American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-01-23
mMULTUM IN PARVO.n

A BRIDES cake ak feet high. was q
feature of late Western wedding.
New Hampshire has one mile OF rail
road 10 each fourteen miles of territory.
Iowa has 1880 miles of railroad
which cost $o7 500, 900.
The Cincinnati journals estimate the
population of that city at about 100, 900
The Emperor Of China is fourteen
years old, while his intended wife il
nearly eleven.
During the first nine months of 1866
England exported 2,i88. SOL, 1888 yards
of cotton cloth.
The Cuban revolution flag has blue
and white stripes, and triangular field
with large white star.
The next Maine Legislature. it is an.
noanc ed, will abolish capital punishment
in that State.
1t is thought Suez Canal. uniting the
Mediterranean and indian Seas, will be
completed the coming year.
Sheet music reproduced in miniature
shape by means Of the camera has made
its appearance in New York.
Pennsylvania journals are seriously
discussing the prcpriety Of dividing
that State, making two, one east and one
west of the Alleghanies.
General James Watson Webb, late
Minister to Brazil, is to be the editor Of
a new administration organ to be started
in Washington City.
During the San Francisco earthquake,
a carpenter was at work on n church
spire $50 feet from the ground. He
didn't like it.
One of the manuscripts brought from
Abyssipia is illustrated with picture
of the Israelies crossing the Red Sea
armed with muskels. ...#.
Bismarck is reported as saying that
England is not responsible for the de,
pr-datio ns of the Alabama.
The question of the annexation Of
West Florida to Alabama is again under
consideration in those two States, with
every probability of its contamination.
George Hefner. policeman, and a
man named Jim Toney, got into diff
Guilty in Shreveport, a few days since
when Hefner was severely stabbed in
Two places.
The Nev York Tribune recommends
the great body Of mechanics, retail
traders, clerks, etc., in that city who
have some means ahead 10 combine in
associations Of one hundred persons.
buy tracts Of land in the South and
West, and form agricultural colonies.
The white and black soldiers at Cen
trail City. New Mexico, have had a
desperate fight. Two white and three
colored soldiers were killed and large
humber wounded. The difficulty oc.
Cured at ball given by the white
troops. The negroes claimed the right
to dauce, which was refused, hence the
difficulty.
The New York World says Of the
new era dawning in the South:
despite combination Of unfavor-
able causes. such as, perhaps, has never
fallen to the lot Of any people before,
the Southerners seem literally rising from
the dust, and proving that 'e'en in their
ashes live their woned fires The talk
of Wall street is that capital is stream
ing pretty heavily toward cotton lands,
sugar plantations. railways, and other
forms of Southern investment and TO a
considerable extent the present tightness
10 the money market is attributed to the
volume of this drain. 1t mig ht assist q
comprehension Of the advantages now
offered by them to capitalists, if their
newspapers would devote something less
of their space to such ephemera as
negro suffrage, reconstruction, Radical
domination, and so on, and dwell more
fully on industrial topics, and local
natural wealth."