American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-27
NEWS IN BRIEF,
COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
!; The President has nominated Jacob Ken.
.drick Upton, of New Hampshire, Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury; Arthur Edwards
of Michigan, Agent for Indians, at the Omahs
and Winnebago Agency, Nebraska; Edward
II. Bowman, Illinois, Agent at the Pawnee
Agency, Indian Territory.
The President has demanded the resigna.
ton of Minister Seward, of China, on &C.
count of recent developments by the House
Committee.
The Missouri Democratic State Conven-
ton, to select delegates to the National Con-
vention, will be held on May Goth, at
Moberly.
A special from Rome says that the Pope
has approved and named Rt. Rev. Michael
Ieiss, now Bishop of La Crosse, Wis.,, as
Coadjutor, with the right of succeeding, to
the Archbishop of Milwaukee, and approved
and named Rev. John A. Watterson, Presi-
dent of Mt. st. Mary's College, Emmetts-
burg, Md, to be Bishop of Columbus, Ohio.
Dennis Kearney has been sentenced by a
San Francisco police magistrate to six
| months Imprisonment in the House Of Cor
rcction and to pay a fine of 81 900. He gave
bonds and appealed to the Superior Court.
The President has renominated William
| X. Brown for Census Supervisor in the
Eighth Illinois District. Mr.. Brown was
previously rejected by the Senate on account
of political considerations.
| The President has confirmed the sentence
passed upon Major Reno Of dismissal from
the Army.
| The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Electionss by a strict party vote, decided to
report in favor Of unseating Kellogg and adj
hitting Spofford.
The Louisiana Republican State Con-
vention will meet at New Orleans on May
"a next.
The Michigan State Greenback Convention
met at Detroit on the 18th and elected dele
gates to the National Convention.
The Illinois State Democratic Convention,
to select delegates to the National Conven-
ton, will be held at Springfield, June 10.
The Rhode Island Republicans have NOM
mated Alfred IL. Littlefield for Governor and
Henry II. Taylor for Lieutenant Governor.
The Maine Legislative Committee eap-i
pointed to inquire into the conduct of Ex-.
Gov. Garcelon and Council have made re-
port. The committee charge that the re-
turns were fraudulently doctored, for the
purpose of counting out Republicans and
thereby securing n Fusion Governor and
Legislature, and declare that the Governor
and Council must have been parties to
this alleged premeditated fraud. Various
appropriations, it is averred, have been di-
verted from their legitimate purposes, and
public funds drawn from the Treasury with
out warrant of law. A large sum of money
belonging to the State remains in the hands
of Gov. Garcelon and other officials of last
year, it is claimed, which should be recov-
cred back into the Treasury.
Ex-senator Christiancy, of Michigan, now
Minister to Peru, has begun proceedings for
divorce in Washington against his youthful
wife, whom he charges with various in
discretions. Mrs. Christiancy, it is
said, will begin counter-proceedings,
her grounds being i'll treatment, even to per-
sonal castigation, by her aged partner. The
venerable Michigan Senator's marriage to the
pretty Treasury clerk created quite social
sensation at the National Capital, and the
proceedings for divorce are likely to furnish
the gossips with still more palatable NOR
sci for their wagging tongues.
The House Committee on Elections will
report in the Donnelly Washburn (Minne-
sOta) case, unseating Washburn, Republic
can, and giving the seat to Donnelly, Demo-
cratic, National and Workingmen's can
didate. The subcommittee report cites
a large number of cases in which bribery
was traced directly to Washburn or his i'm
mediate agents, also alleges intimidation,
fraud, etc. There will be a minority report,
signed by all the Republican members Of the
Committee.
Gen. Charles Adams, of Colorado, who
conducted the negotiations for the surrender
Of ha 70 hae inf
Minister to Bolivia. Bret Harte has been
appointed United States Consul at Glasgow.
Gen. j. HI. Simpson, for many years sta
toned at st. Louis in charge of river i'm
provements, has been retired from service at
his own request, and will be succeeded by |
Capt. Ernst, of the Engineer Corps. Gen.
Simpson graduated at West Point in 1918, |
and has been in constant service for forty
eight years.
The Illinois State Greenback- Labor Con- |
vention will be held at Springfield, April 81, |
to select delegates to the Chicago Conven-
ton.
Two young children of colored man |
named James Alexander, living in Godfrey |
Madison County, ILL.,, were ere
mated in burning house in which they had |
been locked up during the absence of their |
parents, on the 18th.
II II u
phis, together with four negroes, were
drowned ut Walnut Bend, Ark, by the cap
sizing of a skiff, on the 18th.
A duel was fought in Brunswick County,
Va, on the 10Th, between r. A. Raney, a
young lawyer, and Richard Jolly, a "drum-
mer." The latter was wounded in the right
arm. second fire was about being had,
when the whole party were captured by the
Sheriff. The affair originated in discussion
about State politics.
VIM. b. Pierson was hanged at Geneseo,
N. Y, on the 10Th, for the murder Of l.. b.
by poison, in January, 1877. The
victims wife, whom Pierson subsequently
married, was tried as accessory to the crime,
but was acquitted. ft.
Samuel II. Myers was hanged at Cleburne,
Tex, on the 18th, for the murder of Mrs. A.
Hester, in February, 1877.
The political debate on the General De-
iciency bill, which passed the House on the
10Th, was of considerable interest. The
amendment offered by Mr.. Garfield, provid
ing that Deputy Marshals shall be appointed
by Circuit or District Court Judges, i'm equal
numbers from each political party, was holly
opposed by Messrs. Reed of Maine, Will
iams of Wisconsin and other Re-
publicans, but finally passed by fifty
three majority, quite number
Of Republicans voting with Mr.. Garfield in
favor of his amendment. When the bill was
reported from the Committee of the Whole
70 the House, however, all the Republicans,
Garfield, refused to support
it, on the ground Of opposition to general
legislation in an appropriation bill. A
,ur,bor ~ Dem haa dad Inv Mr. RucE |