American citizen., 1875-05-08
MULTUM IN PARYO.

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The wooden mills in some parts of the
country have discovered that the approach
Of warm weather is cutting down their
trade, and they are accordingly cutting
down wages.
1t is certain that movement is on
foot for the establishment of large iron and
steel works at Chicago. Blast furnaces, a
rolling mill to make iron for general pur-
poses, and crucible steel-works are con-
templated.
| The drain tile, sewer-pipe and CHM
ney-top business formerly SO extensively
carried on in several towns on the Ohio
River, has been greatly reduced of late, and
some of the capitalists interested are talk
ing seriously of stopping work for a time.
The grain capacity of the vessels that
have wintered at Chicago is greater than
ever before. This fact seems to indicate
very low freights the coming summer by
both rail and water. 1t is also conceded
that most of the wheat crop will go for
ward by lake.
The Duke Charles, brother of the
Empress of Austria and cousin of the
musical King Louis, of Bavaria, has
taken to ophthalmic surgery under the in
struction of DR.. Rothunned, of Munich.
A royal surgeon is a new thing but not a
bad thing as the world goes.
-Apropos to the notion of putting
clocks in all the priacipal streets of Paris,
hour, the Figaro says: "This is the last
work of progress, and Paris, as usual, is
in advance of all cities" But Brussels
had this piece of progress ten years ago
and copied it from old fashioned Ghent.
| AT Pesth they have in museum what
they suppose to be the first meerschaum
pipe ever made. 1t was cut by a sculptor
in wood named Carol Kowates from
piece of meerschaum given in Turkey to
Mr.. Andrassy, an ancestor of Count An
drassy. The idea of making a pipe of
| this substance occurred to Kowates as a
| happy experiment merely.
The largest maple-sugar manufacturer
| in Vermont and possibly in the country,
is F. E. Ray, of Wilmington, who taps
$3.50 trees and sets as many buckets. His
average crop of sugar is from four to six
tons each spring, about one-half of which
is run into diminutive cakes, while the re-
mainder goes into molasses, which is put
| up in cans and Theoretically sealed.
"A few days since the men working at
| the new eighteen-inch train of rolls in the
Cleveland rolling mill commenced work
at the usual hour in the morning with four
ordinary heating furnaces, and before
| night they had rolled the enormous guam
| tity of II ,224 feet of steel rails, thirty-fve
pounds per yard-a feat of rolling rails
never before accomplished by the same
number of hands.
The Shanghai Gazette alluding to the
death of the late Emperor of China, con-
veys the information that shortly before
the Emperor's death gigantic image, the
Goddess of Smallpox, was paraded around
the city of Pekin in solemn procession,
| and then taken into the very bedroom of
the dying youth, where it was worshiped
and honored with many propitiatory offer
ings. As, however, the goddess continued
obdurate, she was subjected to a severe
thrashing and other insults, and finally
burned.
"a grocer in Ottawa, Canada, was
made the recipient of valuable present
one day recently. A young woman entered
his store offering butter for sale. He in
formed her that he had a sufficient quanti-
ty and did not wish to buy any. The
woman asked permission to leave her
basket in the store while she went to see
friend. She left, promising to return in
ten minutes for her property. She did not
return, and few minutes later sounds at
tracted his attention, and, on tracing them
to their source, he found that they came
from the basket of butter. He raised the
cloth which covered the basket and dis
covered a baby. The woman did not re-
turn to claim her property.
William Seaman in June, 1870,
claimed to have paid his fare on a Third
avenue horse-car, in New York. The con-
ductor refused to believe him, and as Sea-
man declined to pay again the conductor
elected him while the car was in motion,
and with violence. Seaman was run over
and subsequently had to have his arm am
putated. He sued the company for $25,-
600 damages. The case was before Judge
Larramore, who dismissed the complaint
on the ground that railroad company was
not responsible for the malicious acts of
its employees.
Mrs. Eva Marcus, who lives at 1S9
Broadway, exhibited a rare presence of
mind Yesterday. While standing near the
stove, about noon, her clothes caught fire,
but she did not discover it till the blaze
shot over her shoulders. Contrary to the
actions of most persons in such critical
moment, she retained her presence of mind
enough to realize her danger and act ra-
tionally. Throwing back the covering
from a bed near by, she jumped in, and,
pulling up the quilts lightly about her,
smothered the flames effectually. With
the exception of a burn on the arm and
badly -singed hair she suffered no bodily
harm. Herclothing and the bedding were
badly burned. The lady says she prob
ably never went to bed quite SO quick in
her life as she did yesterday, and it was
certainly the first time she forgot to remove
her shoes before retiring. 1t Is the first
instance of covering up because she was
too warm that we have ever heard of.-Cin-
cinndtf Enquirer.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Herald has the fol-
lowing: 9 Yesterday, in conversation,
some one remarked that Gen Toombs
never crosses Court House door for less
than 81, 900, when Judge Lochrane replied
that there was nothing strange about that
| wouldn't take any case for Il smaller
fee than $4,000 This caused the crowd
to discuss legal fees, and it was found that
several large fees had been paid Atlanta
lawyers since the war. Mr.. Hill, in the
celebrated Metcalf case, received a $780,
900 fec Judge Lochrane fee of $40,0 GOO
in the Brunswick and Albany case. Mr..
Hill received Il fee of $25, 900 for his man
agement of kimball's case. Judge Loch-
rane received $4,000 as fee from Mrs.
Kimball in the Kimball House case. In
addition to these cases there is ii case now
pending between Henry Clews ~ Co. and
the Cherokee Railroad, involving S2'5,-
900, in which the fees will be large IL Is
said that Judge Lochrane's fee as attorney
for Clews will be S25, 900.