Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lived ten days with bullet in his brain.
.as SEVERAL OF the crew of the United
states steamer Lancaster were arrested at
hamburg, Germany, the other day for riot
Gus conduct.
GEORGE kILLMER was killed by a
train at Allentown, Pa, the other day
while escaping from the scene of bur-
glary he had committed
g DURING storm at New York on the
22d twelve inmates of Bellevue Hospital,
seated on balcony, were prostrated by
lightning. All were considerably stunned,
but fortunately none were seriously in
jured.
a TRAIN went through a bridge on
the Knoxville Branch of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, at New Haven, Ky,
the other day, killing the engineer, fireman
and one brakeman.
M. ALFRED NAQUET, Republican
member of the French Chamber, has been
elected Senator.
RICCIoTTI GARIBALDI has been de-
feated for seat in the Italion Chamber of
Deputies.
LIGHTNING struck house containing
1000 pounds of dynamite, at the salt mines
on Avery's Island, near New Orleans, La,
the other morning, and the terrific explosion
which followed did much damage to build
ings, cars, etc. The windows in a building
mile away were shattered. Noliyes were
lost.
THE deaths from yellow fever at Ha-
vana. Cuba, on the 2lst were thirty mine.
Among those stricken with the disease was
General E. 0. C.. Ord, who was dangerously
ill.
FIFTY-SEvEN indictments for fraud,
false entries of public lands, etc., were pre-
the result of an Investigation which had been
in progress in that State for some months
by Special Agent Eddy, of the Interior De-
partment.
NEARLY five hundred employees of the
Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling-mills struck the
other day against a reduction Of wages.
They also induced a strike of puddlers at
the Brinfield Iron-works.
TwENTY-FoUR loaded coal-cars on
the Philadelphia s. Reading Railroad were
pushed off a high trootle et +he Elins.beti.-
port (N.J.) dock into Stanten Island Sound
the other morning and totally wrecked.
FIVE more corpseS of the victims of
the steamer Daphne disaster at Glasgow,
Scotland, were recovered on the Dist,
making the number of bodies so far found
123.
4 The Russian Government has sent
commission to inquire as to the civil rights
of Tay-c in N Frapoa and Garrnanu
ADvICEs from Washington, ID. c., on
the 21st said the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital had been informed that
smallpox and yellow-fever had appeared
in Matanzas and Cienfugos, Cuba, and that
cholera existed in Campeachy and Oaxaca,
Mexico.
The majority report on public char
tiles made to the Legislature of Massachu-
setts pronounces the charges made by Gov
ernor Butler against the management at the
Tewksbury Almshouse groundless and
cruel.
A SERIOUS cholera outbreak was ex-
pected at Bombay, India, on the 23d. In
Egypt the cholera epidemic was said to be
supplemented by leprosy. A physician
with forty assistants was to be sent from
India to Egypt.
JUDGE BLODGETT, of Chicago, Ill,
decides that national bank stockholders
are liable for debts of the bank to the
amount of their stock, and that individual
suits to recover on this liability can be
begun without the Intervention of re-
ceiver.
A YOUNG man from Clinton, ILL.,, was
arrested at Red Fork, Ark, the other day
for trying to leave without paying debt.
He was convicted and sentenced to work in
the field with the chain gang, where the
overseer, Alfred Werner, had him whipped
by negroes so that he died. The Sheriff ar
rested w erner and three negroes and was
taking them to Arkansas City on the
steamer Ida Darragh. At Burnett's land
ing a mob fired on the boat, mortally
wounding Werner. One of the negroes
jumped overheard and was killed by the
mob.
A TERRIBLE accident was reported to
have occurred at blast furnace at Geddes,
N. Y. on the 23d. Eight men entered the
furnace to construct new lining when
the old lining fell upon them, killing all
Instantly. One hundred tons of brick and
mortar fell on them.
THE report of deaths from cholera in
Egypt on the 22d was as follows: At Da-
META, seventeen; Mansurah, ten; Sama-
noud, twenty-three; Tantah, seventeen;
Chobar, seventeen; Chirbin, thirty-three;
at nine other places, seventy-eight. There
were 295 deaths at Cairo during the same
time.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
decided that the Department has no au-
thority to order sub-treasury offices to re-
ceiye trade dollars the same as standard
dollars.
1t was reported from Washin gton on
the 23d that the Government would seek to
recover more than. 81, 100000 by suits
against various star route combinations.
GINERY TwIcHELL died in Brookline,
Mass, few days ago. He was promi-
nent railroad man, and was once president
Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany.
THE United States Consul at Smyrna
reports panic there on account OF the