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The Rhode Island State election resulted in
no choice for governor and lieutenaut-gov-
ernor, and the election of those officers is
therefore thrown into the general assembly,
which is largely Republican. The other Re-
publican candidates on the general ticket were
elected.
Western and Southern States.
The Kansas Republican State convention,
held at Topeka, elected delegates to the ma
t;onal convention at Chicago, and adopted
resolutions declaring that james G. Blaine
WAS tho choice OF the Republicans of Kansas
Tor presidential nominee. In two OF the dis
tricts contesting delegates in favor OF Grant
were elected to go to Chicago and claim seats
in the national convention.
A complete report OF pork-packing In the
West shows that the total number of hogs
winter p%acking-is $3.50, 200, an increase OF
$4,000. The summer and winter packing
combined shows an increase Tor the year OF
l43, 900 barrels, the largest years business
recorded.
Miss Lavinia Goodell, a ~well-known iemale
LAWYER, and at one time editorially connected
with Harper's Bazaar, died at her home in
GAINESVILLE, Wis, the other day, aged forty-one
years.
The Nebraska Democratic State conven.
ton, held at Columbus, selected delegates to
the national convention at Cincinnati.
Robert Anderson (white), and Charles
Webster (colored), were hanged together in
Louisville, KY, the other day-the former
tor numbering his wife and the latter lin COM
pnny with another colored man who had
already expiated his crime on the ~gallows) for
brutally assaulting a little white girl. On the
same day, at Macon, Miss, Andrew Macon,
james Brown and Samuel Boiler (all colored).
were hanged-the two frst-named for the
murder OF Tarlton Macon, father Of Macon and
iather-in-law OF Brown. and the last-named
for killing a white man in 1876; at West
Baton Rouge parish, LII, Gustave Breaux, o
twenty -one-year-old co!orcd man, was hanged
TOR the murder OF Jean Cazes, manager OF a
plantation, and at East Carrollton, La,
Joseph Walker was executed tor murder.
The Brown county (Texas) courthouse
and Jail have been destroyed by fire.. Several
prisoners were turned 10 death and q loss Of
Sl00, 900 was occurred.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says that car.
,nugements for tho entertainment OF the gan.
anal conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
church in that city, in May, are nearly COM
Melted. The sessions OF the conference will
be heldinPike's opera house, which will seul
comfortably 1850 people. The Cincinnati
Methodists, although worshiping in fifteen
churches, nave not sufficient houseroom tor
the entertainment of the 500 delegates, irater.
nal visitors, and general conference officers
who will make the official nucleus Of the thou
salds of Methodist visitors expected during
The tour weeks session OF the conference.
The suburban towns have been called upon TO
help entertain the conference, and more than
q hundred members will even then have to be
accommodated at the hotels. The central
location OF Cincinnati and its accessibility BY
a score of railroad lines have caused q large
number OF excursions to arrange to give the
Methodists OF adjacent and distant States n
chance to look in upon tho sittings OF the con-
ference. Two excursions are coming from the
Illinois conference, and one each from the
Central Illinois, Southern Illinois, and Rock
river (Chicago) conferences. Indiana, West
Virginia, and Iowa are also expected to seLd
excursions. 1t may be considered almost Ger
tain that the conference will be the most
numerously attended OF any religious co.vo.
cation aver held in this country. The musical
festival on May Is, 10, 20 and 81, and the gem
eral conference, will make those the focal dates
for excursions, and will fill the city more
nearly to overlooking than oven II national
Republican or Democratic convention"
Kansas has been visited by q cyclone which
did Il great deal OF injury to life and property.
At Ottawa thirty or forty houses were com.
nIe,ely demolished and about twenty-five
persons injured, some fatally. Several cars
attached to a train from Lawrence were upset
by the force OF the wind and one passenger
WAS killed. At Fort Girard seventeen houses
go. lot,op,J a mo opA uyOmQn wara in.
stantly killed, a ave.year-old child was fatally
injured, and many other persons were badly
hurt. Grass, hedges, grain and trees were
rullcd out OF the ground, the feathers were
plucked from chickens, water was blown from
ponds and houses torn to splinters.
A boiler in John H. LAWYERS mill, ten miles
from Nashville, ILL.,, exploded the other after.
noon with terrific force, demolishing the mill,
instantly killing Wesley M. Parker, fatally
woundins John Randall and Thomas Jones,
and seriously injuring two other persons.
At New Orleans Plaisted, the Eastern oars
man, easily defeated Sullivan in Il tive-mi!e
race. General Grant and party were preseli
as guests OF the Southern yacht club.
The lnrgest shipment OF corn ever made
from Chicago was recorded the other day,
when LOCO, 900 bushels were shipped.
A"ouGy-Afo ufOICCo "ClO BlhhiOo W LAC
court in session ut Sherman, Texas, within
two weeks.
John Smith, O convict in Jail at Jefferson
City, Mo-, quarrelcd with Martin Broderick,
another convict, and struck him over the head
with q spade, inficting fatal injuries. Smith
then started with spade in hand to escape
llom prison, but WIS halted by the guard, who
called upon him TO surrender. He refused
and advanced in q threatening manner, when
the guard shot him dead.
A herd OF % 800 cattle are being driven from
Orc. on to Montana; 100 mounted men do the
driving, and the outfit includes provision
wagons, arms and ammunition, 800 horses
and forty dogs. The journey is made slowly,
a days travel not exceeding nine miles, anil
the speed will be lessened when hot weather
comes on, in order not to get the beasts into
bad condition.
J.. H. Rohrer, deianlting cashier OF tic late
.avings bank OF Louisville, Ky, Tor embezzling
Il0,I 90 from the bank has boon sentenced 10
tic peniteutiary for ono year. he aged prs
orer pleaded guilty and received the lightest
punishment that the law allows.
Tie Iowa Democrats, in State convention
assembled at Burlington, nominated delegates
to International convention ut Cincinnati
From Washington.