Huntsville gazette., 1891-02-07
PARAGRAPviICALLY PRESENTED.
hreezy Eit&Sfrom Divers Directions A
Over the Country.

washington, d. c., has made an assign.
ment.
L. j. Tlhnan & Bro, dry goods, at
Decatur, Ala have made an assignment.
Liabilities, $1,000.
Farm work around Greensboro. Ala.
Is reported as being greatly behind. No
! land has been broken vet.
The shooting contest between the
north and the south will commence in
Richmond. Va, ON Feb, .2.
/ The Tailors' association of New York
Us about to wreak a terrible revenge on
t,Ne dudes who never pay for their
clothes
La grippe has not let up and the warm
weather does not help it any, ,as it is con-
ducive of fresh colds. There are many
cases in Montgomery.
Sixty employees in the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia shops, at Selma,
| Ala, were suspended the last day of
January. No cause is assigned.
The Alliance at Blacksburg, s. c., has
formed stock company and bought
one-third interest in the Whisnant Bros. ;
grocery and hardware establishment.
1t is authoritatively stated that II 900
cases of the ''grip" have been reported
to the health officers in Charleston, 8.
| c., as the number of cases in the city up
to date.
Leaf tobacco sold in Danville, Va, in
January amounted to 2,019, ,162 pounds.
| Sold since Oct. l, IL ,548, 900 pounds. In
| crease over the same period last year,
| 6OO, 900 pounds.
The Jail at Friar's Point, Miss, burned
| and three negro prisoners confined on
trivial charges perished. They started
the fire trying to burn the door down so
they might escape.
A COW belonging to Mrs. NJ E. Martin,
OF Lincolnton, Ca. went mad Saturday.
The COW ran everybody off the premises,
but she fell into ditch and broke her
neck before doing any damage.
The months Of December and January
were unusually disastrous to the Glou-
cester fishing fleet. Eight vessels of a
total tonnage of 81, ,249 tons have been
wrecked or lost in the two months.
The house Of Roger Williams, in Ith-
aca, n. Y, caught fire and was de
stroyed. The family were away. The
loss will reach $l0,0 The fire is sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
The contract for the construction of
the Danville and East Tennessee rail-
road, from Danville, Va, to Bristol,
Tenn. has been awarded to the Inter
state Construction company, of New
York.
Policeman Kraft shot Paul Richter,
white, in the leg Monday morning. mis-
taking him for burglar as he came out
IF or IN, h Tho ka1I
has been extracted. The wound is not
serious.
At Ford, on the Kentucky Central
Monday afternoon, Robert L. Thomas,
the well-known horseman, broke his leg
in attempting to board train. This is
the third time Mr.. Thomas has had leg
broken.
R. E. Fraser, banker at Georgetown,
S. c., has suspended. He will make an
assignment. A statement is to be sub
mItted to the creditors soon. His liabil-
tiles are not known, but are estimated
at $50. 600.
The most ineffective law on the stat
ute books of Georgia is that prohibiting
the sale of cigarettes to minors. The
boys smoke cigarettes just as if there
was no such law. The law is not two
years old yet.
Mr.. Bosanquest, young Englishman
visiting Florida, was bitten by rattle
snake and died. A friend who was with
him at the time the reptile struck him.
sucked the wound and he is in danger
GUS condition,
Receipts for customs received in New
York for the last eight days in January,
exceeded any previous like period for
years past. They amounted for imports
and Withdrawals from warehouses alto
gether to $5, 226, 1873.
A colony of Hebrews from Russia,
comprising 100 families, will arrive in
st. Paul and Minneapolis this week.
They were sent to the United States by
Baron Hirsch, who donated large sum
of money for the purpose.
Charles Lessing, of Philadelphia, just
dead, leaves by will 500, 900 to the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, to be used in
the purchase Of scientific works and ap-
paratus, and for free scholarships, ex-
clltding only therefrom scholarships of
theology.
Nicholas Van Vranken, freight con-
ductor on the New York Central railroad,
while attempting to board moving To-
comotive in Schenectady on Sunday
night, was knocked down and run over
and both his legs were cut off. He died
in half an hour.
The car washers, section hands, engine
wipers and lamp cleaners of the rail-
roads centering in Boston at a meeting
on Sunday voted to make an effort to Sc
cure uniform wage of s1.75 per day.
They constitute an assembly of the
Knights of Labor.
1t is said the Alliance leaders in Kan
sas are already beginning to talk of
Senator-elect PETER as the Alliance or
Third party candidate for president in
1892. Speaker Pro Tenn: Marchatt re-
marked that such thing would not be
at all out of the question.
Michael Eyrand, "the Stranger" who
in July, 1889, murdered Notary Gouffe
in Paris, was executed by the guillotine
Tuesday morning. The great knife
dashed downward, and the murderers
head fell away from his body and
dropped into a sawdust filled basket be-
meath the platform.
Out in Nebraska, and generally
throughout the states of the far west,