American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-15

from Nevada. ir
EUGENE HALE has received the Re
publican nomination for United States Sena
tor frorp Maine
The. State police claim to have discov
cred q new secret organization of Socialist.
extending over the whole of Germany.
JUDGE WILLIAM B. WOODS, the new
ly appointed Associate Justice, has taker
his place on the Supreme Bench.
c. B. WILKINSON, well-known news.
paper man, died suddenly Of heart disease
in Denver, on the .th.. He was sitting uI
in conversation with friends five minutes be
fore his tiexths 'f~
The presidents has nominated General
NathanGon, Jr., OF West Virginia, as Sec
rotary OF the Navy. Gen. Goff has been for
twelve years United States District Attorney
for West Virginia, and four years ago was
the Republican candidate for Governor in
that State. 4s'i
IT is.shought that the Maine Legisla-
ture VIII refer the Gubernatorial matter to
the Supreme Court. Plsisted leads Davis
by 30. votes on the straight count. The two
Fusionist factions have held q conference,
but could not agree, and consequently no
future allisuseis anticipated.
THE Land League trials at Dublin are
progressing QUIETLY Tho impression pre-
walls that the trayersers will be acquitted. 1t
is reported that Enfield rifles have bean for
some time regularly shipped from Birning-
ham to Ireland. The Government has or
dered the removal of the locks from rifles in
the armories ofvo'unteers.
THE Legislatures of California, Ne
vada, Tennessee and Texas met on the Sd of
January; Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania on the 4fh;
Colorado, Illinois, Maine,, Michigan, lfinne-
sofa, Missouri and North Carolina on the 5th ;
Indiana and Mississippi on the 9Th; Con-
necticut. ON the 9Th; Arkansas on the 10th;
Kansas and New Jersey on the 18th; West
Virginia and Wisconsin on the 18th.
CAPTAIN EADs has returned from
Mexico, and states that the Mexican Gov
eminent has given him the right to build
ship-railway across the Isthmus OF Tehuan-
tepec and grarts him / ,oo0, 600 acres of land
on the Pacific coast for barbor purposes.
The road must be completed in ten years. A
Paris telegram announces that an expedition
operations on De rLesseps' Panama Canal,
and machinery, provisions and labor had
been ordered forward from New York and
New Orleaps.+
TEN;lives were lost by tenement
house frein New York City, on the morning
of the 4th. Plumbers were thawing out
some frpzsn water-pipes at No. 30 Madison
Street, when can of gasoline used by them
exploded, setting fire to The surrounding
woodwork. The flames quickly communi-
Gated to the stairway, up which they rushed
with terrific volume, cutting of this means
of escape to the occupants of the
upper floors. The building was five
stories high and occupied by eight families.
Those on the lower floors jumped from the
windows aud escaped with more or less
bodily injuries. The upper floor was occu
pied by Mrs. Ellen Sheridan and her family
Of four children and Mrs. Cassidy and three
children. These, together with girl named
Egan, were all suffocated or burned to death.
GENERAL WALKER, the Census Su-
perintendent, has issued o statement giving
the population Of the various States and
Territories. In some instances the figures
are Appropriated. but they are very nearly
correct. New York leads all the States with
a population Of 5,0s3, 113. Pennsylvania fol-
lows with 4,2S2, 53S. Ohio comes third with
3,197, ia, and. Is closely followed by
Illinois with a population of 3.o7s, 1886;
Missouri has 2, 100 ,091; Indiana, 1871, s5s;
Kentucky, 1,64s, 599; Iowa, 1,624 ,463. and
Michigan, 1853, 096. Kansas has s95, 335.
Nevada, with O., 205, is the State of the small
est population, and Delaware,s is the next
smallest, being 1864. Colorado, the
youngest of the States, had 194, 649 people
when the census was taken. OF the Terri
tories, Utah, with la, 907, has the most peo-
pie, and Dakota, without Mormons, has
154,5o2 people. The total population Of the
United States is 80, $50.
The Queens speech, read at the open
ing Of Parliament, gays that the ordinary
powers Of law have proved insufficient to
deal with the existing troubles in Ireland,
and that additional powers will be immedi-
ately asked for. The Irish Land Act Of 1870
has been of great benefit, but under the
strain of recent and calamitous years has not
been found sufficient either in Ulster or
other provinces. A further development of
its principles is recommended, with a view
to giving a larger portion Of the people an
opportunity to acquire by purchase a per-
manent proprietary Interest In the soil, and
this legislation viii require the re-
moyal Of all obstacles arising out
Of limitations on the ownership
Of property. As an additional security for
interests involved, ameasure will besubmit-
ted for<hs establishment of county govern
ment in Ireland founded upon representative
principles, and framed with the double aim
Of confirming the popular control over the
expenditures, and Of supplying yet more
serious want by extending the formation of
habits OF local self-government.
A DUBbIS telegram of the LIST an
nounecs that arrangements are being made
for the organization of flying columns
to scour the country, as was done
during the Fenian rising. 1t is intend
ed TO start nine columns-two from Dub
lin, two from the Currah, one from
Athlone, one from Cork, one from Fermoy,
one from Limerick, and one from Belfast.
Each column will consist OF n troop OF cav
airy, a division Of artillery with two
guns, four companies Of infantry, ten
sapper1 detachment of the
Army Service Corps, a detachment Of the
Hospital Corps, and one ambulance wagon.
rf.ree Thousand soldiers are now stationed
in Dublin. dispatch from Cork says
the wsnt OF employment everywhere is felt,
and nowhere more keenIy than in those dis
triets where the agitation has taken the
greatest hold. Extraordinary effofts are be-
ing made IN different parts Of the country
for the purpose Of starting public works..
Land League meetings, announced
to be held throughout ireland
on Sunday, the ID, were prohib-