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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

The following is the copy of the Gar
field letter to Congressman Hubbe!l,
Chairman of the Republican Congress
sional Campaign Committee. and which
Mr.. Star Route Brady has caused to be
published for the purpose of showing
that if any stealing has been done, the
theft was perpetrated in the interest
and by the connivance of MIR. Garfield.
Brady story is to the elect that in
August. 1880, Hubbell applied TO him
to raise $4,000 from contractors in the
mail service for campaign expenses;
that he being then just out of an over
hauling by Congressional Committee
on charge of having been engaged in
doing that same thing, and not wishing
to put himself under fire again SO soon,
fatty refused. but that HubDell persist
ing that something must be done or
else hope of Republican success must
be abandoned, he finally told Hubbell
that if he would get Hay es to make the
request for raising the money. he
Brady would try to accommodate
him; that Hayes refused to have any
thing to do with it, that he BRADY
then told Hubbell that if the latter
would procure Garfeld's request in
writ ng, he BRADY would act on that;
field on the subject, and by the return
mail received the following letter from
Garfield:
MENTOR, o., August %. 1880.
MY DEAR HuBRELL: Yours of The 10Th inst
received and contents noted. Please say to
:3rady that hope no will give us all the as
si.,ance possible =, think he can help eIee.
generally are doing. AS ever yours,
J. A. GARFIELD.
Garfield admits having written the
letter, but denies he knew anything of
the way the money was to be raised,
except that he supposed Brady was to
pay it himself out of his then recent
large profits in telephone stock opera
tons.
Such are the leading facts, though
there is LANCE surrounding of circum-
stances that makes very interesting
reading matter for the Republican fam
ilv fireside that will have to be under.
stood in order to a clear sight of all it's
lights and shades. At present we con-
tent ourselves with the single remark
that as Garield's simple denial in the
1929" escapade was deemed to out
weigh the sworn testimony of "a cloud
of Witnesses" together with the official
oaths of Republican Congressional Com
mitteemen, it is not to be supposed that
Bfady's statement, fortified by Gar
field own sign manual and corrobor-
ated by circumstances that have never
before been known to lie, will be
deemed to outweigh it in the Republi-
can mind. Though the Garfield of
1880 had sworn to the facts stated by
Brady. and should now deny them, we
feel warranted in say ing that the great
mass of Republicans would hug him all
the more closely for the denial. 1t
would be just SO much the worse for
Brady. Fort Hayae Sentinel.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
An IndiSputab!e Right.

The right of United States Senator
to resign is indsputable. The right of
two United States Senators to resign
the same hour is equally clear. Even
if the two Senators belong to the same
State. and their resignation is a con-
certed act, prompted by common
cause and embodied in a joint letter,
their right cannot be questioned.
United States Senators have resigned
before this. and United States Senators
will resign after this.
We do not think there is a reputable
Constitutional lawyer in the land who
will attempt to deny that the two New
York Senators. Conkling and Platt, had
a personal right to vacate the seats in
the Senate they have heretofore occu-
pied. But in the name of common
sense why do they attempt to invest
their resignation with such dramatic
accessories, and to shock the universe
with their departure? Why bring the
whole weight of all their phi, steal,
ton of task which might have been
which no one opposed their doing? No
human being wanted to make them
stay in the Senate chamber. There
were no bolts and bars, no batteries and
hidden mines to keep them in when they
desired to go out The doors were
open and the way was plain; and, more
than this, there are fifty thou 'and citi-
zens of New York who are ready and
willing to take the seats they have sur
rendered. What, then. is the occasion
for ali these tragic accompaniment?
Why did they not resign quietly and 60
about their business?
There are but two explanations Of
their solemn and imposing departure.
They want to be brought back-brought
back with still more imposing popu-
lar ceremonial. Either this. or Mr..
Conkling had SO wound himself up in
his absurd fight against the President
and the Custom house nomination that
he did not know what else to do but
resign The resignation is an auda-
cious trick or an act OF despair, and in
either case UNNECESSARILY preposterous.
Senator Conkliny is a man of admitted
ability. He has no superior in the
handling of important and difficult
public question, or in adrOit manipu-
lation OF the game of politics. But hui
man experience warns us that great.
men sometimes fail in the very things
in which they are greatest-and the
Conkling resignation is an example in
point AS a political maneuvcr this
resignation is a prodigious folly. st
To,f;s Een7xbIjcn,,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
Proof Of Animal Life In Other Planets

