Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IehnSylyanla were also swept bY storm
the same day, doing much damage to crops
and telegraph wires
EXCITEMENT over the result of the
recent Jewish trials in Hungary ran so
high that the troops had to be called out
on the 9th to preserve order.
JOHN WALL, a Chicago Qll.) police
man who shot the wrong man in a Fl ght.
committed suicide in that city few days
ago.
In a dispute over a game of faro, at
Denver, Colo, a gambler named Vasey shot
Frank Rose, a well-knowu restaurateur,
to death few days ago.
A FIRE in Post street, San Francisco,
Cal, the other morning destroyed almost
an entire block. Thirty buildings were
burned to the ground, among them the
Winter Garden Theater and DrlIids' Hall
The losses were estimated at over $500, ,000
with insurance of less than half that
amount.
VANDERBILT it is said will spend half
million in hotels and cottages at Bedford.
He intends to make it the Saratoga of
Pennsylvania.
CHARLES w. CLEMENTS, shoe manu-
facturer of Dover, N. H., has failed for
half million in consequence of the recent
failure of Shaw 81 Bros, at Boston.
IT is now claimed that it will proba-
bly, require an international sanitary COM
mission to determine whether or not the
plague in Egypt is cholera or not.
THE total number of deaths in Egypt
on the 5th were 72S, including 100 at Cairo,
% at Rosetta, 100 at Garbiel, "A in Daka-
lieh and SO in Benz Suef. The British lega-
ton published note refuting newspaper
assertions that the spread of the cholera in
Egypt was caused by British neglect to
establish proper quarantine regulations.
THERE were forty-nine deaths from
yellow-fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
week ended on the 4th.
THE saloon-keepers at st. Louis, Mo-,
were not unanimous ON the Sunday law
question on the 9th. Some of them closed
and some did not The police it was said
would send several hundred more of them
to court.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN has pardoned
David Ferguson, the defaulting collector
of Louisville, Ky, who has been in the
! Penitentiary only since February. The
! deficit was over 100000.
OFFICERS of the Santa Fe Railroad
estimate the average yield of wheat in Kan
sas at twenty bushels per acre. Many
fields of oats have exceeded ninety bushels
per acre. A large gain will be made on the
corn crop of last year.
THE total receipts of customs for the
month of July was $29,999, 29J, against $19,-
950,63 for the same month last year. This
shows an increase of $95S, ,653 for the first
month under the new tariff law.
THE Acting Postmaster-G General has
approved the design for new four-cent
postage stamp. The stamp will bear a bust
engraving of Andrew johnson.
PROF. L. w. ToBN, well-known
throughout the West as scientist, and
whose lectures on explosions in flour mills
attracted wide interest, died at Louisville
the other morning, of consumption
A REVENUE cutter intercepted a yell
low-fever stricken Norwegian bark off Mo-
bile, Ala, the other day and sent her to
Ship Island.
THREE men were killed by a recent
boiler explosion at Ogemaw, Mich.
was court-martialed recently for duplicat-
ing his pay account, has been ordered to
his post to await sentence, which it was
surmised would not be severe.
A MAN supposed to be Frank A.
Dixon, from some small town in Illinois,
jumped from the ferry-boat Edwardsville
at st. Louis, Mo-, few days ago and was
drowned.
AT Bryantsville, Ky, four negroes
were fatally shot in an election fight on the
9Th. Several other persons, white and col
ored, were injured.
A CHILD was taken alive from the
ruins of Casamicciola, Italy, the other day,
having been imprisoned seven days. Nine
teen persons injured by the earthquake
have since died in the Naples hospitals.
RECENT anti-Jewish riots at Ekater-
inoslav, Russia, are reported to have cost
one hundred lives.
Brown Bros. & Co., Detroit (Mich.)
lumber dealers, have failed for 100000.
THE troops engaged in the recent in
surrection at Badajos, Spain, numbered 100.
They were joined by 400 civilians.
THE police dispersed Socialist Con-
gress at Ravenna, Italy, a few days ago.
JARRARD, the New Jersey abscond-
ing Treasurer, has been arrested in Can
| ada.
Two American fishermen got astray
from fishing vessel on the Grand Banks
and landed at Trepassey, Canada, the other
| day after being five days and nights without
| food or water.
Four expert car-thieves, who were
operating along the line Of the Iron Noun
| tain Road as wood choppers, have been
| landed in the Arkansas Penitentiary.
| FoRTY-oNE Cubans liberated from
Spanish prisons arrived at Havana few
days ago.
AT the Dakan mine, near Harrisburg,
Alaska, recently, three Indians killed
whisky-seller named Rennie. Citizens
were aroused, but before they could appre-
bend the Indians they had killed Major
Givens, formerly of the United States
army. Finally two of the Indians were
captured and hanged, and the next day the
| obiafc dalivarad mn the third Indian, and