Huntsville Gazette, 1881-09-17

PERSONAL AXl* GENERAL. A Panama diapatoh says : In a light at Matagalpa,'between about. 5,000 Indians on one side and.a detochmeig- $C troops and some, 150 citizens on the otherv the In Indians - dians Indians lost 500 killed and wounded. The oth other - er other party hatl twenty-eight killed and a num number - ber number wounded. Previous to this fight the Indians attaekod EsqiiipaU,' and killed the .Cjapkiiu in command, a commissary, and a ypung telegraph operator named Vega. The slaughter of various individuals followed,, some of them Indians who bad refused to join the mareonteiits,' and horrible outrages were inflicted upbii others. The Jewish World says: Russia is at last taking active steps to suppress vigor vigorously - ously vigorously any further outrage on the Jews. The village of Reichenbach, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, Was almost destroyed by a fall of stones; Tiie Memphis Cotton Exchange's bulletin for August, reports generally unfa unfavorable - vorable unfavorable weather, on account of, excessive drouth plant fruiting badly, with serious shedding of forms an<J boUA- Worms have appeared in some localities, but no serious damage from this cause is apparent. A Denver dispatch of the 9th says: The police last evening unvested five women and1 three men belonging to a notorious band of robbers, and detectives are on the track of other members, who are operating in other towns. This band is mostly from Missouri and Kansas, where they are said to have blown open over fifty safes within two years. Over $5,000 worth of plunder was recovered among them. Rid Laurcas, the supposed leader, was among the eight ar arrested. - rested. arrested. Sidney Lanier, the poet, died on the 8th at Lynn, Polk Couuty, N. C., where he had gone to recruit his health. Five murderers were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., bn the 9th, for crimes commit committed - ted committed in the Indian Nation. They were Ambs and Abner Manly, Cfeek Indians, aged re respectively - spectively respectively 19 and 20, and Wm. Brown, George W. Padgett and Patrick McGowan, white men. Owing to the number of recruits re required - quired required to till the army to its authorized strength, the standard for artillery and in infantry - fantry infantry is fixed at five feet four and upward, ! weight 120 to 190 pounds; for Cavalry, five feet four to five feet ten, weight not to ex exceed - ceed exceed 165 pounds. Recruits and officers are being ordered to Arizona. Near Savannah, Ga., Engineer Ed Edward - ward Edward King was instantly killed and fireman Thomas Mattox mortally wounded by an accident caused by an open switch. The wood-passer was seriously wounded in the head, but will recover. The Georgia Legislature has passed a temperance bill. It provides that on a peti petition - tion petition of one-fourth of the qualified voters of any city in the State, the people in said municipality shall have a right to hold an election to decide whether intoxicating li liquors - quors liquors shall be sold in the limits.- It also pro provides. - vides. provides. that no intoxicating liquors shall be sold at any given poipt in the county, except with the consent of a majority of the quali qualified - fied qualified voters living within three liples. A serious accident happened" on the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexfngtoh Short Shortline - line Shortline Railroad, on the night of the 8th, caus causing - ing causing the death of seven persons and the seri serious - ous serious injury of several others. The train to which the accident occurred left Louisville at 5 p. m. AVhile approaching the bridge over Floyd's Fork, a few miles beyond An Anchorage - chorage Anchorage Station, the locomotive struck a cow with such force as to throw the entire train off the track. It continued to course along by the roadbed until it reached the bridge, which was wrecked by the concussion, and bridge, train and all went into the chasm, about thirty feet below. The train consisted of two passenger-coaches, baggage-car and locomotive, and had about 100 persons on board. Nearly every one on board was more or less hurt. Those taken dead from the wreck were: Col. F. Neel, Robert Jones, Wm. Maddox and AATilter Scearce, of Shelbyville; Jas. F. Harding, of Simpsonville; Mike Perry, of

