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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
Something New in Mosquitoes.

Close observers will remark that this
season presents two separate and dis
tinct races of mosquitoes-the regular
old breed that sing and buzz in your
ears and. scare you almost into spasn1s,
and the new one, speckled and spotted
in appearance. This new tribe possess
es even more deviltry than the old. for
they are of the regular sneaking order
and never tell you when they intend to
strike. They will step up, steal bite
and quietly leave. 1t is no use for you
to slap at them. If you do, you will in
all probability slap yourself, while the
ring-streaked and striped little cuss will
wink and point his hind legs at you in
such scornful manner that you are al
most aggravated beyond endurance.
The appearance of this last pest, how
ever, is indicative of the end of summer.
He is known as the fall mosquito, and
can easily be detected by his crawling
pronensities. Summer mosquitoes new
CT crawl; they just light and go to bust
ness on the spot.-Erchange.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
Edwin Booth.

The first choice of seat at Edwin
Booths initial performance in San
Francisco was sold for 500. His first
acting was done in Baltimore at the adj
mission rate of two cents. A. school
mate thus tells the story: "The com
pany was composed of boys and girls,
who aspired to life on the stage.
Among them were Booth and John
Sleeper, who afterwaId married Beoth's
sister, and became John S. Clark, the
comedian. We looked about for a
place to play in, and finally secured the
basement of a house at IA South CAL
vert street. Our average ages were
about II or 13,though Booth must have
been IA or Is. Our little theater soon
became a favorite iplaceef resortfor the
young people of the vicinity. The price
of admission was two cents, and we
generally had good houses. After the
audience had dispersed we generally
took what was left after paying our tri-
fling expenses and invested it in oys-
ters.a5 Onr audiences were generally
very critical, but there were two pieces
which used to arouse their enthusiasm
to the highest pitch. One was THE
Guerrilla Chief, and the other was one
of the acts of Richard H. by Booth.
Booth and the Guerrilla Chief were the
two great attractions of the theater.
and Booth even then gave evidence of
genius, - go. -, = .
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
A Courteous Cavalier

Z. = J. =. - - + 4.
AL of us remember the courteous
Due de Caislin, who took, an equally
courteous Rhinegrave n prisoner and
shared his bed with him, and how the
two polite warriors, to give each other
the mattress, slipped courteously upon,
the floor and left the bed unoccupied
between them. In due time the khine-
grave went to Paris and called on his
captor. There was such profusion of
compliments ON leaving that the pris-
oner finally ran out and locked the
door outside. The Duke jumped out
of the window, and when the German
got to the gate there was the Duke, as
large and polite as life. He. had put
out his thumb by the leap, and called
in the surgeon Felix to set it. Soon
afterwards the surgeon called on his
patient, and found the cure perfect.
As he was leaving, the Duke accom-
panied him to the door, and must needs
open it. Another contest of courtesy,
the Duke opens it at last-and puts out
his thumb again. rss a-r+ .-rz zss.
THE Metropolitan district of London,
which contains an area of 6SS miles
was guarded during the year 1873 by
10, 227 policemen. OF these, however,
1,236 were employed at dock-yards,
public departments, railway stations,
etc, on special duty; the remaining
1891 did the usual police work. Lon
don still continues to grow. During
1875 there were 10,023 new houses
built; 169 new streets, and four new
squares were opened, covering length
of nearly thirty miles, and 3,775 new
houses were in course of erection. Nc
less than 81 persons were killed in the
streets, and 9, 704 were manned or in
iurcd. There was great increase In
the number of arrests for drunkenness
but the increase in the number OF Other
! oflenses and crimes was but small.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
A Notable Woman.

