American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Philadelphia Bulletin saws tina
Mr.. Stevens has prepared, and will
report in day or two, an elaborat,
contiscation scheme for the South
which he will support in a CAREFUL,
prepared speech.
The Athens Waterman says thai
large numbers of citizens have left
Northeastern Georgia within the
past few months, seeking new homes
in Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas.
AT Greensboro, Ca, the mortality
is fearful among the negroes of that
vicinity, particularly among the chill
dren.
The President has signed the bill
Which puts the Judge Advocate Gen
eral and his assistants into the regu-
lar army with full ranks. Joe Holt
is at the head of the Bureau.
He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. 1t is your old, dis
sembling hypocrite of whom YOU
should beware. There's no decep-
ton i'll bulldog; it is only the cur
that sneaks up and bites you when
your back is turned.
The Columbus Ider, of the 9th.
says that there are fifty or sixty cases
OF small poX among the negroes in
that place.
a chief justice, now deceased, ad
dressed a jury in the following model
speech: "Gentlenen of the jury, in
his case the counsel on both sides !
ire unintelligible, the witnesses in
and the plaintiff and defen-
liant are both such bad characters
hat to me it is indifferent which way
on give your verdict"
In Elgin, CIV, a few nights since,
woman heard dog barking loudly
t her door. She followed the ami
lal for a mile through the SNOW, and
'und her father in a drift dying of
old.
4 Missouri editor says that the
tdicals in Congress- will soon enact
law requiring mems clothes to be a
ade without pocketS-there will be
D use for them.
a little boy asked his mother what
blood relatiOns' meant? She re.
led that it signitied near relatives, d
G. After thinking a moment, he
nj: then mother yOu must be the .
coolest relation Pve got" U
A shocking affair, resulting in the t
attn OF two persons, occurred near
lellka, Alabama, about week ago.
negro cut the throat of Mrs. Vim
ut, with razor, and was pursued .,
the citizens Of the immediate Pr
l&hborhood of Opelika, when he
S Overtaken. When summoned TO
render, he detied his pursuers and Al
$ shot down. r,
a lady Of Mobile, for the third
ne, has augmented the number of
household by more than one child
a tlme-first two, then three and
" four.
Artemus Ward has left England
the island Of Jersey. By the adj of
e OF Dir. Hastings, he has sudden me me
discontinued his lectures. as the ent
y possible chance of saving his las
:, salt
he negro lawyer Bradley has in, Ag
tel the editor Of the Savannah Re t "
hcdR, before the District Court of r.
United States for libel. AS a ~.
;lmen of composition and orthog- '1a'
ny the bill is unique. -.
he freedmen have rendered a COM M
supper to Gov. Brownlow
the loyal members Of the Ten :,
see Legislature. v Sl
he Exchange Hotel at Raleigh, In
j., was burned on Sunday. Loss i [n
o0o, but was mostly insured.
licago at present contains hun
Is OF houses marked "f0r rent"
the newspapers of that city say
rents are declining. A number VF
ersons in this city would like to i, i in
he same. embr
couple Of gentlemen from Fort ccsept
| county, Texas, passed through every eVts
lie the other day with fifty negro tive a
and Women-nO children-whOm c llps,
had engaged in the District of not re
mDla to work on their planta- 'r4 Th1
on the BrazOs. The government heroi,
shes transportation Tor the whole south
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