American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-27
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
SECRETARY BLAINE has, through the
American Minister at Berlin, extended al
invitation to the representatives of the fam.
lily of Baron Steuben to participate in the
centennial exercises at Yorktown.
GOVERNOR PORTER declines to cal
an extra session of the Legislature of In.
diana.
The conference of the Association for
the Reform and Codifcation Of the Law Of
Nations convened at Cologne, Germany, on
the 18th. The conference will represent all
the principal nations of the world. 1t is the
ninth conference of this association, and Is
expected to surpass all previous ones in
practical benefits to international law, re-
form and arbitration. Among the American
delegates who have left to attend the con-
ference are David d. Field, +. p. A. Barn.
ard, Chas. A. Peabody, Jno. jay, Geo. w.
Cullum, Andrew p. Peabody, Clinton B.
Fisk, and others.
BISMARCK and Windhorst, the Ger
man Ultramontane leader, are believed to
have concluded an alliance which will give
Bismarck n majority in the next Reichstag,
and by which the May laws against the Cath
olics will cease to exist.
HARTMANN, the Russian Nihilist, has
returned to New York from Canada, and
has formally entered the declaration of his
intention to become n citizen of the United
States.
LIEUT.. II. FLIPPER, cOlored, of the
Tenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Davis,
Texas, has been placed under arrest charged
with 'defrauding the Government out of
about 81 600, which passed into his hands
as disbursing officer.
The Anti-monopoly Convention, re-
Gently in session at Utica, n. Y, adopted an
address to the people, also q platform Of
principles. The latter says: Farmers,
manufacturers and merchants alike demand
that they shall have all the advantages which
accrue to them from their favorable position,
and that railroads they have chartered and
endowed with privileges shall be operated
for their benefit and not for their ruin"
The abolition Of free passes by railroad
corporations to legislators is urged, and
the enlargement Of canal and free tolls adj
vocafed.
Ex-Gov. STEPHEN MILLER, of
Minnesota, is dead.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN Martin F. Conway,
of Kansas, who once shot Senator Pomeroy
and has long been confined in an insane
asylum al Washington, d. c., has been re-
leased.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
The August bulletin of the Depart
ment of Agriculture says the FILLING of in
the crop Of spring wheat will not be so large
as generally anticipated; also, that the de-
crease of corn in the West will be less than
expected, but that in the South that crop
will be an unusually small one. The tobacco
crop will also show a decrease in yield.
The condition OF the cotton crop is rated IA
per cent. below the condition at the same
time last year. The plant is generally re-
ported small, and much shedding of bolls in
places.
CAPTAIN HowGArE late of the U. S.
Signal Service, is under arrest charged with
embezzling Government funds. The amount
of his deficit is said to be over SO, 900.
IT is reported that the two principal
barge lines plying between st. Louis and
New Orleans have consolidated under the
name OF the st. Louis & Mississippi Trans
portation Company. The combined capital
of the cid lines was 81 SOC, 900, and the car
rying capacity Of the barges 3, 750, 900 bushels
Of grain. The new company will have o
capital Of 81, 000, 900, and its nominal manager
will be Henry C. Haarstick. Jay Gould is
understood, however, to be the principal
owner.
The National Butter and Cheese As
ISOLATION and Dairy Fair will be held at Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa, in November, and will in
clude dairy products, machinery and implc-
menis, dairy cattle, models Of creameries
and cheese factories. The competition Is
open to the world.
THE recent boom in grain proved dis
astrous to many small brokers and specula-
tors throughout the country who operated
on the shear" side of the market. The KAN
sas City ''bucket-shop, /" run by one Kinzer,
but of which A. s. Orbinson was understood !
TO be the sole proprietor and hacker, closed |
its doors on the 18th and Orbinson 'slit out" |
leaving . number Of his customers to whis- |
tie for their money. r. B. Curtis, proprie- |
tor Of similar institution in st. Louis, was |
also forced to suspend, having lost, as he |
claims, some $50 900 within six weeks. He |
avows his determination and likewise his |
ability to pay every dollar of his indebted
ness.
Iowa farmers are greatly elated over
the discovery Of homemade barbed-
wire fence on the farm Of Samuel Freeman,
In Hickory Grove Township, Scott County,
which it Is claimed was made and erected
by Frceman's son Pembroke in 1851, /
Of the Sfraub patent, now controlled by
Washburn. Moen & Co. The State Associa-
tion have secured the necessary afidavits to
establish the facts In the case, and have strong
hopes Of being able 10 invalidate the obnox-
ious patents.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Bay St. Louis, Miss, negro wife
murderer was forcibly taken from Jail by a
mob Of colored men and hanged.
A GREAT sensation has been caused
Mt Lancaster, N. H., by the reported dis
covery that several deaths that occurred
there last year, supposed to be from diph-
iberia, were really caused by poison. DIR.
Frank Bugbee and Mr.. and Mrs. Towne, all
weIl-known residents. were among the VIC
Tins. Miss Nellie Webb, now Mrs. Mayo,
lived with both families at the time the
mortality prevailed, and she is now
under arrest. Mrs. Mayo has always borne
a good reputation, and what reasons, II any,
exist for suspecting her of the horrible crime,
have not been made public.
The Indian Bureau has received from
Agent Cook at Rosebud Agency an official
report Of the circumstances attending the
killing of Spotted Tail. 1t appears that
Black Crow aspired to be chief in place of
Spotted Tail, and had organized a gang of
that Crow Dog was his chief as
sisiani, and that the murder of Spotted Tail
was the result Of n regular conspiracy to get
him out Of the way and put Black Crow in
his place. Both Black Crow and Crow Dog
are confined at Fort Niobrara, and will be
tried for murder under the laws of the Ter
ritOry Agent Cook has nDDoinfed White !