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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
CANTON, MISS, SATURDAY, AUGUST IA, 1875.

By recent decision of the Court OF
Equity in London the fund of $4,000
raised in 1S57-by Dickens, Mark Lemon
John Forster, Maclise and Others-for the
family of Douglass Jerrold, just then de.
ceased, in poverty, goes now to JerrOld's
only unmarried daughter, Mary Jane Jer-
rold. The sum was originally invested in
Government securities for the benefit OF
Mrs. Jerrold and her daughter. with re
mainder to the survivor. The widow is
dead The claim of Miss Jerrold's brother
was denied.
M. JACQUIN's system of recording the
vote of the French Assembly by means of
electricity is very ingenious. Before ev-
cry Deputy two ivory buttons are placed,
like the buttons of electric bells. If the
Deputy wishes to vote yes he presses
the button on his right; if he wishes to
vote no." he presses the button on his
left. The voter establishes by this means
an electric communication, which is trans
mitted to an apparatus close to the Presi-
dent and his Secretaries. Every time the
electric current acts thus, it opens the door
to ball, and the-ball falls through tube
into the ballot-boX. The balls are made
of glass or ivory, and are strictly identical
in weight The two ballot-boxes are then
weighed, and the number of balls indi-
Gated by the weight. Finally, by turning
a handle, all the balls which have not
been used are let out, and they give the
exact number of members who abstained
from voting, or who were absent when
the vote was taken. The device appears
to be very simple, convenient and re-
liable.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
go back ten degrees at least upon the dial

GO back ten degrees at least upon the dial
of my life.
~ was injudicious with my money and
soon got rid of it. can scarcely tell
how. was proud-spirited and father saw
my struggles and difficulties to get along
in the world. He knew that my heart
lOnged to get back and nestle in the peace
full, happy old home, but it could not be.
l had already flown and could not return
to the nest. 1t was only after many years,
when 1 had struggled and toiled with
hardships till I seemed to be gaining
ground, that father reached out a helping
hand.
since left behind me that long -looked-for
twenty one. But these years have been so
filled up with cares, anxieties, crosses and
vast responsibilities that a thousand times
I'm sure, when almost driven to despdir, 1
have looked back to the days of my boy
hood and have fervently wished, with a
long, deep sigh, for the return of one care
my fathers happy home would have been
to me Paradise regained.- Those days
were gone-past forever!
To-day when see boys impatient I'M
der the restraints of school or of home,
and wishing for the age of manhood,
when they suppose they shall be so free to
think and act as they please, feel like
advising them to rest contented with their
happy youth. Childhood's days are the
happiest you ever will enjoy. Be not i'm
patient and escape from them. When they
are gone you cannot recall them, though
you would if you could. Others SO free
from care and SO full of real happiness
you need not expect to find. Stay in your
fathers house as long as you can; submit
TO your parents counsel when they give it
for they are wiser than you."-N. =. Oh
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
An Indian Burial i'm Oregon.

CA. HUNTINGTON, Indian Agent, writes
to the Pacifc Christian -1drocdte of Port
land, Oregon, from Ncah Bay Indian
Reservation, an account of the first Chris
tian burial among the Makah tribe of
Indians. He says
The fear of ii human corpse, the fear OF
being brought in contact with it, or with
anything that has touched it, is absolutely
piGiable as it is seen among these Indians.
4 little girl connected with our mission
school died this morning, and it was re-
solved to give her Christian burial. The
Indian mode is TO remove the corpse off
the premises instantly after the breath
leaves the body, and, as they have super
stition that if carried through the door of
the house the first person that passes
through the door is doomed to die soon
.afterward, the general custom is to make
an opening through the side of the house,
through which the body is passed out, and
then the opening is closed. This makes
the exit OF the dead possible without en-
dangering the life of the other inmates,
But the body of this child was taken in
charge by the agent. She was properly
laid out Immediately after death, and none
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
Watch the Lips.

