Daily Republican., 1881-12-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
HE Found OUT THE FORCE IN
BOTTLED POWDER.
A Large Purchase OF Land-Sus.
pension Of Banking HOnse--
Indian Murders - AiasKR's
Wealth Diner Items Of
Interest.

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At Jeffersonville, Indiana, on Sun
day night, John McClelland amused
his wife and children" by setting off a
lot of fire crackers in his house. Not
satisfied with the result, he put pound
of gunpoWder into three tightly closed
ale bottles, and, inserting q fuse into
each, tried to set them off in the yard.
Being unsuccessful, he took the bottles
INTO the house and set them on a table,
! at which his wife and II little girl named
| Berry were sitting. His wife wishing
to set oil cracker, he remove the
| chimney from lamp to get a light,
when the cracker went OIL, causing
lamp and bottles Of powder to explode
with terrific force. McCleland and his
wife were dangerously burned. Miss
| Berry was badly cut and bruised, and
is believed to I've fatally injured by
pieces Of glass striking her in the side.
A telegram from New Orleans reports
that Phillips, Marshall x Co., OF Lon
don, have just concluded d purchase
from the State Of Mississippi of l .30O,-
900 acres OF land, 100000 of which are
known as the levee lands, situated
mostly in the Iazo0 delta. The tract
comprises some OF the richest cotton and
timber lard in the State. Tie pnr-
chasers intend tocolonize aud cultivate
the land.
The privat, banking house of Haskell
81 Harris, at HillsDoro, Illinois, sus-
pended and made an assignment yes
terday Their liabilities are reported
at SlOO, 200 assets, S6O,OOO. w. A.
Young, principal member of the firm,
was arrested on west bound train at
Litchtield, Illinois, last night.
The Tombstone, Arizona, Epitah, re-
ports the murder Of two MexicGnS by a
rowing band of Indians, at Campas, in
5oora. 1t is also reported that the same
band murdered seven other men, sup
posed to be employees OF the Chicago
Mining Company, between Tepache
and San Larissa.
The steamers Eureka, at Port Town
send for oitka, reports that over Slj 600
has been taken from the mines i'll Alas
lla this season. The United States
steamer Adams, now at Callao, has
been ordered to Stlsa, to relieve the
Wachusett, and is expected to reach
that place in April next.
General Trevino yesterday resigned
the position OF War Minister IN the
MeXiCan Government, and General Ma
ranZO was appointed his success s0r.
Other Cabinet changes axe expected.
General Trevno will resume command
in Chihuahua and Sonora, On the Dor.
der.
The New York Freeman's journal
publishes II dispatch from Rome, all
nounCing hat Very Rev. Nicholas Gal
lagher, now Nicar-G General of tolnm-
bus, Ohio, has been appointed Bishop
in parIibuS, and administrator Of the
See Of Galveston.
Mrs r. Y. Greenwood and two 9TH
er ladies were thrown from carriage
at Gardner, MASSACHUSETTS, on Satur-
day night. Mrs. Greenwood died on
Sunday, and the others are suffering
from severe injuries.
NJ j. COhn X Co., Wholesale and le
tail cigar dealers, oF Memphis, made an
assignment yesterday. Ihc liabilities
are SO, GOO; assets untnOwn.
~ boy playing with d pistol in ohar'
lesion, South Carolina, on Sunday, was
killed by The sudden uicharge Of the
weapon, the bullet lodging i'll his ab-
dOmen.
A fire at Sullivan, Indiana, on sun
day night, destroyed twenty-five build
ings and was still spreading at last
accounts.
Scarlet fever is =" irmingly increas-
ing in New York, and is said to be as
suming malignant form.
The members of the Tennessee Legis
lature will arrive in Atlanta to-day to
visit the Exhibition.
DIR. Edward Reynolds, the Oldest
physician in Boston died, yesterday at
tho age of SO.
German "DutCh Tea" dyspepsia and
liver complaint, for sale at Taylor y
Fullerton's, 3O2 King street.