American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-17
CANTON, MISS, SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1875.
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
THEY do not "take thing back" any
more in California; they "file a deed Of
revocation"
IT is estimated that the products OF
Kentucky yield greater revenue to the
United States Treasury than is paid BY
the whole of New England.
A wELL-KNowN citizen of Tishomingo
County, Miss, was instantly deprived OF
the power of speech few nights age
while abusing his family and cursing
God.
AN Oakland (Cal) young lady entered
papers for q week back, and the intelli
gent clerk showed her a roll of sticking
plaster.
A SILENT member of Congress, being
entitled to send his speeches free by
mail, put his frank ON himself and want
ed to ride free in mail-car under the
pretext that all his speeches were in
him.
SEVENTEEN men on train of cars in
Maine vainly attempted to quiet a cry
ing baby. Along came an old woman,
pulled q pin out of the baby's heel, and
all was peaceful and serene in two min
utes.
HE blushed a fiery red; her heart went
pit-a-pat; she gently hung her head and
looked down at the mat. lie tremblcd in
his speech; he rose from where he sat
and shouted with a screech: "You're
sitting on my hatr'
IT is said the American Screw Compa-
ny, Goddard Brothers and ex-Gov. James
Y. Smith have each subscribed $4,000
ny $4,000 toward Rhode Islands quota
for the Philadelphia Centennial. The
total asked of the State is $50, $40, and it
will undoubtedly be secured without diff
ficulty.
"MY dear husband" said a devoted
wife, "why will you not leave off smok-
ing? 1t is such an odious practice, and
makes your breath smell so?" eyes"
replied the husband, but only consider
the time have devoted and the money
have spent to learn to smoke. If
money would have been wasted; don't
you see?"
THE Brown University boys are
charged with "ways that are dark in
their recent spelling contest with the
dence, II. l. The words were to be Sc
lected from the daily papers of a certain
date, and the story goes that the students
secretly procured the publication of an
article containing numerous unfamiliar
scientific terms.
An old woman sat ON q bench in the
Grand Trunk depot yesterday. wiping
her eyes with her handkerchief, when a
portly man. full of sympathy, said to
another: CO. tbs sad to see the falling
tear. 1t always makes my heart ache to
see an aged person in trouble" Walking
up to her he kindly asked: my good
woman, why these tears-why do you
weep" She took down the handker-
chief, looked up in surprise, and bluntly
answered.: I've got the wust cold in my
head I've had for fortysix years. DE
troit Free Press.
A PRISONER in the Chicopee Mass
Jail cut his throat with a piece of glass
Surgeons were hurriedly brought, and,
after a difficult and skillful operation,
the severed arteries were tied and the
cash sewed up. While this had been
going on he had several times tried to
speak, but had been unable to do so. After
the surgery was over he said, with an eff
foEt "All fol-de-rol. doctors. Tried to
ten you SO, and save you any bother of
stitching me up. I've chawed some OF
the glass, have" He really had swal-
he died.
The following extract from a Sitka
letter to the Alta California shows how
much milder is the climate of Alaska
than that of Northern Illinois: "Though
only the beginning of March the weather
is by no means wintry here, though this
is Alaska. We have had, all through
winter, but about one months cold snap
and even then the mercury did not make,
himself SO low as to fall below zero
eight degrees below zero being the most
King Frost could force the thermometer
down to. At the present time St. Peter
makes many a wry face at us, and would
have US believe he would treat US to
some pretty severe weather yet; but it
only amounts to a few minutes of half
rain, half snow, and the good hearted old
chaps countenance dissolves in genial
smiles, with rosy sunbeams lighting up
his gray, wrinkled features"
ALUxuRIoUs beggar is William Now
ers, of Millerton. N. Y. Mr.. Mowers and
his family consisting of a wife and two
have been supported by the
town nearly all winter because (as he
said) he could get no work and his fam
lily were suffering. He was offered job
of shoveling snow by the railroad COM
pany at 81 per day. The poor, starving
man u W WOTk uulcSS tuCy
would give him So, "for it was real hard
work to shovel snow, and he shouldn't
work for no 81! not he! he would 90
nothing first" He was then offered a
job chopping wood, but with an oath he
refused, saying that was too hard work
for him; he did not like to chop wood"
When given a $40 order from the town
to get provisions for his family the first
article he called for was some canned
fruit and some pickles, necktie for him.
self and two dresses for his starving
wife. He mourned his inability to pro-
cure set of bosom studs and a finger
ring to stay the cravings of his empty
stomach. A few days ago this needy
man left Millerton for parts unknown,
owing a poor man $50 for rent. His
family was taken to the poor house on
the LIST of April.
An Unfortunate Coroner.
DROPPED in at the Coroner's Office the