American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-12
MISSISSIPPI ITEMS.

Meridian Mercury, Jan. 5: A
little Is year old niger, of an ente :
prising disposition, OH Friday,
watched his opportunity, and when
another negro had left his wage n
and steers standing alone and gone
off out of sight. drove off with his
load of wood aud sold it under price
and pOcketed the proceeds. He
was soon caught up by tue poll. Q
and put under arrest and i'll jali.
Yesterday morning he was befOle
the Mayor, and his mother was
there aud begged for a Communication
of sentence from fine and imprison-
ment to whipping. His Honor
granted her reasonable request, and
by request, bred Finley warmed
him up with 80 we'll laid on with "a
leather strap.
Aberdeen Examiner: We learn
from a private source that the en-
terprising town of Baldwin, Prentlss
county, was almost entirely destroy
ed by fire, OH Christmas day. No
particulars could be obtained as to
the extent of loss, nor as to the
origin of the fire, but it is probable
that it resulted from careless explO-
sion OF fire crackeas.
Lexington Advertiser, Jan. 5
4 n Old colored man, George Phillips
by name, was found dead near the
out skirts of town last Sunday
morning From the absence of any
marks of violence upon his person,
and the presence OF one or two
empty and broken bottles near the
body, the jury of inquest was con
vinced that he died of intemperance
and exposure and the verdict was
returned accordingly.
We are sorry to announce the
death of DIR. ID. NJ. WadlingtOr,
which sad event took place at his
residence in Durant, no the morning
the 3Oth of December, 1877.
Tidal Wave, Senatorial, Jan 5:
On Friday evening G. II. MadduX
and one Hardwich. tenant of TIE
former, were going home from
COldwa'er. They got into a diff
Guilty, when Hardwick shot and cut
Maddux several times, killing him
instantly. Hardwick made his es-
cape. We are not informed as to
the source of the difficulty.
fernando Press and Times, Jan.
5: Our Postmaster, J. M. Clark
WAS garroted by three white men,
Saturday night, about O'Clock,
while on his way from the post office
TO his home. Mr.. Clark had on his
person $500, in post Office money
and personal funds. all of which
the thieves took from him at the
muzzle of a pistol. No clue as to
the perpetrators has yet been as
certained.
The Yazoo Herald Democrat thus
itemizes under the head IF
s'WINTER AMUSEAIENTS.'
FAt this writing we have merely
the bare statements of several fatal
rencOntres, chiefly between colOred
neople, occurring at different points
n the country. At Vaughn's 81: .
non difficulty occurred betwt en-
John Birmingham and cOlOred
man. in which the latter was killed /;
IA difficulty occurred on Wolf Lake
on Christmas day, between two
colored men, one of whom was killed;
a srabbing affair between two freed.
men also came off i'll another dir
ection, one being seriously cut /;
while a difficulty near Dover took
place, in which Mr.. Lee Ferris killed
or badly wounded a colOred man.
Mr.. Ferris was &C quilted, upon be
ing taken before magistrate. We
have thus far received no details cf
either of these matters,
Vicksburg Herald, Jan. 8: John
Parita, the proprietor of fruit
stand at the north east corner of
Washington and Crawford streets,
was found dead in his bed, last
Sunday morning, an undOubted
suicide from melancholia, superln-
duced by strong drink. He was an
Italian, as his name indicates, and
came to this city from: New Orleans,
some fifteen years ago. John was
known to everybody, and generally
thought well of, as n gOOd-tfatured,
harmless sort of man, and unusually
liberal for one of his class. The
evidence taken before the jury of
inquest gives all the circumstances
of his death.
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