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

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now unknown.
The Special Committee on the Freed
mems Bank will report that the institution
was wrecked by the Encouragement of its
officers. The accompanying bill makes the
Comptroller of the Currency sole Commits
sioner to wind up the bank, and appro-
PIRATES $25O,000 for the purchase by the
Government of the bank building. The
bill also directs the Solicitor of the Treasury
to investigate the management of the bank,
and institute prosecutions if necessary.
1t is reported from Berlin that the Gov
eminent is celebrating plan for tobacco
monopoly.
A dangerous $40 United States Treasury
note has made its appearance in the West.
1t is of the series of 1875, letter C, and
printed on imitation fiber paper. The shad-
ing under the words "United States :" is
darker than in the genuine note, but the
general appearance of the bill is good.
The Ways and Means Committee, on the
18th, gave hearing to several New York
newspaper publishers, in regard to removing
the duty of twenty per cent. imposed on
wood pulp.
Judge McCrary in the United States Court
| at st. Louis has rendered an important de-
| cision in the suit brought by the United
States against the Missouri Pacific Railroad
for $135,OOO taxes, falling due between 1864
and 1871. He ruled that as no assessment
and demand had been made at the time or
| until 1877, when the property had passed in
to other hands, no lien could be established,
and his decision was in favor of the railroad.
The House Committee on Railways and
Canals have agreed to report favorably upon
Mr.. Upson's bill to authorize the Secretary
| Of War to contract with the San Antonio
and Mexican Border Railway Company for
the immediate construction of a railroad
from San Antonio to Laredo. The commit
tee amended the bill by limiting the bonds
to be issued to 900 per mile instead of
$15, 200, originally proposed.
1t is reported that the recent cold spell
killed the fruit and seriously injured the
cotton and corn throughout many parts of
the South.
The Kansas City Commercial Indicator
estimates the coming drive of Texas cattle
to number 29i 200, principally young cattle.
Of which about one third have been disposed
of In advance.
A telegram from Alexandria, Egypt, saws
that in consequence of tnfavorable weather
large quantity of cotton must be resown,
and the crop will be late.
The Southern Pacific Railroad was COM
pleted to Tucson, Arizona, on the 18th.
It is announced that the Central Branch
Railroad has been consolidated with the
Union Pacific, and will, on and after the LIT
of April, cease to be 4 division of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. The road will resume its old
name of the Central Branch Union Pacific,
and its main line will be extended at an
early day to a connection with the Union
Pacific Railway.
-Four train-loads of excursionists from
Chattanooga and other Southern points ar
rived at Cincinnati on the 18th, to celebrate
the opening of the Cincinnati Southern
Road. The eXcursionists were entertained
with most profuse Inequalities.
The Western nail-mills, by agreement,
have shut down all their works for a while
in order to prevent over-production.
The Agricultural Department estimates
the increase in the value of the crops raised
in 1879 over those Of the previous year at
SALE, 100000. The price of real estate has
been enhanced during the same time about
81 ,OO0, 900 200.
The House Committee on Revision of the
Laws will report Mr.. Singleton's bill, de-
claring telegraph messages exempt from
unreasonable search and seizure, and from
production as evidence in judicial and hgis-
lative proceedings, to the same extent
as communications sent by the United States
Mail.
The first through car to Port Royal, s. c..
over the Cincinnati Southern Railway, with
the Port Royal delegation from the great
railway celebration, arrived on the 21st, in
thirty-four hours from Cincinnati.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Charles c. Taylor, city editor of the Phila-
LII eJ,A h fksl.
while in state of mental alteration, and has |
since died.
George'H. Hammond, an actor of some re-
pute, committed suicide at Boston on the
18th. His stage name was George II. Hill
man.
The Denver Tribune has received in
considered reliable, of the massa-
ere of party of prospectors and miners, by
the Utes, in the Blue Mountains, in
Colorado, along about the
first of March. The names Of five of the
murdered men are given and there were
several others of the party.
party of about seventy-fivc disguised
men visited the Jail at Winchester, Scott
ILL.,, at an early hour on the MORN
ing of the 18th, and having obtained access
to the building by overpowering the Jailer,
went to the cell occupied by JosephJ. Fields
and riddled him with bullets. Fields had
shot and killed James Padgett few weeks
previous.
At Chicago, ON the 18th, Martin Power,
aged 46, shot and probably fatally wounded
his wife, Bridget, aged %, and then shot
himself, producing death almost instantly.
was the cause. They had only been
married five months.
At st. Louis, on the morning of the 18th,
Conrad Hiemann, while in 4 drunken craze,
stabbed his wife and two-year-old child, the
latter while in its mothers arms. The wife
was almost instantly killed; the babe was
probably fatally injured. John Hiemann,
brother of the murderer, also received a Sc
we're cut while trying to restrain the latter.
The murderer fed, but was arrested few
hours later, while wandering about in an ap-
Darently crazed condition.
At Aurora, ILL.,, OH the morning of the 18th,
Mrs. w. Baldwin was found dead in bed
with her jugular vein severed, and beside
her lay her unconscious husband with sew
,ral gashes in his throat, arms and abdomen.
His wounds are not serious. Baldwin came
rom Vermont, and they had been married
,nly three weeks. Cause of the tragedy I'M
Known.
Johannes Deboer, aged II, was hanged at
Pontiac, ILL.,, on the 18th, for the murder, in
October last, of Ella Martin, young girl of
bout the same age, under circumstances of
peculiar atrocity.
Homer Wellington, well known business
nan of Boston, of high social standing, is
lnder arrest, charged with poisoning his
wife and little boy, and also Of the minor
rhine of forgery. His wife will probably re-
over. The bOy died with every SYMPTOM of |