American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
Ex-CoNGREssMAN CHARLES READY,
of Murfreesboro, Tenn. is dead,

Of Murfreesboro, Tenn, is dead
Gov. WADE HAMPTON, of South Car
DINA, having bought a fine cottage at Salem
| Va, will summer there with his family.
RUFUS w. COBB, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Alabama, is an ex-
Confederate soldier, prominent lawyer
and still young man. He has been a mem
Der of the State Senate for eight years, and
for four years President of the Senate.
REV. G. @. BURLEIGH, n famous anti
slavery leader and late pastor of the Flor
ence, Mass, Free Congregational Church,
was run over on the railroad recently and
seriously injured.
Miss ANNIE b. IRISH, a Nebraska
girl, is Assistant Private Secretary to Secre-
tary Schurz, and reads and answers all his
German, French and Spanish correspond
ence, -
q THOMAS WINANs, the Baltimore mil
lionaire and Russian railroad contractor,
died ut his residence at Newport, r. l., on
the 9th.
THE Shah of Persia has arrived at
Paris.
Col. Don MANUEL FREYRE, Peruvian
Minister at Washington, died on the Sth,
aged 60.
THE President has nominated Ben
jamin F. Potts, Of Helena, for Governor of
Montana.
ERNST DICKMAN, of Wisconsin, has
been nominated by the President forMinis-
ter to the United States of Colombia. -
MACGAHAN, the famous war CORE
spondent Of the London Daily Ne,ts, died
at Constantinople on the 9th of spotted ty-
plus fever. He was an American, born in
st. Louis, and went abroad as correspond
ent of the New York Herald. -.
REV. LEONIDAs III. BOYLE, of Ken
lucky, a minister OF the NJ. f. Church South,
and at various times engaged sin-law and
in Journalism in the South and West,
committed suicide at n hotel in Indianapo-
lis on the Sth. Deceased was a man of I'M
usual ability. but ewing. it is said, to
wound received some year. ago. which
troubled him greatly, had become intern
perate in his habits and finally lost all con-
troll over his appetite for drink.
Hon. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS has
written n letter to the Chairman of the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, Eighth Con-
gressional District of Georgia, in which he
says he shall neither seek nor decline nom
ination at the hands of the Convention soon
to meet; "but it," he says, " the Convention
shall repudiate me an unfit representative
of Democratic principles, and shall attempt
to rule me out Of the Democratic party
because of any thing connected with
my recent public acts or sentiments, then l
say to you and them, plainly and distinctly,
that shall regard their edicts as but brH-
TEN f,elmen, issued by>an irresponsible fac
tion Of tricksters, and the question whether
or they are sound in the faith of the
f.t Ix,n Inft
the district to be settled at the polls.'
DIR. GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, the newly
elected Bishop of the Springfield Ull.) Do
cese, p. E. Church, was conseerated at
Trinity Church, New York, on the nth.
GEN. BENZ. L. E. BONNEVILLE, the
oldest officer in the United States Army,
died at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 18th. He
was born in France, but came to America
at an early age and entered West Point Mill
tary Academy, from which hegrstfuated IN
ISIS, and was assigned to duty on the West
ern frontier, where by far the larger por-
ton of his life was subsequently passed. He
was retired from active service in 1861, but
acted as disbursing and recruiting officer
during the late war.
THE International Literary Congress
was organized at Paris on the I2th. Prof.
Andrew ID. White, of Cornell College, was
chosen President, and William Balch Secre-
tary. F}Iift1
The Empress of Russia is seriously
i'll. Prayers for her recovery have been Of
ferred in all the churches.
PRESIDENT HAYES, accompanied by
members of his family and others, attended
the review of Cadets at West Point on the
18th.
THE annual convention of the Kan
sas Editors and Publishers, Association
was held at Atchisonl on the 1lth, conclud-
ing with an excursion to Put-in-Bay, Lake
Erie.
A DELEGATION of the National Green
back party had a hearing before the Senate
Finance Committee on the 18th, and Thomas
J. Durant made speech favoring the eX
pansion of the currency to volume equal
to the period Immediately following the war
of the rebellion.
JOHN BAILEY and Henry Combs, stu
dents in the Academy at Turkey Cave, Lee
County, Va, were rivals in love. On the
14th they met in secluded place, both
armed with pistols, and five shots were ex-
changed, when Combs fell, mortalFy wound
ed in the abdomen. Both were popular and
talented young men. Combs was a grand
nephew of ex-Gov. Leslie Combs, of Ken
lucky.
THE National Executive Committee
of the Socialistic- Labor party have issued 4
circular addressed to the members of the
party, misunderstanding the forming of mil
itary organizations among the members
thereof, or the carrying of arms in process
sions, etc.
The President has nominated VIM.
Hayden Edwards, OF the District of Column
bia, Consul-General at st. Petersburg, and
A. v. Perrin, Of Kansas, United States Con-
sui ut PADDING.
f. JoFFARDs has been Appointed
United States Attorney for the Southern
District af Mississippi.
The Crown Prince of Germany sends
his sincerest thanks to the President of
the United States and the American peo-
pie for the sympathy manifested on account
OF the attempted assassination Of the En-
peror.
THE President has nominated Reu-
ben f. Fenton, of New York, VIM. S. Groes-
beck, of Ohio, and Francis \. Walker, of
Connecticut, United States Commissioners
at the international Monetary Congress.
The final retirement from the minis
try of McCoskry, late Bishop of Michigan, is
authoritatively announced, that being the
ultimatum given him by the Standing Com
mittee of his diocese after fully Investigate
ing the scandalous charges connected with
his name. 1t is said that he has made full
confession of his misdeeds, and will soon
leave this country, never to return.
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