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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
WIT AND WISDOM.

"BELATED sisters'' is the latest title
for the old maids.
WHEN girl can make a match-safe
and dust the piano, she thinks it is about
time to look for beau.
The Buffalo Express tells of man
who - breaks out in aperfect measles of
poetry" Rash poet!- Worcester Press
Miss KEETER is the name of the sweet
singer of New Jersey. The best blood
of the Jerseys flows through her veins
Whit hall Times.
Song of the man with wooden leg
'''Tis sweet to be remembered. ."-Buf
talO Express. Yes, either that, or cam
not fondly thigh owuP''-Nea0 York
Commercial Adrertiser.
WITHOUT wishing to encourage the
world in gabble, we may state that the
goldenness of silence is estimated.
The mute, fngIorious oyster is always
getting into broils, stcws and hot water.
OUn Greek compositor says that if a
three wheeled vehicle is called tricy-
Gle, and two-wheeled ditto a bicyle,
then Il one-wheeled vehicle (and so is
wheelbarrow) must be an icicle (eiscy~
cle).
A MARRIED acquaintance says his
wife won't let him belong to a club, be-
cause, she says, it would take him out
Of an evening, when he ought to stay at
home and make club to her. A woman
who could make joke on such a subject
ought to be dubbed. Eea
A POETEss weighing 160 pounds
yearns "to twitter as bird on some lone
spray" When she gets on a spray and
begins to twitter, there is going to be
an item for the local paper, unless the
spray is as thick as an underground gas
pipe.-NOrristoCn Herald.
+" TEN dimes make one dollar" said
the school-master. snow go on, sir.
Ten dollars make one-whatP'' sThey
make one mighty glad these times,'' re-
piled the boy, and the teacher, who
hadn't got his last months salary yet,
concluded that the boy was about right.
BROWN has been in love with a young
lady, and asked permission to call her
by the expressive name of some animal,
which was granted on condition that she
should have the same privilege. On
leaving, Brown said, Good night,
dear!" ''Good night, bore!'' said she.
A LITTLE boy who went to church was
told to remember the text, which was:
"Why stand ye here all the day idlePGo
into my vineyard and work, and whatso-
ever is right, that 1 will pay thee.''
Johnny came home and was asked to re-.
peat the text. He thought it over
while, and then cried out, 'sWhat do
you stand round here doing muffin for?
Go into my barnyard and go to work,
and III make it all right with you"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
Horrible and Curious Accident.

The Lexington (Ky,) Press says: An
accident of most horrible nature oc-
CURED yerterday evening on the Ken
lucky Central Railroad. AS the evening
train from Covington rounded short
curve near Grants Station, going at
speed of twenty-five miles an hour, the
engineer saw, less than hundred yards
off, sitting in the middle of the track, a
little child. He reversed the engine and
whistled ''down brakes,'' but the train
could not be stopped until it had passed
over the child and gone nearly three
hundred yards. The train then put
back, and the passengers got out to look
for the remains. The body of the little
girl was cut in two. The heart and
liver had been torn out and lay in an
other place. The child's name was
Alice McGevnel, and she was the daugh-
terof Michael McGevnel, a section hand,
who lived in a cottage on the side of the
road
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

