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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
A Tussle With a Bear.

The Tacoma CIV. To Herald says:
On last Morday, the 18th inst, several
young men were out hunting on horse
back, and when near VIM. Nelson's
farm they suddenly came upon two
large bears. They fired upon them and
succeeded in killing one, but the other
ran for the timber and passed out of
sight, notwithstanding that one
the boys, Johnny Northover, put four
charges of buckshot into him at short
range. AS the bear seemed likely to
escape, Adam Benson said he would
ride around the thicket, which was a
short distance, and head him off. He
accordingly started off alone, and
reached the other side of the wood be-
fore the bear. He dismounted and tied
his horse to tree, and had waited but
a few moments when the Infatuated
beast broke from the timber and rushed
for him He fired two shots, but the
bear was upon him. The beast rose
upon his hind legs as Adam struck at
him with his rifle, and knocked the
weapon from his hands. Then, with a
stroke of his paw, he felled Adam to the
earth, knocking him between two logs,
and commenced to bite and claw him.
Adam held the beast from his throat by
grasping him by the shaggy hair
on each side of his head.
He is a powerful young man, but
he felt his strength beginning to fail,
and he knew that his only hope was in
the knife that he carried in his belt.
He let go of the bear with his right
hand and reached for the knife, but
found it was gone. Thrusting the emp
ty sheath into the bears mouth, he gave
himself up for lost. The bear was
mangling the muscle of his arm in a
terrible manner and would soon have
killed him, had not Jack Barnes's dog
Rover come upon them. The dog at
tackled the bear fiercely and compelled
him to leave Adam, who managed to
crawl upon his horse and rode back to
the rest of the party who had stop
ped to skin the other bear. When he
reached them he was too weak to tell
them what had happened. His friends
carried him home, and on the way he
managed to tell them that he was not
anxious to box with bear soon again.
The hunters went to look for the bear,
but found that he had escaped. As
Benson's injuries are all flesh wounds it
is thought he WIN soon recover, but he
may lose the use of one arm.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
A Singular Accident.

Last week two bark peelers in the
woods near Morsston, Sullivan County,
N. Y, to test their skill as choppers,
exchanged axes, and appointed a third
man referee. Each was to chop on OPP
posite sides of tree, and the one that
brought the heart of the tree to view
first was to be the winner The chips
flew under the vigorous blows. Sud-
denly the ak of one of the choppers
flew from its helve and struck the other
chopper, one Worden, in the back be-
meath the shoulder blade, and then hit
the referee in the neck under the chin.
Both men were knocked down. Wor-
denis wound is serious, the ak blade
cutting its full width, reaching his lung
and slightly woundingit. The referees
injuries were not so serious, as the back
of the AK struck his neck, tearing away
the skin across his throat.-ELlenutle
N. Y. Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT.
The Love-story of Major Lewis Cass ant
Miss Emily v. Mason.

The Love-story of Major Lewis Cass and
Miss Emily v. Mason.
From the Detroit Evening Newsl
The interment in the family lot in
Elmwood Cemetery, yesterday after
noon, of the remains of Major Lewis
Cass, whose death in Paris was chron-
icled in the EUenfng Nea0s some weeks
since, was conducted very privately I'M
der the superintendency of Miss Emily
v. Mason, in accordance with the de-
sire in the last will and testament of the
deceased. Only few intimate friends
were present, and the miserable wealth
er aided the design of conducting the
obsequies as unobtrusive1y as possible
Major Lewis Cass sleeps with his fa-
ther, in the fullest sense of the term,
and the earth that closes over him COW
ers the only male offspring of the great
statesman whose name will be indisso-
lubly linked with the history of Michi-
gan as Territory and a State. There
is quite a romance connected with the
burial of Major Cass. Many years ago,
far enough back in the records of a
young country to be in the misty period
of time, when the Cass family stood at
the zenith of social exaltation, Emily
v. Mason was reputed TO be the most
beautiful woman in the Northwest. Her
beauty was of rich and stately type,
and she was as nobly endowed in graces
of mind as of person. Her family was
patrician and all her associations were
of the most elevated character. In
1882, when her father was Secretary of
the Territory of Michigan, she enjoyed
political as well as a social distinc-
ton, and later, when Michigan was
erected into State, her brother, Stevens
T.Mason, becameits first Governor and
the youngest who has ever held the po-
sition of Executive-she presided over
his household, and dispensed a liberal
and graceful hospitality. The Guber-
material mansion on Fort Street was the
center of the culture and fashion of the
Northwest, and Miss Mason was at the
head of the society of the Wolverine me-
tropolis. Very few of the old families
of that day now remain, few, indeed,
whose members can tell of the loves
and the hates, the aspirations and the
triumphs of the time, but those who can
recall with eagerness the brilliancy of
the days when the Masons, the Cases,
the Morells, the Chesters, the Aliens,
the Abbotts, the Towards, the Hollands,
the Kirchivilles, the Campbells, the
Iegers, and the Atterburys formed the
social and political powers in the land.
Governor Mason was a man of genius,
coupled with ecceatricity, fond of the
good things of life, and not given to
stinting himself of its pleasures. He
was so absent-minded that his vagaries
were occasionally themes of general
wonderment. His death was sudden.
He complained of being unwell one
evening, and DIR. Mott was called in.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
The Farmers Life Not All Con
te4tment.

