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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Don't forget Mrs. Fannie Jones
splendid bargains in Millinery
when you visit Canton.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
FOR CITY TREA~Un X ls.

WE are authorized to announce JAMES
w PRIESTLEY as acandidate for Treas-
urer of the city of Canton. Election &C.
ours in April.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Brizzolara keeps fine cigars
fresh beer, ana sells cheap for cash
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Embroideries new, elegant and cheap at
STADEkERS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
Open for the Season, and No Nil
take.

A large and fresh supply OF
Landreth's and Ferry's Garden
Seeds, Onion Sets, aud genuine
Northern Seed Potatoes, at
fit III. WINNERS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
Millinery! Millinery!

The very best articles for sale at
the very lowest prices by
Mrs FANNIE JONES.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Persons wishing Pianos Tuned
Can have it done Ivy appi! ing to me.
ADOLPHUS BROWN.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Corsets by the hundred from
bankrupt sale, at 30 and 10 cents
ut STADEKERS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

WENTWORTH FEMALE COLLEGE,
BrOokhaven. Miss School charges
reduced to $3.50 to June 2J.h, 1879.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

No two nations agree exactly
with each other as to what constitu-
res female beauty. The Mnors es>
:in ate women by their weight, as
we do beef cattle, and purchase
them at SO much u hundred. The
favorites of the Chinese have de-
formed feet, black teeth and long
nails. A girl painted sky blue,
with ing through her nose, is the
acme of loneliness to Tonga
Sander. The Nehetians almost
Worship red hair and SO nation al
tastes vary.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Elegant Spring Suits at STADEkElS
IF you want 10 Know what goes
on, read the CITIZEN.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Thirty days from date, March 21st, the
Snook Photo Gallery will leave canton to
return no more. Have you got all the pic
lures you want of your families, yourselves;
have you got all old pictures Won may wish
copied and enlarged attended to =? Your
neglect, may be lifelong regret. You
all know Shook portraits are fist class,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
STEAM ENGINE COMPANY.
HOOK AND LADDER co.
Notice.

All Obituary Notices, In Memo
Rams, tributes Of Respect ETC.. UiH be
charged ile cents per Ahe. No creep
tom ,ciu be made TO this rule.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
CITY DIRECTORY.
CITY COUNCIL.

CITY CDUNClL.
Robert Powell ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Mayor
James Mcfarland, }
Geo. Handy, East Ward Aldermen.
N. C. Orrick,
Robert Kemp,
Thomas Stewart, West Ward Aldermen.
Isham Garrett,
w. H. Bailey Fundamentally Treasurer
j. G. Thigpen. Marshal
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

Death is "a black Camel which
kneels ut the gates of all.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
POST OFFICE.

From and after this date, until further
notice, mails close as follows, from this
Office: For North and South at 9p. IN.
Sundays at q p. M.
Office hours daily. a. III, to 6 p. m.
SUNDAYS a. M. to 10 a. IN. Money Order
and Registered Letter Department., Q u. III.
10 5 p. III.
HENRY SMITH, Postmaster.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
CIRCUIT COURT.

.. D. SalnOon..-.---..-- --.-.-.-'.'-- .'""c'
T.. p Briscoe District Attorney
Circuit Court convens at Canton on the
4th Monday of March and September, and
continues ~ days. The judicial District
(9th) is composed of the counties of Midi
son, Yazoo, Kinds aud Copiah.
CHANCERY COURT.
T.. IL. PeytOn.--......---... ..--.--.--Siducciioi
Chancery Court coEvenes on the Sd
Monday of January and July and con-
tinues IL days. The same counties com
pose this, that compose the Circuit Court
district, aud is known rs the 9th Chan
Gerry District.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
w. B. .-Sup't of Education
G. w. Anderson Recommendations Clerk
T. ;. Jehrey -.---..-----.Ciiincefy Clerh
L. j. Pr1estiey....--......-.. -oheriH
j. N. AnuerSOll-- lTtasurer
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Robert Cheek, President;
J. X. Powell, j. s. +. Moore,
Geo. Hulm, 4. II. Green,
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Exclusively devoted to the treatment of
the urinary, generative and
nervous system.