A writer in the NeD Century for
Womas says: There is a journalist in
Chicago, widely felt through her news
papers, but of SO reticent nature that
she seeks to be wholly impersonal to
her readers. Except that it may affect
in some slight way The business inter-
ests of women 1 could not tell even you,
Nev Century, what know of this wom-
ans work. Mrs. Hubbard was the first
woman who held desk in an editorial
sanctum in Chicago. Seven years ago
Gil cumstances that she could not con-
troll brought her hither and installed
her in the office of the Post, a position
held for four years without the loss of
a single day. The. remaining three
years have been given to the Chicago
Tribune. q The 'sBook Reviews"
"Sparks of Science,n and s'Familiar
Talks that appear in the Saturday
supplement of that paper are all from
her pen-an average of six columns
in fine type per week. When thechar-
acter of the writing is considered,
the conscientious nature of the reviews,
the amount of research demanded in
preparing the material for the scientific
and other talks, the task seems suffi-
GENTLY laborious for the healthiest
worker, but this writer is a delicate
woman-for years an invalid. With
the physical drawbacks which make
towards of most of us, her brave bat
fling with bodily pain compels eur adj
miration for these victories of the will.
If there is a royal road to successful
journalism this woman does not claim
to have found it; a 1aborious student,
with hunger for knowledge which the
years increase, she is equally DESTROYS
of sharing her gains with the eager
throng. Hence the spirit of her writ
ings is ever that of helpfulness toward
others-a kindly outreaching Of the
hand toward the people, rather than an
anxious reaching for the upper roundsof
the unclimbed ladder. Mrs. Hubbard's
own estimate of her work and her po-
sition is modest in the extreme. She
lives most retired life, avoids pub
licity, and is the center of a happy
home. There, surrounded by her cap
ital, a fine working library, large
cabinet of her own collection, and an
herbarium which, is numbering its
second thousand, she writes her copy
and reads her books, with no other am
bition than to give the most and the
best within her power to the public
for whom she works. 1t is her con-
slant aim that there shall be emo rust
ling of petticoats'' or any obtrusive
marks of the writer's personality in her
articles, and yet nothing that could
ever make a woman blush. The result
of this, delicacy that restraints, subor-
dination of self, and eagerness to reach
the people is, a style pure, strong, SIM
pie, and trustworthyi while her secure
and high position in journalism is the
outcome of unremitting work with a
| lofty, animating purpose. -'-5sit-'s
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

The steamer Arbitrator, which left
New Orleans, Aug. 12,- for Liverpool, on
the Esd struck an iceberg and foundered in
twenty minutes. The Arbitrator had ear
go OF propuce and 5000 in specie. The
total loss is estimated at $3.50, 200. The Of
heers and crew were rescued and taken 20
Dublin by the brig Baltic.
The Ohio State Fair was a decided
failure, financially, this year, he expenses
having exceeded the receipts by about 81, 600
The boiler of locomotive on the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
The Backward Habit of the Jap
aneSe.

The Japanese habit of reversing ev-
cry thing, if we may regard our own
ways of doing as the proper way, is
very curious, and in some of its details,
very interesting Mr.. Grifus, in his
work on Japan. discusses it thus:
Another man is planning. He pulls
the plane toward him. notice black
smith at work; he pulls the bellows with
his feet, while he is holding and ham
,mering with both bands. He has sew
eral irons in the fire, and keeps his din
ner pot boiling with the waste flame.
His whole family, like the generations
before him, see to all getting their liv-
ing in the hardware line. All of them
sit down while they work. How
stranget Perhaps that is an important
difference between a European and an
Asiatic. One sits down to his work,
the other stands up to it. Why is it
that we do things contrariwise to the
Japanese? The Japanese say that we
are reversed. They call our penman-
ship g crab writing,'' because, they say,
cit goes backward.' "The lines in
our books cross the page like q craw-
fish, instead of going downward prop
crly." In Japanese stable we find
horses flank where we look for his
head. Japanese screw the other way.
! Their locks thrust to the left, ours to
the right. The baby toys of the Arvan
race squeak when squeezed; the Tura-
MAN gimcracks emit noise-when pulled
apart. AsCaucasian, to injure his enc
my, kills him; a japanese Kills himself
to spite his foe. Which race is left
handed? Which has the negative, which
the positive truth? What is truthP VIVA
is DOWN. What is up?
| Et- III s=
CHICKEN FRIcAssEE.2Take3 on
ions, ] eschalot, 2 cloves of garlic,
bunch of parsely, carrot, all to b.
chopped separately; pepper and salt
In asauce-pan put pound of butter, AN,
brown with the above; when done
take chickens cut up, pour in bee
stock to cover, cook slowly for hour
then pour in n large glass of sherry
Add the yelks of eggs, and larg
tablespoonful of flour, to thicken.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
That Umbrella.


