Huntsville Gazette, 1881-06-18

Notwithstanding the fact that the Governor of Club has given a certificate of < * cl ion to Campbell, as Representative-elect from that Territory, Clerk Adams has placed tie n line of Cannon upon the roll of the new House, iiis action being based upon the fact that Cannon received an undisputed majori majority - ty majority of the votes cast, as certified to by the I'liilcd states Court at Salt Lake. M. J. Waldron, Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service of the Southwest- ! ern District, with headquarters at Memphis, ha> been indicted in tlie Federal Court at that city for conspiracy to defraud the Gov Government - ernment Government in securing mail contracts. The indictment was found on tlie testimony of a bidder of a river route in Louisiana, to whom it is alleged Waldron offered to secure a contract if paid a thousand dollars. Col. John A. Walsh, a star-route contractor, ha* begun a suit in Washington against Samuel P. Brown, on a $10,000 note, which it is alleged was given as i*irt pay for securing the "expedition'' of a mail-route. It is understood that the Government officials expect to obtain evidence through this suit of the connection between the contractors and the Po-t-office officials, and t he develop developnents - nents developnents are therefore awaited with no little Interest. A daring attempt to blow up the Town-hall at Liverpool, England, was made I en the night of the 0th. The police detected i two in n placing an iron pipe containing a : lighted fuse against the building. The otli otliivrs - ivrs otliivrs threw the pipe into the middle of the \ street, where it exploded, causing no dam- I age further than the shattering of a few i window-panes. The two men were subse subsequently - quently subsequently arrested and found to be well armed and supplied with money. They have been identified as Irishmen named McKev McKevett - ett McKevett and Roberts. -4» -4»Prof. - Prof. -4»Prof. Riley, of the United States i Entomological Commission, says the locusts now appearing in the We t and South are two distinct broods; one is the thirteen-year and tlie other the seventeen-year locusts,and j this is the first lime they have appeared in the same year since KiGO. Prof. Riley says these to u>ts can not do any damage except t° y°unS fniit trees, in the limbs of which i hey deposit their eggs. lie says the notion-i fhit these locusts sting human beings is a fallacy; that a species of digger-wasp feeds on these voting locusts, and people have been stung hv these wasps, from which the belief sprung that tlie locusts sting. He - «s Hu- locusts will suddenly disappear be before - fore before long. 1 he city of Quebec, Canada, was 'i-it' d by a.ni"s. destructive conflagration on tlie night of the 8 h, which originated at ":e ' oriier of >t. John and Oliver Streets and spread so rapidly that the Fire Department "as unable to cheek its progress until the entire quarter of the city known as the St. John suburbs, lying midway between St. an<l the Upper Town, bad been i-wept away. The greatest confusion reigned ml property spared by the flames was freely plundered by thieves. Several persons are !'no" n 10 have perished in the flames. Prob Prob*' - *' Prob*' -' buildings were destroyed# among . 1 mm ,'t. John's Catholic Church, the finest church edifice in the city. The total loss >' estimated at >1,500,000. The Legislative Assembly voted $100,n00 for the relief of suf suf*-Di>, - *-Di>, suf*-Di>, .ind large private subscriptions are 'sung made.

