American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Mississippi Democratic State
Convention, held on the 9th, chose an un-
instructed delegation to Cincinnati.
A DISPATCH from Cheyenne, 31st,
says: Burlingame, who reported the Ute
depredations in North Park and the murder
Of Carr and Dow, his partner, by redskins,
has disappeared. He is suspected of the
murder, starting the story to conceal the
crime. Prospectors fail to discover a sign
or trail of Indians in North Park or vicinity.
FURTHER reports of the flood at
Bracket, Texas, are that about fourteen
inches of water fell in ten hours. The body
of Prof. Stadler, editor OF the Fit. Clark
Ne,cs, was found lodged in q tree eighteen
miles south of Bracket. 1t is hardly known
how many were drowned, though the num-
Der is placed at twenty-five.
Two aged widows, Maria Arvont and
Emily Ohilsey, living together by themselves
In a house near Avon, Conn, were found
murdered on the morning of the 3lst. The
motive Of the crime is not known, there
was no attempt made 10 rob the house, which
contained considerable silverware and other
valuables.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado swept over
the southern portion of Washington County,
Ind, on the night of the 31st. A number of
houses and other property were destroyed,
but fortunately no person was killed and
only one slightly injured.
GEN. RANDALL II. GIBSON has been
re-nominated for Congress in the First
Louisiana District.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomi
nation Of Horace Maynard as Postmaster
General; also, of Felix Coste as U. S. Mar
shal, Eastern District of Missouri.
THE weather in Ireland is unpre-
cedentedly favorable to the growing crops,
and an abundant harvest is expected.
THERE were ten deaths from yellow
fever and eighteen from smallpox in Ha-
vana during the week ending May 90.
THE French Chamber of Deput es are
about to amend the Election law so as to
voting.
WILSON, a condemned murderer,
committed suicide in the Jail at Upper San
dusky, O., on the ID, by taking poison. He
was to have been hanged on the 18th.
Col. j. c.. AUDENRIED, of Gen.
Sherman's staff, died in Washington OH the
Sd. He was buried at West Point.
A DUEL has been fought on the Bel
gian frontier between two Spaniards, the
Marquis Gil de divers and Count de Lardi.
The Count was killed. The Marquis killed
man in q duel last September.
IT is reported that the Navajoes and
Utes recently held a pow-wow In Rio ARA
ba County, Northwestern New Mexico, and
agreed to join forces to make war in common
against the whites. --.- =..~
JOHN G.. THOMPSON, JR., of Ohio,
son of the Sergeant at-Arms Of the National
House of Representatives, was shot and
seriously wounded in the abdomen at High
land Falls, n. Y, on the 4th, ~ Beaumont
Buck, of Texas. Both were candidates for
admission to West Point Military Academy
and were attending a preparatory school.
Buck had been made the victim of mild
form of hazing by the other students and
becoming enraged at some remarks, drew a
revolver and shot Thompson. Buck gave
himself up to Justice Avery and was COM
mitted to the county Jail to await the result
of Thompson's injuries. The bullet passed
through the latter's body.
JORDAN. Captain of the Canadian
Cricket Club, now playing in England, has
been arrested as a deserter from the British
Army. His real name is Tom Dale.
Mr.. S. N. d. NORTH, of the Utica
On. W Herald, has been appointed special
agent of the census for the collection of sta
thtics of the newspaper and publishing in
terests of the United States.
PRESIDENT HAYES has been elected
vice-President OF the American Bible So
ciety.
ST. LOUIS and the surrounding coun-
try upon both sides of the Mississippi were
swept by a hurricane on the 4th, causing a
good deal of damage to property. One man
was killed in st. Louis by falling walls and
several others were injured.
THE Ryan-Goss prize-fght finally
came of on the LIST at Golfers Station, West
Va. Eighty-six rounds were fought, when
Ryan was declared the winner.
THE President has nominated Robert
8. Gardner, of West Virginia, to be Indian
Inspector.
j. j. TEMPLER & Co., a prominen
grain firm of Kansas City, have failed. Lila
bilities not stated. r7 ri. ~
THE Leadville miners strike is prac-
tically ended and most Of the miners have
resumed work at old prices.
DURING q fire at a Montreal hotel the
other night two servant girls jumped from
a fourth story window. One of them was
seriously and the other fatally injured.
THE colored seamen of Norfolk
(va.) schooner mutinied recently, killed the
Captain and cook, and seriously wounded
the mate. They then headed the boat for the
hore and hid in the Virginia swamps.
JACOB SMITH, q wealthy farmer of
Lucas County, o., has been arrested on a
charge Of having murdered his wife's uncle
fifteen years ago in order to obtain posses
sion Of some $1,000.
THE captain of a vessel at Queens
town from Demarara reports that on the
3Oth of April, in lat. 30 deg. north, long. GO
deg. west, he passed raft, apparently made
on board n man-of war or first-class steam
err, as it was bolted together, and not lashed.
Two days afterward he saw several corpses
dressed in white. 1t is thought to have been
a relic of the lost training ship Atalanta.
JUDGE HAGNER of the Washington
Court has granted $50 per month as ali
mony to Mrs. Christianey pending a decision
I'm the divorce suit instituted by her hus-
band. The Court also allowed $500 for at
torney's fees. The alimony will be paid
from the LIST of May last. .
POsTMAsTER-GENERA MAYNARD is
a native of Massachusetts, and his wife is
native Of Vermont, daughter Of the Rev.
A. washburne, a Congregational clergyman
in Royalton.
A BILL to extend the suffrage has been
introduced into the Italian Parliament.
The Princess Louise and her brother,
Prince Leopold, are making n short tour
through the States, going from Niagara to
Chicago and thence to Milwaukee.
IT is said that forty thousand persons