American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-16
HERE AND THERE.

The Papal palace of Castel Gandolfo
the summer residence of the Popes, ,nea
Albano, village 10 miles outside o
Rome, is to be restored for the recep
ton of the new Pope. '-
A Mr.. ROBERT, of Dougherty, Ga.
lit his pipe in his carriage the other day
and shortly after found the vehicle on
fire. The whole concern was burned
except the man, the iron, and the run,
ming gear.
FOUR well known bon yivants of Bos.
ton had dinner at Young's the other
night that cost $3.50 There were IL
courses and six kinds of wine, and it
took the chef two days to prepare the
banquet .-, - 81 ..,.,--,.,t,
A BIoGRAPHER says of the late Pope
that he was great billiard-player. He
had French table (without pockets) at
the Vatican, and, when his health al
lowed it, used to play two or three
games every evening before going to
bed. tf u =. e-. An
For guileless innocence the following
advertisement clipped from the Paris
Figaro ought to take the palm: GA
young married couple desire to know a
lady or gentleman without heirs who
would give fortune to some young
married couple'' 'ftraia.a. 5IfE
Two Augusta (Ga.) boys, aged IA
and 12, stole nearly S1,S0J from their
uncle few days ago, and each provid-
inO hiuca1f WIFI q ,.o,-oI,,o - -,
Of whisky, started out to seek their for
tunes. They were soon caught, how
ever, and all but about 500 recovered.
THEY have the plague of wild geese
IN some of the California wheat-produc-
ing counties 1t cost one Colusa rancher
this year $4,000 to keep the geese off his
grain, and it costs the county in the ag-
gregate more to fight the geese than it
does to run the county Government.
THE body of Mrs. Nicholas Weiss,
who died and was. buried near Fort
Wayne, Ind, 10 years ago, was recently
disinterred and found to be petriaed, the
features being natural as in life. Her
weight in the flesh .wass2e0 pounds, but
the petrified corpse turned the scales at
l 200. .wFEFFf.s
THE spire of St. Bernard's Church, at
Cohoes, N. w., is to be surmounted by |
a cross nine feet in length and five feet
in width. 1t will be composed of 1900 |
glass prisms, and in its interior are to
be numerous gas-jets, which will be
lighted by the agency of an electric bat
terry. --
A CHEERFUL real estate sale was reg
stered in New York day or two since.
Some gentlemen bought frst-rate
all in good running order.
There is no style of tenement that has
less troublesome tenants. than a good
and SO probably these gen
lemen have entered on a safe specula-
ion. ~ a-as ~ s.- 1
THE Mormon colonists from Utah are
Utilizing the channels of the old Aztec
canals they find along the borders of the
7alleys of Arizona, where they have set
led One writes that he is satisfied the
canals found in one small district will,
~ being repaired, supply an abundance
# water for the irrigation of farms ca
'able of sustaining 100000 persons.
BENCGHRyIN, an engineer ON the
fond du Lac narrow gauge, is one of
he Oldest railway engineers in the coun-
ry. He ran &he first train.into Mont
'elier, VT, in 1843.. In 1859 he hauled
he first train out of Oshkosh into Chi
ago. He boarded his first train in the
ireen Mountain State, and in this con
ii1iif1i36 $1,000 haS never killed q man.