American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-06
CURRENT ITEMS.


panic.
SIXTEEN dollars is as low as fashiona-
bic New York ladies go on poodles' ward
robes.
IRISH lace is worn. this season by some
ladies who were abroad last summer and
bought it cheap.
THE Louisville Ledger thinks that if a
pedestrian is run over by a fast driver, he
has a right to shoot.
MORMON missionaries are said to have
made many new proselytes recently in
Hancock County, Maine.
A TEN-yEAR-oLD boy weighing 16S
pounds was an object of interest at a De
troit depot the other day.
ALPACAs are looming up again about
this time, possibly because they are cheap
and times are uncommonly hard.
THE St. Louis Merchants Exchange
has appointed standing committee on
the wants of the Mississippi Valley.
TIE colored people had tournament
in St. Mary's County, Md, the other day,
and crowned queen of love and beauty.
Pilot TEMPLE, hewell known trotting
stallion, was sold at auction for five thou
sand five hundred dollars on November
9Th.
A BosTON merchant has been driven in
sane by the extravaganza of his wife, who
gave wine suppers costing $4,000 per
week.
MINNESOTA doctors calculate that but
for the threshing machine season one-half
of their profession in the State would
starve to death.
Mrs. DOLLY MILLER, of Eaton County,
Mich, aged 1O3 years, has just had her
picture taken, being the first time she was
ever in an art gallery.
A TRENTON woman dreamed of being
surrounded by kissing snakes, and she
struck out with such force as to break
her arm against the wall.
One of the attractions at San Fran
cisco theater is a man who, with a rifle
at thirty PAGES distance, shoots half dol
lar out of another mans hand. M
A MUscL4R Kansas preacher named
Benson, thrasheJ three fellows who were
disturbing the congregation recently, and
his salary was increased $50 year.
THE settlers on the Island of Anticosti
are represented in a starving condition.
and the Canadian Government has dis
patched a steamer with provisions.
ST LOUIS surgeons are a wise set At
ter probing three hoursfo find bullet in
mans back, they discover0 that the
victim had been hit with beer bottle.
ANNA PATTERSON, of Freeport, Me,
can afford to leave the almshouse, now
that she has got that 1890 verdict for
breach Of promise from Cyrus Pritham. ;
Few professions are more profitable
than journalism. A Savannah reporter
hadn't drawn his first weeks salary be-
fore his grandmother died and left him
$4,000.
THE boyish game of "snap the whip"
has been forbidden by the school authori-
ties of Milwaukee,, several of the boys
having been seriously injured by the
swapping process.
The gushing young Virginia lawyer
who wanted to look into Kate Stoddard's
mild blue eyes and defend her has black
eyes now His wife has been operating
on them.
FIFTEEN pounds of dried apples were
taken as pay for publishing marriage
notice by an Iowa paper, recently; which
leads to the inference that the wedding
| was a swell affair.
PLAIN speech is a jewel in Maine. Mr..
John Drover called his neighbor an " in
defatigable genius" and the neighbor car
ried the case into court and got a judg-
| ment of $212 for SANDER.
JUDGE SCOrT, of Rhode Island, fined
Hannah Bray twenty-five dollars because
she refused to tell her age. She paid it
cheerfully, as she is about forty five and
is counting youth of twenty-five.
Tup Savannah Pe,,ub,;cou sdvertisas
the first shad of the season. fifteen and a
half inches long. served IN at the Mar
shall House, the enterprising steward of
which paid sixty five dollars for it!
A WEALTHY young lady, it is said, has
kakee naner-milI She nrefers 10 earn n
livelihood in that wav rather than to re-
ceiye it from her private income.
Accopp,~o To The Greenun (Kv\ T,,de-
ne1Jent a n,ir of shoes went ont on the
ira;n fror, that town the o,her d.v meas.
ur;na fn,,r,enn inches in InnT,b siv inch.
es in width and six,een inches insten
IT,. NJ, H., ,;+on,a who osl.od
L,,sha.d Va orras,oJ Co. ha,,i,<.
ahandoned her at the same time STATING
th.t Che had sunnor,ed him ever since
,i na; en- ,,.rr;a,e nreSented snect,c,e fnr
,ho s,rnn', M Md 10 ween ovar
n
me schooi eiiiloien " ii .aI:
are set'ln *, an eAa,nPie VI 'aaiy ~ .neil
elueIS. nc o a. Ill, =.
school have been sent home clad and
made plad by their sympathizing school
mates
,o,or s.,s ..Tbo ,,onr
On RI iii -. :,
ii u n,n 80 haI,,od WI III, CO.., ..
mn,,n, tho otber dav on Nix0p,s Hill
While living in wait TO shoot n Chinaman'
This was always a world of disappoint-
mentn
NJ, p,, NJ Jo,ro be,iar;nr that
..pI1s, Iva thn hr;do ,bat tho sun Shines
=, s,od TO- danahtar,s ,a,idinn
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