American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
GENERAL NEWS.
Norfolk, since the war, has grown
from Ia 900 to 10000.

:
'oro, N. c., at 50 per pair.
Violets are blooming in the yards
It Hillsboro, n. G.
An American newspaper has been
started in Floreuce.
The late Gov. Todd left an estate
If $4,000.
The French Prince Imperial is We
ecipeding.
The late lamented king of Siam
eft two thousand widows.
New Jersey is the most Methodist
State in the Union.
Louisville has three thousand un
laborers.
Wolf scalps cost Minnesota &c.
900 year.. .r j
Ten patents day are taken out
by Parisians.
Great Britain had a population OF
80, 1863, 345 in June last.
We imported 100000 worth of
English books last year.
Stewards new store employs one
thousand girls.
Rev. Henry Giles is still a help
less invalid.
Milan projects a monument to Ros-
SIM.
Chignons are hired out by the
month in Paris.
a veloeipede school has started in
New York. ---......-.s
Antelope meat from the plains is
plenty i'll the Chicago market.
Astronomers assert that there are
land and water on the planet Mars.
\ lady in Cincinnati, 'sfat, fair and
forty" has buried her fifth husband
A submarine cable from San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong is talked of.
The Sunday liquor law in Mem
phis is rigidly enforced.
The war of the Serosis continues
without abatement in Chicago.
The proposed East River bridge
will cost New York $50, 600, 900.
A western paper speaks of two
men who fell out of an = intoxicated
buggy"
Ont of 3,429 Jesui;s employed in
missionary work, 759 are in the
United States.
A gentleman in Terre Haute has
given 100000 to establish Il female
seminary.
Three hundred regular; physician
esses are now in practice in the
United States.
Wisconsin has larger proportion
of foreign born citizens than any
other State.
1t is said that the census of 1876
will show the population of the Uni
ted States to be $4,000, 900.
New York city CONSUMES weekly
$500 beeves, II 700 hogs, and -,
600 sheep.
A New Orleans infant in pantalets
has written treatise on entomol
ogy.
Hiram Powers, who will return tC
this country soon, has been absen
thirty one years.
President Timothy Dwight, o
Yale, was the first man in Americ.
to cultivate strawberries.
a Mr.. Bancroft, living in Georgia
has gathered 5000 pounds OF cotton
from one acre.
Virginia has paid s529.000, Q
/ 500, 600, the whole State interes
now due.
Mcclellan has been acquitted o
the murder of lack Jones at Nicks
burg.
The Nicksburg Herald says TIL
Ray mond and Bolton railroad vii
be built.
Men who can't swallow the iron
clad oath are about to be remove,
from Office in Mississippi.
Gen. Lee is said to concur with \
I'll. Stuart of Virginia, in the matte
of the reconstruction of the State.
" Neither pianos nor children ad
mitted is the notice on a New Yor
boarding house bill.
An English paper announces tina
Gen. Sherman has arrived at ST. Pc
tersburg!
The proper abbreviatlon of Alasll
is said to be L. S.-the pllce of tn
seal.
The gas in Stewards new store i
New York city, is lighted by electr
city.
TheWater Valley Eagle announce
!. the slow restoration Of Col. San
Tate's health
jefferson Davis will probably h
l rendered the Presidency of the Tn
: versity of Mississippi.
| Judge Hubbell of Texas, is SUI
rosed to have been murdered by G;
, manches. He has been missing tw
days.
Alex. Stephens, is looking yer
= feeble in Atlanta. He cannot fill til
l Proiessership in the Georgia Tn
5 versitv.
1 1t is asserted now, that the leat
5 ing star in Grants administration
, will be the acquisition of Mexico
even at the point of the bayonet.
Madame de Sartiges, of Philade
Il phia, born a Protestant and 10
p peeless of France, has been CONVEX
il ed to Catholicism.
G The remains of Mis-. Surratt wer
n Monday last, delivered to Annie Su
raft and her brother Isaac, by ord
of the President.
" A gentleman in Cincinnati jump(
Z into the river to cure the small-pO
g The policemen who tished up b
n body say the remedy is infallible.
e A dutch brig, built on the mod
. of the Goede Nrow, arrived at Be
ton recently, in ninety-hve days fro
Rotterdam.
) George w. Curtis receives 500
a year for sitting in the EASY Chair
e of Harper's Magazine and writil