American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-02-06
NEWS ITEMS.


In one of the wards of New York
there is grog shop to every fifty seven
persons.
Empress Eugen is afraid Of cor>
pulency, and has taken to a diet of vim
egar and slate pencils.
In England there are Eve people TO
one porker. In the United States it is
the reverse.
Some of the French newspapers
speak of the American Minister in Par,
is as General Dixie"
A woman in Michigan asked for a
divorce from her husband because he re>
fused to ear a mustache.
The New York and Massachusetts
Legislature have before them bill all
lowing husband and wife to testify against
each other
"A sacrilegious wretch in Buffalo has
been detected in robbing the contribu-
tions of church. He was left OF BY
giving his check for $3.50. =
A Harrisburg correspondent of
Philadelphia paper nominates louis w.
Hal, Speaker OF the State Senate, for
United States Senator in 1869. Hs
Vim. NJ. Meredith, late Attorney
General of the State, has baen named in
connection with the Republican nomina,
tior for the Supreme Bench.
The Cincinnati Cymmsrcial expires
ges the opinion that Major Gen George
II. Thomas stands a better chance to be
the next President than other any man.
The Feniau leaders in New York
advertise two thousand stand of arms.
principally muskets and Springfield ri.
fes, all ready for instant use
The TtIbme's Washington special
says tie person who wrote the letter con
cerning Mr.. Motley, is an agent of Sew>
ard, and is now an applicant for the
place. .r
Que of the ,uriosities of the Uni
versal Exhibition will be gallery devo>
ted to the history Of labor, classed in ten
sections, and arranged in chronological
order. ,..
The Herald's Washington special
says it is reported that the / louso Com
mittee ou Whisky Frauds have conclu-
ded to report the repeal Of so much of
the law as relates to distileries, and tax
them on the capacity of their stills
-Real Admiral Smith says it would
be hesper for Government to double
or treble the PENSIONS of aged and de-
crepid sailors and soldiers, and let them
live at home, Than to maintain nstitu.
tlons for their care.
The widow OF the late Rey. Mr.. Hor-
ton, of Massachusetts,, whJ vas murders
ed in the Jqly yigts at New Orleans,
sought to recover damages against the
city, but al the prominent lawyers de-
eliucd to aid her.
Henry Van Reed has received tn
Republican nomination for Mayor OF
Reading, Pennsylvania. The Republi-
cars carried the city by J. sMall minority
in October last, although the Democracy
have usually been successful
The assembling of the Principal
Generals of the country at Washington
is supposed to mean something in part1c>
ular, the version of the best Informed
being. after consultation, orders are to bo
Issued looking to the bettof protection OF
Union men in the South.
The constellation of Corona has a
star which, from its peculiar appearance,
IS termed the Burning Star" 1t has at
tracted unusual attention among the as-
tronomers both in Europe q nd America
The extraordinary outbarsts or changes
in its apparent size and condition leaves
but lit lie doubt that it is burning world
The following is the conclusion of
an epitaph on tombstone in East Tens
nessee: "Shc lived life of virtue. and
died of cholera morbus, caused by eat
ing green fruit in the full hope of
a blessed Immortality, at the early age
of twenty>toAT years, seven months and
sixteen days. Reader, go and do like
wise.Y -.r
TORONTO, February 1.-The total
number of Fenians held here since June
is 107 The following is the disposal
made of the cases; Twenty two convic>
ted, twenty acquitted, forty,four dismiss.
ed for want Of evidence, thirteen dis
charged on ball. and three remaining still
for trial. The condemned will be sent
to Kingston Peniteutiary.
The HcrqIRs New Orleans special
says: 1t is understood if the Lsgisla-
tuIe passes the bill for the New Consti-
tuition over the veto of Gov. Wells, he
will issue proclamation declaIing the
convention of 1864 legal, and reassem.
bling it. The radicals are organizing the
Grand Army Of the Republic all over the
State, and a conflict between the Raids
Gals and the ex Confederates is not i'm
probable d .Hi5u-i lsg .fl. m
"A case is now before the United
States Supreme Court iu which Texas
sues the Treasury Of the United States
for large amount of State bonds seized
by the Government at the close OF the
war. This is the frsls clusc before the
Supreme Court in which an excluded
State has been party since the war and
il must evoke a decision as to whether
the Southern country maintains its sta
tus of State boundaries.
Last Spring aud Summer the Dem,
ocrats aud CONSERVATIVES found good
deal of solid satisfaction in denouncing /
Conorasa aud In r.radi intiner that tha ,,oo ]