Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-12
West and South.

MINNESOTA Democrats will meet i'll State
Convention at St Paul May % to select
delegates to the National Convention.
A TERRIFIC wind-sto:m in the vicinity of
Lynchburg, Va, the 81 blew down
houses, uprooted trees, and did consider
able other damage.
A TRAIN was thrown down an embank-
ment by open switch at Bellevillc, ILL.,,
on the Sd, and twenty-five persons were
seriously injured It was said the switch
was let open by an employe, who was in
a neighboring saloon drinking.
AT Angus n, Ga, the largest and most
influential meeting of cotton manufacturers
ever held in the South took place on the3i.
Cotton Association was formed, and it
was unanimously resolved that the inter
ests of the trade demanded a curtGilment
of prcductiOr.
MAJOR c. &. THURMOND, leading Coz,
ton operat or at Shreveport, La, committed
suicide the other day, owing to financial
embarrassment.
ARTICLES of consolidation have been
| filed by the Chicago, St. Louis & Pacific
| and Chicago & Indiana Central Railroads,
| the Joint capital being S3D,OJO,O0o. The
| combination will be known as the Chicago,
st. Louis & Pacific.
| The London Bank of Utah at Salt Lake
was clos I'd bv United States Marshal on
| the Sd on an attachment for $4,000
| EARLY on the morning of the 81 the
| steamer Rebecca Everingham was burned
| to the waters edge in the Chattahoochie
| River at Fitzgerald's Landing, Ga. Thir
| teen persons lost their lives, and of the
| passengers who escaped in their night
clothes, many were severely burned. The
| boat was loaded with cotton, and was val
! ued at 81, 900.
| FROM Wick burg to the gulf the Missis
| sippi River was falling slowly on the Sd,
| bu. still very high. Planters in the
| inundated parishes were hopeful that the
| overflow water would rur off i'll time to
permit the planting of full crop. In some
| sections of Northern Louisiana land was
beginning to be seen in spots.
MULES in Western Mississippi were be-
ing killed by Buffalo snats on the Sd, and
deer were fleeing to the high lands of
! Arkansas to escape the pests.
On the 4th a revenue cutter ana TWO
| American ships sailed from Key West to
| ass :. the Dix in searching fer the Cuban
| filibusters.
THE other morning Rev. w. s. Mahan,
| postmaster of Mount City, No, was found
dead in bed. He was sixty years of agr.
A DECISION has been rendered by Attor-
| ney General Mccartney, of Illinois, that
under the Harper law incorporated munic-
|
ing intox ;cants in any quaint y for any
purpose: and that, if licensel, the term of
the document must comply with the statu-
| tory provisions of the bill.
| TEI,EGRAMS of the 4th stated that for
three days forest fires had ragged IN sew
eral counties of Southern North Carolina
destroying turpentine orchards, vast lot
ests of pine, re idences and turpentlne dis
tilleries. The fire swept a section of about
one hundred and fifty square miles, leav-
ing the country a blackened wilderness. NO
lives were reported lost.
AT Cincinnati on the o.5 aga M hfps fpsosed, col
ored woman who shot with intent to kill
getting seven years, and a man who killed
another with a blow of his fist, and plead
ed guilty of fmanslaughter, receiving five
years. sentence.
THE General Barnard, a Government
steamer, left several thousand rations at
Tiptonville, Tenn, on the 4th, and would
distribute supplies at all points between
| Vicks burg and the mouth OF the Red River.
THE following executions took place on
the 4th for murder: Henry Rose AT Osce-
ola, Ark; Joe McGec at Coushatta, La,
and Andy Roland, at Spring Place, Ga.
IN various sections of North and South
Carolina forest fires were raging on the
9Th, caused by the attempts of farmers to
|
brush. The fire had spread with alarming
rapidity, and hundreds of farm-hOuses and
outbuildings had been destroyed. Berkeley
and Chesterfield Counties had suffered
verely.
THE Democrats of Georgia will meet in
State Convention at Atlanta June Is to
select delegates to the National Conven-
tion, and the convention to nominate State
officers and Presidential Electors will be
held August Is.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed four
large stores and two warehouses at West
Point, Ga, causing loss of 5000
WHILE out driving a few evenings ago
three boys, the sons of Cincinnati business
men, were killed by locomotive at a rail-
| way crossing.
On the 9Th the schooner ShoterS, which
left Key West few days ago in a mys:e
| riouS m amer, returned to that port. The
pilot in charge stated that when the vessel
was clear of the harbor Aquero, a Cuban
| Chief, with drawn pistol, forced him to
take party of flibusterS to the Cuban
coast, la nding them near Cardenas.
NEAR Citco. Tex, on the morning CT the
| 9TH Texas Pacific train was wrecked, the
baggage car and three coaches tumbling
down an embankment. Seven persons
we're killed and many others were injured.
On the 9th twenty five carloads of corn
and flour contributed by the people of But
ler County, Kan, left ElIorado for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the Ohio River
| floods.
THE house of Orrin \. Carpenter at
| Lincoln, ILL.,, was visited by committee
of fifty persons on the evening of the 18Th. and
resolutions inviting him to quit the country
| were presented. Carpenter refused to ac-
cept the document, saying that thry had
10 authority to pass the resolutions, and
that his future course would be governed
by his own discretion. Tho committee then
retired, no disorder or violence being man.
ifeste1.
EARLY the other morning Freiburg 6
| Workum's disiillery at Petersburg, KY,
and large quantity of corn and whisky
| in process of manufacture We're destroyed
by fire. Eight hundred head of cattle were
also roasted to death. Loss, Sl3t,oOo.
| A PASSENGER train was dcraiied near
Duck Hill, Miss, few mornings ago, sew
eral travellers and some of the train men
being seriously wounded
| THE boiler of TIE tug Peter Smith ex-
ploded off Vermillion, o., on Lake Erie. a
few days ago, killing John Perew and John
Cado, engineers, and Captain Smith, Of
the schooner Sherman, who was on
pleasure trip.
| ROBBERS entered the house of John
| Smith, near Rising Sun, Ind, the ether
night, maltreated him, and ransackei the
| premises. Finding no valuables, they
| lighted a fire and swung Smith back and
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