Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-08
West and South.

IT was reported on the 2.th by the Mil
waukee Hebrew Society that two hundre |
Russian refugees near Bismarck We're in a
condition bordering starvation and
nakedncss and endeavorS to raise $500
for their relief would he made.
REPORTS from Southern Illinois onzthe
9th were to the effect that the peaches,
pIums, grapes and berries hal been de-
stroyed by the intense cold in many
place:.
THE Senate Committee Investigating the
Copiah County (MississippD election out
RACES at New Orleans, adjourned on the
9TH af .er examining lt2 witnesses.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee of Indiana has issued call for Il State
Convention to meet in that city June p.
a FIRE recently destroyed the business
portion of Iredell, Tex.
THE distribution of rations to people
made homeless by recent floods still con-
tinucd on the 2Sth, and over 1000 people
| were being provided for. Hundreds OF
persons were suffering who were getting
aIonr after a fashion before the cold snap.
The banks between Memphis and Evans
vile, Ind, were lined with people, who
were housed i'll open barns, out houses,
| etc, and with the mercury down to zero
much suffering must ensue.
CITIZENS of Medina County, Tex, had,
| up to tho 18th ult., hunted down and
| lodged in Jail thirty-nine fence-cutters. A
detachment of rangers was stationed at
Castroville.
| On the 2Sth ult. S. NJ. Weaver, a disa-
! bled member of the Iowa House, was taken
| to the clerks desk in reclining chair and
| wrapped i'll Il buffalo overcoat, in order to
| record his vote on the Prohibitory Liquor
| bill.
| THE Republicans of Ohio will hold their
State Convention at Cleveland April "A.
| In one hundred miles above and below
| Shreveport, La, the country was shallow
| sea on the 2S;h ult. The planters would
| lose heavily in fences, stock and horses,
| and the colored population were in great
| distress.
| ARIZONA advices of the 2Sth ult state
| that the Apaches were again on the war
| path in Sonora, Mex. Near Chipua they
killed two men and stole several horses,
| and the dead bodies of several Mexicans
| were found on Mexican soil near the bor
| der. Large numbers of cattle had been
stolen from Los Piedras and De Lumbre.
| A Federal force was in pursuit.
| MARSHALL L. Pol X, the defaulting Treas
| urer of Tennessee, on bail pending trial,
died at East Nashville on the 18th ult., of
heart-disease.
| AT jackson, O., the Sheriff on the Goth
| ult. hanged Luke and William Jones (broth-
| ers) for the murder of Anderson Lackey;
Ben Gillian was hanged at Bayboro, n.
| c., for killing Henry Carter with club,
and William Moore (colored) was executed
| at Franklin, La, for the murder of China
| man.
THE failure is announced of E. Detrick g.
| Co., dealers in bags and twine at San Fran
| cisco for $3.50 900.
| ADvICES of the 10Th ult. from New Or
| leans state that the rivers above were still
| rising and the overflow spreadin AT
| Helena Ark, the situation was critical,
| the river rising ten inches day. The
| Iron Mountain trains were stopped and
| the city Gu. off. A heavy force was
| strengt hening the levees. Great distress
| was being experienced, but no loss of life
! had been reported.
In Chicago on the 29th ult. g National
bank, with 100000 capital subscribed,
| to be called the Me tropolitan, was organ
lied.
| On the Goth ult. the Republican Editorial
| Association of Indiana, at its meeting at
indianapolis, deprecated making prohibit
| ton an issue in the coming campaign.
| THE death of the widow of the immortal
| John Brown, of Harper's Ferry, occurred
on the 29th ult. at San Francisco.
On the o9th ult. Orrin A. Carpenter,
charged with killing Fora Burns, was tax n
from the Lincoln (Ill.) Jail to Peters
burg, where it was expected the trial would
begin March 10.
The Senate bill prohibiting the manu-
| facture and sale of all Intoxicating liquors
was ordered engrossed by the lower House
of the Iowa Legislature on the 29th ult.
THE Iowa House on the 1st passed the
Prohibition bill-52 to 4l-all the Republic
ans and one Democrat voting for the meas
ure There being Prohibition majority
of twenty four in the Senate, its passage
in that body was considered certain
THE courthouse at Weatherford, TEX
with the records of the courts, was de-
stroved by an incendiary fire the other
dav. The loss was estimated at $4,000.
AT the election on the 1st E II. Funston,
Republican, was elected to Congress from
the S,econd District of Kansas, to succeed