American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-08
HERE AND THERE.

for America, May 18th, in the Scythia.
SIX mail-riders have lately been MUIR
dered between Fort Davis, Texas, and
Barilla.
A TENNESSEE COW has dropped six
calves in % months; all are alive and
doing well.
IT is expected that dresses in Paris
will soon be made elastic, as nothing
else is found sufficiently clinging.
A NEW prison in Concord, N. H.,
does not seem secure. A convict in one
of the "strong cells" dug his way
through the wall within an hour from
the time he was put in.
IT is proposed to annex Paraguay to
the Argentine Republic, and the pro-
ject finds favor with the Para
guayans, who think their country is in
such bad way that annexation alone
can save it.
IT has been proposed to the Khedive
of Egypt to convert into paper the cloth
of the mummies, of which it is calculat-
ed 42O, 200, 600 must be deposited in the
pits of Egypt.
IN Germany fish are not caught for
sport, and the law fixes the sizs of
those that need not be returned to the
water. Thus, a salmon must be 16 inches
long, a perch 8, and an eel IA.
ENGLISH critics complain that the
British section of the Paris Exposition
is mere " SLOPPY display" with moth
ing to be compared to the richly filed
scientific department exhibited by the
French.
PROFESSOR RITCHEL, the flying-ma-
chine man, is native of Maine, and
has taken out 81 patents. He has as
cended 1000 feet in his new flying ma
chine, and in June he intends to cross
Niagara Falls in it.
THE renewal of bicycle riding is ex-
tending throughout New England. The
students. of Harvard and Yale have
taken to the sport with much enthusi-
asm. The machines have very large
wheels, and are said to run faster and
easier than those formerly used.
Mrs. CHEATwOOD, brave woman of
Bedford County, Va, captured an es-
capped colored convict, who took refuge
in her kitchen, by drawing toy-pistol
on, him, and threatening to blow his
brains out. She then called in a;colored
man, who kept guard over him till he
was returned to custody, when she re-
ceived S25 reward for her trophy.
A POOR woman in Denmark recently
saved the lives of three children who
had fallen through hole in the ice on
a lake, The King, to show his admira-
ton for her courage, invited her to his
palace in Copenhagen, where she re-
NAMED for two days, presented her with
a medal in the presence of the Court,
and secured seats for her and her family
in the Royal Theater.
NEAR Waterloo Station, in Georgia,
a grounding lately carried off child
from the hut of John Keeshan, a labor
err on the railroad tracks, and, carrying
it to hole in a tree, deposited it there
and covered it with leaves, and, return
ing to the hut, attempted to drag away
some of the child's clothing, when Mrs.
Keeshan entered the room and chased
it out, and, on following it to the tree
for the purpose of getting the clothes
back, was rejoiced to discover her lost
child snugly ensconced in the hollow.
A FLORIDA snake story: Old Ben A.,
near town, one night heard one of his
wife's ducks, which she had set over a
lot of eggs, making a noise. He went
out, but could see nothing. Next morn
ing he went to where the old duck was
sitting upon her eggs, under a brush
pile, and saw large black-snake coiled
up under the duck, his snakeship hay
ing swallowed twelve eggs. Mr.. Will
liars cut the snakes head off, cut it
open, took the eggs and placed them
under the duck, and IL of that dozen
eggs Matched. Next!
THE latest mushroom metropolis of
the oil regions is Bradford, Pa, whose
was slightly checked by a
$50, 900 fire few weeks ago. A year
ago it was an idle village of 500 people,
but now its 10000 Inhabitants are pro-
jecting an opera house, churches, high
school building and fine residences.
Stores rent at from $1,000 to 1900
upon its business streets, and building
lots bring fancy prices. Its wells are
safe and profitable, yielding from 12,-
600 to 10000 barrels day, and rail-
road is now in process of construction,
which Bradford relies on to make it the
greatest railroad center in the whole oil
region.
CHARLES F. WILLIAMS has just been
sentenced, in Portsmouth, N. H., to 8
years. imprisonment. His criminal ca
reer is remarkable. During the war he
was notorious bounty jumper, and
was sentenced to be shot, but Lincoln
changed the penalty to imprisonment
for life, and johnson pardoned him.
he served several terms for
bigamy and assaults. In his intervals of
freedom he was public singer, clown
in circus, and Methodist clergyman.
full as revivalist, his sermons and sing
ing being wonderfully effective with sim
ners. He was always able to get good
pay in the form of collections, and ,hav-
ing secured sufficient sum, he went to
some large city to spend it in debauch-
cry. ..
THE Emperor of Austria's first meet
ing with his future Empress was no
mantle One of her sisters had bapD