American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

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NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
WILLIAM HALLER, q prominent So
cialist, died at Cincinnati on the LIST.
The Indiana Senate defeated tn,
Local Option Law by vote of % to Is.
MR.. A. w. SoPER has been appointed
General Manager of the ST. Louis, Southern
& Iron Mountain Railway.
TIE President, on the LIST, issued {
proclamation converting the Senate In specia
session at noon on March 4.
THE Apportionment bill, passed by
the House, was not acted upon by the Sem
ate, and therefore JAILED to become . law.
FERNANDO wooD was amember-eleci
Of the Forty seventh House, and a special
election will be held In his district to choose
= successor.
GOVERNOR FOSTER COMMITTED to inn
prisonment for life the sentence Of John
Welsh, who w&>.. have been hanged at Free
mont, o., on the 4h
A TELEGRAM from Chill announces
that Don Francisco Calderon has been elect
ed Provisional President Of Peru. Peace
negotiations will probably be resumed
JAY GOULD and party left st. Louis
on the LIST BY special train for . tour Of in
spection over the railway lines controlled by
him in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkan-
sas.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, on the Sd,
formally rendered to President Hayes his
resignation Of the Office of Secretary Of the
Treasury, in order to take his place in the
United States Senate.
The usual Mard Gras celebrations
took place in New Orleans, Memphis and
Shreveport. The weather was fine and the
attendance unusually large, especially Of
Northern visitors at New Orleans.
A Swiss colony has purchased 10000
acres of land near London, Laurel County,
ately and they will be followed by more
when suitable locations are procured.
DUBLIN telegram of the 28th says
Mr.. Hearne, land agent to the mother of
the late Lord Mountmorris, was fred at by
two men, near his residence at Ballinrobe,
and MORALLY wounded. He received six
pistol shots.
A TERRIBLE gale prevailed of the
coast Of Newfoundland on the 1st. A num-
Every boat in st. Johns Harbor was de-
stroyed. The storm Is said to have been
the worst known In sixty years.
The public debt statement issued
March 1 shows . decrease in the debt for the
month Of February Of $11, $40, 155. Cash in
the Treasury, $235, 20S. 1z6; gold and silver
certificates, 81, AS, 40; certificates Of de-
post outstanding, s, 965. 900; refunding GER
tidcates, S7S2, $50; legal-tenders outstanding,
$346 1851 ,O16; fractional currency outstand-
ing, $I5,53O, 347, less amount estimated as
losts 81 destroyed t$s.s75, ss4), s., 1A.41a.
THE Sandwich Islands are being de-
vastated by smallpox and other epidemic
diseases. At Honolulu panic exists, and
possible by sailing vessels, the mail steamers
refusing to land or take on passengers. The
sanitary condition of the city Is represented
rs being most wretched. There Ii not q
sewer within its limits and its site IL honey
combed with vaults that have not been
cleaned in quarter of . century.
The Minnesota State Capitol at st.
Paul burned ON the night of the 1st The
fire broke out while both Houses Of the Leg
islature were in session, and the flames
spread 50 rapidly that some of the law
makers had to escape by means of ladders.
The building was burned to the ground, en-
failing loss to the State of about $100, 200,
besides the destruction Of the Historical and
Supreme Court Library, which can not be
Altogether replaced. The State records and
trust bonds were stored in hre-proof vaults
and thereby saved.
THE Irish landlords, in consequence
of the passage of the Coercion bill, are TAX
ing united action for evicting defaulting
tenants, and win endeavor to supply their
places with Protestant tenants from Ulster
and elsewhere. The eviction of Rev. Pat
rick Hurley, the parish priest Of Kilkoman,
Kings County, has created no little conster-
nation. Other evictions are now Of daily
occurrence. The League has issued circu-
las to the Secretaries Of branch Leagues |
throughout Ireland, asking the details Of all
evictions since January1.
A LATE Dublin dispatch says: The
police are very active making arrangements |
for arrests, and lists Of persons have been |
prepared for immediate presentation TO the |
viceroy. The Land League will net be In |
terfered with 10 long - IT kesDs within |
reasonable bounds. Owing TO the near
approach Of enforcement Of the Coercion |
bill, several persons from the other side of |
the Atlantic disappeared from Dublin. The
Fenian element there il considered con- |
temptible, and the authorities know every |
thing connected with 1t.
A WEIGHING train on the Hannibal |
& 81. Joseph Railroad was dispatched from |
Brook Geld, Mo-, ON the morning Of the LIST |
to the assistance Of . regular passenger train, |
ditched, near Bevier. The re-
lief train was composed Of two wrecking |
cars, . caboose. and one passenger-car. |
There were on the train number Of railway |
employees, surgeons and citizens Of Brook |
field. IL had proceeded q short diasnce and |
had got upon Brush Creek bridge, which ia |
n Howe trusse, about one hundred feet long,
when the bridge gave way with . crash. The |
engine went over the bridge safely and did |
NOT leave the track ut all. The derrick car |
also passed over the bridge, but left the rails |
afterward and went . hundred |