Two interesting problems which have
long perpleXed the scientific world ap-
pear to have been at last definitely
solved by the eminent geologist, DIR
Hahn. These questions are, first
whether or not celestial bodies, other
than the earth, belonging to our solar
system are inhabited by animate beings,
and, secondly, whether the meteoric
stones from time to time cast upon The
surface of this globe emanate from in
candescent comets or from volcanic
planets That they at no time formed
q part of the earth itself has been con-
cllsively demonstrated.
DIR. Hahn has recently completed a
series of Investigations upon some OF
the huge meteoric stones that fell from
the :. les in Hungary during the summer
of 1866. Thin lamine of these mystic
rious bodies. subjected to examination
under powerful microscope, have been
found to contain coralGne and spon-
geous formations, and to reveal unmis-
taxable traces of the lower forms of
vegetation All the organisms, animal
and vegetable, discovered by DIR. Hahn
in the delicate stone shavings he has
thus dealt with indica C the condition of
their parent world to be one of what is
technically termed "primary forma-
ton" But the presence of water in
that world is proved by the fact that
the tiny petritied creatures revealed by
the magic of the lens one and all belong
to the so-called suhaqueous classes of
animals. They could not have existed
in comets. at least if the assumption be
correct that these are in state of &C
tive combustion. -London Telegraph.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Lord Roscoe was fighting for a
spoil, and now he's spelling for a fight
with an excellent chance of getting
his belly full.
Speeding of the Conkling resig-
nation. Governor Horatio Seymour said
alt is a remarkable step to take. 1t
will show the people that twenty years
of license has brought the Republican
party down to lifeand-death fight for
the possession of a few miserable Of
fees"
--If-as seems likely to be the ease
the grand old Republican party
should go 10 pieces, what q glorious
record it will leave! 1t came into
power rs minority power; it post
poned its election from power by steal
ing one election and buying another
with money tilched from the public
treasury; it had for the last twelve
years of life no issue on which to APP
peal to the people save SANDERS about
the South, and it finally died of a sguab-
BILE over a custom-house and an at
tempt to put a repudiating Confederate
and an apologist of ''Star- route
thieves into two offices of the United
States Senate. Se,dh.
AN accurate mental photograph
of Malone. reproducing his varied
emotions since he entered The Senate,
would be interesting. He must feel
something like the old lady who took
her first trip on the cars at the aye of
seventy-Iive. She held on tightly to
the arm of the seat, and when the train
ran into another train and was con-
verified into match-wood, gasped to the
conductor, who fished her out from I'M
der hecatomb of corpses and asked if
she was hurt, HurtP No! But does the
pesky thing alters stop like this?"-N.
\. u orl2.
- Dorsey must not forget. in the
momentare excitement that Conkling
has managed to stir up, that the inside
history OF the Republican bari in
Indiana is still ycarned for BY the coun-
try. The ewes of the people are on
Dorsey, and their ears are propped
open 20 hear his tale. He can make
himself "a bigger man than old Conk-
ling" if he will hire hall and tell his
plain, unvarnished tale. Let him start
on round of lectures. aud we will
= uarantee to map out "Star-route'
for him with plenty of money i'll it.
We only demand that he shall "expe-
dite' the service or the route.-St.
Louis HeDu5ticdn.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

