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WEST AND SOUTHWEST. Rev. Dr. Seymour, at the unanimous request of theSpringfield (III.) Diocesan Convention, P. E. Church, has reconsidered his former resolution and will accept the Bishopric. The Iowa Democratic State Convention, held on the 29th, adopted resolutions in favor of a tariff for revenue only, the the act, the Resumption substitution bills, repeal of the United of imnotes for national bank by the Government of and a thorough rivers, State's provement investigation Western and of the Presidential election frauds of 1876; opposing further contraction of the currency by the retirement of United States notes in The State now circulation. State, officers Tom nominated are: For Secretary of O. of Davis; Auditor of State, Joseph of Polk; Treasurer of State, D. Walker, Eiboeck, Land E. OfFenn, of Storey; Register of State fice, T. P. Bardwell, of Linn; Judge of Supreme Court, Judge Knapp, of Van Buren; Clerk of the Supreme Court, M. V. Gannon, of Scott; Reporter of the Supreme Court, J. B. Elliott, of Marion; Attorney-General, J. Gibbon, of Lee. At Springfield, Mo., on the night of the 29th, a lady named Mrs. Thompson, while temporarily insane, cut the throat of her daughter Nettie, aged 17, and then cut her own. Both died. The recent cyclone in Wisconsin killed 50 people and injured about 250. Hundreds The are ft homeless and without a meal to eat. survivors along the line of the tornado are in great distress. The west-bound express train on the Union Pacific Railroad was boarded by masked men on the night of the 29th, near Percy Station, who entered the sleeping-cars and robbed a number of passengers of their money and watches and then decamped, being evidently frightened off before they had completed their work. A posse of men started at daylight in pursuit of the robbers. Andy Compagnion, a desperado of Owensville, Gibson County, Ind., who was suspected of having committed numerous crimes,on the night of the 29th was taken from his house by a party of masked men and shot dead in the Public Square, his body being literally riddled with bullets. McCoskry has again left Detroit and unexpectedly for instead of to face his suddenly Bishop staying accusers, New York, and is reported to have renewed his resignation. H. Heafford, General Mr. G. Auditor, Passenger of the Agent, and Mr. C. L. White, Pacific Railroad, their as rumored, by Missouri positions have request resigned as- of the managers of the road. No cause signed. Their places have been temporarily filled by the appointment respectively of Mr. Frank E. Fowler and Mr. Charles G. Warner. The First National Bank of Dallas, Texas, suspended on the 30th, after a run lasting three days. Liabilities large and assets nominal. Hon. Daniel Gantt, Chief-Justice of Nebraska, died on the 29th, aged 70. The body of John Scott Harrison, son of ex-President Harrison, who died suddenly 27th ult. at North Bend, Ind., from the family vault on interred on the the the as dis- night disthe burial and taken to of the Ohio in where it was unsecting-room following Cincinnati, Medical strangely College and discovered on the Harrison, a son of by expectedly Carter deceased, following while day the latter was making a search, in company an officer, for the a who had died a few friend with days body previous, discov- of of whose grave was him on the day of his ered and the by robbery father's might fuFearing that his father's grave as had been that of had hired a watchman to neral. the be despoiled son keep his friend, guard it nights, and his consternation and over grief upon being brought face to face with his dead father in the dissecting-room are said to have quite overpowered him. A Boise City dispatch of the 31st reports about 200 Indians, under Buffalo Horn, that encamped in the lava-beds, between are Camas Prairie and Snake River, ,and have ordered the whites to leave the prairie on penalty of death. They have already comhostilities by shooting two settlers, both severely. are menced wounding The ammunition. Indians well with arms and of the and Chicago Pennsylvania The supplied machine-shops Railroad, Indianapolis, at Peru, Ind., were struck by lightning on the night of the 29th, and, with their contents, entirely consumed by fire. There were three locomotives and two stock-cars in the shops. The loss is estimated at $100,600-no insurance. The Galveston News's special from Eagle Pass, 30th, says: Escobedo is reported to have captured Saragossa, and is expected to attack Piedras Negras. The Mexican Government troops, under command of Colonel is Nanoiz, have gone to meet him. A fight expected. At the farm of Robert Linn, four miles from Hillsboro, O., on the 31st, a portable saw-mill engine exploded, killing three men One scalding several thrown completely over a tree. and man severely was others. distant. tall The boiler was found 300 yards The Alabama Democratic State Convention nominated the following ticket
