American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
GENERAL NEWS ISEMS.

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untouched forever.
At Wards Island there are fifty
women in the in the inebriates asy-
lum.
Hendricks is the first Democratic
Governor elected in Indiana siuce
1856. He has three times been a
candidate for the Office.
Not long since, in Gainesville,
Fla, desperate named OMally
had his throat cut from ear to ear
by son of ex-Gov. Perry.
Grace Greenwood, with her
daughters, was visiting friends at
Georgetown, Colorado, last week,
having given public reading there
on Monday week.
Twenty-Five pigeons, formerly be-
longing to Charts Dickens, have
been presented to manager Palmer,
of Niblo's Theater, by Mr.. George
Dolba.
Mr.. Bigler, of Georgetown, Col
oradO, at a funeral tainted and all
into tn grave. He was carried to
his house insensible, and died in a
few minutes.
A couple whe were divorced over
twenty ears ago in California, were
recently married, having tried in
the meantime several other parties
unsatisfactory.
Edmund Winston Henry, the
youngest and last of the sons of
Patrick Henry, died on the 11th
ult., at his late residence in the
county of Charlotte, Virginia, in
the seventy ninth year of his age.
An exchange says a one armed
soldier, who has been living in Du-
buque on charity, got into fracas
and busted his business by drawing
forth the severed member, and
planting singer on his opponents
nose.
A man that has travelled through
New Jersey says he saw some land
there SO poor that you couldn't
raise a disturbance on it.
Mrs Henry Smith, Ct Thomaston,
Ca, received a premium at the
state fair for silk handkerchief
which she had manufactured from
raw material produced by her own
silk-worms.
An Indiana woman, on the death
of her husband, telegraphed to q
distant friend: "Dear Joseph is
dead. Loss fully covered by insu.
rance"
An Atlanta man -bo ,,oo,r;oSJ n
widow discovered that he was also
the proprietor of jOurneyman
mother-in-law. He retired from the
unequal contest with a 0unged eye
and prematurely bald head.
A young Georgia lady. whose pa,
rents shut her up to keep her away
from an obnoxious lover, jumped
from a secOnd-story window into the
arms of her betrothep. who carried
her off and married her in the teeth
of her enraged papa.
Chambers, the election manager
who changed 400 Giddings demo
crat) votes to Clark Republican,
votes has arrived at the Texas Pen
itentiary just in time to remove him
from a scene of activity as a Grant
candidate for congress-.
The grape growers on the Jack
son railroad have realized $40 an
acre this year from the grape crop.
Fruit culture along the line of this
railroad is rapidly increasing. New
Orleans is beginning to feel the
benefit of it in its cheaper fruit and
more abundant supply than former.
ly.-Raym0nd Gazette.
Washington, D. c., has four
year old boy who has a head cover
ell with pure white happy wool,
white eyebrows and eyelashes orna-
menting good featured face OF
bright mulatto color, fianked by
very dark ears. His neck and body
are white, and around his wrist his
skin is as white and fair as can be-
From a short distance above the ell.
bows and knees the skin is very
dark.
Epizootic, which you see in the
papers, in connection with the horse
disease, is not the name of this dis.
ease /: it simply means "amOng the
animals" as "epidemic" means
"amoDg the people," Epizooty
means a pestilence among animals.
Conservative.