Send tor
s.TIfE SEXUAL MONITOR.n
practical treatise of many years study
and experience upon the diseases of the
Urinary, Generative and Nervous System,
their causes and cure. Lectures on Sper-
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Vitality, Premature Decline in Man. etc.
Instructions to young persons about to
enter married lite. Important information
on Syphilis and other local contagious
diseases: their nature, variety and treat
ment. Preceded by a treatise on the Anat-
cmy and Physiology of the sexual organs,
the nervous system, etc. For the benefit
of all sufferers from these painful diseases,
and as. warning against the employment
oil useless and detrimental Quack medicines
and mixtures. BY J. G JONAS, NJ. ID.
On receipt If 30 cents it will be sent to any
part of the United States. ap6y
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22

With the opening of a New Year the pro-
prietor of the CITIZEN gives notice to its
many friends and the public that no pains
will be spared to make
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
YELLOW FEVER HUMOR.
Wholesale DisInfectiOn OF Railway
Passengers With a Squirt Lamp.
Louisville Post.

Louisville Post
a Post and News reporter in max
ing his rounds to-day, met Il brother
Of the cloth from Memphis.
Repsrter-What was your expert
ence in the journey from Memphis?
Memphian-They were very varied,
somewhat like Joseph's coat, of many
colors. It starting the refugee presents
himself to the doctor at Memphis, who
writes out a certificate setting forth
that he is sound in mind, body, sonI,
wind, etc, and has complied with all
regulations of the Board of Health.
Then he enters the crowded cars filed
with men, women and children, the
latter exercising their vocal abilities.
And then the journey begins. At the
platforms of the stations along the
route the entire population came out
to greet us with silent awe. They
seemed, however, to be much disap-
pointed, as we did not exactly repre-
sent the terrified creatures that were
expected to be seen we were not Lot
and his family fleeing from Sodom.
Bat the most interesting part of the
journey followed our arrival at Eliza
bcthtown. Here we were boarded by
some officials whose Importance was
plain to be seen, even before the pc
culiar machine which one carried was
noticed. lie was Il youthful-looking
individual, dressed in a blue coat and
the majesty or the great Board of
Health. The presence Of this inter
csting person was followed directly by
horrible results. Holding i'll his hand
Il lamp, or something like it, he did
something to it, and in an instant it
squirtcd aud fizzlcd all over the seats
the people and everywhere, and then,
great Caesar, what an odor crowded
the car to suffocationl The passen-
gers were choking mad, and many an
oath went up, not to heaven, though,
for VIC had too little breath left to
project them so high. Most of us
stuck our heads out of the windows,
while few applied their handker-
chiefs to their mouths and keep their
seats. The scoundreI-that's the
name we knew him by-passed, aud
we thoughtwe should be now thorough
ly disintected. But not 50. For soon
after another doctor came in with some
bromide" and he left it near the door
This was more than the everage Mem
phian can stand, SO one after another
in pretty rapid succession, passed out
of the door to get a breath of air
And that is disinfecting-making peo-
pie ride on the platforms.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
The Hereditary Influence of Alcohol.

The hereditary influence of alcohol
manifestS itself in various ways. 1t
transmits an appetite for strong drink
to the children, and these are likely to
have that form of drunkenness which
may be termed parOymsmal; that is,
they will go for a considerable period
without indulging, placing restraint
upon themselves, but at last all the
barriers of sclf-control gave way; they
yield to the irresistible appetite, and
and then their indulgence is extreme.
The drunkard by inheritance is more
helpless slave than his progenitor, and
the children that he begats are more
helpless still, unless on the mothers
side, there is engrafted upon them un-
tainted stock. But its hereditary in
fluence is not confined to the propaga-
ton of drukards.
1t produces insanity, idiocv, epilep-
sy, and other affections of the brain
and nervous system, not only in the
transgrcssor himself, but in his chill
dren, and these will transmit predispo-
sition to many of these diseases. Prit-
chard and Esquirol, two great anthor-
tiles upon the subject, attribute half of
the cases of insanity in England to the
use of alcohol. DR. Benjamin Rush
believed that one-third of the cases of
insanity III this country was caused by
intemperancc and this was long before
its hereditary potency was adequately
appreciated. DIR. $. G.. HOwn, attrib-
utcd one half of the cases of idiocy in
the State of Massachusetts to intemper-
ance, and he is sustained in his opin-
ion by the most reliable authorities.
DR.. Howe states that there were seven
idiots in one family, where both par
ents were drundards. One-half of the
idiots in England are of drunken par
entage, and the same Is true ofSweden,
and probably of most European coun-
tries. 1t is said that in st. Petersburg
most of the idiots come from drunken
parents.
When alcoholism does not prodnce
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07

