American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EDWARD j. PHELPS has been nomi
mated for Governor of Vermont by the Dem
ocratic State Convention.
| MANILA has again been partially de
stroyed by an earthquake. Full Particular
not received.
A VERY perceptible earthquake shock
was experienced in New Hampshire on the
evening Of the 10Th.
RICKLEY, the Columbus CO., Bank
President, who was shot at few days age
by An irate creditor, is recovering. He will
lose the use of both eyes.
SECRETARY THOMPSON made a Re
publican speech at Denver on the 10th.
ANOTHER and more serious earth
quake occurred at Manila on the 21st. Not
single public edifice remains standing.
The Convent of Guadaloupe, which had
lasted three centuries. was destroyed. The
inhabitants were encamped outside the town
and consequently no lives were lost.
The Empress Eugene disembarked
atet. Helena on her return from Africa
and visited the former residence of Napo-
leon /.
GEN. GRANT had an elaborate and
enthusiastic reception at Leadville on the
I'D. The City spent 900 on his recep-
ton.
THE Democrats of the Indianapolis
District have nominated Charles Byfield for
Congress. An attempt to secure the indorse-
ment by the Convention of Mr.. De La Matyr,
the Greenback candidate for reelection, was
unsuccessful.
Ex-Gov. B. GRAFT BROWN has an
nounced himself as a candidate for United
States Senator from Missouri.
Hon. E. B. WAsHBURNE has gone to
Europe for his health. He will return in
October.
A SMALL party of Usage Indians re-
Gently raided a herd Of horses on Mr.. Dris-
COILS ranch, on the Cimmaron River, about
forty-five miles south of Dodge City, Hans.
They ran of five horses, returning to the In
dian Territory. Cattle men are arming to
defend their stock, and a party of soldiers
from Fort Dodge have been ordered to the
locality.
GEORGE BENNETT, alias Dickson, who
murdered Hon. George Brown, prominent
citizen of Toronto, Canada, was hanged on
the 23d.
A BOLD robbery is reported from the
vicinity of GRANVILLE, White County, Ill. The
family Of Edward Kershaw went out on n
visit, leaving little girl alone in the house.
Three men entered, and while one of them
held the child on the bed, sitting her cries
with . pillow, his partners ransacked the
house. One thousand dollars, belonging to
Kershaw's mother, was taken from a bureau
drawer, but another 81, 900, belonging to
Kershaw, was overlooked. The thieves es-
capped.
CHARLES NORTON shot Policeman
O'Neil at Kokomo, Colo, on the 23d. Nor
ton was intoxicated and raising disturb
ance. The policeman attempted to arrest
him and was shot dead. Norton was taken
to jail and placed under guard. A crowd
soon gathered and overpowered the guard
and lynched the prisoner. He is said to have
confessed having committed other murders,
and admitted he ought to have been hung
long ago.
A RECENT storm in Monroe County,
Mich destroyed many vineyards filled with
the choicest grapes and also ruined grain of
all kinds. The aggregate loss is $10O,OO0
A sAw-MILL boiler exploded near
Gettysburg, Darke County, O., blowing the
mill to tatters and instantly killing William
Reid, the fireman, and seriously injuring six
other persons.
S. C. PETERS, A. w. Davis and H.
Marks, proprietors, together with fifty 9TH
ers, attaches of Boyd & Peters Circus, were
arrested at Greensburg, Pa, charged with
abducting Miss Salome Burkett, aged IA,
from her home in Somerset County. The
girls story Of her treatment was almost too
horrible for belief. Great excitement pre-
vailed at Somerset and Greensburg on ac-
count of the outrage and mob law was
feared.
TROUBLE is reported between the In
dams and whites in Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory, owing as alleged to
the encroachmenfs of settlers.
q THE project of erecting statue to
the late Prince Napoleon in Westminster
Abbey, which had the countenance of the
Queen, has been declared by the House of
Commons (161 to 147) to be inconsistent
with the national character of the edi6ce.o