American citizen., 1881-11-12

rather brisk gale. In some of the midland
counties the snow fell to a depth of two feet.
AN order has been issued by the Pres
ident, directing that the Pension Agency at
St. Louis be removed on the LIST of January
to Topeka, Kans., and Nathaniel Adams, OF
Manhattan, Kans., has been appointed
Agent, vice Rufus Campion, whose term has
expired.
IT is estimated that the recent over
flow of the Mississippi has caused damages
between Keokuk, Ia, and Louisiana, Mo.
on both sides of the river, amounting to
s., 600.
FLOODS in Delmatia and Croatia
caused the River Keika to burst its bounds.
Houses are inundated, crops damaged, roads
submerged and postal communication sus.
pended.
THE Nihilists threaten to prevent the
Cars coronation unless he grants specific
concessions.
INVESTIGATION into the affairs of the
Mechanics National Bank of Newark, N.
j., so hopelessly wrecked by Cashier Bald.
win, discloses the fact that some two years
ago Henry P. Marchbank, at that time en-
gagged as corresponding clerk of the bank,
got away with $50, 600 of its funds, which
has never been recovered. Narchbank was
retired, but the matter was not made pub
lie, it is supposed on account of the clerks
too intimate knowledge Of the Cashiers
own and much more extensive defalcation.
Marchbanks has now been arrested. He is
man Of some property, and like Baldwin,
has heretofore been esteemed as an estima
Bile and upright citizen.
The steamer War Eagle, of the Up
per Mississippi line, bound down from ST.
Paul with a large list of passengers and
freight, on the night of the 4th came into
collision with the drawbridge at Keokuk
and was hopelessly disabled. As the boat
struck the bridge pier the latter
gave way, and then with terrific
crash, an entire span toppled over on the
stricken vessel, crushing large hole in her
side, through which the water poured in a
vast flood. The passengers were hastily
gathered together upon the hurricane deck,
and many climbed from the boat upon the
bridge. The boat soon afterward swung
clear from the bridge pier and foated down
stream with the current a few hundred
yards, when she rounded to and was made
fast to the bank, and the passengers were
safely transferred to terra firma. First re-
ports regarding loss of life were contradic-
tory, but it was thought at least two or three
were drowned.
DURING storm at Manzanillo, Mex
leo, recently, four large vessels and all small
craft in the harbor were wrecked, and sew
eral stores, the Custom-house, and other
buildings were demolished.
BOTH houses of the Minnesota Legis-
lature have passed the bill for the readjust-
ment of the old bonded debt of the State, at
an interest not to exceed per cent.
County. Minn., and the physicians OF the
State Board of Health are bending all their
energies to confine it to the districts now
infected, and to eventually root 1t out alto
gether. They encounter considerable diff
Guilty on account Of the ignorance Of the in
habitants, who look on the disease as visi-
tation OF Providence.
GOVERNOR CHURCHILL, of Arkan-
sas, granted n reprieve in the cases OF two
colored murderers, Jackson and Hill, sem
fenced to be hanged at Hamburg, Jackson
County, on the 22d ult. All preparations
had been made for the execution, and
crowd of several thousand persons, mostly
colored, had gathered 10 witness the affair.
Their disgust was SO great at being cheated
out of the CHASTITY spectacle, that many
wanted to lynch the prisoners.
JOHN F. KERRATT, formerly Assistant
Postmaster at Little Rock, Ark. has been
sentenced to thirty months imprisonment
at hard labor at the Detroit House Of Cor
rection, for embezzling nearly So, 0OOdn Gov
ernmept funds. He made a written state
ment in the courtroom acknowledging that
he had stolen the money, but asserting that
parties who had been instrumental in pros
ocuting him were equally guilty. The con-
fession has produced a genuine sensation.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has designated
November "a as a day of national thanks
giving and prayer.
PINKNEY M. KING, aged 20, has been
convicted at Little Rock, Ark, of counter
feiting, and sentenced to two years. i'm
prisonment at Detroit and to pay a fine of
$1,000.