The farmer, if he possesses any emo
tional nature, is mad about half the
time at his neighbours COW or pig, and
is vexed half the time at the weather.
The preacher who comes home from an
empty church, and the lawyer who
comes home with an adverse decision in
pocket, do not cast themselves on the
lounge with deeper disgust than fills
the farmers soul when the fortieth day
of rain sets in and his hired man comes
back to the barn from the muddy field.
The average farmer will be awake at
night to see if that cloud will not. pity
his parched field, or will not spare his
half drowned wheat. The Sunday
school books were WON'T to tell US chill
dren about farmers who were killed by
lightning because they said bad words
about rains in harvest. In a tract, from
which sucked in some theology when
babe, there was a picture of steak of
lightning running down the pitchfork
of an infidel who had in anger pointed
his hay-irons towards the clouds
that were weeping on his we'll
cured timothy. To what informa-
ton this tract afforded, additional
knowledge has been added in subse-
quent years SO that 1 now hazard the
opinion that the average farmer, is mad
at the weather about half the time, and
that the other portion of his time is
robbed of serenity by the strange con
duct of the man and the animals that
occupy the adjacent farm. Neither
preaching, nor law, nor medicine, nor
literary pursuits are so at the mercy of
the weather as are the hopes of him who
tills the soil. And to the torments of
mind which the weather brings, throw
in some mental pangs caused by late
frosts and fly, and rust, and wind, and
cheat, and much of the roseate hues
which tip the shingles of the country
home fade.
What we all want is honorable work
and good food and fresh air, and some
learning, and some fun, and some
friends, and some sort of an honorable
name, and then, beyond those ideas, it
does not matter in the least whether we
hold in our hand a plow-crook, or an
engine-lever, or a goosequill. -Prot.
Suing, in the Alliance. -,--...-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

RAISED MUFFINs.-1 quart of milk,
eggs, ! small teacup of yeast, butter
size of an egg, flour to make thin bat
ter; in the morning add teaspoon of
soda if the dough is turned. This rule
makes 3 dozen mullins.
BOILED BROWN BREAD cups of
meal, cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt,
1 spoon of soda, Z cup of molasses !;
put it into CREASED pudding boiler or
tin pail; plunge in boiling water and
boil hours.
OMELET.-6 eggs, beaten separately,
IL cupfuls sweet milk, little salt, ia
blespoonful of flour. Pour into a heat
ed buttered pan, set on top of stove till
it boils, stirring constantly, then put in
hot oven to brown.
GINGER-sNAPs.-Tak pint of mo-
lasses, teacup of butter, spoonful OF
ginger, and l teaspoonful or saleratus,
and boil all the ingredients thoroughly +;
when nearly cold add as much flour as
can be rolled into the mixture.
To REMOVE STAINS WITH BUCK
wHEAT.-Mix buckwheat with cold
water to make a paste; rub this on the
grease-spots; lay in the sun to dry
thoroughly, then brush off with dry,
hard brush. This will also remove all
stains from mattresses, etc.
SALAD DRESSING WITHOUT OIL
eggs, cupful of butter, cupful OF
cream, cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful
of cayenne pepper; put on the fire and
stir until it boils; then remove and beat
in one and half-pints of vinegar. This
will keep months, tightly corked, in a
refrigerator.
PoACHED EGGs.-HaH fill frying
pan with boiling water; throw into it q
saltspoonful of salt. Open each egg
into a cup, drop each egg carefully into
the water, which must not boil hard 3;
they will take about three minutes to
cook; then, with a pancake turner.
trim off the uneven edges of the whites
take each one up carefully, lay them on
pieces of buttered toast or on slices OF
fried ham. Another way is to half, fill
your pan with boiling water, put in as
many muffin-rings as the pan will hold
Qaying them fla) salt the water as
above, and put an egg in each, which
makes them even and round. aE
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

