American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-12-26
NUMBER 4.
NEWS ITEMS.

siding at So Boulevard Malesherbcs,
Paris.
- Russia has proposed general con
ference relative to the position Of tho
Christians in Turkey.
twenty-five Wisconsin banks are
winding up, and will be closed about the
10Th of this month.
1t is reported that Admiral Farragut
will succeed Admiral Goldsoorough in
the command ofthe Mediterranean squad
ron.
There Is gang of villains iu New
Orleans who kidnap little children on the
streets and then obtain reward by re-
turning them.
The occupation of croakers iu the
South will soon be gone.
Utah conceals more crime than any
other territory in the Union.
Mrs John Morrissey has given ST.
800 in aid of new raid upon Carada.
A Richmond paper speaks of the
present Congress as "lhe Wreckers."
loves best arrow is tipped with gold
and his best quivcr casket Of jewels.
The newly discovered gold fields in
Canada are pronounced very rich.
The petroleum belt" IN Califoruis
is 700 miles long and forty or fifty miles
wide
Frank Browuell, Ellsworth avenger,
is now on duty at st. Louis as Assistant
Commissary of Musters.
General Grant has purchased 29s
acres Of land ten miles from St. Louis for
$4,000
"A Norwich, Conn, clergyman offers
to forfeit SO 900 if quart of pure spir-
its can be found in that city.
-Donati's great comet will be visible
to mortal eyes again in the year $685.
Cut this paragraph out for reference.
"A bill is before the Alabama Legis~
lature to divide the school fund pro ra-
ia between the white and black schools
There are cellar residences in New
York which, at high tide, are half full
of water. The children are sometimes
imprisoned by the flood.
The receipts from internal revenue
on Saturday were 1858 Clio. Two hund-
red and ten patents will be issued from
the Patent Office for the present week
The Gazette dc France is the oldest
newspaper extant 1t is now in its two
hundred and thiry:sixth year, and was
already mature before the revolution
of 1858.
The large number of 235, IL emf,
giants arrived in New York for the year
1866 to December IL total for the year
will be about 240, 900, number not sur.
| passed since the year of the Irish famine.
New York and Brooklyn have uni
ted police force Of 2,l7l. During the
past year the arrests in New York were
| 1868, and II ,967 in Brooklyn; total,
1906.
1t is ntimated by Pittsburgh Feni-
ans that the llavre line of steamships are
to be purchased BY the BrothGShood and
Immediately fitted out to prey upon Eng
| lish commerce.
The New York World says that
| Bishop Hopkins, during a recent trip
through the South, did not hear dis.
loyal word spoken. This is the same
witness who could not see any disloyalty
in the South during the rebellion.
The Nashville Telegraph warns the
people of Tennessee against Yankee
school marms," Yankee preachers, and
1 Yankee mechanics. 1t took some time
to open friendly intercourse with Japan,
| and we may hope to susceed finally at the
| South
In the course of an article upon the
subject of labor, the Charleston Courier
| states that the best plan for laboripg in
South Carolina during the ensuing year
| is undoubtedly that Of paying wages to
| the colored people. Owing to the gen,
eral want of capital it is, however, be,
lieved that lands will generally be work
ed on the share plan.
The report of the Surgeon General
shows that faithful army surgeon is of
tentimes exposed in battle to oil the dan
gers which belong to the so called fcom-
batant officers" In all 336 surgeons
died dnriug the war. OF these, 90 we're
killed in battle 10 died from wounds
IL were accidentally killed died in
rebel prisons Of yellow fever; of
cholera, and 27l died of other diseases
OF actual casualties in battle there were
64, of whom 80 died.
| We chmrn, an important witness in
the Conspiracy trial, has been implicated
| by Surratt as one of the chief movers
and originators of the plot which deprived
our country Of the lamented Lincoln
The whereab uts Of Weichman are not
known, he having quit Washington sew
eral months ago It may not be improb-
able that Surratt seeks to avenge his
mothers death by falsely accusing this
witness. The investigation will be anx>
iously awaited.
Henry Keep, now the greatest "Rail-
| road Baron" in the Unitel States, being
President of the New York Central, con-
trolling also the Michigan Southern and
Northern Indiana, of which he is Treas
urer. and also the Cleveland and Toledo,
| Was BON in Jefferson county. New York,
and landed in Rochester, N. Y, penni-
Iss ornhap how about thirty wears aoo