American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-04
HERE AND THERE.

GEORGE DEITz, citizen of New AL
bany, Ind, aged &c years, will wall
from that place to the Philadelphia
Centennial, starting soon.
THE friends of Boston lady tele
| graphed from Paris that she was "nt
worse" and the cable said "no more. ;
She was mourned as dead for nearly
two days.
| A GREENLAND, n. H., man has re
covered 81 400 from the town because
his horse SHE'D at an old log by the road
and threw him out of the wagon, break
ing his ankle.
THE Empress of Japan is full of in.
terest in all educational matters She
has decided on the erection of a college
for young girls who wish to devote
themselves to teaching.
IT has been an unusually cold season
in England, and the Registrar General
reports that for the twelve days ending
January 16 the temperature was 2.96
degrees below the average of the last
sixty days.
.SALEM, Massachusetts,, deals as Sc
verely with criminals, nowadays, as it
did formerly with witches, man hav-
ing been sentenced there, last week, to
ten years. Imprisonment for robbing a
hen-roost.
A CERTAIN doctors wife here, says a
New York gossip, is very conspicuous
on most occasions from her wonderful
head of milk-white hair. Elaborately
pulled and frizzed, it makes her youth
full face still more youthful.
EZRA BAKER, of Boston, made no will
for relatives and lawyers to fight over;
but, just before death, he gave his mil
lion dollars worth of property to his
only son, the legal heir, and instructed
him how to distribute it.
THE Senate of California has expelled
from the privilege of the floor a news
paper reporter who reported that Sem
ator stated to him ''that should the
press cease watching the Legislature it
would steal the State blind in three
weeks.''
A ROMANTIC Brooklyn girl says of
her handsome pastor: 81 know he is a
good man, because as sit in church
and listen to his words and watch his
beautiful smile can think of nothing
but heaven and the angels
ALL reverence for the sacred name of
woman seems to be fading from the
land. Women correspondents in Wash
ington who write ball and party gossip
are now spoken of as "persons who get
their chicken-salad for nothing"
Shamei
The British Empire is so immense
and includes so many barbarous nations
that there are always two or more wars
going on within the Queens dominiOns.
The latest outbreak is in Feejee, where
several powerful tribes have renowned
and assailed the frontier
settlements. The trouble had its origin
in the frightful spread of measles among
The native population, no less than ST.
300 persons having persisted from the
plague, the introduction of which the
Feejeeans attribute to British careless
ness.
A vIRULENT and heretofore unknown
nalady has broken out in Ragged Har-
DOR, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Six
strong men were carried offby it within
l few hours after the beginning of the
attack. The fisher people call it black
Heath, and it appears to be some kind of
blood poison. The symptoms are an
intense and fiery pain in the leg, about
he middle of the calf; swelling and
of the flesh in the neighbor-
hood of the pain, gradual spreading
If the Inflammation upward, vomiting,
oss of consciousness, and finally death.
THE London Times in a grain article
Informs us that "A per cent. of the grain
to England comes from the
United States, and 81 per cent. from
russia. Nine years ago, A per cent.
# the grain received by England came
rom Russia, and only IA per cent. from
america. The distress in Southern
russia and the continuous depreciation
f paper currency there are regarded as
he causes, and great alarm prevails in
russia at the manner in which her
rain producing districts have been sur
assed by those of the United States.
THE most remarkable watch we have
yer seen, says the Omaha Herald, was
wned and manufactured by Payne P.
.andon, the father of Landon, the al
eyed nickle counterfeiter, which we
aw yesterday. 1t is about the size in :
of an ordinary box of
lacking and twice as thick, and was {
lade in Schuyler County, Neb., by its
assessor, of odds and ends of brass and
liver picked up about his premises. 1t +
pens on both sides, having glass faces, +
nd besides being good time-keeper it !
made to strike the hours and has {
in it. Considering the appli- =
1ces and tools with which the old man
ad to work, the watch is a wonder.
A MONSTER with head measuring T
X feet by four, and body forty-five a
ct in length, is, according to the Dun s
ee advertiser, well known to Scotch il
shermen as the herring hog" A v
Try fine specimen of the animal was ?
en- the other day by some Broughty d
cry men off the Bell Rock. The crew v
q fishing boat were hauling in their "