The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-07-21
Western and Southern States.

General Grant is on a visit to Colombo and
a banquet was rendered him the other night
at Denver.
The South Carolina Republican State con.
vention, in session at Raleigh, nominated a
ticket headed by Ralph p. Buxton Tor gov
eruor.
The town OF Van Meter, Ia, was submerged
to the depth OF over three feet by wafer
spolt. Several buildings were demolished
and considerable damage was done to crops in
the surrounding country.
Chicago has made arrangements to receive
80, 600 knights and II 600 ladies' at the trien-
nal conclaye of the knic ht templars in August.
One hundred thousand other visitors are also
expected.
Armour & Co., Chicago firm of pork
packers, have been e. gSged in an immense
speculation in pork. The firm began buying
pork as tar back as December. Their cash
purchases amount to l65 ,CG0 barrels, and Tor
August, September and October delivery
about $50, 600 barrels. They began buving to
hold hen pork was out at $40 to Sl050, and
the other day IL closed at Sl0.S0 to Sl0.S2t
| having touched $l4.30 on preceding Thurs
cay.
George Allen Price, eolored man, was
hanged at Cincinnati tor the murder of Willie
Black, a tobacco merchant who mad discharged
the condemned man from his employ Tor steal
| ing tobacco.
| Daniel Washington, q colored man, was
| hanged at Chester, s. O., tor the murder oil
| Allen Collins, a colored witness who had beeu
| summoned to testify against him in a horse
| stealing case; and at Goldsboro, n. c., on
/ the same day, Alexander Howard, also colored,
was hanged Tor numbering An Old white man
| named Autry.
| The census returns make the population OF
| San Francisco 233,0U0 including POS 0
| Chinese
A mail rider and his horse in Meriweiher
county, Ga, were struck by Lightning and
| both killed.
At Chicago Mccormick & Co.'s elevator,
containing $4,000 bushels OF oats, 10000
bushels OF corn and 1000 bushels of wheat,
| together with an adjoining warehouse filed
with stoves was destroyed by Dire, causing
total loss of $4,000.
| Several farmers near Wabash, Ind, have
| been arrested tor cutting the dam which sup
| plies that city with water. They desired TO
| stop the back-water overflow on their farms.
| A st. Louis dispatch says the scheme to in
wade the Indian Territory and settle on the
| government lands is gaining strength daily;
that thousands OF families are preparing TO
enter the Territory and that il the military
are instructed to eject them there viii prob
| ably be conflict.
| Peter Sullivan was killed and another boy
had his leg broken by an explosion OF blasting
powder in an old lookup at Holyoke, Mass.
| Sullivans body was blown through the roof.
Colonel Cash, the surviving principal in the
recent duel in South Carolina, has been ar
rested charged with the killing OF Colonel
/ shannon.
| Mrs. Brown, on trial for killing her hus-
band at Indianapolis, Ind, has been found
| guilty and condemned to death tor murder in
the first degree.
| General Weaver, Greenback candidate for
President has opened the campaign in Ala
oama by speech at Scottsboro.
| During q storm in Michigan a boat con-
tanning man named Miller, his wife, two
children and a boy named Rose, was upset in
Lake Winnehago. The boy Rose was
drowned The rest clung to the bottom of
the boat twenty hours, the woman having a
dfteen-year-old boy lashed TO her back. The
boy died the next night and the others at last
accounts were IN q critical condition.
/ The census returns tor Wisconsin show that
the population OF some counties has decreased
since 1870. Jefferson county has population
OF 81, l37 for 1880, against "a. o40 Tor 1870.
Dodge county has "A, l22, about 1900 Less
than in 1870.
Part OF the city Of Waterloo, Iowa, was
flooded by heavy rainstorm. Two bows and
one girl were drowned, and an estimated
damage OF S25,ouQ was done 10 property.