American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| GENERAL SHERMAN ana his wife vii
hereafter live permanently in Washington
They have leased the residence on Fifteenth
Street just vacated by Admiral Almy.
CONGRESSMAN j.. Randolph TUCKEF
of Virginia, who suffers from cataract so Sc.
/ verey that he can neither read nor write
has gone to Baltimore for treatment to hi.
| eyes.
ULYSSES GRANT, Jr., has become part
owner in the Evening Star lode, one of Gov.
ernor Routt's mines at Leadville.
SKINa TnACKoMBoU of Fiji is hand
some man, SIX feet high, with a dark face,
| full of expression, bright, intelligent eyes,
and an abundance of gray hair.
MATTHEW VAssAR. son of the found
er Of Vassar College, il about to endow a
Home for Old Men at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
REAR ADMIRAL E. G.. PARROT, u.
s. N, died in New York City on the 10th,
aged e5. Admiral PARROT entered the Navy
when a mere boy and Worked his way up
from the tanks; His sea service covered
nearly half a century. ~
THE Empress Augusta of Germany
arrived at Windsor Castle on the 14th, on a
visit to the Queen. r~-e--
GEN. GRANT and party sailed from
Hong Kong for Japan on the 18th inst.
- MRsWtLLIAM MARSHALL of Glasgow,
Scotland, who died on May Q, has left Legal
cy amounting to over 81, O00, 900 to found in
GLASGOW an institution bearing his name.
IT is reported that Judge Dillon of
the Eighth Judicial Circuit is about to re-
sign, and will probably accept the chair of
Real Estate, Law and Equity in Columbia
College, New York City, which has been
rendered him with a much larger salary
than that derived from his present position.
THE Ladies' Monumental Association
of Columbia, s. c., have erected a hand
some Confederate monument in Capitol
Square, in that city, which was publicly I'M
yelled on the 18th. -.
GEN. KENNAR GARRARD, a well
known citizen of Cincinnati. who at one pc
Rod during the War had charge of the Cav
airy Bureau Of the War Departmentand
subsequently Commanded the Second Divis-
ion, Sixteenth Army Corps, died on the 18th.
SENATOR MATT. CARPENTER, who
has been troubled of late with rheumatism,
has gone to Florida for the benefit of his
health.
MAJOR WILLIAM BOND, General
Manager of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad, has rendered his resignation, to
take effect june 80.
HENRY J.. Cross, for many years City
Treasurer Of Salem, Mass, hanged hiniselft
Mental depression, caused by overwork, is
the alleged cause.
The Rotterdam trading companies
Afrikanische HandelsSereeniging and Com
manditore Understanding, have failed.
Total liabilities about f750,0OO.
CAPT. EADs has made application for
an additional payment of $500 200, claiming
that he has obtained q channel at the mouth
of the Mississippi % feet deep and 300 feet
wide. The matter is under consideration in
the War Department.
TIE death, of Jacob Staempfi, ex-
President of Switzerland, is reported. He
was one of the Geneva arbitrators, and his
services In supporting our side on that oc-
casion we're acknowledged by a handsome
service Of plate voted him by Congress.
JOHN MORGAN, associate editor of
the Ellsworth tKus.) Timer, and his broth.
er, William Morgan, cashier of the St.
Nicholas Hotel at Cincinnati, were drowned
in the Licking River, back of Covington,
KY, on the 18th, while out skiff riding.
While in the middle of the stream they en-
steamboat coming toward them,
and fearing that they would be run down
both leaped overheard and abandoned the
skill, but were unable to swim to shore.
JUDGE ASA PACKER, formerly Repre-
in Congress from Pennsylvania,
and one of the wealthiest men of the State,
died at his home in Mauch Chunk on the
18th, in the I'D year of his age. He was a
man, having started out in life as
the driver Of . canal boat.
REV. sORIN CLEMENS, a brother of
IS Mark Twain" Clemens, has been formally
accommodated by the Iowa Presbyt ry.
He was for 10 years pastor of Presbyterian
church in Keokuk, Iowa, and his offense was
heresy.