Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-19
DOMESTIC.


AeroRDING to reports made on the 10th
bv tbe Washington Agricultural Depart
ment there were 27,600,0O6 acres in the
Tpited s ates under winter wheat. This
area was about 100000 acres more than
last year.
The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Nelson Y. Mcfarland and its crew of six
men were lost at sea in a recent gale.
THE exposition of the Keely motor was
again postponed on the 10th, as the "work
Of perfecting the graduation" was not
finished.
KERRY S. ROsENTHAL, New York cat
tle merchant, failed on the 10th for $780,
O00
Ir was announced on the 10th that
twenty-five breaks had occurred in the
levees Of the Arkansas River, in Tensas
sld Concordia parishes, and large area
of land was overflowed.
THE Secretary of the Interior at Wash
ingtOn has given notice that the forty-nine
thousand acres of land in the southwestern
part of the Omaha (Neb.) Reserve, thirty
five miles southwest of Sioux City, will be
NptH LOl utludi oCtuiCiS W uIt CldllIlS Oh
Apil 30 next. Filings can be made at
Bgcroft, Wisner, or at the United States
Land Office at Neigh, Neb. Terms, one
third down, and two annual payments at
i've per cent Prices range from five dol
lars to ten dollars per acre.
The firmof Davis & Taylor, the leading
-four and grain house of Boston, Mass,
failed on the 10th for S500,000.
An explosion of dynamite a few davs
ago at stone quarries near Franklin, N. c.,
Killed Dock Robinson and Edwin Strong
and wounded four men, all colored.
JOHN Roe, a farmer near Carrolton, Mo-,
was shot and instantly killed a few even
ngS ago by Henry Baugh in quarrel
over a note.
WILLIE BLACK, aged six years, was
KILLED by the kick of man named D. w.
nret', at Philadelphia, a few days ago.
Inc lad accidentally ran against the man,
while playing, and the kicking followed.
BANK Of sand caved in at Pittsburgh,
Is'' the other day, burying two men, who,
Nneh recovered an hour later, were dead,
'uef bodies being badly crushed.
ADFlcES of the 11th state that heavy
rams had fallen in California, and the
iNerS were swollen, and there had been
many washouts. 1t would take four or
A'e days to repair the damages done to
railroads by the floods.
STATEMENT by the First Assistant
iuStmaster-General shows that during the
uale months ended March 81 last the post
Oluce receipts were S43, ,262, !, 446, falling off,
'> compared with the previous nine
months, of s., 246, ,246.
~ fresno, Cal, cyclone on the 18th
usnioIshed several buildings.
:. me oody OF an aged woman, Mrs. Cece-
IA murphy, was found on the 11th near
aisourg, Md, with the skull crushed
/ aua throat cut. Her premises had been
.yuOeu' and there were evidences of ter
mole struggle.
U0ehFH AGATE, retired New York mill
b;aaiie, committed suicide by shooting
Il. ,,llseii IN hotel in that city on the 18th.
- tsponaency over failing health was said
nave been the cause.
p express train on the Handle
r''au Went through a bridge near Dayton,
h., VI Tue Ilth, and the engineer, fireman,
vospse,maSter a.s,.,r and express messenger
,aa Aiiled. The accident was said to have
caused by train-wreckers.
co.l He "estmoreland and Pennsylvania
tssa ,uines' near Irwin Station, Pa, fif-
Il,t hundred coal-miners struck on the
cen. sAlliS' = reduction of twenty per
In lrbthN mutilated bodies were on the
min. '"Aen from the reopened Pocahontas
Of tba. neaF Lynchburg, Va, but only six
,49,l could be identified.
iavs United States during the seven
basina-1u sHueu on the 11th there were IT'S
nina 'sa failures, and in Cana la thirty
Reek s'inse total of 212 thu previous
tactnraa TEEN firms engaged in the manu-
h,5N0Oo sapor stoves, with a capital of
squsli,s nave formed combination to
IN MIS- eeaing was nprogress in South
Week IN ~ and Dakota on the 18th,
osa subs.asce bsance of last year. There will
Irian'lal increase in the acreage.
paav. baal blounced that a meat and ice com.
oeestsbl;sHea etbea by Eastern capitalists, will
vii shin u a. Columbus, Tex, which
& l0,;, dressed beef to New York. via
ii nd Ia ana viii also manufacture oleo.
elae. 1t was. said similar es.