American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-11
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES,

Gold closed in New York on March 4,
at lax.
AT Carrollton, Mo-, on the 25th, Mr.
Alfred S. Kierolf, of the Democrat, shot
Mr.. j. N. Hawkins, of the Journal. four
times with revolver. One shot took effect
in the cheek, two in the breast and one in
the bowels. There had BEEN a, long -atard-
ing feiid between the parties. The shooting
took place in the Democrat office, and it is
said Hawkins was drunk and refused to
leave when ordered out. Hawkins will
probably die.
Department. letter once delivered cannot
now be remailed without adding another
stamp.
Austria has ordered all Thea Herze-
govinian refugees in her country to leave
under pain of expulsion.
THE Kansas Democratic State Cen
trail Committee has issued a call for del
egate convention at Topeka on the 18th of
May, to elect delegates to the National Con-
vention at st. Louis.
AT Lebanon, Tenn, on the night of
the 2Ith, partyiof masked men took Porter
Williams, colored, charged with murder,
and hung and shot him until he was dead.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that the eastern terminus of
the Union Pacific Railroad is on the Iowa
shore at Council Bluffs, and that the Omaha
bridge is n part of the road and must be
operated in connection with the whole line.
The town of Princeton, Ind, 90 miles
north of Evanston, suffered heavily from
the hurricane on Sunday evening, 9th ult.
From 40 to 80 buildings were demolished,
and other property destroyed. Many
dersons were injured, two seriously,
il not fatally. The loss Of property in
Princeton and in the adjacent country raw
aged by the storm, is estimated at nearly
S201. Gao.
Hill City, which is situated in the
central portion of Black Hills, nine miles
north of Harney's Peak, will issue news
paper about April 1, to be called the Hill
City Tribune. The printing material has
been shipped from Minneapolis.
The tornado of Sunday, the 9th ult.,
passed through Henderson and Christian
Counties, KY, doing immense damage.
Several persons were killed and many in
iured.
The annual Mardi Gras festivities at
Memphis, New Orleans, Louisville, Calves
ton, Little Rock and other Southern cities,
were celebrated on the 29th with great
splendor, and were witnessed by immense
crowds of people.
The Dakota Division of the North
Pacific Railroad is now open to Bismarck.
A Madrid dispatch of the 1st says
that the downfall of the rebellion is to be
celebrated by three days. festivities, includ-
ing a grand bull-fght, and the triumphal
entry of the troops into Madrid. 1t is fur
Their stated that 80, 0O0 troops will be at once
dispatched to Cuba.
The House Committee on Territories
has agreed to report a bill to admit New
Mexico as a State in the Union. The bill
passed the Senate last session, but failed in
the House.
An insane woman named Sarah j.
Wilmer, from Geneva, o., went to Milwau
kee on the I'd, and procuring 4 carriage
drove to the residence of DIR. Garner, a well
known physician, where she pulled out a
pistol and shot him. the wound proving fatal
I'm a few hours. 1t is not known that there
was any previous acquaintance between the
parties. She says she is glad that she killed
him, and insists that he had been trying to
kill her.
An italian bark was wrecked near
Tybee Island, on the list, and nine of the
crew lost. A life saving crew attempted to
board the bark and every man of them was
also drowned.
At Middleburg, Clay County, Ind,
on the evening of the Sd, George w. and
Thomas Watts, brothers, made an assault
upon Freeman Reed and Louis SegIey, on
account of some trifling grievance. In the
fight that ensued George w. Watts and
Freeman Reed We're both killed.
The Nemaha County Courthouse, at
Seneca, Kansas, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 4th. All the records were saved.
The Courthouse was one of the finest in the
State, and cost about $40 900; insured for
$40, 200.
A Truckee (Cal.) dispatch of the 4th
says that the Central Pacific Railway was
again completely blockaded by the snow,
which was II feet deep on level.
Edward Deal, one of the St. Louis
express robbers, who attempted to murder
the colored woman, Maggie Williams, by
throwing her over the st. Louis bridge, was
arrested at Fosters Crossing, o., on the
4th, and taken to st. Louis.