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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21
THE GRANGE AND CATHOLIC FARMERS.
DECISION OF THE POPE.


The st. Louis Globe of the 10th
inst, makes the following important
announcement
Roman Catholic farmers DESTROYS
of joining the Order of the Patrons
of Husbandry, have hitherto had in
their way the laws of their Church
forbidding its members to identify
themselves with secret societies.
OF our American prelares, we be-
heve that Archbishop Alemanny, of
San Francisco, has held that the
Catholic farmer will do well to err
on the side of safety, and SO not
join the Grange until the Pope has
expressed his approval of its objects,
while other bishops have forbidden
members of their fiOcks from be-
coming Patrons upon any consider
alton. The matter has been finally
adjudicated on by Plus TX, as ap>
pears by the NOrisk VOlkeblad, the
Scandinavian organ of Minnesota.
A Catholic member of the State
Legislature was DESTROYS of joining
the Grange, but had conscientious
scruples about doing so, arising
from bis religious belief. He cons
sultedS Father Ireland, of St. Paul,
who referred him to Bishop Grace.
Both these clergymen expressed
themselves as possessing favOra-
bile impression of the principles,
objects and methods of the Grange,
but neither of them could break
through the absolute rule of the
Church, and recommended the leg
islatOr to appeal to Rome. He &C.
cOrdingly laid the matter before the
Pope, to whom he transmit ted at
the same time full particulars as to
the objects contemplated by the
Order, and the means by which it
was proposed to attain them. A
reply has been received from His
Holiness, stating that the Pope cal
lows the petitioner to join the
Grange of Patrons of Husbandry,
and be a member thereof, if he finds
nothing therein conflicting with his
conscience or the creed of the Cath
olic Church." AS consequence,
the Order has received a large ac>
cessiOn in Minnesota, and when the
news of the Pope's decision has
reached other States, its effect will
be largely to increase the number
of the Patrons, and to remove the
interdict laid upon Catholics desir-
Gus of becoming such, by prelates
who have disprOved Of the Grange
or been doubtful as to the consist
ency of its obligation with those of
the Church.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21
A COWARDLY ACT.

A special dispatch to the Calves
ton Netcs from Indianola, says:
About one o'clock this evening
two men, one named Taylor and the
other unknown, walked aboard the
steamer Clinton, lying at the wharf
here, and deliberately shot and
killed two men named Sutton and
Slaughter, and then made their es
cape. These men were all connec
ted with the bands of desperadoes
that are making things so lively in
Dewitt county OF late. The muir.
dered men were supposed TO be
an effort to get away on
the steamer, having been warned
that they were followed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21

A fair of the colOred people of
Canton, under the auspices of Rev.
j. Aaron Moore, closed after holding
the entire week, last Saturday night.
We learn that it was very success
full, and that the money realized
will be expended in the completion
OF the Church at Canton, to which,
aside from the fair, many of the old
residents contributed. Capt. j. A.
Turk presented the Society hand
some chandelier with lamps all com
plete. Tie following is Il statement
of the receipts of the fair:
Mrs. McKiuney's table, 500 80
Mrs. Douglass table =. 81 20
Sisters of the Charch table, 81 05
Mrs. Anderson, toy table, 30 70
Archie Jones, door receipts, 81 80
The net receipts, after disposing
of everything, amounts to $40,
which is an excellent showing for
the good people of Madison.-Pilot.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21
TELECRAPHIC ITEMS.

LOUISVILLE, MdICu ld.-AeDfy
Moss and Barney Molencamp, neigh
bOrs and brothers: law, living in
Lewis county, KY, had a quarrel,
during which Moss procured pis-
tol and shot MOlencamp's wife, in
flicting a fatal wound. Moss then
blew his own brains out.
IN THE SNOW.
SALT LAKE CITY, March lire
ports from the line of the Pacific rail-
road state heavy snow storms with
high wind prevailed to day all day
all along the line, from Alto to
points east of ElkO. Cuts recently
cleared are rapidly filling. Trains
due at Ogden tomorrow are now
twenty hours late, with no prospect
of getting through before to morrow
night.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The
Irish societies achieved the grand
est display ever made in Washing
ton. They were in full regalia, and
had several bands of music in the
ranks.
Dispatches from many points,
| North, South and West, report a
general observance of st. PatIick's
tions, and the display in all instances
is reported exceedingly creditable.
In this city the procession was re-
viewed by the President and mem
beers of the Cabinet.
STEAMBOAT BURNED.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-THE
steamer Southwestern, hence Thurs
day, for Shreveport, with a full list
of passengers and five hundred tons
of assorted cargo, burned at Colfax
Sunday morning. The boat and
cargo are a total loss. Value of the
cargo unknown; boat valued at
$50, 900; insured for $4,000. The
passengers lost their baggage. The
officers and crew of the SOuthwes-
tern returned here by the Marie
Louise.
TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
MEXICO, March 1O-ria Havana,
ia fearful outrage was perpe-
trated by a mob at AlpualulcO, in
the State of Jallsco, last Sunday. In
the morning priest delivered an
incendiary sermon, in the course of
which he advised the eXtermina-
ton of the Protestants. This so ex-
cited his hearers that a mob gath
cred in the evening and proceeding
to the residence of John Stevens, a
Congregational minister, sent out by
the Boston Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, and with cries of ''lOng live
the PRIESTS" they broke into the
house, and, seizlng the clergyman,
they smashed his head to a jelly,
and chopped his head into pieces.
They afterwards sacked the house
aud carried off everything of value.
After much delay the riot was sup
pressed by the local authorities,
The government has sent detach-
ment of troops to the place. A rigid
investigation has been set on foot,
and orders have been issued for the
arrest of all priests in Alpualulco
and the IeighbOIing town of Te-
shiian. She mob i'll Sagnago, act
ing under similar religious frenzy,
attached small garrison of the
town, burned the public archieves,
and pillaged the house of the au-
thnrifinS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21
s of the Bacchanalian revel-

