Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-17
West and South.

West and South.
REPORTS of the S-h state that at the re-
cent election the Democrats carried Vir
ginia by about $4,000 majority, and the
Legislature would probably stand: SEN
at, Democrats, %; Coalitionists, 10.
House. Democrats, 63; Coalitionists, 33.
In Mississippi the Democrats elected
eleven out of the twelve District Attorneys,
and the joint Legislature would comprise
130 Democrats and % Republicans. Mary
land chose Robert McLane (Democrat)
Governor by ma jority of II 900, with both
branches of the Legislature Democratic.
II. G. MCGEE, a farmer who resided ten
miles from Kansas City, Mo-, killed his
wife and daughter, aged twenty, with
shotgun the Sth, and then took fatal
dose OF morphine. The three corpses were
discovered by McGee's younger children
when they returned from school. Family
| troubles were supposed to have been the
cause of the crime.
A FIRE recently destroyed Beadle & Kel-
ly's agricultural implement factory at
Troy, .. Loss, $4,000.
a DECISION has been rendered by Judge
Hoffman, of the United States District
Court at San Francisco, that Cinnamon
who went to China prior to the Restriction
act were entitled to return.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by Gov
ernor Crittenden, of Missouri, recommend
| ing that corporations and citizens adopt the
new standard of time to go into effect on
| the railroads the 18th.
! THE little girl of Italian e1nigrant
family who recently landed at Vera Cruz
! died Of yellow fever in a hospital at New
| Orie ans on the 9th.
DURING a quarrel in Christian County,
fax Lee
aged fifteen years, shot and killed Rudge
! Swearnigen, aged seven years.
UNDER the weight of a negro gathering
! the floor of n hall at Laurinburg, N. c.,
collapsed the other night, and the walls al
so tumbled in. Eight persons were
| wounded, two fatally.
! AT Cove Creek, Utah, n shock of earth
/ quake was felt few days ago. No dam
! age done.
A PARTY of men captured negro few
| days ago who assaulted 1sley HilPs
daughter near Greenwood, KY, and hanged
! him to Il tree.
THE preliminary examination in the
/ murder case of Fora Burns, of Lincoln, H.,
was concluded on the 9th, and arguments
were commenced. During the address of
/ Mr.. Foster, States-Attorney, the father of
| the murdered girl was removed from the
| room, it being feared that he intended ven;
ssan sssanSar w'ft1f triee cri,nc.
A JURY has awarded $1O,OO0 damages to
! Warren Wright, brakeman on the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago Road, who
was INJURED by a bridge at Rensselaer,, Ind.
IT was feared on the 9th by the people of
Sout hampton County, Va, that the negroes
were bent massacre, and there was
great excitement. In some places the
women and children had been taken to the
! woods and guarded. A negro was credited
with the remark that the colored people in
| tended to kill all the whites in Southamp-
ton County. Negroes We're reported miss
/ ing from their usual haunts.
THE arrival is announced at San Francis
| co of steamer from Hong Kong with 167
| Cinnamon, all of whom had traders certi-
ficates issued by their Government. Some
| OF the immigrants acknowledged that they
bought their papers of inspectors at
Canton.
AN accidental fire destroyed the resi-
dence of Asa L. Biggs, at Franklin, Va,
few nights ago, and Mr.. Bisgs perished
in the flames.
JUDGE LACEY on the 10th held Orrin A.
Carpenter, charged with numbering Fora
Burns at Lincoln, ILL.,, in $4,000 bail and
the bonds were furnished. The father of
the girl made attempts in the courtroom
and in the street to do bodily injury to
the accused.
AT Caldwell, Idaho, two residents who
lay asleep in their blankets on the 11th in
an unfinished hotel were killed with coup
ling-pins by a brace CT desperadoes. The
murderers We're captured. Robbery was
the cause of the crime.
The rumored negro rising in SOuthamp
ton County, Va, was on the 10th said to be
without foundation.
n foo oJ
ing with pistol a few evenings ago when
suddenly Lewis Cook pointed the revolver
at his brother Willie, lad of thirteen, and
fired, killing him instantly. Lewis and
his companions then ran, leaving the dead
boy lying on the bare commons.
A REPORT made on the 10th by F. T.
BickfOrd. Special Agent of the Government
Land Office in Dakota, that most of the
public lands in that Territory were acquired
by the original settlers. so called, through
the greatest frauds. The law was scarcely
complied with, either in letter or in
spirit. The Culture act, he said, was
made all agency of injustice to the public
by adven: urers, and he thought radical
remedy was necessary.
A LETTER has been addressed by General
James r. Carnahan, AdjutantGeneral of
Indiana, to the Secretary of War propos-
ing that n national encampment of State
troops be held in Washing gton next May.
LAWRENCE WHITE, n negro murderer,
was taken from the officers at Mount
Mourne, n. c., few days ago by sixty-five
colored men and lynched.
JOHN WOoD, a wealthy merchant at
Ridge Prairie, Mo-, shot and killed farm
Iaborer named James Morgan a few days |
ago. The cause of the act was unknown. |
The arrest was made on the 18th at Bis |
marck, ID. L. of John Fleming, of Fleming |
& Merriam, the notorious Chicago firm |
of swindlcrs, and he would be taken to |
Chicago for trial.
AT FORT Leavenworth, Kan, Charles |
Wilson, a pie-peddler, was killed few
days ago by two soldiers with jug, and |
his house fired to conceal the crime.
4 FEW evenings ago the town of Cisco,
Tex, with population of about 1000, was
nearly destroyed by fire, the loss being
$1,000
FIFTY masked men battered down the
Jail door at Commancbe, Tex, few nights
ago, overpowered the guards after a hard
struggle, and taking out the two Bailey
brothers hangel both to a tree in the grave
yard, a mile from town. 1t was not said
what the Baileys were charged with.