American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-27
Mississippi Items.

| Meridian has measles and menin.
gifts.
Oxford has a Christian Temper
ance Union.
Yazoo City is illuminated with
street lamps.
The State tax has been reduced
from 81 10 8 mills.
Three negroes are to be hung al
Macon or the I'd of April.
Gen. Writ Adams has been APP
pointed State Revenue Agent.
| Hon. Jefferson DAVIS is at his
Briarfield plantation, Warren coun-
ty.
An effort is being made in Vino
ma to build Presbyterian church.
Gen. Robert Lowry, OF Rankin, is
favorably mentioned for Governor.
The State Medical Association
will meet at Vicksburg on the 7th
of April.
Senator Lamar will deliver the
commencement address at MISSISSIPPI
pi College, (Clinton), in June.
Gen. Chalmers has purchased a
fine residence in Vicksburg, and
will make that city his home.
One night lately as p. Il. Bailey,
of Tallahatchie county, was return
ing from Oakland, he suddenly be
came totally blind.
Mississippi was the banner cotton
state last year, having raised one
hundred and seveuty-five thousand
bales more than Texas.
Yallobusl,a county has two court
houses, two sheriffs, and other Off
GERS too numerous to mentiOn-all
doing just as they please.
The new Code will go into effect
the first of November next, by
which time it will have been printed
and distributed throughout the
State.
Miss Jane Parks, of Tippah coun>
ty, committed suicide in the State
Lunatic Asylum few days since
by hanging herself with strip OF
sheet.
Lincoln county is eighteen or
twenty thousand dollars in debit
Rigid examination of the records of
the county officials, for several
years back, is being made.
The Friars Point Gazette says
Gov. Alcorn's store and stock of
goods at Jamestown, were burned
on the 10Th inst. Loss, between
RIO 600 and 415 OOO.
A Washington correspondent who |
signs himself "a colOred Repubii>
,an," is writing up in the Vicksburg
Commercial Gen. Chalmers re-elec-
ton to Congress from the "shoe
string district.
Newton Report: The distress in
and around Lawrence is terrible.
The number of deaths from menin>
,itIs has been equal to if not great
II than during The terrible yellow
ever epidemic of 1873. Mr.. Morgan,
Who lives about two miles from
has lost within the past
en- days four children,
Kemper Herald: Several fami-
les Of negroes who went to Kansas
rom Sumpter county, Alabama, re-
urned home by way Of This place
asst week. They did not unpack
heir chattels in Kansas, declaring
ha. it was impossible for negro to
We in that country.
On Tuesday night, 9th inst, some ,
lie assassin entered the room of
OI. John M. MoOre's cook, at Oak. d
md, and almost severed her head !
ON her body with AN axe. The
oman lived four hours. Easter
eigh was arrested OIL suspicion. !.
Summit Times: We have a phe- -
omenal brood of chickens in our n
ard. Some time in December last q
Q had the brood Plymouth Rocks a
ken from the nest; in three weeks ~
ey were weaned and turned out a,
their own hook by the mother, ,,
ID in the last week one of the pull
to has laid three eggs. The brood, r
insisting Of three pullets and one
ok. are about the size or larger
an ordinary barn-yaId fowls at b
s
Meridian Mercury: Mrs Gilmer u
Is at DrKalb last week. but like nj
modest lady, was scarcely seen or ii
ard of. She does not appear to G.
" into the hands of the bloody vi
Yters who are so determined to b,
Ike political capital ont of the W
lnpes tragedy. She behaves like Y.
adv wEu has heart to feel her Cl
ongs, but is incapable of making to
itical merchandise OF her sor- CT
ss. Her grief is sacred i'll the Sc
IS of AL reiiueu pcoLle. II