American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
HERE AND THERE.

A TRACT of 10O,O acres in Calhoun
County, Ala, has been purchased b,
the Chicago Colonization and Agricul
tural Company.
Mrs. CHIEF JOSEPH is described a.
ga pretty little .black-eyed beauty, will
flashing teeth, fine arms and dainty
feet.''
Mrs. POTTER PALMER gave a recep
ton to over 400 friends at the Palmer
House, Chicago, the other evening, the
cost of which is put down at $4,000.
A WHITE widow-ef 45 in Lewis Coun.
ty, New York, with 2O-year-old son
has just married a negro aged 80, as
black as the ace of spades.
SELA NUTTER, a colored woman, liv.
ing near Nanticoke, Mass, is said to be
113 years old. She has three children
living, the youngest of whom is 20 years
of age.
THE huge granite monolith which
supports the equestrian statue of Peter
the Great at St. Petersburg, Russia, was
rolled from Finland on cannon balls.
TATTLERs in Frankfort, Ind, lied
about poor woman so fearfully that
she went crazy and left her home. Her
husband and children are frantic with
grief over her absence.
M. DU CHAILLU concluded recent
lecture with a description of how the
cannibals cooked human flesh. He said
they preferred to eat women of about 16
to "a years of age, and invariably roast
ed that delicacy, but people over 80
were generally boiled.
JOSHUA CLEAvEs, of Salem, Mass,
left property to his "cousin, Nancy H.
Rogers of Beverly" but he had two
cousins of the name. But, by tracing
back the family tree to 1858, it is found
that one of the women is degree near
er than the other, and she will probably
get the bequest.
ACCORDING to the English Meal and
Provisions TRADE ReUtea0, beef can be
bought in Belgrade at two cents per
pound, and forwarded to London, by
express train in six days or less, at
cost of one and half cents a pound.
Fat pigs can be bought at five cents per
pound, and lambs at So per score.
ACCORDING to a letter from Bellona,
N. Y, to the Rochester Democrat, men,
or at least animals that make tracks like
men, some 20 feet in height used to live
in that vicinity during the early history
Of the place. Perfectly formed foot
prints 35 inches long have been found
in large numbers.
TIE State of Iowa practically has no
debt. 1t has outstanding in war bonds
$500, 600, due in 1888, which the holders
refuse to surrender. There is also due
on the permanent school fund a little
over 100000, which was borrowed;
out the State is able to pay her debts at
any time.
THE latest performance in London,
md one which draws a salary of $500
per week, is the startling feat of Zagel,
| young girl, who dives through the air
ind lands in net 90 feet below. She
lrops head first, but gently and gracefully
in her flight until at last she
trikes on her back in the net and arises
AMONG the most important features
# the new Georgia Constitution are
trict provisions against dueling, MAX
ng lobbying a crime, and petty larceny
ause for disfranchisement, prohibiting
he State from rendering financial as
istance to railroads, abolishing the
and imprisonment for
Iebt, making the sessions of the Legis
ature biennial, and increasing the facil-
ties for free public education.
THIRTY years ago a woman in Full
onsville, n. Y, put S17 away that it
night be needed some day when old age
made it necessary for her to cease. work. !
few days ago she took the money
rom its hiding-place in the toe of an old
tocking and started out to make some
but not one cents worth
ould she get; her money was worthless.
The banks had either failed or been
wound up, and the currency was ire
leemable.
A NEW use has been found for the
Since it was introduced into
everal mines for the purpose of COM
between the men at work
below the surface and the officers of the
above ground, it has oc-
,urred to somebody connected with one
If the mines that it could be used to adj
yantage in indicating the ventilation of
he mines themselves. The circulation
If air in the mines is shown by the
which is situated below.
The miners have fallen into the way of
being carless as to the ventilation. But
lowit has been found possible, by at
aching the telephone to the thermometer
below, to indicate the flow of air in the
mine in the Office of the company above.
It is proposed shortly to try experiments
20 see whether the telephone can be
made available in divers operations.
1t is believed that the instrument may
be attached to the armor or divers, and
be made perfect means of communica-
ton between them and their assistants.
THERE are two large Mennonite set
dement's in the provice of Manitoba.
One of these is known as the Rat River
comprising tract of eight
townships, which contain an aggregate
Of about $4,000 acres. Within the
bounds of this reserve are 30 villages,
with a population of nearly 1000. The
tract lies east of the Red River, and be-
gins about % miles east of Winnipeg.
The other reservation lies west of the