American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-01

Complied from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The following proclamation, calling
issued:
By the President of the United states-A
Proclamation:
Whereas, objects of interest to the United
States require that the Senate should be con-
on such COMMUNICATIONS as may be made to
IL on the part of the Executive, now, there
United States, have considered it to be my
duty TO issue this my proclamation declar-
qares the Senate f Of the rnited states to
convene for the transaction of cuisines at
the Capitol in the City of Washington.
noon on that day. of which all who shall at
that time be entitled to act as members of
Given under my hand and seal of the Uuited
States ut Washington the Esd day of Septem:
eight hundred and eighty one, and of the in
Dependence of the United States the one hun
dred and sixth.
(signedl CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
BY the President:
JAS G. BLAINE. Secretary of State
A DUEL took place near Warrenton,
on the Goth, between two well known yir-
ginians, Capt. Peyton Wise and T. I. Lew
is, U. 8. District Attorney, both OF Rich
mond. Gen. Wise is a brother of Hon.
George ID. Wise, Congressman ELECT, and
Mr.. Lewis Is 4 younger brother Of John +.
Lewis, candidate on the Readjuster ticket.
The meeting was the result of a challenge
from Lewis to Wise, on account Of
some alleged libelous personal re-
marks uttered during the heat Of
the rSlitical canvass. The parties fought
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shots wero exchanged. Lewis had the first
IRE and missed. Wise fired into the air. The
second round was a repetition of the first.
Wise Is said to be dead shot and could
eaaily hnve Killed his adversary, but merci-
fully spaced him, as he had become con-
WINGED before the meeting took place that he
had acted hastily in the matter, but had
gone toe far TO retreat. The combatants
shook hands and parted friends.
w. F. MARNEY, recently Secretary
and acting Governor Of New Mexico, died
in Topeka on the 18th. He was formerly a
well-known citizen of Kansas.
THE Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention was held at Worcester on the
2lst. Mrs. Mary Il. Livermore was q duly
appointed delegate to the Convention, and
was finally admitted to . seat after her
claims had been twice rejected by the State
Central Committee. The present State Off
GERS were renominated without opposition.
The platform favors q gold basis exclusively
for our currency; revision of the Tari1
laws; reform in the Civil Service; National |
aid, where needed, in support OF commo1p
schools; Just and humane Indian psicyy
the suppression of polygamy, 9etc-, etc. A
resolution Of sympathy with the family of
the Late Presid ,nt Garfield and extolling his
brief administration, together with an ex-
preston of confidence in President Arthur,
was unanimously adopted.
Hon. SOLOMON SPHINX, formerly Sec
Rotary of Dakota aud afterward Delegate to
congress, died at Yankton, on the Esd, in
tHs 5ist year Of his age.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
. FIVE desperate men confined in jail
Mt Las Vegas, New Mexico, having secured
4 pistol and burst the locks OF their ceas,
made n bloody charge on three of their
guards. One of the officers blew out the
brains of Thomas Duffy, and the others
were soon secured The leader af the re-
volt was Dave Rudenbaugh, Of the gang of
Billy the Kid.
The boiler of q Missouri Pacific
freight locomotive exploded near Chctopa,
Kansas, on the 21s4 bling instantly George
Q. Adams. engineers eimon Bailey, fireman;
Jack Denny, \ coaductor on the San Fran
cisco Road, and 0,Hsn, q stranger, looking
for n job They were all seated in the cab
of the engine at the time. Their bodies
were picked up distance of 200 feet from
the railroad track in horribly manged
condition. The head OF Bailey, the fireman,
was entirely blown of, and nowhere to be
hrnE
had an arm broken and his body badly
bruised. The cause Of the accident is sup
posed to have been q shortage of water.
together with q defective boiler. i
AT Anoka, MIMI, Charles E. Studleyfl
while insane from drink, stabbed his wife
several times, but not fatally, and then cut
himself up in a shocking manner, SO that hi |
can not recover. I
NEAR Elgin, ILL.,, Christian Skinner
man, wife and son, were driving over the |
railroad track and were struck by the train. |
his boy and the team were |
killed, and his wife fatally injured
A NEGRO burglar, named Billups, the |
only inmate Of the Jail at Jacksonville, Ga,
set fire to the building in hopes of making |
his escape, and burned to death.
JOSEPH LANIER, Sheriff of Scullyville
County, Choctaw Nation, was killed at Tib-
bets's store, near Fort Smith, Ark, by Will
liam Hughes, q white man, who had recent
ly been ordered out of the Choctaw Nation
by Governor McCurtain, which circumstance
led to the murder.
FoM WILLIAMs, young negro muir
derer, was hanged at Henderson, Texas, on
the I'D.
MISCELLANEOUS. ~
GOVERNOR JEROME, of Michigan, has
issued an appeal to the people Of the United
States for aid for the sufferers by the recent
disastrous connagration in that State. He
says: Tho fire district covers territory
about 800 square miles, about one-haif of
which escaped the flames, and the other
half r. blackened waste, the destruction of
being pretty evenly distributed
over the whole territory. This is an agricul-
turnl eouutry, with occasionally village or
small business center, at which were -four
ing mills, sawmills, stores, churches, etc.,
ETC. Many of these places and their indus
tries were wholly destroyed, and in the
farming portions in the track OF the fire
nothing was left for mans use but the land.
have visited the burned district and trav-
crsed large portion thereof, driving through
the ruins. The knowledge thus obtained
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