Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-21
The Fast.

THE failure is announced of Phinney &
Jack son. merchants, a. Portland, Me-,
with liabilities exceeding S200,0)J.
IN "a Philadelphia ship-yard five carpen-
ters were badly injured recently by the
giving way of a scaffold. Thomas Le-
cOmpJe would die.
NUMEROUS showers met on the 18th on
the hill near Springfield, VT, and uniting
poured down the narrow valley in a tor
rent, carrying away bridges and buildings,
and doing damage estimated at $4,000
THE failure Of Orange Judd, of New
York, the noted philanthropist and ex-
publisher, is announced.
1T is announced that Horace Greeley's
old farm at ChaIf,aqua, n. ", will be sold
at auction September =.
a FEW days ago ex-TreaSurer Rufus S.
Mann, Of Lansinghurg, NY, having been
iniuriously affected by sun-stroke, cut
his throat from to ear.
\ FEW days ago May Stultz, seven
ycar-old girl, of Waterford, Pa, quietly
climbed ladders to Il scaffolding sixty feet
high, where her father was at work, to sur
prise him. She grew dizzy on a narrow
plank. fell to the ground, and was instant
ly killed
In the various exchanges at New York
the sales of petroleum on the 18th exceeded
IL COS. 600 barrels.
the 18th been taken for United States Sena-
tor i'll the New Hampshire Legislature with
out definite results. On the last ballot W.
f. Chandler (Rcp.) had fifty two votes, and
Harry Bingham Deln.) one hundred and
thirteen.
\ STONE weighing two tons fell a dis
tauce of forty feet at Fall River, Mass, a
few days ago, killing one man and severely
wuunding four others.
THE death of Louis Walso, Indian
Chief, agci one hundred and nine years,
occurred at Lake George, n. V, on the 13th
LIGHTNING struck the school-house at I'm
derhill, Vt, few days ago, and all the
children were more or less III jUred. One
little girl was rendered deaf, and a boy
lad the sole taken from one shoe and the
uppers from another.
GENERAL TON THUMB CHARLES Haywood
Strattpn), who had been exhibited as a
dwarf Tor nearly forty years, died at his
residence at MiddIeboro. Mass, on the
18th, of appplexy, aged forty five years
FREDERICK SCHULDT, of Reading, Pa,
wealthy man, had his son arrested few
DAYS ago for threatening his life, and while
locked up the young man hung himself
with strips torn from his shirt.
AN extensive lumber dealer at TOna-
wanda, n. V, named Frederick Smith,
failed on the 14th. 1t was said that differ
ent banks in Buffalo had $26l 900 of his pa
per. Smith had fed.
Ex-TREASURER HAvENS, of the Rutland
tVt.) Railroad Company, was, on the 18th,
said to be short in his accounts to the ex-
tent of SIS,co).
The death of Mrs. Mary Ann Chandler,
the. venerable mother of the Secretary OF
the Navy, occurred on the 10Th, at Con-
cord, y. II. She was i'll her eighty-second
year
Mrs. PHELPS, an aged lady, Mrs. Phelps.
Jr., and the Iatter's daughter, aged ten
wears, OF Roanoke, Y. Y, were struck by
an engine on the Lackawanna Road few
days ago while attempting to cross the
track, and all We're killed. Their horses
were also killed.
BETWEEN Martha's Vineyard and the
Massachusetts mainland telegraphIc
cable was laid on the 14th by the Western
Union Company.
y BOILER in Il paper mill at Glens Falls,
n ", exploded a few days ago, inJuring
twelve persons, two fatally. The property
loss was S10a,G0).
FIFTEEN negro colonists sailed from
New York on the 10th for Liberia in the
bark Nonrovia. The negroes were all from
the Sou hern States.
COAI-MINERs to the number of five hum
dred near Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on the
10th for higher wages.
The ProhibitionistS of Massachusetts,
will hold their State Convention Septem-
Der 10.
OK the 18th a ship from Alexandria,
loaded with Egyptian rags, arrived at New
Haven, but 10 communication was allowed
between the crew and the shore.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State
Committee has chosen Senator Thomas V.
Cooper as Chairman.
4 RECENT fire i'll the pork-packinG house
of Bell q Day, at Pittsburgh, Pa, COM
muricated to the pork house OF " alker,
Dunlevy & Co. Loss, $4,000
West and South.
A rrpra few nights ago destroyed the new