American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-02-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

MAINE dealers have commenced ship.
ping large quantities of ice to the South
! THE brewers of Chicago are going to
/ help the reformers in Ohio. They have
raised the price of beer two dollars per
! barrel
SAN FRANCISCO is afflicted with a min
| ing-stock mama which, if not checked,
must eventually end in financial collapse
a ape ats consequent reaction upon mining
! Now that a sick man has been cured by
drinking blood twice day at a Boston
abattoir, it is to be feared that the number
of ood-thirsty people will increase with
frightful rapidity.
WHEN a California paper receives a
new subscriber it records the startling
fact thus: "Still another, Our course in
dorsGd by the people" That paper has a
single eye to its own interest.
TIE Meas, of Nashville, Mich, says
that a man who would leave his horse
naked in the streets of a cold winter day
or night would chew plug tobacco at a
funeral. Rather a fine cut that, on some
body.
If there was ever an illustration of en-
thusiasm hopelessly run mad, it is in the
case of the Tennesseean who has preserved
in alcohol an chronological specimen
jackson slept in.
A CHICO (CalD man who was recently
communing with nature on the top of a
high bluff saw a fine deer shaking its
thirst at rivulet below. The Chico man
dropped a big chunk of rock on the deer
and broke its back.
The insurance companies contend that
an explosion is not a fire. A suit on this
point has followed the blowing up of
Bradford & Co.'S mill in Bennington.
The companies will only settle the loss
that was caused by fire after the premises
had been blown into comparative worth
lessness.
HANK CRANDIL, young man of Des
Moines, who had the thatch taken off his
head a few weeks ago, and was rendered
insane, by the kick OF a Vicious horse, is
now pronounced out of danger. He will
recover, but will be branded with horse
shoe on the top of his head during the
rest of his pilgrimage.
In Worcester, the Damascus Lodge
Knights of Pythias, have voted to author
ize the order in St Louis to bring a suit
against the hospital authorities of that
city for the recovery of the body of Chas.
F. Gates, of Worcester, who died in the
st. Louis Hospital recently, and whose
body is supposed to have been appropri-
ated by the surgeons for their own use.
THE days of Salem witchcraft have not
gone by. John Hunt, of Burke County,
n. C., thought that he was bewitched, not
in the usual way, by respectable woman
of the place. He drew her figure on 4
board and shot it through the heart with
piece of silver, but that did no good.
Then lie threatened to shoot her and was
arrested.
INSTEAD of abolishing rec passes alto
srptb tItp nfti nt he RaJ
road of Massachusetts are making them
selves and the deadheads more bother
about it. Every holder of a season pass
must leave his signature at the office, and
every time he rides sign blank for the
conductor, so that fraud may be detected
by subsequent comparison.
a PRINTER of indianapolis thus cx-
plains the recent strike there: When the
panic of last September depressed bust
ness, Indianapolis Union, No l, consent
ed to a reduction in their scale of prices
of from twelve to fifteen per cent, the re
duced rates TO hold good tor IA period of
six months. The time having expired
they asked employers To come up to the
agreement.
IT is objectionable in the Courier
Journdt. This Siamese twinsy paper says
a Boston journal thinks that the man who
plunged beneath the ice and saved IA lady
should be rewarded with the lady's hand.
Let that man accept such reward, and
half the unmarried women in Massachu-
sets will be under the ice within four
and twenty hours.-Grdphtc.
JAMES c. GLASS sues Mary Glass, of
Hyde Park, Mass, for divorce, on the
ground that she was the wife of Mr..
Hepburn, of New York before he GLASS
married her. Mr.. Hepburn went on a
four years voyage, shortly after they
were married. but she never heard from
him for twelve years, and, believing that
he was dead, married Mr.. Glass, who
didn't know that she had been once mar
ried, since She had resumed her maiden
name. The question is, whether her mar
rage with Glass, consummated with such
conclusive proof IF her former husbands
death, is rendered null and void by the
fact that her first husband is living. The
point is "a new ono to the supreme Court
of that State.