American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-28
General News Summary.
Personal and Political.

Personal and Political.
| Charles Sumner reached Liverpool o
September II. He telegraphed back t
his political friends in Massachusetts
September Is, that in no event would h
accept the nomination for Governor.
A Raleigh, N. c., dispatch of Septem
| Der l6, gives the substance of lette
from Judge Merrimon, late Democrat
candidate for Governor, i'm which he eX
presses a belief that the people desire tina
| he should contest the late election, an,
avows an intention to do so.
The sailors and soldiers convention
met in Pittsburg, September IL, and or
ganized by the election of Senator JOIN
a. Logan as President and one Vice Pres
ident from each State. Addresses wer,
made by Hon. Henry Wilson and others
I Governor Orr ofSouth Carolina was. o,
September Is, rendered the position o
Minister to the Argentine Republic, de
clined by General White of Illinois.
Auditor Graham of Louisiana, who
was recently committed to jail for con
tempt of court, in refusing to obey an or.
der of the Eighth District Court of New
Orleans, was pardoned, September Is, by
Gov. Warmoth.
The Soldiers and Sailors Convention
reassembled at Pittsburgh, September IS
and adopted series of resolutions lauda-
tory of General Grant and Hon. Henry
Wilson. After addresses by General Logan
and others, the convention adjourned.
The Democrats of the Third Maryland
district, on September Is, nominated VIM.
J. O'Brien, for Congress.
Hon. Thomas Swami, was, on Septem-
Der is, renominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the Fourth Maryland dis
trict.
Lewis E. johnson was nominated for
Congress at Large, from South Carolina,
by the boiling Sawyer Republicans of that
State, on September Is.
The Republicans of the I'd Maryland
district. on September 10, nominated Ma
jOr \. NJ. Hancock for Congress.
Samuel A. Parker, was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats and Liberals
of the Burlington, n. j., district, on Sep
TENDER 10.
On September 10, Ex-Governor NJ. L.
Ward was nominated for Congress by the
Republicans of the 9Th New Jersey dis
trict.
The conservatives of the ID Virginia
district, on September 10, nominated Ma
jor B. P. Lee, editor of the Norfolk Jour.
nal, for Congress.
The Labor refOrmers of the 9Th Massa-
chusetts district, on September 10, nomi-
mated James NJ. Buffum for Congress.
The straight Out Democratic Conven-
ton of the State of Indiana met at Indian
apolis, Sept. 10, and placed the following
ticket in nomination for Governor, A. Z.
Edgerton; Lieutenant Governor, Green
Durbin; Secretary of State, Alfred Pier
son !; Auditor OF State, Otto Boettecker ;
Treasurer of State, DIR. Mcbride; Attor-
ney General, Thos. Branham; Congress
men-at-L Large. Mai. W. c. MOreau and
DR.. w. F. Sherrod; Electors for the State
at-Large, Graham n. Fitch, Charles
Reeves, Jas. Millison, Il. j. Foster and A
Fullstate.
The Republicans of the Sth Mass. dis
trict, on September 20, nominated j. S. S.
Williams for congress.
Judge Henry II. Foster was nominated
for congress on September 20, by the Lib
erals of the Oswego, N. Y, congressional
district.
Patton Anderson, Major General of the
late Confederate army, died at his resi-
dence near Memphis, Tennessee, ON the
morning of September 20.
The straight out Democratic executive
committee of the State of Illinois, met at
Springfield, September 20, and appointed
Presidential Electors at Large and one
from each Congressional district. They
also nominated the following ticket for
State officers: For Governor, Sidney
Breeze, of Clinton county; for Lieutenant
Governor, ID. S. StOrrs, of Green county
for Secretary of State, Sutton, OF Clark :;
for Auditor of Public Accounts, c. III.
Westerman, of Massac; for State Treas
urer, Henry West of Mclean; for Attor-
ney General, George A. Mech, of Cook
for Clerks of Supreme Court, Northern
Central Division, f. II. Palmer, of De
Witt; Southern Division, c. c. Fletcher,
of Crawford.
Hon. Bennett Pike, was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats and Liberals
of the St. Joseph, Mo-, district, on Sep
TENDER 20, in place of Gen. Craig,
declined.
"A New York telegram of September p },
says that O'ConOr has finally concluded
to accept the Louisville nomination.
The President, on September 81, ap-
pointed S. ii. Kaufman of Washington,
ID. c., Thomas Underwood of Lafayette,
Ind, and A. G. Sands of Cincinnati, o.,
Commissioners to examine the Northern
Pacific railroad.
Hon. Garrett Davis, U. 5. Senator from
Kentucky, died at his residence in Paris,
Kentucky, on the morning of September
%, of gangrenOus affection of the lungs.
He was seventy-two years of age.
Crimes and Casualties.
A Nashville dispatch, of September 1G,
says that a party of masked men went to
the residence of Henry Miller, colored, at
Christiana, Rutherford county, Tenn. on
September II, before day, and on his at
tempting to escape shot him dead. His
offense was being the father of a child by
Il white woman.
Dennehy, the murderer of Geo. I'll. Fa-
vOr of Providence, r. l., was arrested,
September 16, i'm Greenville, Canada, by Il
Providence detective.
A Holly Springs, Miss, dispatch, of
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