Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-02
West and SOufI,

AT Dallas, Ore, eleven business houses,
valued at $12O,00), were destroyed by fire
on the oath.
A STATEMENT appeared in the Baltimore
SIM of the 23l TO the effect that General
Sherman had declared to a personal friend,
in the most emphatic manner, thai he could
only reiterate what he hal previously ut
tered as to the mention of his name for the
Presidency. If he was nominated by accla-
nation i'll the convention and received the
Electoral vots of every State in the Union
he would still decline. He looked forw ard
for the remnant of his days to life OF
comfort and ease, and an entire freedom
from care AMI worry of any kind. He
thought it would be the uppermr st kind of
folly for him to be tempted by the bauhle
of the Presidency to enter the White House
and have four years of strife, contention,
irritation and criticism to encounter.
a TERRIBLE blizzard swept over the
northwest portion of Minnesota on the
9th, which confined every to their
houses. At Superior Junction and other
points the Thermometer indicated forty
four degrees below zero.
Ir was reported on the eith that James
and Edward Shadwick, boys aged thirteen
and fifteen years, of Marietta, Ga, who
gave information which caused the arrest
of moOnsniners, had been murdered by
friends of the prisoners.
Hon. JOHN c. New rived at his home
in Indianapolis, Ind, on the 9th, having
resigned his position as First Assistant
Secre tary Of the Treasury to attend to his
private business.
An explosion i'll the-Colorado Coal Com
pany's coIliery at Crested Butte, Col, on
the 9th caused the death, it supposed,
of fifty-seven men. The engine house,
which stood one hundred fee5 away, was
utterly wrecked.
BY n vote of % TO 10 the Virginia Senate
on the oath passed a resolution equesting
Senator Malone to resign his seat in the
United States Senate.
THE dryest season for seven years is re-
ported at California, with bad indications
for the growing crops.
AT Louisville on the oath j. j. Douglas,
a lottery manager. was ARE ted by the
Chief Inspector of the postal service for
sending circulars through the mails.
TWIN babes of Isaac Martin, of Liberty
Mills, Ind, were placed to sleep in cold
room, and were found frozen to death on
the morning of the 25th. The neighbor-
hood was greatly excited against the
Martins.
THE assignment of Joseph Kuhn, an in
Mich, for $2O0,0o0 is reported.
MARY KEMPER, of Mount Sterling, KY,
was burned to death a few DAYS ago while
under the influence of morphine, and NJ.
McClosky was fatally burned trying to
rescue her.
ORRIN y. CARPENTER was on the 2oth in
dicted by the Grand Jury at Lincoln, ILL.,,
for the murder of Fora Burns. The ac-
cused was summoned to court, and after
hearing the indictment read, Judge Herd
man, in an emphatic manner, refused to
take bail, and Carpenter was hurried off
to prison.
In a tent at Huntsville, Ala, a gypsy
man and woman were a few days ago
found dead, with no marks of violence.
They had 81 800 in cash.
ZACHARIAH SNYDER and John Anderson,
each about twenty-one years of age, were
hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind, on the
25th, for the murder of young James Van
Wye on the 18th of August last. The mo-
tive of the crime was robbery, and the
amount secured was less than eighteen
dollars.
FIyrY-sEvEN bodies had been recovered
from the mine at Crested Butte, Col, up to
the 26th, and several others were still miss
ing.
The death of John Letcher, who was
Governor of Virginia almost during the
period of the war, occurred on the 26th at
Lexington, at the age of seventy years. He
served four years in Congress.
On the 9th fifty-five Apache children
left the San Carlos Agency, in Arizona, for
the Carlisle Training School in Pennsylva-
MIA. They were accompanied by four
chiefs of the tribe.
EARLY on the morning of the 26eh the
penitentiary at Saltwater, Mimi, was de-
stroyed by Ere. the loss being $4,000. The