Huntsville Gazette, 1881-08-06

- A compound is descrtb«*d~iH<Mhe i preparation of what are term 'd, safety | envelopes. That part of the envelope covered by the flap is treated with a so so! - ! so! hit ion of chromic acid, ammonia, su I - 1 phurie acid, sulphate of copper, and line i white paper. The flap itself is coated j with a solution of isinglass in acetic ! acid, and when this is moistened aud pressed down on the under part of the envelope a solid oiunenl. is funned entirely insoluble in acids, alkalies, hot i or cold water, steam, etc. - A new celluloid hr said to be obtain obtained - ed obtained from well-peeled potatoes, which are treated for thirty rsix,hours with a sohi sohi: - : sohi: lion of eight parts of Sulpinirfc acid in 100 parts of water. Tho mass is dried ] between blotting-paper, and then press- t ed. It is further stalest that in Usance j smoking-pipes arc manufactured 0^0.4. , : this new material which are quite equal 1 in appearance to tho meerschaum. By I heavy pressure the material acquires such a hardness that billiard-balls cap ! be manufactured from it. - Investigations into the cause of dis disI - I disI ease in plants have been made on pear and apple.trees by Prof. T. J. Burrill. 1 His paper in tho July American Xatu Xaturulis! - rulis! Xaturulis! opens up a prospect that blight in i fruit trees can be combated successfully . , i by careful tests of the diseased parts and the use of a knife. He found the starchy particles in the bark of diseased pear trees full of bacteria, and succeeded in i inoculating healthy from diseased trees. « While cutting away infected parts the greatest care has to be taken lest healthy tissue become inoculated by the knife. The yellows of t Impeach tree are of the same nature, and the Lombardy poplar and aspen suffer from a similar disease. r - - I'ITU AM) POINT. - Beecher says Hades is a state rath rather - er rather than a place. Jersey, we'll hot. - Turner's Fulls llcporter. - Birdlings are very saltish creatures. They take the food right out of their mothers' months. - Motion lYnnterhpt. - We judge from accounts in almost 1 all of our exchanges that almost every everybody - body everybody has, at one time or another, been shot through the liver. - Ehnira Free Press. - . - - A Michigan editor received $000,OIL' ' from the administrator of the estate of ft ftdeceased - deceased ftdeceased subscriber, and to celdbrnte - the event caused his ollice towel to be washed. IIow often affluence leads to extravagance. - Detroit Free Press. - Now the chowder1,s in the pot, and the days are getting hot, and we all- be begin - gin begin to swelter with a sivelt, sWelt, swell!' While the crimson lemonade through straw enchants the maid, who displays a bunch of flowers at her belt, belt; belt. - Park.

The Kentucky State election, held on the 1st, resulted in the re-election of J. W. Tate as Treasurer without opposition, and J. II. Lewis, Appellate Judge, by a large majority. The election, except in a few places, was a quiet one, aud a small vote was polled. Returns show Republican gains in both Senators and Representatives. -- --The - The --The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says it is understood that since the shooting of the President sev several - eral several members of the Cabinet have received l threatening letters from persons who are evidently imbued with the belief that the Government owes them a living, and that where importunities have failed threats may succeed. -» -»Governor - Governor -»Governor Crittenden,of Missouri,, by proclamation, offers .jo,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of each person par participating - ticipating participating in the train robberies at Glendale, in October, 1870, and at Winston on the 15th of July, the latter robbery being attended with two murders. For the appre apprehension - hension apprehension of Frank James and Jesse W. James $5,000 is offered unconditionally, with $5,000 added upon their conviction for complicity in the crimes mentioned. In the House of Commons, on the 1st, Parnell was "named" for offensive language and for disregarding the authority of the Chair, and Gladstone moved his suspension for the remainder of the sitting. Parnell rose and interrupted Gladstone, and said he would not go through the farce of awaiting the vote, as the Speaker interfered with the freedom of discussion. lie then quitted the House. The motion for his suspension was carried - 173 to 14. -- --The - The --The London Lancet, in speaking of President Garfield's wound, says: "A por portion - tion portion of the dress may have been carried into the wound, and each abscess that forms is not only a direct source of danger from the pain and fever, and the danger of its spread spreading - ing spreading deeply, but with each there is a fresh liability of blood poisoning. It is quite im impossible - possible impossible to feel any certainty that we may not hear of another abscess or relapse, and it is of great importance that the patient's con constitutional - stitutional constitutional vigor should be maintained at as high a pitch as possible in view of future troubles. The absence of fever and exhaus exhaustion - tion exhaustion removes any cause for immediate alarm, but until the wound is quite healed and the bullet either removed or safely encysted, there will be liability to recurring abscesses, each attended with the risk of blood poison- I ins." ___ - m. -

