American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-18

- NOLUME AAAl.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD promises to at
tend the Atlanta Exposition in November
next, public business permitting. The Pres
ident cordially indorses the objects of the
Exposition. .
WILLIAM MURPHY, the divorced hus-
band Of Mrs. Newton McClarren. visited
that lady 1t her residence near Pittsburgh,
Pa-,- the other day, and requested an inter-
Wow. When she appeared, Murphy threw
his arms around her neck, and, while thus
embracing her, shot her in the back and
breast, and then placing the revolver against
hfs forehead, fired bullet through his brain,
killing himself instantly. Mrs. McClarren,
Il Il thought, will recover.
{. JAMES MALONE, Patrick Hunter and
Gerald Sanders, employed in the Andes
Mine, Virginia City, New, were suffocated
by gas the other day. Several miners were
made III in endeayoring to recover the
bodies.
: LEADING manufacturers of agrieultu-
raj implements in the West are said to have
greatly curtaiIed SpSratibps on account of
unfavorable adviccs regarding the Coming
harvest. $500. 5tt-i i4 = 81
: LEWIS SWEDEN, an old farmer, of
Van Buren County, Ark, was assassinated
ON the porch of his dwelling, recently, by
three men who sprang from the shrubbery
and riddled his body with bullets. Supposed
to be the work of moonshiners.
,MUNLEY ELLIS and Wright Newsome,
txv< vn1v. l;ysv,~ ,.aar vUilaov
met in field and began quarreling on the
TIL. Ellis had pistol, and finally drew it
and shot Newsome In the head, killing him
instantly. The two gentlemen had some
time ago been paying .attentioR TO the same
young lady, knd thu was the beginning Of
bad feeling between them.
THE most careful estimates put the
cotten crop Of last year at 6, 100000 bales, or
nearly a million and half bales more than
the splendid crop of 1s79r-s
A NEW ALBANY & Chicago Railroad
conductor named Davis undertook to climb
ON top of a car near Pekin, Ind, and was
knocked OF by the timbers of the bridge
across Blue River, and instantly killed. His
body fell into the river, and was recovered
by the train-men and taken Is New Albany.
He had only been on the road few days.
Ar the village of Chesaning, Mich,
recently, 9 party of roughs connected with
circus, armed with clubs, proceeded to break
up dance. Augustus Emery, policeman,
was pounded to death; Fred Wenzel was
fatally injured; J. B. Griswold, village Pres
dent. was severely wounded; Charles Ha-
mer received pistol ball in the side Of the
face and dozen others were cut and bruised.
Thirteen of the gang were arrested, and
with difficulty the people were restrained
from lynching them.
THE National Millers' Association held
their eighth annual Convention at Chicago,
beginning on the It'll. The Cochran patent
cases, representing claims for damages to
the amount of $36, 0o0, 900 against members
of the Association, were settled by compro-
mise, the terms of which are private.
The completion of the Fayetteville
(Ark.) Branch of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco Railroad was celebrated on the Sth, at
Fayetteville, with great ceremony.
DURING . severe storm near Wheel
ing, West Va, ON the 9Th, a family named
Straub. living on Glenn's Run, were swept
away In the night, the mother and five chill
dfen being drowned and the father carried
on log to the head of one of the Sisters Is
lands, where he was found In an insensible
condition. -
THE negroes who murdered farm
er named A. F. Hall, near Lockesburg,
Sewer County, Ark, were hanged by an in
furia.ed party Of citizens.
THE Department of State has issued
. pamphlet containing the report of Mr..
Scanlon, Chief 1.-THE Bureau of Statistics of
the Department, relative to the pork indus
800 q TTv,sfn GfafAc
ers all phases of the pork trade, and its state
ments are substantiated by European and
American experts, dealers, packers, hog
raisers, shippers, health officers, inspectors,
railroad men, etc. The pamphlet Is intend
ed for distribution In Europe. IT'S object be-
ing to set at rest the existing prejudices
against the whoiesomeness of American pork
products-prejudices that have In many cases
been fostered for pecuniary reasons by those
inimical to the American trade.
THE city of Quebec, Canada, was
visited by most destructive confagration
on the night of the 8:h, which originated at
the corner of st. John and Oliver Streets and
spread SO rapidly that the Fire Department
was unable to check Its progress until the
entire quarter Of the city known as the st.
John suburbs, lying midway between st.
swept away. The greatest confusion reigned
and property spared by the flames was freely
plundered by thieves. Several persons are
known to have persisted in the flames. Prob
ably 600 buildings were destroyed, among
them st. Johns Catholic Church, the finest
church edifice in the city. The total loss
is estimated at 81 800 200. The Legislative
Assembly voted $1O0, 900 for the relief of suf-
ferers and large private subscriptions are
being made.
A TERRIBLE riot occurred at Cork,
Ireland, on the 9th, while the races were in
progress. The mounted police charged the
mob. There were a number of casualties
on both sides. Twenty rioters were ar
rested.
THE centennial of the birth of George
the originator of tho railway
June 9,was celebrated i'm various
parts of England, the chief observance being
at Newcastle on Tyne, Stephenson's BIRTH
place, where there was q procession of rail-
way locomotives, nearly every railway COM
pany in the United Kingdom being repre-
scented in the line by its most powerful en-
gines. In the afternoon there was process
sion of trade societies, hundred thousand
persons participating. The occasion was
also celebrated among the railway employees
I'm various parts Of the Continent.
COUNTY JUDGE HARRIS, of Perry
County, Ark, and John L. Mathews, editor
Of the Perryville Times, have been forced to
leave their homes on account Of threatened
violence. The trouble originated in the
prosecution, by order Of Judge Harris, of
two delinquent Deputy Sheriffs, Green Myers
and James Jsham. The Tyi,es nublished