American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-01-03
CURRENT ITEMS.

| BARRIERS 10 shave on NlHuiY-
QuINcY, ILL.,, papers having a stir
| ring controversy over the question: why
do mules kick"
JOHN ZEAGLEH, of Pulaski County, Va,
climbed creased pole by the aid of sand
and indoraitable grit.
| An Indiana widow wants 100000 dam
ages from the man WHO refused to keep
his promise to marry her.
THREE men were badly wo7nded by
the bursting of wheel in a Springfield,
ILL.,, planning mill, recently.
JAMES SMITH, Of Racine, Wis, recently
walked one hundred miles in twenty-five
hours and thirty-tiIree minutes
\ SOUTHERN paper tersefy says of
man who was kicked by EOrse, that
his life extinct for some time"
4 PHYSICIAN advised Peck Roberts of
| Troy to take iron and he took 800 pounds
from foundry and is in Jail for it.
JONES complains of the price of tea
He wouldn't wonder if grocers thought
| it reasonable to make Unreasonable.
To PREVENT boots from squeaking hang
the wearer. That is the way they did at
Weston, Mo, and it cured the boots.
| WoRTHINGToN, Mass, boasts of a house
one hundred years old, in which no
funeral ceremony was ever performed.
| A BOSTON lover committed suicide the
Mn 10y ~ p1 .t 80
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quence.
| Mrs. CLARK didn't like the assessment
put on her property, and she went right
before the Council of Quincy, Ill, and
| told them so.
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at - s,-a1l ,.at iTha Coroner,s i1,rr com
q, ,,;a "a 81 r.; az, ~, July ''
III ~ mn ~, !. i"i
n fotN8 lady IN limos recently pe
game so much emoarIasSeo oy proposal
rom her rover, tnh'' i'll her agitation she
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iHE " ny os' 90 I - -.
support me postai 'inS TinN r y,
provided the schcme oe ehiai ecu " III
clude saloon attachment.
TIE rourser-Joufn"I classes as the prin-
cipal contributions OF kentucky 10 the
national repertofy; women norses'
whisky ana oiue grass
MAINE Justice vindicated the dig
nitp of the law by sending a newspaper
editor to prison for calling him a mud
die-headed mannikin."
THE editor of the Duluth Herald is
sanpuiue in spite of hard times. He
saws. 1--WE shall Jerk living out of this
civ during the coming winter, or we are
much mistaken"
n,to~ Ind 10 Iettinr the fence
,,.-1',7,I 80 oa,,,atorv fall To nipces II
sItr,r ~ tLa ,,a1nla in the cemetery
nar,,t qret C,,t and tbnse who are ont don't
want to get in
.-,.-,a.o :, C,roo,4io,d u.ss
hos consumed s. 600 worth of the potent
drug. without mentioning, IA a local
paDer has it. "the consequential dam
;,res ~
IT is n queer notion some people have
of retting anrrv when they receive a dun.
The rartv who has a right to become
veved is the one who has been kept out
of what belongs TO him.
THE Terre Haute Gozefte saws there is
n man in that city who has been divorced
twice and married three times, and is now
for another divorce. He will probably
die a drunkard. as all the LAWYERS treat
him
AN exnensfye accident occurred in
Jackson County, Ind, recently. man
was showing neighbor how nicely ne
had fitted up room, when ne ieii, break,
ing a lamp that set IRE 10 ana Durheo
much of the furniture.
UAfsD times in Alabama according to
A Southern paper, that says: ''Some con-
summate scoundrel on Friday night, ex-
humed the cornerstone of the new colored
church at Opelika and extracted there
from a one-doIlar bill"
THERE Is a man IN Rockville Sonn.'
about Forty years oi age, VINO can lelea',
word for word every DOCK ana newspaper
article that he has read tor the past Ten
years, says CONNECTICUT exchange. rms
is either lie, or the man can't or don't
read.
A LADY in Sullivan was recently grant
ed n divorce from her husband, with forty
acres of land as alimonv. The same after
noon her former husband applied for a
marriage license, ana IN 'he evening Was
married IN the street 10 ''e lauy Vi hi'
second choice.
THEY "aX' us to believe this story. A
pine log was being sawed at the Mlchl-
CANINE Mining Company's mill, so the
romance runs, in the middle of which an
AK WAS found. Our informant looked us
in the eve when he related the above and
never bianched What Il piece of work
is man -ni,ainq gazette.
-, It. -, and ,,-o,,,o,
,,ot their riqbis, Here's another girl
Killed herself this time at Portland, Me-,
a chawine gum. But for the cruel pre-
iudice that drove her to the use OF that
vile substitute for tobacco, she might