American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-07-03

The following story of the doingS
OF a quaint sort of ii BavaI ian is told
by a correspondent of the Kansas
inst. H6e-whoSe letter appeared i'll
While m ~ q JltS JtSt, -"f-the 10th
| saw ..omething in the shape OF Is
Curiosity that ! think might put old
2 T. Barnum's (of New York; stock
in the background. There lives IL
man fifty Years OF age, who com
menced building a house for him
self in the year 1860. He laid the
foundation, and kept Oh until the
war broke ont, served four years in
the Federal army, and came back to
/ lind his house almost demolished
started to work on it again in 1866,
and has it now all compile ed with
the exception of flooring and win
dowS. The house is built exclusive
! " of Junction City marble, and al s
though there are many houses of the
same material, still it is admitted by
all that none can compare with old
Dutch Jacobs, as he is called Jacob
Mangcr. The stone he dug or quar-
ried himself, hauled it to his house,
places without assistance from any
one Even the mortar was made by
himself. In short, he has a hand
Souie two-story, and cellar house, all
of the finest of that quality of stone,
built all by himself. His well is the
: only portion of his house wherein
he had help in building; thisis forty
. eight feet deep, round as a globe,
t even and smooth as q piece of glass,
/ and walled all the way down by the
: same material of stone of which his
: house is built. Some believe him to
t be about half crazy. He works
, every day in the week, rain or shine
| | offered him my lIand on leaving,
! which he positively refused, saying
| that if he shook hands with me he
f would have to do the same thing
| with every one, and as he believed
:. in friendship as ii humbug, he wished
# to keep his hands for himself.
II asked him what his object could be
n i'll undertaking such IL task as huild-
t ing house without assistance, when
e he answered " You know dat "
) old tam fool hike mo can do ebery-
/ ting, und dat is my pleasure" He
$ is Bavarian by birth, aud, as said
o before, fifty YEARS of age, came tu
/ America in 1913, and has for the
Il past eleven years been living be
+ tween Manhattan, Kansas, and juno
= ton City. has never known u sick
:, day in his lie, and has the frame and
II strength of Il bull: is IA bachelor
II (deSplSeS women. SO | am t0ldl; does
5. all his own cooking, washing, mend
Is ing, and in fact does everYthingn
II FEARFUL DEATH OF A Young
W IFE.--The wife of HeZekial
J, Greeulee, OF &laSon county, west
y Virginia, was Instantly killed, one
,e day last week, under the following
,e circumstances: In company Will
IL her husband, she was returnin.
,r home by u near path through tn,
of woods from neighbours, where he
I'll husband had been at work during
ct the day. They We're walking hant
IS in hand, not dreaming Of any danger
.ir when dead tree they had just pass
ed suddenly fell, brushing tn
shoulder OF Greenlep and strikin;
his wife on the top OF the head
fr crushing her to the earth in on
III solid mass, breaking every bone i
Ut her body, SO that her remains coul
'e' not be recognized as those of a hu
=" man being. Strange to say, vi
Greenlee was not injured III the least
{" further than being stunned for rev CIV
~ seconds. The evening WAS c"l''
", one, and it is supposed that the l'tt "
he which was rotten at thr ''"' ~
way from its weight. MIS- y" IA,
'ct- been married i ntlle less IMAM 81
weeks,