The Newtown bee., 1879-04-08
Western and Southern States.

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 Western and Southern States.
 Judge J. NJ. Elliott, of the Kentucky court ofappeals, rendered decision advorseto q oase which Henry Buford had in court at Frank fort. Buford thereupon loaded double-bar roled shotgun and waited in tho street for Elliott to como to dinner, and walked up and shot him drought the heart without warning, killing him instantly. Buford acknowledged that the other barrel of the gun had been loaded for Judgo Pryor. and he would have killed him nlso had not some children been in the way. He was arrested.
 Bill Howard, n colored man, who assaulted twelve-year-old girl at Fort Scott Kansas, was taken forciby from the jail by crowd of 1000 persons, dragged to lamp-post and hanged, after which his body was burned.
 William T. Wallace ex-sheriff of Hamilton county, Ohio, has been indicted for embedding S23,000 of the county funds,
 Twelve thousand persons were present at the hanging of Knox Martin, the coIored mur- deror of Whittenmeycr and wife, at Nashville, Tenn. Knox made Q full confession of his crime, After death his body was turned over 10 the doctors, who made an unsuccessful at tempt to rc5uscitate him.
 About twenty buildings, constituting nearly the ontire business part of Seneca h. have been destroyed by fire, entailing estimated hSSS VI ffHVINOO'
 Reports from nearly every county in Ohio, lndiuua and Kentucky indicate that the wheat crop in those States will be bounteous, while there IS a poor prospect for peaches and apples.
 At tho burning of the Fairchild block, in Madison, Wis, twenty firemen and citizens were more or less seriously injured by two explosions,
 At Lebanon, Tenn, II. Y, Riddle member of tho last Congress, committed suicide by glfgNFNf faVNh in & fit of temporary insanity.
 The Licking county (Ohio) courthouse, e handsome structure with four fronts, standing in tho center of tho public square at Newark and just finished at a cost of $200, 900, caught nro In the cupola from gas jet which was used to illuminate the clock. The greatest portion Of tho building was destroyed. The loss is estimated at from $60, 900 to $75OOO.
 Six miles north of Decatur, Il., a wagon containing man named Robinson his two daughters and Mrs. Jones Nye was struck by lightning, Robinson and his daughter Kate, nged sixteen years, were instantly killed Mrs Wye was thrown to the ground unconscious
 Governor Marks, of Tennessee, has signed the bill providing for tho settlement of the State debt at fifty cents on the dollar and four per cent interest.
 Fourteen moonshiners have been captured md Q number of illicit whisky stills destroyed in Eastern Kentucky by revenue officers.
 Destructive prairie fires in portions of Iowa md Dakota are reported A merchant from Eden from his store door counted thirteen farm houses in flames at once, and he says that more than forty farmers in that vicinity have lost everything-houses, barns, seed grain, etc. | The fro travelled with such Tapidity that people | wore unable to save anything Several per sons were burned to death.
 As an express train on the Grand Trunk rail road was passing point two miles east of "a fEaDlW hITGlI in st thrown from tho track. The engine and the threo forward cars were wrecked. Ben Waters the engineer, Jerry McGuire the fireman, and Robert Wilson, n brakeman, were killed, and several other persons were injured in different degrees of severity. The disaster was caused by train wrcckers, who removed rail. They were traced by their footprints in the mud and their tools were found short distance from the scene of the catastrophe. Two men formerly employed on the railroad were arrested on suspicion. A St. Louis dispatch says the famous stallion Woodford Mambrino, that made such q fine record last season, is dead. Tudor, the man who states that he has un- dertaken to travel from New York to Pata- gonia, on horseback, arrived recently at Nash vile, Tenn.
 In the Chicago city election the entire Demo cratic ticket wns elected by najorities ranging from { 900 to 6,000. Carter II. Harrison ex- member of Congress, was the nominee on the Democratic Greenback ticket, Dr. Ernest Schmidt, an old Republican, on the Socialists ticket, and A. M Wright on the Repubcans' In Milwaukee the Republicans elect a majority of the city council and seven out of thirteen supervisors. Dispatches from Mississippi and Louisiana report a large emigration of colored people from those States to Kansas. Thousands of colored people have arrived in St. Louis, where they were quartered in the bascments of the colorcd churches, and otherwise provided for by their race.
 From Washington.
 The President has nominated Andrew D. White, president of Cornell university to be United States minister to Germany, in place of the late Bayard Taylor Cornelius A. Logan, of Illinois, has been nominated as minister resident to the Central American States.
 The Democratic caucus of both Houses de- cidcd in filvor of attaching to the army and the legislative appropriation bills the amendments fo repeal the jurors test oath, to prohibit the usc of the army at the polls, and to repeal those sections of the revised statutes which provide for the appointment of chief supervisor ot elections and deputy marshals, and give to deputy marshals and supervisors their police power.
 The Republican members of tho House in caucus assembled, resolved to vigorously resist tbat clause of the army bill which repeals the law authorizing the use of troops at the polls.
 Ahout thirty members of the House were present at 6 caucus in pursuance of call to members of Congress who desire to have measures for financial relief passed at the pres ent session. MT. Wright of Pennsylvania, was co1lcd flo the chair and MT. Weaver appointed aecrefnrv General Ewing explained the ob- feet of the meeting and resolution was adopt