American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01

k1oaSer-fTeSS.
WILLIAM G. BRADLEY, Postmaster al
Princeton, Caldwell County, KY, robbed
the Post-office in order, as he now con-
fesses, to cover up a sho rtage in his accounts
of about s., 900.
A DELEGATION of Sioux Indians from
the Lower Brule Agency has arrived In
Washington. Their mission is t. protest
against the right Of way being granted to
railroads through their reservation.
ALBANY advices are that the anti
Conkling Republicans In New York are unan-
tmous for Chauncy NJ. Depew for Senator,
and that Senator Conkling has not disclosed
his preference rs between Morton, Plat,
Cornell and Haskins.
THE Mexican Executive has ordered
two engineers, three officers of STAFF and one
physician to accompany Capt. Eads ON his
surveying tour over the Isthmus Of Te-
huantepec- The expenses of commission
ers will be paid by the Government
THE recent decline in grain has
caused the suspension of a number Of deal
ers in Chicago and st. Louis-Jones q Nc
Donald and Gardner, Stone & Co., in the
former city, and Manson, Bartholow & Co.,
in the latter, being among the heaviest
houses forced to succumb.
THE San Francisco authorities have
just cleared their County Hospital Of Chi
nese lepers, thirteen Of them being sent back
to China on the last steamer for Hong Kong.
Their couutrymen on board the steamer ex-
they learned who were to be their fellow
passengers, as they have great dread Of the
loathsome malady.
THE Oklahoma colonists still remain
In camp on the border near Caldwell, Kans.
Considerable snow has fallen, and they have
apparently gone into winter quarters to re-
main for some time. Their meetings are
= conducted In secret, and outsiders have no
means Of knowing their future plans, which
It Is presumed hinge to great extent upon
the result Of DR.. Wilson'S mission to WASH
ington.
TIE President has designated Gen.
Crook, Gen. Miles, William Stickney and
Walter Alden y commission to proceed to
the Indian Territory, and after . conference
with the Poncas tribe of Indians, to ascertain
the facts In regard to their recent removal
and present condition 30 far IS Is necessary
to dstermine the question what Justice and
humanity require should be done by the
Government Of the United States, and report
their conclusions and Recommendation In
the premises.
Two masked burglars entered the
house Of DR.. j. s. Mott, n wealthy merchant
of Independence, No., on the night Of the
18th. Sefzing the Doctor as he made his
appearance, they compelled him, At the muz-
zle Of . revolver, to divest himself of all his
clothing, and remain . silent spectator of
their depredations. They packed up money,
jewelry and clothing valued at about s., 600,
after which they coolly Invested themselves
Of their own garments, threw them into the
fire, and putting on suits Of the Doctors
best clothes, made good their escape.
The Fonca chiefs who recently OBJ
tanned perpission to visit Washington have
held council with Secretary Schurz in the
presence Of the Ponca Commissioners lately
named BY the President. The official report
of the council states that the Popca chiefs
declared unanimously they desired to re-
main in the Indian Territory and to make
permanent homes there, to sell their
Dakota land and to acquire title to their
reservation In the Indian Territory; and
they were emphatic In declaring that they
wanted Mr.. Tibbles and other white men,
who had been trying to get them back to
Dakota and thus interfering with their
working and becoming prosperous, to let
them alone henceforth.
A PASSENGER train on the Carolina
Central Railroad went through . trestle near
Lfncolnton. N. c., plunging o sheer fifty feet
into the abyss. The locomotive passed over
I'm safety. The wrecked cars caught FIRE and
were consumed. The following Is a list of
the killed: N. Smith, salesman Of Benedict,
Hall & Co., OF New York; s. w. Goodson, of
Statesv lie, N. c., agent Of the Piedmont and
Arlington Life Insurance Company; J.F.
Bloom, mail agent; VIM. Mckenzie and
James Warlick, brakemen, and ONE passen-
ger, name unknown. These were all buried
under the cars and were burned, only their
charred bones remaining. It ia probable
that most Of them were killed in the fall. A
number received injuries, but not of a fatal
character.
MRS. Cross George Elliott, the dis
tfnQufsbed noyeIiet died eudduBnIv ON the