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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

A DAILY chicken-train has been start
ed on the Pennsylvania Railroad. They
have Cochin the rear and a locomo-
tive to pullet.
A WRITER says, "The boys must
help themselves" Most boys do, until
the old man admonishes them by a
thump on the head that somebody else
likes cake as well as they.
THERE is just one thing about it.
The lady who insists on carrying a good
share of her dress in her hand, has got
to keep her shoes tied up or let every
body know that she left home in hurry.
In some parts of the world the days
are four months long, and when lively
boy of II years accompanies his parents
to church for the first time, he thinks he
has struck one of those days, sure.
HOLT on sometimes a little,' shout
ed wrathful Berlin landlord, as the Col
orado Beetle, just landed from a Bre-
men-Hamburg steamer walked up to
register his name, 's sthop little, where
you was from, eh!" And the gentle
man from Colorado bent low over the
register as he scratched down his name,
and, giggling softly, said, &C From Muir
phys burrow. Haaokeye.
A BoOK-AGENT recently met in the
Council Bluffs Qowa) Post-office an in
mate of deaf and dumb institution,
and talked to him without intermission
for an hour, showing him all the pic
lures and urging the claims of his work
upon his calm and delicate considera-
ton, before the stranger had chance
to open on him with the sign-language.
Then the agent was wicked enough to
swear.
IT is stated that 10 members of the
United States Senate are printers by
trade. -E1change. n. B. We should
like to see % proof'' of this.-Nea0 York
Com. Adgertiser. Yes, their course in
Congress hardly ''justifes - the state
ment.-NorristoeOn Herald. A good
many of them behave as if they had
been brought up at the " galIeys.''-
PhiLG. Bulletin. Yes, but they have
got the quoins down in their pockets
Detroit Free Press.
A MAN picked up purse in the street,
and advertised the fact. In 10 days he
was visited by 81 men, women, boys and
girls, all claiming to have lost money.
The sum was but S11, but of each Wis
itor who called the finder asked: so
you lost $50 did youP" Nine-tenths of
the applicants promptly replied, Z" Yes,
sir.'' "Ah," said he, " Yours was an
other purse.''
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
Discoveries in Palestine.

