American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-04-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Hon. JOHN L. VANCE, late Demo-
| cratic Member of Congress from the Elev-
enth Ohio District, has.mysteriously disap-
peared from his home, and his friends fear
that he has been foulIy dealt with.
Hon. j. CLANCY JONES died at his
home in Reading, Pa, on the 24th, aged GO.
He served in Congress with only brief in
terruption from 1850 to 1858, and was for
two years Chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee. He was also Minister to Aus
tria, during President Buchanan's admins
tration.
Hon. JOHN ALLISON, Register of the
Treasury, died suddenly of apopleXy, on
the sd, in Washington. He was native of
Pennsylvania, 60 years of age, and was APP
pointed Register in 1869
+ GEORGE u. BOWLER, a well known
resident of Cincinnati, one of the principal
owners of the Kentucky Central Railroad,
died in Paris, France, on the oath, aged b.
A CURIOUS coincidence was the death
of Theron Barnum, the st. Louis hotel
keeper, and that of his brother, Allen 5.
Barnum, also an old hotel proprietor, at
Baltimore, Nd, on the evening of the same
day, March II.
THE Senate rejected the nomination
ofLewis E. Parsons, Attorney for the North
ern and Middle Districts of Alabama. This
nomination gave rise to long debate, and
was finally rejected by vote of % against
II. Only four Republicans voted for con-
firmation.
CAPT. II. p. WILSON, commanding at
Fort McKavitt, Texas, was seriously ipjur-
ed by the accidental explosion of shotgun,
and died on the 18th.
Hon. A. III. STEPHENS, who will be a
candidate for Congress again, will have
competitor.
CoMMIssIoNER-GEN MCCoR
MICK sailed from New York on the Goth for
the Paris Exposition.
PROF. CHAs. F. HARTT, of Cornell
University, who went to Brazil to take
charge Of the geological survey of that coun-
try, has fallen a victim to yellow fever.
Hon. THOMAS JOHNSON, ex-Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas,
died at Little Rock on the Goth.
CHARLEY Ross father is going to
lecture. 1t is said that he hopes in this way
to keep the matter SO clear and fresh that
any one knowing of any circumstances may
be able to assist him in his almost hopeless
undertaking of recovering his lost child.
ISAAC ADAMS, the reputed inventor
of the printing press that bears his name, is
dead. He leaves an estate valued at - ,0OO,-
600. 1t is said that A dams bought his pat
ents from the real inventor for Il gun-and
not very good gun at that.
ARCHBISHOP LADAsTINA, of the City
of Mexico, has been created Cardinal. He is
the first Mexican Cardinal ever appointed.
CARDINAL DIPIETRo has been ap-
pointed Pontifical Camerlengo, not Cardi-
nal Morinch, as before stated.
FATHER GRANT, Rector of the Scottish
College and organizer of the Scottish hi
erarchy, died in Rome on the 2Sth, the day
the hierarchy was proclaimed. He bequeath
ed his private fortune to the Catholic Church
of Scotland.
SECRETARY SCHURZ, who has been
for some weeks quite unwell, visited his
Office on the 2Sth.
THE American Minister to Italy, Mr..
Geo. T.. Marsh, of Vermont, is a veteran in
the diplomatic service. He was born on st.
Patrick's Day in 1901, and has held his pres
ent position II years, having been appointed
during the Presidency OF Mr.. Lincoln, in
1861. He had before been Minister Resident
at Constantinople, in 1898.
IHE diplomatic corps nave not been
invited to any of the White House dinners
this season, and the gossips say il is all on
account Of the wine question. They would
not like dinner without wine, and Mrs.
Hayes will not have dinner with wine.
The Pennsylvania House has expelled
o. II. Billiard, member OF that body, on
account Of his having embezzled the funds
OF a building association entrusted to his
care.
iT is suggested in Virginia that Gen.
Fiizhugh Lee be returned to Congress in
place OF Beverly Douglass, who has gained
an unenviable notoriety by appearing re-
Gently in the House in somewhat maudlin
condition.
SIR GEORGE GrLBERT SCOTT, the
well known London architect, is dead.
Pm sIDENT HAYES writes to his Yer
mont relatives that ne will visit them the
coming summer, if possible, but is extreme
ly anxious to make a Southern trip.