American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-01-10
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last week, for $500.
| A PHH.ADEIPHIA belle has broken hel
engagement because her intended callet
her by her first name
| ACCORDING to the State Auditor, Ken
| lucky has lost over half million dollars
by defaulting sheriffs.
IT is good thing to have unlimited
| credit, but better still to have ready money
always on hand for emergencies.
| AN Oshkosh poet asserts that Eat the
| dawn's effulgen breaking, voices wills.
per to his ear" He shouldn't get up SO
| early.
SOME ladies still cling to the hustle
Notwithstanding the fact that they are en-
tirely out of fashion, and it is to be hoped
will not be revived.
care you burglar, sir? If so, do not
come in, as am all Alone" said Somer-
vile (hass) servant-girl, when man
called, the other day.
etful of prunes, and chews them on the
horse cars, and then snaps the kernels at
the conductors eyes.
THE prevalent fashions preclude ladies
from wearing white skirts. They have,
after mature deliberation, adopted the old
fashioned quilted skirt.
A BANGOR man has run off because he
thought he had killed the man who was
counting his sister-in-law. The poor lover
was terribly beaten, but survives.
A WESTERN journal, on learning that
Rhode Island is crowded, suggests that
the Governor of the State be authorized
to hire one or two families to go West.
THE Missouri Hnrrisonian advertises
400 COW bells for sale, and explains that it
took them of hardware man in payment
fcr inh nd lat ic
motto.
ST. PAUL papers are congratulating the
climate of Minnesota because it permit
ted bricklayers to work out of doors, in
their shirt-sleeves, late in the month of
December.
TIE Detroit Post says: "Good wood is
selling in Gratiot County for 81 cord,
but you couldn't beat that into the head
OF a Detroit wood dealer with a ten-ton
pile -driver''
WE believe not one of the New York
great dailies had enterprise enough to send
its Gown correspondent" to Shreveport to
write up the yellow fever plague.-Norris-
to,en Herald.
FAsHIoNABLEs have seized upon yellow
again as favorite color. A huge yellow
blush rose stuck on the side of the peculiar
bonnet or hat of the period is regarded as
the tip of the fashion.
IN a number of the smaller towns in
kentucky the good, old fashioned diver
sion of candy pulling" is becoming pop
ular as mode of raising church funds in
place of the more expensive fairs.
A RUMoR is prevailing among the Piute
Indians that the Government intends to
remove them to other quarters. The In
dians declare they will die fighting rather
than leave their present reservation.
A pprnu, of tho 1pnot in Tprre Hauta
day or two ago, created a sensation by her
outfit. She was arrayed in a
white tartletan dress, black shoes with
white rosettes, and carried black mHtf.
TIE Boston Globe says that the workmen
cele brated the opening of the HOOsac tun-
mel by tapping two or three barrels of
beer. There was no interference by the
police, as the barrels were marked ''nitro-
glycerine."
THE Cedar Falls Recorder reports hav-
ing found the meanest man. The chap
donated pair of wOrn-Out summer pants
to the homesteaders, but took out tine
pockets and ripped the buttons off before
parting with them.
SPRING GUNS have been determined lille
gal by the Supreme Court of Iowa, sitting |
in Des Moines. A man set one to guard |
his vineyard, and it shot a rogue, who not |
being sufficiently shot, brought action and |
obtained judgment.
THE cruelest young female is the girl |
some Western papers are Boosting OF |
They are telling how she sheared thirteen |
sheep in five hours 1.-The other day. and |
now, of course, these thirteen innocent |
sheep are left out in this weather without |
overcoats. |
THE Rutland, Vt, police force have got |
The boys under such subsection that they |
don't dare slide en- the sidewalk, but the |
girls slide with impunity, where they |
please, and one of them ran over and |
ground up bank president, Mr.. Daniels, |
the other day.
PETER VAN DYKE, an old chap who |
died in New Hampshire the other day, |
worth $4,000 in cash, requested in his |
will that no one should shuttle and shed |
crocodile tears at his funeral, but cover |
him over, and then hurry home to fight |
over his money"
HE was filed with remorse, that man |
in the Oswego Jail, ON charges of bur |
glarv, bigamy arson, drunkenness, pocket
picking, and highway robbery, and so |
for fear a case might not be made out |
against him he made a sure thing of it by |
stabbing the jailer.
IN Missouri the down-trodden sex are |
to successfully assert their !
right to enter upon any vocation hitherto |
by the tyrant man. A
couple of St. Joe girls lately garroted
poor workwoman. Those girls will get |
into the Legislature next
A MINNEAPOLIS mechanic has solved a |
difficult problem in railroading by the |
invention of "a snow-shOvel, which clears |
a roadway wide enough to allow the cars |
TO pass, takes all the snow clear down to |
the rails, carries it up, deposits it on which |
ever side preferred, at speed OF from |
two to six miles an hour, according to the |
depth Of snow.
Ii SPEAKING of certain aspirant for |
office in Lyon County, Ky, the editor OF
the local paper referred To him man |
Of unimpeachable honor. The intelligent |
left out the "un,'' and the |
hapless writer had to lay out for week
before another issue gave him chance
% correct the error and to show himself
N the office again.
II is unnecessary to endure the pangs
If the rheumatics A Kansas City man
las discovered the remedy in his own
:ase and generously contides il to the
public. Next time you get 'em try 1t.
All that you have TO do is to persuade a
Texas steer to take after you. After the
inimal has chased you forty rods or so TO
nd I'D a tree YOU will not feel Il single
heumatic twingc.
A LADY, who was once housekeeper
or the gentleman who is now her hus-
,and undertook to give n grand ball at
Ter residence in New York last week.
Xix hundred cards of invitation were is
ued. On the eventful evening less than
hirty ladies and gentlemen were present
It the entertainment. This is called by
The finest snub of the season.