American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

the Indianapolis Herdfd, attempted to shoo
Mr.. Calvin A. Light, editor of the s,e..,oerat
on the night of the 4th, =. the latter's resi-
dence. Light grasped the pistol which
Harding had pointed at him, and prevented
Its discharge. Mr.. Harding was arrested
and gave bail, and on the following day hi
entered the Democrat Office and fired sew.
eral times at Light, missing him but hitting
ah employee named Gerhard Lizins, inflict-
ing a serious wound, and Harding is now ia
jail awaiting the result of that wounG. An
other Democrat employee, named Richard
Walters, jumped out Of the second story
window during the firing, breaking both an
kles. The attack Is attributable to several
bitter editorials in the Democrat, which
have appeared from time to time, impugning
Mr.. Harding's social standing.
Mr.. WILLIAM E. CHANDLER has been
elected Secretary of the Republican Congfes-
sional Campaign Committee.
SHERMAN and Thurman are talked of
as the Republican and Democratic candidates
| respectively for Governor of Ohio.
Col. JOHN I. CRISP was stabbed in
the abdomen by ex.CcnEressman B. j.
Franklin, during personal alteration at
Kansas City, No., on the 5th. The wound
was painful but thought not to be serious.
There was an old political and personal feud
existing between the parties.
A h. GRIMKE, Boston negro law
yer, has married Miss Sarah E, Stanley, a
white lady, daughter Of an Episcopal cler-
gyman Of Wisconsin,
THE people of the Pennsylvania oil
region, are going to build amonument in
Titusville to Col. Drake, the man who put
down the first oil well in the United States
70 years sgo. Report says the Colonel died
some time ago a miserable, tmpecunious
pensioner, he having reaped no valid advan-
tage from his discovery.
MAJOR II. M. LAZELL, United States
Army, after nearly 20 years of service in the
Indian country, has been appointed by Gen.
eral Sherman commandant of cadets at West
Point. He is at present constructing Fort
Meade, Dakota.
DIR. ISAAC BUTT, the well known
Home-fule member OF Parliament, is dead.
GEN. FELIX DoUAY, Inspector ener-
al of the Armies of France, is dead.
THE annual meeting of the National
Woman Suffrage Association was held in
St. Louis, commencing on the It'll. Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was chosen Presi-
dent for the ensuing year, with full list Of
subordinate officers.
Cox, the murderer of Allston at At
lanta, Ga, has been sentenced to life-im-
prisonment.
The Richmond (Va } Inte7zige,acer has
come out for Judge Davis of Illinois for
President.
The trial of DR.. Talmage before the
Presbytery of Brooklyn has resulted in his
acquittal, by the following vote, Out of 45
votes cast, 20 were against the charges and
specifications In toto, 10 in favor of sustain
ing them as they stood, and 4 for sustaining
them in part. Some Of the members freely
expressed their diss tisfaction with the man.
ner in which the trial was conducted, and
gave notice Of an appeal to the Synod.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature, by
party vote, has authorized the appointment
of a committee to proceed to San Francisco
and welcome Gen. Grant upon his arrival.
A COMMITTEE of medical experts,
having examined Mark Gray, who shot at
Booth, in McVIcker's Theater, Chicago, re-
port he is insane.
A DISPATCH from Rome to the New
York Freenadn's journal announces the
Pope has named Very Rev. Lawrence S.
McMahaD, v. G. of Providence, to be Bishop
Of Hartford, and Rev. John Vertin of Ne
gaunee, Mich, to be Bishop of Marquette.
TIE National Board of Health has
adjourned to meet in Nashville in October.
The Sanitary Council of the Mississippi VAL
ley has adj burned sine die.
JOSEPH EAsrERBRooK, proprietor of
the bingham (Mass.) Journal, committed
suicide on the sth, by shooting himself
a.