American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

| WHAT sublime courage was thai dis
| played by the Nevada woman. who, when
the stealthy savage approached her, just
| pulled off her hair and gave it to him!
| A KENTUCKY exchange says: g With
the beginning of the year we will reduce
our business To Il cash basis Cordwood
and potatoes taken for subscriptions
THE first piece of artillery was invented
| by German, soon after the invention
of gunpowder, and was first used by the
| Moors ut AlgeZiras, in Spain, in the siege
| 1341
| WHEN 4 horse reaches ten or twelve
years of age don't kill him because he is
! getting too old. Goldsmith Maid is over
| seventeen, and is showing considerable
activity yet.
\ SALEM Mass-) man has a canary
| which during the past SIX months has laid
| thirtyfour eggs, Matched fifteen offspring,
| thirteen of which are living and seven of
| them singers, with six eggs remaining to
| be heard from.
n SEALED bottle has been picked up on
| the Florida coast which contained It'd
| ings of the fate of the long-lost steam
| ship City of Boston. She sailed from
| New York Jan. %, 1870 and foundcred
| in storm.
TIE Detroit Free Press anXiously re
| marks: "Of course, one can more or less
| contemplate a common rolling-pin, but
when they send cargo into this State
with lead run into the ends what is to be
come of personal hberty?"
THE Milwaukee Sentinel has the follow
ing statement: THE grasshoppers on
their way south stopped a railroad train
| and got copies of the st. Paul papers.
When they read that only a small por-
ton of the crops had been destroyed
they started back to finish up the job"
A MOVEMENT is being made to intro
duce the prairie chicken into various
waste tracts in Europe and America, and
with every prospect of success. 1t is
stated that, a few years ago, several pairs
were transferred to a district of Mary
land, and that, in consequence of proper
protection, the progeny already amounts
to several thousands.
A DISTINGUISHED gentleman, whose
nose and chin were both very long, and
who had lost his teeth, whereby the nose
and chin were brought very near togeth-
er, was told g | am afraid your nose and
chin will fight ere long; they approach
one another very menacingly." Il am
afraid of it myself" replied the gentle
man, for a great many words have
passed between them already"
SAYS the Phoebe (Nev.) Record:: Trial
luries are queer institutions. AT Reno
four foot-pads attacked Il man named
Elliott. They were beaten off, wounded,
and afterward arrested. These were the
facts, which were not disputed, yet the
jury before whom the trial was had were
out two days before they could agree,
and then brought in verdict of guilty,
with IA recommendation to mercy"
A REQUEST of $150,0O0, intended by
DR.. f. r. Johnson, who died in New Bed
ford two years ago, to establish a chart
table institution for colored people in
that city, has failed in its purpose from
a singular fact The will, written by the
Doctor himself provided that the above
bequest should be available on condition
that his daughter should leave no
"heirs." He probably meant, on condi-
ton that she left no issue. Although the
daughter died without children, her
mother was her legal heir" and the
bulk of the property now goes to the lat
ter'S relations.
\ MURRAY County (Minn) farmer took
a novel method of Kidding his wheat
fields of grasshoppers. Making Il wooden
roller, he loaded it with about n tons
weight of stones and run it over his grain.
AS he expressed it, - | just smashed 'em
right into the ground, grain and all"
a rain coming on Immediately after
brought the grain out all right, but the
hoppers were completely demoralized,
in fact nearly all killed outright; and
none have since been upon his grain.
He says he had as good a crop of wheat
as any man in the country-thinks it will
yield not less than twenty-five bushels
per acre. He thinks that wherever grass
hOpperS hatch out upon grain they can
be readily disposed of by rolling them
into the ground without iniuring the
grain.
WHILE W. Reeder and other gentlemen
were fishing in Green River, Ky, recent
ly, they were thrown into the utmost con
sternation by the appearance of Il dread
full monster, in the shape of fish, NOV
ing slowly up the river, its back fins pro-
truding some six feet out of the water
Mastering up courage, Mr. II. and his
friends got in a skilf and pulled out near
the monster, and when within Il hundred
feet of it the creature sank. They
moved forward to see if it could be OBJ
served beneath the surface, as the water
was very clear. In few moments it
arose within forty feet of them and they
could see its full gigantic form, which
was about fifteen feet long and three
feet in diameter at the middle, with large
fins on its back and side, six or seven feet
long; its head was fully one-third of its
entire length; one prong of its tail was
about four feet wide and six feet long
LouisUiUe CoHamerciM.
Two years ago, Joel II. Mansfield, of
San Francisco, Cal, having become
enamored of Miss Mary Helm, and having
failed to impress that young lady as
favorably as he desired, met her on the
street one afternoon and blazed away at
her with IA pistol. She was with another
young man ut the time. Mansfield fired
three times at her. Two of the shots
took effect, and for some time Miss
Helms life was in danger. Mansfield
was tried two or three times for the
assault, but each time the jury disagreed,
and finally, the patience of the prescott
ing officers being exhausted, Il n0iie
prosequj was entered. The sequel to this
romantic affair is that few days ago the
County Clerk issued a marriage license
to Mr. Mansfield and Miss Helm, and
during the week they were made one
flesh. No place in the world can beat
California for romance.
~ wELI-KNOwN manufacturer of this
city visited his family IA few days since
at one of the popular summer resorts not
IA thousand miles from Falmouth.
Happening to have an unusually we'll
filled pocket book, upon retiring for the
night he placed it in one of his boots for