For several years past the Holy Land
has been the field of careful Topographic
cal research, conducted by the British
and American exploration societies
the one operating west, the other east
of the Jordan. In the former district
there are to be identified, perhaps, 600
Scriptural localities; in the latter not
more than 60. Yet the difficulties to be
encountered in each case are substan-
TALLY the same-Arabs and malaria be-
ing the most serious. In the face of
these and other obstacles Dr. Selah
Merrill has been conducting his opera
tiOns on behalf of the American society,
of which the Rev. DIR. II. d. Hitchcock
is president, for the last two years, and
returns to report his achievements. In
deed, for want of funds, his work is
practically cut short at point where
the discoveries made promise the largest
results. His operations near the Dead
Sea leave no doubt in DIR. Merrill's
mind that he is on the track of
the cities of the Plain. The
popular belief that these were, sub
merged by the waters of the Dead
Sea, he maintains, is altogether errone-
Gus. AT point near the northern end
of the sea, where certain rebuilt cities
exactly correspond in number and loca-
ton to those that were destroyed, he
caused some excavations to be made
Here, underlying the mud huts of the
Arabs, he found three buried cities, one
below the other. The uppermost dated
back to the Roman period under that
appeared ruins of Hebrew character;
and last of all. at a depth of 80 or 40
feet, relics were unearthed of n still ear
lier epoch and more primitive architect.
ure. 1t may be that the evidences are
not strong enough as yet to identify
these, beyond question, as the remains
of Sodom and Gomorrah; but it is obvi-
ously in that neighborhood and by such
methods that their vestiges are TO be
sought. The determination of this fact
alone would be an adequate return for
all the money and pains which the soci-
ETY. has expended.
The value of this class of discoveries
can hardly be overestimated. They re-
wise our notions of Scripture scenes and
of Scripture events. When we read of
the wonderful capacity of the Holy
Land for fertilization we cease to won
der at the old fgurative notion of its
flowing with milk and ohney. When
stories are told to us of vast architectur-
al ruins, of the remains of irrigating
canals, of Roman roads extending up
and down the country five hundred
miles, we realize that it was once, what
ever it may be now, land worth pos =
sessing and worth developing.
The work of the Palestine Explora-
ton Society should not suffer for lack
of money. 1t is understood that the
officers have repeatedly made advances
to its treasury, and are not themselves
as yet reimbursed. There is also debt
resting on the society; and the topo-
graphical map which is now being pre-
pared by Rudolph Meyer, assistant en-
gineer in the last expedition, is so far
work of faith. Enough should be SUBJ
scribed to relieve the society and send
DIR. Merrill back to Palestine to follow
up his valuable esearches.-C Christian
Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mrs. GEORGE III. THOMPSON, a sister
of Senator Sargent, of California, committed
suicide at Lowell, Mass, on the oath.
THE Senate Judiciary Committee
have reported favorably upon the nominal
tion of Gen. Harlan, Of Kentucky for Assoc
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. The
nominations of Gabriel C. Wharton, United
States Attorney for Kentucky, and W. Fitz-
simmons, United States Marshal for Georgia,
were both reported adversely. An adverse
report was also made by the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee upon the nomination of II.
S. Sanford, Minister to Belgium, and a IA
vorable report upon that of II. w. Hilliard,
Minister to Brazil.
ROBERT L. CASE, late President of
the Security Life Insurance Company, of
New York, convicted of swearing to a false
return made to the Superintendent of Insu-
rance, has been sentenced to five wears in
the State-prison.
THE late George S. Bangs, formerly
Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service,
was a practical printer, and worked as a
compositor in a number of Western news
paper offices.
AN analysis of the vote in the House
Of Representatives on the repeal of the Re-
sumption act shows that 105 Democrats
voted for the repeal and % cast their votes
in the negative; and that % Republicans
favored the repeal, while 90 We're opposed
thereto.
THE following are the sentences
passed upon Cardoza, Smalls and Carpen-
ter in South Carolina: Francis L. Cardoza,
ex-Treasurer of South Carolina, for conspir-
acy to defraud the State, two years. impris-
onment in iail and 81. 900 fine and one YEARS
imprisonment added if the fine is not paid
at the expiration of two years. Smalls,
Member of Congress, for accepting So 1000
while member of the State Senate, three years
at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. L.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
Banking on a Limited Capital.

A Queer banker has just come to
grief at Philadelphia in the person of
Charles Henderson, who boasted $780,
600 capital and promised Is per cent.
interest on deposits. According to one
of the newspapers he didn't know what
a ten-forty bond was. According to his
clerks, who were his chief victims, he
never had as much as $500 in the bank,
making the money-lender's usual dis
play in the windows of the shop with
some $50 in actual money, and the rest
in piles of Confederate scrip, topped with
one greenback to each pile, and the inn
posing but bulky half-dollar of the dad
dies. From his clerks he demanded a
cash payment and security for more,
getting some hundreds of dollars out of
three of them, and ready at all times,
like our old friend Pecksniff, for "more
pupils" for whom he kept out stand
ing advertisement. These pupils in the
noble art of banking sat around the of
fee diligently until the newspapers
" blew the gaff, when they departed,
apparently without endeavoring to COM
pei him to disgorge what he had got
from them. The banks one discovered
depositor had check refused and sued
out a warrant, wherewith a constable
sought the banker after hours. On the
plea of " a deposit to make, F" he obtain
ed access to his man and the bank died
of immediate inanition. Banker Hend-
erson, it turned out before the magis-
trate, had no license. He "hadn't had
time to take any out, he said. He was
too busy, doubtless, taking people in.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

AN unpleasant case of the Enoch Ar
den type is distressing fashionable life
at Montreal. A number of years ago
newly married man left his wife and
went to California, finally ceased corre-
spending with her and word came that
he was dead. The widow, after n
proper season, married again, and after
few years this husband died. Not long
ago rich real-estate agent laid siege to
her heart, was accepted and the two have
since lived in great style on Victoria
Street. But at this inauspicious time the
truant first husband turns up and de-
mands his own. The lady, being at
tached to her last husband, clings to
him, but as she is not legally his wife
they have been forced to separate, and a
divorce from the first husband seems to
be the only thing which can establish
practical justice in the case.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
California Seen Through Green
Glasses.

