American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-15
HERE AND THERE.

=, A BACK pension was recently Obtainet
y for lady in Louisville, through P. II
Fitzgerald's Claim Agency at Indianap
1 oils, Ind, amounting to $2533.
/, A YOUNG lady, Miss Lille Cunning
s, three little children from a burnin,
house at Columbus, Ind, last week.
EDITORS amount to something il
Germany. For instance, the editor o
the General Post-of1ice journal is called
Reichsoberamtszeitungschreiber
A WOMAN lacking only few days O
being a hundred years old recently ap
piled to the authorities of an English
town for relief, remarking thai she
6 didn't feel able to support herself %
Two maiden sisters, who have for sc
years lived and slept together in the Ole
Ladies' Home in Portsmouth, n. H,
died there last week within four days OF
each other, and were buried together
STANLEY's African expedition cost
the New York Herald and London Teze-
graph about 100000. That is noble
private contribution to geographical
science.
IMMENSE stores of wild honey were
recently found in the fssures of the
rocks in the mountain region in Cali
fornia by the workmen engaged in blast
ing a roadway for the Southern Pacific
Railway.
The Chief of the Cherokees, in his re-
! cont ch a1a ~
Nation is civilized one. The public
debt is S12, ,316.83, and the treasury con-
tains but $500.
NEWPORT, r. l., boasts a rarity in
the person of a man who recently went
to his employer and asked him to dock
his wages 80 per cent, as he thought he
was receiving more than he earned.
The s'Little Sisters of the Poor'' have
representatives in all parts of the world
In Paris they have five large houses
where they care for poor people 60
years of age and upward. The order
commenced at Saint Servan in 1910.
DETRoITITEs are justly indignant con-
corning 50-pound package of dynam-
W. W 'AAAOAA " eSS AOSOAAOAJ oAoOONC CAOu III dill
express office of that city. Its true
character had been unknown, and it
had been tossed about like other pack
ages, with every risk of explosion.
A YOUNG man at a rifle match in Port
land, Oregon, when his turn came at
the target, shot a bystander through the
heart. The killing may have been acci-
dental, but the two men were bitter en-
emies, and there is doubt on the subject
THE department for registering let
ters in the Post-office does large bust
ness. During the past year nearly four
and one half million letters were regis
tered. Only an average of one in 5000
was lost, and of those a large proper
ton were finally recovered.
A CHARLESTON Is. CO. paper speaks
of a sale of farm lands in that vicinity,
only two miles from the Northeast Rail-
road and Webdin River, and of excel
lent soil. Six hundred and twenty-eight
acres were sold for S2O5, 800 acres for
1920, 100 acres for $38, all half cash,
and the rest in one year.
WILLIAM SWAINCoTT, of Montgom-
cry County, New York, recently served
on Coroner's jury at the inquest over
the body of a man who was so severely
burned in a lime-kiln that it could not |
be recognized. Mr.. Swaincott has since
learned that the body was that of his
father.
NOTHING like being able to raise
your own frogs. A citizen of Newbury-
port, Mass, is fattening 500 frogs upon
which he expects to feast He
keeps them in barrel and feeds them
with Indian meal and takes as much
pride in them as if they were a coop of
prize chickens.
WITHIN a radius of two miles of Old
town Village, Me-, there are now living,
the most of them in fair health, 1S men
and women of the following ages, to-
wit: SO, 80, 80, 80, 81, 80, 1O1, 80, Sc,
so, 80, 81, 81, so, 80, SO, S5 and 8O
Their united ages is 1854 years, max
ing an average of S54. OF the above
many of them are about their work as
usual; one of them, Deacon John Rig
by, is at Milo, doing job of stone work
for that town.
Mrs. REBECCA GUIsHARD, who died
in Baltimore few days ago, at the age
Of SO, was one of the actors at the Rich
mond Theater on the fatal night of its
burning in 1911. When the fire broke
out she managed to reach theupper gal
ery, where her father, sister and child
we're seated, only to see them sink amid
lhe ruins. She then jumped from the
window and reached the ground unhurt
OV falling upon the dense mass of peo-
pie outside.
A YOUNG lady in New Bedford, Mass,
vas invited to dine with a neighbor
lew days since, and in eating biscuit
bit on a hard substance which she sup
posed to be nail, so often found in
1our; but on examination it proved to
De gold ring. The bread was a por-
ion of some which she had sent to her
leighbor the day before to try the quail
ty of the flour, and the ring was one
he lost from her finger while mixing
he dough, and which she had missed
hat morning, but could not account for
is whereabouts
JIMMY TODD, one of Lees favorite
couts in the West Virginia campaign,
vas killed last week in a dispute with
lunter on the mountain near Staunton, '