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TROY.

G. M. Hubbard of the firm of G. NJ. & G.
A. Hubbard, boot and shoe manufacturers,
has just returned from trip through por-
tions of Orleans and Franklin counties, and
informs us that the boot and shoe business
is opening much better than last year, he
having sold in ten days $4,000 worth, about
one-half of which was of their own manu-
facture, the balance were sold for Bos-
ton firm on commission He sold one day
S1047 worth. This We think is doing well
for country mandatory. They had on
hand May 1st nearly $4,000 worth of boots
and shoes, and are now turning out eigh-
teen cases Of boots per week.
n b. Norris has received the appoint
ment of liquor agent for this town. We
think Mr. Norris will handle this business
Judiclously and not be very apt to run the
town in debt, for he is an honest and wor-
thy citizen.
We learn that Hiram Stewart, late of the
firm of Buck & Stewart, has bought farm
near Groton Junction, Massachusetts, and
will Immediately take possession. Mr.. S.
has been in feeble health for some time,
and thinks the change, with outdoor exer-
else will be of benefit to him. rof
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MORGAN.

A FRUITFUL VINE.-Mrs. Elliott of
Morgan, aged ninety-two, has had twelve
children, eighty-two grand children, and
ninety-two great grand children, and more
coming. "She hath done what she could"
This is from skripter.)
GOOD AGE.-Dr. Geo A. Human atten-
ded four persons in Morgan and Charleston
last week, whose united ages were 1913
years. We suppose they all got tired
waiting for Death and so sent for him. "A
pOak
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IN THESE HARD TIMES
PARKER g. cos

You cannot afford TO pay three or four profits on
articles of necessary use, when by sending club
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SUTTON.

EXHIBITIoN.-Miss Burleigh's select
school in Sutton closed last week Friday
with grand exhibition, with the usual
programme of tableaux, declarations, dia-
logues, and music. The hall was crowded,
and all expressed themselves as delighted
with Miss Burleigh's entertainment and
her success as teacher. She is to teach
again in the fall
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IRASBURGH.

H. H. Stevens has three calves two and
a half months old, half Durham, that
weigh 638 pounds. They have been kept
on sour milk and had no meal He also
has colt two years old, that weighs go
pounds; is in good proportion and hand
some; has had only ordinary keeping. =;
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GLOVER.

BARTON BEATEN. Mr.. C. c.. Hardy has
male calf, one year old the fifteenth day
Of May, sired by Thos. Bakers celebrated
Dutchman, which weighed on its first birth
dav TAO lbs
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GREENSBORO.

BUGGIEs.-The firm of Cutler & Cos
has an established reputation forgood work
They live too in community that knows
when work is done well, and wont have any
other. Cutler has ben making wagons and
in the same shop, for over twenty years
Some of those made the first year are now
in use, and in good condition; still he
thinks he has learned something by prac
tice and hopes still to do so. Goss stands {
number one painter.
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PARKER & cos
| GREAT ONE DOLLAR SALE
Of Dry Goods, Linen, Parasols, Albums. Hosiery
Silver Plated Ware, Jewellry, Cutlery, French
and German Fancy Goods, of every description.
| you can purchase anything in their immense
stock for
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NEWPORT.
SHEFFIELD.

SOLD HIS FARM.-Lyndal French has
sold his farm to Henry Cass for $1,000, and
is going to Ohio. He has an auction to-
| day---18th.
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CRAETSRITRV.

WOMAN woTH HAvING.--In the absence
of DIR. s. R. Corey, his wife has extracted
several teeth for patients who could not
stand the teethache till the doctor came.
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[lR. IRlSH'S
Ottawa Beer.

ENEMALE Agents wanted in every city and
IL town to sell Stillson's Ladies' Elastic Nap
kin Holder. The most comfortable and reliable
article ever invented. Send One Dollar for sam
pie, which will be returned if not approved, to
DR.. G. CLINTON STILLsoN, Box 547, Derby, Ct.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24
God and Bad.

