American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PRESIDENT HAYES has approved the
order dismissing Major Reno.
In the House of Commons, the other
day, Sir Stafford Northcote denied that the
Government had been dilatory in its efforts
to prevent famine in Ireland. He detailed
the relief measures taken, and expressed
confidence that they would be found suf-
ficient.
PARNELL and Dillon Zone or both)
will speak in Dubuque and Clinton, Iowa,
February 2s; Des Moines, march,; Peoria
and Bloomington, ILL.,, March .; Springfield
and Joliet, March B.; St. Louis, March 4.
Further Western appointments will be
made later.
BREvEr MAJoR-GENERAL SYKES,
Colonel Twentieth U. S. Infantry, for some
years past commanding the District of the
Rio Grande, died recently at Brownsville,
Texas.
Mr.. F. E. FOWLER has resigned his
position as General Passenger Agent of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad and is succeeded
by Mr.. C. C. Cobb.
CAPT. ASHLEY BROWN, Cashier of
the Internal Revenue Office at Dayton, o.,
is q detaulter to the amount of $40, 900 or
over, and has fed the country.
GEN. SHERMAN announces through
the Associated Press that no proceedings for
SANDER have been commenced against him
by Gen. Boynton, either in civil or mill
tary court.
THE Iowa House of Representatives,
by a vote of 81 to 81, has adopted resolu-
ton for submitting constitutional amend
ment to the people making women eligible
to the Legislature.
THE House Committee on Military
Affairs have agreed to report favorably to
the House Representative Frost's bill do
mating four bronze and eight iron cannon for
the proposed statue at St. Louis of General
Francis p. Blair.
GEN. JOHN BRIsBIN, formerly men,
Der of Congress from the Luzerne District
Pennsylvania, is dead. He was an extensive
coal operator and left a large fortune, over
$3.50, 900 of which is to be distributed among
various charitable institutions.
JAS. w. CLAYTON, for IA years Clerk
in the House of Representatives, and for two
years past occupying the same position in
the United States Senate, died at Baltimore
on the Sth.
The President has nominated George
Baldry for Register of the Land-offi at
new OTleans, w III. VI. DuGNcli, htctlNeT Oh
Public Moneys, New Orleans; Charles G.
Belknap, Indian Agent, Tule River Agency
California; VIM. Whiting, Illinois, Indian
Agent at Ponca Agency, Indian Territory.
PRESIDENT HAYES has, with the APP
proval of the Cabinet, directed that Major
Reno, recently urtmartialed and SEN
fenced to dismissal, be permitted to resign
his commission in the Army.
ANDREW SMITH, for II years Treas
urer of the town of North Andover, Mass.
is in Jail, having confessed to misappropri-
ating funds. The amount of the defalcation
is not known. Smith was also Postmaster
of the town since the second administration
of President Lincoln, and has filed various
important trusts.
f. II. MASON, who has been nomi
mated by President Hayes as Consul to Basic
Switzerland, has for II years past been man.
aging editor of the Cleveland Leader.
GEN. GRANT and party sailed from
Havana for Vera Cruz on the 18th.
S. S. BRUMMETT, editor of the Enter.
prise, was shot and fatally wounded by q
w. Carlton, editor of the Telegraph, at Hol'
lister, Cal, on the 18th.
GOVERNOR CORNELL of New York
has signed the bill permitting women t.
vote for school officers.