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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
A Romantic Princess.

The supply Of Princesses in Germany
Is larger than the supply of eligible hus-
bands for them, because they are COM
PEELED by a rigid etiquette to wed only
Princes. There are Princes enough, but
they are generally, like the Princesses,
poor and proud, and not being obliged to
submit to the rule of etiquette mentioned
above, seek wives who have plenty OF
gold rather than high genealOgy. The
Princess Charlotte Frederick, of Schwar-
Just died, must have noticed th&difiiculties
in the path to the altar resulting from this
state Of things, and she very sensibly fell
in love in q very romantic way, the fact
leading to very satisfactory results. She
was travelling in Switzerland with her
mother nearly twenty years ago, and at
Zurich, while looking from window in her
hotel, she saw man engaged in Harvesting
horses. TO carriage. He was the son of
. poor groom named Jud. In face and
figure he was strikingly handsome, and
in manners was almost princely. The
Princess was smitten, and began q sys-
tematic attack upon her mother to obtain
permission to marry the young man. Per-
mission was finally obtained,a and the
lady, taking advantage of her st ton, pro-
posed marriage to the young hostler. He
was alarmed at first, but encouragement
drew him along. and in due time the pair
were married. 1t was one Of those match
es that may be made in heaven, for the
union has been a happy one. Jud OBJ
aimed an education for himself, and at
he present time holds high position in
he Swiss army.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
Wild Hogs I'm California.

There is q district of country lying
west of Bakersfield and about twenty five
miles distant which is the source of much
exciting sport. 1t is low tule land, stretch
ing across the country distance of fifty
miles and averaging from four to seven
miles in width. As far back as fifteen
years ago the hogs Of settlers began to
stray away into these tules and grow wild.
This has been going on ever since, and
they have bred until they are now very
numerous and in q perfectly wild state.
They are of all ages, from sucking pigs to
venerable old patriarchs Of perhaps q
dozen years and weighing from . few
pounds to 600 or 700 weight. OF late
years people began to hunt them, and it
has grown quite q business. Parties of
two or three go down there with their
wagons, on which are covered pens, and
stay two or three days. They carry their
guns and six-shooters and some use las
soes The hurting is done with dogs.
Having struck . trail the dogs follow it
up until they bring the game to bay,
when the old males frequently assume the
offensive and fight with desperate and
sometimes terrific effect. The huntsmen
are always ON horseback, and, the game
being flushed, generally use their revolv-
with dogs and bring away alive, and
sometimes they are 1assoed and thus Sc
cured. With the large hogs which the
dogs cannot manage harsher means arc
used, and they are shot down with SIX
shooters. Some parties have in this way
sometimes secured as high IS twenty five
hogs in one day, and q dozen is not an
unusual catch. The business is found to
be quite profitable. The hogs are usually
found IN good condition and the hesh is
generally good, though at rare intervals .
hoo IL fn,lnd the f3eeh of which faafaS a
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

IT is no wonder that we hear this question
on every corner. So many are dying sud
denly of diseases of the brain in these days
that everyone is alarmed, and is asking:
"What shall we dog" There is alarm on ac-
count of dizziness OF the head, a whirling
sensation when rising up suddenly, bad,
ach, like the gnawing of an ulcer, with a
feeling like q load after eating, pains in the
back, sides and chest, at times, with costive
bowels, scanty, high-colored urine, some:
when food is eaten it oltcntimcs distresscs;
the skin, after a time, becomes dark, cold
and clammy, eyes sunken and tinged with
yellow, spirits detected. with evil forcbod-
ings. When any of these symptoms are
present no time should he lost in using a
proper remedy. The one that we have
known to operate with the most certainty is
the SHAKER EXTRACT OF Roofs OR CURA-
TIVE SYRUP (not patent medicine), sold by
Druggists and A. j. White, 319 earl street,
New York.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
An English Prison as an Abode OF
Luxury.