IHE Texas Greenback Convention.
held at Houston on the 18th, adopted plat.
form and appointed an Executive Committee
authorlzed to call a nominating Convention.
HEw AINsLIE, a well known citizen
OF Louisville, KY, author of a volume OF
scottish poems of considerable literary
merit, died on the 11th inst.
IHE clearinghouse of Walker, Welsh
q Co., at Kokomo, Ind, has suspended.
Liabilities not stated.
PROF. SYLVESTER WATERHOUsE. of
the Washington University, st. Louis. has
been appointed by the President Assistant
Commissioner to the Paris Exposition.
THE "Honest Money League ;, an as
socIation formed from members of all poIiti-
cal parties, completed its organization in
Chicago on the 18th, and enunciated a plat
form of principles.
'IHE election of Rev. George F. Sew
mour as Bishop of the Springfield (uil
Diocese, P. E. Church, has been confirmed
by all the Bishops and majority of the
Standing Committees
JUDGE LEONARD, Representative from
Louisiana, who went to Cuba few weeks
ago, 1t was announced, on a special mission
from the President, died in Havana on the
~O'h ~ JOAAO" AOhCI" randall tele-
graphed to our Consul General to have the
remains forwarded to New Orleans at the
expense of the House of Representatives.
1T is understood the Sultan has con-
ferred upon Baroness Burdett CouttS the
Gordon OF the Order of Medjedie, the only
instance of its bestowal on lady, as a recog-
milton of her efforts in behalf of Turkish
refugees.
Mr. A. G. BUELL., well known
Washington correspondent, was recently
married to Miss Tassie Polk, daughter of
Col. John w. Polk, Doorkeeper of the House
of Representatives.
WILLIAM POLK, of Rapides Parish,
Louisiana, whose name has been mentioned
IN connection with the veXatious question of
the New Orleans Collectorship, is a wealthy
planter and near relative of the late Bishop
Polk.
BAYARD TAYLOR, our new German
Minister, has been banqueted in Philadel-
phia and New York, prior to his departure.
Hon. BRITTON A. HILL, of St. Louis,
is prominently named as the Greenback can
didate for President in 1850
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES intends to
bring new land suit against the CITY of
Mich.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hayes will, it is
said, spend portion of the summer in the
White Mountains.
Miss MAY HAMPTON, an accomplish
ed and heretofore highly respected teacher
in the public schools of Memphis, has COM
mitted forgeries to the amount of several |
thousand dollars. Her conduct seems in
eXplicable, as she was earning good salary
and apparently had no urgent need of the |
money.
COMMODORE JOHN HODGES GRAHAM
U. S. N, died at Newburgh, n. Y, of
apoplexy, on the 18th, aged 81.
THERON BARNUM, one of the Oldest |
and best known hotel proprietors in the |
died in st. Louis on the 18th, aged |
10 years.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
Running Amuck in MaIacca.

Psychologists have argued that the
well known habit of running amuck is
simply homicidal monomania, form
of disease, in fact. But our English au-
thorities in Perak have taken different
view, and since they have insisted on
formally executing offenders, they seem
to have put decided check to the prac-
tice. The police are provided with a
huge pitchfork, meant to take the mad
man alive when he turns to bay. A
Malay, Major McNair tells us, will say,
My eyes got dark, and 1 ran in
When the terrible cry, "Amuck,
amuck!''is suddenly raised in the streets,
there is a general scramble to get out
of the way. The homicide makes his
headlong rush, striking to the right and
left; the bystanders who can not escape
draw their own firearms and knives, and
shoot or stab at him till at last he drops
under his wounds or is hemmed into a
corner.-PaU Mall Gazette.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

The business men of the Pacific Slope
are said to be almost unanimously op-
posed to the proposed abrogation of the
trade dollar, which they claim has OBJ
tanned firm footing in China and Gre
ated demand which can not otherwise
be filled. They are preferred by the
Chinese to the Mexican dollar, and a
suspension of their coinage would be TO
throw away the business and our pres
tige as silver-produeing country.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE House Judiciary Committee will
report against approving the special
legislation ofthe Legislative Assembly
OF Arizona, granting right of way across
the Territory to the Southern Pacific
Railroad, on the ground that the Terri
torial Legislature has no power to grant
special privileges. This is reckoned as
one point scored for Col. Scott's Texas
Pacific scheme.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE fact that 100000 Moslems are re-
ported anxious to fight. Russia, that an
other cargo of war munitions, valued at
S750,O0O, is being shipped at New
Haven for Constantinople, and that notes
of hostile preparation are still heard
in England and elsewhere, indicates that
the present quiet in the East may posi-
bly, be but the calm which precedes the
breaking out of a general war in Eu-
rope.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

ACCORDING to the Mark Lane Express,
the grain accumulated at Odessa and
NlcOlaief during the blockade of the
BLACK Sea ports amounts to about 1 ,125,-
OOO quarters. 1t is estimated that the
loss to commerce. by the blockade at
Odessa alone has been from $4,000, 900
to S6O,OOO,OOO.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

summer, to take concerted action to
prevent it. Among other transactions
of the convention, memorial to Con-
gress was adopted asking that the Gen
eral Government take charge of quar-
antine and place it under the care of
the marine hospital service.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE aborigines of Victoria, Australia,
who, when the colony was formed, some
45 years since, numbered 5000, have
dwindled down to 1000, and are de-
creasing at the rate of 80 per cent. a
year.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