y Adozen or more men stood at the
eastern entrance of the City Hall yester-t
day, when it began to rain,s and along
came an individual with an umbrella.
over his head. As he reached the top,
step one of the men advanced and said
! "Ah! have been waiting for you. I
knew you had it and it's an right 81 e :
! The man surrendered the umbrella IN
a hestitating manner, and his'sheepish-
look showed very plainly that he was
not the lawful owner of it, As he pass
ed into the hall another of the crowd
stepped out and said:
''That's my umbrella and I can
prove it. 1t has a 81 cut into the ham
dle.n ss-iisEz Ssa afif SIC 8al3tl
= So it had, and after some; parleying
it was handed over. The new owner
was smiling very blandly as the crowd
applauded, when a man turned in off
the avenue to escape wetting. As soon
as he saw the umbrella he called out !:
"Well, but where did you get this?''
ssIt's mine-bought it,at the store, !"
was the reply. e.. afe .za.
!. "Not much, sir. 1t was stolen from
my Office month ago, and you d bet
ter hand it over if you don't want tror-
ble.'' -s4s,'s@*-ft 5ff9f~ s. Esa So
TWAS passedto him and he started
for home. Only the angels knew wheth-
er or not the real owner stopped him
somewhere up Woodward Avenue.-
Detroit Free Press. DIS diafss tftst -
A Boy Shot. by. Mistake for a
.!l.v .rqsaa Squirrel. sss as h. ,
A dispatch from Maysyille, Ky,
Sept. 6, says: Last week, on Kinnico-
nick Creek, near vanceburg, boys
Henry Pell, aged Is years; Charley Pell,
his brother, aged II; and Fred Mon
tieth, little German, boy from Cincin-
nati-were out hunting, and had chased
squirrel up among the, branches Of a
tall poplar tree. Montieth climbed, up
to brighten it into view in order that his
companions might shoot it. When he
was 80 or GO feet from the earth, Henry
Pen fired his rifle at what he supposed
was the squirrel, but was Mortified to
sea Montieth leap forward and fall
headlong through the branches, ilodg-
ing across limb of the tree, some 40
feet from the ground. After Montieth
fell he called to the boys to come up
and help him down, saying that he had
been shot and was afraid that he should
fall. The boys were too much fright
ened to 60 to his assistance. They ran
away to their home, eight miles dis
tant, and although they informed their
parents of the accident, no one went
until the next morning at ten O'Clock to
rescue the wounded boy. When they
did go he was found precisely as he had
been left, hanging across the limb, but
now dead.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
CURRENFsFOPICS.

GEs. Crooks command was expect
ed to arrive at Custer City on the 14th,
and q supply train of thirty wagons was
dispatched from Red Cloud on the
10th, to that point, escorted by three
companies of the Fourth artillery
equipped as infantry. tifEsif = -
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

CoMMoDORE GARRISON, of New York,
Is 10 assume the personal Infringement
OF the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which,
it Is announced, viii be henceforth run
entirely separate from the Atlantic and
Pacific. The new organization will be
made on basis of eight hundred thou
sand dollars paid up stock, which
money Is ali tobe expended in the prr-
chase Of steel rails and other improve
ments and equipments for the road.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

The Wheeler Brothers, two lucky
miners who own a-claim on Deadwooti
Creek in the Black Hills, arrived at
Fort Laramie on the 18th with the pro-
ceeds of seven months work, amount
ing to 1900 pounds of gold dust, val
ued at over $500, O00s fheys had m
escortof 2omen to guard this immense
treespre, which will be shipped by rsil
from Cheyenne N u 81
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

