American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Street.-The pepper market.
The NICK OF TIME-Panic(k).


THE NICK OF TIME-Panic(k).
PEOPLE about Bulls Head complain of
tough beef
BRtGi,r AND STiNiEG LiGnTs-Tne lit
tie bOotblacks.
IA partnership?
A COUPLE of horse-thieves in Kansas
have just suspended"
A SUFFERER suggests an improvement
in the photography of the word panic..
He til inks it would he better to spell Vt
YdyaiS!
mother, three sons, and two daughters all
married at once in Cincinnati, recently.
That is a sensible family.
PERISH that power which has been OBJ
tanned by evil means, retained by similar
practices, and which is administered as
badly as it was acquired.-Ctce,D.
y SOUTHERN editor pops the question
in his paper in this public fashion:
There's a certain girl in this town who
can carry our smoke house keys for life
if she'll only say the word"
THE vigilance committees in Montana
no longer hang small thieves. They
merely fetch out the rascals in a new role
put them in hogsheads, which are
closed up and set rolling down hill.
HERE is the latest description of kiss:
"'Twas night 4 real warm couple stood
in the pale, cold sunbeams. Their lips
touched, and there was a sound like a
COW hauling her hoOf out of the mud"
CAPTAIN CAULFiELb and the Rev. Mr.
Jackson killed notorious man-eating
tiger with strychnine recently in Madras,
India. This tiger for the last three years
had killed man a week on an average.
DIVINE WISDOM, intending to detain us
some time on earth, has done we'll
to cover with vail the prospect of our
life to come; for if our sight could clear
ly distinguish the opposite bank, who
would remain on this tempestuOus coast /?
Nine. de Stdet
A LADY in New Hampshire recently
died from tie effects Of ether, taken for
the purpose of having a tooth drawn.
Moral: Some ladies should either quit
either one horn or the other of this di-
lemma must be adopted.
IT is related as an instance of the es-
travagance of New England humor, that
when young farmers wife made her
first boys pants precisely as ample before
as behind, the farmer exclaimed: $50 ID
ness? he won't know whether he's going
to school or coming home"
GRATITUDE OF COw-A gentleman
passing through field, observed a COW
showing many symptoms of uneasiness,
stamping her feet and looking earnestly at
him. At first he feared to approach her,
but afterward went toward her, which
seemed to please her. Che then guided
him to ditch where her calf was lying
helpless, and he was just in time to save
its life. to the great delight of the COW.
A NEGRO once said in PRAYER meeting
"Bredren, when | was boy | took a
Ratchet and went into the woods. When
l found a tree dat was straight, and big,
and solid, 1 didn't touch dat tree; but
when found one leaning little, and
holler inside, l soon had him down. So
when de debbil goes after Christians, he
don't touch dem dat stand straight and
true, but dem dat lean a little and are
holler inside"
Mrs. Partington. Here | have been
sutferin' the bigamies of death for three
mortal weeks First was seized with a
bleedin' phrenology in the h3mshire of
the brain, which was exceeded by the
stoppage of the left ve:.tilator of the heart.
This gave me inflammation of the left
borax, and now am sick with the chloro-
form morbus. There is no blessin' like
that of health, particularly when you're
ill.,"
The bear of the Arctic regions does not
hug like the other bears, but bites at his
opponent; and he declines to eat his cap
tive until life is quite extinct. Like a cat
he plays with his victim. Among the
Esquimaux of Greenland he plays strange
FRANKS, often creeping upon the hunter
while busy fleeing seal, and tapping
him on the shoulder with his powerful
paw Then it is the unfortunate mans
cue to 'fcicn dead" SO that when Brownie
retreats few PAGES to EN- Joy the prospect
of his intended meal the gun can be got
ready before he returns again to the at
tack.
A WEALTHY farmer of Fulton has this
notice posted up in his field: "lf any man
or woman's cows or oxen gifts in these air
oats, his or her head will be cut off, as
the case may be. a man eye UNI, and pay
mi taxes, but confooZilation to a man who
lets his critters run loose said eye"
My lord rides through his palace gate
My lady sweeps along in state,
The sage thinks long on many n thing,
And the maiden muses. on marrying;
The minstrel harpeth merrily,
The sailor plows the foaming sea.
TIE huntsman kills the good red deer,
And the soldier wars without a fear;
Nevertheless mh0te'er betoH,
AN old English farmer, debating his
will to lawyer, said: Il give and be
queath TO my wife the sum of c100 a year.
Is that writ down, master?" YES" said
the LAWYER; but she is not so old but that
she may marry again. Won't you make
any change in that case? Most people do"
"Ah, do they? Well, write again and say,
if my wife marry again, | give and be-
queath to her the sum of f20O Il year.
That'll do, wont III" ''Why, that's just
double the sum that she would have had
if she had remained unmarried" said the
lawyer; 'ft is generally the other way"
AYE" said the farmer, "but him that
fakes her will deserve itr'
A RICHMOND, VA, paper tells a story
of a very sagacious dog and a very foolish
man, and the man owns the dog. He is
married man, and the other evening told
his young wife that he was going to the
"lodge." The wife anXiously looked for
the return OF her husband until the small
hours of the morning, and finally there
was a scratching at the door. She opened
it. The dog was there, and something
more. He had in his mouth IA bloody
handkerchief and a round piece OF ivory
of about the size of silver dollar. She
did not know anything about the ivory,
but the bloody handkerchief suggested To
her Il terrible story. She put on her bon
net and followed the dog. He piloted her
to the lodge, which was in an upper
chamber of Il high building and there on
the floor, in one corner, was her husband,
with a badly -swollen eye and a bleeding
nose and useless lcgs. He could not walk
home, but there was a reason for that
which disappeared in a few hours. That
young man now wants to dispose of a very
ful Unl q al