American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-30

VOL. XXVI.
THE Executive Committee of the Sol
diers' and Sailors National Reform AS
ISOLATION have issued a call for n grand
mass convention of Union soldiers and
sailors, to be held in Albany.N. Y, ON
Thursday, October 10, in the interest Of
Tilden and Hendricks. The call is sign
ed by Major General Hooker, President
of the Association.
A VERY serious accident occurred on
the Panhandle Railroad at Black Lick
Station, about II miles east of Column
bus, O., at an early hour on the morn
ing of the 22d, by which four persons
Iwere killed and some 80 or more in
Ijured. The names of the killed are ::
VIM. Kinchling, supposed to be from
Cincinnati; Isaac Thornton, of
Van Meter, Iowa; son of S.
P. Bennett, Of q Cairo, FL; Lizzie
Bancroft, a S-year-old child, Philade1-
phia. Mrs. Brazelton, of Greenwood,
Iowa, subsequently, died of her injuries.
The train was running at high rate of
speed at the time of the accident The
four passenger cars jumped the track,
from some cause not known, and went
down an embankment 25 or 80 feet
high, smashing them all to pieces.
The locomotive. baggage and mail-csrl
remained on the track. -
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INFORMATION has been received
through s. E. Denny, of the Canadian
Mounted Police, who has just returned
from a visit to the Canadian Blackfeet
Nation, that the hostile. American Sioux
have made an attempt to SECURE the aid
of their Canadian neigt bors in fig hting
the United States troops The Sioux
promised them portion of their spoils,
and alsosa a, number of white women,
whom they claimed to have captured.
They further promised, after the Ameri-
can whites were exterminated, to go
across and massacre the Canadian
whites. The Blackfeet having refused
these propositions, the Sioux threatened \
to come across and punish them.
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IT is stated authoritatively that the
old Rockford, Rock Island and st.
Louis Railroad has been sold to the
Iowa pool lines of railroad for a million
and a half dollars. The purchasing
roads are the Chicago and Northwest
ern, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
and the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy. The road will be. transferred |
about October LIST. 7 fas = ,
THE Indian council at Red Cloud |
Agency was brought to a successful
on the goth, when the rep
resentatives selected by the Sioux,
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, affixed their
to the proposed treaty with
out the alteration of q single word.
AN unusually sad casualty is reported
from Forest County, Penusylvanis, |
Owing to heavy and long -continuedt
rains the mountain streams flooded the
valley in which is located the little lum-
bering settlement Of Ralston, and dur
ing the night of the 21st two cabins,
occupied by, the families of George
Parks and Daniel Cooper, were swept
away, and their inmates, 16 persons in |
all, were drowned. Several other per-
sons were also drowned in the same
vicinity.s - "a - = - NA &SA y u
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 23d |
says that orders have been issued for |
the forwarding Of 800 recruits to the |
Southern Department. as follows: $50 |
for the. Second Infantry at Atlanta; so
for the Third Infantry at Holly Springs,
Miss, and 100 for the Sixth Infantry at |
Huntsville, Ala.
THE Mayor of Brunswick, Ca, tele-
graphed on the Esd to the Howard As
sociation of New Orleans for aid, and I
stated that out of a population of $500
there were 600 cases of yellow fever,
including three of their i've physicians.
The Association at once forwarded |
skillful physicians and nurses.
THE great He'll Gate blast, on. Hal
let's Point, Long Island, took place on
the 24th at $3.50 p. M, under direction |
of Gen. Newton, the supervising en-
gineer. The charges comprised 8 $50
separate cartridges of dynamite, about
so, 900 pounds in the aggregate, which |
were exploded simultaneously by an |
electric fuse. The blast is believed to |
have been entirely successful in re-
moving the obstruction to navigation |
at that point. Many thousands
people gathered at various safe points |
of observation to witness the explosion.
A dull thud was first heard; the rocks |
trembled beneath the feet of the multi
tude as if from two quick, short pulsa- |
tons Of earthquake; the water, which |
appeared to remain stationary for an |
instant, broke and spurted twelve feet
high, mixed with pieces of rock and I
dark smoke from the dynamite; then it |
fell back, and in a moment the river re-
sumed its usual peaceful aspect.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.