Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1HE steamer Granite State, which
| piled between New York and Hartford,
Conn.,, was destroyed by fire at Goodspeed's
Landing the other morning and two lives
] were known to be lost and three other per-
/ sons were missing.
A RUSSIAN officer under arrest has
disclosed the existence of military revo-
lutionary society.
DANIEL CURLEY, the second man con-
victed of the. murder of Cavendish and
Burke, was hanged at Kilmainham Jail,
Dublin, Ireland, on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Rome, Italy, saws
the Pope, hearing of the meeting in Dublin
at which his recent action was condemned,
sent for Cardinals Jacobini and Simioni,
and insisted that his letter to the Irish
Bishops be strictly obeyed.
JESSE OAKLEY & Co., the well-known
signed with preferences amounting to
$214, ,406.
LYDIA PINKHAM, of proprietary
medicine fame, died in Lynn, Mass, a few
days ago at the age of sixty-four years.
She spent $1S0,000 a year in advertising and
secured trade netting 100000 a year
profit.
The London (Eng) police found an
other internal machine on the 20th. 1t was
a box full of bottles of colored liquids and
springs, with fuse attached, and was dis
covered on the steps of Peterborough Ca
thedral.
The five dynamite conspirators at
Liverpool, Eng, have been charged with
conspiracy to murder as well as treason
and felony.
NEWS came from Dakota on the goth
of sad havoc caused by floods in the vicini-
ty of Deadwood There had been great de-
struction of property, and number peo-
pie had been drowned.
| WHEN the tornado removed the roof
of the Edwardsville Ind.) Courthouse, a
| few days ago, hung jury quartered there
in found a verdict with great alacrity.
The British Government is arranging
the distribution Of the rewards among the
informers. James Carey, the Dublin in
former, was released the other day.
THE cabinet, upholstering and paint
shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, contained in one building 400by 175
feet, located on the meadows between Jer
| sey City and Newark, N. j., were totally
destroyed by fire a few days ago. The
shops contained three Pullman coaches,
eighteen passenger coaches, three locomo-
tives, six tenders and a vast quantity of
paints, cushions, plush and other car Mt
tings The loss was estimated at fully
4120 900, and five hundred men were thrown
out of employment.
The Goth inst. was cold day at Es-
canada, Mich. Two inches of snow fell in
that vicinity. Milwaukee also reports
| five-minute snow.
| The Gar and Czarina arrived at
Moscow, Russia, on the Goth. The city was
full Of people to see the coronation, and
crowds were arriving daily.
SEVEN persons have been arrested
near Barbille, Ireland, on charge of being
connected with the shooting of Mrs.
Smythe, who was murdered April 2, 1882.
ALEXANDER SCOTT, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, was shot and killed a few days ago in
an affray with Mexicans at Madison, N. M.
THE 100000 which the British Par
ing emigration from the distressed districts
of Ireland has been expended.
JOHN MATTER and wife, who were mar
ried only three months ago, were drowned
near Lake City, Mimi, few days ago by
the capsizing of sailboat. Otto Marks
clung to the boat and was rescued by par
ties who witnessed the accident from the
shore.
INSTEAD of twenty deaths from small
pox, as reported recently, on board the
American bark Arabia during the passage
| from New Orleans, La, to Revel, on the
Gulf of Finland, there were but three
deaths.
j. G. JONES, wife-murderer, was
executed a few days ago at Lexington, Ca, in
the presence of a vast throng. The day be-
fore he had made an attempt to commit
suicide. At Way Cross, Ga, Henry Knight,
colored. was hanged for the murder OF
negro band-master.
THE village of Longetor, in Savoy,
Italy, has been almost entirely destroyed
by fire, only four buildings remaining
standing. Four hundred persons were
made homeless by the fire.
ANOTHER battle between the Haytian
troops and the rebels under Barzalene was
| fought at Mlragoane on Aprll ~, tne loyai
army being defeated with great slaughter.
Two Haytian ships that endeavored to as
sist the land force were sunk by Barzalene's
guns. Barzalene was at last accounts ad-
/ vancing ON Port-au-Prince.
Two boys went into Wilkesbarre
| (Pa.) mine few days ago with naked
lamps, and were killed by gas explosion
The captain and mate of the steamer
Tropic have been arrested at Philadelphia,
charged with carrying men and munitions
of war into Hayti.
PRAYERS were said in Catholic
! churches at Toronto, Cana, the other day
for the repose of the souls of the Phoenix
Park assassins, Brady and Curley.
The employees in Bolckow, Vaughan
| & Co.'s iron works at marlborough, Eng,
were on strike on the 21st because Of a
reduction of wages. Four thousand persons
were affected.
A DISPATCH from Berlin, Germany.
on the 21st announced that the village OF
| Nran1~arcbon waS totally DESTROYED by fire.