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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

Bishop Green has given to the
press a list Of his spring appoints
ments. He will be in Canton on
April 9TH, the fifth Sunday in Lent.
Donations for Diocesan Missions are
requested.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

The Sheriff. sale of delinquent
property for taxes, took place in
front of the Court House last Mon,
day. The list was small,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
Landreth's garden seed
reduced to half price at w.
j. MOSby & Co.'s.

OUR JOB OFFICE is unexcelled
by any outside the cities, and we do
job work at city prices. Cards
Bill heads, Letter heads, Blanks
Funeral Notices, &c.. a speciality
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
M Aas ED

On the 9th inst, at Grace Church, Can
ton, by the Rev. DR.. Tucker. Miss. Annie
Laurie, only dau ghter of Mrs. Fleta Jeffries,
to Mr.. John Switzerland, of Madison
County, Miss.
In New Orleans on the 9TH inst, at the
residence of Mr.. +. Offner, by the Rev. j r.
Guthiem, Miss. Carrie. L. r. Walsh, to Mr.!
Samuel Dreyfus.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

Justices of the Peace are notified
that we are printing legal blanks
for use in J. P. Courts, in any num-
Der, from 100 to 1000, 900. cheaper
and better than they can be had
elsewhere in the county. We invite
an Investigation of our styles and
prices,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
LENTEN SAAsoN.-Last Tuesda,

LENTEN SEASON.-LaSt Tuesday
Hard GraS, or Fat Tuesday p
was the last day on which those
who observe Lent, could indulge
themselves in the eating cf meats
Last Wednesday, or cash Wednes.
day." according to the Lenten cal
eDder, was the beginning OF a fast
of forty days, typical of the forty
days fast of our Saviour in the viii
dernesS. This season of fasting con
tinues until Easter. The Quadra>
gesimal fast is supposed to be of
apostolic institution. The primitive
christians did not commence their
Lent until the Sunday which is now
called the first Sunday of Lent !;
and the four days preceding were
added by Pope Felix Ill, in the
year 4S7, in order that the number
of fasting days should amount to
forty. Lent is observed by many
of the christian churches as COM
memOrative of the fast of our
Savior, but more especially by
persons of the Catholic and Episco-
pal faith. The name Ash w ednes-
day arose from the ancient custom
of sprinkling the head with ashes.
which is still observed in modified
form in Catholic countries, and the
of Ash Wednesday re-
tanned in primitive form.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09


FRESH FISH.-On each Nom
day, Wednesday and Saturday, the
fish-wagOn of Mr.. Harry o. Bowden,
the Trapper OF Big Black, will ar
rive in Canton, laden with choice
fresh fish, just taken from the wal
ter, Bowden gets to town at an
early hour; fish "alive and kicking"
Look out for his wagon, and get
fish that are fresh and palatable.
You will pronounce them far su
perior in quality to the stale fish
brought to this place from the salt
water two hundred miles away, Esd
sold at fancy price. Bowden is
here three times a week-Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

The rattle for the handsome clock
put up by Prof. Brown, came off on
last Wednesday. A young lady
held the lucky number.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

Madison County Grange, P. of II =,
will meet at Odd Fellows Hall, on
Monday next, the 18th inst.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
Manhood: How Lost, How
Restored

- Just published, a new edition of
I DIR. Culverw9lPs Celebrated Es-
Say on the radical cure (without
medicine) Spermatorrhea or Seminal
S4eak tess, involuntary seminal losses, i'm
potency, mental and physical incaracity,
i,npediments CT marriage. ETC.; also con-
sumption. epilepsy and fits. induced by
selfF-indUlgence or sexual extravaganza,
&c.
70 Price in a sealed envelope, only six
cents.
The celebrated author, in this admirable
Essay, clearly demonstrates, from thirty
years successful practice, that the alarm
ing consequences of seif-abuse may be
radically cured without the dangerous use
of internal medicine the application of
the knife pointing out a mode of cure q
onte simple, certain, and effectnaI, bv
means of which every sufferer, no matter
what his condition may lie, may cure
himself cheaplyj privately, and radicals.
Ge5E@Thls Lecture should be in the hands
of every youth and every NTH i'll the
,dnd4
Sent, Under seal, in PLATA envelope, to
any address; OH receipt OF six cents, or two
postage stamps;
THE CULT ERJFELL MEDICAL CO.;
Al Ann ST.. New York Post Office Box, 45S6;
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
BOOKS ron SALE.

