American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-30


Legislature, few days before adjournment
in aid of the Ship Island, Ripley and Ken
lucky Railroad, donates large body of lands
held by the State to assist in its construction,
and provides for the employment of c0nvicts
along the line of the road. The act requires
the company to begin the work of construc-
ton at both ends of the road within six
months.
The United States will have 625 ex-
hibitors at Paris, exclusive of the Agricul-
| tural Department exhibits. More than one
half of the exhibitors are from PennsyIya-
MIA and New York.
The nomination of Mr.. Reed for Post
master at Toledo, Ohio, has been again-the
third time-reported unfavorably by the
| Senate Committee.
Joseph and Edgar Hall and John c..
Thorp, white, and Gordon Rollins and
Burke Thomas, colored, were killed by the
explosion of a saw-mill boiler about eight
miles from Richmond, Va, on the 22d.
Several others were injured.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company have begun the extension of their
Ell Moro branch southwark, and will COM
plete it to CimarTon without delay. Work
on the Alamosa extension will be pressed
vigorously. With those two extensions the
Rio Grande will have four hundred and two
miles of road in operation.
Three brothers, Jerry, Isaac and
Jacob Childs, colored, were hanged togeth-
er at Abbeville, Henry Comfy, Ala, on the
22d, in the presence of 10000 spectators.
They were convicted of the murder of a
poor widow woman named Yore, in order
to prevent her appearing against them as a
witness in a corn-stealing case.
Samuel Chambers and George Col
Inns, colored, were hanged at Newcastle,
Del, on the 22d, for the crime of rape.
The National Bank of Tarrytown,
N. Y, suspended on the 22d.
John Wallace has confessed to the
killing of his brothers wife and babe and
Miss Church, near Littleton, West Va. on
the Goth. The only reason given by him for
the triple murder is the improbable one that
his brothers wife had "talked badly about
him and his WIFE" 1t is generally believed
that he killed the women to close their
mouths against testifying to previous crime
committed, or attempted, by him upon
them.
The Liberian schooner Azar was CON
secrated at Charleston, S. c., on the 21st, by
Bishop Brown of the African NJ. E. Church,
in the presence of 5000 colored people.
Five men were drowned while at
tempting to cross the James River from
Albermarle County, Va, in a small skitf, on
the Goth.
Dispatches from Rome say the Con-
sistory will be held on the 2Sth inst. No
encyclical will be issued, the Pope not wish
ing to commit himself to any definite poll
cy in the present complication of European
affairs. His Holiness will only deliver an
allocution, avoiding all political allusions
The head Jesuits recently proposed to re-
turn to Rome, but the Pope received the
coldly. The Jesuits are, there
fore, opposing the Pope's general policy.
Various reports from Kansas Missouri,
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio say the wheat is
in splendid condition, and predict for the
coming harvest the largest crop ever pro-
duced in the United States.
A daughter of James Ross, living near
Laporte, Ind, died on the 22d from the ef-
fects of trichin9. Four other members of
the family were also sick with it, and their
recovery was considered hopeless.
The Bank of Chemung, N. Y, has
1t was a private institution,
and had about $2SO,OOO in deposits. Assets
and liabilities not stated.
Colored men interested in the coloniz-
ing of their race in the West are taking meas
ures at Washington to promote that OBJ
ject: They denounce the Liberian scheme
of emigration in progress in the Southern
States.
Extensive arrests of counterfeiters
have recently been made in Chicago, Cincin-
natl, and Memphis.
Blasius Pistorius, formerly priest
in Germany, has been convicted of MUIR
dering Isaac Jacquette in Montgomery
County, Pa.
The Common Council of Jackson
vile, Fla, have asked Capt. Eads to examine
St. Johns bar, and report plan for its i'm |
provement, and have backed the request |
with an appropriation of 81 900.
John Wallace, who confessed to the
murder of his brothers wife, babe and niece |
near Littleton, West Va, was taken from the |
custody of the Sheriff by an armed mob and |
hanged to tree, on the night of the 23d.