The Senate Committee on Pacific
Railroads'recent1y gave hearing to r.
s. spofford upon-the-bill looking to the
completion of Southern Pacific Rail-
road by the extension to El Paso of the
Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio
hallway, there to connect with the South
ern Pacific Railroad to California. The
San Antonio Company do not ask for
land grant or for any Endorsement of
bonds, but that a contract may be au
thorized whereby the War Department
shall make advances as the road shall
be built, not to exceed $15, 200 per mile,
these advances to be reimbursed to the
Government in military transportation
and postal service.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

The reports rendered by the insur-
ance companies of New York and Brook
lyn to the Insurance Department of the
State of New York show that eight
companies only have gained in the
amount & OF their net surplus during the
past year, and that only to the aggre-
gate sanlount Of s259, 9,66O; while "A
cornpanies have lostin theirsurplus, the
amount aggrsgating 81, 1,722,14O.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

JUST our luck. Here are 81, 200, 900
left in Holland for the Cronk family, in
America, and we might have married a
Cronk girl once. We really intended
to, but none of her folks would consent,
and as they seemed to have private
sources of information on the subject,
they finally outgeneraled us, and there
is another fortune gone.-Ronae Sentinel
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

CALIFORNIA is cheerful over the ben
efts which will result from the late
flood. The Colusa Sun says it is esti-
mated that 10000 acres of land hereto
fore comparatively unproductive have
been covered from six inches to two
feet with rich alluvial deposit. The
&C hard pan" covered with this sediment
makes the very best grain land.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

AMONG the Postmasters recently con-
hrmed IS ID. G. Potts at Petersburg. Va.
Potts was opposed by many Republi-
can Senators, on the ground that he was
Democrat, but his appointment was
hnallly confirmed by six majority.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

A CONVENTION of delegates from
Southern cities has recently been held
at Jacksonville, Florida, in anticipation
of the yellow fever plague the coming
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE New Hampshire election, held
on the 18th, resulted in the election of
Prescott, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, by plurality of about 1875;
majority, 1,135.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

RECENT advices from Rome state that
the Pope, Notwithstanding violent op-
position, has ordered the Italian Bish-
ops to legalize their positions, giving
them liberty to demand an exequatur
from the Government. This defines the
Pope's policy; it means tacit accept
ance of the loss of temporal power.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE largest bronze statue in the world
is at Nara, Japan. 1t weighs over 400
tons, and a man can climb through one
of its nostrils.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE Committee on Ways and Means
have finally disposed of the income tax
question, by agreeing to report a bill
exempting all incomes up to $4,000,
IeVying tax of 2 per cent. from that
amount to $4,000, 8 per cent thence to
$4,000, and per cent. for all incomes
IN excess of that amount. In the com
putation of incomes, rents and all taxes
are exempted.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

THE House Committee on Reform in
CiviEService, investigating the affairs of
Col. Polk, Door-keeper of the House of
Representatives, have agreed upon a
report, by vote of seven against three,
charging him with violations and loose
management of his office in the matter
OF appointments, and they recommend
his removal, and that the subordinates
of The House be placed under the
charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms until
the House shall determine upon the
election of another Door-keeper. 1t
was shown before the committee
that many of the appointments were
made on the importantly of some mem
bers of the House, who promised an ap-
preparation of money to cover all def
ciencies occurring from such appoint
ments, and further that the troubles
which attended the Door-keeper resulted
in part from the fault of the present
system of dispensing patronage. Moth
ing appeared in evidence before the
committee showing that the Door-keep-
er Intentionally did wrong in the
premises.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

