American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


nominated for Congress by the Republican
of the Second Missouri District est. Louis)
Mr.. Rosenblatt is at present City Collector
TROUBLE is said to be brewing be
tween the Mexicans and Americans at Quay
mas, the Mexican terminus of the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
Miss SADIE WHITE, aged 10, daugh
ter of Hugh l.. White, prominent citizel
of Richmond, KY, was found dead in BET
on the morning of the 22d, with her throa
cut from ear to ear. Temporary insanity il
attributed as the cause. The girl was gen
orally conceded to be the belle of the blu,
grass region Of Kentucky.
GEN. GARFIELD attended the reunion
of the Army of the Cumberland at Toledo
on the 22d, and made a speech of some
length. Letters were read from Gen. Grant
| and Gen. Hancock regretting their inability
to be present.
THE one hundredth anniversary of the
capture of Major Andre was celebrated with
great ceremony at Tarrytown. n. Y, on the
23d. Samuel ]. Tilden presided at the meet
/ ing and made the opening address, followed
by Chauncey NJ. Depew, the orator of the
day.
MAJOR NELSON, the defaulting Army
Paymaster, has been arrested at Kansas City
ead taken to Fort Leavenworth. He will be
tried by court martial. His deficit is not so
great at first reported, and his bondsmen
are said to be good for the entire amount.
II is currently reported the Gar has
contracted a second marriage with the Prin-
cess Dolgorouki, with whom he has for years,
according to rumor, sustained intimate re-
lations, and who is the mother of five of his
children.
MAJOR MORROW, of the Ninth Cav
airy, who has passed the last eighteen
months in the saddle in the mountains of
New Mexico and Arizona, fighting Indians,
has been ordered to proceed to Paris to wit
ness the autumn maneuvers of the French
Army, and on his return will be given a
place on Gen. Sheridan's staff.
IT seems that Miss Chase, the young
lady whose recent marriage to a colored man
at Galesburg, ILL.,, caused great a sensa-
ton, has been partially demented for several
years. She has now been legally declared
insane, and conservator has been appointed
for her by Wisconsin Court, at the motion
of her friends.
The steamer Florence Meyer, from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, while attempt
ing to land at Bullitt's Bayou, few miles
above Natchez, on the oath, picked up a
snag, which struck her amidships, and she
sunk in a very few minutes to her hurricane
roof. One passenger, two Of the crew and
two roustabouts were drowned.
ALFRED SMITH, correspondent of the
California Associated Press at Sierra City,
was recently murdered, and his body depos-
tied in a house which was fired. Thos. De-
vine, his next neighbor, with whom deceased
had long standing lawsuit over land title,
was arrested for the crime. The deceased
was native Of Herkimer County, New York.
The boiler of Charles Loose & Sons
fruit-drying factory, at Monroe, Mich, ex-
ploded on the oath, demolishing the factory
and burying In the ruins sixteen women and
eleven men and boys. All but two, Henry
O'Brien, the engineer, and Leonard Mar
tin, boy, were taken out alive, but several
were severely injured, one or two it was
thought fatally.
A COLLISION occurred between a pas
senger and a freight train on the vandalia
Road at Harrington Station, about nine miles
west of Terre Haute, Ind, on the morning
of the oath, causing the death of two men,
Oscar Rankin, engineer, and William Saun-
ders, fireman Of the passenger train. Three
postal clerks were injured, one quite Sc
A SEVERE shock of earthquake occur
red Mt Valparaiso on August 10, causing
damage. 1t was reported that
the town of Illapel, In the interior, had been
destroyed by the shock and 200 lives lost.
THE natives on the Island of Domini-
ca, one Of the Marquesas Group, rose against
the French and would have massacred all
the white inhabitants but for the timely ap-
pearance of French gunboat. Several
whites and number of natives were killed
during the melee.
THE bodies of the men who persisted
by the caving in of the Rudson River Tun-
mel at Jersey City several weeks ago have
finally been reached.