American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-03
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Miscellaneous Items.

nee for Mayor.of that city.
Henry Ward Beecher says "a
newspaper is window. giving men
an outlook into the world"
There are more Indians on the war
path now than before they were all
exterinfiiated, according to war re-
ports.
Tho New York World has not
changed its editorial management.
The State of Iowa is out of debt,
and has W surplus of s6S9, 900 on
hand.
'Ex-President Pierce visited Bos
ton on Monday. He is still quite
feeble.
The Spaniards ere secretly III ging
the home government to arm the
negroes.
Hawkins county, Tenn, has pro-
duced young gentleman 90 months
Old Who weighs 81 pounds.
Cresswell has avowed his determi.
nation to clean out all Democrats
from the Postoffice Department.
strawberries are abundant in the
New Orleans market. Ninety cents
tor a small box fell is the tariff.
Judge schley, If Savannah, has
rendered decision to the effect that
negtoes are ineligible to office in
Georgia.
1t has been intimatcd to the Next
cans, via Texas, that the United
States troops would soon invade
Mexico.
President Grant differs with Con
gress on the feasibility OF the plan
proposed by the Reconstruction com
mittee for Mississippi.
1t is said that the Trustees of
Union College lately offered the
Presidency Of that institution to
Gen. George b. Mcclellan.
Secretary Fish declines to receive
at present-the Minister from the
Provisional Government of Cuba
He will now appeal to Congress
john G. SAKE says that "laws,
like sausages, cease to inspire re
spect i'll proportion as We know how
they are made"
Six New England States with
twelve Senators have q population
less than the single State of New
York, which has two.
James Harper, ex-Mayor of New
York. who was Injured last Thurs
day by being thrown from his car
rage, died in New York on Satur-
day night. He was seventy four
years old, and of Harper Bros.
The spring business in Challestor,
S. c., is tie best that has been
known since, the, war. The hotels
are flled with SIT aEgers and tie mer.
chants have all they can do to fill
their orders.
The Atlanta Consultation says the
grand jury OF Fulton county, Ga., in
tend to take into consideration the
lying dispatches Of Bullock's Secre
tary, Davis, to the Radical press
North.
A newspaper published at Frank
fort en- Main abuses ex-President
johnson for his " refusal to allow the
lawful pension of the widow O.
Abraham LINCOLN tt be paid out o.
the Federal treasury"
Indignant Ind7aiia Democrats are
Quoting from General Toombs to the
effect that "Outrages against the
Constitution have accumulated with
} such rapidity as to fatigue the indig
; nation of tho people"
The Savannah Republican say tina,
General Longstreet's Constant 10 ac
cept office under existing. circum
stances and at the hands of the Rad
ical party, proves that he has parted
with his selfrespect; and, as Il neces
sary consequence, with tie respect
OF others.
Advlces from Monterey t6 tile 2stl
ult., state that Mexico is wrapt in &
flame of revolutionary agitation
Juarez and his party had Only proved
plunderers, and the people were dis
gusted. Escobedo and Neglete were
carrying destruction before them.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island
has rpoantIv haun yjsttlnU tita Son n