American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-04

) The Sultan of Turkey has signed
ukase granting amnesty to all insurgents VIII
return to their home within a month. TIL
Government announces that it will have al
their houses and churches, which were de
stroyed, rebuilt at its own cost, and will
furnish the insurgents the means of resum
ing their usual avocations. The authorize.
of the frontier are ordered to acqrlaint in.
| surgents of the imperial decree, and to af
ford the necessary facilities for returning
| home.
| Hills Block, in Davenport, Iowa,
comprising II stores, Olympic Music Hall,
and number of offices, etc., was burned
on the morning of the 23d. Loss about $50, :
600; insurance, S54 200.
The inquest on the bodies of the VIC
Tins of the StrathcIyde disaster in the Eng
fish Channel resulted in verdict of MAN.
slaughter against the officer in charge of the
steamer Franconia.
The emigrant ship Strathmore, from
London to New Zealand, was wrecked on
the Crovet Islands in July last, and 20 sur
vivors. out of 50 persons on board, have Just
been landed at Ceylon port by passing
vessel which had gone to their rescue. All
the remainder were drowned.
A Berlin dispatch of the oath says
that the Elbe has burst the bikes near
Madgeburg, Kalbe and Wittenberg, and
half the District of Barby, ID miles from
Madgeburg, is submerged. Great distress
is apprehended. Several railway accidents
have occurred in consequence of the wash.
ing away of embankments. The banks
of the Vistula are inundated for miles near
Piese, and many families are homeless. A
Pesth telegram of the same date saws that
the Dantibe was seven meters above the or
binary level. Several quarters of Pesth and
Buda are submerged. A distillery was I'M
dermined by the current, and fell, crushing
eleven persons. COmoron is completely in
undated, and hundreds Of people have been
driven from their homes.
Dallas, Texas, had its first Mardi Gras
celebration on the oath. 1t is said to have
been a decided success.
A horrible casualty is reported from
Union County, Iowa. The residence of
Samuel Blackwell was burned one night re-
Gently and two children of the family, aged
and years, were roasted alive in the
flames.
Lansing, the Cashier of the Kern Val
ley Bank, at Bakersfield, Cal. , has confessed
to having himself committed the recent rob-
berry of that bank. and has given up the
stolen money.
A fire at Leavenworth, Ks, on the
night of the 25th, burned the feuring-mil
Of Fl. D Rush, the saw-milI and lumber
yards of Root s Sheppard, and the Ice
house Of C. Casper. The Touring mill was
one of the finest in the West, nearly new,
and contained about 20, 900 bushels of wheat,
all of which was destroyed. The Touring
mill was fully insured, but it is said there
was no insurance on the other property.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad was completed to Pueblo, COL,
on the Goth ult.
Gov. HENDRICKS of Indiana delivered
the address at the OPENING Of the Southern
States Fair at New Orleans on the Goth.
The managers of the Eastern lines of
railroads leading into Chicago have agreed |
On reduction Of five cents per bushel on |
East-bound grain and fourth -class freight, |
md ten cents on flour, the reduction to go |
into effect March 1.