Port of New York or foreign minister
was torn to ilutters in about six ticks of
a bull S eye watch. The What-is-It at
first contented himself with devouring
small game, such as country postmas-
tiers, CUSTOM house clerks, and door
keepers at the Capitol Building. but as
the peasantry grew more afraid OF him
he grew holder and got up bigger
appetite. To protect themselves from
his wrath the people were finally COM
PEELED to let him roam as he pleased
and to furnish him game for his meals.
Consuls, Ministers, Judges, Collectors,
and other fat game were daily thrown
to him to devour. and he cleaned their
bones in a way to astonish all the medi-
cal colleges. The influence of the
Dread Animal was finally felt in many
other neighborhoods. and in time he
became a big lnjun up tree. Those
who went out and f1attered him and
patted his curly head returned with
commissions in their pockets, but those
whose refused to bow down were SOON
err or later made into hash.
For a long term of years this Beast
kept the country in state of fear and
terror. and he grew SO bad that one
day he turned up his nose at the corpse
of Judge of the Supreme Bench and
demanded live President for dinner.
This was too much. The people who
had suffered so long and sacrificed SO
much were rendered desperate at the
outlook. and they rallied together to
make war on the Bloodthirsty Enemy.
Their preparations were hardly COM
plete when news came that the Mon
ster, chagrined at Its defeat and mad
dened by the opposition. had commit
ted suicide. The forest was at once
invaded and the news confirmed.
Thousands gathered around the Corpse
to survey it; and when one, holder than
the - Hade,ll drew 1t from the dense
81 - IS to the open sunlight, a
Innhon men poked each other in the
ribs and whispered:
Hanged if we haven't been making
all this fuss over an Assn
MORAL:
Don't bite Off more than you can
Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

PAIRING at Albany, NY, on the 4th,
slightly changed the figures in the vote for
United States Senators-Jacobs, 81; Conk-
| ling, 90; Herman, 81; Plat, 20.
The following message has been tele-
| graphed President Garfield by Boyton from
Kilmainham prison: 81 hope the American
| Government will never submit me or the
honor Of the republic 1 fought to maintain
to the degradation of an appeal to the be-
nevolence of the cowardly British Govern
ment, incapable of extending to my country
men the commonest justice"
The Supreme Court of Tennessee for
the Western District, sitting at jackson, has
rendered decision authorizing the begin.
ming Of suits against the new city govern
ment Of Memphis for the debts of the de.
funct government
ROBERT SMITH and his wife, negroes,
past 80 years of age and professors of the
voudou art, have been arrested at Mande-
vile, La. ferinhuman treatment of a negro
boy of ID, left by his dead parents to be
cared for by Smith and his wife. For steal
ing a piece of bread, his tormentors held
the child in front Of fire, where, in spite Of
his cries, he was left until he was so thor
oughly roasted that his life is despaired Of.
He was found by some of the neighbors in
this situation and released.
BRINGARD, Inspector of Telegraphs,
and his escort have been massacrcd between
Frenda and Gervyville, Algeria. Twenty
six men were killed.
Gilbert WILLIAMS, colored, con-
victed Of the murder of Major Hutchins, was
executed at Livingston, Ala, OIL the Sd.
He was composed and died without a strug-
gle.
DANIEL FRAZER, aged g, VIM. L.
Pounds, same age, and Edward Kirkwin,
aged 10, were buried under a falling en-
bankment in New York City, on the 4th,
and taken out dead.
Two freight trains were wrecked
near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the 9Th,
through a Misunderstanding Of orders or
forgetfulness on the part of telegraph op-
orator. Two brakemen were killed. Engin-
Ger Anderson had his leg and collar bone
broken, besides receiving other injuries, and
fireman Mathews was bruised and scalded.
LIGHTNING struck the Masonic build
ing at Camptown, KY. and two men were
instantly killed, Nathan Holan and William
IL. Byrd. Seven others were badly shocked.
Rev. a. C. Byrd, Lee Farris and Sam Elan
were resusciiatcd after some difficulty. The
dead were both prominent citizens, about
fifty years OF age, and leave large families.
A DISPATCH from Vienna says Gen.
Uchatius committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart. The cause as
signed is that he was suffering from an in
durable malady.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
Married in Haste.

AVERY romantic affair took place at the
Falls of Niagara on Tuesd ~ last. y fine
looking man, known as DIR. Harry Darling, of
Atlanta, Ga, recently registe- ed at Rosli's
Hotel, and after remain ny a few days, spend
ing his money freely. visited the Tablo Rock
House and Museum, where he vs. clually
free in his expenditure. Finally his ga e
rested upon one of Mr. Davis han lsome
female assistants, Miss Annie Murphy, for
mery OF st. Cathe ines. He asked her if snc
woull like to he married and have him for
husband. She said she would, and she did.
This was on Monday. Tues lay the pair went
across the river and were MARI cd, and are
now spending the honeymoon aud lots of
money ut TIC Fails.-St- CdtIidiincs (Ont)
Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
A Pin in a Girl'S Tongue.