of (tlendale. Las been taken into custod) under suspicion of being'lhipHcutetr in the robbery, j., , ( , The strike of the cotton-handlers at Aew Orleans culminated in a serious riot on .the 10th.: The Mayor, finding bis imlice force insufficient to quell the; clisUurliance, has called upou the Governor for troops. Reports have been received of the robbery of the village of Bates Wty, sevefi miles east of Blue (Jut, the scene of the re recent - cent recent train robbery on the Chicago & Alton Railroad. Two men, hcaVTTy. ;ftinea and wearing masks, rode into thn tmvVi, a vil village - lage village of about 150 inhabitants, ami,, drawing and firing'their weapons'began an indis indiscriminate' - criminate' indiscriminate' pillage of the place. 'Hie inhab inhabitants, - itants, inhabitants, it is said, offered uo.resjstance, and tlrfe robbers after securing their booty re retired. - tired. retired. i - Aaieavy storm visited thNwille, Ya., on the 11th. Trees and fence** weee blown down, also the Confederate Military Hospi Hospital, - tal, Hospital, injuring several colored people. Two freight trains ort the Littte Mia Miami - mi Miami ltailr.oad collided near Cincinnati on the 10th.'. James Simon, fireman, was killed, and the locomotive was bafal£ wrecked. A dispatch from Washington says: Sergeant Mason, of Battery B, 2d Artillery,, 1 relieving the guard at the Jail tm the 11th, sbotat Gniteau through thfc Window of his cell and came near killing him. The ball grazed his head aud was imbedded in the cell wall. Mason was promptly arrested, taken,to the Arsenal and incafffcrstcd. At Hot Springs, Ark., the other day, a colored boy commtited.nn assault on Mrs. J. W. Parker, a lady nearly seventy years of age. -'He was arrested'and-lodged in jail. Next morning a party of masked ipen re rei - i rei paired to.tlie prison with ti View'of lynching the culprit. The colored people got the news aud were hid in the woods. As the masked mfn approached Ibe colored 'men fired upon them about one hundred shots. A few jskots were fired gt laudom by the white men, who were compelled to with withdraw. - draw. withdraw. About one-half of the colored men broke aud ran. One white man was wounded. The St. Louis Railroads on the 10th adopted a rate of $12 to New York and $13 to Boston, and a proportionate rate to other Eastern points, in order to meet the Chica Chicago - go Chicago cut. Richard S. Jeffreys, .ope of the most prominent criminal lawyers of Geor Georgia, - gia, Georgia, recently committed suicide at the resi residence - dence residence of liis brother at White Sulphur Springs, Ala. He had long suffered from a distressing nervous affection. ' t The Eastern Line steamer eolnmbia, bound from Chicago to Coiljngwwd, Cana Canada, - da, Canada, foundered off Frankfort, Mich., on the night of the 10th, and fifteen persons were drowned- ; * A land-slip is reported neat; the vil village - lage village of Elm, Switzerland. Two hundred persons were killed and thirty houses de destroyed - "' - stroyed - "' destroyed - "' - A mob nunibering nearly a- hundred men rode into Dardanelle, Ark., the other day, and, surrounding the jail, where two murderers, Taylor and Bruce, were con confined, - fined, confined, overpowered the guards, secured the Keys of the prison, and taking the prisoners out, hanged them to a tree.

