American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

chusett has returned to New Orleans. 1t is
not probable that another attempt will be
made to reach st. Louis this season.
IT is reported that Bishop Ryan of St.
Louis will be appointed to the vacant Cath
Ollie Diocese of Chicago.
Hon. ALEXANDER ii. STEPHENS is to
visit Quincy, ILL.,, this summer, as the guest
Of Hon. J. W. Singleton.
THE funeral of Ex-Governor William
Allen of Ohio took place at Chillicothe on
the 14th. Business throughout the city was
entirely suspended, and many business
houses and dwellings were draped in MOURN
ing.
SECRETARY SHERMAN paid q visit to
the shipping at Philadelphia on the 14th.
After inspecting the river and harbor he
visited the Maritime Exchange and made a
brief speech to the members, his subject be-
ing Resumption. "The strangest thing
about it is" he said, snow that gold is so
easy to get nobody wants it."
Hon. RICHARD M. CHAPMAN, Treas
urer of the Biddeford (Maine) Savings
Bank, shot himself through the heart, in his
room at the Biddeford House, on the night
Of the 14th. He had been unwell for several
days, and the deed was doubtless committed
in state of insanity. The banks affairs are
said to be all right.
PosrMAsTER-GENERA KEY and a
party of friends are making a summer tour
through New England.
HANLAN, the champion sculler, re-
ceived . grand ovation upon his return to
Toronto, on the 18th.
ANTHONY ZABRIsKIE of Central Nor
risania, suburb of New York City, was &C.
cidentally killed by the cars on the 10th.
He was a very rich man, the value Of prop
erty being estimated at 100000.
PRINCE CHARLES NAPOLEON BONA
PARrE, the second son of the elder brother
of the great Napoleon, Is said to be prefer
red at Chiselhurst as head of the house to
Prince jerome Napoleon. Prince Charles is
20 years old, and has the true Bonaparte
face. He holds the position of President of
the Council General at Corsica, where he is
very popular.
EX-SENATOR RAMSEY of Minnesota,
it is stated upon what seems to be pretty
good authority, is to be the successor Of
War Secretary McCrary.
JUDGE STEPHENJ. w. TABOR, Fourth
Auditor of the Treasury. has resigned.
THE Secretary of War, upon the rec
ommendation of Gen. Schofeld, command
ing at West Point, has dismissed six cadets
for hazing.
Ex-CONGREssMAN MILTON SAYLER of
Cincinnati has returned to the practice Of
the law in that city.
MINISTER SroUGHToN, who is now
home on q visit, it is said will resign the St.
Petersburg mission.
AUGUST Won MANrEUFEL, son of
of Gen. Won Manteufel of Germany, died in
he had led most Incorporate and reckless
life, supported almost entirely by charity.
JAMES P. SCOTT, q son of Col. Thomas
A. Scott, Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has
been appointed assistant to the President of
the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company, with
headquarters at Marshall, Texas.
GEN. LANE recently said: "Two
years ago 1 looked over the old Army Reg
lister and found only five of the II American
Generals who entered the Mexican War
surviving. Since then, Pillow, Cadwallader,
Cushing, and Shields have passed over the
dark river"
DIR. CHARLES LAUENsTEIN, editor of
the Evansville Democrat, the leading Ger
man daily Democratic paper Of Indiana,
died very suddenly, ON the 10th, Of apo
plexy.
GEN. WIN. F. BARRY, Colonel of the
I'd Artillery, in command at Fort McHenry,
died on the 18th.
PROF. CARPENTER positively declines
to accept of the Prohibition nomination for
Governor of Iowa.
THE will of the late Mrs. Sarah A.
Dorsey Of Mississippi, which bequeaths
nearly the entire property of testator, said
to be valued at $3.50, 900, to Jefferson Davis,
is to be contested by s. Percy Ellis of Brook
Ign, N. Y, brother of deceased,
on the ground that the testator
was mentally incapable Of making will and
that she was subject to undue influence and
prejudice In favor of Mr.. Davis. 1t is not
alleged, however, that the latter used his
influence with any Interior design.