American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mass, successor of the forger Winston
from the Fourth Massachusetts Senatorial
| District, has fed, having appropriated
$50, 600 of the funds Of the Town of Natick
He is said to have squandered large sums a
faro.
JUDGE FERRIS, ex-Mayor of Oakland
Cal. having made an unfortunate specula.
ton in stocks, took a dose of laudanum,
and then, after tying his feet together,
! jumped overheard from a steamer and went
to the bottom of the bay. 80 i
NICAR-GENERAL QUINN, of New
York, has refused to allo members of the
| Ancient Order of Hibernians to take part in
the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of
a new Catholic Church, and says he shall
consider them to be beyond the pale of the
Church until they discard their mysterious
signs and passwords.
Ex-Gov. Bullock has been taken to
Georgia, under requisitiOn from the Gov
ernor, after an absence of five years. There
are several charges against him upon which
he will be tried. - f s.
Hon. JNo. j. REDICK, of Omaha, has
been appointed United States District Judge
for New Mexico.
q The infant child of Mrs. Sartoris,
daughter of President Grant, died in Lon
don on the 21st. e
DIsRAELI has refused to recommend
amnesty for the imprisoned Fenians.
The New Jersey Democratic State
Convention, held on the 23d, declared in
favor of hard money, and instructed its
delegates to present the name of Hon. Joel
Parker, Of that State, as candidate for
President before the st. Louis Convention.
Hon. GoDLovEsS ORTIZ, Minister to
Austria, has rendered his resignation for
the purpose Of entering upon the Guberna-
tOrial canvass in Indiana. Mr.. Orth has
recently appeared before the Congressional
Committee investigating the payment of the
Venezuelan claims, and explained his can
nectfon with the case. g. !.
THE Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention passed resolutions in favor of hard
money. The delegates are uninstructed, but
are understood to stand 16 for Tilden and
for Hendricks.
EDWARD F. BEAL, of the District of
has been nominated as successor
to Mr.. Orth as Minister to Austria.
The Nebraska Republican delegates
are instructed for Blaine. r. >. .-
ULYSSES s. GRANT, JR., son of the
President, has been admitted to the bar in
New York City. -.,.
The Alabama Republican State Con-
5ention No. has chosen a Morton delega-
ion to the Cincinnati Convention, headed |
~ Spencer and Hayes.
The Kansas Republican State Cen
raj Committee has issued call for a State |
to nominate State officers, ito be
leId at Topeka Aug. I6.
GEN. SHERMAN has instructed Gen. |
sheridan to afford full protection to all par
les who are going to or coming from the
,laek Hills. He says that white men have
10 business there, but that as there are me-
otiations now pending which will probably
esult in opening up the country to miners
nd settlers, the Indians should not be al
owed to scalp and kill white men with i'm
'unity. @
+ A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 26th
avs that the friends of Mr.. Blaine claim
hat he will be nominated at Cincinnati on
he second ballot.
Mr.. MANToN MARBLE has disposed
t his entire interest in the New York World
Q Mr.. VIM. Henry Hurlbert, long lead
ng writer for the paper.
Col. j. C. CUMMINGS (Rep.) has
cen nominated for Congress in the Seventh
owa District.
JUDGE rIPToN (Rep.) has been nom
mated for Congress in the Thirteenth ILL.,
OILS District. @ i4sf ~.
THE-Republicans of the Eighth Iowa
district have nominated Col. A. W. sapp |