American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT arrived at Con.
stantinOple on the Sd.
CHARLES s. WHITTIER, Town Clerk
and Treasurer of Methuen, Mass, has alb
seconded with all the available public funds,
between $12, 900 and ST., 900. He was man
OF high social and business standing in the
community.
/ Il. T: BANCROFT, of Emporia, Kan
sas, formerly agent for the sale Of lands be
longing to the State Normal School, has been
arrested charged with appropriating to his
own use from $4,000 to 900 of the pro-
ceeds of such sales. He was committed to
Jail in default of $10, 900 bail.
TILE President has appointed Hon.
Albert 6: Porter, Of Indiana, First Comp
troller Of the Treasury.
THE President has nominated Mr.. G.,
chester, England, as Consul to Chen Kiang,
China. This appointment is credited to
Missouri, wrongfully it is claimed, as Mr..
Branscomb has not resided in the State for
several years past, and his nomination was
brought about through Eastern influences.
tits understood thatsthe Missouri delegation
will oppose his Confirmation. = - SF-s %
GEN. JOHN MCNEIL, of st. Louis.
JOSEPH j. KELLY, of Dewitt County,
ILL.,, has been appointed National Bank Ex-
aminer for Illinois and Missouri. Il KtE
CHARGES have been preferred against
Linderman, Director of the Mint, of furnish
ing information to spectators in San Fran
cisco, and directing the affairs of the Mint
so as to enable them to profit in their specu-
lations by such dishonorably acquired
knowledge.
THE New Hampshire Greenback
State Convention nominated Samuel Flint
for Governor. M
JUDGE. ASA BRIGGS, formerly United
States-Senator, died at Norfolk, Va, on the
6th.z 49,
THE Louisiana Legislature, whose
term expired on the 7th, was reconvened
by the Governor for 15 days.
PRESIDENT PORTER, of the Liberian
Colonization Society, has purchased yes
sci in Boston with which he will transport a
large humber of negroes from Charleston to
Liberia.
GEN. SHERMAN says that there ought
to be at least $4,000 to 10000 men in the
army, and declares that sat this moment
there is almost absolute certainty of a re-
newed war with the Sioux
E /
ALL but two of the House Committee
on Indian affairs favor transfer of the In
dian Bureau from the Interior to the War
Department.
Mrs. JOHN w. ILIFF, whose husband
recently died in Denver, Col, leaving her a
fortune of 100000 and 80 900 head of cattle.
was formerly a saleswoman in the Singer
Sewing Machine Company's store in Chicago.
hot -,rrl,A
who struck out West to better her condition,
and seems to have succeeded in her purpose.
EX-SENATOR WADE left no will. He
was worth from $4,000 to 100000.
THE London Court Journal revives
the rumor that Lord Dufferin will be sue
ceeded as Governor General of Canada in
September next by the Marquis of Lorne.
AN autograph letter from Gen. Grant
to distinguished Republican of Knoxville
says that nothing could induce him ever to
become-a candidate for President again. B
A MONUMENT to the memory of Gen.
R. E. Lee is to be erected at Richmond by
Mr.. Joseph Milmore of Boston. The chief
ornament of the structure will be a full
length statue of Lee in bronze; the base will
be made of Maine and Virginia granite.
GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG, of Georgia,
the Southern Commissioner to Paris, is very
enthusiastic over the prospects of liberal
display of Southern goods at the Exposi-
tion.
DIR. MARY WALKER has made formal
application for an appointment on the
Washington Police force.
Mrs. GwIN, wife of the ex-senator,
the "Duke of Sonora" has entered suit in
a San Francisco court to recover property
valued at $10,000,00O, that includes some of
the finest residences in the city.