American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-22
News and Other Items.

4NO w t11O OUuC1 AGculSs
Seward will visit California this
-, A shower of worms fell in Oregon
he other day.
Prentice says that Butler is
sqIlinting at tile Presidency"
Mrs. Stanton says that woman's
lress is a "sheer invention of the
levil to belittle her."
\ political victim of Ex-Governor
Fletcher, of Missouri, has sued him
for $4,000 damages.
The Dutch Parliament has Just
abolished the stamp duty on news
papers.
Baltimore is rejoicing over the first
direct importation to that city of
French window glass.
Gladstone recently held a Cabinet
meeting to decide whether penknives
should be used in the civil service.
The Nation advises women orators |
to sit down when they speak, and to !
dress well, not wearing pantaIoons.
The New York Independent de-
clares that the Republican party is
going to pieces.
EX-President Andrew johnson is
i'll Washington in a few
days.
Gen. Banks has been very warmly
urging Cuban recognition upon the
Government.
The Princess de Metternich has of
ner uNIr uvvvrt at1tfivufUu teT Crown
as queen of the fashions.
a. I. Stewart has bought $4,000
horse in Kentucky, to present oGen.
Grant.
Spinner directs the Assistant Trea-
surcrs to reissue, instead of caneell-
ing, fractional currency falling into
their hands.
Attorney General Hoar decides
that brevet ranks conferred since
March l, 1869, are null, except those
for gallantry before the Indians.
Baron Gustave Rotchshid is APP
pointed Consul General for Austria
at Paris, replacing his father, the
late Baron James.
Mauna LOa, a volcanic mountain
OIL. the island of Hawaii, contains
two lakes side by side, one of fresh
water and the other of salt.
j l.. Bowman, the humoriSt writer,
whose nom de plume was Hans Pat
rick lie Conner, died at the Sisters
Hospital in ST. Louis, Friday night
A man whose sweetheart had died
in St. Louis recently, followed her
example, AMI when disSectcd it was
found that his heart was literally
broken.
Miss Jennie Grant, the sister of
the President, was married, in Gov.
ington, last Thursday, to Mr.. A. r
. Corbin, of New York. This renders
Corbin eligible to Office.
Madame Eliza Lynch, the compan.
ion Of President Lopez, of Paraguay
was wounded in the neck and left
arm by musket balls during the re.
cent battles.
1t is said that Br0wnloW is dis
gusted with Washington, and wants
to give up his place i'll the Senate tC
Horace Maynard. He wants to be
Governor again and run the machine
as despot.
1t is stated that Senator Sprague
does not intend to return to Rhode
Island at present, but will make trip
down South. He will not, however
make any speeches or enter on any
campaign until next fall.
Tie Corporal Of the Guard at the
Palais DIES fnvalideS is an old sabrcu,
ho stood at the camp fire at which
Napoleon slept on the eve of the bat
tie OF Ansterlitz.
a police Judge in PittSburg de-
seconded from his lofty position aid
kicked a threatening witness into
the street last week.
a colore woman who was G. fixing
up" to be baptised, at Athens,
Geo 'gia, last Sunday, was arrested
for stealing clothes to wear during
the baptismal ceremony.
r Austrian papers sa.i the Sultan
, proposed sending a delegation to
America to visit thu Pacific Railroad
with view Of adopting the Am,li
can system in Turkey.
The Presi lent has ordered the
. Virginia election to be held on the
, 9th of July. The test oath and the
: DISTINGUISHING clauses only, are sub
/. mitted to Il separate vote.
4 The war in Cuba progresses with
1 some activity Two or more impor
t tant battles have recently taker
= pace, with great loss on both sides
= In the last the Spaniards were forced
. to retreat.
l The line of Count lilly, the cele
f brated opponent of Gustavus Adol
plus in the Thirty Years war, ha.
t Just become extinct by the deceast
e o. Count CHARLES Gustavus Edward
i, Augustus Won TSercias lilly, at the
, age of eighty five.
: 1t is said that a shipwrecked Yam
: kee as lately rescued from ono of the
Marquesas Islands, whose first ques
; ton on being discovered was, +" How
: did the Mexican war finally come
i; out - lie had been a sold er who
/ left General ScOtt'S army before thn