American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-11-17
HERE AND THERE.

dunned by man who had very sick
wife, said: ''Oh, let the account stand.
You'll be wanting something in my line
pretty soon, if you have good luck"
The Rev. Hugh C. Walsche, pastor
of the Congregational Church in Fair
view, Cal, has gone to Australia for a
vacation. He robbed the safe of pa
rishioner of 5000 before starting.
THE Massachusetts Medical Society
is under the necessity of deciding wheth-
er it will permit women to practise as
physicians. A woman who has applied
for membership is medical graduate
of Michigan University, and has been
appointed physician to the women's
prison in South birmingham.
THERE is machinist in Carson, New,
who has been constantly employed for
20 years in making models of contriv-
ances to produce perpetual motion"
He processes to believe that he can
make a successful machine, and has
been shrewd enough to interest capital
lists in various parts of the country, so
that he has accumulated a moderate for
tune.
MUKHTAR PAsHA complains of the
violent storms at the seat of war, which
have often delayed military operations.
They are announced, several hours in
advance, by violent wind, which tears
trees up by the roots; then hail falls for
an hour or two with fury, the stones be-
ing sometimes the size of a hens egg.
This is succeeded by torrents of rain.
Water penetrates every thing through
the camps, and the discomfort to the
soldiers is intense.
THE death of Aleck Gay, near Aus
tin, New, illustrates the danger attend
ing amateur highway robbery. The
skilled operators in that region always
command their victims to hold up their
arms, and compel them to remain in
that position until their pockets have
been rifed. Gay said to Mr.. Hummill,
whom he undertook to rob, &c Hand over
your money" Hummill put his hand
in his pocket, as if to obey, but drew
out a revolver instead, and killed the
bungling robber on the spot.
A SINGULAR rumor has gained cur
rency in Limerick, Ireland, to the effect
that the late Viscount FitzGibbon,
gallant cavalry officer who was sup
posed to have fallen in the celebrated
charge of the Six Hundred at Balakla-
va, did not meet that fate, but is at this
moment on his way home to claim his
Il =, oef
seen he was leaning, apparently wound
ed, on his horse; that he was taken
prisoner by the Russians, and shortly
after, for some insult alleged to have
been given to a Russian officer, was
transported to Siberia, whence, his term
of exile having expired, he is returning
to Ireland. A statue of him adOrns the
Wellesley bridge.
THE Charlotte On. c. Observer says
1t was thought worthy of note when,
about two years ago, the wife of Thomas
j. Suggs, formerly of this city, but now
of CASTOR County, gave birth to three
children at one time; but last week she
went herself one better, giving birth to
four. None got away, and the whole
quartet are now living and doing well.
Further than this, the triplets, Mrs.
Suggs's former achievement, are all
living, and here we have the case of
seven children from one mother, and
none more than 2 years of age. 1t is
the most remarkable case of the kind we
have ever heard of, and we doubt if it
has ever had its parallel in the United
States.
A SYNAGOGUE has been erected in Bo-
logna, in Italy, and Jewish journals
make the fact the occasion of recalling
the sad fortunes of the Hebrew race in
that city. For two centuries no Israel
ite was permitted to live there. In 1898
they were expelled, 5000 in number,
and carried away the bones of their an
cestors to bury them in Piave di Cento.
Prior to that the city had at one time
possessed 16 synagogues, all of which
were destroyed. After the succession
of Plus TX. few Jews returned to Bo-
logna and settled there; but not until
the city passed beneath the rule of Vic
LOI ELuduNo1 Was JIG OlOCCIOu VI tbAOGAOA
synagogue permitted Within recent
years the Mortara kidnapping case made
Bologna notorious throughout the
world.
A DISTRICT of 100 miles square in
Ohio, including the counties CT Athens,
Perry, and Hooking, is the future coal
field of this nation. 1t is to be the
'' black country" of the United States,
as the noted district in Staffordshire is
the &c black country - of Great Britain.
This district has % feet of solid coal in
five seams. The great vein is in places
II feet thick, nowhere less than six feet.
Mingled among the coal beds are mex
haustible beds of iron. The thickest is
five feet deep at the outcrep; the thin
nest, in places, sinks to six inches.
There is no regularity in the thickness
of either seam. The coal, on the con-.
trary, may be said to run from hill to
hill with perfect uniformity. Limestone
is also present in enormous quantities.
IN many of the Pacific seaport towns
of South America an extra postage of
from ten to twenty-five cents is demand
ed for allowing letters to remain until
called for. Besides this, there is no Sc
curity for letters sent to private individ-
uals in the interior This is the case
with nearly all the South American
countries, excepting Chill, where letters
from the United States seem to have
IA 1-aor1rIoY.lvr Tho