American citizen., 1881-06-04


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AN official estimate of the grain crop
in Nebraska is 105, ,OOO. 900 bushels, an in.
crease over last years crop of about 30 pei
cent. The wheat crop alone is estimated al
100000 bushels, which is a gain Of about
90 per cent.
JOHANN MosT, editor of the London
socizlistic organ, the Freihcit, arrested on q
charge OF melting to murder, has been tried
and found guilty by jury, but recommend
ed to mercy, on the ground that he Is a for
eigner.
The Swedish Government is becom-
ing alarmed and contemplates Legislation in
view Of the emigration, which Is assuming
the proportions of an exodus. Several coun-
ties are practically denuded Of the able
bodied inhabitants.
GEN. ]. A. WILLIAMSON, Commits
sioncr of the General Land-ofiice, has ten
dercd his resignation, for the purpose Of ac-
cepting the appointment OF General Land
Commissioner for the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
way on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
brunch Of that road.
TIE Virginia town elections, held on
the 26th, resulted generally in the defeat OF
the Republicans and Readjusters by the reg
ular Democrats. The friends Of Malone
claim that these local elections were not Sc
riously contested, and afford no criterion OF
the relative strength of the two parties.
TIE United States Treasurer has no
tilted holders Of 5-per-ccnf. bonds that NO
further continuance Of IS at 8 1-2 per cent.
can be allowed, as the limit has been reached.
1t Is estimated I'm the Treasury that the
amount OF bonds continued at 1-2 per cent.
is s6out S650, 900 600. The bonds not cop-
tinued wiz be paid out Of the surplus revc-
jar GOULD has organized a mann
moth express company, to compete with the
Adams and American Express Companies.
A consolidation has been effected, it is said,
between the United States Express Company
running from New York to the West and the
Union Pacific Company, which monopolizes
an the business on the several lines Of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
An appalling disaster occurred near
London, Ontario, on the 24th. The steamer
vicforh, returning from an excursion down
the river, densely laden with passengers,
suddenly collapsed. throwing all on board
into the river, which is at the place Of disas-
ter about twelve feet in depth. OF about
600 persons on board it is estimated thai
nott less than 80 were lost, the bodies o
most of them being recovered.
The Executive Committee of the lows
State Farmers Alliance have organized
Farmers' Protective Associations, under thu
incorporation laws Of the State, and retained
Gen b. f.. Butler, of Massachusetts,, an6
Hon. Chester C. Cole, of Des Moines, a,
counsel. This, It Is said, means a big fgh
against the barbed-wiEe patent monopoly,
all negotiations having failed to secure any
modification of prices for barbed wire te
farmers.
REFERRING to the Malone movement
in Virginia, Washington dispatch says the
President and Secretary Blaine have both
taken very positive grounds against apy sor
Of coalition which would in the least i'm
pair, the Republican organization Of that
State. They want that organization kept
6acf, aud the straight-out Republicans as.
sure them that any fusion with the Read.
justers will split the Republican party ir
twain.
Mr.. CARL ScHURz has become editor
in-chief of the New York Ercning Post, with
Mr.. Horace White, formeriyof the Chicago
Tribune, and Mr.. e. L. Godkin, Of the Ma
toa, rs associates. All of these gentlemen
have been prominently Identified with tn.
s.sLiberalv wing of the Republican party
and II Il understood the paper will, as here
toforc, continue an active support OF Presi
dent Garfeld's administration. The con
trolling interest in the stock of the papel
likewise passes into the hands Of the new
.mspsgement.
Ex-SENAroRs CosKLING and Platt
accompanied by Vice President Arthur and
nrinber Of other prominent New York pol
hieians, arrived at the State capital on tn,
Path. aThe' senior ex-senator received a hos
OF friends during the evening at the Delevar
House. Among the callers was delegation
from the Albany Grant Club, who presented
awritten address, In which Grant and Conk
ling were extoIIsd as the sayiors of the Re.
publican party in the late Presidential cam
paign, and denouncing Secretary Blaine fol
his alleged malignant warfare upon thos,
gentlemen ana their friends. Mr.. Conklin;
received the address, saying he would not b,
able 70 read IL 1t present.
The Northwestern River Improve
n,ent and Canal Convention, at its recen
session at Davenport, lows, adopted resolu
tions favoring liberal Government appropri
afi0psf0f system of cheap transportation
by wztsrrsuse, .eosnsctine the Mississippi
River and its tributaries with the Eastern
Atlantic seabpard and the Cult of Mexico
and especially indorsing the scheme for thu
constructfon Of q canal from the Mississippi
River, on the most direct and feasible route
to the Illinois River at Hennepin, and theme,
to the lake at Chicago; also the proposed ces
sion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal anf