American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

THERE were thirty deaths from yellow
| fever In Havana, Cuba, for the week ending
June Is.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are raging
In the vicinity of st. Johns, New Brunswick.
Many villages are threatened.
WILLIAM RALsToN and three others
were arrested at Ell Dorado, Kans. on the
23d, for counterfeiting. A search Of Rail
ston's house disclosed chest full of TOOLS
including dies, furnace, acids, block tin and
other apparatus for this kind of work.
IT is reported that the Conference at
Berlin is at loggerheads; that Austria and
Russia are now unwilling to go as far as
France and England desire, for fear of re-
opening the whole Eastern question. 1t is
reported that Italy theoretically protests
against the extension of Austria's right of
control in the Adriatic, and that the pro-
jected settlement of the Montenegro diff
Guilty by the cession of Dulcigno is likely to
fall through.
An imperial Russian ukase fixes the
number of men to be enrolled In 1880 for the
completion Of the army at 235, 900.
NEWS from Cabul confirms the reports
of general rising in Central Asia.
JAMES 7. HARRIS, late President of
the Bank of Commerce at Georgetown,
Texas, is under arrest for alleged swindling
through the mails. Harris circulated printed
circulars throughout the country represent
ing that the people of Williamson County
were in great distress on account of total
loss of crops, ETC., and raised a large amount
of money in this way. His scheme was
worked principally in the North, East and
West, the South being avoided. Banks were
victimized from Maine to California, his po-
sition giving him unusual facilities for car
rying on a scheme of this character. The
arrest was made by a special agent of the
Post-office Department. Harris was taken
to Austin and locked up.
The Secretary of War has suspended
the recommendation of the West Point
Board that Whitaker be dropped on account
Of deficiency in his studies. This will give
him an opportunity of demanding court
martial in his case il he desires TO vindicate
himself. II he should be dismissed now he
would have no chance of being further
heard.
GEN. SHERMAN will soon pay a visit
to Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg in order to
consider the Indian question in that country
and look into the condition of Sitting BULBS
Indians, both those who have surrendered
and those who are yet in the British Possess
sions.
THE village of Tarport, just north of
Bradford, Pa, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 25th. Thirty-one
were burned, valued at SD, 900.
THE large paper-mill of the Woods
dale Paper Company, six miles north of
o., was burned on the night of
the oath. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $35 900.
Sixty employees are thrown out of work.
The Mansion House Relief Commit
tee of Dublin state that their fund is only
large enough to afford three weeks supply,
and that it is only to charitable organiza-
tions that the people can look to be saved
from starvation for the next few months.
BRADLAUGH appeared at the Bar of
the House of Commons and insisted on his
right to take his seat. Sir Stafford North
cote objected, whereupon Labouchere, who |
represents Nottingham, the seat from which
also has been elected, moved that !
he be permitted to address the House, which |
he accordingly did at some length. Brad |
laugh then refused to leave the House, and
was taken in custody by the Sergeant-at-
Arms.