Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-02

| ments that he has or had any pecuniary
| interest in the success of the Mexican
treaty. Senior Romero, the Mexican Min
1ster, when asked a few days ago what he
had to say i'll regard to this letter stated
that he knew General Grant had not had
any personal interest in Mexico that might
be served by the ratification of a reciproc-
ity treaty.
LEROY w ARNER recently asked judicial
confirmation in the Common Pleas Court
at Erie, Pa, of the sale of his little daugh-
tion being one dollar. The request was re.
fused.
The failure of George T. Comings &
Co.. State Prison contractors at Concord,
N H., for $4,000, is announced.
DOMESTIC troubles caused John Spaul-
dlng, OF Bangor, Me-, to shoot his wife on
the 18th. and then kill himself. Mrs.
Spaulding was not seriously hurt.
A FARMER of East Meadow, l.. l., named
Selah Sprague, was STACKED in his barn on
the 18th and probail ly fatally wounded by
mulatto named Charles Smith. The vii
lain then went to the house, struck Mrs.
SpraSue, AMI began a search for money
The i2hbors heard the woman's screams
for help, and they secured the countr un-
til they captured the robber.
a REPORT was issued bv the Bradstreet
Commercial Agency on the 2Jth that prices
for all commodities We're generally firmer,
and that tic movement of merchandise
throughout the country had increased in
volume.
Dr.. JOHN B. WooD, of New York City, a
well-known journalist, fell into the river
at that place u few nights ago and was
drowned.
AFTER service of sixty-three years
Commodore Francis q. Ellison, of the
United States Navy, died at New York a
few days ago.
THE 18th was the Celestial New Years
Day, and it duly observed by the Chi
nese in New York. Chicago and other cities
i'll their peculiar manner.
THE failures are announced of Edward
Beane, the most extensive shoc-dealer in
Providence, II. L., and j. B. Wadsworth,
of Morrisville, n. V, proprietor of eighteen
cheese factories, for $4,000.
In Pleasant Valley, a mining town on
the Lehigli & Susquehanna br anch of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, over fifty acres
sank in some places over two feet few
nights ago with terrible crash. The peo-
pie We're panic-stricken AMI fed into the
streets and open spaces to avoid being
crushed by the ruins of buildings, many
of which were wrecked.
THE Baltimore & Ohio COMPANY has
purchased the lines of the National Tel =
graph Company.
ARRANGEMENTS were made recently by
about twenty leading ladies and gentle
men of Boston for the establishment of a
creE1atory in that city.
The fishing-schooner G. W. Stetson, of
Gloucester, Mass, with n crew of twelve
men, was on the 2sth reported as lost.
AFTER long idleness the Corning Iron
Works, near Troy, n. ", resumed opera
tions on the 2Sth, giving employ ment to
fifteen hundred men. a general revival
of the iron trade throughout the country
reported
JAMES ALEXANDER, dealer in millinery
goods i'll New York City, failed recently
for ;S200,p0o.
On the 2Sth Tilden c. Abbott, cashier of
the Union Market Bank at Watertown
Mass, absconded with SCI, 1G) belonging to
the institution, leaving behind him a wife
and four children.
THE Free Thinkers of New England
formed an association at Boston on the
2Stll with bylaws demanding that churches
shall not he exempt from taxation; that
the judicial oath be abolished; that all
laws enforcing the observance of the Sab
bath and Christian morality be repealed,
and that the Bible lie removed rom the
public schools.