much of the water that we drink with
a deadly although invisible poison.
Atlanta is comparatively new and
not a very compact city, and NJ great
harm has as yet come from this source;
but we are certainly in a way to ac-
cumulate degree of filth that will
sooner or later, not yellow fever per
haps, but other diseases a dangerous
fo0thold. Such will inevitably be the
case unless We call a halt. The city
authorities should forthwith cause
every vault to be filed up. Such a
nuisance and cause Of air and water
poison should not be allowed to exist
within the bounds of the city. In con-
nechon with such a movement the
people should be instructed how to
economically utilize the dry earth sys-
TEN, which is endorsed by the best
sanitarians of all countries. Perhaps
no better document is needed than the
report which we print this morning,
1t comes fresh from city that has no
time for theOry-spinning. 1t is the
outcome of and actual and awful ex-
perience; and we readily adopt the
suggestion of our patriotic and thought
fuI fellow-citizen, Major Campbell
Wallace, that this brief report be put
in cheap circular form and placed in
every hOusehould in the city. The
cost would be but n trife, while the
benefits might be incalculable.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07

insanity, ,idiotcy or epilepsy,it weakens
the conscience, impairs the viii, and
makes the individual the creature of
impulse and not of reason. DIR. Car
penter regards it as more potent in
weakening the will and arousing the
more violent passions than any other
agent, and thinks it not improbable
that the habitual use of alcohol bever-
ages, which are produced in such great
quantities in civilized countries, has
been one of great causes of the heredi-
tary tendency to insanity. In work
on the Diseases Of Modern Life" DR..
Richardson remarks: The solemnest
fact of all bearing upon the physical
deteriorations and upon the mental
alterations produced by alcohol is, that
the mischief inflicted by. it on man,
through his own act, cannot fail to be
transmitted to those who descend from
him, while the propensity to its use
descends also, making the evil interest
compound in its totality. DIR. Will
liam Parker.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
III Should Die Tonight.
III should die tonight,

If should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet face,
Before they laid it in its resting place.
And deem that death had left it almost fair
And lay snOw-white flowers against my hair,
Would smooth it down with fearful tenderness, ~
And fold nay hands with lingering carcss.
Poor hands, SO empty and so Geld tonight!
If I should die tonight,
Ny friends would call to mind, with loving thought
Some kindly deed the icy hand had wrought,
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said;
Errands on which the willing feet had sped
The memory of my selfshness and pride,
My hasty words, would all be put aside,
And so should be loved and mournsd tonight.
If should die tonight
Even hearts estTanged would turn once more to me
Recalling other days remorsefully,
The eyes that chill me with averted glance
Would look upon of yore, perchance,
And soften in the old, familiar way.
For who would war with dumb, unconscious clay
So might rest, forgiven of all tonight.
Oh, friends, pray tonight,
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow,
The way is lonely let me feel them now,
Think gently of me; am travel-wOrn,
My falteriDg feet pierced with many a thorn,
Forgive oh, hearts estrangcd forgive, plead
When dreamless rest is mine shall not need
The tenderness for which long tonight.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
THE ELECTION.

