American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-13
NEWS SUMMARY,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

was the conStltutlOnallty OF the act OF the
West Virginia Legislature excluding coloreC
citizens from jury service in the courts OF
/ that State. The Court holds that when ;
colored citizen is tried for his life by a jury
from which the citizens of his own race are
, by State statute expressly excluded he is de.
MED the equal protection of law guaranteed
by the third. clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, and that
the State statute denying him such right is
repugnant to said constitutional provision
Judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals
of West Virginia is reversed. Justice Strong
delivered the opinion, Justices Field and
Clifford dissenting.
Rev. Edward Cowley, eX-manager of the
"Shepherd,s Fold" in New York City, con-
victed of cruelty to children, has been taken
10 the State Penitentiary. The reverend
convict was at one time Chaplain to that in
stitution.
| The President has Withdrawn the name of
p. B. S. Pinchback as Naval Officer at New
Orleans, thus leaving Lewis, incumbent, un-
disturbed.
Surgeon General William Maxwell Wood,
U. S. Navy, died at his residence near
Baltimore, Nd, on the LIST, aged seventy
two.
Gems. Grant and Sheridan, on the I'd, re-
viewed the troops stationed in the City of
Mexico. 1t was gala day in the Mexican
capital.
| j. W. Mackay has purchased from j. C.
Flood the latter's entire interest in the Com
stock mines and mills, valued at something
over s., $50 900.
The Kansas Democratic State Convention
will be held at Topeka, May 20.
| Count Litta, First Secretary of the italian
| Legation at Washington, is dead.
| Tha Nof INT a. ~
vention was held in St.. Louis on the 4th.
Ssme 21S delegates were present, represent
| ing 10 States. Judge Stephen D. Dill
laye, of New Jersey, was nominated
for President, and B. j. Chambers,
of Texas, for Vice-President. The
platform of March 4, 1879, was substantially
readopted. A Committee of Conference
with the Chicago National Greenbaek Con-
| vention was appointed, and an adjournment
of the Convention to Chicago ON June car
ried in the face Of considerable opposition.
The Senate, on the 4th, rejected the nomi-
nation Of Gen. Mcneil, of st. Louis, as
United States Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict OF Missouri. The vote stood seven
for confirmation and thirty-two for rejec-
ton.
James Russell Lowell has left Madrid for
London to assume his duties as Minister to
the Court of st. James.
Royal b. Conant, ex-Cashier Of the Elliott
National Bank, of Boston, convicted of en-
bezzlcment, has been sentenced to seven
years. Imprisonment,
The Tennessee Democratic State Conven-
ton has been called to meet at Nashville on
June 8, to select delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention.
A Berlin dispatch says that, with view
to affording Bismarck further relief from his
arduous duties, Count Won Stolberg Werni-
gerodc, Vice. President of the Council of
Ministers, will be appointed Prussian Pre-
mier.
Representative Aiken, of the Committee on
Agriculture, has introduced a bill making
the Department of Agriculture an executive
department, and its head a member of the
Cabinet. Representative Covert. Chairman
of the Committee, presented minority re-
port, signed by himself alone.
The Ohio Prohibitionists held a State Con-
ventiou at Columbus on the 9Th and placed
in nomination full ticket of State officers
and Presidential Electors at large.
Commodore Isaiah Hanscom- Chief Of the
Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the
NAVY Department. died on the 9Th,
The Senate Committee on ADMINISTRATIONS
increased the amount granted for the STAR,
mail service deficiency from ST. ,O7O. 900. as
granted by the House Committee. to ST .5OO.-
600. The Committee, by party vote,
adopted n resolution censurino the Post
office Department for creating a deficiency by
" disregardng the law which prohibits ex-
penditure of money in excess of appropria-
ton; which deficiency, unless supplie1s 4
threatens to deprive the people of the neces.
sary mail services to which thew are en-
titled.o
The House Committee on Appropriations |
have determined to press to passage the |
several appropriation bills In order as fol-
lows: Deficiencies i'm pay of Marshals,
Diplomatic and Consular, and Indian. The |
sub committees in charge of the remaining |
regular appropriation bills which have not |
vet been acted on by Congress have been no. |
titled that they shall proceed with the bills |
now under consideration and press them to
early completion.
The Senate Committee on APPROXIMATIONS
will recommend for passage the bill to re-
neaI all I,vvs which nrovide- FIR nerm,nent
and Indefinite ,nnronriations axcant 60 far
az thew relate tn the sinking fund and TO the
payment of interest or principal of the pub-
lie delt ar Of the hons1s asued. Tn the Pacific
Railroad Companies and to certain ether
specified objects. sucb as the s,,pport of the
Marine Uosnit.l serv;ce etc The hill ,,so
nronoses number of imnortant CHANCES in
the laws concerning ..1apsed approprfa--
tions.u
Tho p,rpe,I racent;on in St Jouis on tho
evenif,u ~ the An wac a grand af,air II
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