The Newtown bee., 1879-05-20
Western and Southern States.

In the trial of Cox for the murder of Colonel Aston at Atlanta, Ga., the jury found the ac- cused guilty and recommended him 10 the moroy of the oourt Tiais vnrflint is anuivn1anf to imprisonment at hard labor tor lie. Upon request ot defendants counsel tue judge su9- pended sentence for twenty days, to give time to prepare motion for 8 new trial.
 The National Womans Suffrage Convention opened its annual conference in St. Louis. During street fight in Detroit, Mieh., Michael Hurley, aged sixteen, was stabbed nine times and fatally wounded by John Burke, ged thirteen.
 The National Colored Conference, in session at Nashville, adopted resolutions denouncing | the Tennessee railroad for having forced jubilee singers to ride in the smoking-car after they had paid frst-class fare, and appointed com nittee of three to employ legal counsel to in- stitute suit against the railroad.
 The people of California have adopted the new constitution drawn up by the recent con- vention. The majority in it's favor is about l 10000. By it's provisions it will be unlawful l for any corporation organized under the laws oi the State to employ a Chinaman in any capacity, directly or indirectly, and unlawful \ also for a Chinaman to be employed upou any public work, whether of the State, or of any county or city, except a convict All con- tracts for coolie labor, formed after January l., 1880, will be void, and all contracts for the im- portation of such labor are made unlawful. 1 Ine Will proceed to ueleSttUe to tuG cities and towns all the necessary authority for the semoval ofthe Chinese from the municipal limits, or to confine them within certain quar- ters of the cities and towns. The Legislature is also directed to prohibit the introduction of Chinese into the State. E.
 A committee of medical experts have de- cided that Mark Gray, who tried to shoot Edwin Booth, the actor, at a Chicago theater, is insane.
 Dr. Lewis H. Sayre, of New York city, was l elected president of the American Medical As sociation, in session for several days at Allan ta Ga. The next meeting of the association will be held in New York, on June l, lS60
 Richard Lee, a colored man, was hanged at Fayetteville N. C., for burglary; and at Appling Ga., Henry Messed and Tom Jones, both colored, were executed, the former foI killing his son and the latter for the murder ot q colored woman with whom he was living.
 A fire in St Louis destroyed three large buildings in the business part ot the city, caus- ing loss of S145, 1000. In Chicago, on the same day, Fullerton's great blaming mills, the most extensive in the West, were burned down, entailing loss of $l00,000. Six mil lion shingles and four million feet of lumber were destroyed.
 Wiley and Jacobs, two cattle thieves, fought a duel in Montague county, Texas. Ten paces were stepped of, and both men began firing with revolvers. Wiley fell, mortally wounded at the third shot, but raising himself on his elbow killed Jacobs.
 While in fit of somnambulism John T. Cris all, aged thirty eisht, fell forty feet from the third story of his dwelling in Baltimore and crushed his skull death soon following.
 A skiff containing six men returning from r hunt upset in the Mississippi river, at St. Louis and four of the hunters were drowned.
 The sixth annual convention of the Nationa hillers' Association met at the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chicago, 600 of the 900 members be ing present. Mr. Asa Dow, president of tht Chicago Board of Trsade, and the mayor, Car ter H. Harrison, made welcoming addresses The president, MT, George Bain, responded and delivered the annual address.
 A Confederate monument erected by tn, Ladies' Monumental Association, in Columbia S. C., was unveiled. Military organization in the State and from Charlotte, N. C., partici pated in the ceremonies.
 From Washington.
 Senator Calls bill to establish an " experi mental farm , in Florida proposes to appro priate S25 0OO to enable the Commissioner o Agriculture to purchase two hundred acres o land in that State, ts and establish thereon al experimental farm, and to determine by actua cultivation on such farm the products bes adapted to the soil and climate of that part 0 the country, and, as rapidly as such product are successfully matured, to propagate and dis tribute such ot them shall be best adapted, etc., ( with such suggestions and instructions as will enable them to be successfully grown.
 Messrs. Buckner Ewing and Price hav' been appointed subcommittee of the Hous' Committee of Banking and Currency, to con sder all the bills which have been introduced