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San Xavier within 20, and Santa Rita, with the famous Toltec and Aztecgroup of ruins, within 30 hours' ride, and the Mexican frontier within the same time. Senator Thurman declines to be the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. Miss Mattie Todd, a niece of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, is an applicant for the Postoffice at Cynthiana, Ky. The banking-house of C. F. Adae & Co., Cincinnati, suspended on the 18th. Liabilities $780,000, and assets about $400,000. The creditors are mostly Germans. The failure created great excitement, and will doubtless cause much financial distress among the smaller depositors. An aggravated case of grave robbery has recently occurred at Evansville, Ind., where Mrs. Frank M. Murphy discovered the body of her husband, which had been buried only a few days previously, in the college dissecting-room, horribly mutilated, but still recognizable. At Cape Girardeau, Mo., on the evening of the 19th, Wash Ivers, a porter at the Franklin House, shot his wife and then himself. Both shots were instantly fatal. Imtemperance and conjugal unhappiness was the cause. At Cleveland, O., on the 19th, Dr. Geo. W. Angier, a well known veterinary surgeon, was shot and killed by a pistol in the hands of John W. Rice. The parties were intimate friends, and Rice claims that the shooting was accidental. The great Illinois and St. Louis Bridge, built by Captain Eads at a cost of $7,000,000, was sold at auction on the 20th, for $2,000,000. The purchaser was Mr. Anthony J. Thomas, of New York, acting as representative for the bondholders. A new company has been organized, with Solon Humphreys, of New York, as President. Ignatus Donnelly, Democrat, will contest the seat of W. D. Washburn, Republican, returned to Congress from the St. Paul, Minn., District. At Nicholsonville, Ky., on the 21st, Chas. Campbell stabbed James Hawkins in the arm and then cut his throat, causing death in three minutes. Campbell is a negro and was enraged at Hawkins because of the latter's interference in the procurement by Campbell of a license to marry a grass-widow. Campbell made his escape. In a ten-pin alley at Crockett, Texas, on the 21st, W. A. Hall struck James H. Wall in the head with a ten-pin ball, fracturing his skull and causing death. The murderer was arrested and held in $2,000 bail. John W. Rice, who shot and killed, accidentally, as he claimed, his friend George W. Angier, in Cleveland, on the 19th, has been arrested for murder. Angier lived long enough to make a statement, to the effect that Rice had been jealous of his (Angier's) attentions to Mrs. Rice, and that he had on several occasions threatened to shoot him. Stephen D. Richards, who murdered Mrs. Harrison and her three children in Kearney County, Neb., on Nov. 2 last, and subsequently.poisoned Peter Anderson, a neighbor, and then fled the State, was arrested at Mount Pleasant, o., his former residence, on the 21st, and has since been surrendered to the Nebraska authorities. Richards lived with Mrs. Harrison on the Nebraska farm and murdered her and her children in order to gain possession of her homestead. He secreted the remains of his victims in a haystack, and there being no near neighbors the murders were not discovered until the 9th of December, upon which day Richards poisoned Anderson and made his escape. At Fort Smith, Ark., on the 20th, John Postoaks, a Creek Indian, and James Diggs, a negro, were hanged on the same gallows. Postoaks murdered John Ingley, in October, 1877, and Diggs murdered J. C. Gould in August, 1873. The Indianapolis Savings Bank has suspended payment. It is claimed that all indebtedness will ultimately be paid in full.
