American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-06
Mr.. Gree'y's salary is $500.
Cleveland boasts female velocipedisi.

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Mr.. Gree'y's salary is ST, 500
Cleveland boasts female velocipedist.
The Iowa State University has $50
tudents.
Pennsylvania has 40. 600 knights of
Pythias."
The champion sk4tist of America is
Frank Swift.
There are about three hundred veloci-
pedes in New York.
The wine crop Of Portugal for 1868, is
estimated at 48,oo0 pipes.
The English army costs yearly the
enormous sum of SIT ,275, 900.
Two Of the students in the Iowa Agri-
cultural College are women.
Bonner is again said to be negotiating
for lhe purchase OF the Herald.
Boston is to have a Hol ticulural and
Agricultural school for women.
The proposed East river bridge will
cost New York thirty million dollars.
The Louisville Gait House is to have
music room and $1,000 piano.
Cars now run on the Savannah street
railroad.
A chicken in Bourbon county, Ken,
lucky. has fourteen toes.
Gerritt Smith opposes female suffrage
for fear it will impede negro voting.
The bill transferring the capitol of Ne
b'aska to Omaha has become law.
George Peabody is intending tc make
the tour of the Southern States next fall
Farmers have commenced blowing in
the vicinity of Lynchburg, Virginia.
There we're 100 deaths in New Or
leans last week.
Chas. j. Dup5-t. of Wilmington, n.
| c., is dead.
Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, will
soon have a RAILROAD to the rest of the
world.
Senator Wade's only son is an army
major, engaged in Indian fighting in Ar
IONA.
The Hercules, new iron clad, the En-
glish clam, is the fastest and most pow,
erlul war vessel afoat.
A bankrupt Boston merchant has late
" received $1,000 from former clell
whom he befriended.
Lincoln. the capital Of Nebraska. vii
soon have a railroad 10 the rest of III,
world.
Il cost Michigan two AMI half mil
lion dollars for EDUCATIONAL purposes las
year.
Bismarck can only get sleepb listenin.
to the strains of a fac music box. lately
given him.
A bill has beer introduced in the Ter
nessee Senate to repeal all laws eniorein!
taxes on tracks kept for turf racing.
Mr.. Beck introduced bill in Congress
on Tuesday last, providing fer an eIec
non in Mississippi.
A Washington special says the publ
debt statement will show an increase c
$ll.0OO.ooO.
Jennings and Willard. two ex-Goverr
o!s of Indiana. sleep in unknown. or, a
least, unmarked graves.
The Times is Urging the paving
Washington street. Vicksburg. with tn
Nicholson pavement.
1t is feared that Cyrus W. Field vii
never recover from his recent acciden
His spine was seriously affected BY hi
, fall.
The ladies Of Natchcz are soor to Civ
a fair for the benefit of The projected raj
! road between that city and jackson.
The clergy costs in the United State
r $4,000 600 annually; the criminal
$40 10000 the lawyers, $50, 600, O0C
rum, 5000, QUO, 600!
Indiana is the second grertest cor
growing State in the Union. In 1856
she produced So,832 900 bushels ; II
I 975 600 10 excess of 1867.
/. A resolution has been introduced i
- the Tennessee, to expel F. s. Richards
, Speaker Of the House, 'for accepting
p bride in money or otherwise"
t The road from Chattanooga to Mer
:, dian will be completed in fifteen month";
l and the distance between New Orlear
and New York shortened Gig miles.
At the close Of the war Tippah CONT
4 was $50 900 in debt, and Ter wGrran
sold at forty cents on a dollar. Now III
> county is out of debt and the warrants
par.
r January 10Th Grant told EggIestor
. the defeated carpet bag ger for GovenC
of this State that the Reconstruction Con
mittee had reported bill favorable to hin
, Mr. Richardson, formerly Of the Mobi
+ tribune, proposes To start in Mobile ne1
month . paper called the Spirit of III
'sam!L
The new Russian cannon that fires 90
shots minute, is extremely easy 10 har
die and very effective up to 1900 yard
FEvAGr SrFFRAGE MENorTALS.-Mpn
: orials for female suffrage amendment I
the Constitution are coming in quite fse,
. " from Ohio ard Illinois. One sighne
by 200 citizens OF Dayton. Ohio. vas lai
: before the House Judiciary Committee.
THE Memphis Sun says that city is n
? longer nnder the law. hut the GOSPEL, til
Rev. Mr.. Pearne having been appointe
chief Of police. We guess he Will at'en
, to the law, and the profits loo.- Tich
burg HeraH.