American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

Loss over S1OO,OOO; insurance about $4,000.
In Allen County, Ky, near the Ten
nessee State line, on the 2Sth ult., Anderson
Carver in a fit of jealousy shot and killed his
wife and then blew his own brains out with
pistol.
A terrible storm occurred on the LIST
at Morgan City, La, and along the Teche.
The steamboats, Samme and Alberta sunk,
and portion of the shed of Morgan's wharf
and number of buildings were blown down.
The damage to crops was immense.
George Schwartz, proprietor of a
cigar store ON Montgomery Street San Fran
cisco, a politician of some local note, was
shot and instantly killed in his own store on
the morning of the ID. His assassin was a
young man named Haskell, a clerk in a law
Office. A personal alteration that took place
between them at public meeting held the
previous night was the cause of the shooting.
Additional reports of the recent storm
in Louisiana show it to have been one Of the
worst ever experienced in that locality. The
steamboat Trenton was caught by the gale
eight miles below Baton Rouge and capsized,
but fortunately not until all her pass
engers had been safely landed. Three
barges of grain, belonging to the Mississippi
Transportation Company, were sunk above
Baton Rouge, and the pilot of the John Gil
more, which had them in tow, was drowned.
The lighthouse at the mouth of the Teche
was blown down. A large number of valua-
BILE sugar-houses were destroyed.
Two masked men robbed the Eureka
stage coach near Nevada City, Cal, on the
LIST. William +. Cummings, Il banker of
Moore's Flat, resisted the robbers when they
attempted to take Il gold bar belonging to
him, and he was shot through the head and
instantly killed.
At Delphos, o., on the I'd, Joseph w
Hunt, President of the Toledo, Delphos and
Burlington Railroad, was crushed to death
between two cars.
Prof. DeHam, instructor of music in
the Pittsburg Female College, and author of
several popular musical works, was shot and
instantly killed on the night of the LIST. Prof.
peHam and his family were occupying a
summer house few miles from the city.
Hearing noise in the yard he went out
about midnight to investigate it. taking his
revolver with him. His wife heard him call
out apparently to some person, and then the
report OF his pistol, quickly followed by that
OF another. He was found i'm dying con-
dition, with pistol shot i'm his left side, just
below the heart. He was IS years of age,
native Of Belgium, and the father of a large
family.
Reports recently received by the Ital-
ian Minister of Agriculture confirm bad ac-
counts concerning the crops in that country.
The yield of corn in several provinces is only
half that of ordinary years, while in other
places 1t is considerably below the average.
The wheat crop is also generally an unfavor
al. %l:,
of that of 1873.
An explosion of fire-damp i'm some
coal mines at Bonchamp, Department of
Haute-SaOne, France, killed Is persons. A
large number We're wounded.
At Santa Fe, n. NJ, on the 1st, j. B.
Lamey, nephew of Archbishop Lamey, shot
and killed Mr.. F. Mallet, an architect en-
ployed upon the new Cathedral. 1t was a
case of jealousy. The parties all belong to
the highest social stratum.
A family named Cusick, at Elizabeth,
n. j., ate toadstools by mistake for m,ish-
rooms. Two children died, and the other
two it was thought could not recover. The
parents were less seriously affected.
The Postmaster-Ge General has ordered
that the ee-delivery system be extended to
Topeka, Kansas.
The Chicago Interstate Industrial
Exposition opened on the 3D..
Three men, Elijah Frost, Bige Gibson
and Tom McCracken, under arrest at Will
let's, California, for stealing various prop
erty, were hanged by mob on the night of
the Sd.
Messengers from Cetewayo met Sir
Garnet Wolseley on the 18th OF August,
saying the King was willing to submit and
pay the taxes, but the country must be clear
ed of British soldiers. The messengers We're
informed that Cetewayo was no longer King,
and must surrender Internationally.
The excursion steamer Alaska, of the
Detroit and PUTIN Bay Line, Lake Erie, on
the 9Th exploded the dome of her boiler, in
stantly killing both engineers and one deck
hand, and seriously scalding 10 other deck
hands, two fatally. Out of the large num-
Der of passengers on board only one was
slightly Injured. The steamer City of De-
troit took off the passengers and crew and
towed the wrecked steamer to port.
Lurgan, Ireland, and several sur
rounding districts have been declared under
the provisions of the Peace Preservation
act.
The wife of Sheriff Kearn of Phila-
delphia died of hydrophobia on the 5th. Six
weeks previously she was bitten by pet
dog.
Frank c. Morgan, agent for the Union
StOck-yards at Cincinnati, is missing, and
his friends are confident that he has been
murdered. He had large amount of money
in his possession mt the time of his disap-
pearance.
In prompt response to the Memphis
Howard Associations appeal for aid came
telegram from Jay Gould of New York. con-
tributing 5000 to their funds, and telling
them to 80 ahead with their noble work and
he would foot their bills if necessary. The
expenses of the Association are now about
$1,000 day and constantly increasing.
The yacht Westward capsized in
Henderson Bay, Lake Ontario, on the 9Th.
Byron Westcott, Nelson Westcott, Edward
Benjamin, Drake Lewis. Schuyler Howard,
Allen Ramsay and Edward York were
drowned. Two of the party We're rescued.
Five of those lost leave families.
Five lives were lost near New Iberia,
la. dIIriup the Mt for