Huntsville gazette., 1884-10-11
Personal AND GENERAL.


WASH FLETCHER, colored, who was
hanged at Paducah, KY, on tho 81, for
| the murder of Amanda Jackson, spoke for
an hour, protesting his innocence.
BENZ. THOMAS, the Narragansett In
dian, and the last President Of the In
dian Council in Charlestown, was found
dead the night of the I'd, near Wood
River Junction, r. l., having been struck
| by train.
| THE Copyright Congress in session in
| Brussels, passed a resolution On the 3D.
that the publication and reproduction of
musical works should have the same pro-
lection as literary and artistic works, and
| that the art ought not to be impeded in its
| progress by customs and formalities.
The steam whaler Borohead is reported
! to have been crushed in the ice in the Arc
| tic regions. The vessel is total loss. 1t
| was owned by the Pacific Steam Whaling
Arctic Company, and was valued, with
out cargo, at $12),O0l The crew was
saved.
ALBERT BOWEN, colored janitor Of the
New Haven (Conn.) Post-office, has con-
fessed to stealing letters from the mail
boxes. Amcng those stolen was the
| George Crosby, New York, heretofore
mentioned.
A NUMBER Of horses at Vincennes, Ia,
are said to be afflicted with glanders.
THE Treasury Department purchased
$4,000 ounces of silver on the 3d4 for the
New Orleans and Philadelphia mints.
A SERIOUS riot among coolies at Hong
Kong, China, is reported.
THE Citizens National Bank, Indianap-
oils, Ind, will 60 into voluntary liquida-
tion. Its charter has expired.
THE unskilled employees Of the Oliver
Iron Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on
the 9th.
BOTH Of the Gould Atlantic cables be-
tween Europe and American are broken.
THE cholera epidemic at both Naples and
Geneva is on the wane.
FRANK HATToN has been designated by
the President as Postmaster General for
ten days from the 4th.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the actor arrived in
S.. Louis on the 5th accompanied by j. H.
Breslin.
IT is reported that Ell Mahdi is advanc-
ing towards the White Nile.
THERE were two deaths from cholera at
Marseilles and one at Toulon on the 4th.
JAMES GRAVES and wife were arrested
in New York on the 4th on the charge of
smuggling $4,000 worth of unset dia-
monds.
BRIGANDs are securing the provinces of
Egypt, pillaging property and firing upon
the people.
1T is generally believed that the Vance
County (Neb.) butchcry was committed
by H. A. G. Baird, a young man who lived
with the Percival family He is missing
and reward of 81 ,d00 is offered for his ar
rest. The bodies of the five victims have
been found.
A PARIS rumor is to the effect that the
French Government will recall Admiral
Courbet from Chinese waters.
PRINCE HALvIN, pretender to the throne
of Egypt, is about to visit Paris to canvass
support for his cause.
A GREAT furniture storage warehouse
and nine dwellings were destroyed by
fire at Philadelphia on the 9TH. Loss
half million dollars.
A wAsHoUT caused wreck on the
Northern Pacific Railroad near Fond du
Lac, Wis, ON the 9Th. Three lives were
lost.
NUBAR PAsHA says the suspension Of
the Egyptian sinking-fund was an abso-
lutte necessity.
CHARLES AUSTIN, of Council Bluffs, Ia,
OH the 5tb, shot his wife three times and
then killed himself.
GENERAL GORDON has returned to Khar
toum. General Wo.seley is at Wady
Halfa.
EcO md in,
brothel at Dallas, Tex, on the 9th. Cir
cumstances indicated murder by poison
for money.
AN engagement is expected to occur in
Tonquin within few days. French
troops are preparing to attack the Chinese
there.
OVER 700 persons have been thrown out
of Employ ment by the stopping of the cot
ton mills at Petersburg, Va.
A SCHOONER loaded with 10000 bushels
of corn from Chicago for Midland, Ont,
sank on the 9Th during gale on Georgian
Bay.
CHARLES LALLY, a miner, was killed by
William Vandever at U niontown Pa, OIL
the 9Th. 1t was an unprovoked murder,
and the murderer narrowly escaped
lynching.
FRANK MANLY was arrested near Hen
rietta, Tex, on the 4th, on the charge Of
kidnapping Sadie Barton, pretty sixteen
year-old girl OF Kansas. He threatened
her life if she informed on him, but she told
of her treatment while he was away.
There was talk of lynching Manly if the
girl's story proved true.
ADMIRAL COURBET telegraphed to Paris
on the 4.h that he had commenced opera
tions at Kee Lung. There were one or two
lively but brief battles and the Chinese
evacuated.
In speech at Glasgow On the 4th the
Marquis Salisbury attributed the present
state of affairs in Ireland to Gladstone'S
zig-zag policy and extreme leniency.
MINISTER LEVI P. MORTON arrived in
New York on the 9th.
THERE were eight deaths from cholera
at Marseilles on the 9th.
THERE was an imposing parade of g. A.
r. Posts at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th.
THE extensive Newton Paper Mills at
Holyoke, Mass, burned on the Oh.
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