American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-04-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

horses and ponies. Twelve Indians escaped
i'm the dark. The Indians are thirty -four
days from Sitting BULBS camp, and claim
the white chief in Canada sent them across
the line to steal stock.
JAY GOULD is said to have leased the
Great Western Railway of Canada, guaran-
teeing the bondholders q certain rate of in
terest.
THE Mississippi Legislature has or
dered State census to be taken at the same
time and in the same manner as the United
States census.
THE Oregon delegation to the Cincin-
natl Convention is said to be solid for Tilden.
EZRA BECKER and William Schum,
firemen, were killed by falling wall at the
burning Of Thompson & Co.'s f1ouring-Inill
at Dixon, ILL.,, on the morning Of the Sth. A
number of other firemen were badly hurt.
The walls was thrown down by an explo-
sion.
GEN GRANT arrived in Mobile on the
9th, where he was received by delegation
from the Cotton Exchange, at whose invita-
ton he visited the city. There was no pub
lie demonstration.
GEN. HATCH has had another fight
with Indians, supposed to be Mescalero
II .
The Indians fled, ing behind their dead,
number not stated. Col. Hy. Carroll, Ninth
Cavalry, and seven soldiers were severely
wounded. The troops followed in pursuit.
ANOTHER Russian printing-office has
been seized and it's proprietor locked up. 1t
was at Smolensk.
The Chilians are reported to have
met with an overwhelming disaster while
attempting to surprise and capture the city
of Moquega. Their troops fell into an am
bush, and had some thirteen hundred killed
besides many wounded and captured.
The Irish associations in London viii
give Parnell grand reception.
The steamer Darii was sunk by q
collision on the river Danube. Sixteen per-
sons were drowned.
THERE was a snow storm, accom-
panied by cold weather, throughout North
ern Georgia, on the Sth.
A PRIVATE letter from Aleppo says
that in consequence of the famine 1000
Koords descended from the mountains,
plundered the town of Mardeen, Asiatic
Turkey, and murdered q number Of priests
and nuns and some European merchants.
THEEBAw, King of Burmah, is re-
ported to have died of smallpox at Man
dalay.
THE Mexican General Canales and
staff have been handsomely entertained In
San Antonio by General Ord and staff.
AMOS WOOTEN was hanged at Ben
nettsville, s. c., on the 9th, for the crime Of
arson.
SAMUEL ROBINSON, colored, was
hanged at Leesburg, Va, on the 9th, for the
murder of Edward Thomas. last October.
The Senate, by strict party vote,
rejected the nominations of Burton and
Lynch, both colored, for Census Supervisors
in Mississippi, on the ground they were pol
iticians and would be likely to use their Of
fetal position to aid their political prefer
ment.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer's crop re-
ports april 81 from Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky show an increased acreage of
wheat, and, with the exception of some To-
calities in Northern Ohio and Indiana, q
prospect for an unusually fine yield. The
fruit crop promises well in all sections.
HINsoN & CUNNING, q prominent
cotton commission house in New York, have
failed with large liabilities.
The centenary birthday of William
Ellery Claiming was commemorated on the
It'll by appropriate services, both in this
country and in England.
THE Connecticut delegation to the
Chicago Convention stands FIVE for Blaine,
four for Edmunds, and three for WASH
burne.
MAMIE FAHIE, aged Z, was fatally
burned at Cincinnati, on the morning of the
'th. Her mother had gone out early to
market, and during her absence the little
one got up and attempted to light the fire,
IN doing which she set fire to her clothing. |
When the mother returned she found her |
vrithing with pain, but still conscious,
.hough she died in about an hour after
ward.
ALPHEUs S. FooTE, one of the pro-
,rietors of POmerOy's Democrat, at La
Crosse, Wis.,, charged with an attempt to |
,urn the Democrat office, has been held for |
rial. He is also charged with forgery.
QUEEN VICTORIA will return from
Baden Baden about the 18th.
ALBERT SCHELL, late city editor of |
he Cleveland Anzeiger, committed suicide
IN the 9th by drowning himself in the lake,
previous to which he had cut his throat. He
vas dissipated and in pecuniary straits.
LOUIS KEENAN,, aged "a, night
Waterman at Her & Co.'s distillery, Omaha,
Seb., fell into large tub of scalding slop
md was found there in the morning literally
cooked to death.
INTELLIGENCE has been received from
Mexico, of a seveu-hours' fight
between herders of Gov. Trias's horses and
indians. Two Indians, one Of whom was
hief, also two Mexicans were killed.
Two gypsies, Timothy and Matilda
Nerton, charged in a New York Police
court with swindling Princeton
Ind.) mill -owner out Of over So, ZOO, were
to the Indiana officers. A re-
Iuisition also awaited the gypsies from Vir
,inia.
A NEGRO tramp boarded a train on
he Bee-Iine Railway at Sidney, O., on the
th, and having no money the conductor put
lin off at Hardin Station. As the train
tarted he got on the platform and fired
through the window, presumably at the
conductor, but the ball struck and killed a
passenger, Joseph NJ. Lehman, of Houston,
shelby County, o. The negro escaped.
AT Santa Fe, N. Mex, on the night
# the 9TH, VIM. Robinson, while intoxi-
ated, shot Policeman Sunday twice, knock
ng off two fingers. Sunday returned the
ire, killing Robinson instantly.
BIRMINGHAM, Pa, has struck a nine
y-barrel oil well, causing great excitement.
A NEGRO cabin twelve miles north of
Memphis burned on the night Of the 4th,
nd three young children who had been
ocked in by their parents while the latter
vent to church persisted in the flames. The
ire originated from coal oil lamp.
THE Gloucester fishing-schooner An
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