American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-01
miscellaneous News.

A Swedish woman has written sew
enty nine novels.
The Spanish Cortes guarantees
the liberty Of the press.
the new fashioned para sol resem
bles Chinese pagoda.
Myriads of grasshoppers have ap-
peared on the plains.
1t is now said that Sickles will
get the Spanish mission.
Fourteen English barQnets have
died since January l, 1869.
The President is appointing a
good many newspaper men to off
ice.
Cape May will be the American
terminus of the French Atlantic ca
BILE.
The ISrdelite, of Cincinnati, is dis
eussing the question, "Was job a
Jew ~
A. Fl. Stephens history Of the
civil war has had a sale of 81, 900
copies.
The crop of maple sugar in the
Northern States is unexpectedly
large.
1t has become fashionable for Par
isian ladies to wear wigs made of
floss silk.
Bismarck has made a visit iRcOg.
to Paris, and was not detected by
the Police.
The Paris correspondent of the
London Telegraph is young and
pretty woman.
A New York blind beggar says he
considers it poor day when lie does
not make five dollars. ,
The New Brunswick FREEDMAN
says General Mcclellan is soon to
appear as public lecturer.
The taxpayer of Arkansas have
$4,000 to pay for the luxury Of the
melish.
A Pennsylvania suicide used a
looking glass to take proper aim at
his head.
New Orleans is shipping agricul-
tural implements, cotton seed and
wheat, for planting, to Poland.
Queen Victoria will visit Switzer-
land again this year, and also make
a trip to Sicili and Greece.
The Newburyport Herald comes
out in favor of Butler for the next
Governor of Massachusetts.
Last Friday, Gems. Grant and Lee
spent an hour together, at a village
called Laurel, in social converse.
Baron Sina is said to be the rich
est man in Vienna. He is richer
than any of the ROthschilds.
The Union Pacific railroad sold
10000 passenger tickets from Chica-
go to White Pine, during the month
of March.
Baltimore is to have a race-course,
for which one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars has already
been subscribed.
The next census will show a hun
bred thousand Chinese males, over
twenty-one years of age, in Cali
fornia.
-Four thousand two hundred and
siXty-eight bales of cotton have been
shipped from FOrsythe, Georgia, the
present season.
Secretary Borie, of the Navy De,
partment, has intimated to the Pres
ident his intention to resign, on ac-
count of ill health.
The Nashville correspondent of the
New York Times states that nine
tenths of the Radical voters in East
Tennessee are members of the Union
League.
JuareZ, the Mexican President. is
sixty-three years old, but does not
look to be over forty. He has one
son and six daughters.
The press of France has sustained
lis prosecutions by the Government
the past year, and paid 49,, 900 francs
i'll the way of fines.
The Earl Of Zetland has held the
office of Grand MOster Of the Free
Masons of England for twenty-five
years, and is now to retire.
Pennsylvania papers denounce the
lately adjourned Legislature as . the
most venal and corrupt body Of men
that ever sat in deliberation in the
State capitol
Some of the Ohio Democracy pro
pose, in case Mr.. Pendleton should
decline to run for Governor, to ruI
General Rosecrans, if he will accept
the nomination.
Prentice gives this advice to young
men wishing success i'll life: & Be
industrious, practice economy, say
your prayers, and subscribe to {
house and lot for Grant.
There is an organ grinder in Nc
vara who has recently returned from
the United States with $4,000 il
gold, an amount he had collected il
the streets during the last ten o.
twelve Years.
y Washington paper says that ;
| Mrs. Smith, of Ohio, has the swort
presented to Gen. Breckenridge by
Finley's and Bates brigades. Breck
inridgc lost it when Selma was cYac
uated.
The Turnbull family Inlye beer
continuous clerks Of Brunswick coun
ty, Va, since 1886. The gentleman
recently removed from Office by Ger
Stoneman was TurnbuIi, and de
scendant of the original clerk O.. on
hundred and thirty three years age