Yes, it is wonderful country-won-
derful l!-wonderful! Tarantulas big as
pullets's eggs, black, hairy-legs al
around them, to crawl over you at
night. Big trees-enormous centipedes,
every leg sting, singing while they
crawl over yOu-50 legs-make 5000
stings while they crawl over your leg.
Enormous crops of grain-when they
get 'em-once in two or three years.
Wind in San Francisco? Blows a gale
in San Francisco every summer day
from in the morning until 4 in the af-
ternoOn. Sand and desert? No. Grit,
gravel and pebblestones; and as for
feet deep over the pavements and COW
ers lamp posts. Yo Semitic? Grand,
sublime, and half a dollar toll every
forty rods. RattlesnakesP Long ones
in the mountains, short ones on the
plains-short and thick-look like Bo
logny sausages, and lying by dozens
about the puddles. Country parched
and dry as brickbat in summer-no
soil-no grass and hot! Cook an egg
out of doors anywhere.
Cool in San Francisco? Yes; too
cool half the time for comfort fog
every day, morning and night-fog
thick, damp, nasty and clammy. Scor-
pions in the country-sting with their
tails-feels like yard of red-hot knit
ting-needle run through you-they get
into your boots at night, and start you
out of them on the double-quick in the
morning. Yes, delightful country; so
much that is new to see, feel, and think
about all the Especially feel.
There's the yellow-jacket, a cross be-
tween the wasp and the humble bee
settles on the table while:you're eating
bores holes in the beefsteak, and carries
off half an ounce at load, and stings
like fury if interrupted. Stocks-min-
ing stocks? Yes, people are frequently
bitten by them awfully-half the cases
are fatal. Such variety of the works
of nature in ICalifornia. Mosquitoes? !?
Yes, going by river to Stockton or Sac
ramento, clouds on clouds of them.
Verdure in the country? Yes. Poison
oak-touch it and your head swells to
the size of a peck measure, with pimples
and the itch. Great country for putting
head on you, you know.
Old Californian Old miner and '49er?
Grand, noble, generous, large-hearted
Western man? Yes. Always drinks
when asked-lives much of the time in
saloons-trousers ten years old, tied
about the waist with rope-yarn-hat no
rim, not much crown-came round the
Horn Ia '49, hasn't washed himself
since-lives in cabin hard by, nine by
eighteen, on salt pork and fiour-gray
shirt, never washed-can talk of moth
ing but the "ounce day he made in
the winter of '50''-splendid type of
manhood, and smells like distillery.
Wonderful country garden of the earth
every body calling out for Eastern cap
ital to come and develop our mines.
Dust on road? Yes, much fine dust, red,
like pulverized brickbats. Land of gold,
and every body ready to take your
greenbacks. Live there? Yes-when
1 can't live anywhere else-good place
to send men when they die, to punish
them for their sins.-SGH Lake Herald.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
The Nez Perce the White Mans
Friend.

The Nez Peree comes into history as
the white mans friend. In September,
1905, the Governmental exploring expe-
dition of Capt. William Clarke, of the
First Infantry, and Capt. Meriwether
Lewis, private secretary of President
Jefferson, crossing the Rocky Noun
tains, found the various bands of Nez
Perces occupying the plain west of the
Bitter Root Mountains, and the Valleys
of the Salmon, Snake, and Clearwater
Rivers, where they had been from their
earliest tradition, and where they all
continued until this year of grace 1877.
The history of the expedition tells us
that when the explorers, descending
the last of the Rocky Mountains,'' reach
ing beautiful open plain, they. came
upon an Indian village, sall of whose
inhabitants gathered round to view,
with mixture of fear and pleasure,
these wonderful strangers. Immedi-
ately they brought &C sumptusus treat F;
we returned the kindness of the people by
few small presents - Two miles distant
was another village, and here also the
party was 'sgreeted with great kind
ness. The two villages continues the
account, &c consist of about thirty double
huts, and the inhabitants call themselves
Chopunnish, or Pierced Nose" Among
these hospitable people the. Govern
ment's party spent upward of twenty
days, leaving them then to push on to
the Pacific. So much had they been
impressed with the honesty of their new
found friends, that they left their horses
with them, to be called for the follow
ing spring. The spring of 1906 came
around, and with it, in April, the ex-
plorers returned. Toward the ocean
they had had hard experience with the
Indians; but now, among the VOLTA
wollahs, neighbors of the Nez Perces,
they found welcome peculiarly ac-
ceptable after the cold, inhospitable
treatment lately received" Passing on
to the Chopunnish villages, one of
the first Indians they met
gave Clarke a every elegant mare,
for which all he requested was phial of
0y6-WdI6f; dHOGl0r lnQldQ DrOu0nG
two canisters of powder, buried by the
party in the autumn, which his dog had
uncovered-'' he had kept them safely,
and had honesty enough to return
them" and then followed the recovery
of the buried saddles and the horses left
in Chopunnish charge. When they
asked fat horse for lean one, desir-
ing to eat the former-for the Chopun-
nish lived almost wholly on roots-''the
hospitality of the Chief was offended at
the idea of an exchange; we might have
as many horses as we wanted. Accord
ingly they soon gave us two fat young
horses without asking any thing in re-
turn-an act of liberal hospitality much
greater than any we have witnessed
since crossing the Rocky Mou ntains. -
Other presents of horses are recorded,
both for food and riding. g Finding
that these people are so kind and liber-
al, we ordered our men to treat them
with great respect. ."-GaIary for De-
ce11beT
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

