American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

A BOSTON court has fined George
| Devan for kicking a dog and breaking
| his leg.
THE Montana Indians have been dis
| posing of large quantities of furs to trad
| ers this fall.
A HORSE at Murfreesboro, Tenn, is fond
of meat diet, and eats bacon and game
with great gusto.
A BACHELOR residing in Tonganoxie,
Kansas, offers $4,000 reward to any lady
who can beat him cooking.
THE Fort Scott Kansas, Monitor says
''The two men hanging to the black jack,
across the bridge, died of too much
horse"
A YOUNG lady at Hillsboro, N. c.,
crawled under the canvass of a circus
and stabbed teamster who tried to put
her out.
In Missouri they elect editors as hon
Orary members of the Changers, but the
farmers generally call them Urinary
mem berS.
GEORGIA now makes every yard of cot
ton used in three Southern States, and
new mills are going up in Tennessee,
Alabama and Florida.
A BIG RAPIDS, Mich, man, who was an
noyed by eighbor's bees, and failed to
get relief by litigation, is now retaliating
~ SA""AiS ySiio" J'.SA>'o
A STUDENT has been expelled from La
fayette College, Easton, Pa, for stealing
He had a regular jury trial before his
classmates, which lasted three days.
In 1869 two hundred black bass were
put into the Susquehanna River, at Har-
risburg, and a man recently caught one
hundred and sixty during few days va
cation.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Sara
toga, says of the hotels: The net profits
for the season are as follows: Clarendon,
$4,000; Union, $4,000; Congress Hail.
s., $50.
AN athletic Skowhegan, Maine, girl
kicked an unfavOred sutton down some
steep stairs the other night, and injured
him SO that for two days his life was de-
SPARED Of
A BABY in New Bedford, Mass, has won
immortal renown by swallowing thirty
seven buttons -four of them BRASS, an iron
sewingmachine nut, a gold sleeve button
and thimble.
DURING sermon in the chapel of the
Georgia State Prison, 500 convicts struck
up, Wen all drink stone blind" and
they had to be marched down stairs. They
didn't like the Chaplain.
A JUDGE in Alabama recently inter
rupted very flowery young orator with /:
''Hold on, hold on, my dear sir! Don't
go any higher. You are already out of
the jurisdiction of this COURT
Two years ago Mr.. Thomas Woodcock,
of Canton, ILL.,, lost a certificate of de-
post for considerable amount. He was
unable to find it until last week, when the
lining of his wite's muff revealed its hid
ing place.
THE melodious buzzsa continues to
ha n I,r m. vii
and lately, at Cambridge City, Ind,
another of the little fellows found it so
funny that he didn't stop till three fingers
were sawed OF
FROM present indications numbering in
the woods will not be so extensively car
ried on the coming winter as heretofore.
Some firms who have not failed to take
crews into the woods for twenty years
past, will not do so this season.
THE Boston Globe is not satisfied with
the buildings erected on the burned dis
trict, and thinks sufficient attention has
not been paid to lessening the possibili-
ties of fire. 1t thinks the lesson of last
year has only been half learned.
In all that is recorded what is there
more unseltish than the utter selfabnega-
ton of the late Jim Oxford, of Virginia,
who, the other day, when told that he was
dying, replied, ''Wall, don't forget to
shingle the mule pen afore the fall rains
set in"
THE dreadful suspicion seems to have
broken in upon the officials of st. Louis
that, despite his character, Mr. McCoole's
connection with the Manly murder needs
explanation, and, in consequence, that
great man and bruiser has again been
locked up and is denied bail.
THE power of love is again illustrated
in the case of Miss Catharine Oates, of
Cornwall. England, who travelled all the
way to Toulumne County, California, to
wed the lover she hadn't seen for eight
years. and found him married to a Next
can ranchero's daughter, and the father
of only five children.
AN exchange thus describes Maud
Muller who was married in Indiana, last
week: "The fair bride was dressed in
calico, fringed on the bottom with the
same material, bonnet du s0liel, and
gloves shoes and stockings of unmistak-
able flesh color, that fitted as closely as
the skin. When asked if she would take
this man for better, for worse, she replied,
with touching simplicity, You bet"
A STORY is told of a former member
of the Missouri Legislature whose reputa-
ton was far from spotless, that he alb
scented himself for while, under the
plea of sickness, and shortly after had his
death announced. Thereupon the Legis-
lature passed the usual resolutions Ofcon
doleHce, some of the willy members bit
terest enemies eulogized their departed
friends exalted character and high moral
worth" and the next day he reappeared
in his seat with the resolutions and eulo
gies neatly pasted in his memorandum
book as receipt in full for the past and
a letter of credit for the future.
IT may be regarded as one of the signs
of the times that tailors who formerly ex-
ulted to trust and blushed to be paid, are
becoming far less accommodating. SIEVE
raj of the most prominent of the trade IN
Boston 'have agreed to publish in two of
the daily papers the names and residences
of their customers who do not pay
promptly. This gloomy catalogue will
add another to the depressing influences
o. these low-spirited times. 1t is hard to
pay for pantaloons which have been worn
out; it will be harder not to be able to
buy any pantaloons at all
THE modern notion is that the head
should always be to the north, and the
heels to the south An old German ply |
stefan, who died at the age of one hun
bred and nine declared in his will that |
his long life was due to his having always |
taken this position at night. n Scotch |
physician SAYS that when every other
means of quieting sick children has |
failed, he had turned their beds round So |
that the head was to the north, and sleep |
always followed But the doctor does not |
tell why he did not try this never-failing |
remedy in the first place. There are |
great many other authorities of the same |
kind to the same effect.
OXYGEN, on the plentifulness of which |