American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-11-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


and valleys OF Northern Peru, levying coz
tributions right and left. The people seem
| to be panic-stricken, and are fleeing to the
interior towns. -. -.
THE town of Newport, Ark; was al
most wiped out by fire on the night of the
18th. Two-thirds Of all the houses are in
ashes and some 200 families were rendered
homeless and many are In great distress.
TBORNHILL and Fields, horse-thieves,
were taken from the Sabine Parish Ga
Jail by party of armed men and rIddled
with bullets.
COMPTROLLER LAWRENCE, OF the
Treasury Department, has ruled that the
Government is not responsible for injury
done by one of its agents. The application
for justice was the owner of horse which
was fatally maltreated by a messenger.
Two. young mep, well ARMED. and
mounted, entered upon the career Of high
waymen near DalIas,s Tex, the. otber-da1
They were tolerably successful for the great
er part Of day, aud secured considerable
booty from the numerous passers-by on the
Denton road. Toward night, however, the
Sheriff organized a posse and came down
upon the youthful Jack Sheppards, at which
they broke and run, and, refusing to halt at
the Sheriff's command, they were literally
punctured with buckshot. One Of them,
Otis Comfy, fell from his horse, dead; the
other escaped, but was thought to be wound
ed, and could hardly avoid ultimate cap
ture.
The prospectus of the Panama Canal
Company has been issued in Paris. The
capital stock is fixed at 3Oo, 900 200 francs
and the total cost Of the work is estima' ed
at 600,00 600 francs, the difference to be
raised by the issue of bonds.
THE Chicago Tribune has correspond
ence, apparently reliable, from Wood Noun
tain, on the Northwestern border, IN which
it is stated that Sitting Bull has announced
his determination never to surrender to the
United States authorities, and to fight them
to the death; also that Gen. Miles has organ
lied such a campaign against them that the
Sioux will doubtless be captured this win
ter.
THE following statement of the con-
dition of the corn, tobacco and potato crops
has been issued by the Department of Agri-
culture: Corn-The corn crop shows no in
crease over that of last year, but q rather
slight decline for the whole country. The
Atlantic States all show an increase, par
ticularly the States of New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The Gulf
States suffered from drought in the
spring and too much rain dur
ing the summer, except the State Of
Texas, which almost doubles her product
In States north of the Ohio River, Ohio and
Michigan increased their yield, while In
diana and Illinois decreased; west Of the
Mississippi River, Iowa alone increased her
yield; on the Pacific slope California shows
an increase. Tobacco-There was less land
planted in tobacco this year than Last. The
decrease was principally in the States of
Maryland and Virginia. In Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and Wisconsin there was a decided in
crease. Early in the season weather
not propitious, but In August and
September 1t was very favorable. The
-s-ernso yield Per as reported Novcm-
Der 1, Is TAO pounds, against 975 last year.
Potatoes-The area planted in potatoes was,
this year. about equal to that planted in 1879,
but In total crop there is quite decline.
The yield per acre is reported this year at an
average Of ninety zone bushels, against nine
ty-eight in 1879, and 50 in 1878 Only three
States, Texas, Arkansas and California, re-
port an increase in yield. All others report
q decline, more or less. Insect injuries are
not OF general complaint, but drought is al
most universally mentioned.
JAMES b. FERGUSON, q well-to-do
farmer residing near Bedford, Ind, hanged
himself on account of his daughter having
been betrayed by young man named kerne.
DANIEL TROUTMAN,a weu-to-do farm
er Of Dauphin County, Pa, was shot and
killed by one Of two burglars who had ef-
fected an entrance to his house and de-
manded his money at the muzzle of re-
volver. Troutman, under pretense Of get
ting the money, secured double barreled
shotgun, with which he fired at one OF
them, but missed him. The other at the
same time fire at Troutman, hitting him
In the breast and inflicting q mortal
wound. The robbers then fed. Troutman,
before he died, identified the man who shot
him rs Henry Rumberger, q man of not very
good character, employed on a neighboring
estate Of which Troutman was the executor.
was arrested. He denies the
crime, but the neighbors generally believe
him guilty.
A SPECIAL train on the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad, conveying four COM
panies of the Sixteenth U. S. Infantry, en-
route from Fort Riley, X ans, to San Anto-
MO, was thrown from the track near Corsi-
cana, on the 18th. Privates Matthew Smith,
Ed. Lewis and James Riley were killed; eight
others were injured, two at least fatally. !
THREE masked men entered the resi- /,
ience Of William Melton, eight miles west of I
Meadyille, Penn, the other night, and while |
one held q revolver at Melton's head the |
others bound and gagged him and his sister, |
who Is his housekeeper. The burglars thon !
searched the house and carried away over |
200 and gold watch.
THE entire family of Daniel Burr,
Waterman in a Cleveland rail mill, were
lsphy xiated with gas from a coal stove on the
night Of the 10th. When Burr returned |
home in the morning from his work
BE found the house tightly closed,
md forcing an entrance through
window he discovered his wife and three !
children and two other young women, friends
If the family, all lying in an unconscious
while q strong odor of coal gas
,ervaded the house. Prompt efforts at re-
were effectual in saving the lives
II all but one Of the number.
MAMMOTH CITY, Cal, 60 miles from
Bodie, has been almost destroyed by fire.
AT Logan, o., Carmi Call emptied a
package containing seven pounds of blasting |
powder into q flour sack. His wife held the
'ack. He carelessly threw the wrapping
paper that had contained the powder into
he stove. The remnant Of powder adher
ng to the paper caused flash which ignited
he entire mass contained i'm the sack. Mr..
Calls clothing was set on fire and she was
otherwise so badly injured that she died
within short time; Calls injuries were Sc
7ere, but not necessarily fatal. Three chill
1ren in another part of the room were not
injured in the least.
CHARLES s. FISHER, a prominent