MISS HARVEY, of Candor, when eleven or
twelve years of age, was one evening making
hurried preparations to attcnl a party. She
had Il pin between her lips which pass, ID into
her mouth and was supposed to DC swallowed.
DR.. Miller assumed such to be the fact, but
the girl insisted that it was under her tongue
The physician made search for it there.
but failed to discover it and treated
her protestations as the WORK of imagina-
ton. One day Miss Harvey had a large b inch
or swelling ne upon one side of her
tongue. increasing in painf,Ilncss. DIR. L. D..
Farnham opened the swelling The next day,
after eleven years of hiding, the pin came out
of the opening. 1t was two; birds covered
with n lime formation and was much corroded.
Ithaca IN. " Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
A Mother Sacrifices Her Life.

Newark, N. J., and Mrs Coryell a neighbor
started for Brooklyn few mornings ago, to
visit Greenwood Cemetery. I'd plant flowers
on Mrs. McFarlands sons grave. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Coryelrs four-year-old
daughter. When they reached the depot Mrs
Mcfarland crossed the track first, and
the child attempted to follow her
when an express train which does not
stop at the station came laundering
along. Mrs. Coryell, seeing her child immi-
nent peril, gave piercing scream, and, with.
out hesitation jumped on the track and
pushed the Chi d out of danger. She then lost
her presence of mind, and, becoming para
lyzed with fear. was unable to move in either
direction. The engineer whistled down brakes,
but before the train could be stopped the loco
motive struck Mrs. Coryell and hurled her
over to the platform. Hcr injuries we're con-
sidered fatal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

LATE news from Dublin: The police
with rides, which were taken from them and
they were allowed to go on bail. A son of
Lord Dunsandlc has been shot Mt and
wounded. A flying column Of engineers,
artillery, infantry and cavalry left Dublin
for Hew,f alias to assist In the execution OF
eviction DEGREES. Engineers will repair
bridges brokendown by the popuiace to pre-
vent The passage of-~<tiIIery. The expedi-
tion to New PaIIas Is sfspdispstched to cap
ture the castle held by the chnd Leaguers.
The facts In the Goshawk affair are that the
people prevented tho police from landing,
and the GosbaWk subsequently attempted to
land them, but without success. At Scarfff,
County Clare, the people fired on
the police, who returned the fire, KILL
ing one OF the rioters. About 100 shots
were exchanged. The Assistant Secretary
and . member of the branch Of the Land
League at Kilby, near Kells County, Meath,
have been arrested under the provisions Of
the Coercion act on suspicion of mutilating
cattle. Archbishop Crokc has made q num-
Der Of speeches defending the Land League.
He said: "This movement Is not revolu-
tionary movement In the strict sense Of the
word. 1t is q constitutional amendment; it
Is lawful movement; it is n movement
which we intend to push forward by moral
force alone. We do not intend to violate any
law. hear of disagreement among the
leaders Of the people, but these things are
exaggerated. Our phalanx Is unbroken,
our spirit Is unsubdued, and the result IL,
therefore, clear rs day. We must succeed"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
A Curious Hen Story.

Hens with determination to set,
when you don't want to raise chickens,
will try the patience of the very elect.
A gentleman in Bolinas some days since
found two biddes clucking in Il ma
tronly way, and thinking to save HIM
self annoyance he clapped them both
in sack, and hung the sack on line.
Several days after, he happened to be
near the sack with his wife, when the
latter said, II believe there's some
thing alive in that sack" The man
looked at it, remembered something,
and replied, "Weli, we'll see" He
took it down, and found the hens both
living, but as naked of feathers as if
they had been boiled, and in the sack
were nineteen eggs!-Marin County
(Cdl.) Journal,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
A Fa' T..

Once upon q time Il terrible Wild
Beast took possession of a certain neigh
borhood known as the District of Co
IumOia, so called because of the great
mum Der of CLANS found on its borders.
No two peasants deScr. bed 1t alike.
One said 1t had Il silken curl hanging
down over Its forehead, and Its voice
was low and sweet while another con
tended that 1t had fierce visage and
claws SO sharp that IL Collector tOr the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
Railroad Accidents.

