Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-23

stroyed several business houses, an S. N.
Holmes, proprietor of the Daily Miner,
perished in the flames.
JEvNE's grocery store and Glanz's fur es-
tablishment in Chicago were damaged by
fire early OH the morning of the 18th to the
extent of $4,000.
AT Chichester, N. H., on the 10th Thad-
deus Avery killed his wife with razor
and fatally wounded hims IF, jealousy be-
ing the cause.
GEORGE p. CURRY, a banker of Augusta,
Ca, made an assignment on the 10th for
$500, go, and Clarence Shepard & Co., of
Milwaukee,, hardware dealers, failed for
| 100000.
| In hotel at Lcx king on, KY, two intoxi-
Gated men blew out the gas in their room
on the night of the 10th and died in great
agony.
The winter packing of hogs in Chicago
| showed on the 10Th a decrease of 100000
when compared with the corresponding
period of last year.
GUARANTEEING the indianapolis Qnd.l
Jail on account of smallpox necessitated
the release of over hundred tramps.
They were on the 10Th said to be terroriz-
ing the city, and many outrages were re
| ported.
THE Governor of Texas on the 10th sent
| three companies of rangers into the dis
tricts which had suffered most from fence
cutting, and battle was expected.
| BY the explosion of tank of oil, which
boy fired the other day at Bellefontaine,
! o., six children were severely burned.
AT meeting on the 16Sh of the cattle
dealers at the Chicago Stock yards resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted declaring
that never in the history of the country
were our food animals in as healthy con-
| dition at present.
| A CONGRESSIONAL delegation visited
Baltimore on the 10Th to inquire into the
advantages of a proposed canal across the
peninsula, which would require the ex-
| penditure of $3O,000000.
| THE liabilities of Edward Peck, the bank
er of Patchcgue, l.. l., who failed on the
10Th and then tried to commit suicide, were
placed at $l50,0J0.
THE Union Pacific Railroad earned last
year SO, 76l, ,10) and expended $16670,000.
| AT S oneville, ID. t., few days ago a
shooting affray occurred between three,
United States Deputy Marshals and band
of cow boys, during which one deputy was
killed, another man had his arm shot off,
and two others were wounded. Five pack
horses belonging to the cowboys were shot.
In OF near the quarantine station at
Deering, Me-, twenty-five head of cattle
were on the I7th afflicted with the foot
| and-mouth disease, which was said to have
sprung from English importations. DR..
Thayer, of the United States Cattle Com
mission, was on the ground, and was TAX
ing every precaution to prevent the spread
OF the disease.
| ONE of the shocking scenes of the recent
food was graveyard below Cochrans-
vile, O., wherein many coffins had been
| unearthed and several bodies carried down
| the river. Skulls and bones were uncov-
| cred, and mingled with the driftwood and
debris of every description. Out of one
| hundred houses in Cochransville only
three were left standing. The residents
were in a naked, starved condition, being
practically isolated from the world. They
made a rush for the relief boat, and when
bread was handed out sat down, and, tear;
| ing the loaves apart, ate with greed and
| rayenOuS energy, eager to allay the terri
BILE pangs of starvation. Women and chill
dren were barefoot, and some were pro-
| tected from the cold by their calico dresses
only. Some of the women were on their
knees praying in the little storm and flood
| battered church when the relief came, and
never was it more welcome.