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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The imminent danger to the great
American bottom from flood, which has
been threatening for days, is gradually grow
Ing greater, and at present the indications
are that the worst will be realized. Already
miles Of country are submerged, and the
great Father Of Waters is still increasing in
volume.
SENATOR DAWES, Chairman of the
Republican Caucus Committee, had a con-
ference with the President on the Both. The
President was emphatic in urging the con-
sideration of executive business, and especi-
ally rapid confirmation of the nominations.
The British steamer Tarara, of Mel
bourne, has been wreck ed on the reefs off
Otago, New Zealand. Eighty persons were
drowned.
A TELEGRAM from Galway, Ireland,
says baiiiff named King was seized by a
gang OF disguised men and roasted over fire
until he swore IN would resign his office.
Kings condition is believed to be hopeless.
WALTER LLOYD and Thos. Stanton,
miners, were fatally injured at Basic Col.
liery, Poitsville, Pa, by an explosion of sui
phur.
The Earl of Shrewsbury has eloped
with Mrs. Miller Mundy, of Shepley, Derby
sHHc- Inc luSltINe pair lieu 10 StraSDurg,
where the lady's relatives overlook them,
gave the Earl a sound thrashing, and brought
the lady back to England.
CHILLY the Kid,' in Jail at Lincoln,
N. NJ, under death sentence, escaped few
days ago, killing Deputy Sheriff j. w. Bell
and Deputy United States Marshal Bob
Singer.
Two well-to- do merchants committed
suicide the other day-John w. Minturn, of
New York, and Henry w. Mead, of Chicago.
GRANTS reception in Mexico was at
tended by the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Con-
gress, Diplomatic Corps, and an immense
throng.
A BOY named Farrell was dangerously
wounded in Dublin, for giving information
which led to the discovery of arms. The
crime is supposed to be the work of Fenians
The city has been proclaimed under the
arms act. John Dillon, homc-rule member
of Parliament for Tipperary, will be arrest
ed.
THERE are LOLA cases of smallpox
in the London CEng.) Hospital, and only
one bed available. The epidemic has much
increased in violence lately. About 10 pei
cent Of the cases prove fatal. During the
tai from smallpox.
A MESSENGER from Itarem, Chief of
Tanurego Of Hoggar, Algiers, has been ar.
rested with letter from Itarem to the Sui. |
tan of Turkey, announcing the massacre of |
Col. Flatter's expedition, and asking the |
Sultan for a reward.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

