American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-08
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
POTTER VALLEY, Mendocino County,
Cal, is proud of female physician,
who, during the recent storm, swan
across three rivers to attend patient
with the measles.
A LAssEN County, Cal, farmer, re-
Gently had two thousand sheep starved
to death. His feed gave out, and the
deep snow prevented the sheep from
reaching grass.
A LADY in Knoxville, Tenn, has been
very properly adjudged insane because
she petitioned to have the valuation
placed on her property by the assessors
raised from $500 to 81 900.
THE Mikado of Japan has, by re-
cent decree, granted to journalists the
right of sending whatever communities
tions they may desire from one part of
the Empire to the other free Of charge.
VIRGINIA has been compelled by the
increase of petty larcenies and the in
sufficiency of jail accommodations to
revive this whipping-post, and Delaware
no longer enjoys her proud distinction.
AFTER April /, postage between
Japan and the United States will be
five cents on letters and two cents on
newspapers. A Japanese postal agen-
CIV has been established at Shanghai,
from which the same rates win be
charged.
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of goods, and G. Browning, resident
of that island, will exhibit manuscript
relics, minerals, and general collec-
ton of all the products, in which will
be included some fine sealskins and
other furs.
THE committee appointed to investi-
gate the subject of ladies' luncheons
when travelling, report they invariably
consist of a very small sandwich, large
quantities of white and yellow cake,
and an immense pickle; if the latter is
absent the affair is considered failure.
These data are trustworthy, and shed
light on subject to which little atten-
ton has been paid hitherto.
SOUTHERN India strikes one as the
country par excellence of temples. On
every hilltop, from every tope of trees,
on the broad bosom of every madam,
from the matched roofs of squalid vii
lagos; and towering above the bunga-
lows of British environments, alike rise
the sculptured pyramids of temples
some tiny shrines, some vast and i'm
posing structures.
AT Manchester, Eng, the other day,
Mr.. Hardwick held an inquest concern
ing the death of William Stevens. On
Sunday, during severe storm, Stevens
was seen sitting on the box of his omni-
bus with blood flowing from his neck.
His throat was cut from ear to ear. DIR.
Samson tracked blood to the entrance of
the yard, where he saw large piece of
wire. The wire, after break
ing, had made a loop over the gate and
caught Stevens, as he was entering,
round the neck.
The Idaho World tells a story that
seems almost incredible. One evening
two years ago party of ten of the
prominent citizens of Idaho gave re-
,eption at Boise City. Now not one is
living, all having met Ewith violent
deaths. One was killed by an insane
man, another preferred laudanum to
political disgrace, another blew his
brains out with pistol-ball, one was
murdered and his body concealed among
he rocks, one fell down a mine-shaft
500 feet and was dashed to pieces, an
other was assassinated while walking
llong the street, one fell out of a wagon
md received fatal injuries about the
head, one was killed in Washington
Territory and the last of the ten was
'calped by Indians in Eastern Idaho.
The material out of which the fabric
,nown as Chinese or Indian grass cloth
$ manufactured is likely, it is now stat
ID, to take the place either as substi-
ute for, or in combination with cotton,
lax, hemp, jute, wool, or silk, and to
,e valuable also in the manufacture of
,aper. But more important fact in
his connection, as recently ascertain
d, is that the dried stems afford equal
trength and durability, and only infe-
ior in gloss, and for these the existing
machinery for flax and hemp is found
O be well adapted. Experiments have
,rovcd that this fibre or grass is three
ines stronger than the best Russian
Temp, while it is much lighter, and, in
edition to the great strength, in has
power of resistance to moist
re: 1t is represented as being of as
ne texture as flax, and exhibits
lossy lustre more nearly resembling
ilk.
Tho Old XNnInnn 9,