Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01

ON tho 26th the fire in tho Sumner
Mine in California was still burning.
THE election in Limerick on the 26th
resulted in favor of the Parnellites.
For the past year the Baltimore u
Ohio Railroad earnings were $40, 739 900.
For the past week the Clearing-H House
statements are again unfavorable.
On the 26th thirty-five Black Sea
steamers laden with whent were reported
ice-bound on the river Don.
Ir has been decided by the Spanish
War Department to disband ten regiments
of infantry and substitute a regiment of
artillery.
THE appointment of the Archbishop
of Namur as Cardinal, it is expected, will
settle the difficulties between Belgium and
the Vatican.
Ir is reported that n British gun-boat
has been ordered from Singa pore to relieve
a stranded vessels crew who arc threat
ened with murder by Sumatra pirates.
THE Supreme Court of the United
States has decided tn at the Brooklyn bridge,
as constructed, can not be declared a nuis-
ance or unlawful structure.
The Chief of Police of Constantinople
and six detectives are on trial for levying
blackmail and procuring the conviction of
innocent persons on charges of counterfeit
ing.
THE murderer Samon, who recently
butchered three or four persons at Laconia,
N. H., sleeps soundly all night while the
officers have to keep wide awake to keep
the people from lyuching him.
Or the 26th the elaborate Evacuation
Day ceremonies in New York were seri-
ously interfered with by rain. Broadway
was a sea of umbrellas. The procession was
four hours in passing n given point.
AT jackson, Mich, a crazy ex-con-
vict created a sensation on the 26th by
playing the role of a Pinkerton detective,
securing the use Of a special engine and ar
resting an innocent farmer for the Crouch
murder. An excited populace had rearly
lynched the prisoner before the facts were
discovered.
DUKE SULLIVAN and Thomas O'Neil,
confined in the Henrico County (va.) Jail,
on a charge of blowing. open and robbing a
Post-offfce safe at Culpepper, made their
escape the night of the 28th.
THREE bodies were washed ashore at
Wharton, Ont, bearing life-preservers
marked Eclipse" which leads to the be-
lief that the steamer of that name has been
lost with all on board.
The Spanish Government has decided
to increase the pay Of all its troops below
the grade of captain.
AT Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, on the
26th a duel with swords was fought between
Herr Haumann and Herr Way. The latter
was severely wounded.
THE authorities of indianapolis, Ind.
have prohibited the sale within the city
limits OF what is embraced under the head
of flash literature" The State law pro-
vides heavy penalties.
The damage by the overflow of White
River in Indiana has been very great, thou
sands of acres being inundated and unse-
cured corn and root crops ruined.
A COLD wave struck Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the 26th, freezing things up gem
orally.
In the municipal elections in Dublin
on the 26th, the Parnellites gained eight
seats
The Iaborers employed at Oliver
Bros and Phillips Mills at Pittsburgh, Pa,
were notified on the Goth of an intended
reduction of their wages to 81 per day.
They had been receiving S1.23.
DIrIIrHERIA has appeared in Vim
cennes, Ind, in its most malignant form.
Out of seven cases six had already proved
fatal, and it was feared it would become cpl
demic. A case Of smallpox has also ap-
peared in Washington, twenty miles east
of Vincennes, child of VIM. Guy being
sick with it.
The report that American Bishops
proposed that the Vatican send Nuncio
to America is anfounded. The report prob
ably arose through misapprehsnsion Of
the fact that the Vatican thinks of sending
Mgr. Sepiacci to preside as Apostolic Le-
gate over the labors of the Council to be
held in America in 1884.
A MARsEILLEs dispatch of the 26th
says: at is rumored that $4,000 men will
be mobilized Immediately for China, and
Gen. Campenon, Minister of War is nego-
tiating for the service of ten great trans
ports by which to forward the troops to
their destination.o