APRIL 26.-Mr. Edmunds asked leave for
the Committee on Judiciary to sit during the
recess of the Senate, if that should ever occur.
to pursue investigations on the subject of
bankruptcy. Without objection leave was
granted. Mr.. Jones, of Florida, replied to por-
tons of Mr.. Fryc's recent speech. A vote
upon motion to go into executive session, to
the surprise of both sides, announced
yeas 81, nays 20. This was explained by
Lamar, who. paired with sherman, had
draw his VOTE and the motion was then lost.
APRIL PA resolution by Mr.. Morgan,
making consent by this Government neces-
sary precedent to the execution of projects
for the transportion of sea going vessels
across the Istnmus connecting North and
tee on Foreign Rotations. After several inef-
fectual roll calls the usual motion for cxecu-
tive session was lost.
APRIL 2S.-Mr. Butler addressed the Sem
ate. He read from the record q recent colo
guy between Mr.. Burnside and himself, in
which he said he would resign his seat If he
did not prove that there had been n bargain
between Malone and Republicans. While
making no charge against the Senator from
Virginia, for whom lie had the kindliest feel
ings, since that gentleman and his friends had
charged the Democrats with revolution and
treason, he felt it his duty to vindicate his po-
sition by citing in detail the arguments which,
in his Judgment showed conclusively that
such n bargain had been consummated. He
was replied to by Messrs. Burnside and Hale.
Adjourned till Monday.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The average yield of Indian corn
per acre throughout the United States
is 20. 2 bushels.
An evaporating establishment at
Spencerport, N. Y, last fall evaporated
1864 bushels of apples and shipped
them in fifty-pound boxes to Russia.
The Director of the Bureau of Sta
tistics at Vienna has issued table
showing that in Europe. of 103;S indl-
viduals who have lived beyond the age
of ninety, 60, 303 are women.
Examinations of samples of milk
obtained from many stores in New
York City by the officers of the Board
of Health lead to the conclusion that
about one-fourth of it was water added
by dealers, who were thus making the
people pay about S12, 900 per day for
Crotof1.
According to a paper by DR.. Bed
doe, which is supported by statistics
from all parts of England, the size of
the average Englishman's head is less
by a seventh of an inch than it was a
3 quarter OF century ago. Acontrary
belief has hitherto obtained.
The State Geologist of Colorado.
Prof. j. Alden Smith, gives the infor-
nation that "the mineral yield of Gil
pin County is 1886 annually, for every
man, woman and child in the county"
This is quadruple the production per
capita of the best agricultural county in
the whole country.
The plans for the new Tay Bridge
are now completed. The foundation
piers are of brick to the height of about
t1ine feet above high water On these
the supporting columns are to be placed.
Over the navigable part of the river the
spans will be fifty-eight feet six inches
in height. The new bridge will be i'm
mensely strong and it is thought that
the fiercest gale will not have the least
effect on it.
The great Arlberg tunnel, one of
the longest in the world, is announced
as begun. On the western side of the
Ar1berg the progress of boring is
seriously retarded by the rush of guam
titles of water; on the eastern side the
rock is micaceous slate, which allows
rapid work. 1t seems that the geolo-
gists advised that the tunnel be bored
through a lower stratum of rocks of
denser material and free from water,
but their advice was disregarded.
There are now under cultivation
around Charleston. 8. c., within a con-
venient distance from the railroad de-
pots and wharves, about $50 acres of
strawberries, which will, with favor
able season, furnish for shipment to
New York alone 100000 quarts of
berriesi about l 800 acres of potatoes.
with an aggregate probable out turn of
60. 900 barrels; about 800 acres of toma-
toes, and about the same number of
acres in pease and beans. These farms
Ia 80
of great profit to the owners when they
can get the crops to market early in tho
season. The strawberry crop, which is
the most valuable, is well advanced.
and the season promises to be early,
and, consequently, profitable.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
Death Of q Female Miser.

THERE died a few days ago, at CornwallviiIe
Greene County, N. Y, Harriet Hitchcock, q
MAIDEN lady, with no companion but young
nephew Although she confined to hcl
bed several weeks, she would not consent tc
nave medical aid summoned. Supposiug that
she was an object of charity, her neighbors
gave her food. and furnished nurses when she
became TOO sick to help herself. After her
death 5000 i'll bank notes and some 5000 in
specie was discovered hidden away in her
dweiiing' also, one hundred dresses, many of
them valuable; forty shawls, six sets of silver
spoons, several valuable carpets, five hand
some mirrors eight rocking chairs, seven
'cupboards, ten tables four feather beds and a
large quantity of bedding, several cook AMI
parior stoves, handsome oil paintings, and
other articles Stove wood was sccreted under
the carpets, and jars of butter and lard put
away, which were rancid and unfit for use. 1t
is mystery to her ncighbor how Miss Hitch
COCK accumulated her possessions. Two
nephews are her sole heirs.--N. Y. Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

