American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-13


. Hilyard (colorcd), ex-Gov. Famaso, of Ne
brlska, and T. G. Jones. of Ohio, TO visit tn,
arid regions of the West and investigate
whether they can be made to have any mar
ketable value.
THE continued war of the trunk line.
on passenger rates West has finally rc>uIict
in n reduction of fares to the East. All tn,
lines have been selling tickets fr~m Boston
and New York to Chicago at a net price %
81. On the the Grand Trunk Chicago
Office placed Boston tickets sale nj -, and
IL was expected other routes would at once
meet the reduction. The 81. Louis road,
are not directly involved in this fight. but
have made slight reductions in fares 10 ali
points North and East.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
is completed to Durango, $50 miles southeast
of Denver. This road opens up the San Juan
mining regions, which have so long been
isolated.
GOVERNOR TARRANZAs, of Chihua-
hua, on the Sd at Ell Paso drove the silver
spike which unites the United States and
Mexico by rail.
ATrORNEY-GENERAL MACVEAGH has,
at the request Of Postmaster General
James, given an opinion to whether TN
| der the act of Congress OF April !, 1880, al
lowance for expedition in carrying mails is
| limited to 30 per cent. of the original con-
tract. The Attorney General holds that the
law specifically makes this limitation,
and that it can not be exceeded;
that the Postmaster General can not go
| beyond this limit, and the expedited
service must provide an increase of
office and material employed to correspond
with the increase of pay as compared with
the original contract. This opinion is an Of
fetal condemnation Of the system followed
by Brady in the star-route matters Of in
creasing the pay Of expedited routes out of
all proportion to the original service con-
tracted for. and to the increase of material
and men actually employed to carry out the
expedited service. The Department will
follow this opinion, and stick to so per cent.
limitation in increase.
THE EXCESS of exports of merchandise
over imports during the year ending June 30,
1881, was $3.50, 726, 254 against $167 ,6S3, 912
during the previous fiscal year. The excess
of imports of gold during the past fiscal year
was S91, les $50, aud the previous year S75,-
sol 1871. During last fiscal year the value Of
exports Of merchandise amounted to $9O2,-
319,413, being larger than ever before in the
history OF the country. The value of imports
of merchandise was S642, 593, 219, which was
larger than during any preAous year with
the exception of the year Immediately pre-
ceding.
JAY GOULD has purchased an interest
in the National Stock-yards at East St.
Louis.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
By the explosion of fire-damp at the
Phoenix Park Colliery, at Pottsville, Pa,
John T. Welch and Edward Brady, miners,
and Michael Moore and Jas. Brown were
badly burned. WEIGH was n labor reform
representative in the last Legislature.
FIVE prisoners attempted to escape
from Folsom (Cal.) Prison. overpowering
the guard and securing weapons. Other
guards pursued them, killing Geo. Walker |
and shooting Bob Durkin through the leg. |
George Luston jumped in the river and was
drowned. John Cooney and James Gordon
surrendered.
AT Valley Station, KY, Geo. M. AL
sop, accused of forgery, and hard case
generally, killed Constable j. s. Harrison, |
who was attempting to arrest him. The
murderer had not been captured at last ac-
counts.
Two indianapolis roughs, John and
Thomas Carney, assaulted a car-driver
named VIM. Collier, who drew revolver
and fired two shots, killing them both. The
shooting is considered justifiable.
AT Lexington, Ky, Capt. c. NJ. Hen
bricks, of the police force, was SHOT dead in
attempting to arrest Charles Steele, a negro
saloon keeper. Steele was arrested.
II. ANDREWS, young farmer living
northeast Of Marion, Iowa, was thrown from
a wagon ind Killed by the team running
away. His body was found by the road
side.
NEAR Kokomo, Ind, the locomotive
Of passenger train on the Toledo, Delphos
& Burlington Railway went into the ditch
while making fast time, and NJ. X. Blinn and
J. A. Glenn, engineer and fireman, sustained
probably fatal injuries.
AT Marion, Ala, A. King, ex-Mar-
shal, entering his gate, had six shots fired at
him. The body was ridded with bullets,
and death was instantaneous. Six negroes
have been arrested.
AT Dyersburg, Tenn, on the I'd, Mike
Wells, negro, was lynched upon con-
Tossing an assault upon the person of Mrs.
J. T. Childress.
MCKEEsPORT, Pa, and surrounding
Is intensely excited over the murder
Of George Mcclure and the serious wound
ing OF SOnstaDie rlcmiuS ny SaHS Ol
thieves. Large forces of armed men are in
search of the murderers. Six men supposed
TO belong to the gang have been arrested at
West Newton.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, the fourteenth
victim of the explosion at Waolper's distil-
cry, Peoria, died on the 4th, leaving only
Jour of the injured dlive.
A SMALL yacht sunk off the coast of
Baleshire, Scotland. Five persons were
including three ladies.
NATHAN o. GREENFIELD, six times
for murder of his wife, in 1873,
was hanged at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 9Th.
THREE daughters of d. o. Barley, a
armer living near Sherman, Texas, aged
seven, nine and eleven years,
playing beside a stack OF new mown hay,
we're struck by lightning and instantly
>iled.
AT Petersburg, Va, John w. Green,
merchant, and W. II. Lee, of
L4ittleton, n. e, u,ed knife and pistol upon
zach other with fatal results. The quarrel
grew out of refusal to drink on the part of
he latter.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Colorado Iron Works at Denver,
with nearly all the machinery, burned on
he 1st- Loss, S125,00O; insurance, S4I, 800.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, and vicinity
mas been visited by a severe storm. Grain {
fields and stacks suffered heavily, and tele-
graph wires were blown down in every di- :
-cciion.
The Vicksburg quarantine station has ,