have for sale Bishop Marvin's excellent
sermons, and his last work, ito the East
by way of the West"
RID. NOTEWORTHY,
Canton Miss, Feb. p 1873.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09


NEW GOODS Mr.. Robert Kemp,
of the firm of Kemp & Bro, has
just returned from New York with a
large and carefully selected stock of
dry goods, consisting of dress goods,
linen and lawns, ready made suits
for travelling, shoes, gloves, para
soils, fans cravats, cOrsets, handker-
chiefs, and a lot of notions, all of
the very latest styles, and will be
sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Mr.. Kemp
has exercised his usual good taste
in the choice of articles bought for
this market and will not be under>
sold. The ladies from the country
are especially invited to call and
examine their stock. Polite clerks
are iu attendance and the public are
respectfully notified, that although
the CITIZEN made a mistake in call
ing the Circuit Court on last Monday,
that there is NO mistake about
Kemp's goods, and the Circuit
Court will convene on the 4th Mons
day in this month, Dec Uolente:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

Landreth's garden seed re-
duced to ha.f price at w. ]:
MoSby g. Co.'S.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

YOU ,cM fnd our prices % per cent
l1'oer than my Ctter,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09
Advertised Letters

ADVERTISED Letters
remaining in the Post Office at this
place for the week ending Feb:
%, 1878:
Ballard, Fannie Marshall J H
Brooks, Debbie Ncvels, Sabra
Chambers, Parthena Nichols, Bette
Cav, Neil Smith, Rachel
Jones, Sanford. Miss Ella
Persons calling for the above will
please say "advertised."
II. Il. SMITH, P. NJ.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

GURLEY is selling Saddles and
Harness at cost. feb. 16.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-09

Plow Harness, cheap, at GURLEY's
He wants your trade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
"a Royal Female Gambler.

Princess Souwaroff, during a recent
stay at Saxon les Baines, happened one
evening to have an extraordinary run OF
bad luck while gambling. Her neigh
Dor, retired tradesman, sympathized
with her, and begged to be permitted to
place his purse at her diaposal. She
refused at first, but the desire to continue
play was strong enough to overcome all
her scruples, and she finally accepted,
borrowing $4,000. The money was pune
tually repaid, and the lender, M. Della
grange, was delighted to find that the
princess had condescended to make use
of him, and that she invariably spoke to
him when he met her in the Casino.
He thought he had acquired the privi.
lege of being considered among the init
mate friends of the princess, and when
she again asked him for an advance of
81, 400 he complied with alacrity. This
sum remained unpaid, and an arrange
ment was made by which the lender was
to call on his fair debtor in Paris at a
stated time. The princess, on her re-
turn, refused to receive as one of the
habitues of her receptions the retired
tradesman, who, vexed at the apparent
slight put upon him, began to clamor
for his money. He wrote to the Princess
Basilewsky at st. Petersburg, to COM
plain of the treatment he had received
from her daughter, and receiving nc
reply, began an action against Princess
Souwaroff, who has been ordered to pay
at once under pain of seizure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
HOUSE-CLEANING.
Curious Habits of a CuriOus Bird,

