American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE Erie Canal revenues have falleI
off so that the total for the summer il
some thousands less than last year.
FALL bonnets are large, with tlarins
| fronts, not corOnets, but with the front o.
the bonnet turned upward and outward
A BIG elm, known as Gaylord's Elm
which was recently blown down, il
Chicopee, Mass, made over fifty cords OF
| wood.
| A KENTUCKY paper remarks thai
d" there were eight suicides in Bourbon
| County last month, three of which were
fatal"
in Chatham, Chester County, Pa, struck
the point of IA lightning-rod and stabbed
| itself to death.
OF the 1O4 Episcopal Bishops conse
| Grated in the United States since the
Revolutionary war, titty-three have
| passed away, the last being Bishop
Whitehouse.
THE Governor of Alabama has been
requested by "A constituent to find Il miss
ing wife, who is cOmprehensively de-
scribed as ga medium sized woman in a
calico dress"
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY head of CalifOr-
mia horses belonging to the United States
were recently sold at auction in Montana.
from $40 to $40 each.
THE potato rot is working terrible havoc
among the crops in the vicinity of New
Haven, and at Wallingford, Conn.,, in
MANY instances, whole fields are cOnsld-
cred not worth gathering.
In reporting the fall fashions the New
York Herald says: " There is a marked
absence of the extravaganza and absurd
ties of former seasons, and Il marked I'M
provement in matters of taste"
A CHINESE cure for hydrophobia is to
give the patient Il detection of the leaves
of stramOnium, in doses large enough to
keep him deliriouS for twenty-four hours
1t is said that the hydrophobia symptoms
disappear on the appearance of the de-
lirium, and do not return.
FROM Leavenworth bridge, over the
Missouri River, the other day a Mexican
pony fell eighty feet into the turbulent
river below. He disappeared from hui
man vision, but in few seconds came
to the surface and then padded for the
levee, which he shortly reached, appar-
entity none the worse for his frightful
plunge.
A CLERGYMAN's cat at West Spring
field Mass, has shown some remarkable
symptoms of natural depravity. After
giving birth to seven kittens, recently,
blacklist from the group, and utterly re-
fused to take any notice of them. No
sooner were they restored to her nest
than she again and again elected them,
and death finally received the little
waits.
ARCTIC expeditions are said to be made
up in three distinct stages, all of which
are necessary to form complete expedi-
ton. At first a vessel is sent to make
exploration; after an indefinite interval
of time second ship is sent to find the
first, and after another interval a third
vessel is dispatched to complete the eX-
ploration and bring back information of
the survivors, if any, of the two proceed
ing ships.
A SHEFFIELD (Vt) man who had been
quarreling with his sons sought to
end his troubles the other day by suicide.
The sons found him dangling at the end
of IA rope, apparently in the last struggle,
and the older son called upon his brother
to help him save their father, whereupon |
the latter responded: Guess we had |
better let the old chap hang" But the |
older brother thought that their father |
was, on the whole, worth saving and ac- |
cut the rope.
In 1870 mosquitoes made their appear
ance in England, imported, as it is alleged |
there, from the United States, and they |
have now so much increased as to have |
become general nuisance. A cor |
respondent of the Times says they can |
be kept away at night by placing few |
pieces of the pale, green-leaved pyreth
rum" about the room. The plant here !
me ant is probably the pyrethrum parthe
mum, or feverfew, which is common |
enough in English gardens.
A LABoRER's wife at Mortimer, En-
:. l...1 81, Il fr,,r l,.S tI
of hornet She was standing in the |
road near her house, when hornet flew |
out from Il nest in the bank and stung |
her on the right side of the neck. She |
went indoors and neighbor Dathed her
neck with water and vinegar. However,
she tainted almost Immediately and OK
PRED in few minutes, before Il medical |
man could reach the house. The shock
to her nervous system was the immedi-
ate cause of death.
REV " ADIRONDACK" MURRAY recently |
delivered an agricultural address at st. |
Adams, VT, in the midst of powerful |
rain, but he stood out of doors, bare
headed, and went through it all without
linching. His subject was the dignity |
IF agriculture, and he said he would feel
satisfied if, by his address, he should per
suade IA single farmer-boy to remain on
he ancestral acres rather than seek the
excitement OF CITY NE.
lie, however, dwelt upon the fact that
farmers boys are not usually so healthy
rs those living in the city, and thought
hat it was due to excessive manual
abor, improper diet, and inattention to
he laws of physical exercise. lie thinks
hat the New England stock of men is
deteriorating.
THE tramps" ntestIng some parts of
Michigan and other Western States are
said to have IL system of cabalistic signs
BY which they inform their followers of
he charitable possibilities of different
Each vagrant carries IL
piece of hard red chalk, with which he
marks cross upon the gate of the
armer who has been hospitablc to him,
md an o upon that of the ungracious
Iost. The latter sign is also intended to
lint to the next tramp" that fraud, and
wen violence, may be used to make the
stingy' farmer help the wayfarer. In
san Francisco the Chinese house servants
rave, in like manner, IA system OF secret
writing for their successor; indicating
~ peculiar characters on the walls, or
whether or not the family is
worth faithful service.-Grophic.