American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-11-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
SossisAsa hom Various Sources
.nnmAhA AND POLITICAL.

nXpL ana OHciAA TctuI rs II oln tuO Wv
&seslt6ain Indiana show the total vote
toNs4JR5ss, of which Porter received 231,-
Ao5..and. Ladders 90, 452; Porter's plurality.
6ly5s. Hawn, for State Secretary, 2so,553;
SyDUip,. -, 619; Hawn's plurality, 5,1s4.
Grf9g, Greenback candidate for Governor,
rScslSed z4sss1 votes.
zuuxAI from Richmond, Va, to
tlae. lueuis Globe Democrat, 9Th, says
tN6S - Republican National Com
ninev11iy sent properly accredited agents
To- thai State, urging Republican voters to
~ ~ the Readjuster National ticket and
mo yheir Congressional ticket in all districts
except Norfolk and Petersburg, where the
Republican candidates are thought to have
chance OF being elected.
SARAH BERNHAEDr, the famous
French actress, has arrived in New YORK.
zE. ID. MANSFIELD, q veteran newspa-
Der writer, died at his home near Morrow,
o., on the 9th.
BISHOP d. S. DAGGETT, of the M T.
Church, died at Richmond, Va, on the 9th.
The official canvass of the vote in
Ohio at the October election gives Mcllvaine
(Rep.) for Judge Of Supreme Court, 364, o4o;
Foilett (Dem.) }, 0,s9s; Landon (Greenb.),
$3.50; Ross Prohib-), ass Total vote
714,.6O. Republican plurality, 23,o48.
Townsend's majority over Lang for Secre-
tary Of State was 1905.
APoRrLAND(Me.) dispatch of the 2sth
said that Neal Dow, Prohibition candidate
for President, had publicly announced his
intention Of supporting Garfield for Presi-
dent
Mrs. LINCOLN, widow of the late
President Lincoln, who has Just returned
from abroad, on the 18th was lying danger
fously III In New York City.
THE examination of Kenward Philip,
Of the New York Truth, charged with hav-
ing published q criminal libel on James A.
Garfield, said alleged libel being the cele-
brated Morey letter in reference to the
Chinese, was held before Judge Noah
Davis, of the New York Supreme
Court Mr.. Hart, proprietor OF the
Truth, produced the original of the alleged
letter written by Garfield from which the
printed copies were photographed. Several
so called experts" called by the prosecu-
ton, testified that in their Judgment the let
ter was not in Garfield's handwriting, and
one witness gave his opinion that it was in
Philips, The envelope having been placed in
the hands Of microscopes for examination,
two Of them testified that it bore evidence Of
A number Of gentlemen connected with the
Brooklyn Eagle, upon which Philip had been
engaged for several years, testified that In
their opinion the lefterin question was NOT
I'm MS handwriting. The examination was
stfIf in pregrrss on the 1st-
scOsrMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
or October % the arrivals of grain al
NeW York were the largest ever received al
that port, amounting to 1,60O,o0 bushels,
including 81 900 bushels Of wheat and Ts2,
ioO0 bushels of corn.
: GRIMES, AND CASUALTIES.
: ALBEIT TALBOT, a SON of the Late
/, DE. p. II. Talbot, Of Marysville, Mo-, has
!. been arrested, charged with the murder Of
his father, who was shot and killed by an I'M
Known assassin while sitting in his own
house On the night OF Sept 16. Mrs. Tai
= bott, wife Of the murdered man, Ed. Talbot
, another sen, and hired man named Wyett
= have. beenzs arrested as accomplices.
d, detective, in the disguise of farm laborer
: vorking upon an adjacent farm, became In
innate with the Talbot boys, and
claims TO have secured indubitablt
prose > . that ;. Dr.. Talbot was assas.
siuhted By members of his own family
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,.sS.s - a., ,,,,,,,s.s sa,,er., d,,s nrev;
- - -. sss.ss,n.t;o,, He s,v. that I'd
Talbot stood outside and did the shooting
while Albert sat by the window near hi;
father and pulled the curtain asid'
th., ~. brotber could get goo,
-, q, ~. oId man wyett,s stor-
s-~,,arvv,-.1 NV the evidence of The Il detective
Pr,chton vbo worked nm the case. who ties
tified that the brothers confessed to him tina
thew committed the crime, and also that the,
hired him to murder Wyett, the hired man
ON account Of his knowledge of their guilt
The Talbott boys, on the other hand
charge that Wyett killed their father, and
protest their own innocence. All thre
were held for trial without bond, while Mrs.
Talbot, as an accessory, was held in 81 ,00(
bail.
AT West Albany, wabash County
MIMI, Robert Love shot and instantly kille'
his wife and infant child, and afterward
blew his own brains out. Domestic troubl
was the cause Of the tragedy.
MICHAEL O'HEARN, q man of con
siderable wealth, who resided at Pittsfeld
Mass. stabbed his wife to death and the
committed suicide. O'Hearn and his wifi
lived unhappily Hewas addicted to drink
ana when under its influence he was cx
ccedfngly cruel and brutal.
CHARIxs THROOp and Henry Mum
,.,.4.-~ :, WORT ,,nop the publ;c Iibr,r
prua,rg ~ (.,ncipnati- on the ostb. NV m
hrs,Liny N = book that sustained their scaf
folding were precipitated TO the pavement
a distance Of 50 feet, and both were instantI
killed.