American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

G. a BAILEY, late publisher of the
Congressional Globe, died at Deering, Me-,
on the 26th.
GEN. GEORGE w. Cook, of Ohio, was
stricken with paralysis while eating Christ
mas dinner at the residence of his cousin,
4 Hon: Anson @. Cook, of New York City, and
died on the following Friday.
Mr.. THOMAS WALSH, architect of the
st. Louis Custom house, has been tempo-
rarily suspended from his duties by the
President, pending Investigation of charges
against him of dereliction of duty.
| MR.. FOSTER, American Minister to
Mexico, has been summoned home to testify
before the Congressional Investigating Com
mittee in regard to our difficulties with that
nation. H@i#T-' Il. srIt
G. w. GUsTIN and w. H. Dessin, two
young lawyers of Macon, Ga, fought duel
with pistols on the 9th. Both missed.
GEORGE b. B1GELOw, a prominent
Boston lawyer, is charged with embezzling
$4,000 belonging to trust estate. He has
given bail for $4,000.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON has settled the
Widow divers breach of promise suit by
paying her 81 900.
GOvERNoR-ELECT HOLIDAY of Vir-
monies on the 1st.
The silver wedding of the President
and Mrs. Hayes was celebrated at the White
House on the evening of the 31st ult. 1t was
a quiet and sociable affair, those present be-
ing mostly the relatives and old friends of
the family.
U. s. GRANT, JR., has been appoint
ed Assistant United States District Attorney
at New York
The President and Mrs. HAYES re-
YEARS. acalIers at the White
House. During the forenoon the DipIo-
matte corps, members of the Cabinet and of
Congress, officers of the Army and Navy,
etc., etc., paid their respects in accordance
with the official schedule, and from to 3
O'Clock the general public were admitted
SIR ID. G- ELLIOTT, recently British |
Ambassador at Constantinople, has been ap-
pointed Ambassador to Vienna.
cHHNRT NJ STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer, was rendered a grand banquet at |
Cairo, Egypt, on New Years Day.
GUsTAvE CoURBEr, the eminent
French artist, is dead.s er..-..sA
GEN. TUCKER, now Democratic Con-
gresham from Virginia, surrendered his
sword in 1865 to Gen. Keifer, now Republi-
can Congressman from Ohio, and Mr.. Keifer
is going to give it back TO him.
L. S. LAMBERT, ex-President of the
American Popular Life Insurance Company.
of New York, convicted of swearing to false
reports, has been sentenced to five wears at
hard labor in the State prison.
THE Legislatures of Maine and Mary-
land convened n-the 3D.. asr~s rs-
The Grand Jury at Hartford, Conn.
have found true bill against several for
mer officers OF the Charter Oak Life Insur-
ance Company, among them being James C.
Walkely and Il. c.. Virgins, former Presi-
dents, Samuel N. White, former Secretary,
and Henry j. Faiber, former Financial
Manager. The indictments against them are
for conspiracy to defraud policy holders of
The company.
The Massachusetts, Legislature con-
Vened on the Sd.
The death of Gen. George W. Nc
Cook, of Ohio, leaves surviving two of the
nine sons of Judge Daniel McCook of Car
'olton, O., who, at the outbreak of the war,
entered the army with their father-Gen.
Alexander McCook, Sr., aide-de-camp to
Zen. Sherman, and Col. John S. McCook of
New York City.
EX-PREsIDENT GRANT arrived at
Egypt, on the 9TH.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON has de-
;lined the mission to Spain, and will remain
It Washington.
CoURBET, the French painter, whose
leath was recently announced, was the lead
n of the Paris Communists in the destr1lc-
ion of the Column Vendome.
BURCHARD HAYES, eldest son of the
President, is about to enter upon the prac-
ice of law in New York CITY.
MARGARET F. FOLEY, an American
sculptor of acknowledged merit, died re-
'ently in Switzerland, where she was So
burning with her friends William and Mary
dowitt.
IT was Ridgewood, N. j., boy who
vas found by his companions employed
n greenhouse, and when asked what