THE Railroad Gdzetc of a recent date has a
record of the railroad accid oats occurring
during last April There we in all So acct
dents, whereby y persons were killed and &c
in ured. Seven accidents caused death, Is
I'm ury but not dca h, while in 80 accidents,
or60.3per cent. of the whole number, no serious
injury to persons is reco. dea. As compared
with April, 1889, there is decrease of eight &C.
cdcnts, but an increase of IL in the number
killed and of q in that injured. For the year
ending with April the record is as follows:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

The number of accidents is over one-half
greater, VIII le that of killed and injured has
more than doubled from the previous year.
The average per month was lis accidents, 81
killed and l39 injured, against II accidents, I5
killed and "a injured in 1873 80.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

Ex-Gov. ANDERSON, of Maine, aged
80, and Gen. Thos. d. Hoxey, Grecnback
candidate for Governor Of New Jersey in
1850 are dead.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

THE report recently published that
Col Frederick D. Grant had resigned from
the army seems to have been premature, as
1t IL now officially published that Colonel
Grants leave of absence has just been ex-
tended four months
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

A CARGO of American cattle recently
received at Glasgow from Boston were found
to be nearly all affected with the foot disease.
They were ordered slaughtered and the car
casses beiled down.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

Compiled from Various Sources.

GEN. SHERIDAN, in complimentary
general order has accepted the resignation
Of Lieut.. Col. Grant as aid upon his staff.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

Ex-SKxAroR CoNKLINe, at Albany,
to Senator Malone, at Richmond: "Your
every eff0ft for the true advancement Of the
South, and to make elections real and fair,
has my whole heart and deserves the CO.
operation Of Republicans everywhere"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

The public debt statement of June 1
shows . decrease in the debt during May of
$1, $50 72i. Cash in Treasury, $sa6, 4o6, 0Ss;
gold and silver certificates, $50, 6Sa, $50; GER
tifeates of deposit outstanding, $40, $50, 900;
legal tenders, SAG, al ,646; fractional cur.
renew 81 100 1O2
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

UPoN invitation of Secretary Win
dom, McGrew, Sixth Auditor of the Treas
ury, and his deputy, Lilley, have rendered
their resignatfons. The action Of Secretary
Window was taken, 1t 10 said, at the request
Of the Postmaster General and the Attorney
GeueraI
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

: TIE New Hampshire Legislature met
on the list, under the provisions of the
amended Constitution, to elect . United
States Senator to succeed Senator Rollins,
whose term expires In 1888. Mr.. Rollins Is .
candidate for reelection, and bis principal
competitor II William E. Chandler, recently
rejected by the United States Senate as So
Ecitor- General OF the Treasury.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

GOVERNOR LEW WALLACE has left
New Mexico for his home in Indiana, turn
ing over his Office to Acting Governor Pitcho,
pending the arrival Of Governor Sheldon.
Although confirmed, Governor Wallace has
mot fully decided whether or not to accept
the Turkish mission, on account OF his ex-
tensive mining interests In the Territories
claiming his personal supervision.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

UxPER orders from the War Depart
menf Cen Pope Is stationing troops at the
most accessible points for service In ease
there should be trouble with the Indians
when their removal under the Ute treaty is
consummated. Care is taken that no move.
ment Of the troops. likely to excite the In
diana y made.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

The Virginia Readusters' Conven-
tion, after long and exciting contest over
candidates, nominated william Z. Cameron
for Governor. Gen. Malone positively de-
ciined 10 run, and Riddleberger, who re-
ceived few votes on ons ballot, requested
that his name be Withdrawn. Col. Came
ron Is 40 years Of aGe; was Adjutant- General
in Mahone's brigade during the war;
afterward entered into politics and became
editor of the Petersburg Appeal, one of the
incidents Of his editorial life being a duel
fought with Robert W. Hughes, editor of
the Republican paper, the State Journal, in
which Cameron was shot through the abdo-
men. He cut loose from the regular Demo-
Gratis m 1s77, when Malone was defeated in
obtaining the nomination for Governor
The second place on the ticket was given to
John +. Lewis, who, in . speech accepting
the nomination for Lieutenant Governor,
said he had been Union man, was now
Republican, and was proud to say he was
also . Readjuster.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11

presses the opinion that the Revised Testa-
ment can not be. read In the English Church
until II has been recommended and author
lied by some sufficient public authority, and
that any clergyman using It incurs the risk
of being held - an offender against the law.