.,, established forty
wears ago, was seized by the Sheriff the
other day. The liabilities were estimated at
$125,000.
| AT Waterbury, Conn.,, nearly three
hundred persons were reported seized with
winter cholera the other day, supposed to
he the result of mixture of melted snow
with city water.
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS-.
| FEBRUARY 7.-At the close Of the morn