American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-04-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


GEN VIM. TRIP, formerly Lieuten
ant Governor OF Maine and Surveyor Gen
eral OF Dakota, died suddenly at Yankton O
the 30th.
MARK HOPKINS, Treasurer of tn
Central Pacific Railroad Company, died a
Yuma, Cal, on the 10Th.
GEN. SILAs A. STRICKLAND died a
Omaha on the 3Oth, aged Il. He was a prom
! inent brigade commander from Ohio during
| the late war.
| THE Senate on the LIST, by vote G.
! - against IA, again rejected the nomination
of Alex. G. Reed to be Postmaster of Tole-
do, o. The nomination of Robert NJ. Rey-
nolds, to be First Auditor of the Treasury
has also been rejected.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana, on
the LIST, refused the application of the At
torney General for rehearing in the case
OF the State vs., Thos. c. Anderson, and the
prisoner was released from custody.
MUNICIPAL elections were held on the
1st and I'd in several States. The issues in
most places were local rather than political.
In Vigo County, Ind, the National party
ran straight party tickets, and carried eight
out of IL towns in the county, together with
the city of Terre Haute. The Greenbackers
made almost a clean sweep in Little Rock,
Ark.
A STATE Convention of the National
Party OF Missouri has been called to meet at
Sedalia on the 18th of June.
SENATOR DORSEY went before the
House Committee on Post-offices on the
Sd and told the committee all about his ac-
ton in aiding mail contractors in his section
T To had h
ing, he said, that was not perfectly lawful
and proper, and what he should do again
whenever occasion offered. He denied that
he had any pecuniary interest, near or re-
mote, contingent or possible, in any mail
contracts or any other contracts under the
Government.
EX-AUDIToR JAMES GRAHAM, of
Louisiana, late Register of the State Land
office, is dead, aged 81. He was Surveyor
at New Orleans under President Polk, and
United States Marshal for Louisiana under
President Lincoln.
DIR. l.. E. JENNINGS, a professed
l' materialistic medium" of considerable
both in this country and England,
was detected and publicly exposed in his
trickery at st. Louis few nights ago.
THE Massachusetts Senate, by a vote
Of 10 to Is, rejected a resolution to amend
he State Constitution so as to permit wom-
an suffrage.
DIR PERRY, of Exeter, n. Y, now
over 80, is one of those who rode down the
Hudson with Robert Fulton on his first
steamer.
THE House Committee on Elections
have dismissed the Oregon contested cleo
ton case of Mcdowell against Williams, and
also the Mississippi contested case of Lynch
against Chalmers.
BAYARD TAYLOR was banqueted by
4 number of eminent New York gentlemen
on the 4th, prior to his departure for Ber
lin. Hon. VIM. Cullen Bryant presided.
PROF. C. v. RILEY, of St. Louis,
formerly State Entomologist of Missouri,
has been appointed Entomelogist in the Ag
ricultural Department at Washington.
CARDINAL GIUSEPPE BERARDI is
dead. He was an Italian, born in 1910, and
nominated Cardinal in 1868.
PRESIDENT HAYES and several men,
bers of the Cabinet visited Philadelphia on
the 9th TO witness the launching of the
City of Para, of the New Brazil
ian line.
DIR. GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, of New
York, Bishop-elect of the Springfield Qll.)
Diocese, Protestant Episcopal Church, has
emit Pensioners and announced his deter
mination not to accept the position to
which he was chosen.