Kent McNutt, Deputy Secretary ol State of Tennessee, was accidentally drowned at Nashville ou the 31st. A magazine explosion, with great loss of life, is reported from Mazutlan, Mex Mexico. - ico. Mexico. The building was situated in the cen center - ter center of the business portion of the town. The explosion completely razed the magazine and destroyed many houses in the immedi immediate - ate immediate vicinity, beside doing considerable dam damage - age damage to a number of others and killing a large number of people. Immediately after the explosion, the soldiers and citizens went tr work to recover the bodies of those known to be buried in the ruins. Seventy bodies were recovered, and among them was Fran Francisco - cisco Francisco l'eua, District Judge. The number ol killed and wounded was not known, as many bodies were said to be still buried un under - der under the ruins. A Washington dispatch of the 1st says Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dp Dpton - ton Dpton has returned to his desk in the Depart- j ment. He Tvill not, it is now understood, lie removed from his place; nor will Mr. Lamphere. - - - « - LATE NEWS ITEMS. The New York Htrald publishes statis statistics - tics statistics showing that there has been subscribed in the North and in Europe for investment in the South during the la-t eigli- teen months, $100,003,000. Mo-t of this money has been put into the States caM of the Mississippi aiul in the 1 country south of Richmond. It has gone mainly, of course, into railroads. But$2,000,- ' Ofio has lately been invested in cotton fac factories - tories factories in Augusta alone; and considerable sums have been lent to planters and to mer mercantile - cantile mercantile or industrial enterprises. It is rumored the British oflicials ob obtained - tained obtained their information regarding the con contemplated - templated contemplated shipment of infernal machines from America from a memorandum-book found in possession of McGrath, one of the men indicted for the attempt to blow up the Town Hall at Liverpool. Ex-Governor George Sauusburv, of Delaware, is dead. The Colorado Iron Works at Denver, wi'linearly all the machinery, burned on the 1st. Loss, $125,000; insurance, $11,500. - At Lexington, Ivy., Capt. C. M. Hen Hendricks, - dricks, Hendricks, of the police force, was shot dead in ; attempting to arrest Charles Steele, a negro saloon-keeper. Steele was arrested.

Another duel has been fought at Berlin, in which the combatants were a stu student - dent student and an officer of the army reserve. Weapons, pistols. The student was killed. This is the fifth affair of a similar character in Germany within a fortnight. It is reported that another plot against the life of the Czar lias been discovered in j St. Petersburg, a id several arrests made of ! conspirators. An cx-Nihilist who had be betrayed - trayed betrayed his companions has been assassinated in the outskirts of the capital. The persons who stole $200,000 from the Matanzas (Cuba) Bank have be^n cap captured - tured captured at Havana, and some of the booty has been recovered. Two accomplices arc still at large in Mexico, but their arrest is prob probable. - able. probable. Leading Fenians in Ireland indig indignantly - nantly indignantly deny that their brotherhood had any hand in the shipping of the explosives re recently - cently recently discovered in Liverpool, and condemn the resort to such diabolical stratagems. Tiie Chagres fever is decimating the laborers on Del.esseps' Panama Canal. William It. Dickinson and Joel Yanarsdalen, two Philadelphia lawyers, have been convicted of forging the will of Robert Whitaker, that $800,000 worth of an estate might fall into their own hands. Thomas Hums' saloon, at Cambridge City, Va., was pari ly demolished by a dy dynamite - namite dynamite torpedo that was exploded in the cellar by unknown parties, supposed to be temperance enthusiasts. The business portion of Lebanon, Tenn., has been destroyed by fire, and the village of Cattaraugus, N. Y., has suffered a similar calamity. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have held a State Convention and nominated a ticket headed by James M. Wilson, of Mer Mercer - cer Mercer County, for State Treasurer. A steamer from Havana, with one case of yellow fever on board, is quarantined at New York. The army of the Ameer of Afghanis Afghanistan - tan Afghanistan has been completely defeated by forces under Ayoob Khan. One df the Ameer's regiments deserted in a body during the fight and went over to the enemy. The dwelling of M. Silverstone, at Calais, Me., was damaged by fire on the29th. George Bradford was killed, Shubael Spin Spinney - ney Spinney probably fatally injured, and four others were wounded by falling chimneys.

