West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-04-05

rlNai. n NUMBER OF Shippers IN TINS COuu-
try continue to send live cattle, this being
less expensive than TO send dead meat in
refrgerators, and the meat commands a bet
ter price.
A PADUcAH special to the Louisville
Courier-Journoi, says Jerry Ewing (colored),
was seized by twelve masked men, and
shot to death, after which, bag OF sand
being tied TO his body, he was thrown into
the Ohio River. Ewing ravished a twelve
yearold white child named Fields, by
whose brother he was captured, after re-
ceiving two gunshol wounds.
TIE Mexican veterans OF Jefferson CITY,
Mo-, and members Of the Missouri Assembly
received General James Shields at the depot
Of that city, on his arrival from Washing
ton, and accorded him a friendly welcome.
He was escorted to the hall Of the House OF
Representatives, and there responded in
neat speech to the honors shown him. lie
spoke OF his brief term i'm the United States
Senate, filed with the most pleasant asso-
Citations, and reviewed his course in that
body in endeavoring 10 secure some law
whereby the veterans of The Mexican War
should receive benefits due them. lie re.
GREETED that sectional prejudice Was taking
such a strong hold at the National Capital
threatening the liberties of the Republic
taking precedence in all debates and prevent.
ing needed legislation. He referred TO his ex-
perience in the Senate when representing
| Minnesota; that AL hough there was at the
! time n bitter fight pending upon the slavery
| question, yet 10 was not halt 50 dangerous
AS the one now about TO be revived in the
! Forty-sixth Congress His speech was
short, but to the point, and satisfactory to
i those who heard it....A Boston dispatch
says that Nathan p. Pratt, Treasurer of the
/ Reading Savings Bank is defaulter
| Pratt was arrested IN Boston as he was
about leaving for \ew York. With him
was his son, Nathan b., on whom was found
$4,000 OF the missing securities. Both
have been lodged in the Tombs. Pratps
stealings amount to about $40 000, and will
ruin the bank of which he WAS Treasurer
He has been stealing for years, apparently
to cover mp some irregularities, but the
! crash has come much sooner than he cK-
pected. He was implicitly trusted.
Patrick Smith and Julius Christian, ne.
groes, convicted of the murder of John C..
Lacy, on the I7th of January last, were
hanged at New Kent Courthouse, Virginia.
on the 25th Of March. Two thousand peo.
| pie were present, including number OF
/ colored women.
/ Tho West.
Gi]be Democrat special from Wichita.
Kansas, says gold has been discovered
thirty miles southeast of that place, and
great excitement exists among farmers and
others. New York company is said to
have bought mile square OF land, aud is
trying to secure more. Four companies
have already been organized. ore from n
shalt sunk some lime ago is said u have as
sayed over two thousand dollars TO the ton
One farmer has been offered thirty thousand
dollars for his farm, and refused it.
a Fairburg, Nebraska, correspondent
says that there have been more than hun.
dred cases of smallpox or varioloid, and
over forty deaths in that little place during
the winter, all owing to a shameful ignor.
ance OF the physicians, and inefiiciency of
the City Council. IL has been a sad and
dreary time; no meetings or schools for
! more than two months, but the disease is
dying out and the people remaining hope
for the best.
Notes from Abroad.
In his speech in the Eeichstag on Mon.
day, Herr Liebnicht, Socialist, commended
that Hoedel and Modelling, would.be assIs-
sins of the Emperor William, were not
Socialists The Socialists, nc said. were
convinced that the progress of history and
triumph of their phiIanthropic programme
could not be impeded by the existence Of
any single individual Their societies
pressed, yet they would cling to their
tenets.
Minach, IN Northern Persia, has been
much damaged by an earthquake, and the
adjacent villages Of lark and Mannan were
totally destroyed. Out of the eleven hun.
bred inhabitants, only few escaped death
Tho South.
In the Sixth Senatorial District Of New
I nrla a IL
Pardee, Republican, was elected delegate to
the Constitutional Convention over ex.
United States Senator Eustis. T. II. Stamps.
Republican, was elected in the Fourteenth
and w. T. Loan in the Fifteenth Repre.en.
tative District. The Republicans carried
I St. Martin, 81. Mary and iberia parishes by
m6loTlties of three TO FIVE hundred
J Ninety-four Democrats, thirty-three Re.
| publicans and seven Fusionists and Ma.
/ tionals were elected delegates TO the Con.
stitutional Convention Of Louisiana ......... A
terrible accident occurred at Hickman AT
half-past one in the morning recently. The
new wharfboat there took fire, and was
consumed, with six persons on board. The
charred remains OF the Waterman. James
Mays, were found aud identified bv
his watch. The deck fell in and
/ pitNthNtu bhe recovery OF the other
| bodies. 1t has been ascertained that
there were on board at the time IT. &
Csmstock, operator; c. A. Douglass, clerk .
James Mayes, Waterman; West Campbell
and two unknown men, waiting for the
packet. All on board were burned to
death except Comstock and Douglass. who
narrowly escaped in their night clothes
The FIRE is attributed to an incendiary.
Fires.
The village Of Pineville, the county seat
OF Mcdonald County, Mo, was nearly en-.
hrely destroyed by fire at three o'clock in
the morning, recently, the Courthouse,
hotels, and the stores Of Lamance d Co. and
}. c. Babers being alone left 10 mark the
site Of the prosperous little village. The
Pineville NCirs Office is amongth the lost The
FIRE is supposed to be the work OF an in.
cendiary .........News has been received Of
terrible prairie fire in Cloud and Republic
Counties, Kansas, which swept away about
one hundred homes and large quantities Of
grain, hay and farming implements The
district traversed by the FIRE was about ten
miles long by three miles wide, and hardly
a thing was left. The wind was so terrific
that burning husks, grass and weeds were
carried whistling In the air above human
reach and across fields and creeks. and
dashed against houses, barns and stacks.
10 was impossible for any one 90 remain