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South and West. AN epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in Cabell County, W. Va. THE Crow Indians, in full council, have sold' to the Government their lands west of the divide on Price's Creek, Montana, and the adjoining strip fifteen miles wide. Consideration. $546,000. Number ot acres purchased, 1,850,000. THE Texas cotton crop. based on returns from 144 cotton-growing counties, will be 1,818,000 bales, against 1,704,000 bales last year. EASTLAND, FOWLER & Co., wholesale crockery and glassware dealers, of San Francisco, Cal., have failed. Liabilities, $192,000; assets, $53,600. GEORGE MARTIN, the colored murderer of William Crouch, was executed at Meridian, Miss. THE Franklin Bank at Clarksville, Tenn., suspended payment. Two hours later the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. of the same place, closed its doors. These failures caused Kendrick, Pettus & Co., tobacco dealers, of Clarksville, to make an assignment. THE will of the late Horace Kelley, of Cleveland, Ohio, gives $500,000 for the foundation of a National Art Gallery in that city. THE Territorial Council of Oklahoma passed the corrected House bill, embodying some of Governor Steele's recommendations, locating the temporary capital at Kingfis' Governor Steele promptly approved the bill. THE hostile Indians have been fighting among themselves in the Bad Lands or South Dakota. The fight was for leadership between Two Strike and Short Bull, each wishing to control the united bands. The fight was bitterly contested for several hours, and many were killed. WHITE CAPS visited the house of Thomas Burgess, a farmer, living in Meade County, Ky., to whip him. He shot and killed one of the raiders and wounded two others. With his wife Burgess fled to the woods through a rear door. CURTIS G. STODDART, the banker, has been arrested at Chicago, Ill., on a charge of embezzling almost $3,000,000. The funds it is alleged he has embezzled are stock and bondsof the Kansas, Arkansas & New Orleans Railroad DURING a terrific wind storm at Elliott. North Dakota, a spark from a locomotive blew into the North Dakota elevator and the structure was burned down, together with 50,000 bushels of wheat. LOUIS SCOTT shot his wife in a quarrel at Kalamazoo, Mich., and then killed himself. They quarreled some weeks ago and she left him, going to work as a domestic. A WARRANT has been issued at Columbia, S. C., for the arrest of Attorney-General Page, on the charge of political intimidation in discharging from the enrolling department T. F. Butler, a nephew of Senator Butler, without adequate cause. Mr. Butler was a candidate for the Legislature on the Haskell ticket, and this incurred Page's displeasure. JUDGE T. A. S. MITCHELL, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, died suddenly at his home, in Goshen. Judge Mitchell was the only Democratic member of the bench, and was re-elected for a second term at the recent election. He was about fifty years old. THE town of Waterford, Ind., has been almost entirely wiped out by fire. Two children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holnagel. residing two miles east of Saginaw, Mich., were burned to death in their home, which took fire during the absence of Mrs. Holnagel. JOHN BLYEW was given a life sentence at Vanceburg, Ky., for the murder of four colored people in August, 1868. He killed a whole family except two little children. The case has been fought twenty-two years and cost the State $25,000. IN a collision between freight trains near Cincinnati, Ohio, Brakeman J. G. Stephens was killed and Engineer Hall fatally injured. The accident was caused by the young lady operator at Pine Knot not giving proper orders. THE bodies of James Lane and George Serker were found lying in a road near City Court House, W. Va. They are supposed to have frozen to death.