I orphan children shall again have the care and the influence of a kind and gen gentle - tle gentle mother. The benign influences of the home circle shall soon again irradi irradiate - ate irradiate the atmosphere of this long-desolat long-desolated - ed long-desolated household. Joy shall sit at the threshold so long obscured by the gloom of affliction. The Herald,' too, shall have a new life. It shall bud and blos blossom - som blossom forth into the full fruitage of an un unprecedented - precedented unprecedented popularity in the sacred precincts of the scientific world. Whilst it shall not be every man's friend, it shall be no man's enemy. Whilst its independence shall never be questioned, its war department is hereafter and for forever - ever forever abolished. fts presiding genius shall be ' peace and good will to all m m mkind.' - kind.' mkind.' The official seal and stamp shall be affixed on the 13th of July, in Cov Covington. - ington. Covington. Ky. The editor and his bride have engaged passage on the steimship Lord (tough and will sail from Philadel Philadelphia - phia Philadelphia on the Kith of July, to return ab >ut the middle of September." - A Gentle Drunk. _ I " Be gentle with me," pleaded Nor Norman - man Norman Hail as he stood before the bar. " But you were drunk." " Yes, I presume, but it was a gentle drunk. No one heard me whoop. I uttered not a yell. When I found mv legs tangled up I softly slid into an al alley - ley alley and laid me down to sleep." " Do you get drunk very often? ' "Oh, no, sir. This is the lirst time | for twenty-two years, and it will be ; twenty-two years to my next spree." " That's a long time between drinks," mused the Court. "Yes, sir." * " Ami perhaps I can let you off this : time." " Thanks - thanks." " Should you come before me twenty twentytwo - two twentytwo years hence, however, I should make it warm for you." " You would that, but I shant come. \ Much obliged for your kindness, sir. I Some one robbed me of all my cash last night, and I've got the backache, the toothache and eleven miles to go on , foot, but my heart will ever have a warm corner for you, judge. Allow me-" "Go on! go on!" "Judge, allow me-" " Come, come - go on!" " Judge, allow me to remark that _} 1

