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South and West.

JOHN (cOloFed) was hanged at
Stanton Plantation, La, for wifs murder.
THE Ohio supreme court reversed the de.
cision Of tho lower court in the CINCINNATI
contested election cases and ordered certiti-
Gates of election to be issued to four Demo
cratic senatorial candidates. This leaves the
Ohio,legislature Republican by three ma
jority Oh joint ballot.
A BOILER explosion at the Furthe foundry,
Austin, Texas, killed Charles Jones, propri-
eter of the works, and Lewis Preston, the en-
gineer, injured several other people, and de-
molished the building.
On gala occasions when the average mortal
indulges in roast turkey two families of coal
diggers residing near Bellaire, Ohio, roast a
dog and eat it.
THE propeller Oconto, with twenty-three
passengers and a crew Of twenty-four, was
Wrecked on Lake Huron during the recent
severe storm. All on board reached a desc
late, inaccessible island after great suffering,
MAYOR REED, of Louisville, KY, has been
fined twenty dollars for fighting.
MRS. ROBERT SMITH AMI her two children
were brutally murdered in Montgomery
county, Texas, by q nineteen. year. old mu-
latto named Johnson.
B. GRAFT BROWN, ex-governor Of Missou-
ri, ex-United States Senator, and candidate
for Vice-President on the ticket with Horace
Greeley in 1872, died on the 18th in st. Louis.
He was born in Lexington, KY, in 1924, and
had oncebeen prominent in State and national
politics.
A COMMITTEE Of more than 1000 citizens,
representing every county and town in In
diana, has been formed to obtain funds for
the erection of O monument to the late Vice
President Hendricks.
A NUMBER of prisoners who attempted to
break Jail at Meridian, Miss, were fired upon
by the jailer, and one of them was fatally
wounded.
ERNEST ATWOOD and his newly-made
bride We're drowned while attempting to
cross the Chattanooga river, near Tallulah,
Ga. They had been married the day before.
In anticipation of its soon becoming a
State tho Territory Of Dakota has opened a
"legisalturo" at Huron.
THE vote by which the Virginia legislature
! elected John w. Daniel to succeed General
Malone as United States Senator, was: Sen
ate-Danie!, 2G; Malone, 8. House-Daniel,
20; Malone, 20.
THE State of Texas has bought a large
plantation on which it will employ ccnvicts.
Washington.
THERE are four Tay!ors in the present
House of Representatives.
THE House committee on rules decided
by a nearly unanimous action, Mr.. Randall
being the principal objector, to report in
favor of making eight committees on ap.
preparations, instead OF three committees,
with power to make appropriations as in the
last session.
ADDITIONAL postlnasters nominated by the
President: Thomas A. Carr, at Ihomaston,
Me-. John A. Barry, at Oswego, N. Y; W.
ri N;obnlc of Wollcvilla n " . John For
an, at Lambertville, N. j.: Mary E.
Sihonson, at East Orange, N. j.; John
G.. Randall, at Doylestown, Penn; George
Schsli, at N%orristown, Penn. Nj. S.. Longaker,
at Pottstown, Penn; John Eaviland, at
Phnnixville, Penn: James H. Covington, at
Easton. Md; w. r. Colston, ut Martins
burg, W. Va: Dnniel J. Sherman, at Ashta-
buka, o.; Thomas Hubbard, ut Bellefon-
taius, g.: Ringgold W. Meiley, at Lima, o.
W. Talbot, at Miidleport, o.; w. c. Clark, at
Paducah. KY; Erastus R. Mckinney, at
Lacon, ILL.,; Henry f. Wadsworth, at La
porte, Ind. Joseph Brelsford, at Onarga,
ILL.,. A. q. Weber, at Abba, Ia. John D.
Smith, at Bedford, H.. A. c. Hutchinson,
at Burlington, Ia. Clarence Snyder. at Ra-
cine, Wis; Ransom Nutting, at Decatur,
Mich; Angelo f. Tower, at lonia, Mich;
Charles R. Vaunn, at St. Helena, Cal.
THE correspondence of the stlte depart
ment with the governments OF Italy and
Austria concerning the appointment of Mr.;
A.. N. Kelley as minister 10 tir5t one and
then the other country shows: That lta'y
objected to Mr.. Keilov on acc punt Of opin-
ions expressed years ago concerning that
Governments; that Mr.. Keiley's name was
thereupon withdrawn and he was ap-
pointed minister TO Austria; that the
! Austrian government refused to receive MI.
Kelley because his wife is Il Jewess; that Mr..
Bayard protested against such a reason as
untenable and as al Infringement of the
principle of religious liberty, and that no
other appointment to Austria had according
ly been made.
A LARGE number of nominations made by
the President since the close of the last Con-
gress have gone to the Senate for action.
Foreign,
The German minister Of the interior has
announced in the Reichstag that Germany
had not been invited to participate in the
Paris exposition of 1859.
The followers Of Parnell, the Irish home
rule leader, number eighty-six in the new
house of commons, and they hold the balance
of power between the conservatives and lib
erals.
The most intensely cold weather expert
6nceQ III IVo years, las JuoO uooh pNofoAiAhS
throughout England.
THE Panama canal is declared in an official
statement to be under way two.thlrds OF It's
entire length. There are now 12, 200 laborers
employed on the big ditch, and it IS proposed
to double that number when the dry season
begins.
In a long and bloody engagement between
the Servians and Bulgarians the latter
were routed.
THERE are three Americans in the now
British house Of commons.
FOUR persons-two men and two children
-were drowned by breaking through the
ice in Lake Champlain at Philipsburg'
Canada.
BURMAH's white elephant is dead. An
enormous crowd attended the funeral OF tne
sacred animal.
MANY Irish tenants are refusing to pay
their landlords except at great Reductions III
rents.
M. PAsTEUR, the now famous dlscoVerer
of cure for hydrophobia, daily receives tele'
grams advising him of the departure OF fresh
patients from all countries for Paris. herr
Gener and son, owners of the largest hotel IN
Prague, have been bitten by q maj dog, ana
have gone to Paris. Five POLES, terribly
mutilated by q large hound known 10 nave
been in a state of hydrophobla, are among
the latest of Pasteur's patients.
A ROME Italy dispatch says that up. tt
! November |, in the ~Yicarate Of Cochin China