The Committee on Post-offices and
Post-roads of the House have nearly
completed bill for the classification of
mail matter and rates of postage there
on Mail matter is divided into four
classes: First, written matter; second,
printed matter of two kinds, privileged
and ordinary; third, other printed mat
ter fourth, merchandise. The rate
now existing will probably not be
changed, but the classification is
simplified. The bill will prohibit the
carrying of mail matter outside of mails,
and authorize the Postmaster General
to use return postal cards and COM
blned letter sheet and envelope. The
committee is divided whether any dis
tinction should be made in the rates on
second-class matter, and the probability
Is that the law will remain as it is. MAX
ing the rates two and three cents per
pound.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

- The Committee of Banking and Cur
rency have agreed upon a bill providing
for the issuing of silver bullion certif-
Gates. The bullion is to be counted as
its equivalent in coin, less the mint
charges and the cost of transportation
The certificates are to be issued by anv
silver coming mint or assay office, and
to be redeemable at the assay office in
New York and the mint in San Fran
cisco. The certificates are to be legal
tender in the payment of all Govern
ment dues.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

, : p
The bill introduced by Senator Kel-
logg in aid of the New Orleans and Pa
clflc Railroad Company proposes to
give it the right of way via Alexandria,
through public lands between New Or
letns and the eastern terminus of the
Texas Pacific Railroad, together with a
grant of the same number of alternate
sections of public lands per mile as the
Texas Pacific Company has been grant
ed in the State of California. The bill
also provides for declaration of for
feiture of the land grant and other
privileges heretofore conditionallv con-
ferred by Congress upon the New Or
leans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
Railroad, it having failed to comply
with the conditions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

RECENT publications of private letters
written by McGarrahan, who has been
around Washington for dozen or
more years seeking to secure from Con-
gress some recog milton of his claim to
the New Idria quicksilver mine in Low
er California, are attracting great at
tention. The names of number of
Senators and Representatives are men
toned by him as having been the re-
clpients of stock in the company, sew
efal fhqusand shares of which were dis
tributed around where it was thought
they would do the most good.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

DIR. LINDERMAN, Director of the Mint.
stated before the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, that the present
capacity of the Mint for the coinage of
the new silver dollar was S36, 200, 900 a
year, and that for $4,000 or S75, 900,
the New Orleans branch could be put
into working order, so as to turn. out a
million a month, which, added to the
coinage at Philadelphia, San francisco
and Carson, would make S42, 900, 900 per
annum.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

The Deficiency bill, recently reported,
appropriates $4,000 for constructing,
repairing and enlarging, and renting
vaults and safes for the use of the Treas
urer and Assistant Treasurers of the
United States; for repairs and preser-
vation of public buildings under control
of the Treasury Department, S25, 200 /;
Custom-house and Sub-treasury, Chica-
go, 100000; Custom house and Post-of-
flee, Cincinnati, 800, 900; Custom-house
and Post-office, St. Louis, $4,000 i;
Custom-house, Courthouse, and Post
office, Nashville, Tenn, $4,000; Court
house and Post-office, Parkersburg, w.
Va, $4,000; for transportation of army,
ETC., 81 100000, being deficiency for the
fiscal year ending, June 3Oth, 1877.
Total sum recommended by the bill,
80, ,39O,O65.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23

The State of Nebraska has sent a
contingent member of Congress to
Washington and demands his admission
to the House on the ground that the
State is. not adequately represented.
The matter is now before the Judiciary
Committee, and Thomas J. Majors, the
contingent member" in an argument
before that committee, shows that the
State of Nebraska, with only one mem
Der, has more population than Vermont,
which has three, and Rhode Island and
Florida, which have two each.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-18
The Attempt TO BIncK-HaII John
&. Thompson.
Washington Post.

