American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-09-10
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRAYERS for the recovery of Presiden
Garfield were offered in the Nonconformis
places of worship in London and Liverpool
on Sunday, the 2Sth.
FIFTEEN Socialists have been expelled
from Berlin, it is supposed for connection
with propaganda in favor of Herr Bebell',
election.
BENJAMIN ISRAEL BUTLER, eldest Sol
of Gen. b. r. Butler, is dead, aged ~. HI
was graduated at West Point and served 1
year a Lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry, in
Texas, but subsequently resigned and en-
tered upon the profession of law. He was 4
young man Of high promise and genial ma
ture.
THE Arkansas State Republican Com
mittee, In session at Little Rock on the 1st,
effected a reorganization with view Of har-
monizing the differences existing between
the two factions of the party. Hon. Powell
Clayton was elected Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee.
THE New York Republican State
Convention will be held in New York City
Oct. ).
GEN GRANT denies the report pub
lished that he has been holding conferences
with Vice. President Arthur and other Stall
warts with reference to the anticipated sue
cession of Gen. Arthur to the Executive
chair.
A DISPATCH from Berlin says that
Herr Won Schlosser, the German Minister to
Washington, has been commissioned by
Bismarck to go to Rome to conduct negotia-
tions with the Vatican DIR. Korum, the
newly appointed Catholic Bishop of Treves,
has arrived at Berlin, and been granted an
audience with the Emperor. According to
reliable Information Bismarck and DR..
Korum have agreed upon the principles of a
compromise between the Government and
the Vatican, which is thought to be entirely
satisfactory to both sides.
BRADLAUGH has issued a manifesto to
the English people in the shape OF an adj
dress to his Northampton constituents. He
announces his intention to go to the House
of Commons again next session, and he asks
the English people to protect him against
unlawful violence.
THE Queen has decorated Speaker
Brand with the Grand Cross of the Bath.
CAPTAIN HowGArE, whose official
defalcatious now foot up $4,000, "with
the back counties yet to be heard from,
has fed to Canada, it is believed, leaving his
bondsmen in the lurch and his wife and
daughter absolutely penniless. He was ac-
companied by the young woman who has
played so important part in the scandal
which finally led to his downfall. His prop
erty in Washington has been seized on at
tachment taken by the Government, but it
will not cover one-half the amount stolen.
Hon. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, for sew
eral terms Democratic Representative in
Congress from the Twelfth Pennsylvania
District, died at his residence in Wilkes
barre on the I'd, aged 20.
The recent removalof two mail-route
agents in Virginia is occasioning much COM
ment. One is white, the other colored, but
both belong to the Straightout Republicans
and holly opposed the Malone coalition. The
followers of Gen. Wickham charge that their
removal was solely for political cause, but the
other side claim that they were removed for
general inefficiency.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
A MEETING of leading distirers was
held at Springfield, ILL.,, on the LIST. The
proceedings were secret, but it Is UNDER
stood q general understanding was reached
that the distilleries be run on half time, the
price Of corn being so high as to render it
impossible for them to compete with the
import trade when running to their full ca
pacity.
The strike on the part of the Associ-
ated Cotton Laborers of New Orleans caused
n temporary stoppage Of the cotton presses,
but new men were procured from Mobile
and elsewhere to supply the places of the
strikers, and work was partially resumed on
the LIST.
DECREASE of the public debt during
August, Sl4, 1si, 221.
The Industrial League of America
has addressed to manufacturers and others
a circular. suggesting the necessity of a Tariff
convention in Chicago next November, be-
cause an assault upon our protective tariff
system Is, they say, almost certain to take
place at the next session Of Congress.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A BARREL of gasoline exploded in the
cellar of a beer saloon kept by Roman Mil
Ter, at Philadelphia. Considerable damage
was done to the building. Miller and his
wife were seriously injured. 1t is believed
the former will die.
In Walton County, Ga, an engine ex-
ploded at the steam saw-mill of III. o. Per- |
~, prominent citizen, killing that gen.
tleman and three hands, one of whom was a |
negro.
THREE young men, sons of Caleb and |
Samuel Durgan and Andrew Mcdonald,
were drowned In Saco River, at Brownfield, |
Me, on the 3lst.
SALLIE CARMEL, a most estimable |
young lady, was burned to death in the sta |
bic Of Charles Lawrence, near Milford, o. |
he fr ..hf n
posed were in the barn.
= HORACE MONTGOMERY and Kate |
Of Waddington, ST. Law |
renee County, n. Y, were drowned in at |
tempting TO run the Rapid Duplatte i'm a |
small boat.
FRANCIS c. PEAsE, aged 90, residing
In Boston, and recently from Rockland, Me-,
shot dead his wife, aged IS, and then put
several bullets through his own head.
A PARTY of boys at Shiloh, O., were
from cunning expedition, when |
Lester Uhler, one Of the number, pIayfulIy |
pointed his fowling piece at a companion, |
Irwin Rase, and pulled the trigger, sending |
! fun charge Of shot through the latter's head. |
He died Without n struggle. 1t is perhaps |
to add that young Uhler 'tdid |
rot know it was loaded"
AN explosion in the gas-house of a
hotel in Grand Haven, Mich, tore the |
building 10 atoms and probably fatally in
ured Chas. Cutler. Two others were badly |
hurt.
WIN. NYE, of Lebanon, Conn, at
tempted to murder his wife and mother-in-
aw, but his pistol was out Of order. He |
succeeded, however, in killing himself.
ANNIE THURBER, of Putnam, Conn.
IN rnred from the hridno int, tho riror in