American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-26
HERE AND THERE.

Greensburg, Ind, to what she called
surprise party, and surprised them b
getting married in their presence.
A STEEL steamship, with compoun
direct-actiHg engines of 500 horse pow
er, has been launched at Dumbarton
Scotland. 1t is said that steel steam
ships will soon be common.
ADUBUoUE Qowa) boy somnambulis
umped out of a second-story window
the other night, was uninjnred; pro
ceeded to neighbours house and begal
to make himself comfortable for tn
night by taking quarters therein.
Two wealthy farmers of Jackson
Township, near Elkhart, Ind, wer
swindled out of $4,000 by signing TIVE
notes when they supposed they wer'
signing orders for patents. The sharp
ers hailed from Indianapolis.
In Paris 35 years ago stores of al
kinds were open on Sunday morning
Now all large establ ishments are closed
and only few of the smaller are open
In Italy, too, labor is much more re-
stricted on Sunday than formerly.
EIGHT young men have been con.
demned at Bazas, France, to 10 days
imprisonment for seeking to evade the
CONSUMPTION by applying drugs to their
eyes, the duaSk doctor who supplied
them mourning 40 days incarceration.
Two young men who were drowned
in the Kalamazoo River near Allegap,
Mich, recently, lost their lives through
their modesty. They were bathing
when a boat with lady in it was seen
approaching, and they were drowned
while seeking that scclusion the deeper
water granted.
FIELD bakeries form part of the train
of nearly every European army. Des-
pite these arrangements, it has in re-
cent wars been frequently found i'm
possible to supply the large armies with
fresh bread from day to day, and it
seems likely that the attempt to do so
will be abandoned, and biscuit issued
instead of bread.
THE work of breaking 1900 acres OF
prairie for Indian farms at Standing
Rock, Dakota, has recently been com
pleted. The ground is broken in 10
acre lots, that being the amount allotted
to each family. These 10 acre lots in
some instances are grouped together,
but are separated by strips of unbroken
prairie, but they extend up and down
the Missouri on each side of Standing
Rock distan ce of Is miles.
INrEMPERANCE among the women of
Springfield, Mass. has excited the alarm
of a local temperance society. The Re
publican says that two women who were
richly dressed and who are accustomed
to move in the city's best society, went
shopping while so obviously drunk as
to attract the attention of all who saw
them. These are not the only women
of good social position who have been
seen in public, within few months,
the worse for wine or something
stronger.
A SUDDEN rain storm swelled a Da-
kota mountain stream to torrent, and
David Morton, arriving at its bank with
his wife in q wagon, found that he could
not cross. Desiring to get rid of Mrs.
Morton he threw her into the stream
and drove the horse in after her, letting
both drown. A Coroner's jury was
about to decide that the woman had
been accidentally killed, when detec-
tive arrived with the news that there
were the marks of a struggle beside the
stream. This overwhelmed Morton,
and he confessed the murder.
A CASE of phenomenal hard luck is
recited in Q dispatch from Acton, Ont,
where farmer, returning home after
dark, was thrown out of his wagon by q
runaway team and had his spine and
shoulder-blade badly injured. As he
lay insensible in the road q farmers dog
discovered him and set up LOUD bark
ing, whereupon the farmer and his son
came out with a shotgun, and, in the
belief that the unfortunate man was
some wild animal, lot him haYe charge
of shot in the neck which will probably
finish him.
DEAN STANLEY, in a late sermon, no
ticed the great improvement that has
taken place during the present century
in the habits and moral character O
seamen in the British Navy, and also il
the merchant service. Profane oaths
which were once thought even necessary
in the case of officers, have almost ceas
ed to be heard; the orgies which uset
to accompany the departure and return
of a vessel are no longer recognized a
part of sailors enjoyments; and j
here and there brutal passions and reck
less folly are still seen, they are regard
ed as disgrace to the British seaman
A SHORT time ago a good-lookins
young man, with fair complexion, ligh
hair and blue eyes, came to the hous'
of John letters, Chester County, Pa.
farmer, and began working for hi
board. He was well dressed and coult
not speak English. He said his nam
was Mark Byron, and that he came iron
Russia. Living in the letters house
hold was an attractive young woman
named Mary Slime. This young stran
ger fell in love with her, proposed mar
rage, and was rejected, Quaker Gus
toms intervening. He then procured
stock of eatables, and made his quarter
in an unoccupied schOol-house. Her
he drew portrait on the blackboard o
the Quaker girl he loved, and anothe