American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The South Carolina Democrats have

| The South Carolina Democrats have
nominated Gen. johnson Hagood for Gov
ernor and Gen. j. ID. Kennedy for Lieuten-
ant Governor.
BISMARCK, in an interview, said he
would have. resigned the Chanceliorship az
ter the late defeats but for the personal
desire of the Emperor, and that henceforth
he would leave parliamentary fighting to
others and devote himself entirely to the
foreign affairs of the empire.
ENGLAND and all the other Powers
have now received invitations to the Berlin
Conference.
THE Memphis Cotton Exchanges
crop report for May, from West Tennessee,
North Mississippi and North Arkansas,
shows an increased acreage averaging S.35
per cent: weather favorable; cotton stands
averaging fair; crop generally in fine condi-
ton; labor about the same as last year. The
corn crop is generally in good condition, but
wheat is partial failure.
The suspected fillibustering expedi-
ton to Cuba which left Montreal few days
ago was overhaulcd by the Canadian GUS
toms authorities, and the ship on which it
embarked brought back into port.
d. r. RADCLIFFE, Liberal member of
Parliament for Eyessham, has been unseated
for bribery.
GEN. BURNSIDE has been renomi-
mated United States Senator from Rhode
Island.
L. r. MORRIS, County Judge of Bay
lor County, Texas, was shot and killed in
the Court house in Seymour, Baylor County,
on the 18th, by w. C. Taylor, saloon keeper
in the town. The parties had quarreled a
few days previous. The murderer mounted
his horse and rode leisurely out Of town, no
attempt being made to arrest him.
THE report of the Senate select COM
mittee to investigate the removal of North
ern CHEYENNE Indians from the Sioux Res
ervation to the Indian Territory afiirms that
the Government is not living up to its obli-
cations with the Cheyennes, and that a
policy should be adopted which will show
these Indians that we will do them full
justice.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has tele
graphed the Mayor of every city in the United
States and Canada as follows: 81 regret to
say funds are still needed for the relief Of
distress in Ireland. In many districts the
pinch is now equal to any previous time.
Distress is much felt by farmers, who dread
Work house reliefs but can get nothing else
until their crops come in. While deeply
grateful for the generous contributions
already received, can not help asking fur
Their assistance for the Mansion House Fund
Committee during this trying period"
THE wholesale drug-house of Arthur
Peter & Co., at Louisville, KY, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the 9th.
Adjacent buildings and stocks were badly
damaged. Total loss about $50, 900, fully
insured.
THE President dominates John F.
Hartranft Collector of Customs, District of
Philadelphia; Virgil d. Stockbrfdge, Dis
trict of Columbia, Assistant Commissioner
of Patents; Robt. G. Dryenfurth, Illinois,
Examiner in Chief Patent-office.
In New York City, on the 10th, John
Gimpel, a German fresco painter, attempted
to kill his wife, leaving her for dead. He
then set fire to the house and cut his own
throat. Husband and wife had led a quar-
relsome life, and she had recently sued him
for abandonment. Her injuries were neces-
sarily fatal.
THREE masked men entered the
house of Allen Hoyle, wool buyer, at New
ton Falls, o., on tire night of the 9th, bound
and gagged the whole family and robbed the
safe Of 81 200.
THERE are rumors of civil war in the
Argentine Confederation, growing out of
the Presidential election.
A GALENA dispatch says that Gen.
Grant was in the office of friend when he
the news of Garfed's nomination
His only remark was-'It is all right; am
satisfied"
w. c.. ELAN, editor of the Richmond
(va.) Wing, was shot and badly wounded
IN duel by Col. Thomas Smith, son of ex-
Gov. Smith, on the 9Th. The duel resulted
from an article in the Wing rejecting Sc
verely upon the political course Of the ex-
Governor.
JOHN BRoUGHAM, the well known
died in New York on the It'll.
Hon. WIN. NJ. SPRINGER has been re-
nominated for Congress in the Twelfth ILL
nois District.
THE Georgia delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention are reported solid
for Field, except one for Bayard and one for
rilden.
GEN. GARFIELD had an enthusiastic
reception at various Ohio cities and towns
upon his return from the Chicago COnven-
ton.
THE first returns from the Oregon
State election, held on the 7th, indicate the !
election Of NJ. C. George, Republican, to
Congress, by about 800 majority. Legisla-
ture in doubt.
THE Mississippi Democratic State
held on the 9th, chose an I'M
instructed delegation to Cincinnati.
AFRICA, Peru, has been captured by |
The Chilians.
REV. S. w. FOLGER, Baptist preach
sr. hanged himself at Delphi, Ont.
. A TERRIBLE tornado swept through
he southeastern part of Pottawattamie
Iowa, on the night of the 9th, de-
every thing in its path and caus
ing the deaths of from fifteen to twenty peo-
ple A partial list of the killed at Wheeler's
Grove, where the greatest damage
was done, gives the following names:
Jesse Osber, wife and two children; VIM.
Pace, wife and his two children, and another
.hild fatally injured; Alexander Osier, wife
md child, carried in the air almost $50 feet,
md seriously injured, the child fatally; a
hired man employed by the latter, name I'M
Known, killed. Other persons six or eight
IN number were carried away and at last ac-
counts had not yet been found.
: The American Steel and Iron Asso-
ciation has collected and published the sta
tistics of the steel and iron industry in this
from which it appears that the in
crease in the production Of pig-iron during
1873 was nearly 100000 tons greater than
during the year previous-an increase quite
without precedent in recent years. The total
product in round numbers was 2,010, 900
tons as against 2,5117 900 tons in 1879. This
total is, however, but little more than 2OO,-