American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-01
HERE AND THERE.

plow over New England again.
! KoKoMo, Ind, has musical prodigy
. "a little girl 10 years of age. She
. reads difficult music rapidly and cor
= rectly, and plays well on the violin
She led the orchestra in the opera
house for the last performance there.
IT is stated by New York physicians
that the general prevalence of diphthe-
ria is due in a great degree to the gas
which is thrown off from coal-stoves in
rooms where there is defective ventila-
ton.
THE griddle, for baking "griddle-
eakes' alone, in the new Stuart hotel
for working-women at New York, is an
iron structure, set off by itself, and in
size feet wide by 13 feet long.
AN Indian girl, said to be Mohawk
Princess, has made her debut on the
stage in Toledo, and promises to become
a fair actress. Her brother, now a tenn
perance advocate in London, was edu-
Gated at the expense of the Prince of
Wales.
WITHIN the last IS years u falls of
meteoric stones have occurred in the
United States, of which specimens have
been collected. Eight of these falls
took place in the prairie region of the
West, extending from Ohio to Kansas,
and from Kentucky to Wisconsin, inclu-
sive.
A SINGLE firm at San Augustine, Fla,
has caught during the season about 125
green turtles, weighing $500 pounds,
which are now kept alive in a tank,
where they are daily fed and kept for
sale. They weigh from to 11O pounds
each.
A BRIGHT, educated young woman
has within six months stolen jewelry
worth S11,0 900 from Chicago families.
The method was to engage as a servant,
and by intelligence and good conduct to
win the confidence of her employers.
Having established a reputation as a
"jewel of girl,' she improved the
first chance to steal.
THE much-talked-of Yellowstone Di-
vision of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
205 miles long, seems actually to have
been started. Preparations are in prog
ress for an early spring campaign
along the whole route, and squatters are
already building shanties along the line
and laying out paper cities.
DIR. JAMES H. FULLER, of Indianapo-
lis, mourns the loss of $12, 1000 worth of
mortgages, notes and certificates, which
were in safe that was levied upon by
Sheriff j. I. Presley in the Doctors alb
sence. The safe was bought by second
hand dealer, who disposed of the con-
tents to a rag-man as waste paper, and
DR.. Fuller wants $25, 900 damages.
The city of Richmond, Va, has
doubled her population since the war.
The sales of her factories in 1876 reach
ed the sum of 1922, ,424, 300. Her wheat
and corn mills procured 80, 1857 900, her
forty-one tobacco factories $12, 2,03S, 300,
her iron works $2,032, ,78O; and the
bonds of the corporation of Richmond
are par.
If an asteroid had landed in Evans
vile, Ind, the other day it wouldn't
have produced any more of a sensation
than did the return of Malachi Powell,
who disappeared 18 years ago, and
whose estate had been meanwhile divid-
ed up among his relatives. Malachi is
ugly, too, and says he wants not only
the property, but all the back rents as
well.
THE present immunity from peril
xxrb oh ho fa Ixr-o &c TO
joy under any and all circumstances
turns out to be mistaken idea. Light
ming ripped up the residence of a man
at Tuckerauck, Mass, the other night,
and when the family had picked them
selves up, and recovered their senses,
poor pussy was found transfxed with
the thunderbolt, and here nine lives
were all gone.
SENATOR GORDON has introduced to
the Senate resolution that chime of
bells, intended for St. Michael's church
in Charleston, S. c., be admitted to this
country duty free. This chime of bells
was presented to the old colony of
South Carolina by the English Crown.
During the Revolutionary War they
were captured and sent to England,
where they have remained ever since.
Now an English merchant, whose name
is not given, proposes to send the bells
back to South Carolina.
THE foundation-stone of a new Car
thusian monastery, dedicated to st.
Hugh, was laid on Oct. 16, at Parmin-
ster, Sussex, England. The Roman
Catholic Bishop of Southwark, DIR. Da-
nell, blessed the foundation stone. The
new buildings will cover an area of nine
acres, and comprise church, chapter
room, priory, cloisters, and all the other
attributes of monastic establishment.
By the rules of the Carthusian order
each member has three rooms for his
own exclusive use, sin order the better
to establish and maintain that seclusion
which is a feature of their particular Or
der" The architects have followed the
French ecclesiastical style adopted in
the recently erected monastery at Mon
treuil.
DURING the past summer a school in
a district in the town of Ira, Cayuga
n. Y, was attended by the teacher
without a single scholar being present.
The teacher, a young lady who lives
near the school-house, was hired by the