and tlie flames extinguished. The Idlewild had just been thoroughly repaired and was loading for her last trip between Memphis and Arkansas City. She was owned by Capt. John 1). Adams, of Little Rock, and Capt. James H. Reese, of Pittsburgh, and valued at about $25,000; insurance $10,000. The Osceola llellc ran between Memphis | and Osceola. She belonged to the Lee Line; i was valued at $20,000, with no insurance. ! A small quantity of freight was destroyed, j A terrible accident occurred at Pe Peoria, - oria, Peoria, 111., on the night of the 30th. By the : explosion of an overcharged still at the , Woolner Brewery, eighteen persons were injured, over one-haIf of them fatally. The m.mcs of the kiliedand those who died soon 1 afterward from their injuries are as follows: ! Ignatz Woolner. one of the proprietors, and I Max Woolner, son of another proprietor; two sons of Wm. Yoelil (the father probably fatally injured); Henry Cassing, engineer; Henry Goetz, Charles Ueppener and August Briet, employees; John Kukland, a visiting brewer from Brooklyn, N. Y. August Ilet Iletler - ler Iletler and Wm. Rice, two other employees, are supposed to be fatally injured. John Murrays and his aged mother, who resided near Havana, 111., were driving j home from town in a wagon containing a I quantity of straw, when it is supposed the ) old lady dropped some fire from her pipe, j : which set the straw ablaze. She was burned i ! to death, and the son so badly burned that his life is dispaired of. Five incendiary fires at Iona, Mich., within a few weeks have destroyed much valuable property and greatly exasperated the citizens. On the 30th, the incendiary got in his work again by firing the Congre Congregational - gational Congregational Church, which was totally de destroyed. - stroyed. destroyed. The wife, daughter, and infant child of John Snyder, a planter living in Lee County, Ark., were drowned while crossing a bayou on a tlat-boat in Prairie County. They were seated in a wagon and the horses became restive and backed it off tlie boat. The entire business portion of White Hall, Muskegon County, Mich., was de destroyed - stroyed destroyed by fire on the night of the 29th. Loss about $130,000.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Nine persona recently made their es escape - cape escape from the Yell County Jail at Danville, Ark. Two only had been recaptured at last accounts. A telegram from Tunis says 1,'>00 Arabs have advanced to Padeuss, six kilo kilometres - metres kilometres from Goletta. Four Europeans and three Arabs have been murdered. There is great excitement. The Bey has ordered the removal of the bridge of boats between Go Goletta - letta Goletta and Padeuss. At Ash Grove, Iroquois County, 111., John Sampey, age! 15 years, accidentally killed his brother William, aged 11, ffiltp shot-gun, white "shooting at a target, mi Kickapoo Township, Peoria County, Minnie Walters, aged 10, was accidentally shot and killed by her 19-year-old brother while he was carelessly handling a revolver. Prof. Eastman, of the National Ob Observatory, - servatory, Observatory, says that the last new comet will soon he visible to the naked eye. "It will not be so far north as the other. We will he able to see it by and by, early in the evening in the west, and early in the morning in the east. It has something of a tail, which will grow more distinct. The comet is labeled as Comet C, being the third comet discov discovered - ered discovered this year. The comet up by the polar siar is the Comet B." The anti-Jewish crusade in Russia has led to the destruction of thirty houses inhabited by Jews in the villages of Borispol and Birizan, in the Government of Poltavia. The troops tired upon the rioter.-, killing four. Eugene E. Wight, who, with an ac accomplice, - complice, accomplice, murdered Mr. Carroll, a wealthy ranch owner, in Colorado, in 1875, for the purpose of robbery, has recently been ar arrested - rested arrested in Massachusetts and returned to the Colorado Penitentiary, whence he escaped after a brief confinement. The Irish land bill passed the House of Commons with only 14 negative votes. A majority of ilieConservatives and some Par Parnellites, - nellites, Parnellites, including Parnell himself, abstained from voting.

A Unique Marriage Announcement, Mr. Reynolds, of Louisville, married Miss Mattie Bruce, Wednesday night, and sailed for Europe Saturday. He is said by the reporter of the Courier-Jour Courier-Journal - nal Courier-Journal to have " only met Miss Bruce a l few months ago, but recognized his - fate," and the Doctor, though only thirty-nine years of age, holds high rank 1 in his profession, while "the bride looked altogether lovely, and in her | queenly bearing 'she walked in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.' " The following, reproduced by the i Courier-Journal, is a curious bit of liter literature - ature literature in this connection: A OHEERKCL aitobituart. In the Louisville Medical IJeral l of July the editor, who figures as best man, publishes the following: "The relations of an editor with those i to whom he is accustomed to send , monthly messages of cheer anil counsel become, in time, very tender, and surely i justify a generous personal confidence. , So wc beg our readers to give its their confidence while we speak for a moment 1 of home affairs: "To our readers: Know ye that the i life of a widower is not a happy one. The editor of the Herald, after*much re rellection, - llection, rellection, has resign the burden of wid widowerhood. - owerhood. widowerhood. He has been fortunate 1 enough to negotiate a life partnership which will hereafter enable him to sit upon the editorial tripod in blissful ignorance of the number of garments on the washing list for the current week, j and the number of pieces missing. He ! shall henceforth be a stranger to the business details of housekeeping. No more shall he spy the cobweb suspended from the ceiling; no more shall he at attempt - tempt attempt to boss the seamstress and ghe instructions to the cook; no more shall he have to sit at the hotel dining-table, waiting an hour for a cup of coffee. Per contra, life shall be woitli living. The fires of the domestic happiness shall be rekindled upon the hearthstone. The