RS A DETACHMENT of United States
troops under command of Lieut.. Col.
II. c. Merriam now occupies the Mexi-
can town of New Laredo, by request of
{ the foreign consuls and with the con-
sent of the Mexican commander, Gen.
Reveultas. The town was recently evac-
-uated by the Revolutionary troops, who
left it with no adequate protection for
life or property.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

An armistice between Turkey and
'Ser1iasHas agrsed upon and signed on
the 18th, and each Government issued
an order for the temporary cessation OF
hostilities. No, limit to the duration of
the armistice is specified, but either
party may terminate it by giving no.
tice.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
A DISPATCH to the St. Paul Pioneer

A DISPATCH to the st. Paul Pioneer
Press from Bismarck, DIS on the 18th,
says a complete enrolImentpof the In
dams at Standing Rock shows only 450
lodges, and a total of not over 1000
Indians. Rations have heretofore been
issued on basis of 1000, from which it
would appear that nearly S,oO0'are alb
sent, or else large amount Of steal
ing has been done. The Indians are
known to have returned from the
hostiles, but so stealthilys they could
not be caught, and the attempt to dis
arm the host;les has therefore proved
abortive. Grass, chief of the Black
Feet, has been arrested for harboring
and supplying the hostiles. The In
dams threatened to rescue him, but the
garrison Was too weH prepared to re-
sist, so the attempt was abandoned.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
VOL. XXVI.

HON. LUCIUs ROBINSON has received
the Democratic nominationforGovern
of New York, rice Horatio Seymour,
declined.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad exploded near
Frederick, Maryland, on the nth, and
killed Aug. Schafer, the engineer, and
James +. Cook, fireman.
Two more deaths from yellow fever
occurred in New York on the 18th. One of
the victims was Mr. JohnEyans q wealthy
business man of Savannah, who left that
city to escape the scourge; the other was a
sailor. New York physicians say there is
no cause for alarm, as the season is too far
advanced.
There has been another serious cut
break among the rice hands on the Comba-
hee, in South Carolina. The laborers who
were, at work have been attacked and Sc
verely beaten. Work Is altogether stopped,
and the rioters refuse to allow the rice al
ready harvested to be shipped to market.
Governor Chamberlain has dispatched 4
special officer, who is authorized to arrest
and imprison the ring-leaders.
A riot occurred at Lima, Peru, on the
Goth of August. The residence Of EXPIRES
ident Pardee was attacked by mob. The
troops fired into the-naob, Killing four per-
sons and wounding many others.
A severe shock ofearthquake occurred
at Lima and Callao, Peru, on the 10Th of
August. -
THE United States Of Colombia has
been declared in . state Of Siege. A dis
ruption of the country is feared. The army
is to be raised to 20, 900.
Nearly all the buildings at Cheyenne
Agency were recently swept away by q
flood. and all the records and papers were
lost.
"A delegation of ,workingmen from
Germany arrived on visit to the Centen-
NAL Exhibition on the 10th.
A Madrid dispatch saws the Spanish
army in Cuba will he reinforced nv 7 600
new troops during this month.
One b,,ndred pa wuoa Trd;ops fran,
81 &C.,, ra...,,1,, 800 =,
sidney IA racks NebE wbere thew will he
mounted and eouinned. and then sent IN
ioin Crook in fighting the Sioux.
Al a meeting of tho renresent.t;ves
-. Ivos..,, 49,, =. ~,
ts,Sno in CT Iou;s hold on the 1etb II u,s
reso1ved 70 nooI the freight business ot
these roads in order To mt -. stoY 70 the
cuttino of rates
Cen sherman is renorted 70 have
.t.ted at i .o.van worth that in al ,-oh.h,,.
;tv tharo wo,,,a ~, a re,,, wost.-, ,,,;,;t.-r
.3opa ~ at f,r.v,ad vnart - ~. +arr;torv -
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heino taIen- Tor that ,,,rnoss Tha ,,ssd-
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fantry. and it is presumed that Gen. Nelson
A. Miles, Colonel of the Fifth, will be COM
mander.
Fifteen Turkish officers imnlicated
:. -. 1900 - - j
~ No. 80 IT, s.t -
iea,IeTs implicated in The frenort Of Rlaco,e
nov ,y,o has beo,, iryost;catir, ,ho atrnoio
- ~. - ~ :.
,n;t. ttat The atroei.ias 80 ;,delor;t,hiv
horr;hIa and that +bo raror, will no 80
nressed
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isn aunhiistra.ise autnofi'es n'' oeeh en-
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messed
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

