Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HE failure of the Crescent Silk
Manufacturing Company, Paterson, N. j.,
has been announced.
HERE is great excitement in Hun
gary over the trial of number of Jews
charged with having murdered a Christian
girl to use her blood at the Passover SER
vice.
AT Pulaski, near the line between
tennessee and Alabama, two negoes were
lynched by mob on the 22d. The negroes
wera c'sarged with beng implicated with
Nv arEen, who ysas l3ssehed fess days be-
saEa Br the Hstsrder Of young man named
James Price, at Prospect.
The four Arkansas train robbers, Cove
Johnson, Monroe Mcdonald, james Hern.
don and young James G. Johnson, who in an
attempt to rob Little Rock & Fort Smith
train near Van Buren,, Ark, in March last
killed Conductor Cain, were hanged at
Clarksville on the 22d. Lewis Carter, the
negro who murdered his wife in South
ampton County, Va, on the 9th of Jan
uary last was also hanged near Jerusalem
the county seat of Southampton County
The Treasury Department has pur-
chased $4,000 ounces of silver for delivery
at New Orleans and Philadelphia mints.
STORMS on the 22d unroofed build
ing at the State Penitentiary, jefferson
City, Mo-, and did considerable damage to
public buildings and private residences
and crops of corn and wheat, fruit and
ornamental trees in the vicinity of Co
lumbia. ~
THE cost of star-route mail service
in Texas and Louisiana was $141,97S less
last year than the year before.
THE dixie at Fish Lake, opposite St.
Louis, Mo-, had given way on the 22d and
flooded an immense area of growing crops.
The Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis narrow
gauge embankment broke ON the same day,
north of East st. Louis, ,and let the water in
on the town of Brooklyn. Great damage
was being done by the overflow at other
points.
SERIOUS riots against the Jews oc-
Cured at st. Gall, Switzerland, on the 22d.
number of Jewish shops were pillaged
and the police were stoned while endeav-
oring to stop the excesses.
THE report that the staffof the British
North Borneo Company had been massa-
cred by the natives of Borneo has been de-
MED.
A COMMOTION was caused among
the officials of the Erie Railroad the other
day by the mysterious disappearance of
$4,000, in transit from New York to Sus-
quehanna, Pa. A package that should
have contained that amount was found to
be full of brown paper.
THE mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of c. T. Goodwin, cashier of the
freight department of the Lake Shore Rail-
road, who had been missing from Cleve-
land, o., for several days, was partially
explained on the 24th by the finding of his
body in the lake near that city. Investiga-
ton showed a defalcation of $1,000 in his
accounts.
The cable announced the other day
that Mormon missionaries were making
many converts in the mining districts of
England and Wales. A large party had
already started for Utah.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointedD ID.
B. Barker Postmaster at Washington, d.
c., vice Tullock, deceased.
"A NEGRO named Duke, who entered
the sleeping apartment of two young ladies
near Vienna, Kennebec Parish, La, two
weeks ago, supposed with criminal intent,
was found by body of his pursuers the
other day and shot to death.
In drunken brawl in the southern
part of Jackson County, O., the other night
Constable Mike Reilly fatally shot Thomas
Smith and then escaped.
"A a BOILER exploded at an Oil we'll
near Bradford, Pa, the other day, killing
the engineer and destroying the rig.
FRANK CLARK, for thirty-three years
manager of the American Express Conn
pany at Cincinnati, O., died at Newport,
KY, few days ago. y sr-,-vp -- w y. .--s,
AT Richmond, Va, on the 23d, \. ~
Mason stabbed DIR. W. T. Crutchfield
fatally. Both belonged to highly respecta-
BILE families. An old feud.
THE steamers Hurunui and Watara,
both Of the New Zealand Shipping Com
pany, left London, Eng, together a few
davs ago. That night the two vessels
collided off Portland and twenty-five lives
were lost. The lost were mainly second
class and steerage passengers.
WILLIAM DAVIS, aged fifty, and his
wife, seventeen, have been arrested at
Waterbury, Conn, charged with commit
ting numerous burglaries.
II was reported on the oath that sew
enty persons had been drowned in the
floods in Silesia.
RECENT advices from Vera Cruz,
Mex, indicated that the yellow fever cpl
demic was raging fearfully. One thousand
deaths had occurred in two months.
WILLIAM CHILDERs was found dead
with bullet-hole in his head near Williams
town, KY, the other morning. Later IN
the day Haden Northcote surrendered him.
self and confessed to killing Chiiders for
running his (Northcote's) sister.
The Coroner's jury in the notorious
Hathaway case in Philadelphia, Pa, the
other day held the Doctor responsible for
the death Of the victims whose bones were
found on his premises.
SIXTEEN buildings, including three
churches, were demolished by cyclone al
Elberton, Ca, the other night. One man
was killed. a
FoRTY-sEvEN lives We're lost by the