American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-02
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
In Bombay cotton factory a man re
ceives So month, a woman 81, and
child $3.50.
A LODGE of Good Temp,ars has beel
formed among the Onondaga Indian
on the reserve near Syracuse, N. Y. ant
for year and half it has been yer.
successful.
THE Chinese Legation at Washington
went to tea-party the other evening
and one of its members amused tn
company by playing on five differen
Chinese instruments, all giving forth
mournful barbaric music.
A COMPARISON between the issues O.
stamps, stamped envelopes and posta
cards for 1873 and 1879 shows that the
total value of this years issue is S29,
$50, $50, an increase of S971,866 ovel
the value of those of last year.
JUN1Us POLK of Columbus, Tenn,
according to the Herald, has pet trout
which likes Junius as much as his little
school girl sweetheart. 1t jumps out Of
the water and takes minnows and fai
meat out of his hand. If he has nc
food, and is only "fooling" it. it catches
hold of his finger and bites till he hal
Ices.
A YOUNG gentleman of Brixton, Eng,
two years ago started Sunday after.
noon service for children, which is now
attended by from 500 to 600 children.
Within the last year he formed a
"Waste Not Society" among them, the
members of which collect waste paper,
from the sale of which they have sup
ported little girl in the Orphanage.
ONE of the latest attempts to convey
to the understanding the inconceivable
significance of billion Il ,000, 600, 00O,-
OOO) is that of Sir Henry Bessemer, who,
in q letter to the London Times, ex-
plains that billion sheets of that news
paper superimposed upon each other
and pressed into compact mass would
reach an altitude of Al, 348 miles!
ONE of the two American brothers
named Andrews, who recently crossed
the Atlantic in the Nautilus, the small
est sailing vessel that ever made the
passage, intends to come back in his lit
tie craft, accompanied only by pet dog.
He says that one man can edo" the
voyage more comfortably than two, be-
ing more independent, and better able
to suit himself in his hours of work and
rest.
Mr.. E. TALBOT, Postmaster at Lo-
gansport, is in trouble with his church,
the Presbyterian, because he is required
by law to keep his Office open for an
hour on Sunday. The charge sets forth
that he applied for and accepted the
Office knowing that the duties would
conflict with those he owed to his
church. The session, however, by q de-
cided vote refused to strike his name
from the rolls, and an appeal will prob
ably be made to the Presbytery.
A POsT-MORTEM examination of fe-
male elephant which died at the Zoolog-
cal Garden in Philadelphia last week
the fact that death was caused
BY the indulgence allowed to visitors to
iced the animals with whatever they
choose. In the beasts stomach was
found lot of pebbles, fish-bones, and
sticks, which, it is believed, were put in
and thrown to her by some
If the visitors to the garden on the
Fourth.
REV. w. II. SwARfZ of Beaver Falls, |
Pa, became an invalid soon after his
graduation at Allegheny College, and
inally the physicians pronounced his
case hopeless, telling him that he must
loon die. Mr.. Swartz says that he pray
I'd for miracle, but without effect.
Learning that the Rev. DR.. Cults of
Boston had been wonderfully success
ul in prayer, he wrote to him for help.
Dr.. Cullis prayed with uncommon ear
lestness, and said that the result would
be the cure of Mr.. Swartz.
Within two days, it is claimed, Mr..
'wartz was restored to perfect health.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has
written q grumbling criticism on New
England summer weather. "Can you,"
lie asks, set a day to be married in the
pen air, under a rose bower; can you
ct day for an excursion; can you
make lawn party; dare you put on a
White suit, and venture beyond shelter;
II dare you, madam, except in the house,
lon that gossamer raiment which is es-
entail to your comfort, and which, in
Is flowing lines and airy grace, express
8 your confidence in nature and in the
of manp What morning
an you trust and into what night can
GU venture without anxietyP"
LIEUT.. LANDsBURG of the Russian
imperial Guards has confessed to hav-
NO murdered MIe. Vlasoff and her
ervant in St. Petersburg. The object
f the murder was to obtain from Nine.
ylasoff bill of sale which she held on
lis property. Landsberg was consider
d in St. Petersburg society to be one of
he most promising officers in the Inn
'erial Guards. In Prince Mestchersky's
History of the Russo Turkish War;"
ecently published, his portrait figures
in the illustrations of the
iege of Plevna, in which he earned
promotion and several honorable dis
motions.
Two suits of a somewhat novel char
cter have been just brought in the New
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