Through the massive portal of the
outer gate we have come, and, entering
into the Jail through that handsome door
In the iron railing that closes the inside
entrance, we find ourselves in a building
in which three or more wings converge to
the center hall. Each wing is divided
into three stories. Along each story runs
Q light iron gallery which you can gain
by mounting that ornamental circular
stair running from top to bottom. Above,
large glass skylights give ample light and
ventilation. Everything is light airy and
cheerful. The brasses shine as only in
jails and men-of-war. Here is man
making pair of boots, and seemingly
rather comfortable and happy. He has
been twenty times committed for drunk
enness. He is only a drunkard, so we
may feel q certain amount of satisfaction
that he is not very miserable. What
difference for him is his time spent IN Jail
from the intervals of freedom. Here he
works between six and seven hours day,
and out of his earnings he receives an al
lOwance larger than ever was left him by
the public house when at home. Around
him everything is exquisitely clean. His
cell is boarded, and measures twelve feet
by seven 1t is ten feet high, and lit and
ventilated in the most perfect manner:
On his shelf are his dish for porridge, and
tins bright as silver for soup and milk.
A clean hammock, in which you might
sleep comfortably, is neatly folded
and hung against the wall. In =
corner is a basin with water laid on,
in which he can wash himself if he
chooses. In winter the apartment is
kept at a comfortable temperature by hot
air pipes and a gas-burner diffuses q
cheerful light in the long winter evenings.
Should he feel ill, he pulls bell-handle,
on which . gong sounds in the center
hall and from his door the number of his
cell starts out; and no millionaire at Clar-
idge's is half so punctually answered as
he is by the turnkey on guard, who in
quires into his wants, and If necessary a
doctor is at his bedside long ere the Union
doctor could be found and persuaded to
visit him were he al home. As he seems
a quiet fellow we do not feel much regret
that he has had the good fortune to be-
come an habitual drunkard; but what
shall we say to the occupant of the adj
joinIng-well, cell! Here burly ruffian
is engaged in making mats. The work is
pleasant; the cell a fac-simile of the one
described; and if we listen to the details
of the crime for which he is undergoing
two months "punishment'' we cannot
help contrasting his pleasant lot with the
squalor and misery of his lazy, idle, pol
luted life outside, and feeling that in SO
Furnishing q ruffian for a brutal assault
upon a woman humanitarianlsm has be-
come a crime, and set up in our jails
temptation to idle rascals to "come in
and be happy" against which 1t would
require a large amount of abstract moral
ity to struggle.-Beigrarfd
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
Barn Cellars.

A barn without a cellar is only half a
barn; and the farmer who don't feel the
need of cellar under his barn or whose
system of farming does not require it is
not more than half farmer To be sure
he can grow some roots and put them in
pits to which he can resort day after day
through winter in snow and rain We
have seen farmers do this and some man.
age in this way for years, but it is no way
to do. 1t is better and cheaper to have a
good barn cellar, frost-proof and ample in
dimensions to contain rutabagas, sugar
beets and pumpkins for the cows the win
ter through. Many farmer can date the
beginning OF his prosperity in business to
the building of a barn cellar. When he
has place to store roots he will grow
roots, and the feeding of roots in some
way starts things a-going on the farm in
the right course. Animals grow faster,
grain is saved, hay is saved, the coarse
provender is worked up and all made into
manure. Why, the quantity of the latter
is doubled. Crops are better, things
brighten up, money is plender-simp1y
because there is more to exchange for it
and more to turn off all the while-all this
coming naturally from having a barn
cellar. There are other advantages
which good cellar under a barn brings
which need not be referred to here Gel
lars may be built in winter under barns
already up.-Detroit Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