In the world of thought as in the
exterior world we are surrounded by
the good and bad. But of bad
thoughts, as of bad companions, it is
useless to say that their influence is
enervating i'll the extreme: like evil
communications, they most deeply
corrupt. The root of all evil, they in
stigate to every species OF iniquity,
every form Of deprayity. From them
spring crimes that fill penitentiaries
with criminals, and supply the thous-
and one emissaries Of justice with
constant round of employment.
Good thoughts on the other hand
have given rise to all the good that
has even been achieved. They have
thrown light in upon darkness, pro
duced order out of chaotic confusion,
and conquered, as did David the
giant Goliath, threatening bOastful
champion of corruption.
AS bad thoughts are the bane of
the mind, so are good thoughts its
talisman. They clothe it with an
armor bright to protect it from the
shafts which the enemy of mankind
daily levies against it.
| The one causes to spring up i'll the
garden of the heart rank and poison
Gus weeds which it requires life
time to eradicate; the other, fairest
flowers to flourish, which shed a
fragrance on all the outward deeds
of life. Let us keep undefiled this
sanctuary of our being. Let us I'LL
it with pure, beautiful thoughts from
which shall emanate noble resolves,
which i'll their turn shall result in
noble deed SO shall our life's little
acts have no remorseful shadows
hanging over them, and our life, like
the majestic river flowing on INTO the
sea, shall become more and more en-
larged as it nears the boundless
ocean whose waters lave the shores
of this our mortal sphere.
If we could only read each other:
hearts, we would be kinder to eacl
other. If we knew the woes and bit
ternesses and physical annoyances
OF our ncighbors, we should mak'
allowance for them which we do no
NOW. We go about masked, utter
ing stereotyped sentiments, hidin!
our heart-pangs and our headache
as carefully as we can; and yet w
wonder that others do not discove
them by intuition. We cover OF
best feelings from the light; we d'
+ not so conceal our reSentmentS ant
our dislikes, of which We are prom
to be proud. Often two people 81
close together. with 9 | love you" il
either heart, and neither knows it
Each thinks, . could be fond brI
what use of wasting fondness on on
who does not care for it p and S
they part and go their ways alone
: Life is a masquerade, at which fey
! unmask. even to their very dearest
! And though there is need of muc
, masking, would to Heaven we dare
, show plainly our real faces, troI
birth to death, for then some few, a
least, would truly love each other.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24
A Romance With the Proper "Nub "
Left Out.

A very extraordinary story was
recently narrated to me, the Truth of
which | can vouch. An American
gentleman, a man of middle age and
wealthy, who has a splendid suite of
apartments in fashionable quarter
of the town, had the curiosity to in
qrlre of his landlady who were his
1, low tenants. After she had de-
SCI ihrd the usual families az tr0iSi-
0ma the clerks, strangers, etc, the
milliners and musicians, who inhab-
tied the highest flights, madame re-
called Il remote garnet corner lnhab-
tied by young lady, whom she de
scriArd rs afflicted by terrible erup-
tion, w,,;'h rendered her hideous,
and who Mas to the last degree, poor
neclrrrrd, and hopeless. "Still, she
is d lady, a true lady. Poor soul
she can not live in sucI, misery"
My friend visited the invalid
found her in dreadful circumstances
and aScertained that she was evident
ly IL German, though speaking sew
| eral languages like native. LIZ
bade Tie landlord remove the sufferer
! t. good room, provide her will
! comforts and medical attendance
and cali on him for u weekly allow
ance for her support, after which h,
almost forgot his charity, or if Ii,
did recolect it, it was with shud
der at the dreadful wretchednes
! which he had witnessed. One morn
ing the landlady came and state,
that the poor lady had recovered
that his allowance had been so care
fully managed that she was provide
with a travelling outfit, and that, b,
fore returning to Germany, she .wisl
ed 20 return him her thanks Fl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24
:gkLY--oFEIcE MASONIC HALL BUILDING SECOND FLOOR