| Bishop Faire, of Montreal, con-
1emns the practice of swearing Catholic
witnesses on a Protestant Bible as sin.
The highest salaries paid to New
York City clergymen are $l5, 200 to DR..
| John Hall, and S12, 900 each to DIR. Dix
of Trinity Church, and DR.. Potter of
Grace Church.
The Jews of Hungary form less
than five per cent. OF the population,
but they furnish eighteen per cent. OF
the university students, and twO-thirds
of the Jewish students study jurisprud-
ence.
Mr.. Benjamin F. Porter, of San
Fernando, Los Angeles County, Cal,
has offered to give 1000 acres of land
and 1000 sacks of barley annually for
five years provided the California Nor
mai School is located there.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
decided that German may be taught in
mon education" the term referring to
the studies in the schools, no matter il
what language they are taught.
Mrs. Mary N. Bliss, of Columbus.
Ohio, has given $40, 900 to Kenyon Col
called Hubbard Hail." as a memorial
to her deceased brother, George Hub
bard. The hall is to contain a gymna-
SUM, Offices for the President, the Vice
President, and the Treasurer, and a
lecture and apparatus room for the
Professor OF Physics.
The Rev. Newman Hall, in speak
ing of the need of "revivals'' in Lon
don, says that. taking a rough estimate.
it is considered in round numbers that
London has four millions of people, of
whom one-half might at one time be ut
church; but for these two millions there
is only church accommodation for one
half, and of these one million of seats
only half a million are at any one time
occupied.
"A meeting i'll aid of the fund to sup
ply raised-letter books for the blind was
held in Boston the other evening, and
considerable money was subscribed.
The intention is to raise permanent
fund of $4,000. Miss Laura Bfidg-
man. the celebrated deaf, dumb and
blind girl, was present at the meeting,
and read from one of the prepared books
of the Scriptures, the passages being
traced by her with the fingers of one
hand and communicated by the fingers
of the other to an interpreter, who
spoke them to the audience.
The late Eliza j. Walllngford, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, bequeathed $1,000
each to the Board of Foreign Missions
of the Presbyterian Church, the Board
OF Home Missions. the Board of Educa-
ton and the Presbyterian Board of Re-
lief for Disabled Ministers and Widows
and Orphans of Deceased Ministers;
50. 900 each to the Trustees of the Cen
eral Assembly and the German Theo-
logical School, Dubuque, Iowa; $1,000
each to the Board of Church Erection
Fund of General Assembly and the Trus-
tees of the Presbyterian Board of Pub
LEGATION. and $4,000 to the Board of
Home Missions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
STwO TJ.lar2"

There was a slight blaze on the roof
of house on Russell street few days
ago, and when insurance adjusters went
up to make their survey they found that
about two dollars would cover all the
loss.
1.-TWO tollar," exclaimed the owner,
when he heard the decision-'I can't
take no two tollar."
''But you see for yourself that dozen
shingles and an hours work will make
good all damages.
"Gentlemens, you doan' put me off
like dot. When my vhife finds dot we
vhas on fire she creams boleece, and
murder, und falls down sthairs. Would
you let your White fall down sthairs for
dot sum. If SO goes home init you
und sees der fun
1--WE do not insure husbands and
wives, but buildings" was the reply.
II know; but mein oldest poy he runs
for der 'fre-box und falls picket fence
oafer und breaks his good clothes all to
pieces. Two dollars! Dot doan' bay
me for coming op here"
Eyes. but we can only pay for actual
damages"
dots allII vhant. Who stole my
dog when my house vhas on firep Dot
dog ish gone, und he vhas ten dollars
wort"
1--WE didn't insure the dog"
"Und maybe you don't insure dem
poys who sat on der fence and called
out: Dot ole Dutchman's red nose has
set his house on fire." Do you expect
l take such sass like dot for two dol
lar? Und when der firemcns come here
dey break mein clothes lines down init
der ladders, under spill wasser all oafer
my carpets. Two dollar! Well, vhell!
you go right AWAY from here, und l
takes dot old insurance bolicy und
steps him into.der mudt!"- Detroit Free
Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
Bismarck has salary of SIS, 900 as

Bismarck has salary of SIS, 200 as
Chancellor of the German empire. He
also has twelve horses in his stables.
Pursuant to recent law, tax of about
ten cents for each, of the. horses was
levied upon him.. the total amount of
the assessment being a trife over q dol
lar. He returned a protest against the
tax on the ground that he owned only
ten horses. The number of horses for
which he had been assessed had been
furnished by his own employees. His
demand for a reduction was denied.
This incident was not unlike one. that
had happened before. Bismarck's
house had been assessed by the munich
pal authorities at rs, 900. and a tax of
$3.50 had been imposed upon it. He
entered protest against the valuation
of the property, at the same time ac-
cusing the officials by whom it had been
made of partiality and hostile discrim-
nation against him. for reasons of po-
litical enmity. This charge has been
Indignantly repealed, and the payment
OF the tax enforced. Bismarck was
evidently yet smarting under the house
tax controversy when the horse tax was
imposed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

