Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. MARY MCGOUGH recovered
verdict in the Kings County IN. Y.) Court,
General Term, on the 21st, for 5000 dam
ages for the loss of her husband, who was
killed by the Long Island Railroad in
March, 1879.
2. CAIN, charged with the murder
of Murdoch Campbell, of Clinal Haven,
Me-, August 4, pleaded guilty on the 2lst,
and was committed to the Insane Hospital
for observation.
AT banquet following the grand
military review in Austria, on the 2lst
King Alfonso occupied the seat of honor.
A BELT of woods near Great Falls, n.
H., was on fire on the 2lst. People were
fighting the flames. There is great scarcity
of water there.
ZACHARIAH /. SNYDER was found
guilty of murder in the first degree at Yer
non Ind, on the 21st, and was sentenced
to DEATH He participated in the killing of
John Van Wy, August II, for eighteen dol
lars.
A HUNDRED prisoners in the State
Prison at Wethersfield, Conn.,, were taken
sick suddenly on the Goth, supposed to be
suits were anticipated.
ESTIMATES for the cost of the Russian
army for 1883 are 7,O00,00O roubles in excess
of those of last year.
SECRETARY FOLGER has rendered an
important decision on the subject of duties
on charcoal and round iron.
The Secretary of the Navy has ex-
pressed willingness to issue rations to des-
titute people ON the Naval Reserve at Pen
sacola.
DEMPSEY and Boylan, the two -pugil-
lists arrested in New York when about to
spar in public, have been committed to
Jail.
A PARTY of four hunters from Texas
were attacked in the Choctaw Nation by a
posse in pursuit of horse-thieves and two of
them killed.
miners will be held on the 2Sth at Pitts
burgh to consider the advisability of asking
an advance in wages.
IrALY's proposition for an Interna-
tional Sanitary Conference has been ac-
cepted by all the powers.
THE collections under the Scott Ii
! quor tax law in Ohio to the 22d amount to
nearly two million dollars.
FIRE in a trunk factory at Memphis,
Tenn, the night of the 23d, did damage to
| the amount of $4,000.
THE journeymen plumbers of Pitts
| burgh, at a meeting on the 23d, resolved to
strike against a proposed reduction of
wages.
The King of Spain has been ap-
pointed to the command of a regiment
of German troops by Kaiser Wilhelm.
THE Brooks comet is said to be
rapidly approaching the earth. 1t will be
visible to the naked eye before Christmas.
In collision on the Ohio & Missis-
sippi Railroad near Seymour, Ind, on the
23d, the engineer of one of the trains and a
child of Mrs. Taylor were killed. and a
number of passengers injured.
CORNELIUS ALLIs, a Detroit (Mich. J
drug clerk, was shot in the back of the head
on the night of the 22d by some unknown
person and killed.
JUDGE HOADLEY is reported to have
recovered his health, and will be back in
Ohio in few days.
Hon. THOs. L. CoGAN, an old and
esteemed citizen of Nicholasville, KY, and
one of the pall-bearer's at Henry Clay's
funeral, died on the 23d.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COLERIDGE
arrived in Chicago the morning of the
23d.
CHRISTINE NILSSON sailed on the 22d
from Liverpool for New York.
BY boiler explosion at Shreveport,
La, on the Odd five men were killed and
five were terribly injured.
ANexpress train collided with freight
near Akron, o., on the 22d. Engineer John
Bull was killed.
Four men were precipitated into a
flooded shaft of the Delaware & Lackawana
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 22d, by the
breaking of q scaffold. All were drowned.
Miss SALLIE JOHNSON, a remarkably
pretty Baltimore girl, attended church on
Sunday and after returning hanged herself
to the banister in her home.
CAREY's widow and other witnesses
arrived in England on the oath from South
Africa.
The Corean Embassy visited the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on the oath.
THE Catholic Bishops expelled from
Prussia are negotiating for return.
The London Times says France
cannot obtain Tonquin without war with
China.
QUARANTINE restrictions are abol-
ished as to vessels arriving at Gibraltar
from Egypt.
THERE is split in the Greenback
party of Massachusetts, and two conven-
tions are promised.
ALFRED E. HAMS, almshouse steward
at Camden, N. j., has been arrested and
held for trial for malfeasance in office.
Two captured rebellious chiefs have
been convicted of treason by the Boer Gov
ernment and sentenced to death.
AMERICAN merchants in the Sand
wich Islands are alarmed at the prospect
of a rupture of the reciprocity treaty.
AT Enfield, N. H., Ira B. Fogg was
waylaid and fatally assaulted by a neigh
Dor with whom he had a difficulty few
nights ago.
A sHERIFF's officer on the oath raided
,-I oIo.od n lot of rapdariuo ShopS at Him.