think that stale tobacco effiuvium is
n healthy agent to be carried into
the lungs of IA delicate infant. Child
ren of smoking fathers often have
their brains and nervous systems
entirely impregnated with the poison
of nicotine in the helpless age of in
fancy. A couple came to a country
place entirely for the health of their
only boy, feeble infant. The child
was pale and sickly, constipated in
bowels, and threw up his milk con-
stantly, The parents had but one
room, in it they lived with him, and
which was every evening blue with
tobacco >m lye. Every evening that
helpless little Creature took into his
lungs as much tobacco as if lie had
smoked cigarette. Still more than
thiS-the mother who was nursing
that infant did What was equivalent
to smoking one cigar every evening,
she breathed her husbands smoke.
Now, if your baby smokes cigars
you will find, by and by, when he
comes to need brains, that his
brain power will not be found. He
will be starty, titful, morbid. full of
nervous kinks and cranks, one of the
most wretched human beings who
live a life like that described by
Hawthorne in his story of g Feather
top" only capable of existence ant
efficiency while he is smoking. bu
sinking into dimness and stupidit,
when he stops
Such are some of the chances O
poor babies! God help the poor lit
tie things! They never asked to b.
born ; and their parents, if they vii
bring them into exist ence, owe then
every attention to make that exist
ence a blessing.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24
assented. and what was his amaze

assented, and what was his amaze
ment, when, instead of the shrunk-
ell. pallid, horribly repulsive object
whom he had seen, there entered q
young lady of extraordinary beauty,
whose every glance and movement.
despite the plainness of her dress,
indicated style aud elegance. Her
gratitude was unboupded; she seem
ed to almost worship the man who
had been so generous. She did not,
however, hesitate to accept from him
a further gift in money, after which
she departed.
All this took place some time ago.
Last autumn our American travelled.
At every town he found rooms en-
gagged for him. distinguished people
called on him, and every comfort
seemed to fall on him as if by luck.
1t was to luck he attributed it, for
though mysterious hand was at
work, he did not for a long time sus-
pect it. While in Berlin he was,
however, amazed at receiving an in
vitation from one of the first Hano-
verian nobility to visit him at his es-.
tate. lie went there, was over
whelmed with kindness, and found
in the castle, as an only daughter
and heiress of his host, the ltdy
whom he had relieved in Paris. The
next day she explained the mystery
IL regret tlrat l can not fully do it.
Il was one of those long stories of
dreadful crime, and-ane innocent
victim-agony, and flight, which
hang over most noble families, and
once in every generation or 40 bear
sufferer to the abyss. In the last
instant of hope the American had
rescued such victim, and circum-
stances had enabled her to return to
her former station.
You may call this a romance out
: of the age" Well, l can point out
to you one of the first noblemen in
: Europe, whom once knew as board
| ing for dollar and a half week,
near one of your Atlantic cities, and
D whose lie in America and return to
forum was more than a counterpart
e to this TIanOverian lady's.-Paris
+ COrrespt ~ lence Philadelphia Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24

that the " Yankees wouldn't know
the difference" and they didn't.
Doubtless, those who heard her were
Just as well satisfied with her lectures
as if she had been the identical wo-
man who betrayed the famous raider.
By this nice little speculation she
made enough to educate her two lit
tie fatherless children, and then mar
ried clever New Yorker. Is not
truth stranger thanfictionf Cor. Gin.
Commercial.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24

Fence posts set with the he'll lite .e.o end I'd
s,.a tn '',u Tesrs longer tban whsn set y
tho usual way.
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Ely Josh Billings.
I'LEAS.

The smallest animal of the brute
creation, and the most pesky, IL the
flea.
They are about the bigness ov a
onion seed, and shine like a bran
new shot.
They spring from low places, and
can spring further and faster than
any of the bug brutes.
They Lite WIS than the muslee-
toze, for they bite on run; one flea
will 90 all over mans suburbs IN 2
minits: and leave him az frecllle az
the meazleS.
1t is impossible to do anything
well with flea Oh you except sware,
and feas amt afraid Of that; the
only way il to quit bizness ov aul
kinds and hunt for the flea, and when
you have found him he amt there,
This is one Of the flea mysteries, the
fakulty they have of being entirely
lost iist as you have found them.
| don't suppose there is ever killed
on an average, during emmy one year
more than IS tleas in the whole oy
the United States of America, unless
there is a casualty of some kind
once in while there is a dog git:
drowned sudden, and then thare may
be few heas lost.
They are about as hard to kill az
flax seed IL, and if you don't masl
them as fine as ground peppe
they will start bizness on a smalle
kapital iist as pestiverous as ever.
There is lots cv people who neve
seen a flea, and it takes a prett,
smart man to see one cnnyhow; the,
don't stay long i'll place.
If you ever ketch a flea, kill hn
before you do ennything else; for
you put it Off , minnits it may be to
late.
Menny a flea has passed away fol
: ever in less than minnltS.
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Sf(isttllaneous.
How to Treat Babies.
BY HARRIET BEECUER STOWE.

