American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-09
NEWS IN BRIEF
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


prohibiting the importation of arms into
Ireland, except at Dublin, Belfast, Cork,
Limerick. Londonderry, Waterford, Gal
way. Sligo, Drogheda, Dundalk, Greenore,
r Nora and Wexford. The City and County
of Waterford have been placed under the
Protection act. Arrests under the Coercion
act continue, among the more prominent
persons being Cox, League organizer, and
Hozel, Secretary of the Government branch
of the Land League.
MOSES TITCoMB, aged so, Superin-
tendent Of the Document Room, United
States Senate, for over \ quarter OF n CEN
fury, has just died. Ti,comb watched over
Calhoun in his last sickness, and laid out
with his own hands the body of Henry Clay
In 1881.
GENERAL GRANT called upon Presi-
dent Garfield at Long Branch on the 25th.
The two shook hands cordially, but beyond
the ordinary courtesies of the occasion, no
conversation took place.
CAPrAIN EADs has gone to Toronto,
where, at the request of the Canadian Gov
eminent, he will begin an examination Of
that harbor with a view to devsing means
for its permanent improvement.
Hon. HENRY SrANsBERr, Attorney
General in President Johnson's Cabinet, Is
dead, aged IS.
TIE President and members of the
Cabinet returned to Washington from Long
Branch on the 9th.
SECRETARY KIRKwooD has appointed
to a clerkship in the Indian Bureau, Francis
Laflesche, ayoung Ponca, brother OF bright
Eyes" He was educated at the Indian
School at Omaha Agency, and Is said to be
young man of average talents and good
habits. 1t Is Secretary Kirkwood's inten-
tion to place . number of young Indians in
the Department, and rs soon as they have
become familiar with the details OF the Office
to transfer them to the Agencies.
THE United States Attorney General
has furnished the Secretary of the Interior
with his written opinion regarding the
rights and duties Of white settlers in the In
dian Territory. All persons, other than
Choctaws and Chickasaws by birth or adop
ton, are considered by the law as intruders,
with the following exceptions: "Govern-
ment employees, their families and servants;
employees of internal improvement compa-
mics; travellers; temporary sojourners; hold
ers Of permits from tho Choctaw and Chick
asaw authorities, and white persons who are
employed under the laws OF said Indians rs
teachers, mechanics and skilled agriculture
lists" The Indian "Permit" laws are de-
clared valid, but the duty of removal Of un-
authorized persons belongs to the Depart
ment and not to the Indians. In accordance
with tho above, the Commissioner has in
structed the Indian Agent at Muscogee to
notify all parties interested, and advise them
that measures will be taken to enforce the
law.
CONGRESSMAN KEIFER, of Ohio, has
been IA Washington recently, as report says,
working up his prospects rs Speaker of the
ext House. Seven other Republican can
didates are said to be: Kasson, of Iowa;
Hiscock, Of New York; Robson, of New
Jersey; Burroughs and Hubbell, of Michi-
gan; Reed, Of Maine, and Orth OF Indiana.
The Democrats will put forward Randall,
Blackburn or s. s. Cox, and Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, Is mentioned as the Green
back candidate. Should the Democrats and
Grecnbsckers unite candidate for
speaker, he will be Ladd, of Maine.
-THE Virginia Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Lynch
burg August 8. Tho Readjusters claim to
have carried their pointin naming the place
for holding the Convention, but a most stub
born fight for supremacy in the Convention
is Inevitable The State Committee reor-
EdHized and chose j. w. Cochran, a colored
The Albany On. W Grand Jury has
indicted Senator Sessions of the State Legis-
hfure-for bribery In connection with The
Senatorial election. He Is held in 5000
bail. Counsel for Sessions demanded an
Immediate trial, and denounced the whole
proceedings as being instigated by partisan
motives.
PIrNEY denies report that he will go
before the Grand Jury and make a full
statement Of the misdofngs of the Treasury
ring.
GIN. SERvANDo CANALEs, a promi-
nent Mexican officer, IL dead. He was known |
as . friend Of America, and especially of |
Texas.
CAPT. J. W.. DAVIDSON, Post Com
mander at Fort Custer, died recently at st. |
Paul, MINI. Tho deceased was in command |
OF . department in St. Louis during the |
war. He was also married in that city, and |
his remains were taken there for burial.
GENERAL Ord, recently returned from
Mexico, speaks encouragingly of the pro-
gressive spirit manifested by that country,
and predicts q steady Improvement in all |
directions.
SECRETARY KIRKwooD denies the
rumor that the Pension Bureau has ex-
hausted the appropriation for the payment
VI peu>ionss
, PRESIDENT GARFIELD will attend the
unwilling Of the Mcpherson statue at Clyde,
o., July p, and next day be with his old
regiment, the 42d Ohio, at their annual re-
union at Gallon.
! JOHANN MOsr, editor of the Freiheit,
London, convicted Of melting to murder, has
been sentenced by Lord Chief-Justice
Coleridge to sixteen months imprisonment
at hard labor. Lord Coleridge
said the prisoners offense was
detestablc and cowardly, and, but for the
1urors' recommendation to mercy, he could
have inflicted a sentence of penal servitude
Herr Most, on leaving the prisoners dock,
exclaimed, 1--WE might as well be in Rus
sia."
The Iowa Republican State Conven-
tion, held at Des Moines on the 10Th, nomi-
mated Buren, r. Sherman, OF Des Moines,
for Governor on the twelfth ballot. For
Lieutenant-Governor, o. ii. Manning, of
Carroll, re ceived the nomination; for SUI
preme Judge, Austin Adams, Of Dubuque,
and for Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
tion, John w. Akers, of Lynn. The plat
form congratulates the country upon the
election Of James A. Garfield, and the Ma
tionaI Administration upon the vigorous
manner in which 1t has undertaken to ferret
out fraud and suppress extravaganza in pub
lie expenditures; cordially indorses all meas
ures which look toward practical and jul
dicious improvement OF the Mississippi Riy-
err; declares that unquestionablc legislative
power shall be used to protect the people