American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-12-07
AND Political.

! A RRoNaE statue of Humboldt, exc
I euted at Munich by Ferdinand Won Miller,
was dedicated with appropriate Ceremonies
! in Tower Grove Park, 81. Louis, on Sunday,
| the oath. u -.as presented to the city by
! Nr,Henry Shaw, well known citizen, who
! had previously erected in the same park a
like statue of Shakespeare.
MAJOR ELIAS RECTOR, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of the State
of Arkansas, died at his residence near Fort
| Smith on The I'D, in the 18th year OF his age.
Major Rector was celebrated az the hero of
Albert Pixies roesf, 1.-THE Old Arkansas
Gentleman, close to the Choctaw line"
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS has ar
rived in Washington and taken up his old
quarters at the National Hotel.
The President has suspended Yelling
tor Bird, Agent for the Indians at Fort
Peek Agency, Montana, and appointed in
his place Elias ii. Webb, of Illinois.
WIN b. THOMPSON, Superintendent
of the Ninth Division of the Railway Mail
Service, Cleveland, Ohio, will succeed Vail
as General Superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service.
OK application of Major Reno, Sew
enth Cavalry, Court of Inquiry is to assem-
BILE at Chicago the second Monday in Janu-
airy, 10 inquire into the Majors conduct at
the battle of the Little Big Horn, when Gen.
Custer was killed.
HANCOCK Oemocrat), defeated for
Congress in the Fifth Texas District by
Jones (Greenbacker), it is said will contest
the seat.
TUE last of the Fenian prisoners,
Michael Ahearne, was released from Mill
h,n He hnH
been IL years in confinement.
GEORGE III. BUTLER, a nephew OF
the General, once Consul General to Egypt,
and husband of Rose Eytinge, is now I'm the
Washington Workhouse undergoing a 30
days sentence for drunkenness and vagran-
cy-
MONTGOMERY BLAIR has written a
letter TO the New York Sun, in which he
takes the ground that Mr.. Tilden is the on
" available Democratic candidate for the
Presidency in 1880.
DIR. HENRY j. LIVINGSTONE, late
agent at the Crow Creek Agency, has been
arrested upon an Indictment charging him
with the forgery OF vouchers. Several clerks
and traders are also under Indictment for
completely in the alleged frauds.
DIR. MCCABE, Auxiliary Bishop of
the Diocese of Dublin, succeeds Archbishop
Cullen.
O'CoNNoR, the convicted Fenian con-
fined at Spike Island, has been notified he
will be released Immediately on condition
he reside outside the Queens dominions.
Kelly, another confined Feuian, will proba-
bly, he liberated on the same terms.
Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON has
given 500 as 4 contribution to the fund for
defraying the expenses of n Homeopathic
Yellow Fever Commission which is to meet
in New Orleans.
DURING an entertainment given by
Lissea, Hungarian Prime Minister, to Count
Andrassy, at Pesth, the other night, a bomb
filed with glycerine was exploded near the
palace, shattering the windows, but doing
no further damage. 1t is supposed the
bomb fell short of the target at which it was
aimed.
ROBERT HELLER, the well known
musician and magician, died suddenly at
Philadelphia on the 21th, of pneumonia.
MARTIN, Republican, will get the GER
tifclte of election from the First Congress
sional District of North Carolina. Yeates
will contest the seat i'm the House,