1t is claimed that Vanderbilt exhibited great
nerve and shrewd business sagacity in the pur-
chase of stocks and railroads controlled by
him. Yet, whenever he made an investment
he received in return an equivalent either as
his own or as collateral security. DIR. R. v.
Pierce has invested many hundred thousand
dollars in advertising, depending entirely upon
the superior merits of his goods for security.
The unparalleled popularity of his family
medicines, and the annual increase In their
sale attests, in arguments strong er than words,
of their purity aid efficiency. If the blood be
impoverished, The liver sluggish, or there be
tumors, blotches and pimples, DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will effect a speedy
and perfect cure. II the bowels be consti-
pated use DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pei
lets. Debilitated females, suffering with those
peculiar dragging down sensations and weak
nesses, will find DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton safe and certain remedy Prompt relief
and a permanent cure have SO universally fol
lowedit use, that the doctor now sells it I'M
der positive guarantee.
OAKLAND. Douglass Co.. Oregon Jan % 1877.
DIR. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y:
Dear Sn-Your Golden Medical Discovery
has cured my daughter of goitre, after many
physicians had failed. Enclosed please find
$3.50 for a copy of The Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser. With us it takes the
place of the family physician.
Yours truly, AARON ALLEN.
MT. VERNON Ohio July 10, 1876.
DR.. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y:
Dear Sir-Four bottles of your Favorite Pre-
scription has entirely cured my wife. We EN-
ploYed three different physicians and many
remedies, but found no relief. With thank
full heart, am,
Ever your friend, AUGUST WARRISG.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
An Electric Bride.


Some experiments have been made at
Brussels in breaking horses by means of
an electric bride. The apparatus, CALI
ed the Engstrom bride, after its invent
or, consists simply in a couple of reins,
along which run electric wires. At the
end of the reins small electric battery
is attached, which is entirely in the
power of the experimenter. BY press
ing ON a title knob the electric current
acts on the corners of the horses mouth
and after a few consecutive or intermit-
tent shocks the animal becomes perfect
ly docile. A very intractable mare was
broken in after one experiment with the
bride. The inventor asserts that run
away horses can Immediately be brought
to a stand-still by means of this appa-
ratuS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
How a Fifteen Years. COurtship
Ended.

The case of Rebecca 0. Williams
against John hurry Brown for $780,
damages for breach of marriage promise
has been settled, judgment for $4,000
against defendant being entered by cen
sent of both parties. This case has
been on the docket for about one year,
and by reason of the high social stand
ing of the parties, has attracted consid-
cradle attention. The plaintiff, Miss
Williams, is the eldest daughter of John
Williams, for many years Postmaster at
Somerset, and one of the substantial
citizens of Perry County. iShe is slight
ly over 80 years of age and very attract
i've in her personal appearance. She
has always held high position in Som
erset society and has been foryears con-
sidered the affianced of the defendant,
Brown.
She is highly educated and accom-
plished, possessing in an eminent de-
gree all the refinements of a lady of ex-
treme culture. During the years that
her personal charms were almost exclu-
sively absorbed by Mr.. Brown, she
could have won the favor of any young
man. Indeed, she could have married
and been worthy of the wealthiest and
best young men in the community. She
was greatly admired by them, but every
one recognized the superior attachment
she had for Mr.. Brown, and no one tried
to supplant him in her affections.
J. Murry Brown is the eldest son of
Dixon Brown, retired mercant of SOM
erset, and one of the oldest and veal
thiest citizens of Perry County. hurry
succeeded his father in the mercantile
business about 1860, and soon proved
himself to be one of the shrewdest- and
most successful business men in this
part of Ohio. He abandoned the mer-
camille business about 1879, and invest
ed his fortune in the coal fields of Perry
and Hooking Counties, where he soon
daring and successful speculations in
that region. When the panic came he
was prepared for the cash, and has
safely passed the crisis, while the other
coal kings have been swallowed up in
the vortex of bankruptcy. About one
year ago he married Miss Wilson, o
Newark, Ohio, and is at present resid-
ing in Columbus. He is about 35 years
of age, and in personal appearance is
one of the handsomest and most attract
i've men in the country. He is fault
less in dress and manners, very enter
tanning in conversation, and has always
been favorite in female society. His
attentions to the fair plaintiff began
about 10 years ago, and during all the
intervening years he has been constant
and unceasing in her courtship, and had
so earnestly sought her affections that
the world properly voted him one of
the most devoted of lovers. But the fiat
of fate decreed it otherwise, and the gay
hurry courted and married one of New
ark's handsome blondes, and the dis
carded lady sought a balm for her
wounded feelings in a court of justice.
She has just recovered judgment for
5000, which her counsel have accept
ed in satisfaction of all damages
NehO Lexington Letter to ZanesuiHe 70. J
Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
Paris EXtOrfiOUers.

