American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

the tight. Great excitement prevailed
amms<he Mexicans on account OF the AFFAIR
and furthe> trouble was apprehended.
Two little girls. children of Police
man Calbeals, of South Bond, Ind, were
playing on the bank OF the river when they
fell in and both were drowned.
A GANG of malefactors who attempted
to wreck atrain on the Andalusian Railroad
in Spain have been sentenced, thirteen to
death and thirteen to life imprisonment.
Hon. WM. MCKEE Fox, prominent
citizen and politician of Pulaski County,
Ky, was drowned on the night of the 10th
by accidentally falling from a skiff in which
he was crossing the river.
A PARTY of seven Mexicans recently
crossed the Rio Grande, visited Bishops
store in Starr County, Tex, murdered
Bishop and brutally assaulted ,hiS wife and
serrsnt.yirl Tbex then plundred the store
and recrossed into Mexico. Gen. Canales
succeeded in arresting five of the villains,
who will be turned over to the Texas au-
thorities for trial and punishment.
HENRY A. RICH, Postmaster at Fort
Ouchita, Chickasaw Nation, was waylaid
and shot the other night by horse thieves.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A SERIOUS rupture has occurred be-
tween Bulgaria and Roumania, and the rep
resentatives of each Of these Governments
have been recalled from the court Of the
other.
FIVE "experts - in penmanship have
testified in the case of the colored cadet
Whitaker, at West Point, that the note OF
warning received by him a few days before
the alleged outrage was committed, was,
i'm their opinion, written by Whitaker him
self, and one of them testified that the note
in question was written on . half-sheet Of
paper torn from a sheet upon which Whit
taker had commenced . letter to his
mother.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th says
that SO great is the rush Of emigration to
America that the steamship companies can
not nearly supply the demand for accommo-
dations, and those companies that have old
tickets in advance are compelled to return
money to emigrants awaiting their turn.
Twenty-six passenger steamers were dis
patched from Queenstown in . single week.
THE Pope is said to be seriously un-
we'll, and his medical advisers say that,
should he remain in Rome during the sum-
mer, he will do so at very serious risk. His
ecclesiastical advisers, however, insist that
in the interests of the Church he ought to
stay in Rome.
o.,, ~.
Persia, where the famine chiefly prevails,
writes: ssGrain is selling at eleven times
,ne oruiaaiy ,. - ,.,,,a,,, -,
scanty roots. Robberies are becoming alarm
;nglv frem,ent. Reports from Kurdistan re-
ceived from be,pers among Mountain Nesto-
Rams are equally distressing. From this
city (Oroomah) to Tigris the famine is alike
severe. May the Lord have mercy on the
land"
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$o0''
"A FIGHT occurreu AZ Nion'rea'' On Inc
iotn' ue'"een .r .,, =; u
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se'erai oi'"n' "o.o
A NUMBER OF valuable Duiidlngs at
Scranton, Pa, have been ruined by the cav
ing in OF the ground upon whicn tney are
Dull. a iarge uis',io. vi '.e cry 70 on.irey
honeyeompeo py Mines' anu tne lnn"o,'..n's
tnereoi are cA'ioAAoi' "Pp'o"0s''' Vi Lux
tner oes'ructioh'
The new Parliament assembled on
the Goth. The Queens speech made sympa-
thetic allusion to the distress in Ireland, and
was hopeful for the future. Measures for
the amelioration Of the condition Of tenant
farmers are promised.
THE Roman Catholics of Germany
are agitating for a modification of the Ec-
clesiastical laws, and for q law which will
make Ministers responsible for their acts to
the Reiehstag. AT "a meeting neid IN west
phalia 2O,O0O people were present, ana reso-
buttons approving tne action Oh the oitra-
montana party In the heiscnstag were passed.
WITHOUT oisseh'-
1T Is rePorteo that the Anoiahs are
raiding the San fedro Naiiey' arizona
NUMBER OF settiers nave oeeh hileo anu
many are neeing 10 tucson.
FORTY buildings in COuderSpOrt, Pot
ter County, Pa, comprising the chief bust
ness portion of the town, were DESTROYED by
nre on the Iosn. LOSS prooaoiy s2"V'oVo'
Insurance. @'o'oVo'
LIE long eAPec'eu Aianian-Courthey
boat-race came off on the Potomac at Wash
lngton on the lsth, puI proved an uhlnter-
estlng aHair, Courtney virtually abandoning
the contest before he had reached the hrst
flag, marking one-eightn OF mile from the
starting place. Courtney's friends say that
ne was III ~ Io ... ~. a.9 ~ unuoi-
IAN. sne >, ,.o,.arS - ,,'t,,;a $50
" HTNS:u
Tenn.' was unVellea win appropriate cere-
,non's' on WY 49, .,o p a;,s VI
la 30 eo"'"u'o "a P0oP'o' ' anu