American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-04-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Fish Cuiturists' Association was begun in
New York City on the 30th.
The Republican Senatorial Caucus
decided to oppose the Marshal clause in the
House Deficiency bill, on the ground that it
is political rider.
TIE House Indian Committee have
voted against adopting the principal pro-
visions of the Ute agreement bill, and it
is predicted that the treaty will not be con-
firmed.
THE Georgia Democratic State Con-
vention, to elect delegates to the National
Convention, will be held at Atlanta,
June9.
The religious associations of France
will contest i'm the Courts the legality of de-
crees of the Government against unauthor-
lied religious societies, on the ground that
the laws they are based ON are obsolete.
Two miles west of Terre Haute, Ind,
on the night Of the LIST, wagon containing
party of twelve was driven of an embank-
ment and fell into the river. Mrs. Otter
man and Miss Hanna were drowned.
BARON FREDERICK MARTIN Won
BoDENsrEDT, the celebrated German poet,
is the guest of Mayor Overstolz of st. Louis.
Miss LAvINA GODELL, Wisconsin's
well known woman lawyer, is dead.
AT the recent election in San Fran
cisco the Citizens Union ticket was elected
by n handsome majority over the Working
mems ticket-a defeat for Kearneyism.
A CHECK drawn by the Treasury De-
partment to the order of William H. Van
derbilt for $31O,5OO, being three months
interest on $31 $50, 900 of United States per
cent. bonds, was paid through the New
York Clearing house the other day. This
represents an income of $3.50 per day, of
$143.75 per hour, of nearly $40 per minute,
and nearly four cents per second, sleeping
and waking. 1t is, besides, only one of sew
eral of Mr.. Vanderbilt's sources Of revenue.
GEN. H. E. PAINE, Commissioner of
Patents, has rendered his resignation on the
ground that he cin not well afford to hold
an office which pays only "a 500 year.
THE New York Democratic State Con-
vention, to select delegates to the National
will be held at Syracuse on
April 20.
THE John Kelly Democrats of New
York have called an opposition State Con-
vention, to be held at the same time as the
regular Convention and also at Syracuse.
THE Senate has again rejected the
of VIM. R. Brown as Census
of the Eighth Illinois District.
A LITTLE child of Mrs. Salusia
who lived on Sulphur Creek,
near Oakville, Tex, fell into the stream.
The mother plunged in to rescue her child
and both were drowned.
SENATOR THURMAN had an attack of
vertigo in the Senate Chamber the other
day and was carried out in an insensible
condition.
THE House Committee on Elections,
in the case of Donnelly against Washburn,
Third Minnesota District, have decided upon
q report declaring the seat vacant and order
ing anew election.
THE Nebraska Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Columbus on the 31st,
elected a solid Tilden delegation to the Gin
cinnati Convention.
THE Kentucky Legislature has passed
. bill prohibiting public executions.
Two Omaha boys, VIM. Largen,
aged seven, and John Downs, aged eleven,
were poisoned on the 3lst by eating wild
and both died in terrible convul-
sions within two hours. A third boy was
made terribly sick, but will recover.
AT Leadville, Colo, on the night of
the 30th, F. A. Prentice shot and killed f.
c. Dixon, while engaged in quarrel grow
ing out of an alleged insult offered by
Prentice to lady whom Dixon was escorting
home.
HOMER WELLINGTON, the aristocrat-
ic Boston forger, who attempted to kill his
wife by poison, has been also held for the
murder of his child, whose remains, under
post mortem examination, showed unmis-
taxable evidence of arsenic.
A MAN who registered at a Salt Lake
(Utah) hotel as George Wilson Drake, Beat
tie, Marshall County, Kansas, and who had
been drinking freely for several days in
company with two strangers, on the morn
ing of the 31st was found ON the street in a
lying condition, with a bullet hole in his
head. He died a few hours afterwa
After being shot he had walked fifty rods, as
shown by a bloody trail.
G. X. ALLEN, the express agent who
had charge of the bullion recently stolen at
Sidney, Neb., has been arrested for COM
plicity in the robbery.
PUE and Marsh, citizens of Bandera
County, Tex, had a dispute over a game of
cards. Result, a shooting affray in which
both were killed.
JAMES Boiler, Samuel, Brown and
Andrew Macon, all eolored, were hanged at
Macon, Miss, on the I'd. Boiler MUIR
iered Frank Reed, a white man; Brown and
Macon killed Tarleton Macon, a respectable
Did colored man, the father of one and the
in law of the other of his murderers.
JAMES MADISON WYATT STONE, a
nulatto, about thirty-six years of age, was
hanged in the jail yard at Washington, d.
g., on the I'd, for the murder of his wife
n October, 1878; Robert Anderson, white.
md Charles Webster, colored, were hanged
It Louisville, KY, the former for wife MUIR
Ter and the latter for outraging child; and
Edward Tatro, another woman killer, was
hanged at Windsor, VT, all on the same day.
On March % a small raiding. party of
Apaehes captured and killed soldier of the
Ninth Cavalry who was carrying dispatches
rom Fort Craig to Captain Hooker's
battalion on the San Mateo Mountains.
They then attacked San Jose, q small
rillage about seventeen miles from the Rio |
irande. Two soldiers Of the Ninth Cav
Try and several Mexioans came ont and
ought them, driving them off, one soldier
md one Mexican being killed in the fight.
THE business portion of Bradford,
Pa, was destroyed by fire on the morning |
II the ID. The Academy Of Music and sew
,ral hotels were among the buildings |
burned. James Williamson, of Dunkirk,
\. V, burned to death. Loss about $780, |
100; principally insured.
The President has nominated John |
r. McFie, of Randolph County, Supervisor
# the Census for the Eighth District of Hi |
,ois, and George S. Houghton, of Fremont