A number of workmen were badly scalded by the explosion of a boiler near Pottsville, Pa., the other day, three of ! whom can not recover. George C. Gatling, of San Fran Fran! - ! Fran! cisco, Cal., suspecting his wife of infideliiy, j decoyed her into a beer garden and stabbed \ her to the heart. A handsome female burglar, aged 18 I years, and named Frances Merch, has been 1 captured by the Cincinnati police and locked up. West Point (N. Y.) graduates were : addressed by President Garfield, Gen. Sher Sherman, - man, Sherman, and Secretaries Hunt and Lincoln, on the 10 th. A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says the Norwegian barque Mette Margoethe was wrecked off, St. PjuiJ's Island. The captain, : first officer, carpenter, two seamen and a boy i were drowned. J. Martin, a merchant of Belknap, i Tex., was called to the door of his residence ; by three men, seized and carried a short dis distance - tance distance from the house and shot dead. After killing Martin they went to his store and j ransacked it. During the eclipse on the night of I the 11th, about 200 men rode up to the Jail at Greensboro, N. C., and demanded ihe keys. The Jailer refusing to comply with their demands, they broke open the doors and seized John Taylor, a negro confined for an assault upon a white woman, whom they took off a distance of several miles and hanged to a tree. Two brothers, Rub and Sidney Pat Patrick, - rick, Patrick, living near Golden, Colo., quarreled over the ownership of a dog. Sidney shot and instantiy killed his brother. The mur murderer - derer murderer was arrested. A break in the Erie Canal, near Al Albion, - bion, Albion, N. Y., caused much damage on the 12th. - The water flooded- all that section, carrying away fences, bridges, etc., and working destruction in general. A woman and two children were saved by getting on a pig-pen, which floated about a mile before they were rescued. Wm. Henry, Samuel Buckner and Peter Cook were fatally injured at Lafayette, Ind., the other day. They were tearing down the roof of the Court-house, when it fell. The Italian exploring party which started from Assab Bay, Abyssinia, con consisting - sisting consisting of a subaltern officer, ten sailors and four soldiers, has been massacred in the inte interior. - rior. interior. A passenger train on the Ohio & Mississippi Railway, at Vincennes, Ind., dashed into a wagon containing three men. James Bradley was seriously injured and the others badly bruised. Miss Lizzie Hutchinson and Miss Cox were killed and Mr. and Mrs. Hutchin- 1 son injured by lightning while driving near Archer City, Texas. Andrew I). Robeson, nephew of ex-Secretarv Bobeson, of New Jersey, was killed by lightning near Hunnewell. Fans., on the 12th. His clothes were literally torn from his body, his watch-chained melted, and his face and body much t rn. Reimheiler, the German who shot and robbed A1 Angel, near Irish Grove, Mo., recently, was taken from Roekport Jail on the 10th by some twenty-five men and hanged. A colored boy who was bitten by a spider, at Natchez, Miss., the other day, died soon after in great agony. At Kingston, N. C., Quincy Gardiner and James Bryan engaged in a cutting affray which proved fatal to the former. They had taken up a quarrel begun by their wives, who were compelled to witness its sanguin sanguinary - ary sanguinary termination.

Colonel Scott's personal bravery was as great as his energy. As an illustra illustration - tion illustration of this the story is frequently told by the employees of the Pennsylvania road how he ran a train loaded with ammunition into Antietam just before the battle there. lie took charge of the train himself and ran it so fast that the wheels of both cars and locomotive began to smoke, much to the alarm of the brakemen. He would not stop, how how: - : how: ever, until the army was reached, despite the danger. He was married twice. His first wife was a Miss Mulison, of Columbia, Pa., and they began housekeeping when his salary was fifty dollars a month. After her death, more than twenty years ago, he married Miss Anna Riddle, daughter of the editor of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Commercial. He had two children by each, the eider in each ca%<J being a boy and the younger a girl. Those by his second wife are respectively eight and six years old. Colonel Scott, like many other Phila Philadelphian^, - delphian^, Philadelphian^, was never lacking in public spirit. He was ever ready both with his I time and money to serve his fellow-citi fellow-citizens. - zens. fellow-citizens. His connection with the public works of the Quaker City was ever hon honorable, - orable, honorable, and in one ease at least quite re remarkable. - markable. remarkable. When a new bridge was to be built over the Schuylkill River in 1*75 lie undertook the contract to have it ready at a certain time and at a certain price. He turned it over to the authori authorities - ties authorities a month sooner than was required, and subsequently he repaid to the city a large percentage of the contract price, explaining that the work had not cost so much as he anticipated. Colonel Scott held the following offices during his life: Collector *of Canal ; Tolls at Columbia, Pa., Chief Clerk in the office of Collector of Tolls at Phila Philadelphia, - delphia, Philadelphia, General Agent of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Superintendent of the same road, Vice-President of the company, Colonel of the District of Columbia Volunteers, Chief of Government Rail Railways - ways Railways and Telegraphs, Assistant Secre Secretary - tary Secretary of War, Colonel and Assistant AssistantQuartermaster - Quartermaster AssistantQuartermaster on General Hooker's staff, Chief of Transportation, President of the Pennsylvania Company, President of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, President of the Union Pacific and the Atlantic & Pacific Railroads, and Direc Director - tor Director of the Southern Railway Security Company. - New York Graphic.

