American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-12-21
LATE NEWS lens.

LATE NEWS lens.
At Germantown, Tenn Young man
named D. c. Rhodes, well ,own on the
river, while walking along ! street, was
fired upon by some unknowparties, sup
posed to be negroes, aud inst.ly killed. A
companion, named Hunt, at the same
moment dealt q murderous bw.
An attempt was made Vincennes.
the night of the Sth, to assnate Mr.. ],
81. Green, United States MaiIessenger, by
shooting hin Is he sat readiin his mail.
car.
Oliphant & Co., an olestablished
china house of New York, hR made an ~
signment.
1t is reported that Jer Little, ia
nous in the Breathitt County w vendet-
ia, has been killed. Little, Is said, was
the worst of all the outlaws.Ie received
during his life thirty woods. 1t is re-
lated that upon being wound three times,
and while lying apparently cd, an enemy
approached, and holding q ot-gun over
him poured the contents intos face. Lit
tie then propped his left arup on a log,
and as the man who had shth him moved
away, he Ared a pistol at b. The ball
passed through his body, ealing instant
death.
Six miles north of MemIs, on the
9th, John Harold, desperate. As shot and
killed by Joe Devinney, whose e, and that
Of his brother, Harold had threned.
Ham, the notorious Tex, land-title
forger, has compromised with , State and
10 Avo rel
The contractor for raisinghe Gross
er Kurfuerst has signed a comet to raise
the Pemerania.
Chief-Justice Monahan, Attorney
General during the Irish troublof 1s4s, is
dead.
William tombstone, former clerk in
the Saline County Bank, at Maaall, NO.,
10th on q charge of forgery, a held for
extradition.
Two negroes, Henry Jacbn and
Henry Martin, who had entered e house
of a poor old couple, Charles Sum and
wife, at Nebraska City, and strsled the
old nan, ravished the wife, and rbed the
house of 1878, were taken fromil by .
mob of 900 men, on the 10th, and.nged to
q tree.
Advices have been received I'm Mo-
gador that terrible famine prevs there /;
deaths, % daily.
The French Chamber of DeEies ad-
journed sine die on the 18th, after power
ing Grevy to summon them to mt In the
event of necessity.
A correspondent at Berlin So Rus
sian exploring expedition from rt YER
noye, was fired on by Chinese tips and
compelled to return.
A Walla Walla, Washingto Terri
tory dispatch says the trial of Indis charg-
| ed with the murder Of Coggins, nr PEN
dleton, Oregon, in the late war. been
concluded at the latter place. e was
found guilty, and sentenced to banged
January II. The other two were Gisarged.
A dispatch from Omaha So two
men named Ketchum and Mitchell;cused
of stealing stock, and who recentlNlled q
herder named Stevens who was tng to
arrest them, were on Tuesday mt, the
10th, taken from the Sheriff Of CuaCoun-
ty and his posse by a mob of arm men,
who tied them to q tree and burn them
both to death.
By the explosion of a boilerl the
Taylor cotton-press in Galveston few
days ago, truck man named JotParker
was killed and the following wereMnded:
w. II. Brown, assistant engineer, ok, legs
and head; Ed. Brown, his son, I'd, back
and chest; Henry Hammer, face I'd head.
A man, known as Harry" th'utcher,
was struck with q spike, and Ay Boyd
was hurt In the back. 1t is reped low
water in the boiler was the cause.
| Near Brandon, Texas, on 10th,
two warm friends, Joseph Love q Green
Wood, got into quarrel, in VIII Wood
shot Love, killing him instantly.
A 9-year-old boy named JohWash.
burn, shot and killed another hnamed
Bonnie Ballon, for whom he hataken g
dislike, near Troy, Texas. The yog muir.
derer fed, pursued by the Sheriffnd wal
captured near Waxahatchie, 100 les dis
tant.
A few days ago, some Chick.w In.
dams met in Pamela County, Te,, for ,
dance. The constable Of the counnamet
Colbert, was present to preserve or, ant
disarmed all participants. This w,cce pit
ed as an insult by q young man namKemp
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Colbert was shot in the breast, reyipg ,
full load Of buckshot fired by an tnowr
assassin, supposed to be Kemp. Cort fell
and Immediately expired.
A correspondent at Vienna sta thai
majority of the Committee of lhtee,
appointed by the Reichsrath on l0tl
inst, to consider the treaty of Bel, ar,
favorable to the treaty.
The following have been nolatet
Postmasters by the President: Gee r
Blocker, National Military Home ohio
Milton b. Deshong, Ashland, o.; Gge J
Langsdale, Greencastle; VIM. A. oble
Monroe, Mich; John Parsons, Blac,iye
Falls, Wis.,; Benz. Wright, Charldity
, Iowa; Chauncey q. Hawley, Girard, N.
At midnight of the 18th possesa O
the Denver and Rio Grande Railway ,se,
into the hands of the Atchison, TopeIan,
Santa Fe Railway Company, and ordeAay
been given directing the EMPLOYEES tn
Denver Road to report to the Generaap
!, ager Of the Atchison Road.