wire, mu lar mpre.tBan tnis to entitle lier to the just mipae'qi' Jierjujne. Her husband was s^qt" dejid; she washer washerself - self washerself wounded in'-lRe 'head, and so was her little daughter.. r matter liow serious her owuwrouiicl was, it is quite certain that her f child 'k ibjtHry was not very severe, or she would not -have left it even for an instant. There were, however, cries- so poignant, so search searching, - ing, searching, so full of exquisite anguish,that this; good woman was irresistibly roused to' the grand duty of humanity.' Thinking Thinkinglittle - little Thinkinglittle of her own wound, leaving the body of her dead husband, '--and com-, forting her injured child, this tidier's wife became for the moment a saint.-In what she did she was dead to the world and all its selli-hness, and she; became transcendent, if the story told be true. Her child had been wounded ; but there were others who would have died had it not been for the heroic devutlon of lliis noble creature. Her call was not to the dead but to the dying. ' A iiarse was wanted, and she could not turn a deaf car to so many sad appeals- While the light lasted the wife of the dead band bandmaster - master bandmaster busied herself with her hus husband's - band's husband's dying comrades. She brought them water when they were parched with thirst; she stanched their gaping wounds; while men were crying for help around her, she tore up her own clothing and bound it around the bleed bleeding - ing bleeding limbs; she, neglectful of her own sorrow, appeared where she was most needed, comforting others, while her heart was dead within her breast; and it was not until the din of battle, like some terrible thundercloud, had rolled away that the reaction came, and with it the horror of her forlorn condition. - 1 London Telegraph. . .: i The Truth Saved Him. As Mr. -T. H. Ridabock was returning home to Greenwich on Sunday night, accompanied by Mr. Swan, who lives (when he is at home) over the way, he was run into and his buggy upset, both j men being thrown out. The covered vehicle doing the damage, occupied by : a young couple, passed down the road a , short distance and stopped, the sterner one of its occupants returning to see if the men were hurt or the carriage dam- j aged. "I am willing," said he, "to pay the damage, and l am glad you are not j injured personally.'' "Well,'' said Mr. , Ridaliock, as he exainfned his vehicle as best lie could in the dark. "I don't 1 care as long as my horse is-not injured, i but how came you to mu into us and , we giving you the whole toad?" "Well, to tell the truth, I had my arms around the girl and she was 'driving; it's all my fault, and I am willing to pay the damage." "I wpn't efiargeyou a cent , if you will tell me who the girl is," said Mr. Ridabock. "I won't tell that," said the stranger; "I'll pay first." "You, may go," said the man whose buggy . was injured; "I won't charge you, any anyway. - way. anyway. You act like a man. I believe i you tell the truth, too." - Muni ford ; (Ckmn.) Advocate.

-CTEWet \\D I'Vm ftTUV, , --The meat,, peWerfufass»4fesiecatiug agent, known is anhydrous pliOsphorit acid. - A mixture of one pari of alcohol . and- nine parts of oiysUbhaed -carbolic acid is stated to afford great relief in cases of bites frotrr insects. - A row of gun-cotton reaching from Edinburgh to London,'it-is said, could be tired iu two minutes, so rapid is the transmission of detonation from onp part/ to-another. - The ammonia ioe machines used by the Bgst Brewing Company of. Milwau Milwaukee - kee Milwaukee coobthe beer so - satisfactorily that t the company will.no longer store foe for th$tPVPMC. isdAs lew V fciande - Prof.; Sartori, of Ti'eyi^>,,yiiui*^ to have discovered a process by Which Ita Italy - ly Italy .will save $100,000,000 a *year in the matter of silk-worm^. , Tho.Ei.ug or ordered - dered ordered at his own expense a movable house for reproducing tli'e fern-ms on this process.- It isvery -difficult to "push" anything new in Italy ^ the pco pcoi - i pcoi pfe are so behindhand: - Complaints are made all over the West that wire fences attract lightning, which often results in the killing oi stock. The stock imagine that the fence affords protection from the storm and ^courdingly hudd let <?l<tee np>f<n-it. One instance is given wl»qpe si*t,j*-iiv,<? head of* sheep were Ifitled'm Nebraska at a single stroke, anil another Where tei head, of.cattle were killed. . . Since the introduction. ,yf. dyuauio dyuauioelcctric - elcctric dyuauioelcctric machines a good many valuable watches have been almost completely ruined, by having . their works magnet magnetized. - ized. magnetized. - Mr. Maxim, the electrician, has. however, invented a maehjue, now at the Paris Exhibition, which in a few minutes completely -demagnetizes a which, leaving it as free in i{s, move movement® - ment® movement® as evefv - M. de Bisschbp has wbti a prize- of 1,000 franes, or $200, for a small lnotor suitable to use in families. ; His .engine is worked by gas, .-^n<| the, operatien costs, at the prices current In Pans, two cents. an hour, for machines doing a work of bti-17 foot-pounds pet sec oral, five - cents an hour ' fpr maphjnes per perforaiing - foraiing perforaiing atthe rate of 180:<i foot-pounds per second. The smaller machines are for $100; the larger on«s for $ 180. - The high price of toughened - glass and the scare about its explosion in the i form of chimneys, tumblers-; etc:, has hindered its progress. j>juw Mr. Sie Siemens - mens Siemens proposes to adapt it to lamp-posts, water, mains, etc. ITehMinil that it is stronger than iron eastings, imperisha imperishable - ble imperishable and incorrodible. ^The cost "j/br pound is'donble that of iron, nut the specific gravity so *1110111 less'that <lie average of goods will come one-thus! cheaper.