A naturalist on. Velain) accompany-
ing the French expedition to the islands
OF st. Paul and Amsterdam, in 1874, for
the purpose of observing the transit OF
Venus, has lately published an account
of the fauna and fora of these islands.
In the description of the birds that were
met with, the penguin has large space
by reason of its very curious and always
entertaining habits. The penguins be-
gin to lay in the month of September.
and countless numbers annually assem-
BILE upon the islands of st. Paul and
Amsterdam at the time of breeding. M
Velain observed the birds at their nest
ing stations with the deepest interest.
aud came to the conclusion that, instead
of being the stupid animal they are pop
ularly considered, they are really gifted
with uncommon powers. A synopsis Of
M. Velain's account, which is given ia
Nature, says:
cat the time of the arrival of the ex-
pedition (October), the birds were pre-
pairing to hatch. Each pair kept en~
tirely to themselves. Each nest had
two eggs-large, nearly round, of q
dirty white color, but marked here and
there with a few russet spots. BOth
birds partook of the cares attendant on
the incubation and took turn about on
the nest. The bird off duty would 1t
once make for the sea, faithfully return
ing at the appointed time, and never
failing to waddle direct to its own nest,
though no human being could see
difference between the thousands that
were strewn about. Sometimes the
whole camp of birds would have to be
traversed ere the nest sought for would
be gained, and bird trying to make
short cut would be sure to be attacked
by those whom it disturbed, fOI they
are not ut all tolerant of one another;
and in this they also prove that thu are
not stupid, for surely neither 8upid
people nor stupid birds ever quarrel.
On M. Velain arriving in their midst.
they would one and all set up an inn
mense and beyond-all-measure stunning
cry, soon they would calm down and
seem not to mind his presence. The
incubation lasted for five weeks. Ihe
little ones made their appearance COW
cred all over with q fine, close down
aud looked like balls of fine, gray-col-
ored wool. They soon got tired OF the
comforts of their nests and began TO as
semble, together with their little broth
ers and sisters of the same colony, in
large infant schools, which are presided
over by some of the sedate old birds.
Many times a day, at stated intervals
they are fed; the other portions thc
spend in sleeping and talking and
tie fighting. Space will not pern
to refer to many curious details
their swimming lessons. -
Tribune,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
A jewelers. Joke.

Mr.. Smiley, the undertaken, got it
into his head the other day, that his eye
sight was not what it used to be, and
that pair of spectacles would be bene-
fetal to him as we'll as to make him lock
more venerable. So he proceeded to
Mr.. Karat's jewelry store, in the next
block, to purchase the desired article.
The obliging Mr.. K displayed his
whole stock of spectacles for his Gus
TONER'S inspection. Mr.. Smiley would
try on a pair, elevate his head, then
lower it, then look over the tops OF them,
meanwhile holding newspaper before
him.
One pair was for younger eyes ESQ he
said); another pair was for older eyes,
and so on until he had tried on all of
Mr.. Karat's spectacles. Not one pair
could he find that was suited to his
sight.
Now the patient Mr.. Karat was at
times fond of a joke, and informed Mr..
Smiley that he had q pair that he used
himself sometimes, and he might try
them on, and perhaps they would suit
him. Mr.. Karat took from the drawer
a pair minus the glasses, and after
carefully wiping them inside and ont,
adjusted them over Mr.. Smiley's pro-
boscis.
After going through the usual per-
formance with his head, Mr.. Smiley
said
"Why, they seem better. I can see
as well with them as I could without
them twenty years ago. I'll take these.
They just suit my eyes"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
Fashion Notes.

Lawn ties are embroidered profusely
with variegated silk.
"Mother Goose " is the new style of
children's bonnets.
Silk sun shades bearing the owners
monogram are novelty.
Queen Anne and japanese styles of
furniture predominant.
Fashions demand for let still con-
tinues, and it will be worn more than
claire de lune.
Swiss neckties, with the end brai1e
in colored silk, will be worn with sum-
mer dresses.
Burlap mats are made with successive
square bands of colored merino, cat
stitched down with colored floss silk.
For watering-places are dressy CO.'S
tunes of damask silk of light quality
combined with plain silk often of con-
trasting color.
Unique scarf pins in Japanese designs
are shown one composed of two small
canes with fan of cloisonne enamel at
taehed.
Satin will be much used for trimming
summer dresses. Some of the new gren-
adines are trimmed entirely with black
satin.
The new colored embroideries are
used for trimming children's white
dresses. Those with scallops of blue or
cardinal red are prettiest.
The little Marseilles coats are made
with carrick capes and the. cloth coats
finished with little vests like the gar
men of grown folks.
For evening dresses garlands are made
in all styles, and, as the combinations
are such that diversity is allowable,
all tastes are easily satisfied.
The prettiest sacques with carrick
capes, omit the middle seam in the
back, and none of these English gar
ments have long seams from the shoul-
ders.
For costumes to be worn in the morn
ing very thick linen that is at the same
time light and fine is used, and trimmed
with frills embroidered in high colors,
especially in red or blue with black.
The Scotch and Madras gingham
dresses are charmingly cool and fresh
looking. The bars and stripes are of
two or three colors on white ground,
and the new combination of colors are
adopted.
Large collars and cuffs of white lace
are sewed on the dark silk dresses that
will be used for summer, and the neck
and wrists of the dress are finished with
a row of loops of narrow ribbon the
color of the dress.
Very few dressy wraps are made in
sacque shape. There are, however,
some of heavily repped silks or of
Sicilienne make in the simplest French
sacque shape, single-breasted, medium
long, and smooth over the tournure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
A New RniIrnnd Pass.