To-day is a crisis in the history of
Tennessee. We believe that the accep-
tance of the 50-4 proposition will do
more to solve and settle the financial
embarrassment in which the State is
involved than will the rejection of the
proposition. But whether the COM
promise be accepted or rejected, still
ms citizens, enjoying n common inher-
itance, we are called upon by the re-
sponsibilities of the present and the
interests of the future, to forget that
we were either the friends or opponents
of the compromise, and stand together
as a brotherhood in our citizenship;
resolved that we will contribute the
might of our personal influence to
strengthen and sustain the State, that
che may not be jostled aside by other
commemorative i'll the great race for
material and intellectual supremacy.
1t is not a personal but a public ques-
tion at issue. No ones personal integ-
rity is affected by opposing the meas
ure as it is only an honest difference
of opinion in II matter of State policy.
Let each man vote as he pleases, and
may the Ruler of nations order the
judgments of men to the best and
wisest results.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
The True Gentleman.

"He is above a low act. He can
not stoop to commit a fraud. He in
vades no secret in the keeping of an
other. He takes selfish advantage of
no mans mistake. He is ashamed
of innuendoes. He uses no ignobIe
weapons in controversy, He never
stabs in the dGrk. He is not one thing
to a mans face and another to his
back. If by accident he comes into
possession. Of his neighbours counsels, he
passes them into instant oblivion. He
bears sealed packages without tamper-
ing with the wax. Papers not ment
for his eye, whether they futter in at
his window, or lie open before him in
unregarded exposure, are secret to
him. He profanes no privacy of al
other however the sentry sleeps. Bolts
and bars, locks and keys, bonds and
securities, notices to trespassers, are
not for him. He may be trusted out
of sight-near the thinnest partition
anywhere. He buys no office, he sells
none, intrigues for none. He would
rather fail Of his rights than win them
through dishonor. He will eat honest
bread. He tramples on no sensitive
feelings. He insults no man. If he
has a rebuke for another he is straight
forward, open. and manly. He can
not descend to scurrillity. Billinsgate
does not lie on his track. OF women
and to her, speaks with decency and
respect. In short, whatever he judges
honorable lie practices toward every
one. He is not always dressed in
broadcloth. Some people, says a
distinguished bishop, think a gentle
man means man Of independent for
tunc-a man who fares sumptuously
every day; q man who need not labor
for his daily bread. None of these
make a gentleman-not one of them
not all of them together l have known
men Of the toughest exterior who have
been used all their lives to follow the
plow and to look after horses, ,as thor
Ough gentlemen in heart as any noble
man who ever wore q ducal corOnet.
l mean, have known them as unself-
ish, l have known them as truthful,
have known them as sympathizing !;
and all these qualities go to make
what | understand by the term "a
gentleman"
'It is a noble privilege which has
been sadly prostituted; and what l
want to tell you is, that the humblest
man who has the coarsest work to do,
yet, if his heart be tender, and pure,
and true, can be, in the most emphatic
sense of the word, "a gentleman. >"
The Christian Statesman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
A Strange and Fatal Malady.

