Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


malignant type of swamp fever.
i HE steamer Iona from New Zealand,
via the straits of Magellan, arrived at Ply
mouth, Eng, on the 24th with $4,000 frozen
carcases of sheep in good condition. She
made the voyage in ferty-fve days.
II FOURTEEN Peruvian soldiers in the
province of Chancay were hanged recently
for numbering several of their officers
In a single district in Albania recent
4 cutrages upon Christians caused the total
abandonment OF twenty-three villages.
HENRY L. MITCHELL and an unknown
person, both Of Boston, had their skulls
crushed at Rasbook tunnel while stealing a
ride upon thetop ola sleeper of the Hudson
River Railroad on the 26th. r.
THERE were requiem masses through
out Paris on the 26th for the repose of the
son sof the Count de Chambord. The
Legitimists will mourn six months.
AMONG the witnesses before the
Senate Labor Committee on the 24th were
| representatives of trades-unions in Chi,
cago, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Wash
ington.
THE steamer Palermo, from Hamburg
to Lisbon, was in collision off the coast of
France on the 26th with the steamer Rivoli,
from Balboa to Middlesborough. The latter
sunk and five persons were drowned. There
was a thick fog at the time. r.
THERE was serious rioting between
Orangemen and Catholics at Coalbridge,
Scotland, on the 26th. Twenty-Five arrests
were made. ttf
FIVE head of imported cattle at the
Government quarantine, at Wa than Mass,
had died, and a large number were seri-
ously sick on the Goth, being poisoned ma
liciously. y
THERE were 226 deaths from cholera
in Cairo on the oath; 1G7 were reported on
the 26th, and twenty-five in Alexandria. 1t
was reported also that cholera had broken
out in Sumatra. ,
THERE were thirty-two deaths from
yellow fever at Havana during the week
ending the 25th. b.
ABOUT $26,000,000 has been paid out
on account of pensions during August.
THE Senate Labor Committee on the
25th heard testimony regarding cotton fac
tory operatives.
A NEGRO who shot two officers at
Ogden, Utah, was lynched and his body
was dragged through the street on the
25th.
Ina tenement house fire in Boston,
on the Goth, four persons were smothered
and one fatally injured by jumping from a
window.
DANIEL I. WHITE killed Joseph
Jones in Baltimore saloon on the Goth.
The only provocation he had was chal-
lenge from Jones to spar.
+ CHARLES LINCOLN, son Of Caleb
Lincoln, a farmer living near East Sagi-
nav, Mich, killed his father the night of
the Goth. The old man was drunk and
trying to shoot his son.
/ The steamers st. German and Wood
burn were in collision in the English Chan
mel on the 26th. The latter went down and
eighteen of her crew were drowned.
THE latest from the President and
party, dated the oath inst, states they were
camped in the Upper Geyser basin of the
Yellowstone Park.
JACK Murphy, in jail at Coalville,
Utah, awaiting trial for murder, was
taken out by masked men the night of the
25th. The vigilantes first captured loco
motive and made thirty mile trip from
Park City to Coalville for the purpose of
hanging Murphy.
FIRE in the fifth story of Newcomb,
Endicott & Co.'s large dry goods store in
Detroit, Mich, on the 26th inflicted damages
of $40, 900 or $4,000. The fire was quickly
got under control by the fremen and ex-
tensive damage prevented. Loss fully COW
cred by insurance.
Two children, three and five years of
age, of Thomas Frazer, Mount Bridges,
Ont, died on the 25th from the effects OF
strychnine administered instead of san
| tonin. 6 Ii Il
THE physician in charge at Ship Island
reports that there is not now case of yellow
fever there. The fifteen vessels in anchor
age were being cleansed and fumigated, pre-
paratory to departure for their destina-
| tions. ~
| WILLIAM NIcKENs, a colored boy, de-
liberately threw himself on the track before
a rapidly moving freight train at Gin
| cinnati on the 9th, and was instantly
killed. q @ .M% Il
PETER HILL, farmer of Butler
| County, ONO, hanged n1nlSeH Oh tne 1tn
| in fit of despondency. He leaves a widow
| and two children.
THE police closed all the pool rooms
in Philadelphia on the 27th.
Two partners, Alexander Nichols
and James A. Thompson, quarreled in Jels
sew City, NJ. on the 9th, when Nichols
stabbed Thompson with large butcher
| knife, inf1icting fatal wound.
FIVE prisoners escaped from the Will
mington, Del, Jail on the 9th, two of them
notorious burglars.
Mrs. CAROLINE G. DAVIS, of Albany,
N. Y, arrested at Saratoga on the charge
of obtaining goods under false pretences,
had her examination postponed for a
month and was released on $500 bail.
THERE were seventeen deaths from
cholera in Alexandria on the 26th. Seventy
eight persons died from the plague in Up
per Egypt on that date and three in Lower
Egypt, including one British soldier.
The Crown Prince Carlos Of Portugal
is reported to have been betrothed to the
Archduchess Maria Valeria, third child of
the Emperor of Austria. a5fRfGz$ Et
| Tur color Of the new fOur cent stamp