American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-19
CURRENT ITEMS.


tumn foliage been So successfully imi
tatcd:
! AUTIIUR A. MILLER, of South Antrim, n
H., lost seventeen half grown turkeys 4
few days since, on account of their par
| taking of some rock salt that he acct
dentally dropped in the yard.
| A RATHER peculiar man is Judge
Keith of Virginia, who, after issuing
warrants for the recent arrest of Mosby
and Payne for dueling, mounted his
horse and rode out to see the encounter
THE hair is now arrayed on the top of
| the head in series OF graduated pulls
cl4ning from over the forehead almost to
1 tie Rape of the neck. The putfs are
made from what ladies call the "comb
savings"
| SHOCKS boy heard him say the other
dav that there was money in hens, and
he proceeded to investigate the old mans
poultry yard. He had gone through a
dozen fine specimens when the old man
| descended upon him, and the boy now
wonders if there's balm in Gilcad.
"PA, who is Many Voters 2" asked Il
young hopeful of his sire. " Don't know
| him, my SON Why =" "Cos / saw you
| signin' his name to that letter you wrote
the other night askin' you to run for AL
derman." "Sh-h-h, my son; here's a
Nickel go and get some candy"
A soMNANIBULIsT jumped from a train
on the Pan Handle (Ohio) Road, a few
nights ago, when it was running at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. The train
was stopped and backed il half mile,
where the sleeper was found lying beside
the track considerably bruised, but not
seriously injured.
A Girl. in Nashua, N H., in her youth
III. hnr 70 bar Inv
her appearance Is awful to behold. The
other day she appeared upon the street,
whereupon one or two ladies tainted.
When the family formerly resided in
Lowell the authorities would not allow
the girl to appear in public.
AN Essex Comm man made a toy boat
about five inches long and an inch and a
half wide, with all the rigging, and hav-
ing attached to it small American flag,
suspended it with a hair from his own
head by a nail in the ceiling of his shop,
twenty years ago, and there it has hung
all this time in spite of the jar of the
shop.
ELMER FAIRCHILD, of Fewtown, Conn.,,
recently lost seventy out of Ill newly
purchased Michigan cattle by disease
which the Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture thinks was caused by
drinking impure water on their way East
Other cattle in the town have died with
the same disease, however, and there is
some excitement about the matter.
A NEGRO living near Atlanta, Ga, stole
IA shot gun from another negro, and on
being arrested proposed that instead oil
being locked up he should allow the
owner of the gun to give him a whipping.
This was agreed to, and he was given
thirty-nine lashcs on the bare back with
IA stout strap, large number of persons
going to see the punishment, which was
relentlessly inflicted and philosophically
borne.
THE other day forty parishioners, men
and women, of Rev. Geo. Wheeler of
Concord, n. H., met at the parsonage
and cut, cured and got in fifteen acres of
hay, concluding the day with an excellent
present was Miss Emma Wheeler, of
Providence, r. l., who moved a wide
swath twenty-five rods long, which hand
somely beat every snath-man on the
ground.
AN unnatural marriage has recently
taken place in Topsham, Me-, according
to the Bath Times, the bridegroom being
thirty-five wears old and the bride
eleven. We are further told" adds the
same paper, " that two clergymen re-
fused to perform the marriage ceremony
under circumstances so manlfestly I'M
proper, if not unlawful. \ third one
was found, however, who was less
scrupulous in the matter"
WHILE Mr. Lewis Barlow, of Newport,
Mass, was fishing, lately, back of Fort
Walcott he noticed Il huge swordfish
coming in the direction of his boat, and
before he could prepare for the emergen-
CIV the fish ran his sword through the
bow of the boat and made a hole about Il
foot long. The boat Immediately filled
with water and Mr.. Barlow's situation
was anything but pleasant. Fortunately
a man was passing who rescued him and
lowed his boat to the shore.
THE Lewiston CAIe) Gazette tells of a
lady in that city who, finding no needles
in the cushion where she usually kept
them, concluded to investigate the into
rior of the cushion, which had been in
use sixteen years. She thought few, Il
very few, of the thousands of needles
which had penetrated the bran might
have gone through the covering, though
no amount of pinching and squeezing re-
vealed their presence there. She accord
ingly dissected the cushion and found Il
mine of over four hundred needles, all
in Il good state of preservation!
A NOTED pearl-diver of Atlantic City
is making arrangements for Il hazardous
undertaking. He proposes to test the
virtue of Il newly-inventcd Hfe-prcserver
by being carried from New York in II
steamer to IL distance of not less than
two hundred miles from land, and there
left to the mercy of the waves until he
shall meet IL passing vessel He will
carry with him rations for IL week; also
signal-lights and flags, all being slowed
away in IA rubber bag about two feet
square. He is confident of success; but
the undertaking looks, to common minds,
like hazardous one.
A FRENCIIMAN went into store at
Quechee, VT, the other day, and asked for
IA bottle of liniment the name of which
the clerk didn't clearly understand, but
IL bottle of ointment was handed to him,
and he was asked if that was the kind
he desired. "Oui, oui!" replied the
Frenchman, g she be it, she be itn' The
next day doctor was called to attend
the family where the ointment had been
carried, when it was discovered that it
had been freely used in seasoning pies,
in the place of extract of lemon, for
which the man had been sent to the
store.
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