American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02
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charged because, for the amusement OF
the children during recess, she stood on
her head. One of the Trustees chanced
to see the feat.
THE Quakers in England and Wales
now number, according to Mr.. Barclay,
one of their well known members, only
1900. A few years ago they were es-
timated at 100000. In 100 there were
200 in Great Britain.
SINCE the burning of the Brooklyn
Theater, 3G fre-escapes have been in
vented. Eleven of these proved worth
less, and at the testing of each of the
others somebody was either killed or
hurt.
THERE was tragic wedding
ton at Long Prairie, MINI, few
nights ago. A number of boys, who had
been engaged in a charivari, had re-
turned, and were standing about the
house quietly, when Joseph Reiger, the
proprietor, made rush for them with
a spade, and was struck on the head
with Il club and mortally wounded.
A MASSACHUSETTS soldier, who was
severely wounded at the battle of Fred
ericksburg, and who applied years ago
for his back pay and Il pension, being
reduced to starvation lately stole some
bread and milk to appease his hunger,
was detected and sent to the State Farm
for a year. A few days afterward pa
pers came giving him a pension and
81, AGO back pay.
A HUGE skull of some animal, sup
posed to be an elephant, was found i'm
bedded in the sand near Santa Barbara,
Cal, recently. 1t measures across the
forehead 3 feet 2 inches; in height, 2
feet 1 inch; in depth, l foot inches.
The brain cavity is 16 by 10 by 8 inches.
The holes for eyes, ears, tusks and trunk
are in proper position.
CONSIDERABLE disturbance has been
made in Boston over the exposure of the
relations which exist between thieves
and detectives. A bag containing $4,000
was stolen in so adroit a way that the
robber eluded even suspicion. 1t has
been discovered that he went directly
with his booty to detectives house,
divided with the sworn officer of the
law, and enjoyed in his moral society
the product of his bold crime.
THE Government is distributing tea
plants in Georgia. Gen. Toombs said to
a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution:
Z" If the people would only learn the
process of curing the leaf, as good tea
can be produced in Georgia as in
China Why" added he, " tea has been
planted and grown in this State for the
last 40 years, nearly. Right here, in a
few miles of you, are trees, if somebody
hasn't cut them down since l saw them
last. that are 80 feet high, tea trees,
that were planted away back yonder in
1927"
AN atrocious poisoning case is re-
ported from Barnesville, O. Mrs Sarah
Bartoft, a woman well known in the
town, feeling ill, applied to her uncle,
Mccormick, q quack doctor,
who made various patent medicines, for
to relieve her. He gave her
a mixture of which she partook and
died in great agony three hours after
ward. Mrs Mccormick, wife of the
doctor, also took some of the medicine,
and her life was saved only by the
prompt use of antidotes. Mccormick
narrowly escaped lynching..
MASSACHUSETTS, has established
new reformatory prison for women in
Sherborn, and put it under the imme-
date control of women. The expert
ment is hotly discussed by Boston phil
many of whom regard it as
One of the writer's fayOring it
mentions the success of the great prison
for women in Woking, near
London, the Superintendent of
which is Mrs. Gibson, ga
lady of education and good family, quie
and unpretending in manner, but with
a power of wise control that had been
exercised with so much success in SINH
lar institutions, where she had worked
from motives of charity, that this great
prison was built on condition that she
would take charge of it,
IT is proposed in England to divert q
portion of the flood water of the Nile
into the deserts of Lydia, Nubia and
Soodan. The yearly Nile floods are
caused by the influx of water laden with
soil from the Abyssinian plateau This
silt is now principally deposited in the
Mediterranean, where it is forming a
new delta. The protector of this gigan-
tic scheme is Sir Samuel Baker, who
suggests the construction of sluices and
dams at different points of the Nile, in
cluding the cataracts, and asserts that
these latter would then be navigable,
and enable craft to sail from the
Mediterranean to Gondokoro. Sir Sam
uel thinks that, by means of an irriga-
ton of the deserts, a range of cotton
fields could be created which would rem
der England Independent of America
for the great staple.
BAYARD TAYLOR says in his remi-
niscences of his early visits to Spain:
g There was one custom, indeed, preva-
lent among the better class, which had
an opportunity of learning in Seville
and Granada-but l should be doubtful
whether it still exists. 1t is one Of
those ancient, almost poetic habits of
society which disappear with the increase
of travel. 1t occurred to me several
times on entering a cafe in either of
the two cities / have mentioned, that on
calling the waiter to pay him Sor the
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