A Paris 1etter-writer says: The hotel
keepers are getting nervous under the
steady fire of letters kept up in the En-
glish papers, Mr.. Vanhymbeeck, the
manager, of the Grand Hotel, has had
the imprudence to assert that the case
quoted against him, in which the price
of a room was raised from Is to 81
francs, was exceptional; adding that he
had established an equitable distinction
between travellers who spend but, one
day at the hotel, and those who become
residents for i period of several days or
weeks. Never, cries Mr.. Vanhymbeeck,
never for these last does the increase
exceed 20 or % per cent. He had bet
ter have kept quiet. A member of Par
lament has come to the front with di-
rect contradiction to Mr.. Vanhymbeeck,
and with something worse. He hired
an apartment April %, at the Hotel
Scribe, which is an annere of the Grand
Hotel, at 80 francs day for 10 days,
including, therefore, the first day of
May. On that day he received notice
from Mr.. Vanhymbeeck that the price
would be raised to As francs, in response
to which he reminded the official at the
Scribe bureau of his agreement, and
gave notice that he should adhere. to
it. Nevertheless, his bill was made
out at As francs day. He then saw
Mr.. Vanhymbeeck, TO whom the person
who had let the rooms admitted the
agreement made out at 80 fir. day
for ten days, but Mr.. Vanhymbeeck
none the less stuck to his extra so per
cent. and absolutely refused to allow his
Hguest" to leave for the railway till it
had been paid, and paid it was, must
repeat that do not know of single
hotel in all the foreign quarters of Paris
where prices have not been, raised If
they have begun to come down, of which
I see no proof, it is because of the fear
lest strangers stay away. The livery
stable keepers deserve word of notice
also. Their prices have gone up with
the rest. Last September paid 80
francs (S6) for carriage and pair for
a single days use; price which will
seem incredibly low to the New York
hackman. On the LIST of May the NOM
inal charge for the same thing, at the
same stable, was so francs in one case
and 100 francs in another. The actual
demand in the former case when the
bill was presented proved to be 20 in
stead of so francs. For that and a
coupe hired at the same time the agreed
price was 80 francs; the bill sent in (and
paid) was 1876 francs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

"MY son. you should rise with the
sum-" said the old gentleman, knocking
at the door. Governor" mumbled a
youthful voice from under the bed
clothes, Il fear. you never studied the
Copernican theory-the sun does not
rise OF otherwise move" "Well, il
don't need books to tell me that that
is true of my sonr' replied the blunt
paternal, turning away.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

A WRITER in DR.. Foote's Health
Monthly says: once knew an old gen.
tleman who used to enforce his plea for
good living by saying: II should be
ashamed to show myself in Heaven and
be obliged to confess to the good God
that while He had filed the earth with
delicious foods had been too lazy, too
stingy, or too careless to enjoy His
bounty. How can / expect to be in
vited to partake of His good things in
the life to come if neglect to make use
of those with which He has surrounded
me here
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
The Elders Vacation.

