American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-07-08

a fnulter to the State in the sum {
81, 5OO.l9. of the tax of 1870.
Holly Springs Reporter: Scot
. Crnm, under Indictment for tn
murder of the Rev. Mr.. Mormon
: broke Jail at Ashland on Monda,
last. He is still at large and moth
ing has been heard from him since
his escape. 1t is copjrctnred tina
, he has male for the Mississippi
river.
Pamela Star: 1t is reported dur.
ing the contest in DeSOta between
Taylor and Manning, of the most
noisy and lOud-mOuthed partisans
OH that occasion, were two or three
preachers, who degraded their call
ing by playing the roll of pot-house
politicians to further the political
ends of Il political aspirant.
Twenty-Five or thirty men went
to the Jail in Cotfeevillr, Oh the
night of the 18th ult., demanding
of the .jailor the keys. They then
took one Old woman, one man and
one little bOy-all cOlored-from
the Jail to the woods, about Il mile
distant, and shot them dead
.Memphis Appeal.
We heard of two persons being
snake bitten during the past week.
One was a Mrs. Smith, living near
Laurel Balls bitten Oh the finger
by a rattlesnake. The other a negro
boy living on DIR. Fosters place,
bitten on the foot by q rattle snakes
pilot. Both parties, by good treat
menr, were cured without much
trouble.-Louisriile Banner.
The town of Macon is the owner
of young Sampson. A cores
pondent, writing from there to the
Columbus Inder, says:
We have in our town probably
the strongest man in the State. lie
goes by the name of Wild Jimmy
is a medium sized, compactly built
man, weighing about 160 pounds.
| have seen him lift a hogshead of
bacon out of the Gals, and as for
bale of cotton he handles it as he
would a plaything.
DIR. ID. nj. Waddington, the popu-
lar host of the West House, Durant,
i'm response to our article of last
week calling ON some one to give a
receipt to take the bitter from milk,
when COWS had eaten Of bitter weed,
writes us that he uses soda with
success He gives each COW one
night and morning
in bran or meal, and the milk soon
becomes nice and STRAIGHTFORWARD
Star.
A few weeks ago Mr.. VIM. Sims,
Willie with a fishing party iu the
of Bullock's Mill, killed
pelican which measured
eight feet three inches across the
wings, and over six feet in length
Submarines, and he in
ormed us that when he put its
leck over his shoulder the feet of
he bird dragged upon the ground.
The sack, or pocket, under its beak
leld q peck OF bran. Among the
,arty were Jack McGee. ID. T. Rey
ioltls, Nelson, John Agnew, and
others, who saw the bird and can
rerify the statements m;tde.-Pren-
isS PIE der
Twitchell, the Coushatta man,
5enat Or Twi.chell, land holding other
,arochlal offices, and controlling
he parish finances, who was shot
)y an unknown assassin while cross
ng the river in ferry boat, has
out of all danger of
osing his life. He arrived III New
Orleans, the other day, by Il steamer
md a squad of United States
soldiers stood guard at his state
Dom door all the way down. He
) reported with expressing an in
:ention to travel up North. We
presume he has been already ar
-anged with to be an electioneering
locn,nent i'm the Presidential bloody
'hil q campaign to be inaugurated.
As axdocument he may fire the
Northern heart, and rekindle some
what the angry passions of the war,
md make some votes of weak
men for Hayes. But, as
Twitchell points two
letting them hs their way
hat such bloody ats are evidence
# the same OLD rebellious acts.
After establishing the rebellious-
less, the other moral is, there is
LANCER to carpet -baggers going
Town South and robbing the people
o Observation-Disclosures Mercury.