American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-07-22
HERE AND THERE:

"JUNE CENTENNIAL" was what pa
triotic Pennsylvania christened q
daughter last week.
SEVERAL New York thievesl devote
all their time to canary birds hanging
in basement windows.
The New York Commercial wishes
that Sergeant Bates would carry the
flag through the Big Horn country.
NEWPORT, VT, on the Fourth, had
music by drum corps, each member
of which was over ninety years of age.
LoMER GRIFFIN, the oldest man in
America, aged III, assisted at the Cen
teunia1 celebration at Akron, Ohio.
| THE Government Superintendent of
Railroads in Canada lives in palace
car that is fitted up with cooking and
heating facilities.
| THE value of toe is now definitely
determined. A Brooklyn Court has
awarded man who lost four of them
on horse-car, S437.50 per toe. =
A BROTHER and sister in Reading,
Pa, weigh together 1,4074 pounds
the boy 600, the girl s07A. Their name
is Powers.
ssTHE FATHERS" were not old men.
The average age of the signers of the
Declaration on the Fourth of July, 1776,
scarcely reached As years. John Ham
cock was but SO years old.
THE British House of Commons re-.
Gently defeated, by an overwhelming
majority, a resolution declaring ''that
the time has arrived when fogging in
the navy should be abolished.
PROBABLY few people know that Lon
don, England, has suadrupled its popu-
lation in sixty years. In 1910 twas less
than 1000, 900, in 1851 some 100000,
and now 4,OOO,O0 people live in $780,
600 houses.
The record of the County Clerks
office in Frederick, Md, has a case of
the State agt. J. H., who was presented
for "damning Gen. Washington and the
Congress Of the United States of Amer
ica." J. H. was fined f25.
Mrs. BARBER, of Ovid, Mich, was
bitten by rattlesnake. Her mouth
and back turned perfectly black in a
few moments, but a physician packed
her body in sailed mud and administer
ed antidotes in large quantities, and
she will recover.
EMMA W. HYLAND, young girl of
Lowell, Mass, stimulated by the offer
of prize made by weekly newspa-
per, has succeeded in writing ten thou
sand two hundred and eighty-seven
words on a postal card. The reward
will scarcely pay for the injury done to-
her eyes.
PERHAPS the most remarkable of the
of Hawaii to the Centen-
NAL Exhibition are couple of volumes
Of Bowditch's Navigator" in the
Japanese language. The work is one
Of twenty copies, which were all made
by hand, with incredible neatness and
skill, in Japan, twenty years ago.
A FELLOW was accommodating for
June in Amador, Cal, by robbing the
,luice boxes of miners. Every night
:or years he worked faithfully, and had
stored away nearly enough money to go
% his home in the East and live upon
he result of his enterprise, when he
ran against cord that
vas attached to a gun trap, and was
killed.
NoTapproving the cost and unneces-
ary display ordinarily attending funer-
lis, wrote Gibson Young, editor of the
3allston IN. " Democrat, just before
lis death, 81 desire to be placed in
hestnut coffin, oiled, but not painted.
This is to be inclosed in white pine or
lack walnut box. 1 hope none of my
amily will wear mourning useless
Expense, and miserable fashion.
lbove all things, see thatevery measure
e resorted to proving that 1 am dead,
'EAD, before placed in a coffin.''
THE grave-diggers' strike at Liver
DOL has ended. 1t appears that the
trikers stood around, and whenever
ne of the new men dug grave, they
hucked the non-union digger into it
nd covered him up to the chin, utterly
egardless of the rights of the corpse
-hich was naturally enough shocked,
and indignant on being helped
ut of the long coach, to find its grave
nwillingly pre- empted by a live man
no had no business there. So the
urial Board and the non-union grave
;e~ers and disinterested corpses grew
red of it before the old diggers did,
nd the Board had to give in, and allow
le builders of the narrow houses
lorter hours.
BRIGHAM YOUNG is the father of 63
lildren, As of whom are living. More
ian half of these are females, and,
it'll but two or three exceptions, all
e blondes, and none what may be
llled beautiful. The last child born
nto Brigham is a little girl, about 6
ears old, daughter of Amelia Van
oft, Brigham's fourteenth wife. She
a woman of about 40, rather pretty,
I'd the next favorite to Amelia Folsom,
IS eighteenth wife. No. IS is credited
it'll having high-grade temper, and
is said that she treats Brigham as
he were his mother-in-law instead
S wife.
AS if reminded by the lapse of 100
ears, the persons who have periodi-
lily attacked the wreck of the British
igate Hussar have once more resumed
on the sunken vessel. Near
$1,000, 900 in British coin went down
it'll the frioate sunk near He'll Gate,