WORDS of detraction and SANDER require
the watch. 1t is not all mention of a
neighbours faults and evil deeds that is
wrong, for we cannot but notice gross
faults, and to speak of them in right
spirit may be perfectly right and needful
for selfdefense and the good of society.
The sin and wrong is in being quick to
see and punish faults, magnifying them,
imagining them, meddling with them
when it is none of our business to do so,
and speaking of them from promptings of
envy, resentment and rivalry. A SANDER
Gus tongue moves as naturally in the ele-
ment of hatred as a fish in the water One
who loves his neighbor as himself and
seeks to do unto others as he would they
should do unto him can hardly be IA SLAM
derer. The mischief of detraction springs
from a mean, unloving spirit, soured by
disappointment, fretted by envy, urged on
by meddlesomeness and miserable curiosi-
ty. When one with such frame goes
from house to house with the preface ::
They say, or they do say, but don't know
how true it is, that this man drinks; or,
That man and his wife don't live very
pleasantly together; or, That man did not
come by his money very honestly; or, This
woman is no better than she should bet
is very probable that then busybody and
slanderer is at work who greatly needs the
prayer: Set a watch, o Lord, before my
mouth; keep the door of my lips ~.
H. Le,ris d. d.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| CAPT. WEBB has determined to attempt
| the feat of swimming across the British
/ Channel, and has begun training for that
purpose. As he can remain in the water
for fourteen hours, and can swim one mile
and "a half an hour, he believes that the
feat is quite within the range of POSSIBLE
ity.
THE Chinese Government has estab-
lished pharmaceutical laboratories for the
analysis of drugs at Ycddo, Kiyoto and
Osaka, and decreed IA fine for any druggist
who shall he found to have in his posses
sion adultcrated quininc or iodide of pot
ash. Another healthy example which
Christian civilization would do well to
follow
THE English Court of Appeal in Chan
Gerry has recently given full effect to the
rule in favor of ancient lights, a Liver
pool boiler-manufacturer being forbidden,
by the erection of Il shed on the rear of
his own premises, from cutting off the
light enjoyed by chapel since 1870 He
was also held to be amenable to the court
in respect to interference with the chapel
services by noise.
AN extraordinary outrage upon n Peru
Wan newspaper editor is reported. The
editor in question, Castro Ramos by name,
and residing at Iquique, was severely
beaten by police inspector and two C on
stables, and an attempt was made to make
him swallow a newspaper which con
tanned articles obnoxious TO the police
The inspector afterward shot the editor in
the stomach. By the last accounts he was
not expected to live, and the inspector was
in custody.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
The Impressive Hotel Clerk.

THE hotel clerk I venerate in the alb
stract, but | am rather afraid to approach
him in the concrete. My experience is
that when he does not snub you he patron
ICES you, and I'd about as leave be killed
one way another. Where moral char
actcr and that sort of thing tells, feel par
ticularly at home, but where man is
judged only by his clothes, confidence
fails me- and am backward about coming
forward.
''Can i have room?'' 1 modcstly ask
after registering my name.
Clerk looks at me moment, takes in
the general unOstentatiousness of my APP
parcl at a glance, turns away and attends
to the swells who get credit of Bell instead
OF buying for cash of Porter, chats with
the young men whom he knows for few
minutes, pauses to tell some old gentle
man with a bald head the last brilliant
bon mot aprcpos of the Beccher trial, and
when everybody else is. roomed and he
has settled the pen right behind his ear,
then he calls the smallest bell-boy in the
office and turns to me with, "Show this
gentleman up to 993t' And by this time
feel so humble about it that bow to the
bell-boy and look around for his bag and
wonder how I'm to find No. 993 to show
him to.-Jotn Paul at Long Branch.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
The Family Next Door.

