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WEST-AND SOUTHWEST. At Warsaw, Ind., on the evening of the 21st, Libbie Jacques, aged 19, was terribly and fatally burned about the face and breast, by letting fall a lamp filled with oil, which she was lifting from a chandelier. Whilerendeavoring to putions the flameson her clothing, O. P.sJacques, her father, burned both hands so severely that it wasthought amputation would be necessary. AtTerre Haute, on the evening previous, Mary Tarelby, a servant-girl in the employ of Hon. Bayless H. Hanna, wasso badly burned by a lamp explosion that she was expected to die. Nicholas Plumling has been arrested at Wilton, Wis., charged with the murder of Mrs. Van Voorhees and her three children, whose dead bodies were found in their burning cottage about the first of Noveniber. It was supposed at the time that Mrs. Van Voorhees killed her children and then took heflown life, but later dรฉvelopmรฉnts(strongly implicate Plumling as being the author of the horrible crime. 2797A The National Grange Patrons of Husbandry met at Cincinnati on the 21st, delegates from all the States being present. A San Antonio dispatch of the 23d says that Gen. Ord has received an official copy of the order of President Diaz to Gen. Dallin, commanding the Mexican forces on the border, to repel invasion by United States troops by force, and it is further'stated that Gen. Trevino has been ordered to the Rio Grande with 2,500 troops to carry out the order. Gen. Ord has telegraphed to the President for another regiment of eavalry. The Central National Bank of Chicago closed its doors on the 23d, after a slight run. Its deposits amount to $260,000, and it is asserted that its assets are amply sufficient to pay all demands in full. At Benton Ridge, Hancock County, O., on the 22d, Dr. Frank H. Knapp shot and killed Dr. H. K. Nott with a shot-gun. Both were practicing physicians. Dr.Keappsays, as a defense of his crime, that Dr. Nott had several times tired at bim with a revolver, and did so on the day of the shooting, and that he fired the fatal shot while under the conviction that his life was in imminent peril. Charles Jones, a half-breed desperado, who attempted to kill his wife and child at McAllister Station, Indian Nation, was arrested and subsequently shot and killed while attempting to escape from eustody. Two men named Shepard Clark and Israel Doty were recently killed in Don Juan County, Cal., about 10 miles from Pagosa Springs, it is supposed by a Mexican and a Navajo Indian. The discovery of their dead bodies was the first known of their murder. The Bismarek coach was attacked and captured by Indians, on the 22d, near Sulphur Springs Station, about 50 miles from Deadwood. The passengers saved their scalps by taking to the blutfs. After ransacking the mail-bags, the Indians killed two of the horses and decamped with the other two. Bishop Enoch M. Marvin, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his residence in St. Louis on the 26th. He was born in Warren County, Me., June 12, 1823, and entered the ministry when only 18 years of age. The disease from which he died was pleuro-pneumonia. The murderer Band was removed from St. Louis to Galesburg, Knox County, III., on the 27th, where he will be tried for murder.