Seventeen years ago William Lester, .
poor carpenter, died at Boston. Three OF
his children were taken West by friend,
and the fourth, little girl, was placed in
a Boston asylum. Last September the
only survivor of the Western members of
the family came East in search of mis-
sister, having himself become very
wealthy. He found that the girl had been
adopted by John Wheeler, dry goods
merchant, but lie had been dead "A dozen
years, and there was no trace of the girls
whereabouts since. Being discouraged,
he started West again, but on the tram a
little way out of Boston he noticed among
a bevy of girls who entered the cars one
who remarkably resembled his mother
He left the train when they did, and soon
found that it was indeed his sister, who
was living with her poor adopted mother.
She had never been told that she was an
adopted child, and it was long before she
realized her situation. The young lady
could not be prevailed upon to accompany
her brother West but as she looks upon
the luxuries with which she and her
adopted mother have been surrounded by
her brother she enjoys the pleasure of a
real romance.-BostoM 1rdoettsr.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

light whenever practicable and ventilate
the pit as often as possible. The shape
of the beds will allow all the plants to r e.
ceive the greatest amount of sunlight
when the covering is off. Plants will not
be 80 liable to suffer here from damp as
they are in a sunken pit and they need
but little water unless the earth is very
dry. After the pit is completed in this
way it should have low shed-roof slop-
ing north, made of any rough lumber
This will keep the banking dry and save
much extra care in keeping out the frost,
while it will not interfere with the sun
light-Detr0tt Tribune
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
Good Manners.

It's rule of manners to avoid exag-
geration. A lady loses as soon as she adj
mires too easily and too much. In man
or woman the face and the person lose
power when they are on the strain to eX-
press admiration. A man makes his in
feriors his superiors by heat. When need
you, who are not a gossip, talk as Cos
sip and tell eagerly what the neighbOrs or
journals say? State your opinion without
apology. The attitude is the main point,
assuring your companion that, come good
news or come bad, you remain in good
heart and good mind, which is the best
news you can possibly communicate.
Self control is the rule. You have in you
there noisy, sensual savage, which you
are to keep down and turn ali his strength
20 beauty. For example, what a seneschal
and detective is laughter, 1t seems to re-
quire several generations of education to
train squeaking or a shouting habit out
of man. Sometimes, when in almost all
expressions the Choctaw and the slave
have been worked out of him, a coarse
nature still betrays itself in his contempt
BILE squeals of joy. The great gain is, not
to shine, not to conquer your companion
then you learn nothing but conceit-but
to find a companion who knows what you
do not; to tilt with him and be over
thrown, horse and foot, with utter
destruction of all your logic and
learning. There is defeat that is USE
full. Then you can see the real and the
counterfeit, and will never accept the
counterfeit again. You will adopt the
art of war that has defeated you You
will ride to battle. horsed on the very logic
which you found irresistible. You will
accept the fertile truth instead of the sol
emn customary lie. When people come
to see us we foolishly prattle, lest we be
inhospitable But things said for con-
versation are chalk eggs. Don't say
things. What you are stands over you
the while, and thunders SO that l cannot
hear what you say to the contrary. A
lady of my acquaintance said: II don't
care SO much for what they say as do for
what makes them say it, The law OF
the table is beauty-a respect to the COM
mon soul of the guests. Everything is
unreasonable which is private to two OF
three or any portion of the company
Tact nevertheless for moment this law
never intrudes the orders of the house,
the vices of the absenG, or tariff of ex-
penses or professional privacies; as we
say, we never "talk shop" before CON-
pany Lovers abstain from caresses, and
haters from insults, whilst they sit in one
parlor with common friends. Would we
codify the laws that should reign in
households, and whose daily transgression
annoys and mortifies us, and degrades
our household life-we must learn to
adorn every day with sacrifices. Good
manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
One would saw at first flush that sui

One would say at first flush that sui.
eide was the infirmity of foolish men and
maidens; but it appears that kind OF
star-fish Quidia) must be added to the list.
p. II. Gosse describes it in his zoology,
and Prof. Forbes gives his experience be-
fore he knew its romantic crotchets He
placed one on a rowing bench and, to his
surprise, the fish began to dismember
itself. Arm after arm became unlocked,
and the eyes, located one at the summit
of each ray, opened and closed their
spinous eyelids in deathly winks with a
suggestion of triumph-as if to say: "Oh,
Forbes, where is thy victory?" He made
other careful attempts to capture this
suicidal novelty, trying once to dip it up
in a bucket of water, but when the luidia
found that it was imprisoned in walls the
arms began to drop and the heartbroken
star-fish lay in sections.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

