American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-10-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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IRA w. BURT, signal officer at S.
vannah, who passed through the ysllow II
yer epidemic at Memphis, died Of the dii
ease on the 9th. The yellow fever inter
ments on that day numbered Is.
HENRI JEROME BERTINI, the eminer
French pianist and composer, died on th
9Th.
/ THE one-million suit against VIM. N
Tweed and the seven million suit agains
Peter B. Sweeney were called at New Yor
on the 9th, and adjourned until Novembe
18th, no Judge being ready to try the cause
MAJ. w. w. LANDER, formerly pr
waite secretary to Senator Charles Sumner
but for the past two years q well know
politician of Colorado, died suddenly .
Denver on the 9th.
The President has committed tn
sentence Of Jacob Rehm, one of the Chicag
whisky conspirators, from six months i'm
prisonment and $40, 900 fine to three months
imprisonment and 81 200 fine. The tern o
| imprisonment having already expired, OF
the 9th Rehm paid his fine and was released
from the County Jail, where he had beef
imprisoned. The communication was made
1t is said, In accordance with q petition
signed by 500 citizens representing boil
political parties, and with representation
and recommendations of District Attorne,
Bangs and Judge Blodgett.
VIM. w. IRELAND, Chief Clerk O.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
office, and Charles Andrews, clerk in q di.
vision Of the same Office, have been dis.
missed from office, 1t having been proven
that they were concerned In furnishing evi.
dence against the Department to the Com.
mittee on Expenditures in the Post-ofice
Department during the session Of Congress
last winter.
Mr.. JOHN F. CLEVELAND, for over sc
years member Of the New York Tribune
editorial staff, died on the 9th.
GEORGE HEINRICH PERrz, the Ger
man historical writer, is dead.
THREE Roman Catholic Pr tests and
one well known Methodist clergyman-the
Rev. Edward II. Meyers, D. D.-hsve fall
len victims to their devotion In attending
the yellow-fever sufferers in Savannah.
THE official result of the Maine cleo
ton. according to the authorised statement
Of the Secretary of State, shows a majority
for Governor Conner (Rep.) over Talbot
Oem.) of Is, es7.
The death of ex-Sultan Murad was
reported by Vienna journal Oh the 18th.
GovERNoR CHAMBERLAIN, of South
Carolina, has published reply to the ad-
dress Of the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of that State, In which he says he is In
possession Of legal evidence as to the extent
Of disorders in the State, and sustaining the
propriety Of his orders. A letter from d.
T. Corbin, United States District Attorney
Of South Carolina, fully sustains Governor
Chamberlain.
A BERLN dispatch of the 18th says
It is officially announced that Count Won
Arnim has been condemned to five years.
imprisonment in the House Of Correction
for treason and offense against the Emperor
and Prince Bismarck. 4iaut8
The monument of Christopher Co.
lumbus at Philadelphia was unveiled with
appropriate ceremonies on the 18th of Octo-
Der, that being the anniversary of the dis
covery of America. EFT
RICHARD HARRINGTON, one of the
alleged conspirators in the Washington
safe-burgIary affair, who fed after being
indicted, has voluntarily returned and
furnished bail for his appearance at the
present term Of the Supreme Court Of the
District of Columbia.
HON. S. s.. Cox has been renomi-
mated for Congress in the Sixth New York
District. f.l
FRANK DAGGETT, well known edit
or Of Minnesota, died suddenly of apo
plexy. at Litchfeld, In that State, on the
18th.
FRANK DIsHLER, teller of the Foun-
tain National Bank Of Columbus, o., com.
mitted suicide on the 1kth.
FRANK SrURGEs s. Co., metal mer-
chants, Chicago, suspended on the 1lth.
Liabilities, $o00, 200; assets, Insignificant.
FIVE cadet midshipmen have been
expelled from the Naval Academy at An
napolis, Nd, for refusing to give informa-
ton as to the participants in hazfng foray.
: GENERAL RUFUS KING, formerly
Minister to Rome, died in New York on the
12th. He was at one time editor of the Mil
waukee Sentinel. s- p
JOHN A. FERRIS, an actor in Bal
timore theater, was struck with paralysis
on the night Of the 18th, while on the stage.
and died the following day.
CAPTAIN JAMES HOWARD, the well
known steamboat builder, was accidentally
drowned At Jeffersonville, Ind, on the 18th.
His horse baked and backed into the river
from . ferry boat.
Hon. w. w. CoRLErT has been NOM
mated by the Republicans of Wyoming Ter
rftory for Delegate TO Congress.
The official count of the vote for
Governor of Arkansas shows total vote of
los, 60<, Miller (Dem.) receiving a majority
of SO, o92 over Bishop (Rep.).
MRS. JANE NJ. WALKER, the sister
and last surviving member of the immediate
family Of ex-President James K. Polk, died
at Columbia, Tenn, on the 18th, In her
seventy ninth year. Her descendants, in.
eludiBg children, grand and great grand
children, number precisely one hundred
persons, of whom upwards Of sixty are now
living.
IT was reported on the 18th that q
number Of arrests by United States officers
had been made in Aiken and Barnwell
Counties, s. c., Of parties charged with
being engaged In recent disturbances. The
prisoners were taken before the United
States Commissioner at Aiken, who admit.
ted them to bail in the sum of 8, 200 each.
MARTIN F. UPPER, the poe.-philoso-
pher, author of 60 Proverbial Philosophy, -
arrived In New York on the 18th.
An order was issued on the 9Th, by
direction Of the President, for the closing