st. Louis, caused by the conductors AM
drivers strike, practically terminated on tn
2Sth, when the principal lines resumed bust
ness under the protection of the entire pc
lice force of the city, backed by the Polio
Reserves, who remained under arms ut thci
armories all day. Fortunately the riotou
proceedings which accompanied the Garlic
days of the strike were not repeated, and n
colhion occurred. The companies made
partial concession to the demands of tn
strikers in reducing the hours of labor, ant
many Of the old EMPLOYEES resumed work.
IT is probable that the New Yorl
Worlds Fair project will be abandoned TO
lack of support.
POSTMASTER GEORGE III. SHOOK, DR.
w. Decker, Morris AXtell, and Charlie
| Wood, of Mt. Clements, Mich, are supposed
to have been drowned in Lake st. Clair Will,
| on a fishing excursion.
L. BoGERT, Deputy Treasurer o
Beaver Dam, Wis, has absconded with 81 IL;
of city funds.
In a bar-room quarrel at Covington
Ga, Harry Horton, bartender, drew
knife and almost severed John Campbell:
head from his body, killing him instantly
Two friends of the murdered man, named
YoDey and Allen, then assaulted Horton, but
Ire used his weapon with such dexterity that
the former was mortally wounded and the
latter painfully cut.
SERIOUS disturbances, originating in
the superstition of the Russian peasantry
regarding Jewish passover rites, occurred
at Elizabethgrade, Government of Kherson.
A mob destroyed the synagogue, and many
rioters were killed by troops summoned to
disperse them.
THREE murderers were hanged on the
29th-John Gothard, colored, at Towson-
town, Nd; Royal S. Carr, at Windsor, VT.
and Marshall b. Baxter, colored, at Char
lotte, n. C.
| ANDREW PORTECK, Adam Uricho and
John Martin were killed by a falling rock in
the tunnel Of the Susquehanna Coal Com
pany at Nanticoke, Pa.
AT Sitting Springs, Inyo CouHty, Cal. ,
three men, two whites and one Chinese,
were murdered while asleep in a cabin. The
murderers are supposed to have been Chi
nese or Indians.
THE residence of James Pearsons,
near Charlotte, Mich, was destroyed by fire
the other night, and his wife and child were
so badly burned they are not expected to
live.
THE business portion OF the village OF
Mt. Morris, Mich, was burned on the 29th
The loss is very large.
CHRISTIAN KOCH, a railroad en-
ployee at Grand Island, Neb., returned home
the other day to find his three children in
bed and his wife on the floor, all with their
Threats cut, and a razor on the table near by.
1t is thought the mother first murdered her
children and then committed suicide.
In New York City, recently, Louisa
Harvey, aged 40, was fatally shot by her
brother, William Mcintosh, because she re-
refused to supply him with money.
AT Providence, Il. l., on the goth,
Maria Stimson Diman, daughter of the late
Professor Diman, of Brown University, was
killed by being thrown from a horse.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
Youths Department.
TRUE LOVE.

"IIow much love you, mother dear"
A little prattler said;
81 love you in the morning bright,
And when i go to bed;
81 love you when I'm near to you,
And when I'm far away:
love You when am at work,
And when am at play"
And then she siyly. sweetIy raised
Her lovely eyes of blue,
love you when You love me best.
And when you scOld me. too
The mother kissed her darling child,
And stopped a tear to hide.
MY precious one, love you most
When am forced to chide.
could not let my darling child
In sin and folly go:
And this is why 1 SOM etfmss ebide--
Because love you So"
-Christidn ObsCrUer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

One of the wonders of the American
forests is the fir tree of Puget Sound.
The trees average 200 feet high, and
some specimens have been cut that
measured 800 feet in length and II feet
in diameter at the base. with u straight
and well-proportioned log-length c. 10
feet to the first limb,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

EMILE DE GIRARDIN, the French
journalist and statesman, is dead, aged 10.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

THE De Lesseps Canal Company are
negotiating for the purchase Of the Panama
Railroad.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

THE Ohio State Grcenback Conven-
ton is called to meet at Columbus on June
10, to nominate full State ticket.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

The police of St. Petersburg continue
to seize printing presses used for seditious
purposes and arrest the Morkmen.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

GOVERNOR AUSTIN has issued a proc
lamation declaring quarantine on the Texas
coast, beginning May 1.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

THE completely of the Grand Duke
Nicholas in the plots of the Nihilists having
been made clear, he has been sentenced by =
decree OF the Emperor of Russia to impris-
onment for life.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

The President has requested the res
ignation of Gen. George A. Sheridan, Recor-
der Of Deeds at Washington, ID. c., and in
tends to put Fred. Douglass in the position.
This is said to be stated on good authority.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

THE British evacuation of Southern
Afghanistan is completed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

