American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Hon. CHARLES M. -RUNK, a promi-
nent citizen and lawyer of Allentown, Pa,
and for 10 years President of the Schoo
Board, has turned out to be a defaulter to
the city to the amount of nearly $1O0, 900,
and in default of bail has been committed
to jail.
THE President and Mrs. Hayes will
celebrate their silver wedding at the White
House on Dec. 80.
| SENATORS CONKLING and Blaine, be-
tween whom for many years there has been
a feeling of enmity, have finally become
reconeiled and are now said to be good
friends. 50
THE Baroness De sBussierre, daugh-
ter of Benjamin Holiday, the California
millionaire, died in New York City on the
| 10th.
Hon. JOHN F. briggs, formerly
member of Congress from Michigan, died at
East Saginaw on the 18th.
THE 10th birthday of the poet Whit
tier was celebrated on the 18th by a grand
dinner at the Brunswick House, Boston,
given in honor of the venerable poet by the
publishers of the Atlantic Monthly. A
number of poems were read and addresses
made by Longfellow, Holmes, and host of
other literary celebrities.
OSMAN PAsHA's r1mored death is Of
icially contradicted.
PIoNzNAG, leader of the renegade
Apaches in Arizona, is reported dead.
The Pope's health continues to i'm
prove.
THE Pope has granted dispensation
authorizing the marriage of the King of
Spain with Princess Mercedes.
Mr.. MCCORMICK, Commissioners
General to the Paris Exposition, is overrun
with applications for positions as Assistant
Commissioners.
LORD DERBY ran narrow escape the
other day. His carriage horses ran away
and the driver was thrown from the box
and instantly killed. The inmates of the
carriage were badly shaken up, but not Sc
riously injured.
THE publisher of the OsserUdtore Ro-
naanO, the daily organ of the Vatican at Rome,
has been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for libeling the minister of the Italian
Free Church.
j. I. FARLEY, Democrat, has been
elected United States Senator from Califor-
MIA, to succeed Senator Sargent, Republican,
whose term expires in 1879.
THE Philadelphia Board of Trade have
unanimously adopted resolution opposing
the passage of the Bland Silver bill.
PETER B. SWEENEY and Elbert A.
Woodward, two of the members of the old
New York Tammany Ring, have surrender
ed to the City $444,9S2 in settlement of the
suits brought against them.
sen ATOR BLAINE will spend por-
ton of the holiday recess at Hot Springs,
Ark, for the benefit of his health.
SHERMAN BROADWELL, ex-President
of the Clairmont Savings Bank of New York
City, is under arrest and in prison, charged
with perjury in swearing to false statements
concerning the condition of the bank.
B. d. KooNs, an ex-member of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, has been convict
ed at Wilkesbarre of the embezzlement of
81 POO from an Odd Fellows lodge.
BAYARD TAYLoRis is talked of for Min
lister to Berlin.
Col. JOHN A. JOYCE, a prominent
member of the old st. Louis Whisky Ring,
has been granted full and unconditional
pardon by President Hayes. Col. Joyce, it
will be remembered, was sentenced to s, 900
fine in addition to his Imprisonment.
EX-Gov. CHARLES CLARK of Missis-
sippi died at his residence in Bolivar County
on the 18th, aged Sc. He was commander
of a regiment of Mississippi volunteers in
the Mexican war and Brigadier-G General
in the Confederate army during the late
civil war.
PRESIDENT HAYES and family had
reception and supper rendered them at the
Union League Club in New York City on the
evening of the 21st. The affair was strictly
social and informal in its character, and no
speeches were made.