American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-12-14
HERE AND THERE.

is said to be the richest young lady in
America. She inherited $4,000, 900
from her father.
THE citizens of Truckee, New, have
forced the Chinese to leave the town
and locate on the opposite side of the
Truckee River.
A PARTY of Englishmen now in Den
yer are discussing the laying out of 4
10000 acre hunting park in Northern
Colorado.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, the English
physician, now refuses to take any pa
tent who will not consent to become a
teetotaler and take the pledge.
MAJOR ATWOOD, of the United States
Army, stationed at San Antonio, was
married in St. Louis recently to the
daughter of Richard King, the " cattle
king'' of the West. The BRIDES father
presented the groom with $4,000 head
of cattle.
TWELVE Austrian officers have been
selected to reorganize the Persian army.
They have entered into an obligation to
remain three years in the Persian serv-
ice. The payment amounts to three
times the amount received at home. The
reorganization is to be analogous to that
of the Austrian army.
THE Australian engineers have con-
trived to protect the telegraph poles
from the natives by device which con-
veys an electric current to any person
who hampers with the wires. BY this
means connection is maintained for
thousands of miles without watching,
the natives being in terror of the poles.
THE clergymen of Newburgh, N. Y,
have resolved that burial services be
limited, so far as practicable, to Scrip
ture reading, singing, and praying; that
they deprecate the appointment of
funeral services for Sunday, and the
public exposure of remains, and that
before the arrangements are made as to
the time and place of the burial service,
the convenience of the officiating cler-
gyman should be consulted.
IT is curious that while wolves have
been for centuries extirpated in Eng
land, they should still flourish in France.
The Gazette de Metz says that this year
they have made their appearance near
towns earlier than usual in the winter
search The difficulty in getting rid of
them lies in the immense extent of forest
land. The wild boars, too, multiply
rapidly, and make sad havoc in potato
fields and vineyards.
"THE most monstrous things in the
world" according to Sir Robert Car
den, London magistrate, are the Ia
dies pockets. ''They are," he said,
"really an inducement to thieves" and
he added that often when he walked
about the streets and saw these curious
ly placed receptacles and the articles
placed in them, he felt tempted to
pick one to show how easy it could be
DONE"
AGLOBE purchased some four years
ago by the Trustee of school district
of Cochecton, Sullivan County, N. Y,
has ever since been a bone of conten-
ton among the people of the district,
some of whom objected most decided
ly to the introduction of such "new-
tangled arrangements" The matter cul-
| minated at an annual school meeting
this year, when they took the globe out
doors and stoned it to pieces.
AN interesting account is printed of
a scandal in British high life, attend
ant upon the developments in the case
of Lady Annie Louisa, wife of Sir Fran
els Gooch, who attempted to secure the
succession to the vast estate of her hus-
band by the production of an infant
which she fraudulently represented to
be their mutual offspring. A cable dis
patch from London contains the an
nouncement that Lady Gooch has been
committed for trial after an extended
examin alton before a magistrate.
THE sales of one of largest firms OF
hair merchants in Germany have fallen
off 25 per cent in bulk, and 40 to so per
cent. in value, within the last three
years, entirely through the increased
demand for Chinese, Japanese, and
other cheap hairs. In 1871 the exports
of hair from the treaty ports were 2ot
tons; in 1874, $50; in 1876, go. This
serves in some degree to explain the
pigtail robbing which has been rife, and
which is also said to have been preva
lent at the peruke period, $50 years ago
"ECONoMY is the order of the day
in England, writes London CORE
spondent of the New York Times. 81
YOU 90 to the cooperative stores o
London, you find that the provision de
partments are the chief quarters of bust
ness. Among the upper middle classe
extravagant dinner parties are dropping
out of fashion. Men who few year
apo would not have been seen on TIL
railway in any thing but first elias
carriage, now ride in second; mel
who used to ride second now ride third
We are all economizing."
, A MONUMENT erected to the memor,
: of Henry Harris, at Williamsport, Pa.
: is that of q colt in the act of kicking
} him i'm the bowels. The following /
the inscription: "Sacred to the mem
ory of Henry Harris. Born June q
: 1881, of Henry Harris and Jane, hi
l wife. Died on the 4th of May, 1887, b
the kick of q colt in his bowels, peace
= able and quiet, Friend to his Fathe
l and Mother and respected by all VIII
. knew him and went to the world wher
| borsoa can't kick where sorrow an