AT . recent meeting of the Land
League al Dublin Dillon warned the Gov
eminent that wholesale evictions would not
bd effected without armed resistance. He
said an appeal would be made to the Gov
ernnent to suspend processes for. eviction
and sale Of farms for year. II evictions
were enforced armed resistance would be
offeredADd all the blood shed would be ON
the heads Of Gladstone and Forster.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
Compiled from Various Sources

IT is believed that Chill will annex
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

BRApLAUGH presented himself at the
Speakers table in the House of Commons
and claimed the right to take the oath. He
was called upon by the Speaker to withdraw
and was removed to the bar by the Sergeant
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

A SINGULAR and most terrible disaster
by lightning occurred at Louisville on the
2sth. Four boys, Lee FTeck, Joe Shulty,
VIII Tahalser and Harry Soete, attending
school at Twenty-sixth and Market Streets.
had Just finished n game OF ball at recess and
were grouped together where they had
placed their hats and coats before beginning
the game, when binding flash Of lightning
struck in their midst. Persons who saw
them fall ran TO the spot, and to their hor-
ror found them lying lifeIess on
the ground. All efforts mt resuscitation
were fruitless. The surface Of the ground
was scarcely disturbed, with the exception Of
a hole such as might have been made with
crow-bar. On the ground, two or three feet
from the spot where the bolt entered, could
be seen pieces Of clothing, parts Of shirts,
drawers, suspenders, and fragments OF
boot, all burned and blackened by electric
-, resembling mass Of chopped-up rags.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

THE funeral of Beaconsfield took place
at Hughenden on the 26th. The Prince OF
Wales represented the Queen, and other
members of the royal family and large
number Of the nobility were in attendance.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
SEcRErARr KIRKwoop has

SECRETARY KIRKwOOD has tele-
graphed J. Milton Turner, of st. Louis, Pres
ident of the Freedmen's Oklahoma Associa-
tion, that the question Of the right OF colored
people to-settle upon lands Of Indian Terri
tory would be submitted to the highest au-
thority, and II Turner desires to be heard he
should come to Washington at once. Mean
-timcpo attempt must be made to enter the
Territory.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

A RECENT attempt to evict tenants at
New Pallas, ireland, failed. Five hundred
military and police were present. but a mob
Of 5000 hooted and groaned and stoned the
Sheriff and assistants. The police charged
the mob several times, but the Bailiff's life
being threatened, he refused to point out the
houses OF defaulting tenants. 1t is stated
200 Of the mob were armed with revolvers.
Another attempt to evict will be made
shortly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
A rEKnlBIE calamity occurred at e.

TERRIBLE caiamity occurred at FL
gin, m, sa'ths 18Th. The bridge over the
Fox River having been carried away by the
recent food, small ferry-boat was rugged
up and propelled by means of a wire cable
from shore to sbore. On the morning Of tho
day mentioned the boat started across, bear
ing probably thirty persons, large proper
tion of whom were children on their way to
SCHOOL, When in mid-stream the boat sud-
denly foundered, and those on board were
swept away by the fierce current, lttering
heartrcnding cries for assistance. Boats
from the shors hastily put out TO their re-
lief, and succeeded in rescuing some six
teen persons. The other fourteen were
drowned. The City Council, under whose
direction the frafI craft was built and oper-
ated, are severely censured for their negli-
gence in the matter.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

The President has appointed John X.
BoIes, of Hudson, Mich, and William Nc
Michael, of Philadelphia, members Of the
Board of Indian Commissioners. Col. s. d.
Sturgis and Lieut.. Col. j. s. Mason, have
been detailed respectively as Governor and
Lieutenant Governor Of the Washington
Soldier, Home.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

An American company has been
formed to build line of railroad in Mexico,
to be called the Sinaloa and Durango Rail-
road. 1t is to extend from Altata, on the
Gulf Of California, 40 miles moth Of Mazat-
Ian, to the city Of Durango, in the State OF
the same name, distance of about 30 miles.
At Durango 1t viii connect with the Mexican
Central Railroad, which win extend from
the City Of Mexico to the American frontier
at Ell Paso.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

THE President has designated the fol-
lowing as a Board of yisitorsfor West Point:
Arson Sfager, H.; Milo s. Hascall, Ind. (;
Chas. A. Bautile, Maine; Geo. s. Green,
Rhode Island; Henry b. Ledyord, Mich; S.
s. Laws, Missouri; d. c. Buell., kentucky.