American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-23
GENERAL NEWS.
Chicago has female robbers.


A lively war is going on for the pos.
Office at Gallatin. Tenn. A negro and
two white men are the aspirants.
w. II. KEENAN,. Clerk of the Probate
Court of Columbus, Miss, has been re-
moved by the military.
New Workers. have become so wicked
that they have been obliged to widen
Hell Gate.
1t is estimated that not one eighth Of
the people of the United STATES attend
pablo worship on Sunday.
General Dulce's new wife is the widow
of late Cuban Liberal. He is evident.
y coucilia'ory in all his acts.
About hundred thousand bushels Of
peanuts have been exported from North
Cmoliaa this year.
Grant is just beginning to realize how
much imagination there is in w ashing-
ten correspondent. N
Cincinnati has 1909 1913 children Of
school age, of whom 1903. 9t3 are white
and $3.50 colored.
The Gear of Russia is said to have
bVome confirmed hypochondriac and
a great drunkard.
Massachusetts is said not to have a
single highway or bridge on which Toll is
charged. All are free.
One commission bookseller in Leipzig
sends over $4,000 copies Of Germ IN
magazines to the United States.
The 'fiiends Of Alexander T. Stewatt
are urging him for Secretary of The Trea-
sury, it is said, with his consent.
A Christmas goose, sent by kind
friend to two prisoners in Canada Jail.
was stuffed with files and steel saws.
A female gambler of forty five com
mitted suicide in New York, when her
husband discovered her passion for play.
The office of Sergeant at. Arms Of the
House. in Congress. il said to be worth
$50 600. just double the salary Of the
President.
George Peabody is expected to endow
Founding Hospital in New York with
100000.
Six billiard tables srere crdere{ recent
y for the State Insane Asylum at Kala-
mazoo, Michigan.
More than l2, 900 elephants are saugh-
tered annually to supply England and
the United States with ivory.
The destitution in the Red River ter
ritory is increasing. Only two pounds Of
food is granted to each person per week
During the months of September, o.
tober, November and December, so 87I
bales of cotton were shipped over the
Mississippi Central Railroad.
The owner of George Wilkes declines
to trot that famous stallion against Lady
Thorn, at Narragansett, for Sc 600. mex.
summer.
There is gentleman living in Chilli.
Gothic, Ohio, who was a member of the
jury empanneled to try Aaron Burr for
high treason.
Rob. Emmett. a stanch Fenian. has
Just arrived at Richmond, Va, from Ire.
land. EngIand has set big price on
his head.
An old lady in Mount Vernon, New
Hampshire, woke up in the night sup
posed the house to be on fire, and died
instantly of fright.
All the Democratic members OF the
Senate and House have signed petition
for the pardon OF DR.. Mudd and the doc
ument has been presented 10 the Presi,
dent.
The New Jersey legislature will pro-
badly pass bill abolishing capital pun
ishment. Senator Howe. of Wisconsin,
is expected at Trenton daily to address
the legislature in its favor.
The Coroner Of St. Louis, Mo-, reports
thirty-two murders. niue homicdes and
thirty suicides committe in that city las.
year. and FIVE deaths occasioned by coal
oil explosions.
Senator Sprague has bought 5000
acres on Cumberland Island, Ca, where
be will build a winter residence, and
plant ramie. He paid 100000, for the
land.
The New York Sunday Mercury says
Columbia College owns ten millions of
real estate. and disrespectfully styles
that institution nursery Of aristocratic
fops.
1t is thought the tax returns of Georgia
will not exceed $500, 900, OOU, and that
the assessment upon this for State pur
poses must be from 80 to 40 cents on the
800.
For the year ending June. 1868. next
% Louisiana, GeOrgis paid the largest
amount of taxes to the Federal Govern
nent Of all the Southern States-s5,.
$3.50
An old green grocer who died in Lon.
lon last month, left fl5.OOO to Dickens,
IN condition that Charles reads the trial
Gene from PickWick" 10 presence of
be grOcer's family once a year.
There is a man in Chicago who places
is cap on bis head and lets Captain I
'ravis put a pistol ball through il q,
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