American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| prisoners IN the south Carolina Henltentiar.
at Columbia was recently discovered ant
frustrated. The convicts had nearly all il
some way provided themselves with axes
knives, clubs and pieces of chain, and will
these weapons intended to overpower and i
necessary kill all the prison officials. Tw'
negroes under sentence of forty years TO
murder were the ringieaders.
j. w. ROBE, q prominent lawyer o
Astoria, Ore, was shot dead in his office OIL
the Goth. The murderer is believed to be j
G.. Robson, with whom Robb had some
legal difficulty.
The Minnesota and Red Rivers in
Minnesota have overlooked their banks
causing great destruction to property.
A NUMBER of persons, mostly EN-
ployees, were seriously injured by the burn
ing of box factory at Greenpoint, n. Y.
AN Omaha dispatch of the goth says
All the buildings ON the levee have been
abandoned, the water being twenty inches
higher than during the late flood. On the
Council Bluffs side the Chicago railroads
send their passengers two or three miles in
skiffs to the transfer depot.
| WILL LITTLE and Nathan Lynn, en-
ployess in a mower and reaper works at
| Youngstown, o., were crushed to death by
| a car of lumber.
ANOTHER audacious address to the
| Gar has been issued by the Nihilists, point
| ing out that the indiscriminate execution OF
those concerned in the assassination of Alex
ander III. has only served to strengthen the
ranks of the Nihilists by driving many luke
warm maicontents into the extreme faction
of the party.
THE breaking of the Sny Levee at the
| head of Sand Slough, just above Hannibal,
Mo. on the 18th, caused the inundation of a
large section of the fertile bottom lands adj
jacent. Several ice-houses were carried
away.
THE Texas & st. Louis Narrow-gauge
Railroad is now open for business to Corsi-
cana, 203 miles from Texarkana.
THE steamer City of Austin, of the
Mallory Line was wrecked on Pelican Shoals,
mile inside Fernandina bar, Florida, on the
Goth, and is a total loss. Boat and cargo both
well insured.
HATTIE MOSLEY, a servant girl at
Middlesex, Pa, is thought to have under
gone the supreme agony of being buried
alive. Upon opening her coffin it was found
that she had tried to free herself, and her
countenance plainly exhibited the most in
tense suffering.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed
the following Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for the en-
suing year: S. T. Everett, Cleveland, o.;
r. H. Baller, Racine, Wis.,; Chas. b. Peck,
Port Huron, Mich. Geo. w. Frost, Omaha,
Neb. and A. Kountze, New York.
SEVENTEEN indictments have been
found against r. L. Lindsay, OF land fraud
notoriety. Seven are for forgery in the first
degree and seven in the fourth. Nine in
dictments were found against John Brady
and four against Herman Schuster.
Mrs. SARAH E. HOWE, President of
the Ladies' Deposit Bank at Boston, has
been convicted of the frauds with which she
stood charged.
w. L. PAYsoN, builder and contractor,
lately of the firm of Payson & Lindley, miss
ing from Halliston, Mass, is alleged to be
forger to the amount of $40, 900. Besides this
his liabilities are large.
CONTRACTS have been entered into
with steamship owners at Hull, England, for
the transportation of 60,oOO emigrants from
Norway and Sweden to the United States.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD's will leaves
Manor and all his other prop
erty to his nephew, Conyngsby Ralph Dis
raeli.
Two cadets and four sailors were
killed, nine men seriously and two officers
and seven men slightly injured by the burst
ing Of . shell on training ship at Wilhelms-
haven, Germany.
CRAIG MITCHELL, a colOred voudoo
was arrested atLouisville, KY,
charged with an indecent assault upon a
young girl at Frankfort, who died from the
effects. The penalty for this crime is death.
TExBoNr & VALLEAU, dealers in
stock, grain, etc, at DEBORAH, Iowa, have |
failed for about $1,000
THE completion of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Road to Las Cruces, N. NJ, |
was celebrated with imposing ceremonies. |
Speeches were made by Don Miguel Otero, |
Vice. President Of the New Mexico & South |
.rn Pacific, for the railroad company, and |
Hon. J. B. Newcomb and A. j. Fountain |
'or the people of Las Cruces. After the |
peaking the road was formally baptized |
with pure native wine, the product of the |
amous Mesilla Valley, of which Las Cruces
s the center. Among those assembled to |
witness the celebration were hundpeds of |
men and women, with heads white with age,
Who never before saw a railroad. Las Cruces
s 800 miles from st. Louis and fifty miles
rom Ell Paso, which place the track will
each about the 18th of May.
SINCE the assassination of the Car
he Empress has been suffering from severe
lysteric attacks. Threatened with death of
he most horrible description, should Sophie
'ieffosky and Hessy Helfmann, the two
women implicated in the assassination, be
she made most strenuous exer-
ions to obtain their pardon, and received a
'romise to that effect. She did not discover
he deceptive character of this promise until
fter the execution Of Pieffosky, and the dis
overy threw her into a violent paroxysm.
GLASGOW (Scotland) papers state that
Marshall, aged IA years, the daugh-
er of railway laborer, has not taken food
ince the beginning of the present year. She
axes little water daily, but scarcely sleeps.
he is greatly emaciated, but her pulse is
erfectly natural.
THE Catholic Archbishop and Bish-
ps Of Ireland have sent to Gladstone a
cries of resolutions conveying their views
8 to the amendments to the Land bill. They
commend perpctuity of tenure to future
enants, deprecate the exclusion from the
enefits of the bill Of lease holders and ten
nts In arrears, recommend further limita-
ion OF the landlords power TO object to an
Intending tenant, to resume possession and
o raise the rent, strongly condemn the emil
ration provisions and the omission Of labor
rs from the benefits bill, and recommend a
scheme for the purchase and
Of waste lands, arterial drainage,
nd liberal advances to tenants for improve
lents.
The Girard Point Elevator at Phila- i.
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