From Hearth and Home.
A great part of the children that
are horn ,taw-adayS are not good av-
erage healthy children. They are
children of d ficient brain power, of
diseased nervous systems; children
begotten of tobacco smoke, late
hours, tight lacing and dyspeptic
stomachs. The father has put his
smoked it out the mother has drih-
bled and dribbled it away in balls
and aperas. Two young people come
together, both in state Of half ner.
vous arrangement. She cannot live
without strong coffee; her hand
trembles, and she has sinking at
her stomach, when she first rises in
the morning, till she has taken cup
of strong coffee, when she is primed
for the day. He cannot study, or
read, or perform any real mental
labor without tobacco. Both are
burning lile's candle at both ends ;
| both are wakelul and nervous with
weak muscles and vibrating nerves.
Two such persons unite in giving
existence to poor helpless baby, who
| is born in Il state of such Il diseased
nervous sensibility that all the forces
| of nature are n torture to it. "The
father have eaten sour grapes, and
the children's teeth are set on edge. ,
What such children cry for is neither
cold nor hunger, but irrepressible
sometimes from fear, some
times because every thing in life is
too strong for them, and jars theil
weakened nerves, just as it does OF
those of an invalid in low, nervou,
lever.
Now, the directions about putting
a child away alone to sleep. withou
rocking or soothing, is good on,
only for robust and healthy children
For the delicate, nervous kind | hav,
spoken of, it cruel is and danger ous
We know one authentic instance 0
Il mother who was trained to belIev,
it her duty to put her infant to bet
in IL Lonely chamber and leave it
Not daring to trust herself in the or
deal, she put on her bonnet and, pos
lively forbidding her servants to g
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24

TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.-The
seldom fail to distribute justice and
punishment where it is deserved, and
there are few instances on record of
speedier punishment or more terrible
retribution than in the case of those
who were the main instruments in
getting poor Mary Surratt hanged.
Upon the testimony of four of the
vilest scoundrels-Baller, Montgome-
ry, Cleaver and Conover-she was
convicted. Now mark the terrible
disposition a Just God has made of
the murderers. Baker, not long
since, died miserable death: Mont
gomery is now in prison for embez
element; Cleaver has been convicted
for an infamous outrage, and Con-
over would have been deservedly
serving out a term in the penitentia-
ry had not Johnson partloned him.
i Preston King, who prevented Miss
Annie Surratt seeing the President
in her mothers behalf, committed
suicide by drowning in North river,
whiie Lane, who supported King in
/ his conduct towards Miss Surratt,
shot himself in st. Louis. There re.
main but Stanton, Bingham anu
Holt, who stand, like the murderouS
towards they are, trembling IN le"l
of the reckoning day.
The mills o. the Gods grind slowly
But they grind exceedingly small
-Ne,r York Democrat
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Qoetrp.
APRIL.