THERE is family moving into the
house next door; we can hear through
our blinds the carriers of furniture move
along the walk. All the talking we hear
is done by one voice. 1t is the man of
the house, and he has got little son.
We need not look out of the window for
confirmation of this impression. His
words establish it as clearly as the eyes
could witness, and we know just what
is being done out there as well as if we
stood in the midst of il. Every time he
speaks we dot it down on an extra sheet
of paper, and 50 far lie has made the fol
lowing utterances:
Put that whip down"
Get out of the way"
Don't climb up there"
& Take your shoes off that bedstead."
Shall ! speak to you again."
" Do you want to break these things?"
Come out of that"
Go away from that horse; do you want
to get your head kicked off ~
=: DO you hear Inc, or shall 1 speak
again?'
Hey, there. what did tell you about
that horse 2"
Now, you sit still there, and don Z YOU
dare to move an inch or I'll break every
bone in your body. "-Danbury Neus.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14

of the Indians were allowed to interfere
while good coffin was made by the reser-
walton carpenter. A grave was dug at a
point fiear where the school is kept, the
funeral was appointed at three O'Clock,
and all the Indians invited to attend The
distance from Neah Bay to the grave Is
two miles, and it was necessary to carry
the coffin in canoe. The head chief of
the tribe, a man of more fnte1ligIDce and
more manhood than any other 4taian in
the tribe, was ordered to take tie corpse
into the canoe, with the mother of
the deceased, and carry them to
the place of burial The chief did not
object to do this. He never objects to
any order of the agent however disagree
able. He is always prompt to obey any
request. The coffin was brought to the
grave, where the school and the Agents
family met in procession. The purpose
was to have the Indian boys at the school
act as bearers. This they were all afraid
to do. But it was a Joint to gain to in
duee some of them to do this service Out
of twelve boys four were induced by per
suasion amounting almost to compulsion
to put a hand to the bier and bear the cot
fin to the grave. The lid was then lifted
and all the school children brought near
to view the face of the corpse, an act that
older Indians it seemed horrible. The
school thus standing around the grave
sang the familiar school song, d" Rest for
the Weary" and after prayer offered by
the Agent that other sweet hymn, There
is a beautiful land on high when the
coffin was lowered and buried. But the
fact of most significant import remains
yet to be stated, fact that reveals the
deep-seated superstition of these people,
Do you think that canoe in which the
chief conveyed that corpse was ever to be
used again? By no means. Having been
the receptacle of a coffin containing the
remains of a human corpse it must never
again be used as a vehicle for the living.
And the owner demolished it on the spot,
in no spirit of anger toward the agent who
had ordered duty evidently revolving to
willing sacrifice upon the altar of su-
DerstifiOn
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
An Operation by Physicians Who Do
Not ADVERTISE.

SINCE the Academy of Medicine al
Evansville expelled veteran physician
for regularly advertising, the Journal at
that place, tries to carry out the rule in
spirit by excluding the irregular adver-
Using, in reporting case as follows:
DIFFICULT OPERATION.
There was an operation performed in
the city the other day-a surgical opera
tion-and if we did not have a wholesome
dread of the Drake Academy of Medi-
cine" before our eyes we would report the
case in full. 1t was an amputation of the
leg-the lower part-about halfway be-
tween where the shoe stops and the garter
begins. The patient was weak and couldn't
afford to lose any blood; she needed all
she had to begin the business of living
again, so the doctors (members of the
Drake Medical Academy, consequently
cannot be named) agreed solemnly that
she should not lose any at all. DIR. -
1--WE are writing according to the "code"
now, so we can't name him) produced
sort of rubber strap, which looked like
the doctors susDenders, sewed end to end.
DR.. - "a member of Drake Medical
Academy, so we cannot mention names)
held the leg up while DR.. - 1--WE don't
mean to be personal, but it was neither of
the other doctors) strapped the rubber on.
This done, DR.. - (whO, being member
of Drake Medical Academy, cannot allow
the use of his name) put something else
on, while DR.. - (who is nameless be-
cause member of Drake Medical Acad-
emy) took the rubber strap off. A ply
stefan was present belonging to Drake
Medical Academy we withhold his name)
armed with knife, and began to cut. He
was ably assisted by medical gentleman
of this city (unmentionable here. as he
holds membership in Drake Medical
Arn no tai
by DR.. - (who belongs to Drake Meai-
cal Academy, and is thereby nameless
here forevermore'') in most skillful
When our reporter left the pa
tent was doing well. The operation was
very creditable to the doctors (who, being
members of the Drake Academy of Medi-
cine, cannot have their names in print.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
NO. 33.
0ur 8cys and girls.
THE RAINY DAY.