The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention nominated Gen. S. M. Bailey, of Fayette County, for.Treasurer, the only State office to be filled at the com coming - ing coming election. The nominee is known as a Cameron man. Hon. Franklin Reed, the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic Congressional candidate in the Lew Lewiston - iston Lewiston District, Maine, has withdrawn from the canvass. Judge Gilbert will now re-, ceive the united anti-Iiepublican vote, and the canvass promises to be close and excit exciting. - ing. exciting. The Utes have been started for their new reservation in Utah. The White River Utes went peacefully, but the Uneompahgre braves demurred to their proposed removal, and were only persuaded to go by a threat to turn them over to the military. Settlers have already begun to flock into the aban abandoned - doned abandoned reservation in Southern Colorado. At a meeting held by the Virginia Republican State Executive Committee, chosen at Lynchburg by the Coalition Con Convention, - vention, Convention, resolutions were passed calling up upon - on upon Goverment officials in Virginia for two per cent, of their salary for a campaign fund. The assessment, it is explained, is not obligatory upon those called on. Several prominent representatives of the Govern Government - ment Government in the State have been named to col collect - lect collect the fund. 1 The Forth German Gazette says the Government during the next session of the Landtag intend to present proposals for the re-establishment of the Prussian Legation at the Vatican, which has been informed, of this intention through Von Schloezer. It may be presumed the Pope is willing to continue in permanent relations with Prus Prussia - sia Prussia through such Legation, which would en enable - able enable present or future differences to be more easily arranged. France Chandler, the present Gen General - eral General Passenger Agent of the Missouri Paci Pacific, - fic, Pacific, has been appointed General Passenger Agent of the Gould Southwestern system, comprising the Missouri Pacific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Iron Mountain, Interna International - tional International & Great Northern and Texas Pacific and their branches and extensions. O. W. Ruggles, at present General Passenger Agent of the Iron Mountain, is appointed Assist Assistant - ant Assistant General Passenger Agent of the whole system. __

A Soldier's AyilVs Heroism. The good ship Castlo has just I trough home to Portsmouth a very re remarkable - markable remarkable woman, Who is a fit and proper candidate for the newly-appointed order of St. Catharine, so^ghlyasteemed by nursing sisters who bear an English name. From the same vessel was re recently - cently recently disembarked Major MeGregor, of the Royal Engineers, who advanced up the Majuba hill that fata?day with 120 I men, but only brought back three to tell ! the story Qf live disastrous engagement; but of all those on board there was nu i more notable person-than 'Sirs. Smith, j the widow, of the band-master of the t Ninety-fourth Regiment of foot, who ! has so acted'as richly to deserve the title of heroine, even in days when chivalry is, comparatively speaking, a dead let letter. - ter. letter. Details have yet to be supplied in order to account for tin? "presence Of Mrs. .Smith at the battle of BvunkerVs Spruit. A soldier's wife is seldom at the front. Ifer heart, indeed, is there, but her loving-eyes arA Spared the hor horI - I horI rors of the actual. conflict. - Sho is at home, tortured with an intolerable long longi - i longi irt£,or creeping as far a* she dare to the din and turmoil olbattle: but.as a rule she has to w$it jail *the vest of us hear the upshot by word of mouth ten tenderly- - derly- tenderly- conveyed, or 'by * the idtt uncer uncertainty - tainty uncertainty contained in a telegraph dispatch.* The wife of the band-master, in one of. our line regiments', appears to have been an exception to this inevitable rule, for she was not only here whenfighting, took place,'but was accompanied by her little daughter, three-ychrs'bbi. 'At the battle of Rrunketi# fcjptijit ihe husband of this marvelously' brave w'opiaa was shot dead at hfef sitrei 'Such a shock j would be enough to-paralyse, a woman ! of ordinary nerve ami render her for a ! moment helpless. Tdieaye so attached | a friend, and, as the? ancient/-iised to j say, "so deal- a head,'' amid the agoniz agonizing - ing agonizing horrors of the blood-stained battle battle! - ! battle! field, is rrot whaF many women | could or wOnld have:* done, no: matter how strong; their inclina inclination - tion inclination or sense ef' duty. But' brave Mrs. Smith, the - baha-master's