THE Ohio State Greenback Conven-
ton met on the l2th and nominated a
Cooper and Cary electoral ticket. No
State ticket was placed in nomination.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

TEE exprses car of Wells, Fargo g
Co, attached to . trsin on the Utah
Central Railroad, was entered by two
masked men when about eight miles
north of Salt Lake City, on the evening
of the 14th, who gagged the messenger
and robbed the safe of $4,000. The
robbers escaped, but were being hotly
pursued. nfoasEof. 49,.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

GEN. Crooks command had "a lively
brush with the Indians on the 9th inst )
in which private Kennedy of the Sixth
Cavalry and citizen named Frank
White we're killed and one Or two 9th.
ers wounded. The Indian chief Ameri-
can Horse was killed. Among the spoils
captured from the Indians were several
articles belonging to Clusters COM
mand. Prisoners say that the hostiles,
with the exception of the immediate
followers ~ sitting Bal nnd Crazy
Horse, ard gem g intS The agsneiss.
Crooks command is en- route to the
Black Hills for supplies.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

KINDER is the looking-glas than the
wine-glass, for the former reveals our
defects to ourselves only, the laoyor TO
our friends
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

TIE Massachusetts Woman Suffrage
State Convention met on the 18th and
was presided over by Mrs. Mary A.iLiv-
ermore. A full State ticket was NOM
mated, headed by James l. Baker for
Governor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23


LORD DERBY, the other day, replied
to an address from q deputation of
workingmen, denying that the English
Government BY its action was in any
way s5espons7ble for the outbreaks of
fapaticisR among the Turkish people,
and expressing his conviction that Eng
land. in desiring to see fair play had
done more than any thing else to pre-
vent the war from assuming the char
acter of o religious war, and to, prevent
the commission Of atrocities in many
provinces instead Of one The endeavor
TO blot Turkey from the map of Europe,
he said, would lead to general war, in
which the Bulgarian horrors would be
greatly exceeded.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

The correspondent of the New York
Herald with Gen Crooks command tel
egraphed Via Bismarck, on the 9th,
that the hostile, Sioux. under Sitting
Bull had broken up into small paroles
and dispersed. with the exception of his
own personal band of about 400 braves,
. who it was. thought had succeeded in
: escaping across the Missouri River and
probably made their way into the Brit
ish Possessions. .5sg-(
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

THE Connecticut Greenbackers have
nominated q State ticket, headed by
Charles Atwater for Governor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

A BELaRADE dispatch ofithe l2th
says that the Servians still maintain a
small garrison ut Alexinatz,l notwith-
standing contrary reports from Turkish
sources. Severe fighting has occurred
between Delegrader and Alexinatz on
account Of the Turks attempting to
throw bridge across the Morava,
which at last accounts they had not
succeeded in accomplishing. Russia
confines to aid the Servian cause both
with material and moral support, and
it is said Will not permit Servia to ac-
cept Turkeys terms for an armistiee.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

GEN. TERRY's Indian campaign ter
minated on the It'll, when his command
was finally broken up. A portion of
the troops have been ordefed to Fort
Ellis, a portion TO Fort Lincoln, while
another portion viii remain at Fort. Bu-
ford. Gen. Sheridan has countermand-
ed the order to winter a regiment of cav
airy on the Yellowstone.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23

The earliest returns from the cleo
ton in Maine indicated Republican
majority of from Il, coo to 10, eco. The
Republican majority for Governor in
1875 was 1872; in 1874, 1887, and in
1872, II, PIG. ~