American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-08-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Lieut.. Wallace, with a party of Is
soldiers and citizens, recently overhauled a
party of IL hostiles who had committed sew
eral murders at the mouth OF Bear and Rock
Creeks, and killed six and wounded three of
them without suffering any casualties in re-
turn, except the wounding of q few horses.
The New Orleans Board of Health re-
ports up to the LIST, at noon, 157 cases of yell
low fever; deaths, II.
On the 9th ult., Jose Maria, Amador
Miguel Palacios, Pedro Martinez and Es-
tdmalio Martinez, revolutionary leaders,
with 800 men, attacked the town of Real de
Catorez, Mexico, but were defeated, ANA
dor and Palacios being killed, and Estamalio
Martinez wounded.
The National Agricultural Congress
vii, hold its coming semi-annual meeting at
New Haven, Conn.,, beginning August 81.
A young and highly respectable mar
ried lady Of Boston, not long since, took
drawing-room car on the New York Central
Railroad ut an interior town in New York
for Albany, where her husband awaited her.
At Utica two scoundrels succeeded in con-
vincing the conductor Of the train and the
passengers, in spite of the earnest and al
most frantic protests Of the lady, that she
was insane, and had been placed in their
charge to be taken to the Asylum. They
were therefore permitted to forc;bly take
her from the train, and then, having the ter
rified woman fully in their power, they
took her in close carriage to
house of ILL fame, where she was found
next morning in state of utter prostration,
both mental and physical. The husband
upon the arrival of the train at Albany had
learned enough to satisfy him that his wife
was in the clutches of two villains, and Sc
curing locomotive and taking the conduct
or with him, he proceeded to Utica as fast
as steam could carry him. The villains es-
capped, and no clew to their identity has yet
been found.
The Mayor of Cairo, ILL.,, on the 3Oth,
issued a proclamation announcing the es-
Enlistment of quarantine regulations
against al! Southern points.
The Bloomington Oll.) Banking In
st;tution was robbed on the night of the
3Oth of 500, 900 in money and aboIt $4,000
10 securities. The thieves in some wav OBJ
tanned a knowledge of the fe-lock combi-
nation, and thus had easy access 10 the val
tables. The Institution was owned and Fun
by L. l.. Holmes, its principal business be-
ing the loaning OF monev for Eastern ccpi-
talists.
The VIE of A. J. Williams, telegraph
operator at Eli ston Station, on the Louis
vile Shot, Line Ra'i'oad, recently came to
her death in te~r;ble manner. A coal oil
lamp had been left burning in their bed
room, and toward midnight her husband
saw something wrong aboLt i, aud got up
ard attempted to tn ow the lamp out Of the
window, but tripped and threw the burn
All H.
that she died few hours afterward.
Freight rates from Chicago to New
York have been adva iced 25 cents PEI hun
bred on flour and gra n, and otIe-. classes in
same proportion. The Western aud South
western Dads are in the combination and
will makea corresponding advance.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
has advanced rates on first-c'ass f.eight
from New York to San Francisco 100 per
cent, being from Sc to $12 per hundred
ponds.
A terrific rain and wind storm passed
over Central Illinois on the 1st, doing great
damage to crops.
The blood-curdling story of that edu-
Gated barber at Caprop, H., who, at the
close of a lecture on suicide, illustrated the
topic by blowing out bis own brains, proves
to have been pleasant l;itle joke perpetrat-
ed by the young man himself on the Chicago
Times.
The property of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, which is to be sold under judg-
ment OF foreclosure, at Mobile, Ala, on
August 10, comprises 412 miles of main Inc,
So miles OF branches, all equipments and
appurtenances, including over 1000 cars
and nearly 100 locomotives, the lease of the
Aberdeen branch, about 100000 acres of
land and the franchises Of the road.
Work at the New Orleans Mint has
been suspended for 30 days on account of
the yellow fever scourge, the meter and re-
finer at the Mint being among the first vic
Tins.
Mary Klause, aged 10, daughter of
Adam Kiause, farmer, living a few miles
west OF Sandusky, o., kiudled the fire with
kerosene on the I'd, with the usual result.
Death terminated her suiferings in few
hours.
Silver City dispatch of the lst says :;