Mr.. Edgar Hcndon, son of our venerable
townsman, Es'i. JnO. r. Hendon, died on
last Thursday night of a most singular and
and distressing disease. At Tuesday noon
he was in his usual very robust health and
so continued until about o'clock that
evening when he began to manifest signs of
mental aberrs ton. His brother, Mr. Geo.
Hcndon, was with him at the time and
thinking that he must be Intoxicated, tried
to control him. Finding this impossible, he
called up his father and other friends who
were compelled to hold him to prevent him
from killing himself, which he vowed that
he was going to do. He next manifested a
most wonderful biting mania and several
of his friends lost greater or less portions of
their clothing from the Use of his teeth.
Not only would he bite them, but the bed
clothes and everything which came in his
way, and when 50 held that he could reach
nothing with his teeth he would gnash his
them together in the icrcest way.
When his friends had held him until
their strength was entirely exhausted, he
was tied to the bed which he broke down
by his violent contortions. The biting
mania was succeeded by violent and terri
bic spasms. During these paroxysms the
utmost cxertions of four or five strong men
were required to keep him still, and the
only method to prevent their continued re-
currence was by giving the most extraordi-
nariIy large doses OF chIoroform and other
sedatiyes. Wnen their effects would wear
off, the spasms would return and this con-
tinued for more than forty hours until tn
vital powers were entirely exhausted when
he fell into comatose condition ending in
death.
He had the very best medical attention
and the most careful nursing, but the vio-
lencc Of the attack deIied all human skill
His symptoms greatly resembled those of
hydrophobia, except that there was no fear
of water; they were also somewhat like
those of tetanus, but exactly it was, the
physicians could not say. There was the
most violent congestion of stomach and
brain, but what cansod it coud not be told
We are requested by his bercaved parents
to return their most heartfelt thanks to the
physicians and other gentlemen for their
kind and patient attention upon their son
during his illness, and also 10 the pastors of
our churches and frien!s generally for the
sympathy and consideration shown to thcm
il their graf sorr0w.-S9me lie ! alcon.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
A MEMPHIS VIEW.
The Poison OF PrtVics the Cause Of
Yellow Fever.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
We present in another column the
report Of the Memphis Auxiliary SAM
tary Association on p'ivy vaults and
earth closets. We ask careful read
ing of it by every citizen of Atlanta.
The dreadful condition of Memphis TO
day is attributed by those who have
the best means of ascertaining the
truth to her privy vaults. Her bayou
and wooden pavements greatly CON
tribute to the sad result, but all who
have studied the case concur in saying
that the chief source of the present
epidemic is found in the reeking pits
that dot the entire surface Of the city.
hose pits bid fair to destroy thousands
uE lives, as well as the commercial
standing Of the once Prospering and
promising central city Our needs i'll
This respect are precisely those of
Memphis. We have hundreds, if not
thousands Of Such vaults, whose filt4
ts:r!s the air tina; We breathe, and fills
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
The Wheat Movement.

The New Orleans Times recently
called attention to the extraordinary
home and foreign demand for winter
wheat. We mentioned at the same
time that large French orders had
heeu received by New Orleans mer-
chants on which purchases had already
been made to the amount of $50, 900
bushels. We have what we regard as
good authority for saving that these
purchases have increased to $50, 900
bushels, and one firm informs us tha t
being unable to obtain freight room
here, it has forwarded its purchases via
Baltimore. OF the movement of win
ter wheat the Cincinnati Price Current
says: Never in the history of Cincin-
matt has there been such a trade in
wheat as during the past three weeks.
The movement has been so large that
all ordinary facilities for transporta-
tion have proved inadequate and the
railroads have been obliged to increase
their equipment by drawing cars from
the Northwest, but still the facilities
are not equal to the demand, and
shippers have to wait for cars. The
wheat comes mainly from Kentucky
and Indiana, where the crop proves to
be large beyond even the most san
guine expectations, and the marketing
of it so carly in the season draws mon
ey to the country commercially tribu-
tary to Cincinnati which cannot fail
10 have salutary influence upon the
general trade of the city during the
autumn months. The receipts of wheat
here from July l to July %, inclusive
amount to l,2I5,454 bushels. For
the corresponding time last year the
receipts were S00,5 bushels which
up to that time were the largest known.
The increase this year is 414,S ,S77 bush
or ever so per cent
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
TERMS OF ApvERTIsTNa.

For one year lin advanccl
FoI six
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07
George Bidder, "the Calculating Boy"

There recently died in England,
aged seventy-two years, a man of pro-
digious arithmetical powers, whose
mental faculties afforded matter for
profound research to psychologists.
His name was George Bidder, and va
rious are the anecdotes of his wonder
ful powers of calculation and of MEM
ory. A person could read to Bidder
two series Of fifteen figures, and with
out seeing or writing dewn a single
figure he would multiply one by the
other without an error. Once, before
a parliamentary Committee, an oppos-
ing counsel said: "You may as we'll
profess to tell us how many gallons
flow through Westminster bridge
every hour" I can tell you that, too,
was the reply, and he gave the num-
Der instantaneously. The whole fami-
ly possessed the same or similar pow
ers. The eldest son could also multiply
fifteen figures without seeing than,
but by a process of his own. Even
the granddaughters had extraordinary
powers of calculation. | had not pre-
viously heard of Mr.. Bidder, and I
take this note from Prof. Youman's
Popular Science Monthly.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-07

Col. NJ. T. Polk is in town and
states that it is generally believed that
the SOL proposition will be accepted
by good majority in the State.