American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-09-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


The result of the recent elections in
France shows a general triumph of the Re
publican candidates. The Bonapartists LOST
n number OF seats. The elections in Spar
likewise resulted in great successes for the
Liberals.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS has writ
ten n private letter announcing that he 1:
very busily engaged in writing a book in re-
ply to the recently published work of Jeffer-
son Davis.
IT is reported from Geneva that the
Socialists have addressed a threatening let
ter to the Federal Tribunal in regard to
their appeal from the decision of the Grand
Council Of Zurich prohibiting the Social
Congress there in September. The letter
warns the Judges Tribunal that they will
be the first to be blown up, and states that
the Socialists have enough dynamite to blow
up half of Switzerland, and that it is in
switzerland that q confiagraAon will begin
that will burn up the world.
GREENBACK Conventions were held
on the oath in New York, Massachusetts,
and Mississippi. The New York Conven-
tion nominated ticket headed by Epictetus
Howe for secretary Of State and adopted
resolutions reaffirming the Chicago platform
of 1880, and declaring that railroad cor
porations should be prohibited from
charging for transportation moro than
enough TO pay operating expenses and a fair
return on their actual cost. The Massachu-
sets Convention nominated Israel w. An
drews for Governor and George Dutton for
Lieutenant Governor. The platform con-
tains resolution affirming the equal right of
suffrage, without regard to race, color, sex
or taxes. The Mississippi Greenbackers
and Independents nominated Col. Ben King
for Governors; J. B. Yellowby, Lieutenant
Governor; j. j. Speilman (colored), Secre-
tary Of State; w. ii. Byrum, Treasurer; A.
T. Wimbcrly, Auditor; w. T. Fitzgerald,
Attorney General; W. ID. House, Superin-
tendent of Education.
COL JAMES G. BENTON, of the United
States Ordnance Department, since 1866 i'm
charge of the Armory at Springfield, Mass,
is dead.
EVIDENCE continues to accumulate of
Capt. Howgate's financial crookedness as
head OF the Signal Service Bureau. Vouch-
ers to the amount of so 900, purporting to
be for supplies purchased of New York
are pronounced forgeries by the
FIRMS whose names they bear. 1t is now
known that Capt. Howgate kept several
women on the pay -roll of his Office who new
er performed a days work, and whose rela-
lions with him were Of decidedly question:
able nature.
GEN. WILLIAM C. WICKHAM, leader
Of the Straightout" Republicans of vir-
ginia, has published letter giving his rea-
sons for opposing Malone and proposed CO.
aiition with the Readjusters on the part of
rf.p Ill.
that he will vote the State
Democrati>rfcket.
GENERAL LESLIE CooMBs, of Ken
fucky, who died at his home in Lexington
on the s1st, in the ssth year of his age, was
The last Of the Pioneer Indian warriors Of
that State. He was Captain i'm the war of
1872, and raised and equipped regiment TO
aid Texas in her struggle for independence.
He was 4 trusted friend of Henry Clay. He
was several times Auditor of Kentucky, and
suffered defeat for Congress at the hands of
John C. Breckenridge. He was a strong
Union man during the late civil war. Many
years ago he lost a large fortune in building
and two years since he was left
almost destitute by the burning of his home
GEORGE w. RIGGs, the well-known
banker, is dead.
DANIEL c. DE JARNErTE, a member
Of the Thirty sixth Congress and afterward
Of the Confederate House Of Representa-
tiyes from the Richmond (ya.) District, is
dead.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
THE Treasury Department will re-
deem upon presentation, without rebate of
interest, outstanding 5-per-cent. registered
bonds funded loan OF 1Ss1), embraced in
the 104th call, maturing October next.
IT is rumored that a general strike of
railroad employees throughout the country
is contemplated soon. The strike already
Inaugurated on the Erie Is said to be the
precursor Of the movement, and was brought
about somewhat prematurely by local influ-
enccs.
IT is expected that the project of es-
double line Of telegraph between
ST. Louis and Chicago will soon be carried
into execution.
WHILE the crops throughout large
area Of the United States are almost an utter
failure on account Of the prolonged drought,
British agr1culturists are bemoaning the
probable destruction of their harvests by too
ropious rains.
THE Illinois and Mississippi River
md Canal Improvement Commission, ap-
pointed by the Convention held at Davenport,
Iowa, last May, to further the construction
81 the Hennepin Canal, met in Chicago on
he 18th. The most important business
Transacted was the appointing of a commit
tee to memorialize Congress for the con-
OF n commercial canal, not to ex-
ICED seven feet in depth, from Hennepin
westward to the Mississippi River
The Merchants Exchange of St. Louis,
through its Executive Committee, has issued
! call to the people Of the Mississippi Valley
'or the selection of delegates to Convention
70 be held in their city on the Goth day of
october, 1881, to deliberate on the question
IF improving the great Mississippi River and
is nayigablc tributaries.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Pittston, Pa, on the Esd, DIR. W.
Mel. Ostrander, a wealthy and well-known
physician, committed suicide by hanging.
A FREIGHT train on the Ohio South
I'm Railway coIIided with passenger train
m n side-track near Bainbridge. Ohio. The
fireman and a passenger were killed.
UNKNOWN parties entered the Jail at
La, on the 23d, and took out
Perry Mason and Alexander Wilson (coI-
,red), charged with murder, and hanged
hem.
JOHN STEWART, a well-known resi-
lent Of Scott County, Ark, who run a farm
md general store near Waldron, and Billy
hassingale, a visiting friend from the VII
age, were both shot and instantly killed a
ew nights ago by two men named Fulsom
md Hobbs. The four men on the night
previous to the murder had made up game
II poker, at which Fulsom and Hobbs had
,een heavy losers. The next night the two