McGill shot and killed young woman, his
paramour, named Mary Kelly.
At Norfolk, Va, on the I'D, Benjamin
Godfrey, aged 10, shot and instantly killed
Miss Mollie E. Winingder, aged II. God
frey then shot himself and will probably
die. jealousy.
The bodies of Antonio Nicrasi and
Miss Aurelia Sharp were found in the GEM
etery at Montgomery, Ala, on the morning
of the I'd, each with pistol-ball hole in the
head. A note from Nicrasi indicates they
were willing to die for each other. 1t is
supposed Nicrasi shot her and then killed
himself
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
Preservation of Timber.

For some 40 years the method of pre-
serving wood by filling its pores with
creosote oil has been known and used in
Europe, and its perfect reliability is no
longer there a matter of experiment.
Railway ties laid in 1910 are still in use
in England, and piers and other marine
works constructed in 1850 from creo-
soted timber are perfectly sound to-day
in localities where, had they been built
in timber in its natural state, they would
have been totally eaten away by the
teredo within four years. In the United
States but very little comparatively has
been done in this matter, partly be-
cause suitable works for creosoting lum-
Der have not been in existence. Mr.. Ira
Hayford for the past 10 or II years has
devoted his time and energies to this
subject practically. In 1872 and 1873
he was engaged at the Charlestown
Navy Yard by the Government in creo-
soting the timbers of the Vandalia;" :"
and white oak timbers two feet square
and 60 feet long were impregnated to
the heart with the oil. Mr.. Hayford's
creosote SYSTEM is based on the fact that
the sap and water must first be with
drawn from the wood, and then the
preservative oil forced into its empty
pores. The effect of the heat used in
the process is to cook the albumen of
the wood, and destroy its liability to
putrefaction. This process alone would
add greatly to the length of life of tim
ber.-AnsSricdn architect and Builder
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

PAUL V. CARTIER, a well known
New York dancing-master, who distin-
guished himself some time since by
waltzing six hours without rest, has
since added to his laurels by continuing
the same performance seven hours. He
used relays of partners, and rested him.
self by occasionally dancing with gen
tleman and taking the lady's part. His
only stimulant was beef-tea, and when
he finished his performance he was,
seemingly, almost as fresh as when he
began.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
The Difference.

A luckless wight from dungeon CRATE
Peerel forth. His glance all hope had fed
He sighed and cursed his wretched fate.
Said he, 81 stole a loaf of bread.''
A wealthy man went riding by,
With coachman, footman and postillion-
A merry twinkle in his eye.
"Aha," quoth he, " stole a million"
George L. Cdtlin, in Nel0 York Heekty.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

THE amount of the fund for the relief
of the widows bereft by the Custer
fight has been rendered. 1t shows a to-
tai receipt of S14,O68, of which STAG
was distributed to the widows of officers,
and ,772 to those of enlisted men.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

A PETRIFIED human foot has been
found in Des Moines coal mine, 16
feet below the surface, and embedded in
soft slate. Its length is 104 <inchees !;
width in the widest part 81 inches, and
its weight II pounds and ounces. The
veins are distinctly marked, clearly in
dicating that the petrifaction is genu-
inc human foot,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

