American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-12
HERE AND THERE.

IT is claimed in Utah that that Ter
ritory will turn out mineral products
this year of the value of $12, 100000.
A WISCONSIN family, not long since,
sold their only stove to get money to
pay for circus tickets, and rode % miles
behind an ox-team to get to the show.
AN editor and doctor at Keyser, w.
Va, fought duel, the weapons being
double barreled shot guns and twenty
PAGES the shooting distance. Both par
ties blaZed away at the signal, but
neither was hit, the seconds having
taken the sensible precaution of load
ing the guns with blank cartridges.
IRA BURsLEY stood on the edge of
wharf in San Francisco and shot him
self in the head with pistol; but the
bullet was small and the wound insig-
nificant. He stood still a moment as
though expecting to fall over and die.
Then an expression of intense disgust
appeared in his face, he tossed the pis-
toll CONTEMPORARY aside, and, jumping
into the water, drowned himself.
MANY savings-banks throughout the
country, which have been paying six
per cent. interest on deposits, have re-
duced the rate to four per cent: The
difference is serious one, but the ex-
PLANTATION is the extreme difficulty of
making investments at fair rate of
interest in safe and reliable securities,
and the consequent accumulation of
large amounts of idle funds.
THERE was an amusing love scene in
the Campbell County (Va.) Court, re-
Gently, when a handsome young widow
and her lover stood, with others, to
be sworn upon the Bible. The young
man first kissed the book, then the
widow kissed it, but before it could pass
to the other witnesses the ardent young
lover rushed up again, caught hold of
the book and rekissed it precisely
where the young widows lips had
touched it.
A RECENT number of the Wonaen's
Centennial journal says: ''Out of the
many cases of sunstroke treated at the
Medical Department, very few have
been women. This fact proves that
either the dress of women is better
suited to the climate than that of men,
or else the system, less heated by in
toxicating liquors, is in a purer condi-
ton, or perhaps that they not only
have greater power of endurance, but
know better how to take care of them
selves, and how to live discreetly."
AMONG the participants in the parade
of the Roman Catholic Total Abstinence
Societies in Philadelphia on the 4th of
July was deputation of Chippewa and
Menomonee Indians, who came East in
charge of their missionary, Father Che
bal. Their home is in Northern Wis
consin, where they have attained con-
siderable degree of civilization. Dur
ing their stay they conducted themselves
with perfect propriety, and made very
favorable impression on all who came
in contact with them.
THE Jews of the United States have
addressed to the King of Spain a petit
ton praying him to restore to the de-
scendants of the Jews, expelled by the
kings of former ages, their civic rights
and religious liberty. The decree of
the 3Oth of March, 1892, expelled them
from the kingdom, and deprived Spain
of an active and laborious race. The
fanaticism of her kings, governed by
the influences of the Roman Catholic
Church, deprived her also of the last
remains of the Moorish race, and her
decadence commenced with this regime,
inaugurated by Ferdinand V.