American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-11-23

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a head.
1t is said General William T. Sher
man is employed on volume about
the war,
To keep your doors from being
broken open by burglars. don't close
them.
Ohio registration reports show one
divorce to every seventy-six mar
riages during the year.
Miss Adah Isaacs Menken created
much dissatisfaction in London the
alter by appearing with her clothes on.
Daniel w. Wilkinson, a prominent
citizen of Brandon for more than
thirty years, died on the 9th.
The Germans of st, Louis have
succeeded in obtaining the repeal OF
the Sunday liquor law in that city.
A widow at the mature age of one
hundred and two was recently mar
ried in Allegheny county, Maryland.
Said Stephen Gerard: "I never
cease to advertise. 1t is an invest
ment that pays at all seasons"
+. One dozen full blooded Coolies,
who have served out their appren-
ticeship in Cuba, arrived in New Or.
leans Friday. ...
James P. Dement,, ST., a well
known printer of Mississippi, died on
the 9th inst, at Meridian, in his fifty
second year.
The new Jail at Opelila, Ala, is
completed, and already occupied by
one VIM. Bowers. horse thief, hail.
ing from Lauderdale county, Miss.
Major Thomas Reed and Captain
w. L. Harper are canvassing in the
interest Of the proposed Matches and
Jackson railroad.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont is en-
gagged, it is said, upon some kind of
literary work, the character Of which
has not been made public.
Colonel Dick Stewart is in Brazil.
Many of our readers will remember
him as Black Dick, or the Fighting
Parson.
Dana's newspaper in New York is
to be in the interest of Grant for
President, and Morgan, of New York,
for Vice President.
Mr.. Dickens, composes in the fore
noon, lunches at two o'clock, takes a
walk i'll the afternoon, and spends
the evening socially.
1t is reported that Gardner & Hem
ming paid Dan Rice $4,000 for ma
king faces at the audiences at thciI
circus, this past season.
The Georgia papers publish the
list of delegates elected in the late
election to the Convention. About
one in five are black.
The New Orleans police have dis.
covered thata large amount of bogus
coin has been received in that city to
be passed upon ignorant negroes.
The President says the result Of
the recent elections has but "con-
firmed his faith in the people, who
were always sure, sooner or later, to
come around all right.
Mr.. James I. Brady, the eminent
New York lawyer, it is said, will
for the defence of Surratt,
on account of the expulsion of Mr..
Bradley from the bar.
Some one has taken the trouble to
count the number of battles that
we're fought during the late war, and
he figures arc 252. OF these sixteen
we're naval engagements.
When Sir Robert Peel began busi-
ness as a cotton printer, he lodged
with his partner, paying eight shil
ings and sixpence perweek for board
md lodging.
Articles between McCool and Co
urn to fight on the 9th of May, for
he championship and $4,000, were
igned at Chicago, on the 10Th inst.
Howard Jenkins, the proprietor of
he Planters House at Platte City,
No., has been killed by negro
whom he had discharged from his
employment.
Wade said the other day, :" if the
Iegroes want land let them work for
t." The New York Times regards
his as "Step backward" and adds:
Ifsuch language isn't high treason
II these days OF the great struggle
'etween capital and oppressed labor
We should like to know what it is.