American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-14
CURRENT ITEMS.

uOrS,
The Soginapian estimates the standing
timber in Michigan at $4,000, 900, 900
feet.
Or the 900 and odd children born in
Hartford, Conn, last year, over TOO were
of Irish parentage.
IT is said that American life insurance
companies having agencies in England
are not doing well.
A NEW YORK State doctor gave a woman
aconite to cure her deafness, and since the
funeral they can't find him.
AT several places in Montana the cpl
zooty has reappeared. Some stage lines
have been compelled to stop.
KEROSENE does not meet with favor in
Georgia, almost every household sticking
to the time honored tallow dip.
If the new proposition to burn the dead
prevails, what are the medical men to do
for subjects for the dissecting table?
A CLERMoNT Qowa farmer put out
poison for the wolves. The next morning
his dog and seven hogs were dead.
AN old woman in Illinois has forwarded
ten cents to Washington to pay her share
of the national debt before she dies.
A CONNECTICUT paper proposes to fine
every man $500 who adulterates liquor,
and only two dollars where he sands his
sugar.
A MAN in Keokuk lately dropped dead
while cOmbing his hair, and yet there are
people who will persist in the dangerous
habit.
A MONTANA man has been eXiled from
the Territory, under pain OF pitch and
plumage, for the crime of marrying a
Chinawoman.
Mrs. JOHN POLLOCK affectionately
suffocated her baby while riding with
it one cold day in Troy. 1t was case of
too much shawl.
A PURE quality of alum is found in
large Q Iantities in the form of incrusta-
tions on the rocks near Lancha Plana,
Amador County, Cal.
THE Governor of Maine recently sent
to the Legislature of that State the first
veto for fifteen years. Both houses sus-
tanned the objection.
ELI G. FOWLER, CT Norwich, Conn.,,
speared an eel the other day that meas
ured thirty and "a half inches long and
twelve inches around its body.
ASTRONOMERS say that their science can
be practically studied under our clear
atmosphere to better advantage than from
the oDservatories of Middle Europe.
THERE are five members only of the
Utah Legislature who are not possessed
of more than one wife each, and of these
five three are Mormons by profession.
A MUSHROOM was recently found near
San BernardinO, Cal, which measured
four feet in circumference and fourteen
inches high, weighing twenty pounds.
THE courts of Illinois are reported to
have already over 5000 divorce cases on
their dockets, with accessiOns of new ap-
plications at the rate of 5000 per annum.
A FLuME is to be constructed from the
mountai ms, leading into Nevada City and
Grass Valley, Cal, to float down wood
and timber. The distance is thirteen
miles.
through Michigan, selling what they call
"Hickman's patent farm gate" They are
swindlers, according to the Free Press, of
Detroit
THERE were recently in Jail in Georgia
twenty men arrested in that State for
illici. distilling. Indictments had been
found against many others, who had SO
far escaped arrest.
FARMERS in the American Bottom live
in dread lest their crops be destroyed by
grasshoppers next summer. Investiga-
tons prove that they lurk in millions in
many fields of wheat.
1T is getting so fashionable in Phila-
delphia for ladies to get drunk that the
Inquirer calls upon husbands to interfere,
and would uphold them In turning the
key on the inebriates.
AN Indiana man with a turn for statis-
tics calculates that his faithful dog, ten
years of age, has cost him $234.25 for
hash and $25 for license. The dog is now
for sale. Price, ten cents.
A LARGE unlimited crowd which assem-
bled in St. Michael's Church, in Chester,
Pa, to witness wedding were locked in
IL v<.% l. ral
ceremonies transpired elsewhere.
A CONsUMPTIvE man in Rhode Island
had an idea that if he could drink fresh
blood from a goat it would cure him, and
he killed seven or eight goats belonging
to neighbors and got himself in jail.
IT is said that the wife of Gen. Sher-
man is very much opposed to round
dances, and does not permit her daughters
to indulge in them even at her own house.
Mrs. Sherman is a devout Catholic.
A CINCINNATI court has decided that
any one purchasing ticket for a theater
after the hour announced for the curtain
to rise will be entitled to any seat in the
house which he finds uneccupied on en-
tering.
Mr.. BURNAM . and wife, living near
Hampton, Iowa, in going home from town
in a sleigh, a few days ago, had the baby
with them. The mother wrapped the
little fellow so closely that she smothered
it to death.
For pure grit and long-continued pa
thence you want to go to Toledo. A
young lady in that town has sent 116
pieces of poetry to newspaper, and
though all have been rejected she is strug-
Cling with another.
A CLERGYMAN proposes the abolition of
golden, silver, tin, wooden, and all other
weddings, and the substitution therefor
of an anniversary renewal of the fee to
the minister who officiated at the orig
inal ceremony.
NELSON ROBBINS, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
got drunk and started home the other
night. He fell down, and remained by
the side of the road until his feet and
hands were so badly frozen that ampu-
tatiOn was found necessary.
A MARYLAND farmer stayed beside a
railroad track for three hours to tell the
conductor of an approaching train about
tree that lay across the rails. The CRATE
full official explained to him that anybody
but first-class fool would have cleared
the track
In Warren County, Pa, recently,
horse, ridden at a smart gallOp, caught its
foot in "a cavity of the road. The foot was
wedged in firmly, and the impetus of the
horse was so great that the hoof was
wrenched completely off. The poor brute
was afterward killed.
A PIoUs old lady near Athens, Ga,
rather surprised a lot of young folks who
had captured her mansion for party by
furnishing entertainment in the shape of
a sermon two hours long from one of the