n ~
BY MISS H. II. HUDSON.
April has searched the winter land,
And found her petted flowers again;
She kissed them to unfold their leaves,
She coaxed them with sun and rain,
Ard filed the grass with green content.
And made the weeds and clover vain.
Her fairies climb the naked trees.
And set green caps on every stalk;
Her primroses peep bashfuly
From borders of the garden walk;
And in the reddening maple tops
Her blackbird gossips sit aud talk.
She greets the patient evergreens,
She gets n store of ancient gold;
Gives tasseled presents to the breeze,
And teaches rivers songs of Old
Then shake the trees with stolen March winds,
And laughs to hear the cuckoo scold.
Sometimes to fret the sober sun,
She pulls the clouds across his face;
But fnds a snow drift in the woods,
Grows meek again and prays his grace;
Waits till the last white wreath is gone.
And drops arbutus in the place.
Her crocuses and violets
Give all the world gay Good year,"
Tall irises grow tired of green,
And get themselves a purple gear;
And tiny buds that lie asleep
Al
She rocks the saucy meadow cups;
The sunsets heart anew she dies;
She fills the dusk of deepest woods
With vague, sweet sunshine and surprise,
And wakes The periwinkles up
To watch her with their wide blue eyes.
At last she deems her work is done,
And finds a willow rocking chair,
Dons spectaces Of apple buds,
Kerchief and cup of almonds rare,
And sits very grandmother,
Shifting her sunshine needles there.
And when she secs the deeper
That ushers in the happy May,
She signs to think her time is ps t,
And weeps because she cannot stay,
Aud leaves her fears upon the grass
Atlantic MoHthl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24
Life Lengthened.

1. Cultivate an equal temper;
maay man has fallen dead in fit
of passion.
2. Eat regularly, not over three
times day, and nothing between
meals.
3. Go to bed at regular hours.
Get up as soon as you wake of your
self, and do not sleep in the day time,
at least not longer than ten minutes
before noon
f. Work always by the day, and
rot by the job.
5. Stop working before you are
. tagged out"
6. Cultivate a generous and ac-
commodating temper.
Z. Never eat when you are not
hungry, nor drink when you are not
thirsty.
s. Never cross a bridge before
you come to i, for this will save half
the trouble of life.
8. Let your appetite always come
uninvited.
10. Cool off in a place greatly
warmer than the one in which yuIl
have been exercising; this simple
rule would prevent incalculable sick
ness, and save millions of lives q
/ year.
II. Never resist call of nature a
single minute.
II. Never allow yourself to be
chilled Through and through;" it is
this that destroys SO many every
year, in few days sickness, from
pneumonia. called by something fever,
or Inflammation of the lungs.
10. whatsoever drinks no liquors
at his meals will add years of pleas
urahle existence TO his life. OF cold
or warm drinks. the former are most
perniciouS drinking at meals in
,luceS persons to eat more than they
otherwise would. as any one can
verify by experiment; and it is ex-
cess of eating which devastates the
land with sickness, suffering and
death.
II. After fifty years of age, if not a
day laborer. and sedentary persons
after forty, should eat but twice u
day-in the morning and about four
in the afternoon persons can soon
accustom themselves to seven hours
interval between eating, thus giving
the stomach rest; for every organ
without adequate rest must give out
prematurely.
Is. Begin carly TO live under the
benign Influences of the Chistian re
f, ligion, for it has the "promiSe of the
life that now is, and of that which is
to come."-HnNS JOurnal of Health.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24

A boy and girl, at Gotfstown, NH,
aged respectively sixteen and eleven
and J years, are said to have got
married. A clergyman whom they
called on sent them to the town clerk
for a stif kit On their way, man
married them for thirty seven cents.
The wife (g) now attends school, and
gravely talks to her playmates about
her " old man.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24

HAS at last made its way into this country. after
having been in use in the Old World Tor many
years, aud especially in china. The celebrated
Alchcmst and Chemist. Dr. Hepserdlm, OF Pekin,
China has at last consented to his great CHINESE
REMEDY being introduced on this continent. and
has established wholesale agencies for the pur-
poe Of supplying all druggists Throughout the
towns ond cities of 60 intry. This great Blood
Medicine has performed cures (the most ast"ni>h-
mg) where every other remedy known in MIteria
NJ dica has most signIlly failed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-24

Mr.. Arid, noted London barris-
ter, was a printer: so, too, was Doug
las ,Ierrold. John kitto. the editor
of the pictorial Bible, was, by trade,
a shoemaker. DR.. Livingstone was a
factory operative. John CassclI, a
iourneyman carpenter, and VIM. Gift
ford. the founder of the EdinbTg Il, -
rie,c. first cabin hoy and then a
shoemaker's apprentice.