Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-12
DOMESTIC.

THE largest and most influential meeting
If cotton manufacturers ever held in the
South took place at Augusta, Ca, on the
"a. A Cotton Association was formed,
and it was unanimously resolved that the
interests of the trade demanded a curtail-
ment of production.
In the vicinity of Lynchburg, Va, a ter
rife wind-storm on the Sd blew down
houses, uprooted trees, and did considera-
BE other damage.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were seriously in
iurei by railway accident at Bslleville,
H., On the Sd, caused by train being
tgoyn down an embankment by an open
Hta 1t was said the switch was left
qel by an employe, who was in neigh
boring saloon drinking.
ATgy.YEAR-oLD boy, who killed farm
rby hitting him with stone, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter at Washington, d.
t., few days ago, and was sentenced to
The Reform School for eleven years.
THE United States Marshal at Salt Lake
closed the London Bank of Utah on the Sd
On an attachment for $4,000.
FINANCIAL embarrassment caused the
suicide few days ago of Major c. G..
lhurmond, leading cotton operator at
shreveport, La.
IHE Chicago, ST. Louis & Pacific and
lineage Indiana Central Railroads have
Med articles of consolidation, the joint
apfaI being S3O,0OJ,00o. The combine
ION viii be known as the Chicago, ST.
Louis & Pacific.
DURING March IS, ,250,000 worth of prop
SF was destroyed by fire; and for the
ls quarter of 1884 the loss was S27 ,250, 900,
'@VV,VW IN excess of the record for the
urresponding period of 1883.
DVTFALo gnats were on the 81 killing
mules IN Western Mississippi. Deer were
Felng to the high lands of Arkansas to
seape the pests.
LIE mississippi River was falling slow
on the Sd from Vicksburg to the gulf,
- was still very high. Planters in the
IuHaated parishes were hopeful that the
'''uoW water would run off in time to
s''ui'I 'ne planting of full crop. In some
s''''0hs OF Northern Louisiana land was
"allhlng to be seen in spots.
'hh steamer Rebecca Everingham was
.''A-u 70 the waters edge in the Chatta-
''Aae hlyer at Fitzgerald's Landing,
" carly on the morning of the Sd.
a. a.''een persons lost their lives, and of
IN PASSENGERS who escaped in their night
H.. 4'S' many were severely burned. The
~, was loaded with cotton, and was
'Iued at $4,000.
81 a. mining bosses in the neighborhood
4. uI'''"hdoah, Pa, have discharged all
pn -unsarlans in their employ.
p oianders who arrived at Scranton,
srnoh Sl 'ne Sd, looking for work, were
~ 49, y an engine and instantly killed.
e,ra rI,.AiSiAsls caused the death of Mrs.
n ~ ua laughter at Loyal Hanna, Pa,
5,n,l. 00' and Mr.. Gale and another
Tgn T'0' were not expected to recover.
Gear..' '',a'oerers executed on the Sd were
?, 81 81 Jones, negro lad of Pittsburgh.
assin. a1 ! sonn and George Stephenson, of
Tgra, northwest Territory.
Ss,sa So were rs failures in the United
u ssra a.a 'nlrty-four in Canada during
hal @,ea :, days ended on the 4th, against a
d prau; - ior the two countries during
oaD ,.as ors. OF the 4th state THAT MANY
acb s ~ais had been wrecked by gale
&ss da,p srepS Chesapeake Bay the previous
aap+rana aAa 4 4 HALL, ex-Chief Clerk of the
II n liners Office in New York Citv
sprisonn, aS 4ln sentenced to twelve years
esat 4Hent for forgery and embezzle-
srpar1 1OFeEnment Ys51 relief steamer General
lptopvinle lel. several thousand rations at
sStribu,a i. lenn,, on the 4th, aud would
fS sSa,, supplies at all points between tween
lasrr aa and the mouth of the Red River.
= Ssea Rose at osceoIa' OH 'us ark a'n
soAqd,sf' j at at conshatta, La. and Andv
'' Spring Place, Ga.