American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-08

dent Hayes, who made a brief address. Gen
Butler was the orator of the day. .
The First National Bank of Dallas,
Texas, suspended on the 3Oth, after n rur
lasting three days. Liabilities large and as :
sets nominal.
ABoise City dispatch of the 31st re-
ports that about 200 Indians, under Buffalo
Horn, are encamped in the lava beds, be-
tween the Big Camas Prairie and Snake
River, and have ordered the whites to leave
the prairie on penalty of death. They had
already commenced hostilities by shooting
two settlers, wounding both severely. The
Indians are well supplied with arms and
ammunition.
The machine-shops of the Indianap-
oils, Pennsylvania & Chicago Railroad, at
Peru, Ind, were struck by lightning on the
night of the 10Th, and, with their contents,
entirely consumed by fire. There were
three locomotives and two stock ears in the
shops. The loss is estimated al 10000
no insurance.
| The Galveston NeUs's special from
Eagle Pass, 30th, says: Escobedo is report
ed to have captured Saragossa, and is eX-
pected to attack Piedras Negras. The Mex
lean Government troops, under command
of Col. Nanoiz, have gone to meet him. A
| fight is expected.
At the farm of Robert Linn, four miles
| from Hilsboro, o., on the 31st, portable
saw mill engine exploded, killing three men
and severely scalding several others. One
man was thrown completely over q tall tree.
| The boiler was found 800 yards distant.
A gravel train on the Prospect Park
and Coney Island Railroad, New York, was
thrown from the track on the night of the
Goth and four laborers killed. Some mis-
creant had placed an obstruction on the
track with the evident intention of wrecking
the train.
The body of John Scott Harrison, son
Of ex- President Harrison, who died sudden
ly on the 9th ult. at North Bend, Ind, was
disinterred from the family vault on the
night following the burial and taken to the
dissecting room of the Ohio Medical College
in Cincinnati, where it was strangely and
unexpectedly discovered on the following
day by Carter Harrison, son of deceased,
while the hitter was making search, in COM
pany with an officer, for the body of
friend who had died a few days previous,
and the Robbery 81 whose grave was dfsoov-
cred by him on the day of his fathers
funeral. Fearing that his fathers grave
might be despoiled, as had been that of his
friend, the son had hired Waterman to
keep guard over it nights, and his conster-
nation and grief upon being brought face
to face with his dead father in the dissect-
ng-room are said to have quite overpower-
ed him.
VIM. Springer, who lived with. his
father on Duck Pond Prairie, five miles
west of McDade, Texas, recently killed his
brother in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Slabs, while they were at work in the field,
and then killed himself. A family feud is
supposed to have been the cause.
William Henry Robinson was hanged
at Bowling Green, Va, on the 31st, for the
murder of Elizabeth Ray Both. were cob
ored, but of more than ordinary intelli-
gence. William was for one term after the
War member of the Virginia Legislature,
and Elizabeth was a handsome quadroen,
the belle Of the .neighborhood. jealousy
was the sole cause Of the murder, which
WIS committed in d most tragical manner
on the day set for Elizabeth's marriage with
Frederick johnson, Robinson's successful
rival, and the spot selected by the jealous
lover was the church door, where, just as
the happy couple were about to enter, he
fired at the girl with gun, and she fell
dead in her affianeed husbands arms.
Webb, the negro, who murdered the
Finney family in Richland County, O., in
December last, was hanged at Mansfield on
the 31st-
Fred Robinson, colored, was hanged
at Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas, on
the 3lst, for the rape Of white woman in
November last.
Two tramps entered the house of Mrs.
Brecky Baldwin, a widow living near TaZe-
well Court house, Va, on the night of the
3lst, and attempted to rob her. She seized
an and Drained one of the villains. The
other then came upon her with knife, stab
bling her twice in the breast, but not before
she had dealt him terrible blow with the
AK, nearly severing his right arm near the
shoulder. On the following morning a
neighbor discovered the dead body of the
tramp in the road, and going
to the house found Mrs. Baldwin in a dying
condition and the dead body of the other
tramp lying in the room. There was Eo
clew to the identity of the men.
Bill johnson, a negro, was lynched
near Helena, Karnes County, Texas, recent
ly, for an attempted outrage upon a white
ady.
ID. Fry, express messenger, and John
Simpson, baggage-master,w were killed on
the LIST by an accident on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. Another accident oc-
CURED on the same road on the same day,
by which several passengers were badly in
jured.
A very sad affair occurred at Wallace,
Fountain County, Ind, on the night of the
30th. While newly married couple were
being " serenaded," the bride, who was Miss
Sewers, was shot and instantly killed by
paper wad fired from an old musket. Two
Of the party were arrested.
A recent dispatch from Liverpool
says serious trouble in the grain trade is
felt in consequence of the heavy decline in
prices, the splendid crop prospects in
America, quieter political outlook, and spec
ulations in California cargoes, chiefly in
London.
The Manchester Guardian learns
from Liverpool that orders have been re-
ceived there to ship American cotton for
in the mills of Bombay. 1t is
intended, with this material, to commence
the manufacture of shirtings and upper me-
lium classes of cloth in India.
4 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.