Governor Crittenden, upon re receipt - ceipt receipt of intelligence concerning the recent train robbery near Glendale, Mo,, at once is issued - sued issued an official proclamation calling upon all law-abiding citizens to use their earnest en endeavors - deavors endeavors to capture the outlaws. The Gov Governor - ernor Governor also proceeded to Kansas City and put himself in communication with the county officers who had already entered upon the pursuit at the head of large posses of mounted men. It was ascertained beyond a doubt that the robbery was the work of lo local - cal local desperadoes, and the officers were not long in arresting a number of suspected parties, of whose participation in the robbery there seemed to be no doubt. The loss to passengers on the robbed train in money and valuables will exceed $15,000. The exact amount of the Express Company's loss is not obtainable, hut is supposed to be somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000. The President's physicians apparent apparently - ly apparently disagree as to the eause and extent of the difficulty with his right lung. Dr. Boynton is quoted as saying (on the 12th): "There is no doubt but that an abscess has formed on the President's right lung, but if no further trouble of a similar nature occurs 1 think the patient has sufficient vitality to over overcome - come overcome it. The trouble is not materially worse now than before we left Washing Washington. - ton. Washington. I attribute the complication to -chronic blood-poisoning. " Dr. Bliss holds that the difficulty with the lung is merely a "limited tubular intlammation, caused by the wound or track of the bullet; that there are no indications of an abscess, and j that the patient's vitality will over overcome - come overcome the complication. The glandu glandular - lar glandular swelling has entirely subsided and the wound is apparently in a healthy condition and healing splendidly. " All ac accounts - counts accounts agree that this was one of the Presi President's - dent's President's best days since he was shot. He was feeling so well, in fact, that Postmaster PostmasterGeneral - General PostmasterGeneral James had quite a long interview with him and was very favorably impressed with the improvement that had taken place.

dustry. Prof. King, with six companions - five journalists and a Signal-service observ observer-made - er-made observer-made an ascension from St. Paul on the evening of the 12th. Next day the balloon was anchored in the woods, four miles from the starting point, gas escaping, and the party domiciled at a farm-house.; Jesse L. Wartman, the Deputy Col Collector - lector Collector of Customs at Cincinnati, has been suspended from oflice. There is a defieil in his accounts of from $8,500 to $10,00, which arose, as is alleged, from the robbery of his safe in 1879, during a parade iu honor :of General Grant. The money lost is dim .to the railroad companies. " ", ' ( Dr. H. G. Cantrell and his son, Bud Cantrell, became involved in a (litHcul (litHculty - ty (litHculty with J. W. Cox about the renting of land in Parker County, Texas. The parties quar quarreled - reled quarreled and fought, Cox killing both the Can Cantrells - trells Cantrells and being badly wounded. A party of fifty tramps boarded a Pennsylvania freight train near Harrisburg and threatened vengeance if any attempt were made to put them off. The train was delayed until a car-load of police could be trail-ported to the scene of trouble, when nearly twenty of the tramps were cap captured. - tured. captured. At Richmond, Va., st three-story brick building in course of erection for the Richmond & Allegheny Railroad Company fell, and several workmen were injured, fpur seriously Wm. W. Warren, a plumber, w** killed and Marcellus Mosley fatally injured. The disaster is attributed to a badlv-planned roof, which was crushed in bv the weight of the slates.