American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-29
CURRENT ITEMS.

startled ny heavy crash IN one OF thell
parlors the other night and soon found
that Il red squirrel had gnawed off the
cord of Il picture.
a Hartford man has been trying the
experiment of demonstrating partrid@es
which has so often failed. He kept them
a year and got them SO tame that they
would eat from the hand of IA stranger.
STRATHAM n H., boasts woman who,
in one day, besides attending to her vari-
Gus household duties, picked twenty
seven quarts of rasbcrries, for which she
realized twenty-five cents per quart
! CRAFTsBURY. Vt, has a ' crane city, y
where great numbers of cranes collect
every year to rear their young. The
nests are high up in the large trees, and
are as large as bushel basket inside.
MAN named OBJ len fell asleep at
Bath, Me, the other day, with his head
on his hands and his elbows on table,
and, his wife happening to wake him, he
started up so suddenly as to dislocate his
coilarbone.
ST. Louis is so fatal place for babies
the mortality under five years running up
to 80 or 60 per cent of the whole number
during the summer months-that it is
proposed to establish, twenty miles out
of the city, a sanitarium for babes.
In Paris natural flowers are much
worn mt one side of the waist, and are
arranged in this wise: A small bouquet is
/ placed in tiny glass holder containing
a few drops of water, which is then con
cealed in the folds of the sash.
| The poor immigrants day, as regards
! cheap fares to the West, is over, it seems
/ for the present, the officials of the COM
peting lines having buried the Ratchet
and agreed to restoration of the old rates
something ike $50 per cent advance
on the recent tariff.
| HENRY DEAN, a New York fruit-deal-
er, rendered gloomy by the robbery from
/ his firm of $3.50 by a confidential
clerk awhile since, committed suicide at
Jersey City recently by throwing himself
under the wheels of passing express
| train.
| MAY Heavens angels whisper golden
words as they kiss your darling checks,
! wrote La Crosse man to his Betsy only
last SPRING and now he wishes Heavens
angels would whisper to him how his
breach ofpromise uit is coming out, rs
his lawyer is doubtful.
They have siX-year-old boy at Harri
man, n. H., who weighs 146 pounds. The
following are his dimensions: Around
the chest, forty five inches thigh, twenty
eight inches; ankle, fifteen inches, wrist,
ten inches; arm at shoulder, seventeen
inches; length of leg, seventeen inches;
height, forly-sevcn and half inches.
HE old, abandoned Fort Hale, near
New Haven, must be an unpleasant SORT
of thing to have aroun !. Those uneN-
ploded shells are still lying about the
ground. Somebody has recently dumped
"a load of hay up against the magazine
door to keep people away, but if this hay
should happen to get on fire there would
be lively times.
g FEAR" said a minister to his flock,
when | explained to you in my last char
ity-sermon that philanthropy was the
love of our species. you must have under
stood me to say specie, which may ac-
count for the smallness of the collec-
ton. You will now prove, l hope, by
your present contribution, that you are
no longer laboring under the same mis-
take"
A RHODE ISLAND convict recently adj |
mitted to his spiritual guide that on one
occasion he had suffered the keenest O.
morse for crime. 1t was when he stole |
four cucumbers from poor but deserv
ing man, and ate them. That night, be
fore the doctor got there, he made sol |
emu VOW that, if his life were spared, he
would never repeat the act and he never
has.
THE grasshoppers have done immense
damage in Boscawen, Canterbury, |
Franklin and other towns in New Hamp |
shire. One farmer estimates that they |
have injured his hay crop to the amount
of fifty tons and another puts his loss at
forty tons. They also made il raid among |
the fruit trees and corn-tassels, devour-
ing the latter as fast as they appeared.
a PENNSYLVANIA young lady recently !
placed piece of wedding cake under |
her pillow, and went to bed with the |
happy belief that she would dream of !
b.r f,,t, buc That
ing, however, she had eaten two plates
of ice-cream, about IA pint of strawber- !
ries, several sweet cakes and two large |
pickles; and she now says she would |
rather remain single all her life than
marry the man she saw in her dream
A MIR. ROGERS, of New London, Conn,
died recent from the effects of some |
foreign substance swallowed with piece |
of bread some days before. He realized |
Immediately Il severe cutting, as if some |
sharp substance similar to IA rough piece
of glass had passed into his stomach. He
was attended by physician, an emetic
administered and other medicines given
him, but nothing gave permanent relief.
He expired in great agony.
A MAN who had been cruel to Il horse |
was convicted in Little Shasta, Cal. The
jury fixed the fine at one dollar, and the |
Justice followed with a speech. This |
man ) Dctn lTltU IOuT tllntS, gtUlltlntH Ol
the jury" he said land you're the first
twelve that's had sense enough to find
him guilty. But what under heavens did
you make iackasses of yourselves tor by
putting the fine at one dollar after you'd
done an average decen thing? 'Taint
any of your business anyway what he's
fined I'll look after that myself It'll
be sixty dollars"
IN WASHINGTON, the other day, Il little
H. l., = Il
in large sule-leather trunk with
spring lock, and unconsciously locked
himself in. His playmates upon hear
ing him cry, after an unsuccessful at
tempt to release him, gave the alarm.
lady neighbor was the first on the spot,
and after grca cXertion succeeded in
raisin" one side of the lid, thus atiording
ir to the little victim. Additional aid
soon arrived, the lid was forced open,
and the child, who was excessively weak,
was rescued Restoratives were at once
applied, and the little fellow when last |
heard from, though still weak, was be
You'd danger.
SIR. OWEN \. Hunt and Miss Sarah
Il. Hall, all the way from Muhlenburg
County, Ky, were married here lately in
Mr.. Butler. The loving couple had fled |
the wrath of parents and step-mothers,
and come to our land on horseback to
unite themselves by the bonds of welded |
love. Miss Sarah looked to be fourteen
or fifteen years of age When the |
preacher asked Hunt if he would take |