The Washington correspondents de.
clare that Mr.. Glover has discovered that
$4,000 of the $4,000 appropriated for
the expenses of VIM. r. Morrison's Lou
isiana investigating committee, was
crooked'y made way with; also, that Mr.
Glover is au hority for this astonishing
statement. Some of the correspondents,
apparently upon their own authority, re-
mark that Mr.. Glover's discovery ere
fleets upon Major S. X. Donsvin, OF
Ohio" 1t may not be amiss to say that
the correspondents display considerable
ingenuity in formulating insinuatlons go
rs to convey 3 desired impression, and at
the same time steer clear of aclionable
phraseoosy. The real object Of attack
In this case is Hon. John g. Thompson,
and the story in the Baltimore Gazette
and other journals, is an emascu
lated version of some very serious aIlega-
lions recently drawn up against Mr..
Thompson by an individual who thinks
the Democratic party owes HIM a living
and refuses to pay H. An attempt to Sc
cure the publication of these serious al
legations through the Washington dis
patches of The Cincinnati Enquirer hay
ing failed, the emascuisted version Is now
promu gated IN other quarters. As we
understand it, the SPECIAL grievance in
the premises is refusal of Mr.. ThomP-
son to do what the authors OF these
statements consider the iair thing in the
way OF submitting to black mail. The
introduction Of MIR. GiovCr's name rs
authority, however, gives the affair u
certain air of gravity which probably en-.
titles it to more serious consideration
than It would call Tor as the mere allega
ton Of a dissatisfied hummer. The
story, we might add, is q lie, from begin
ming to end, and the evidence to that
effect is printed in our columns to day.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-18

PEOPLE who read Mrs. TILToN's con-
iession should compare it with the re-
traction she made Of the first admission
OF her guilt. Here it is:
"Wearied with importantly, and weak
encd by sickness, [ gave letter i'm.
piicsting my friend Henry Ward
Beocber, under assurance that That would
remove sll difficulties between me and
my husband. That letter l now revoke.
| was persuaded TO it-almost forced -
when l wss in weakened state of mind.
l regret it and recall its statements. l
desire to say explicitly that Mr.. Beecner
has never offered any improper soiicIta-
tions, but has always treated me in n
manner becoming Christian and gem
tlcman. ELIZABETH Il. TILToN."
l. would be charitable to conclude that
sheis mentally lncapacitated to tell the
truth
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-18
Aner resumption.
Correspondence OF the Register.
WHEELING, April II.

CORRESPONDENCE Oh the 1ltBlbbOAs
WHEELING, April II.
"When the resumption act goes into
effect, every man who owes dollar can
be compelled to pay It'll gold" (See
REGISTER of 18th inst.
Now does the the REGISTER believe
that man can be compelled, after the
first Of January, to pay in gold any more
than now, or is it only stutiing the Peo'
pie? 1t strikes me the creditor can only
demand y legal tender-just q tender,
nothing more. This he can do now l
think you are mistaken sgsin about COM
polling banks TO pay deposits IN gold.
would ike to XII w how you would COM
pei them to pay gold. think the com
pulsion part would be all in your eye.
Now, please, don't try to stun US any
more. We teel bad enough now at tax.
inc paper money. If we have to taka
gold for debts due US, why, suppose
we will have 70 stand it. CITIZEH.
rIf the Smart ALEC" who wrote the
above will carefully study the provisions
of the so-caHed resumption act, he viii
probably fail to lind any provision
therein for the reissusDce Of the legal
tender notes alter they have been re-
deemed by the United States Treasury.
He might then find it somewhat difficult
to "tender" them in payment Of his
debts.
New York Times.
The act of January IA, 1875, declares
that on and after January l, 1879, the
Secretary of the Treasury "shall redeem
in coin the United States legal tender
notes then outstanding, on their pre- en-
ta.ion for redemption at the office OF the
Assistant Treasurer of the United States
in the CITY OF New York, in sums OF not
less than 500" Now, what is the mean
ing of "redeemT There ought to be no
doubt about it. II is word in common
use in connection with financial opera.
tions. The obvious intent and purpose OF
the law is to have the outstanding
notes paid. and note paid IS 50
much OF debt discharged. HenceloFtn
| it Is good for nothing but to be destroy
Ell. Mr.. Sherman WAS the author OF the
Resumption Act, and ought to kno"
what IL means, and in 1875 he did know,
| but be has found occasion since to take y
different view of it. But he can not put
meaning upon it which lis language
will not bear or import into it the mean
lng of preceding statutes which had an
altogether different purpose. No doubt,
/ legal tender notes returned into the
Treasury" during their legal existence
may be paid out again, bat after January
/ /, 1879. if they are presented for redemP'
| ton and redeemed in coin, they are hence
forth dead, and there Is no authority Ter
resUscilatiEg them.