Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-01-05
The East.

OFF Now Haven, Conn, the bark Mo-
hawk, having Japanese crew, anchored
the other day with all hands frost bitten.
Two men would lose their feet.
The other night John H. D;ehl, ex-Col-
lector of Customs n. Philadelphia, was
suffocated 10y coal gas ut Delanco, n. j.
THE withdrawal of the agency in this
country of the Standard Fire Office, of
London, is announced. General Grant was
one of the trustees.
THE unveilin. of statue of Harriet
Marfineau took place a few days ago in
the Old South Meeting house at Boston, to
commemorate her services to the cause of
emancipation. Mrs. Livermore presided
at the ceremonies, and Wendell Philips
and William Lloyd Garrison delivered ad-
dresses.
The failure of A. ID. Smith & Co., of
Providence, II. L., operating five cotton
mills, occurred on tie 10Th, with liabilities
of $I,I00,oO9. The crash was highly dis
astrous one, carrying with it the su>pen-
sion of three great companies, besides the
five mills run by the ruined firm. Ten
thousand persons were thrown out OF em-
ployment.
NEAR Rocktown, Pa, a sleigh contain
ing four couples was dragged over a precl-
pice by Il runaway team afew evenings
ago, and two men had an arm each broken
and a woman was injured internally.
In a restaurant at Buffalo, N. ", lea King
gas caused an explosion few evenings
ago, four persons being seriously injured.
The bar, dining-room and fixtures were
demolished.
JEFFERDs, BAILEY & Co., of jamestown,
n. ", lounge and table manufacturers,
failed recently for SlOO,O0).
a FEW evenings ago General Grant, on
leaving his house in New York, fell on the
ice on his left sid, injuring his leg so seri-
ously that it would be paralized for a
time.
A SEVERE storm, accompanied by thun-
der and lightning, passed ovor New
Haven, Conn, on the 2.th, and whils it
prevailed strong smell of sulphur was
noted.
WORKMEN in the neighborhood of Read
ing, Pa, were on the 9th signing a petit
tion to Congress requesting that the inn
portation OF foreign labor under contract
be stopped.
WHILE temporarily insane Colonel H.
II. Rathbone, who married the daughter OF
ex-senator Ira Harris, of Albany, n. ",
killed his wife and himself in Hanover,
Germany, few days ago.
1T was announced on the 9th that 34S as
signments had been filed in New York City
S4s, and the actual assets amounting te
1854, ,451.
DURING the rehearsal of play with Pis
tolls recently at Erie, Pa, James Brandt
mortally wounded George Walker in the
head.
SAMUEL C. BLoDGErr was lately dis
missed from a savings bank treasurershlI
at Providence, r. l., and it has since been
discovered that he embezzled not less
than $4,000.
NEAR Dunbar, Pa, a broken rail threw
three coaches and the baggage-car OF q
passenger train from the track a few days
ago, and several travellers were injured,
but none were killed.
A WOMAN named Jennie Smith and e1'
Poundmaster McCann, of New York, were
found frozen to death near the Erie Rail
way shops in Jersey City few mornings
ago. Both had been intoxicated
AT Attica, n. Y, a gas we'll put down
six hundred feet recently struck no"
sufficient to light and heat the village.
On the 2Sth Frank R. Sher-~in, the new
Mexico millionaire ranchma1. arrested
some months ago and taken to Albany, N.
Y. to answer for contempt Of court, was
dned 500 and sentenced to the Peuisen
diary for two years.