BY MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.
GOLD LOCKS sits by the window pane,
Sits and watches the falling rain;
The great drops patter thick and fast
From a sky ali dull and overcast,
And she sighs, with half frown on her brow
"What good does the rain do, anyhow
know she is thinking of the play
On the bright, dry sidewalk yesterday,
In her pretty, new, blue-ribboned hat;
She is tired of the doll and book and cat;
She could run and shout in the sun again
But for this rain, this useless rain.
1 smile at her small, impatient sigh,
And the wistful trouble of her eye,
And sitting down by the window say:
g Little girl, Gold Locks, look this way,
And listen, and / will tell you now
What good the rain does, anyhow.
The grass that spreads for your little feet
A carpet soft and green and sweet;
The leaves that cover the cunning nest,
On the apple bough, of the red-breast;
And the fields of clover and fields of grain,
Could never grow without the rain.
"None of your dainty. blue-eyed pets,
'fhe crowding, sweet breathed violets,
Could lift to the light their happy heads
Out OF the grass and the garden-beds,
And nod to youth their blithesome way,
II there never were rainy day.
:, Then, dear, all days go by 20 fast,
The wettest, dreariest, does not last,
And if-when this with its rain is done
From the west should shine the evening sun,
We shall see a rainbow's painted arc
Glowing where now the sky is dark.
"And then tomorrow when you wake
To see the red, bright morning break,
You will say as you smell the fragrant air,
And the fresh drops glisten everywhere
On tree and flower in the early sun:
6 This is the good the rain has done.'" 4-
Boston Congregntionalist.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14

A VERY ingenious method of making
inlaid or mosaic work in wood has lately
been introduced. Two contrasting kinds
of veneer-say bird 's-eye maple and black
walnut-are laid one ON the other, and
confined between the covers of wildwood
or something similar. The desired design
is then cut through the whole by fine
jig-saw, hardly larger than horse hair.
The part that is cut out of the light-col-
ored veneer is then set into the place of
the corresponding part in the dark veneer,
aud rice rersd, and glued firmly upon the
article to be ornamented in the usual
manner of vepeeriug.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14
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TIE LONGEST DEATHw.AToH..


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The woman is . picture now,
fheSPanish suns have touched her face
The coil OF gold upon her brow
With most forlorn and bitter grace.
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Old palace lamps behind her burn,
HE efmine molders on her train;
her ever,constantey eyes stu yearn
~ And dim and hollow is her brain.
One only thing she knew in life,
FOUR bundled ghostly years ago
IIas me ~ ElsM1sh rn.iip,s wife;
~ WITHOUT voice she tells meso.
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rnanp nc seaanlui-wnose eyes
A<ab VIII Noeans nearI, rear,
-. Sse ~sn R,s hsd murmu1ed wv nv h sL,I h;sr
And reign once more among us here"
she heard their whisper, and forgot
Castillo and Ar.xon, and ell
s:rs rnn2' wno mad lovea heI mott
enc LOOK the deao man-to ner sight
A prince In deaths disguise, as fair
a. y1e1 hn rayNard smile would light
And followed, hardly knowing where.
Asy w. = uumo y ne, snc sea,
~ raiaiq ana wasted toward the place
wnsIs nc, .ne p1inceiy promise said,
Should breata!e into his breathless face.
once, rhen ne night was weird with rain,
She sougnt aeonvenrs shelter. When
The tapers showed yelled train
:, She stole into the night again:
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-08-14

-Caterpillars are becoming devour.
ing pest in the gardens around Portland,
Oregon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-14
[Original.]
WALK BY FAITH.

