The Newtown bee., 1880-11-17
Western and Southern States.

Nearly three -fourths of the mining town of Bingham, Utah, has been destroyed by fire Loss, about $50 GOO.
 In reference to the successor ot General Carrie d as United States Senator from Ohio, Secretary John She man has written the tol- lowing letter to friend at Caldwell, Ohio: Your kind note of the fourth is received, for which please accept my thanks. prefer to do precisely us you recommend, await thu judgment oi the general as embly of Ono, un- based by any expression of my wish in the matter referred to. do not know what IS tie desire of General Garfield, but can see that my election might relieve him from ems barrassment and leave him tree to do as he thinks best in the formation ot his cabinet"
 Frank NJ. Bedenbaugh, wealthy young German farmer ot Monroe county, Ohio, came home intoxicate ed and entering the room where bis wife and child were sleeping, ass Saulted them ith an axe. His wlfe's skull was crushed and he cut his sons throat. He then went to the room where Mrs. Stephens, a visitor, aud her two children and servant were sleeping, killed Mrs. Stephens and one child-a girl eleven years old-and fatally wounded the other, boy aged hve. The servant girl sprang toward the door, but was knocked senseless and lett for dead. Upon recovering consciousness she gave an alarm. In the morning the murderer was found i'll 8 tobacco house with his throat cut. He died the next day. Jealousy, drunkenness and in- sanity are supposed to have been bne causes of this horrible crime.
 John Alden, German farmer, his wife and a niece of fourteen, attempted to cross the track in wagon ahead of a train at Minook, Ill.,, and were struck by an engine, running thirty miles an hour. The women were in- stantly killed, and the man died at the end O, three hours.
 A San Francisco dispatch regarding Cali fornia's vote says that all the official returns are not yet in, but enough have been received to determine that the Hancock electors, Judge Terry excepted, have carried the State by a majority of from two hundred to three hundred, while the Republicans have elected ity of two in the assembly and ot twelve on joint ballot.
 Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, has been in- augurated for second term.
 The Alabama legislature is in session.
 Goodsbaws s hoisting works at Bodie, Cal, were destroyed by fire and tour men, working on the 660-toot level, were found dead at the also burned to death.
 General Garfield has sent in his resignation to Governor Foster as member of Congress from the Nineteenth Ohio district.
 The review of the North Atlantic fleet, com prising seven training ships, together with four government training ships, took place at Fortress Monroe The President, Mrs. Hayes and several members of the cabinet, beside a large number of other Washington dignitaries witnessed tine review.
 The town of Keatchie, La, has been de- molished by a cyclone. One man was killed and twelve others severely injured. Libby prison, in Richmond, Va, the build- ing in which thousands of Federal soldiers were confined during the war, has been sold for SIG, ,275 to plug tobacco manufacturer.
 Tie sides of a deep cut on the railroad near Orange Court House, Va, cayed in, killing Powhattan Taylor and Edmond Fields, col ored, and seriously injuring six others, all | eolored.