Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-12

while firing at mark recently, shot his
wife dead.
IT was announced on the 4th that for
three days forest fires had ragged in sew
erai counties of Southern North Carolina,
destroying turpentine orchards, vast for
ests Of pine, residences and turpentine dis
tilleries. The fire swept a section of about
one hundred and fifty spare miles, leaving
the country blackened wilderness. No
lives were reported lost.
A REVENUE cutter and two American
ships sailed from Key West on the 4th, to
assist the Dix in searching for the Cuban
filibusters.
THE first sentences since the riots were
imposed on the 4th at Cincinnati, colored
woman who shot with intent to kill getting
seven years, and man who killed another
with blow of his fist, and pleaded guilty
of manslaughter, receiving a five years
sentence,
REV. W. S. MAHAN, postmaster of Mound
City, Mo-, was found dead in bed a few
mornings ago. He was sixty years of age.
Four large stores and two warehouses
at West Point, Ga, were burned a few
days ago, causing loss of $4,000
"A iEAAS Train WAS WIcChcu near
Cisco, Tex, on the morning Of the 9Th, the
baggage car and three coaches tumbling
down an embankment. Seven persons
were killed and many others were injured.
TWENTY-FIVE carloads of corn and -four
contributed by the people of Butler County,
Kan, left Eldorado ON the 9th for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the Ohio River
floods.
AT Petersburg, KY, early the other
morning Freiburg & Workum's distillery
and large quantity of corn and whisky
in process of manufacture were destroyed
by fire. Eight hundred head of cattle
were also roasted to death. Loss, $3.50, 900.
NEAR Duck Hill, Miss, few mornings
ago passenger train was derailed, several
travellers and some of the train men being
seriously wounded.
THE tug Peter Smith exploded her boiler
off Vermillion, O., on Lake Erie, on the
9th, killing John Perew and John Cado,
engineers, and Captain Smith, of the
schooner Sherman, who was on pleasure
trip.
THREE boys, the sons of Cincinnati busi-
ness men, while out driving few even
ings ago were killed by locomotive at a
railway crossing.
THE schooner Shooters, which left Key
West few days ago in mysterious man.
ner, returned to that port on the 9th. The
pilot in charge stated that when the vessel
was clear of the harbor Aquero, Cuban
Chief, with drawn pistol, forced him to
take a party of filibusters to the Cuban
coast, landing them near Cardenas.
NEAR Rising Sun, Ind, the other night
robbers entered the house of John Smith,
maltrea ed him, and ransacked the prem
ses. Finding no valuables, they lighted a
fire ana swung Smith back and forth over
the blaze to extort confession touching
the hiding-piace of his money, and only
stopped the torture when the man became
insensible.
FOREST fires were raging on the 9Th in
various sections of North and South Caro-
lima, caused by the attempts of farmers to
clear the planting grounds by burning the
brush. The fire had spread with alarming
rapidity, and hundreds of farm houses and
outbuildings had been destroyed. Berkeley
and Chesterfield Counties had suffered se-
verely.
= WILLIAM BUEY & Co.'s powder-mill at
Shamokin, Pa, blew up the other MORN
ing, shaking houses and breaking windows
within radius of a mile and half. Super
intendent Young was burned beyond rec
ounit;op