-Chauncey Filley, of ST. Louis, several
years ago found himself seriously in
volved by Endorsements for mining en-
terprise, and owing in the aggregate
$500, 600 At first he thought he would
go through the bankrupt court, but finally
thought better of it and concluded to pay
up. He called his creditors together,
paid them $500, 900, secured liberal ex-
tension for the remainder and went to
work. Quite recently. the Troy Times
says, he has wiped out the entire debt,
and stands free man once more. The
result shows what indomitable energy,
pluck and perseverance can accomplish
when employed in the right direction
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

EcoNoMY.-You will save money by using
Proctor d CANDLES Original Notified German
Soap. 1t will not waste nor become soft
like ordinary yellow soap when used i'm warm
water, nor is it cheapened with articles inju-
rious to clothes Remember, you obtain full
one pound bar if you purchase their Srand.
To protect their brand from imtators
Proctor & Gamble patented it, and the patent
was sustained in the United States Courts.
Examine the stamp the bars ,cIten you
buy. Take their Soap only
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

In the manufacture of olive oil much
more economy is used now than formerly
The pulpy part OF the fruit after the first
pressing is no longer thrown away but
sold from three to four dollars a ton; the
buyers subject it to a chemical process
and then to powerful steam pressure and
thus obtain one-fifth more oil. The latter
product is not of such fine quality as the
first and, of course, does not bring SO
large price. When all the oil that it
is possible to extract has been obtained
the solid mass that is left is burnt as fuel
or used as fertilizer ON land.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

GENTIAN was our grandmothers' hobby for
a tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without it; hence it enters into
nearly all. But experience has proved that
it is injurious to the stomach il frequently
used A far better tonic is found in Gtnrand
Bitters.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

THE Liverpool Steam Packet Company,
wishing to extend its premises, decided to
purchase adjoining land which was owned
by maiden lady of uncertain age. The
lady sold the land cheap, but caused to be
inserted in the agreement an article to this
effect: that during her lifetime she and a
lady companion should have the privilege
of travelling free in any of the company's
vessels. The day after the agreement was
signed she sold her house and furniture,
and, having found companion, went on
board of one of the company's steamers,
just about to sail for South America, and
from that time to this she has lived at sea
and at the company's expense, She adj
vertlses for some lady who wishes to make
the voyage as her companion, and who
pays her fare, and in this way, it is said
has already accumulated about $4,000.
The company have offered her more than
this to cancel the agreement, but this she
refuses to do, and, as the life at sea suits
ner health remarkably, there is no present
prospect that her voyage will soon come
to an end.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

kerosene is superseding pine knots
for fire-kindling in North Carolina, and
the old sexton singeth gayly: IL gather
them in. l gather them in.'
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

MAYOR FULTON, of Galveston, writes
to Mayor Cobb, of Boston, that the latter
city gave more money to aid the sufferers
from the Texas floods than all the other
cities of the country combined.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

THE recent failure of J. & T. Pearsall,
of Front street, New York, was caused by
the defalcation of the book keeper, who
in nine years stole $50 600 of his employ
eTS' money.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

The statistics of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the United States in 1875
show that it has 81 Bishops, 3 Bishops
elect, 3, 122 priests and deacons, 222 ,095
COMMITMENTS, 235, 943 Sunday school
pupils, and contributions to the amount
of sc, 800 ,3O5.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