BYA T. woRDEN-
The Elders books are laid away and locked
his study door,
His manuscripts and skeletons are scattered
So the fioor,
His ink is slowly drying up and dust is over
all,
While spiders weave a web across the book
shelf on the wall. -s
He has gone to hold communion with his
God, among the hills,
And in peaceful meditation lose the thought
OF natures ills.
That With busy fingers Intervene the silver
in his hair
Or bend his shoulders downward with a heavy
load of care.
Prone he Hes on summer hill. sides, while the
gentle summer air
Lava about his naked forehead hitting up
his scanty hair;
Forgosten is the village bell, while heavy
With drowsy hum his spirits lun among the
signing trees.
Mayhap he threads northern wood along
some brawling stream,
Forgetting rod and basket for the rivers sill
yer gleam,
And catches spirit voices in the tiny water
fall
That dim his eyes with foolish tears and
buried forms recall.
dies at his feet,
To preach a gospel to his soul-so gentle and
That fairy fingers smooth the lines from out
his careworn face,
Add give the worn out pulpit back a look of
youthful grace.
Anon he loops the gaudy fly to coils of silken
line
And drops it into yonder pool, where placid
eddies shine
Just out beside the ripple's froth, with gentle
hand and sure,
Before the greedy trout he draws the mock
ing, painted lure.
plashi See the placid silver pool in sudden
tempest boil;
Taut draws the sillxen line across tho splash
ing and turmoil,
And. see. the Parsons cheek is red, his eyes
are all alight,
And trembling hands adjust the reel to min
gle in the fight.
O,royal fish, now seek the deep, or plunge
through heaps of foam;
Essay to break the singing line that draws
thee from thy home;
Break. break, the slender pole that bends be-
fore thy noble strength,
Or supple rod and silken line will wear thee
out at length.
Now moves the line in ceaseless round, no
longer huns the reel;
No eager plunge maddened break doth
line or rod now feel;
But worn and gasping on the tide his beau
teous colors CLEAN,
Expiring in the landing-net, the monarch of
the stream.
Now doth the Parson ponder deep the lesson
of the fly,
And satan's wiles cast on life's stream to
catch the youthful eye,
Of silken threads that bind the soul-plunge
madly as it may
The ceaseless round and giddy death, and
net that lands its prey. 4
But now the sinks in the west behind
49, yon grove of Dir;
The night hawk sounds his warning note, the
evening breezes stir
The dogwood blossoms near the stream, and
odors downward shake;
The Elder shoulders rod and net, his home
ward way to take.
OF worn-and weary toiiers in the dusty ways
of life,
Come out from hooks of study and forget the
useless strife;
Let sunlight lure the tardy blood along the
shrunken veins,
And balmy spruce and bosky meads drive
out the scent of gains.
Leave books to mildew on the shelf or turn
again to dust,
As those who wrote them long have done;
forget ambitions lust,
And lay the throbbing head once more Ma
lures velvet breast;
The moan of streams, and swaying trees shall
bring you truest rest
M -Utiea lN. ~ Observer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

A GEORGIA farmer smeared his hogs
with tar to rid them of fleas, and turned
them loose in the woods. At night they
did not return to the pen as usual, and
in the morning he found them stuck to-
gether, the tar making them adhere in
a mass. They might have gone home,
nevertheless, by concert of action, but
it isn't in hog to harmonic,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

AT season OF the the human system liable
70 become dsordered from the insufficient efforts Of me
liver discharge the excess Of bile. nature is not
assisted in efforts, severe bilious attacks or
Frustrating necessarily follow causing sui
fertng and death llItIe timely precautiof
ever prevent all this and be found In that Ia
vorite household remedy. SIMMONS LIVER REGU
LATOR
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22
ssTo BE or Not to BE ut is a question

TO BE or MOTTO BE. TT Is question
whether they will be cured of disease by
remedies which leave a long train of bad af-
ter-effects, or by medicine that strikes at
the cause of the malady and eradicates it,
without doing any more harm than that much
water! CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE, for the
cure of all diseases caused by malaria, is a
palpable, powerful Antiperiodic and Tonic,
and yet never produces headache, noise in
the ears, deafness, or any Of the evils conse-
quent on the use Of Quinine, Arsenic, etc.
j. G. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
For sale by all Druggists. ST. LOUIS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

PROMISES kept inspire confidence; and DR..
Bulls Basy Syrup never promised relief in the
diseases OF childhood without at once effect
ing it, Hence the popular reliance upon It
Price, % cts, bottle,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-22

In and about Lyons, France, 100000
women and girls work from IL to -
hours day for an average Of 40 cents,