American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

MR.. q. II. WORTHER OF Chicago, q
former clerk of Field, Letter 4 Co., has been
awarded by Boston jury verdict of &c.,
500 damages for injuries to his leg and other
wise received by q collision on the Grand
Trunk Railway near Detroit, Mich, several
years ago. At q former trial the plaintiff
was awarded 5000. but the company ap-
pealed from that, with the result stated.
Mr.. w. G. JONES, ex. Judge Of the St.
Louis Criminal Court, has brought an action
againet 10 of the members of the late Grand
Jury for alleged untrue and malicious COM
ments upon his conduct while Judge of that
Court, and claims $4,000 damages. The
foreman Of the Jury, and reputed author of
the report, was Mr.. j. b. McCullagh of the
Globe Democrat, who says he stands ready
to substantiate all the statements contained
therein. and more too.
LIEUT.. CHARLES M. CARRow, Sew
enth Cavalry, q. s. A., blew out his brains
at the Planters House, st. Louis on the 10Th.
He was . native of Pottsville, Pa, and grad
uated at West Point in 1878. 1t is not known
what impelled him to commit the deed.
Mr. CHENEY r. PRoUrY, Collector
of Customs at Indianola, Texas, has been
awarded the honorary bronze medal of the
Royal Humane Society, for galantry exhib-
ed May 5, 1873, in swimming two miles in
shark-infested waters from an overturned
boat to bring assistance and rescue q Brit
ish subject.
PHIL. TIEMAN, the well known bill
lard player, formerly champion of Ameri-
ca, is dead.
THE late Bishop Ames had an estate
worth about $4,000. The bulk of this is
left to his widow and his married daughter.
Ex-AUDIToR MAYNARD of San Fran
cisco has committed suicide. No cause as
signed.
JEFFERSON DAVIS doesn't like to be
interviewed, and has made it an invariable
rule not to submit to it. "Surely," he says,
4, who am disfranchised, not even q citizen
of the United States, and with no political
ambitions, may claim immunity from the re-
porters." Mr.. Davis works on his memoirs
in the evening, and says he got enough Of
early rising In the army. He dislikes the
manual labor of writing and dictates to an
amanuensis.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCKER of Vir-
ginia, who has for years suffered from cata-
ract Of the eye, has undergone painful sur
gical operation at Baltimore, with the result,
as believed, of completely restoring his
sight.
THE Missouri Legislature adjourned
sine die on the Doth.
JUDGE DILLON, of the Eighth Judicial
District, his resigned. and it is reported that
Secretary McCrary of the Cabinet is to be
his successor. Judge Dillon goes to New
York, to become Dean of the Law School of
Columbia College. The change will take
effect about the LIST Of September.
HERR FORCKENBECK has resigned
the Presidency of the German Reichstag, on
the grounds Of i'll health and antagonism be-
tween his own views and those of the ma
jority of that body. Htrr Seydewitz, Con-
serative. has been chosen as his successor.
The President hss nominated William
j. Gilbraith of Iowa Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Montana; John F. Nor
gan of Illinois, Chief-Justice of the Supreme
Court of idaho; Norman Buck of Idaho,
Associate Justice of the same court.
A MONUMENT to the memory of the
late Bishop Marvin Of the NJ. Z. Church
South was dedicated in Bellefontaine Gene
terry, st. Louis, on the 2lst, with appropri-
ate ceremonies. The total height of the mon
ument is % feet. .f-~ Il
Ransom Brothers, bankers at Hart
ford City, Ind, have failed with $4,000 due
to depositors. Assets supposed to be small.
Col. JOHN GRoEsBECK, brother of
William S. Groesbeck OF Ohio, disappeared
mysteriousIy about the middle of last April
from the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York,
where he had resided for number of years.
He had been engaged tn Wall Street specu-
lations and of late had been unfortunate in
his investments. On the Goth inst. his body
was found in the North River, and it is be-
lieyed he committed suicide.