Official dispatches to Oran, Alge Algeria, - ria, Algeria, state that General Dctrie defeated a body of insurgents, killing fifty. The French had two wounded. The Iron Mountain brakemen struck at Little Rock on the 13th. Officer Thomas Mahoney was shot dead at Chicago on the morning of the 13th by a burglar whom he undertook to arrest. An earthquake has devastated thirty thirtyfour - four thirtyfour villages in Armenia. One hundred per persons - sons persons are reported killed and sixty injured. Allison, the scout, says Sitting Hull's camp is about 175 miles north of the border line, and comprises less than one hundred persons. Those reds who surrendered last winter have petitioned for a new agency o:i Grand River. R. II. Neal, who robbed the San An Antonia - tonia Antonia (Texas) Building Association of .f 11, - 000, and subsequently forfeited his bond, has been arrested at Cartersville, Ga., where he was traveling for a safe manufacturer. Another shock of earthquake at Scio overthrew a minaret and injured two men. A tremor in the valley of the upper Rhone extended as far as Geneva. ' Blue Earth City, Minn., experi experienced - enced experienced its most violent storm on the 12: b. Five inches of water fell in one hour. Trees were uprooted and buildings demolished, but no great damage to the crops by bail is reported. Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee, of Lttra, were killed. The barn of L. J. Praber, in the same town, was unroofed, burying bis daughter in the ruins. She was taken out in an unconscious condition, and her inju injuries - ries injuries may prove fatal. Michael J. Houston, age 66, and his son Michael, age 30, were suffocated by foul air in a well at Frederick City, Md. At Maysville, Ky., George Evans, a colored bootblack, aged 17, went to see his sweetheart, Ada Brown, a girl about bis own age. During the evening they quar quarreled, - reled, quarreled, and in a tit of jealous rage he drew a plbtoi aird sh'-t hor i:i> tbs f. c". vvAL-tieg a serious wound. lie then ran to the river, shot himself through the lung, and plunged in. He was rescued, but was not expected to live. Near Paducah, Ky., a negro boy died from eating mulberries poisoned by locusts depositing their eggs upon them. From the same cause several others were made very sick. A shooting affray occurred at Heel Heelstring - string Heelstring Church, KUis Conn v, Texas, on li e 12th. Several shots were exchanged, and one of the assaulting parties was mortally wounded.

The Lawyer's Boy. Anybody who thinks that the boy em employed - ployed employed around a lawyer's office has nothing to do but empty the paper bas basket, - ket, basket, run to the post-office, sweep the room and read the jokes of Blackstone, is grandly mistaken. A boy - that is, a prize of a boy, and one that will event eventually - ually eventually become a great lawyer himself - - has a heap on his mind, and no time for sling-shots or tops. Yesterday while a Detroit lawyer was in court, with his boy in charge of the office, a newspaper man y 10 was hunting through the Mof Moffat - fat Moffat i'''H'k stumbled upos the, young at-, tornev and was received with: " Come right in. The papers in your case are ready to be signed." " What case?" "Application for divorce." " But I'm not the man." "Ain't you? Well, you look like him. Let's see? Are you the defendant in the Jones vs. Brown case of trespass? If so, I am to tell you that 'the case is put over until next Saturday, at the samo hour in the afternoon." "No, l am not Brown." "Well, that's ail right. Let's see again? I was to tell Ryan that his case against Feters for slander would not come on this term, and to suggest that he amend his declaration. You have not given the dates whereon the de defendant - fendant defendant called you a 'reptile' and a 'sneak.' " "But I am not Ryan." " Is that so? That's too bad, but per perhaps - haps perhaps you can't help it. Was it your wife who eloped with a man named Blake?" " No." " Then yon are not Mr. Clem. I was to tell him that he forgot to state the particular time at which he first noticed a coldness in her demeanor. Let's see? Oh! there's that bigamy case. I was to say to the defendant that the prosecu prosecution - tion prosecution appear to have hunted up and got hold of the testimony of a third female who claims to have married you in To Toledo - ledo Toledo in 18t>4, and that your case looks shaky. We will, however, do our best to pull yon through, as we do all our clients." "You are off again; lam not the m - " "Dear me, that's another. Well, all right. I was to say to any new client that Mr.-would be back in an hour. I Come in and sit down and look over the City Directory. We will take your ease at the lowest cash price and d > our level l est to win it. Consult no other firm rfchtii yOu haVe'glven ns a trial. - Detroit Free Press.

