American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-07
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that the great need of this town is about
forty women"
| THE Chinese at North Adams Mass,
are becoming civilized. One of them has
| cut his throat
OYSTERS weighing three pounds and
ten inches long have been found ut Point
Pinalis, near Tampa, Fla
| LADY readers will be delighted to learn
that patchouly perfume is from the
pogostemon pachouli plant.
| A LONDON genius has invented the
anti breach-Of-promise ink" warranted
to fade entirely away in a month.
| DIED of melancholyness and falling on
a BRIDGE" is the published verdict of a
recent Western Coroner's jury.
1t Is denied by the French physicians
that atropine is a specific against cholera,
or that it is of any use whatsoever.
| A HOTEL waiter in Troy mas turned out
to be a Count in disguise. He wanted
some one to love him for himself alone.
IT is said that newspaper offices in Kan
sas have two pairs of stairs, one for the
editor to go down while the visitor is
ascending the other.
SAMUEL LEANENs, who eloped from
Webster, Mass, with a widow, tempered
| his meanness. He left a deed conveying
all his property to his wife.
| THEY have a genuine case of leprosy in
| Detroit, and it is asserted that the disease
is more or less prevalent in a number of
the cities of the country.
| A KANSAS Judge discharged man ar
| rested for stealing grindstone, on the
ground that the prisoner was out of work
and in a starving condition.
AN acorn suspended by a thread close
to water in vase will sprout, its roots
reaching into the water. A stem with
green leaves will shoot upward.
THE latest novelty Of life insurance is
| the case of a woman in Detroit who Wis
tied every office in that city trying to get
policy of $1,000 on a six-months-old
baby. No takers.
A GARTER SNAKE was observed some
time since in North Conway, n. Y, push
ing a toad down his throat by running it
against the clods and stones, just as the
toad crowds down a locust.
CALIFoRNIA hotelkeepers, oft deceived
| but everlasting, are to be consoled by
| the passage of bill making it misde-
meaLOr for a person to obtain board or
lodgings under false pretenses.
A CoLORED barber of Detroit has recov-
cred verdict of 300 damages against
the owners of the steamer Jay Cooke for
refusing to allow him to dine at the first
| table after he had paid first-class fare.
| A PROPOSED amendment to the New
Jersey Constitution is that property of no
kind shall be exempt from taxation, eX-
| cept that of the State, counties and mu-
| inequalities, and burying grounds not held
by stock companies.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Oregon, boasts of a
| lady who has been married nine times,
has eight husbands living and Is living
| with none of them. More than this, she
| u tor -In
| years of age and living with her third
| husband.
THE first crop note of the year comes from
Milford, Del, and it asserts that there is
considerable uneasiness in regard to the
peach crop, as the buds of the trees are
considerably swollen, and should it now
set in cold, freezing weather it must kill
| the fruit"
THERE is a very accommodating room
| in Randolph, Mass. During the day
| bootmaking is carried on therein, as well
as cooking for nine persons, and at night
| it serves the aforesaid nine for dormi-
| tory. This is all the more creditable to
the room, as it is only twelve feet by fiji
teen.
A PAINTING deer, chased by hounds,
came up to woodman working near the
Umbqua (Oregon) bridge, and after he
had driven the dogs off the deer remained
it, and appearing to feel lively sense of
gratitude for the mans interference in its
behalf
AT a Dubuque wedding, the Herald
says, among the wedding presents osten-
| tatiously displayed was a 800 bill,
present from the doting father to his dar-
ling daughter. After the guests had de-
parted the old man cOolly rolled up the
bill and put it in his vest pocket, and that
was the end of it.
Down in Dallas, Tex, one fool, with
surprising nerve, held an orange above
his head while another fool, of surprising
aim, shot at it twice, hitting it both
times. The occurrence may tend to the
confirmation of the Gesler story, but it
can do no good. 1t will only set on
barren number of imitators to try the ex-
pertinent, and it will be death for some
body. -
bill of a man in CliftOnville, Mass. The
man took refuge at the house of relative
in an adjoining county. The lawyer,
whom the man did not personally know,
called and said he wanted to sell horse.
The man wanted to buy, and to try the
horse they took a ride. The lawyer drove
over the line into Cliftonville and there
served the papers.
AS Mr. j. NJ. Thorp, of Clinton, Iowa,
was riding home few days ago, his horse
fell, and he was dragged some distance by
his foot hanging in the stirrup He was
doubtless saved from death by his boot
pulling off, which released him from his
perilous situation. He managed to crawl
about a quarter of a mile to the residence
of Mr.. Daniel T. Jones, and when he got
there was unable to speak.
A REMARKABLE rose-bush adorns the
cottage of S. A. Kendall of Santa Rosa,
Cal. 1t was planted in 1858, and
is of the Lamarque variety, the most
beautiful of the white roses. Imagine an
immense bouquet of white roses, twenty
five feet high, twenty-five feet across,
surface of 400 square feet, with 1000 full
blown roses and 10000 buds.
In GREENBUsH a church stands close
to the track of the Hudson River Rail
road. The pastors voice was drowned in
prayer by prolonged screech of a To-
connective whistle. When he could be
heard again he was praying that Wander
bilt might be converted, so that the sim
fulness of running trains on Sunday
might be impressed upon him.
THE Burgomaster of Brussels has fur
nished persons vouched for by the syndi-
cate of the Brussels press as belonging to
important Brussels and foreign journals
with handy cards, printed in gold type on
stiffened leather, so as to enable them to
prove their vocation, and gain admittance
on all occasions when anything interest
ing is to be seen and reported.
EX-MAYoR HALL, of New York, has
five daughters and one son. The latter
busie5 himself with a printing press, pre-