scenes of the Bacchanalian revel-
iers.
We would advise our fair enemi, s
to read Burke's beautiful and truth
full description of Il true woman, and
contrast it with the conduct of these
bar>room fanatics, and say which is
most to be admired and hOnOred as
faithful portraiture of true woman
ly delicacy aud refinement.
True women are the moral Saviors
of the world, and it is because OF
this high and holy office that we
oppose this whisky crusade, and all
other movements that would tend
to compromit the refining and ele-
waiting influences of their character,
and lessen their power for the ac-
cOmplishment of good. We hold
that the modesty and delicacy of the
sex has been outraged by the action
of these deluded disciples of false
philanthl opy, hence our opposition
to the unrighteOus warfare.
"Ouida," in one of those wonder
full creations of fiction which have
made her famous in the literature
of the day, draws a touching pic
ture of IL woman who had been sore
~ tempted to sin, but who triumph
ed over the wiles of her tempters.
not so much through her own inner
ent strength of virtuous principle,
as by the regard she had for the
native purity and virtue of her sex.
In recounting the trials and tempta
tiOns to which she had been exposed,
and her final victory over every
incentive to purchase gilded shame,
she says: 81 had wealth offered to
me if 1 would have taken shame.
But it was just this which saved
me, TricOtrin-nOt religion, per-
haps, and not pride of a surety, but
just this: that no man should ever
feel the sex of his mother was out
ragged in me-" A higher, purer, nobler
never found Judgment in
human bosom, and we introduce
this circumstance in the life of a
fictitious character, not because of
any applicability to the characters
We are reviewing, but merely to
show that any act that outrages the
dignity and honor of single per
son reflects, more or less, upon the
sex and believing that the modes
ty, delicacy, refinement and gentility
of the sex, both North aud South,
had been outraged by the conduct
of these misguided and er-zealous
women, we felt called upon to de
nOunce their action as offensive to
true womanly propriety and decor
um, and derogatory to the teachings
Of holy christianity.
We yield to no man in our admir-
alton of woman as she should be,
and as we generally find her, and
while we value her appreciation far
above the praise of princes or the
choicest gifts of fortune, yet if we
are to lose her favor for giving ex
preston to our honest con victiOns
of right and duty, then are we con-
tent to endure her frowns OF dis
pleasure, for we have a praise far
above the praise of woman, the
approval of a conscience that fully
the rectitude Of our
course.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21
CHANCE OF FRONT.

Rev. DIR. Curry, editor in-chief OF
the New York Christian Advocate,
and one of the most malignant foes
of the Methodist Church, South,
has toned down his views on the
social equality problem. We re-
member this individual well-re-
member when he was received with
open arms by the MethOdists of
Georgia, and treated with all the
christian kindness and courtesy for
which those people were so deserv-
eddy distinguished. and to which his
ability and talents justly entitled
him. We remember, too, with what
tiend- like malice he turned against
the people who had thus honored
and fed him, and with what a hell
ISL spirit he inaugurated a crusade
whose main object was to seize and
plumber the churches at whose
affairs he had wept and prayed, and
from whose pulpits he had preached
"peace and good will to men,"
Backed up by powerful govern
ment, whose dnty should be to pro-
tect the weak, this christian crusa-
der pushed forward his Ubiquitous
conuuests over Il defencelesS and
impoverished province, despoiled
churches of their meagre supports,
and strove to crush out the vitality
of their holy religion, which was
well-nigh all that the ravages of a
Radical war had left them. If this
be christianity, heather morality
would blush to own it.
This clerical Rob Roy is now
travelling in the State that he assls-
ted to rob and degrade, and from
a recent letter, written from Atlanta
and published in his journal, it will
be seen that his views on a subject
of great importance to Southern
christians have undergone quite a
change, and which it will be well
for those to consider who are most
deeply interested in it's issue. From
this letter We copy the following
extract:
Sabbath, the 22d of February, we
we're with our friends at heILOyd
street church. The nominal policy
of this church Is TOR the tarO e6lOrs to
ir0rship IN the same congregation; bit
here. as elseaoAere, that policy has
proceed a fdilure-in most cases dis
astrOus one. If the blacks predOmi
nate, or are allo,eed fair play, the
achites absent themselves; and If the
rhites predominant, the cOlOred people
do not lind themselves at home among
them. About one third of the
Atlanta church, extending along the
entire length of the editice, and as
good as any part of it, is formally
as the colored peoples
seats, and while the other two thirds
were comfortably filled, this part
was entirely empty. except that
about a dozen very well dressed
cOlOred men came in and took seats
near the door, evidently strangers,
attracted thither by the announce
meut in the papers of the name of
the expected preacher. Our erperi
ment Of entirely disregardinq "race,
color, or precious condition Of slare-
ry," made in good faith and prosecm>
ted arith cOmmenddbie tenacity Of
purpose, is sufficiently demonstrated
to be a failure. The tarO races ,cHl
continue to form separate Churches
and schools during the present gener
alton. 1t is aoise for as to recognise
that fact, and to order our actions
accordingly but these things argue
nothing against common ecclesIas-
teal or UNCONVENTIONAL organization
but rather much in favor of it.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21

