Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-15
West and South.


TIE discovery of a huge land fraud, by
which some two thousand persons in the
vicinity of Wheeling, w. Va, have been
swindled out of amounts ranging from
fifty dollars to five hundred dollars, was
made on the 6.h
MAIL-RIDER was held up by armed rob-
bers a few days ago four miles from Oar
danelle, Ark, and his letter-pouch was
| taken.
| AT Denver, Col, on the 9th snow-storm
/ blocked railway communication for twen-
| ty-four hours, and carried down three hun
dred telegraph poles laden with wires.
| THE firm of Plunkett & Wright, leading
| merchants at LavOca, Ark, sold all their
stock at whatever it would bring, and de-
: parted recently for places unknown, ow
! ing S4O,G 900. The creditors would get moth
! ing.
| On the 9th an earthquake lasting forty
| eight seconds was experienced at ROuen-
! den Springs, Ark. 1t broke stoves and
! crockery, and loosened rocks in the rail-
way GUS.
! The eleventh annual session of the Ma
| tional Butter, Egg and Cheese Association
| closed a Cincinnati on the 9th. 1t was
| said 10y the Secretary that the total value
| of butter, cheese, eggs and poultry mar
! keted i'm the United States during the year
ended November 81, 1885, amounted to over
/ 500, coo, 900.
! THE Farmers National Congress, at its
| session in Louisville, KY, Or the 9th elect
ell Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia,
| President.
NUMEROUS Ohio clergymen assembled at
/ Columbus on the 9Th and formed Divorce
! Reform League, with Rt.-Rev. G. L. Bedell,
! of Clev leland. as President.
\ FIRE a few days ago destroyed the en-
! tige business section of Williamston, n. c.,
! including the pcst-office and telegraph Of
| flee. The steamer Commerce, with two
| hunslre bales of cotton and other freight,
| was also consumed.
THE authorities at Fort Davis, Tex, re-
Gently took four Mexicans, charged with
uiurl.ring Domingo Plingo, and lynchei
them.
On the 9Th John Fleming AMI Frank l..
| Loriug, TIE grain swindlers, were con
vi,ted i'll the United States District Court
of Chicago of using the mails to defraud.
| \ motion for a new trial was made, and an
additional bond of $4,000 was required.
IN Indian Territory Perryman was on
the 9Th inaugurated as Chief of the Creek
Indians, and Isporheche and Chicota were
| elected Delegates to Washington.
y FEW evenings ago F. a. Deering, post
master at Morgantown, w. Va, undertook
to carry to his house n tin box containing
$50, but a thief grabbed it on dark
| street and disappeared.
IHE execution of James NJ. Underwood,
for numbering Robert j. Pendergrast, a
wealthy planter, took place at Dardanelle,
Ark, on the 9Th.
REPORTS received on the 9TH from Illi-
rois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska
stated that the crop was III very
discouraging condition. much of it having
become heated and sweled in the cribs.
The range of prices averaged from thirty
to forty cents per busl.el. Many farmers,
it was said, were, TO Il great extent, feed
ing the crop to their stock.
4 BILL providing for granting divorces
| was defeated in the State Senate of South
Carolina on the .th by vote of sixteen to
fifteen. South Carolina is the only State
in the Union in which there is no legal
method for dissolving the marriage tie.
| IT was reported on the Sth that d. w.
Blackburn, Treasurer of Lee County, Ia,
was short S12 900 i'll his accounts.
AT Covington on the Sth sixty-seven
ssmoonshiners" who were captured in the
| mountains of Eastern Kentucky were con-
yicted and sentenced to sixty days im-
| prIsonmeut and fine of one hundred dol
lars each.
IT was announced on the S.h that the
expedition sent out by New Orleans
newspaper to explore the Florida ever
glaaes reached the Gulf of Florida in good
health, having been entirely successful In
their undertaking.
On the Sth Patrick FIaherty, an Indian
apoIis butcher, was arrested for slaughter
Ing and selling gcrippled and diseased hogs.
He admitted sending the pork to Cincin-
| natl and Louisville.
On the evening of the Sth five despera-
! does rode into Bisbee, A. T., killed three
men and robbed a store of 81 200
NEAR Stanwood, Ia, two sleepers, three
, / coaches and two baggage cars of a Chicago
g. Northwestern train jumped the track
the other night, and several passengers
were injured, but none fatally.
In St Louis few evenings ago James
Gein tie husband of the medium at a
spiritualis:ic performance, dropped dead
from heaI t-disease.
L. c.. TIFTON (white), farmer residing
near Nashville, Tenn, few days ago cut
fatally a negro boy named Tom, and was
himself shot through the head by the boy.
Both were dead.
The Union rolling-mill at Cleveland, o.,
was burned few days ago, the loss being
100000.
NEAR Clinton, Miss, Albert Thomas, a
negro, who criminally assaulted a little
child, attempted to escape from his captors
| a few days ago and was riddled with bull
lets.
IT was reported on the 10th that trouble
arose and pistols were used during po-
litical discussion at Greenville, Miss, the
other night, and four persons were shot
one whit, man and three negroes. One OF
the latter had died since the affray, and
another was dying.
Four boys in Milwaukee,, each about
fourteen years of age, and sons of well-to-
7 Gc,l. r.