Gods dealings with his people are seldom
fully understood, and often they are very
mysterious. God does not make known all
the instrumentalties and secondary agencies
by which he effects his purposes. All Gods
dealings with his people are designed to pre-
pare them for heaven. Every path that ira
verses the kingdom Of grace leads to the pal
ace Of the great king. Some of these paths
appear to the travellers very narrow; others
very circuitous; others again, seem to lead in
an opposite direction. The book of provi-
dence contains valuable instruction, but it
is written in characters often hard to decipher.
The obscurity arises from the darkness which
is in the minds of those who attempt to read
it, What God does now, no man can at pres.
ent know fully; but those who put their trust
in him will know hereafter The lives which
we live in the flesh must be lives of faith, or
they will prove worthless lives to us at last.
By sight we cannot walk. We dare not, with
impunity, try to walk by sight Like David,
when pursued by Saul, the individual who
attempts to walk by sight, will conclude that
he will one day fall by the hand Of his pur-
suer. The comfort of the believer depends
upon the strength of his faith. Weak faith
is attended with few comforts and much dark
ness.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-14

'Jenny?' No wonder the poor little fellow
arrived at this conclusion. Her sister Lucy
was gentle, afiectionate girl, and suffered
most from Jennys unpleasant ways. 1t was
so depressing to her heart to receive only a
short Eyes" or mo" in answer to her ques-
tions, and to have all her efforts to please her
sister turned from with GOODNESS, and very
likely construed into ofienses. 1t always
threw chill over any little company to have
Jenny enter the room in zone of her spells"
as the young folks used to call them. The
disposition grows with her years, and what
will she be at thirty, if she is so disagrceable
at half that age ?-Presbyterian.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-14
(Original.'
OUR CHURCH,.

The church was established by Christ Je-
sus. When he cried upon the cross cit is
finished" whatever else is included by that
declaration, no doubt he meant by it that he
had established upon firm and imperlshable
foundation, the New Testament church. The
object and design which the Saviour had in
view in establishing the church, was for the
iugathering of his people, bought with his
blood, that they might be sancti6ed and pre-
pared for heaven and happiness during an
endless eternity. Strictly speaking, the
church belongs to Christ. 1t does not consist
in houses or any thing of this sort, but is made
up of all those who profess the true religion.
In accordance with the general principles of
covenant of grace, the children of professed
believers are also included. "The promise, %
says God to his people, "is to you and your
children" The church, strictly and scriptu-
rally speaking, consists of the professed fol-
lowers of the Lamb There is, therefore, a
manifest improperly in saying, "our church"
as if it were distinct and separate from some
body else's church. There is but one church.
Christ established but one church. If there
be any other, it is a spurious thing. The
religion of some people seems to consist in ad-
vancing the interests of what they are pleased
to call "our church." 1t is Christ's kingdom
we are called upon to advance. This king
dom is advanced by convicting and convert
ing sinners, and building up believers in
holiness. flour church is not Christs church.
our church is but the synagogue of Satan.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-14
&eadinq fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
(Original J
IGNORANCE.

"My people," says God, "are destroyed for
lack of knowledge" The proximate cause of
all our evils is ignorance. The reason that
men reject the Saviour, is that they have no
proper idea of their lost and ruined condition.
They are practically ignorant of the fact that
they are sinners, resting under the curse OF a
violated law, and there is no possibility of es.
Gaping the vengeance Of an insulted God,
but by believing in Jesus Christ Ignorance
of the innate depravty of the human heart
leads men to conclude that they are moral
and upright in their conduct. The Jews of
old were ignorant, and through ignorance,
wilful ignorance, put the Lord of glory to
death. The Pharisees were ignorant, and
concluded that they were righteous, and every
one else was wicked. BY nature, all men are
ignorant, and by nature, all men love dark
ness rather than light Nothing but the
Illuminating spirit of God can dispel the ter
rible darkness by which all men are surround.
ed, or rather which is in all men.