American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

The Mobile Board of Trade is consid
ering the subject of steamship line from
Mobile to Aspinwall, the mouth of Magda
lena River, Barbados, Demarara and Trim
idad.
lhlrty-sIX persons who were attend
ing fair at Brest, France, on the 18th, wer,
drowned by the capsizing of barge.
Brown Coble, a negro preacher, wa.
/ hahse9 at winchester, Tenn, on the 18th
/ Tor the murder of Gardner, colored, in 1876
He protested his innocence to the last.
Near Pensacola, Fla, on the night o.
the 18th, negro who had grossly assaulted
child, aged years, causing its death, wa.
! lynehed by mob. The Sheriff,s posse re.
sisted the lynchers, killing one and wound.
ing five dangerously.
The Cincinnati GazeAe publishes dis.
patches from points in Southern Ohio. In
diana and Northern Kentucky, from which
/ 1t appears that the prospect for a large
/ crop OF wheat in that area is exceedingly
good. The acreage sown last fall is larger
than ever known.
Joseph La Paige, alias Joseph Parish,
was hanged at Concord, N. H., on the 18th,
for the murder of Josie A. Langmaid, aged
Il, at Pembroke, in October, 1879.
Dwight Wheaton, the suspected muir
derer OF James O'NeiIl, the railway engineer.
at bloomington, ILL.,, has been again released
from custody, there being no proof upon
which to found an Indictment.
Trimble's Bank, at Mount Gilead, O..
suspended on the 10Th.
Gus johnson, colored, was hanged at
Rome, Ga, on the 10Th, for the murder of
another negro named Alfred, ferryman.
Henry and Margaret eraser, an aged
German couple, who owned farm in Jeffer-
son Township, Lee County, Iowa, were
murdered on the night of the 14th. and the
house burned in order to destroy evil
dence of the crime. Their haIf-burned
bodies, when taken from the ruins, showed
unmistakable evidence of the crime com
mitted, the husbands skull being crushed
in and the wife's body being pierced with
bullets. They had been collecting together
money in anticipation of taking a trip to the
Fatherland the coming summer, and it is
supposed they had at least 81 900 in the
house.
The recent snowstorm in the Black
Hills was the severest ever experienced
there since the settlement by white men.
On the 10th the snow lay five feet deep on a
level and all the roads were blockaded.
The Lechmere National Bank at East
Cambridge, Mass, was robbed on the 10th
by sneak thieves of $1,000 in cash and S47,-
900 in securities.
At Junction City, Kimball County,
Texas, few days since, case involving the
ownership Of yoke of oxen was to be tried,
in which Major Wright sued out writ of
repleyin against the Brashear brothers,
Peter and John. On the morning of the day
of trial, the litigants met in front
of the Justices office, when the defendants
out their revolvers and COM
menced shooting at the plaintiff, ,one of their
shots taking effect and killing him in his
tracks. The Sheriff of the coun-
ty, backed by a posse of law-and-
order citizens, then appeared upon
the scene, and the Brashear brothers, show
ing still further fight, were riddled with
bullets, their only further execution being
the taking off of the Sheriff7s brother, who
was one of the posse.
St. Patrick's Day was celebrated this
year with more than the usual display in all
the larger towns and cities throughout the