American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

SECRETARY ScHURz will deliver foul
political addresses in Ohio during the State
campaign. Secretaries Thompson and Sher.
man will also make several speeches.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
passed Ferry's second Educational bill
which provides for excluding the religious
element from the Superior Council of Edu-
cation.
THE Congressional Committee au-
thorized to investigate the alleged frauds in
the First and Second Congressional Districts
Of Ohio at the last October election met at
Cincinnati on the 21st for the purpose Of en-
tering upon the investigation.
PRESIDENT HAYES has accepted an in
vitation to attend the anniversary exercises
Of the Ocean Grove Camp-meeting, on the
30th of July.
VICE-PREsIDENT WHEELER is in very
poor health, and he will probably take a
trip to Colorado this summer.
CONGRESSMAN DE LA MATYR of In
diana, 25 years ago, was a carpenter and
Methodist exhorter at Lime Rock, Cattarau-
gus County, N. Y. Recently he attended q
picnic of Greenbackers there and made a
speech.
Ex-Governor HUBBARD of Connec-
ter, who married his coachman. Since her
elopement the family have been travelling in
Europe, but is at present occupying elegant
quarters at Newport. The runaways are
somewhere in Canada.
THE estate of the late Asa Packer of
Pennsylvania will yield an income Of $780,
900 to each of his three children.
EX-SENATOR RAMSEY, the prospective
Secretary Of War, Is q Pennsylvania by
birth.
ERNEST LONGFELLow, the artist and
son of the poet, is about to return to Amer
lea after three years. absence abroad.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, of the
New York Herald, has just returned
from Europe; Mr.. Dana, of the Sun, has
just gone to Europe; Whitelaw Reid, of the
Tribune, is in California.
THE Indiana lawyers have formed a
State Bar Association, with Robert Lowry
for President.
GEN. B. F. BUTLER, Gen. Roger A.
Pryor, Ex-Gov. Smith of Vermont and Con-
gresham Dean of Boston have gone off on a
summer cruise up to Newfoundland in But
ler's yacht America. In the whirligig of
time Gen. Pryor and Ben Butler have be-
come fast friends.
A DUEL with swords took place near
Paris, on the ed, between Balian, editor of
the Euenenent, and Menard, editor of the
Ldnterne. The former was wounded in the
abdomen.
SECRETARY SHERMAN delivered an
on the 22d.
HENRY WARD BEECHER has engaged
to deliver = number of lectures in Southern
cities the coming season.
JOSEPH w. NORTON, commercial
committed suicide at Syracuse, N.
Y, on the I'D.
GEN. EWING opened the Ohio cam
paign on the oath, with q speech at Lancas-
ter.
REV. LEROY PosEY, popular colored
lately of Florence, Ala. committed
suicide at Lagrange, Texas, by blowing out
his brains with a double barreled shotgun.
A woman is said to be the cause.
JOHN PRoFFATT, prominent lawyer
and author Of several legal works, died at
San Francisco on the 22d, aged az.
ABRAHAM COLEMAN, for many years
proprietor of the Burnet House, Cincinnati,
died recently at Utica, N. Y.
THOMAS BUFoRD, the murderer of
Judge Elliott Of Kentucky, has been sem
fenced to imprisonment for life. A mo-
tion has been entered for a new trial.
THE Louisiana Constitutional Con-
vention adjourned sine die on the 23d.
WILLIAM HINCKs, for 80 years one of
the official reporters Of the House of Repre-
Is dead.
GENERAL BUTLER has written let
ter expressing his willingness to again enter
the canvass as a candidate for Governor Of
Miss ELLA STURGIs. a well known
society lady of st. Louis, daughter of Gen
eral sturgis, U. s. A., will make her debut