American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-15
HERE AND THERE.

Iork, MAY 20, from MS European LouT.
RABBIT-FARMING for the London
market is an extensive and profitable
business. ~ ~
IT is thought in Ireland that Lord
Leitrim was murdered by men from
America whose families had been ex-
patriated,
Mrs. A. t. STEWART owns a solitaire
diamond worth S35, 900, which is said
to be the largest in the United States.
THE bark Azor, which sailed recently
for Liberia, took as a part of her cargo
two entire Christian churches-one Bap-
fist and one Methodist.
THE usual pay of Sepoy is about
IA shillings per month, out of which he
has to buy his own food. When ON ac-
tive service his pay is about double.
THE nina is a small green parrot,
very common in India, and a great
many of them are taught to say the
first verse of the Mohammedan prayer
or creed. .-i
QUEEN VICToRIA's new saloon rail-
way car is one of the most beautiful of
its kind ever built, as may well be inn
agined from the fact that its construc-
ton and fittings cost over $4,000.
RAISE that pot and III raise you,
said Johnson to Bush, in the midst Of a
poker game in Eureka, Cal, drawing q
ing, and was shot through the head.
THE st. Louis law firm of Thomas &
Thomas is composed of twin brothers
so nearly alike that attorneys and the
Judge are puzzled to tell which one it
is that is conducting case.
A VERY successful swindle is being
practiced upon the farmers of Indiana
by parties claiming to be agents for. a
barb wire fence. One agent makes a
farmer present of 40 rods or more,
having him sign an agreement to put it
up in a conspicuous place for exhibition.
Another agent follows in his wake with
bill for the wire, and has the farmers
order for the wire, at an exorbitant
figure. They nearly always succeed in
Fleeing their victims out of 1926 to $50
on a compromise, taking back the wire,
TEXAS contains an estimated popula-
ton of z, 100000. 1t receives an annual
increase by immigration alone of 25O,-
600. There are produced in the State
annually about zoo, 900 bales of cotton.
The value of this crop is S30,000,00Q.
The annual export of cotton is esti-
mated at $4,000, 900 in value, of wool
at 81, 100000, of hides at 81, 800, 600,
of beef in barrels and cans al $1,000
900, and other productions besides,
wheat at So, 200, 600. The present wheat
crop viii bring between six and seven
million dollars. IN '4st'
PEDEsTRIANIsM has become fashionl
able in San Francisco among both men
and women. Walking clubs are numer-I
Gus. The members meet on an appoint
ed day in suburb, and start off on trips
of from five to fifty miles, but the
60 roughing it" is generally more in fan
cy than in fact, for carriages are taken
along for the tired ones to ride in Do
Lewis's party of so tourists has returned
demoralized. They intended to journey
and camp in the mountains for three
months, but the Doctor fell sick at the
outset, and two weeks of outdoor life
was enough for the rest. Ina ~
THE terrible sufferings of, a Tenth
Cavalry company on the Staked Plain
of Texas, through thirst, are described
by Surgeon King. They were four
days without water, and the weather
was intensely hot. Their predicalnent'
was caused by the death of their guide,
leaving them to wander by themselves
until spring was finally found. Their
mouths became so dry that brown sug-
ar would not melt in them. Their
voices grew weak and strange, and their
sight dim, and when asleep they dream-
ed of banqueting. A sense of suffoea-
ton was extremely painful, They
drank water greedily, but it did. not
uuench their thirst-which shows, the
surgeon thinks, that the sense of thirst
resides not in the stomach, but in the
general system, and in this case COULD
not be relieved until the remote tissues
were supplied. '-' ''
JANUARY and May have had to run
for their lives before the fury of an En-
glish mob at Hanley. A fortnight ago
a bridegroom of 30 led to the altar a.
girl of IS. The villagers regarded the
marriage as an unnatural and dreadful
act, and manifested their indignation by
attacking the couple at the door of the
Methodist chapel, tearing their we'd
ding clothes and ill-treating them gen
orally. The mob then rushed into the
chapel, Notwithstanding the efforts OF 4
small body of police to exclude them.
broke one of the windows, and such
scene of violence ensued that it required
all the exertions of the police to protect
the objects of wrath from personal in
jury. Ultimately, the old man escaped
from the building by one door, his new
ly married wife by another, and, by aid
of police escort, succeeded in reach
inc their home in safety.
A Scene in Church.
Mr.. James s. Huff attended the EpiS-