Potato SoUP.-Take of potatoes
pared and sliced thin l quart, 2 quarts
water; boil until done, then add l egg
well beaten and pint of milk or cream;
pepper and salt to taste. If not thick
enough, add little flour thickening
If you have no milk or cream, use a gen
erous lump of butter,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

ACCORDING to a Washington dis
patch, both official and unofficial ad-
vices frOm Mexico show that President
Diaz is desirous of not only treating the
United States with respect, but preserv-
ing the peace, and with this view only
has recently ordered large force to the
Texan and Mexican border The War
Department denies the report that Gen.
Ord has applied for an additional force
to be used in an anticipated collision
with. the Mexican troops.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

THE political situation in France, ac-
eerding to dispatches of the 9th, was
approaching crisis. The newspapers
discussed the question whether the army
would support. MacMahon or the Re-
publie-in case of a conflict. Manuscript
placards, insulting or threatening Presi-
dentMacMahon, were posted through
out Paris. Hundreds of persons were
arrested for drunkenness, raising Sc
ditious cries, and insulting or resisting
the police
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue., in his annual report, gives the fol-
lowing figures. Collections for the past
fiscal year were, s11s,S7o, ,997, and for
the months of July, August, September
and October, present fiscal year, $685.
772,833, grand total of s157,643, $3.50
collected since the beginning of the last
fiscal year. Amount of tax collected
from capital and deposits of banks for
year ending May 81, 1877, S3,755, ,299 !;
value of stamps imprinted on checks,
S1,277,776; amount of adhesive stamps
sold for checks, $611, ,556; amount of tax
collected from matches, $2,9S2, ,275.
The Commissioner recommends that the
tax on matches be removed, and also
the 2-cent impost on bank checks,
in case the Government can dispense
with the revenue collected therefrom.
The Commissioner recommends that the
rate of taxation on spirits and tobacco
be not changed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
CURRENT TOPICS,

THE International Fishery Commits
sion has awarded s., 100000 as the dam
ages due Great Britain on account of
the exercise by the United States of the
fishing privileges in Canadian waters
under the Washington treaty. Mr.. De-
forse, the neutral member of the Com
mission, Joined with the british repre-
sentative, Sir A. T. Gait, in making the
award the American Commissioner,
Judge Kellogg, dissented.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

THE New Orleans Cotton Exchange
is taking steps to send Gen. John B.
Gordon, United States Senator from
Georgia, to Europe, when the regular
session of Congress closes next
spring, as an ambassador of the
material interests of the New
South, to invite the attention of the Old
World to the fact that these fertile
States are now finally pacifed and re-
organized upon free-labor basis, and
are consequently anxious to receive and
to foster European capital and labor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

THE wife of Wisconsin Sheriff, who
kept at bay party of prisoners who at
tempted to escape, has been presented
with a silver-mounted revolver.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

A GALVESTON dispatch of the I'd says
that up to that date. nothing has been
heard from. Lieut.. Bulls and Colonel
Young, who some time previously cross
ed the Rio Grande with detachment
of United States troops in pursuit of
thieving Lipans and Mexicans. 1t was
believed that they had either
been killed or captured. A
fight between the adherents
of Lerdo, under Gen. Amador, and the
Government proper under Gen. Fal5
con, had taken place about 25 miles
from Matamoras, in. which the insur-
gents were routed and many killed.
The result is said to have been part of
an elaboratelys planned revolution by
Escobedo, which was to be developed
simultaneously along the entire border,
but was frustrated by the energy of the
Government commanders.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

BEAUTIFUL Circassian girls can now
be bought in Constantinople for 5000
each.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

The public debt statement issued De-
cember 1 shows a decrease in the debt
since lastmonth' report of 81, 1928, ,634.
The total debt Qess S152, ,5OS, ,S46 cash
in Treasury is S2,O46, ,O21, ,O65. The
amount of coin bonds is 81, ,721, ,034, ,45O;
legal tenders, 1851 ,4O3, $3.50.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08

The National Grange, at its recent
session at Cincinnati, adopted resolu-
tions in favor Of the reconciliation of
silver and the repealof the Resumption
act. The vote on the silver proposition
stood "a to 8; that on anti-resumption,
80 to Ii.