American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-22
CURRENT NOTES.

A Chinaman Il rs taken natnrall-
cation papers in California, and is
now an American citizen.
Twenty one Louisiana freedmen,
with two preachers, have sailed from
New York for Liberia, in West
Africa.
The Nickshurg and Meridian rail
road is c.lrrying large numbers OF
negroes from Alabama To the..rivcr
counties.
/ THE House bill to repeal the
equalization act has passed the
Senate aud GOES to the Governor
Tor his approval.
/ 1t is remored that the inyesti-
eating committee in the case of
Lieut.. Governor Davis will be pre-
pared 10 report ut an eaily day.
I jasper county lost all her prisons
ers. foGr in humber, the other night.
They got out through an old defect
in the jul, which. las been there for
several years.
Hon. VIM. Welch,. OF Madison,
Wisconsin,, proposes to. give each
man 81 Years old one vote, each
man II years old two votes, and
each man 63 years old three votes.
Richard Coke, present Governor
of Texas, is renominaied by the
Democrats. lie ought TO make IA
good ctficer, for Coke is entirely
devoid OF gas. -CarfotitOn Conserrd
hrs.
J General Cooper, Win resigned his
position is A,ljutant General of the
United States, to take the same
rank under the Coniederaty, IS ex-
trem, ly ill at his home near Alex
andria, Va.
Captain Nye says he can reach
/! the North Pole by hnggIng tli,'
Shore OF the straiis. This cold EN-
brace will come nigh onto freezing
him, before he comes nigh 10 the
North Pole.
A fellow in Dorrisville, Califor
mia, had Il mother who disliked the
girl whom he had engaged to marry.
Said fhe mother: ''I'll give you the
brindle steers aud the mule, If you
ldon't marry her" He took the
tbiutes III preference to the girl.
Thetelegraph brings the news of
the death ut Greenville, Tenn, of
the widow of Andrew johnson. 1t
was from her that the ex President
received the education that enabled
him TO climb from the tailor's bench
into the highest Office III the
Nation.-C Cincinnati Gazette.
The Governor transmitted mes
sage giving a list of pardons and
communications of sentences of peni-
Tertiary con, lets during the past
ear, with tie names OF those max
ing the Recommendations and the
reasons for granting. The recapit-
ulation shows 81 partloned by Gov.
Ames and 81 by u. Gov. Davis.
The distribution of United States
troops in the South, on the LIST of
December last; was IS follows. in
alabama, five companies Missis-
lSippi, six companies; at Little
Rock, Ark, two companies; and in
Louisiana nineteen companies. To-
ial, 81 companies, comprising 1,241
men.
II is probable that the introducer
! of The bill f6 do away with the
county treasureI's office, did not
think of tile fact that it is d consii-
tutiunal Office and cannot he ahol-
islled 10y Il simple act OF the Legisla
iuIe, bat must be disposed Of, ii at
all, 10y all amendment to the consti-
Lexington Adrertiser.
The cable announces the serious
Illness of ex Queen IsabelIa of
Spain. we don't know that the
Spanish people would shed many
tears over her demise. She has
long been II disturbing element in
rhe country, and is at present in
triguing for an opportunity tC re-
rirn to the land which has already
two Vars on hand.
Johnnie Melon, lad of sixteen,
son of a widow Mrhon of Memphis,
WAS assaulted with rocks by party
of bad boys in Vicksburg, "a few
days ag,, and killed. We leain
from the Herald that the boy had
run away from college and gone to
Vicksburg on steamboat, where
his young and eventful career Game
10 an untiInely end.
Senator Jewell has introduced Il
I hill which provides that the sureties
on official bonds of county officers,
/ shall hold property m the county
wherein the bond is made, over and
above any other surety, and TO the
/ amount OF The sum in which he
binds himself, and that said bonds
shall he approved by the Chanceiy
CLERK and the President Of the
Board OF Supervisors.
| IL the Legislature does not very
socn devise some way to COMPEL
the payment of taxes, the army OF
mon-faxpayers will, IN another year
or two, be gicil or tban the army of
taxpay ers, aud then there will be
anarchy and confusion worse con-
founded. The non-taXpayers, count
+ ing delinquent sales OF real estate
I for 1871 and lS.J, already represent
nearly one fourth al ali the property
in the cuiiittry.- Natche= Democrat.
On the i7tl. the Senate committee
On human. and k,.ueyolertt inst i'm