The Newtown bee., 1880-07-14
Western and Southern States.

During an exciting political meeting of rival factions at the San Francisco sand lots a rush was made for Denis Kearney, and he was barely saved from severe handling by being taken in charge by the police, who hustled him into a hack and drove off
 Link Williams was hanged at Rolling Fork, Miss, for the murder ot a man named Pless- ner.
 During squall on Whitebear lake, twelve miles from St. Paul, Minn., yacht containing fourteen persons capsiZed. There were eight men on board, the remainder being women and children. Seven single men swan ashore and all the rest were drowned.
 A sailor named Hall created a disturbance while some athletic games were in progress at Wellington, Cal, ard was chained to post in stable. During the day the stable caught fire and Hall was burned to death.
 The boiler ot threshing machine exploded at Dunkirk, Ohio, killing nine men and in- turing six more.
 duel between Colonel E. B. O. Cash, of Chesterfield, s. O., and Colonel w. M. Shan nan, of Camden, s. C., took place a few days ago and resulted in the death of the latter, who was shot through the heart.
 The completed census returns give Chicago population f 502 S45.
 A crowd put pistol in 0 the hands of girl whom tramp had assaulted, at Scott, Iowa, and told her to shoot him through the head. She went so far as to take careful aim; but her better nature prevailed, and she spared his life.
 Patrick Carroll, a miner. was ejected from a meeting of the Miners Union at Bodle, Mono county, Cal, and while attempting to re-enter the hall was shot dead,
 Tho army worm has appeared on hop ranches in California.
 At the Vulture mine in Arizona Mexican named Jose Maria Solazar, disappointed suitor of Miss Lubiate, called at her resi- dence and after brief conversation shot her dead. The murderer fled, but men secured the country on foot and on horseback and soon captured him. A lynch court was held, ard on the testimony of eye-witnesses to the mnrder he was convicted and hanged.
 Reports of the crops in the Northwestern States make good showing in some places but poor one in others.
 The State convention of the l2eadjusters' party of Virginia was held at Richmond. The delegates included about forty negroes. Tae convention indorsed Hancock and En- glish and chose an electoral ticket.
 During @ fire at the dwelling of a man named Turnrose near Franconia, Minn., two of his children-girls aged three and eleven years were burned to death and another daughter of seventeen received probabiy iatal burns.
 General Grant is on visit to Colorado and banquet was rendered him the other night at Denver.
 The South Carolina Republican State con- vention, in session at Raleigh, nominated ticket headed by Ralph F. Buxton for gov erIor.
 The town of Van Meter, la, was submerged to the depth of over three feet by water spoat. Several buildings were demolished and considerable damage was done to crops in the surrounding country. Chicago has made arrangements to receive 30, ,0OO knights and 12 ,000 ladies at the trien- nal conclave of the knic ht templars in August. One hundred thousand other visitors are also expected.
 Armour & Co, n Chicago firm of pork packers, have been engaged in an immense speculation in pork. The firm began buying pork as far back as December. Their cash purchases amount to 165,000 barrels, and for | August, September and October delivery 1 about 25O ,00O barrels. They began buying to hold when pork was ont at $l0 to Ss10.50, and l the other day it closed at $l0.80 to $l0. S2A. l having touched sl4.30 on preceding Thurs | day.
 | George Allen Price, colored man, was hanged at Cincinnati for the murder of Willie Black, & tobacco merchant, who mad discharged the condemned man from his employ for steal- 1 ing tobacco. l Daniel Washington, 8 colored man, was hanged at Chester, s. C., for the murder of Allen Collins, a colored witness who had been summoned to testify against him in a horse stealing case; and at Goldsboro, N. C., on I the same day Alexander Howard, also colored, was hanged for numbering an old white man I named Autry.
 The census returns make tho population of San Francisco 233,000, including 20,5 Q | Chinese.
 l A mail rider and his horse in Meriwether county, Ga, were struck by lightning and I both killed.
 From Washington.
 The last report of the department of agri- 1 culture shows that the condition of oats is I much better than last year, and IS ninety 1 three against eighty-one in June, 1879. The 1 general complaint is drought in all tue Middle l and South Atlantic States, rust and too much
 rain in the Gulf and Southern States, and
 drought in Kansas and Nebraska. For several I years there has been 8 general reduction of
 the area devoted to rye. Its condition on
 Juno averaged ninety-hve against ninety
 one last year. The present promise of the
 crop is about equal in aggregate production to
 that of last year, notwithstan ding the reduced acIeage. The area in barley is about ten per
 cent. less than last year. The falling of is
 especially marked in the West and on the
 Pacific const. The acreage of clover shows
 no very material change from ,ast year. The
 condition is low for all the country, except in
 the New England and Gulf States and on the
 Pacific coast The general complaint is
 drought. Tho prospect of good iruit season is very favorable. The frosts of April and
 May did much damage in the Middle and South A lantic States, but in the States north ] of the Ohio and West of the Mississippi the
 season has been propitious. The average for apples is above one hundred in all of tho New
 England States and ninety nine in New 4 ork.