A new style of railroad pass has just
been patented by railroad man which
is something of novelty. The idea is
to provide pass which can be used by
none save the person to whom it is
issued, and the pass seems to meet the
requirement.. Around the pass proper
is margin, with a description which,
by the use Of a punch, may be made to
fit anybody. After the word "age "
appear a series of figures out of which
the person issuing the pass punches the
figures corresponding with the age of
the one to whom the pass is issued
Then after the head "shape follow the
words "slim," medium" stout, "
" corpulent." After color of hair >
come the designations "black. =
brown" "gray," light, "auburn. 7"
After "color of eyes" come "black. 4"
"brown, ""gray," "blue," "hszel;" and
after "beard' the terms "none, "full, "
"side, 4" chin, moustache." Thus,
supposing the man to whom the pass is
issued be dark, slim man, with black
eyes and beard a Ia Napoleon, the issuer
of the pass would punch the word
"slim under "shape, black " under
"eyes and chair, "moustache and
"ohin" Tnder "beard" The pass
could then be transferred only to man
CHANGING TO answer just the above de
scription. This idea is certainly novel
one.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
TERMS, $500 A YEAR.
Irish Song.

AAoh DVHBs
On Innisfallen's fairy isle,
Amid the blooming bushes,
We leant upon the lovers stile,
And listened to the thrushes;
When first sighed TO see her smile,
And emiled 10 see her bushes.
Her hair was bright as beaten gold,
And soft az spiders spinning,
Her cheek -bloomed the apple old
That set our parents SHINING,
And in her eyes you might behold
My joys and griefs beginning.
In Innlsfallen's fairy grove,
hushed my happy wooing,
To listen to the broodlng dove
Amid the branches cooling
Bat oh how short those hours OF love
How long their bitter rueing
Poor cushat thy complaining breast
With woe like mine is heaving.
With thee mourn a fruitless quest
For ah! with art deceiying
The ouckoo-bird has robbed my nest
And left ne wildly grieving.
The Spectator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01
Items OF Interest.
NNOIH0 WN NWUEI tbIe
GA want of the age Hair.
HoE4ovo of s,.Io..l d.