Amongst names most prominently
mentioned as Summers propable
successor. are those OF Hon. Henry
Dawes, tX Gov. A. Bullock, Hon. Il.
X. Il. Hoar, cX-GOv. John III. Gilt
ford, Gov. Washburnc, Gen. Banks,
Gen. Butler and Speaker Sanford.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21

A worthy Quaker thus wrote: 81
expect to pass through this world
but once. If, therefore, there be
any kindness | can show, or any
good thing L can do to my fellow
human being, let me do it now. Let
me not defer nor neglect it, for L
will not pass this way again.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21

Money is being rapidly subscrib>
ed to rebuild the large cotton mills
lately burnded at Meridian, Missis>
Sippi
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21

Weather for the past few days
dark and gloomy.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-06-12

for one want to know how you will man
age that ferocious moustache Of yours
in the operation
He pushed Lizzie. laughing and blush
ing, toward me- A CLEAN Of light and
hope almost too dazzling to bear, came
over me. and | cried out before thought,
"Not Mary y
I must have betrayed my secrets to
every one in the room. But nothing
was said; even Frank, in general so OBJ
tusc, was this time silent. kissed the
fair cheek Of the young wife, and hurried
to the silent figure looking out Of the
window.
MARY Mary Moore !" | said in
low. eager tone, have you no welcome
to give the wandercr?'
She turned and laid her hand in mine
and snid hurriedly:
Il am glad to see you here, Harry"
Simple words and yet how blessed they
made me. | would not have yielded her
up at that moment for an Enpcror's
crown, For there was tho happy group
and dear home fireside, with sweet Mary
Moore. The eyes | had dreamed Of day
and night, were falling beneath the arr
dent gaze of mine, and the sweet face |
had 50 long prayed to SEQ was there be-
side me, | never knew the meaning of
happiness, until that moment.
Many years have passed since the
happy night, and the hair that was dark
and glossy is fast turning gray. | an
now grown to be an old man, and can
look back to happy, and as ! hope
well spent life. Aud yet sweet as it has
been would not recall single day, for
the love that made my manhood 50
bright, shines also upon my white hairs.
An old man. Can this be so? At
heart lam as young as ever And Mary,
with her bright hair parted smoothly
from brow that has slight furrow up
on it, is still the Mary Of other days
To me she can never grow old or chang
ed The heart that held her in infancy
and sheltered her IN the flush and beauty
Of womanhood can never cast her out till
life shall cease TO warm IT,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-06-12
ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE H. 1874.
20 ntt l ( Il |
GRANDMA's SECOND SIGHT.

I, Il isn't so many years, my pet,
Since grandma was young like you
tbs only-wel, let me think Bit
Why, bless me, i'm seven,y-twoi
We'll, yes, twas quite long time ago,
Perhaps some sixty odd years or SO.
But the years they go like flash, you see,
When a body is young and gay,
And before you know ii, Old Time comes up
And sprinkles our heads with gray;
And the eyes that were once so strong and
bright
Grow YEARLY dim In the fading light.
All, yell there's one comfort for us, my dear,
And I've always found II so
There are plenty of little ones in the world
To take rare Of the old, you know.
There are plenty Of strong young hearts to bear
And lift from the old full many care.
There's . pair of merry dark eyes, know,
That will lend their aid TO me,
And dear little girl who will gladly help,
When her grandmother cannot see
She says she is 'grandma's second-sight"-
And think my wee little pet is right.
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UNDER TAKING.

TIME undersigned would respectfully in
form the citizens ofisockville and yicini-
", that he has Dough the right, title, inter-
est and good will of his father, in the N
DERrAKING BUSINESS, together with the
Hsarse, Wagon, &c. necessaryfor conducting
the same, and that he will be prepared here
after, upon the shortest notice, to accommo-
date all who may require his services. A lib
eral share Of patronage is solicited.
w REUBEN PUMPHREY,
Washington Street.
iunelO-tf Rockville, Nd
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