American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-19
HERE AND THERE.

Macey, slx-year-old kentucky trotter,
for $4,000.
HEREAFTER no person can vote in
Maine unless he has paid poll-tax with
in two years of the time when he offers
his ballot.
A LITTLE girl in Syracuse, N. Y, died
in convulsions from drinking brandy
handed to her by her mother during the
night under the supposition that it was
water.
MARY L. CLoUGH, plucky girl of II,
has just closed a successful term of
teaching at East Enfield, N H., in a
school from which the big boys had
bounced" a male teacher just before.
THE following awful warning is 60
ing the rounds: ga few years ago Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague paid $4,000 per
yard for dress material. To-day her
husbands paper sells for % cents on the
dollar
A CURIOUS headstone stands in the
old burying-ground at Newport, r. l.,
which chronicles the death of a son and
daughter of William and Desire Tripp,
''also his wife's arm,'' amputated Feb.
20, 1776. A representation of the sew
cred member is cut upon the stone.
A SICILIAN brigand of some little
note and of high pedigree recently con-
sented to give himself up on
condition that he might first
be allowed to visit his mother, who
is an industrious washerwoman 1O1
years old. The request was considered
reasonable and granted.
AT Plymouth, Ind, few days ago, IAN
old man named Ferris was suspected of
stealing some wheat. He was seized, a
rope was put about his neck, and he
was drawn up. On the third applica-
ton of this persuasive argument he
made confession and restored the wheat.
In Salem, Mass, Christmas was cele-
brated by the free distribution of food
to all the needy who came to ask. The
goods, in the shape of bread, meat and
vegetables, were piled up in front of a
grocery store on Essex Street, and all
day long men and boys were busy de-
l1f0l1IIS PlCh1SOS W IlO pull
THE Scientific american illustrates a
curious pocket-book, recently invented
by Oscar .Frankman, of Nuremburg,
Germany. 1t comprises in one article
the somewhat incongruous combination
of pocket-book, cigar-case, and reyol-
yer. The owner, with one of these ar
ticles, is prepared for beggar, friend, or
foe.
Two physicians were married to each
other at Kalamazoo, Mich, last week
DR.. Justin Emerson and Miss Will
helmina Eliot, a descendant of the Eliot
noted in the annals of early New En-
gland, who graduated with honor at the
New York Medical College last spring
and from Vassar several years previ-
ously.
AT the recent silver wedding of Mr..
Crocker, bullionaire of California, his
wife presented an appearance unique
and valuable. Her gown was mass of
silver brocade and gauze; she wore
girdle, necklace, comb, earrings, and
fan chatelaine of magnificent diamonds,
and crowning this silvery glitter was
her thick shining silver white hair.
In the year 1861, 1871 per cent. of the
population of Ireland spoke Irish, name
ly, 1,1O5,536 persons. In the year 1871
this proportion had sunk to 15.1 of the
population, namely, to 817,875 persons.
Thus it appears that the use of the Irish
language is dying out at the rate of
more than 100000 persons in ten years.
fact made still more obvious by an
other table, showing that during the ten
years in question the proportion of ages
had changed still more markedly than
the numbers of speakers. The younger
generation are all learning English, and
only the parents retain the use of their
native tongue.
DIR. L. B. VOOLFOLK, of Lexington,
KY, says that the present mild winter
vindicates his well known weather the
cry that heavy cannonad1ng draws the
Arctic currents to the place of firing,
taking with them cold weather and
heavy snow falls, and giving to the 9th
er part of the world mild weather and
no snow The cold at the Crimea in
1854-5 gave to this continent an open
winter, and now the bombardment of
Plevna is bringing us the same condi-
ton of weather as then.
AT the clinic of the Nashville Medi-
ca College, recently, Prof. Cook pre-
sented boy, who, from scrofulous in
fiammation, had lost one eye; the entire
nose, including the bones, so that moth
ing remained to mark the spot where
the nose was except horrible depres-
sion. The palate of the mouth was also
destroyed, and the lips were wholly OBJ
liberated and had so grown together that
only small circular opening remained
for the mouth, which could easily be
covered with silver fve-cent piece.
Through this he breathes altogether,
eats, and talks-not, of course, distinct
ly, but sufficiently to be understood.
The Doctor proposes to restore, by a
surgical operation, the mouth and nose,
which is thought feasible.
THE Washington Star says: "Fri-
day night young lady 10 years old ar
rived at Police Headquarters from
Trenton, N. j., from which place she
had walked all the way to Washington
City, on her way to Columbia, S. c.,
where she has an uncle residing, who
she hopes will help her. She states
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