American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-11-04
HERE AND THERE.

IT is announced that the British Gov
eminent intends to present st. Georges
House at the Centennial grounds to the
city of Philadelphia, after the close OF
the exhibition.
PUBLIC attention being fixed on the
Turkish question, a London magistrate
has dared to condemn an Englishman
to one days Imprisonment for the ap-
preparation of an umbrella during a
shower.
AT baby christening lately in New
port, the infant wore 5000 dollars
worth of diamonds and robe that cost
$4,000. Another, block away, was
christened, with only its eyes for dia-
monds and robe that cost $3. The
last baby inherited some brains.
THE latest, simplest, and most effect
ual mouse-trap yet thought of is an
earthen washbowl nearly half filled with
] water, oo--A@osv.--:Al. raaal and
placed On tho pantry-sheH. A Pulaski
| On. W woman recently -half=a-
dozen of the misohief-makers in one
night by this method.
In Chippewa Township, Beaver Coun-
ty, Pa, the other day, a rooster killed
hawk in fair fight, in the presence
of his harem. The contest lasted fully
an hour, at the expiration of which
time the hawk fell over dead, and the
rooster was left masteS of the field.
THE grandmother of the late Gen.
Mcpherson, whose monument was un-
yelled at Washington by the Society Of
the Army of the Tennessee on the 18th,
was invited to be present at the cere-
monies, but died the day before the in
vitation reached its destination. She
was SO years old.
Two of the largest wine casks ever
imported into England have been land
ed at the London and st. Katharine
Docks. One contained 638 gallons of
sherry, the other 600 gallons of port.
The latter had to be filled on board the
vessel at Oporto, as there was no gear
at that port strong enough to lift it. 3
This curious compound of business
and religion recently appeared as an
advertisement in a Manchester (Ver-
mont) paper: "NoTICE.-Has the Lord
Jesus Christ, in this city, friend who
has to spare, cheerfully, for his work,
$3.50 to $5O0P Information desirable
this week. The interested only need
address or apply at this ofice.''
THERE are 119 life-saving stations on
our coast from Maine to Florida, 80 on
the lakes, and eight on the Pacific, en-
ploying LOO men. The coasts of New
Jersey, Long Island and North Caro-
lima are the most dangerous. Each
keeper gets 5000 a year, and they have
saved 8, 1853 lives in the last four years.
EVERY one carries arms in Sicily, not
excepting priests. Gentlemen carry a
revolver in their pockets when they go
to ball or casino. Youths of Is are
armed with it at the lectures in the
Lyceum; law has no force-every one
is law to himself. The military are
powerless against the thefts, assaults
and murders perpetrated in the open
country.
SANDY MELVILLE, horse thief, was
sentenced, at Council Bluffs, to five
years. imprisonment. He had long
been a notorious rascal. just before
his start for the penitentiary, he was
married to a woman who had a good
home and respectable connections.
She had fallen in love with him while
nursing him during his recovery from
a wound that he had received in an en-
counter with officers.
The buildings of the Paris Exhibition
of 1878 will cover a space of 100000
square yards. They are to be of iron
filed in with brick work, and will have
the form of a Pythagorean table; i. e.,
if passed through in one direction the
similar productions of different coun-
tries may be inspected, while if crossed
in the other direction the various pro-
ducts of any one country may be passed
in review.
SHERIFF BROWN informs the Gid
dings (Texas) Tribune that the bees re-
Gently attacked pony, which was
hitched to tree near his house, and
stung him so badly that he died from
the effects in about two hours. His lit
tie boy, about IA years old, in attempt
ing to release the pony from the tree,
was also badly stung; so much so that
he was unable to see on the following
night.
THE will of Wright A. Binghurst, of
Trappe, Montgomery County, Pa, who
died recently, after bequeathing about
$4,000 to relatives and charitable pur
poses, leaves the bulk of his estate,
amounting to over 100000, to the
township of Upper Province, and the
boroughs of Pottstown and Norristown,
in proportion to the population of each,
to be invested in building houses of
moderate size, to be rented at low prices
to poor families.
A NOVEL mode of going to be mar
ried was that recently employed by a
loving couple in Paris, France. They
invited twenty couple to the wedding,
and after the ceremony they all went to
the Bots de Boulogne on double veloci-
pedes, headed by a fiddler mounted on
a similar vehicle. After dancing and
enjoying themselEess-stlhf there they went to
a restaurant and supped, and then be-
took themselves home in the evening,
headed by the fiddler, whose fiddle was