American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
HERE AND THERE.
GEN. LONGsTREET will make Georgi'

GEN. LONG5TREET Will make Georgia
itis perff,anent home.
WOMEN are doing work in the de-
partments of Washington for $500, while
mon for precisely the same work receive
81, 200, 81 400, and 81 900.
THE most expensive railroad car in
the world, costing $4,000, was COM
pleted last autumn by the Pullman Com
! pany, and has since been used in various
parts of the country by tourists able to
/ pay for its luxuries. It is Il French flat
| in miniature.
AN official of the Boston Board of
Health, who has been called to examine
nearly 200 houses in that city in which
! diphtheria occurred, reports that in ev-
cry instance he has discovered a de-
rangement of the waste pipes either
above or below the surface before they
entered the sewers.
THE Chinese in Carson, New, had a
ball. Zip Yong was the belle. At
midnight two Chinamen entered the
hall, seized her and carried her off. All
Song started to rescue her, and was in
stantly killed by & pistol shot The
belle has not been found.
A YOUNG man of Eugene, Yermillion
County, Ind, about two years ago found
a p0chet-book containing 1925. Some
time after he found $50 belonging to a
Bible agent. He said nothing about the
matter until short time ago, when,
I-;x TO Ivy he
crazy, and he has been sent to an insane
asylum.
JEAN THEOPHILE LANDREAC, a
Frenchman now resident in New York
spent II years in discovering valuable
and unknown guano deposits for the
Peruvian Government. That Govern
ment never recompensed him, and he
has now petitioned the Congress of the
United States to aid him in collecting
the sum of 100000 900 from Peru.
VICTOR EMANUEL, who did more than
any potentate in Europe to encourage
their breed, was possessed of 1880
horses at the time of his death. OF
these, the present King of Italy will sell
a large number, as economy will be the
order of the day with him, owing to his
desire to pay his fathers debts, if posi-
BILE, without applying to the country. .
The ancient and historical Melcher
house in Portsmouth, supposed to be
over $50 years old, and in which Daniel
Fowle established the first printing
Office in New Hampshire, is to be taken
down, having been sold under the auc-
tioneer's hammer. The first issue of
the Ne70 Hampshire Gazette was struck
off in this building on October Z, 1856.
The late Mrs. Pitman, speaking of
cremation, ,onee said; "And what is the
difference whether the body shall be
burned up by slow process of chemi-
cal combustion, going on through
number of years, or be consumed by
artificial heat in a few minutes? In the
end it comes to the same thing-a little
dust in the coffin or little dust in the
crematory.'
The Virginia City (Nevada) Chief of
Police has been arrested, charged with
having liberated Chinaman in his Gus
tody on the charge of murder and put a
paid Chinese substitute in the place of
the prisoner The substitute was dis
covered by relative of the man muir
dered by the prisoner, the latter having
been fully identified by the same man
at the time of the arrest.
BEAR hunting loses its charm when
the bear becomes the hunter, as an Ul-
ster County IN. Y } man found the 9TH
er day He met the animal on the edge |
of declivity 300 feet high, and, when
two bullets had failed to kill bruin, they
and after a short struggle
rolled over the edge. When the sports
man was found he was sitting with his
back against tree, covered with blood |
and his clothes in tatters, while his ene-
my lay dead near by.
THE long litigation in the United |
States Supreme Court involving the ex-
istence of the canal which opens Duluth
Harbor to Lake Superior-and by con-
sequence involving the existence of Du-
luth itself-has at length come to an
end. The decision is in favor of Du-
luth, and of course the canal will re-
main open. Superior City, on the Wis
consin side of the Sc. Louis River, suffers
by this order, which re-establishes the
supremity of the g Il Zenith City of the
Unsalted Sea-"
ANOTHER lucky escape from burial
alive has occurred in Paris in the case
of lawyer named Lelone. His son,
summoned TO his deathbed, found him,
as it was supposed, dead, kissed his
brow, and was surprised at its warmth.
Some hours later he revived and said
'' All, Doctor, those few moments sleep
have done me world of good" The
French laws require that interment shall
follow death within at most 36 hours,
and thus it often happens that burial
takes place previous to putrefaction. 1t
was against this limited time imposed
by the burial bill that an eminent prelate
so powerfully protested in the French
Chamber, relating how he himself had
een laid out for burial. Here, too, in
ummer, burial takes place too soon.
n England at least five days intervene.
A New YORK jury has just asserted the
alidity of an informal marriage. VIM.
Hynes, of st. Louis, met lady in
london seven years ago, and having de-
NJ ided to make her his wife he publicly
Innounced the fact. They lived happi-
b, two children being the fruit of their
nion. A year ago Mr.. Hynes was