- Dr. William James, the Harvard Professor and brother of Henry James, Jr., has been giving practical talks to the students on physiology and hygiene. As to the vexed question whether alco alcohol - hol alcohol is food or not, the Professor thinks that it takes the place of food by tem temporarily - porarily temporarily reducing the normal demand for it, but that "this effect is not de desirable - sirable desirable " or consistent with periect health. - A special committee of the English Institution of Mechanical Engineers have set forth the followingexplanatioii of the hardening of steel: Referring to the generally held opinion that ordinary steel contains a certain proportion of oc occluded - cluded occluded gases consisting of hydrogen, ni nitrogen, - trogen, nitrogen, and carbonic oxide, they suggest that the application of heat expels these gases through minute fissures, and that sudden cooling shuts the door, so to speak, to the re-entrance of these gases, and perhaps forces out what of them may remain in the metal, thus render rendering - ing rendering it harder and denser than before. When the metal is reheated the gases are reab-orbed, and the various changes it undergoes in consequence are indicat indicated - ed indicated by variations in color. - The Agricultural Department has received samples of jute fibre prepared by American machinery from green stems grown in Virginia. It satisfacto satisfactorily - rily satisfactorily solves the problem that has engaged the attention of the Department for over ten years. The fibre is largely used in the manufacture of gunnybags, paper, rope*, carpets, bagging, and oilcloths. It will be impossible to glut the market with it, as its use is so diversified and essential. The plant can be successfully grown in any section south of New York. For several years it has been raised in the Carolina*, Georgia, and Virginia. To clean and prepare the fibre by hand for market is a slimy and profitless business, and the American laborer in this work could not compete with the women, chil children, - dren, children, and other cheap labor of the East Indies. A machine to do the work was essential to make the cultivr'ion of jute a success on American soil. The Com Commissioner - missioner Commissioner is satisfied that such a machine has been invented.

Reminiscences of Colonel Scott. Colonel Thomas A. Scott died worth about $13,000,000. He might have been much richer had he cared to be so. But he was in the habit of saying that $10, $10,000,000 - 000,000 $10,000,000 were quite enough for any one man to possess, and rather too much for any one to leave to his heirs. Colonel Scott's administrative and sxecutive abilities, were of the first order. He knew how to do everything himself, and he inspired his subordinates with his own energy and belief that whatever was necessary was possible. He pos possessed - sessed possessed in a remarkable degree the affec affection - tion affection of his subordinates and associates, and he had a way not only of making friends but of keeping them. Simon Cameron early learned to ap appreciate - preciate appreciate his abilities, as also did Presi President - dent President Lincoln in the spring of 1801, when the outbreak at Baltimore severed rail railroad - road railroad communication between Washing Washington - ton Washington and tue Northern and Eastern cities. Cameron, who was then Secretary of War, telegraphed to Scott that "a man of great energy and decision with ex experience - perience experience as a railway officer" was needed to restore the broken communications, and that he was just the man for the place, and he fully justified Cameron's | high opinion of him, for before the Pres Presdent - dent Presdent and the country fairly realized the nature of the work, a new railway line between Washington and Philadelphia, by way of Annapolis, was opened, and troops from New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania came pouring in for the defense of the Capi Capital. - tal. Capital. For this he was made Colonel of llie District of Columbia Volunteers, and subsequently Chief of all Government railways and telegraphs and Assistant i Secretary of War.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. County Judge Harris, of Perry County, Ark., and John L. Mathews, editor of the Perry ville Timex, have been forced to leave their homes on account of threatened violence. The trouble originated in the prosecution, by order of Judge Harris, of two delinquent Deputy Sheriffs, Green Myers and James Isham. The Times published several articles reflecting upon the delin delinquents, - quents, delinquents, soon after which an attempt was made to burn the printing-office. The Judge and the editor then received written notice through the Post-pflLe to leave the town within fifteen days, under the penaltj1" of death. They left. Jtklge Harris arrived at Little Rock and had an in erview with the Governor, who promises him all the assist assistance - ance assistance needed to protect the lives of threat threatened - ened threatened parties and to maintain the law. Anthony W. Gardner has been elected President of Liberia, and Rev. W. F. Russell, Vice-President. They are pledged to the education of the masses and numerous other needed reforms. A Philadelphia patent-lawyer, Mr. Connelly, is said to have received .fA'>0,000 from the Bell Telephone Company for a sim simple - ple simple device, of his invention, by which a cen central - tral central telephone office can be done away with. .Toe Flint, a notorious Chicago thief, received fatal injuries while trying .to escape from two de ectives at Kansas City, Mo. ne was run over by a train which he attempted to board, both legs being severed. Hayes White, colored, the murderer of Sheriff Beattie, of Crittenden County, Ark., was hanged at Marion on the lOih. A jian named Herman and his son were killed by lightning near Baltimore, Md., on theOtli. Another had a thigh broken and several others were stunned by the shock.