Z" A want of the age Hair.
Matters Of interest-Coupons.
Beautiful lie Of the Sea"-whale-oi
"Time out of mind" is the Oldest
lunatic on record.
A fashion writer says Patched trou-
sers will be much worn this season.
There is no necessary connection be-
tween serial tale and monkeys tail,
simply because both are continued.
Cats can't live at q greater elevation
than 13, 900 feet above the level of the
sea; but they thrive splendidly on a
ridge-pole.
The New Orleans Picayune says:
Love cannot live on bon-bons." +"
''No," says the Boston savant, "but
love can live on beans"
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines:
God gives the grazing OF his meal,
He quickly hears the sleeps low cry;
But man who tastes his finest wheat.
Should joy to lift Lis praises high.
Even the life of a paragrapher has it's
bright spots.-Pitts6urgh Dispatch.
And well it is for him, when they do
not concentrate upon his nose. e.--Detroit
Free Press.
The horse will eat ten hours ont of
every twelve and the hog never knows
what it is not to be hungry. The crow
flies six miles, and the wild pigeon sixty
an hour, but the humming bird beats
all things on the wing. The wild turkey
can run faster than he can fly, and any
man who is a good walker can tire a deer
out in twenty-four hours. The fox is
the hardest animal to catch in a trap,
and n muskrat the easiest, and the
meadow lark is the shyest of all the
birds IN the air. The spider is the only
creature that catches its food in a trap,
and sheep will live without water
longer than any other domestic animal.
We have in Hart County, KY, man
by the name of William Bowman, who
was thrown away in the Appalachee
Mountains, North Carolina, when an
infant, and was found by an old bear and
adopted as a cub. At the age of about
ten years he was captured, tied hand to
foot, and then his captors found that he
could not talk, nor could he be persuaded
to take any food but milk, which he
sucked from bottle, Showing that he
had lived solely by the nursing of the
bear. Bowman is now a farmer lear
Omega, and any one doubling the truth
of this statement can have it verified by
seeing him. - Hart County Three
Springs.
HOUSE-CLEANING.
The housekeeper giveth a cheerful hop,
And VIC hear the musical fippertyfop
OF the moisty misty, maddening mop.
And 10, the maddening horrors rush
Athwart our souls at the soapy gush
or the slippery, Shiny sorubbing- brush.
From early morn till evening gloom
We hear the scratching in hall and room
OF the boisterous, busily bobbing broom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01

There is no doubt that walking is a
healthy ezercise-no doubt, except in
the mind of the boy who is sent on an
elrand. He believes in sitting on the
fence.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-01

The Oldest living man in the world is
near Bogota, South America, and he
claims to be $50 years of age.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-07
Five ThunderstOrm ms.
CHIRPS FROM CHICAGO.
The Crop Condition Carefully Compiled,
And Serious Strike of Shoemaker

Correspondence National Press to the Star
CHICAGO Aug. THE journeymen shoe
makers of this city struck yesterday for
an increase OF wages, from 80 to $l2 per
week. There are about one thousand journey
men shoemakers in the city. of whom six
hundred have gone into the strike with a
prospect of the other three hundred or four
hundred joining them in few days. The
employers proposed to meet them half
way and pay $40 so per week, but this was
refused by the amalgamated union, although
the employers declare this is the most they
can pay, and if the union insists in their de-
mand they will be compelled to purchase
their stock in the East
CHICAGO Aug 7.-The following is cor
rect and reliable summary of the condition
of crops at present: The wheat and oats
harvest are turning out fairly, notwith-
standing the serious damages in some sec
tions. Corn is doing well, with the pros
pect of fair average crop. Barley is short,
and potatoes are not yielding so well as ex-
pected. Fruit, where it was not killed in
the early spring, generally is turning out
well. Southern Illinois and Eastern Mich
igan will give a fine yield fpeaches, apples
and everything. Considerable damage was
done TO the wheat crop in Northern Iowa
and Southern Minnesota, but it is no, as
disastrous as was first reported, The Chi
cago elevators contain 325954 bushels of
wheat, 1852, ,476 bushels of corn, 1913, 100
bushels of oats 72,242 bushels of rye and
253,6 ,613 bushels of barley, making grand
total of /, 1888, 005 bushels, against 1570,055
bushels last week, and l,744, 432 at this time
last year.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-07
In Brief.

National Associated Press to the Star.
SARATOGA, Aug. 1.-The third race was
won by Bramble, and the fourth by Rhoda-
manthus.
LONDON, Aug. 7.-Captain Bogardus sails
for New York on the 10th inst.
New YORK, Aug THE body of Henry
Freise, printer, sixty-fve years Old has
been identified at the Morgue. He was
found in East River with his throat cut
New York, Aug. Mrs Hayes, Secre-
tary Sherman and Mrs. Sherman sailed for
Squantum this morning.
BATON ROUGE, La, Aug, 7.-E A. Burke,
of Orleans, has just been nominated for
S ale Treasurer.
GREENFIELD, MASS, Aug. IA train for
Brattlcboro ran into wash-out last night.
The engineer and fireman and another man
were killed.
SARATOGA, Aug. John D. Caudee Of
the Bridgeport Sentinel, was shot in bis
room here this morning by burglar.