SCHENcK's PuLMoNIc SYRUP, SEA WEED Tonic
AND MANDRAKE PuLs.-These deservedly cele-
brated and popular medicines have effected a rev.
uution in the healing art, and proved the fallacy
of several maxims which have for many years OBJ
structed the progress of medical science. The
false superstition that :. Consumption is incurable
deferred physicians from attempting to find RENE
dies for that disease. and patients afflicted with il
reconciled themselves to death without making an
effort to es>ape from a doom which they supposed
to be unavoidable. 1t is now proved. however,
that Consumption can be cured, and that it has
been cured in very great number Of cases (some
of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's
Pulmonic Syrup alone: and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, ac-
cordng to the requirements of the case.
DIR. Schenck himself who enjoyed uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years, was sup
posed at time, to be at the very gate Of death
his physicians having pronounced his case hope
less, and abandoned him to his fate. He was
cured by the aforesaid medicines, and, since his
recovery, many thousands similarly affected have
used DR.. Schenck's preparations with the same re-
markable success.
Full directions accompany each, making it not
absolutely necessary to personally see DIR. Schenck
unless patients wish their lungs examined. and
for this purpose he is professionally at .is princi
pal Office corner Sixth and Arch streets, Phiadel-
phia, every Monday. where all letters for adj vice
must be addressed. Schenck's medicines ars
sold by all druggists.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

Our forefathers have received consider
able attention OF late, but not word has
been said in honor OF our foremothers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

MILLIONS of bottles of BURNETT's Coco
AINE have been sold during the last twenty
years, in every civilized country, and the
public have rendered the verdict that it is
the cheapest and best Hair Dressing in the
world.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

SEABRooK, N. H., has log house built
In 1886.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15

FRANCE requires two years residence
in place to qualify voter.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
American Genius. moody and s.nkey

BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and cheap.
est Embarrassing in the world.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-29
The Hayes sud wheeler Club Aees-
I So ing Tonight.

As the initial effort Of the Republicans
of Carson City in the present campaign,
and rs the frst meeting OF the Hayes
and Wheeler Club since its organization.
the assemblags at the Thsater this eve
ming ought to be, and as We believe,
doubtless will be. an exhibition Of en-.
,husi.sm and downright interest. The
meeting will Ne addrssssd,b BY Hon. Robt.
H. Lindsay whose happy fashion OF hit
ting the bulls eye when he aims at the
Democratic target aud whose sloquence
Of delivery are we'll remembered and
greatly enjoyed in Cazson. Also. We
hope that that readiest and most enter
tanning Of takers, Hon. Charles l.. De-
Long, will be present aud address the
throng. Certainly If be is present We
must and viii have him eut.) Also our
own home stock of good campaign talk
ers will be drawn on: likewise We may
expect some campaign giee-sinSing. Let
there be strong turnout and hearty
zeal for the cause Of Republic2nism
manifested as in the earlier days. The
Republicans of Ormsby know no such
word as fail--and. certainly. failure
should not now begin to fluid place IN
the lexicon of the party. We expect
great things OF the Hayes and Wheeler
Club; and this nights proceedings
should have the effect of thorough
good send of. without fail
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-29
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

NrxPs.-3Ir. William Minor, broths,
Of the Secretary Of State. il seriously at
tackled with that ubiquitous disease, the
mumps. We style it ubiquitous from its
propensity to BE- in several places at
once. We hope Mr.. Minor may find a
speedy relief. We understand that there
have been some fatal cases Of this dis
ease among adults in Lake Valley.
We learn BY last evenings News that
the Fort Homestead tunnel on the line
Of the Y. l. T. Railroad SO badly cavsd
yesterday As to render the passage Of the
regular passenger train last night .
matter Of much uncertainty. P. S.
The passenger train came down-the
passengers taking the cars At Gold Hill.
BECK ZABEIsKIE got q telegram from
Silver City yesterday informing him Of
the very serious sickness Of his father.
We Judge from the tenor Of the dispatch
that fatal termination il apprebended.
We trust our old friend may rally and
soon get on his feet again.
JOE RossNsTock returned from his
Eastern trip yesterday looking in tip-.op
health. He has left Mrs. Rosenstock
and the little folks among their relatives
in Maryland. They will remain until
line cool weather sets IL.