Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BERLIN correspondents of the London
journals represent that an impression has
been made On the members of the German
Government by threats that the United
States would retaliate for the exclusion OF
the American hog.
MARTIN CASEY, the leader of band
OF outlaws living in the mountainous region
on the boundary of New York and Massa.
chusetts, has at last been captured. He
was quite well filled with shot by Massa.
chusetts Sheriff, and begged for mercy.
There are indictments against him in both
States.
A VEIN of petroleum which flows
forty barrels per day has been struck near
Canon City, Colorado.
The car-shops at Dayton, Ohio, paid
its workmen $4,000 in checks, for fear that
its messenger might be robbed in carving
the currency one mile from the bank. Fif-
teen hundred men quit work for this reason
the other day, and paraded the streets with
a brass band.
MR.. FooTE, the newly-appointed Min
lister to Corea. reports having secured at
the capital house made of wood and pa
per, in the midst of novels and filth. He
can find only pine boughs for fuel, and saws
nearly all articles of food are brought from
other countries.
ACCORDING to the testimony before
the Senate Committee on Labor on the 18th.
140 out of 100 strikes have succeeded in
the past two years.
FOUR newspapers were recently warn
ed by the Egyptian Government that they
would be suppressed if they continued
publishing offensive criticisms of the min.
istry.
On the 18th mob in County Lei
trim, Ireland, forced O'Beirne, with
party of friends, to desist from grouse
shooting on his own property. O'Beirne is
the Home-Rule member for Leitrim.
MANY of the expert operators who
went into the recent strike are being taken
back to their old places.
B. F. STOKES, one of the Knights
Templar from Philadelphia, found in Salt
Lake City brother, w. B. Stokes, whom
he had not met or heard from for forty-two
years.
THERE were eighty-two deaths from
cholera in Alexandria, on the 18th and 18th.
including one British soldier. The total
number Of deaths on the 18th, in Egypt
was 80, five of whom died at Cairo.
On the 10Th King Alfonso was warm
ly received at Valencia. He was loudly
cheared hyr crowds of nnnnla a1oncr tho rail
way routes from Madrid. He attended
the TIE Deum at the Cathedral and received
the troops.
The various bodies of gendarmerie
engaged in quelling the recent uprising will
return to their former stations, quiet hav
ing been restored throughout Spain.
Col. J. N. SILvERToN died of par
alysis of the brain at Evansville, Ind, on
the 18th.
WILLIAM WHITE, with several aliases,
was arrested at Cowan, Tenn, on the 18th
charged with being one Of the Bridgeport
safe burglars, and lodged in Jail at the lat
ter place. l
ANTI-JEWIsH outbreaks were report
ed on the 10Th at Paulograd and Rostow,
Russia. The disorders were promptly sup
pressed at both places and the instigators
arrested.
ARCHBISHOP ROGER BEDE VAUGHAN,
of New South Wales, died suddenly at
Liverpool on the 10Th, aged forty-nine.
WILLIAM WRIT SYKES, United States
Consul at Cardiff, Wales, and husband of
Olive Logan, died on the 18th.
On the 10Th mysterious sSschooner
carrying the black flag was reported sunk
on the New Jersey coast.
FIRE destroyed r. M. McCready's
boot and shoe mandatory at Montreal,
Can, on the 10Th. The loss is estimated at
S9O, 900 to 100000. Insured
A MONTREAL telegraph operator
named England was attacked on the morn
ing of the 10Th, on his way home, by four
men. who knocked him senseless, then tried
to strangle him, but were frightened off by
the approach of policeman. England's
wounds are dangerous, but not necessarily
fatal.
In general fight at German picnic
at Freedman's garden, Milwaukee, on the
10Th, Fritz Avi, fifty years old, was struck
on the head by stone and probably fatally
injured. Charles Smith and Tom johnson
were arrested as guilty Of throwing the
missiles.
THIRTY-sEvEN deaths from cholera
occurred in Alexandria on the 10Th.
AT the Pensacola Navy-yard to noon
of the Goth there were three deaths from
yellow fever. Surgeon Owens was better.
There were two attempts to pass the Gordon
one by force, the other offered a bribe OF
5000. The guards bonds were doubled.
There was no alarm at Pensacola.
THE northern shore Of Lake Superior
was swept by hurricane the night OF the
10Th.
The British Consul imprisoned by
the French in Madagascar has heen re-
leased.
LIGHTNING struck an oil-tank at Gar
field. Pa, on the 2Oth, and 700 barrels of oil
burned.
MORTIMER HILL, Of Salem, Ind,
shot his wife in the breast and himself
through the heart on the Goth.
Two men were arrested in Dublin on
the Goth for threatening Francis Carey.
brother of the informer.
BERT SCHEIBEL, of Cincinnati, ia
tally shot woman named Josie Stubbs,
o1rn,,,;x<ad e11icide on the Doth.