American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-03

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-lish thor0ughbreds was won on the ODD, h,
taking oil the Great Metropolitan stakes a
| EPSON. Two and quarter miles, time 4:43
Lieut.. Loder with IA men of the ThirC
ard Seventh Infantry has had brush will
some Sioux Indians in Musselshell Canyon
in which eight Indians were killed and sew
eral wounded.
The residence of Joseph Merger, a
Lancaster, o., burned on the morning of the
22d, and his Swear old girl persisted in the
| flames.
The Pennsylvania Legislature ha.
passed an act granting an annual pension o.
SO to surviving veterans of the Mexican
War from Pennsylvania, who have resided
in the State for more than 20 years priol
to the passage Of the bill, and also to wild
ows of deceased soldiers and sailors of said
war.
At Penobscot, Pa, three children OF
Oliver Stout were burned to death by the
| explosion of kerosene lamp.
| Work upon the proposed tunnel on
the Canada Southern Railway, under the
| Detroit River at Crosse Isle, 20 miles below
Detroit, was begun on the sd.
April'returns to the Boa d of Agricul-
| ture, at Washington, show that the acreage
of winter wheat is about one and one half
per cent. greater than that of last year.
The Louisiana Constitutional Conven-
ton has passed resolution declaring
that there is no intention whatever on
the part of the Convention of impairing
or restricting the political, civil or re
ligious rights of any class.
In New York City, on the oath, AL
bert Deffarge, having euarreed with his
wife, administered poison to their two chill
dren, aged and years, and then took a
dose himself. Deffarge and one of the chill
dren died; the other child may recover.
Madame Deflarge deplored the death of her
child but not that of her husband.
Charles Rusk, convicted of wife muir
der, was hanged at Tascumbia, Ala, on the
25th. He protested his innocence to the
last.
The Laconia On. H.) National Bank
was robbed of 5000 in money and $4,000
worth of securities on the night of the oath.
S. d. Richards, who murdered the en-
tire HARRISON family, consisting OF mother
and three children, together with man
named Peter Anderson, in December last,
was hanged at Minden, Kearney> County,
Neb., on the 26th- These murders, together
with several others previously committed,
were confessed by Richards after his appre-
hension.
The great six-days' pedestrian contest
for the English championship at Agricul-
tural Hall, Islington, London, terminated
on the Goth with the following result:
Brown, 542 miles; Hazael, 493; Corkey, Az;
Weston, 40. Brown, the champion. came
out fresh and in good condition, while his
unsuccessful competitors were more or less
used up.
Memorial Day, April &c, was OBJ
served throughout the South by suspen-
sion of business and appropriate ceremonies
at the cemeteries.
The great steel bridge of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad Company across the
Missouri at Glasgow, Mo-, was opened for
traffic the Goth.
The jury in the Stevens wife-murder
case at Chicago, on the Goth returned YER
dict of manslaughter. The mother of the
murdered wife, who had intently watched
the proceedings of the trial from the COM
mencement, as soon as the verdict was pro-
nounced leveled pistol at the head of the
prisoner and pulled the trigger, but the
weapon missed fire and it was wrenched
make second attempt. Stevens was sem
tened to IA years in the Penitentiary.
Six thousand Cinnamon are now en-
ployed in the construction of the Southern
Pacific Railroad OF California, which is be-
ing pushed forward at the rate of three
miles day. The road is now completed to
Maricopa, Arizona, $50 miles east of Yuma.
The gauge of the Iron Mountain Rail-
road is to be changed in the next 80 days
from five feet to the standard gauge of four
feet eight and one half inches.
At Whitehall, N. Y, on the 9th,
Charles Sweet, deaf mute, discovered his
wife in a house of ill-repute and shot her
three times fatally. He then blew out hi-
own brains.