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COOKS LECTURES.


These famous ectures, delivered n Boston
every Monday, by the Rev. JOSepn COok VII!
BE- published d IN fuli, together with the iniIo-
ductOry remarks.
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by eminent clergymen IN all par;S of u
country will continue to b. printed
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
discriminating the Buffalo.

While people paid thirty cents pound
for bull beef of uncertain age and deri-
walton few years ago, these vast legions
of slaughtered animals lost their juci-
ness and flavor by rotting under the ac-
ton of the scorching sun-hundreds of
thousands of them scattered over scores
of miles on the parched prairies, vic
tins of Vacations "desires for re-
laxation,'' and the like. Two or three
years ago, the Kansas Pacific train,
while making its way over the prairies
from Kansas City to Denver, was fire.
quently compelled to make stops of sew
eral hours duration, in order to allow
the enormous herds of buffalo to cross
its track. Sometimes 5000 passed i'll
one herd. Now the passengers not
once in six months behold buffalo
from the train during prairie journey
of between GOO and 700 miles. They
are greeted, however, every few miles
with the sight of great piles of bleached
bones-buffalo bones, gathered by bone
hunters, who make a very good living
out of their collections. These fellows
have pretty well cleared up the plains,
although one still sees the occasional
skeleton bleaching alone in its entirety.
I can not give much of an idea of the
immense slaughter of larger game. y
good deal has been said about it al
ready, and l have too much to talk
about to take up secondhand matter.
But one instance | must give rs charac-
teristic of the great destruction. On the
Kansas prairies there was, a few years
ago, a man who shot buffalos enough to
keep nine men steadily employed in
skinning them. Imagine what slaughter
this single hunter accomplished; and all
he wanted were the buffalo skins, which
command n fine price, and used to af-
ford a profitable business. The buffaloS
are at present banished from the great
plains A few are occasionally found
in Southern New Mexico, but most of
them have gone north to the British
possessions-C olOradO Cor. Boston Her
,IH
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
Queer Spelling.

Post-office clerks are often put to their
wits ends to decipher the superscrip-
ton of IA letter. Some queer examples
of the superscriptions that exercise the
patience and ingenuity of the clerks come
from not large New Jersey PoSt-oifiee.
..Ellenouse - for Illinois: " Wornalie
for Warrens's Alley: Long Ilent - for
Long Island; Wridgewud - for Ridge
wood: Pilateltia - for Philadelphia;
:. Serekuse " for Syracuse; ''GhOcian -
and =. Gosen for Goshen; . PietSch-
street - for Peach Street " Peascick - for
Passaic; ''Carol Stod - for Carlsbad;
=. Perkipsey - for Poughkeepsie; ''Wcst
Concine - for Wisconsin; - Missury "
for Missouri: Orench County for
Orange County; - SincinatiS " for Gin
cinnati; " Marilen - for Maryland;
- Boolm Fildc " for Bloomfield: Con
Is" for Kansas; =. PAIGE - for PaSsaic;
II. O. u for Iowa; and "Poelean
foY Pauline N, !, San,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23

There were % new cases of yellow fe-
yer and II deaths at Memphis on the 18th.
The report of yellow fever at Corinth,
Miss, had no foundation in fact.
The New Orleans City Council, on the
18th, adopted resolutions declaring there was
not IA case of yellow fever in the city, and
protesting against the unjust quarantine es-
tabished by Southern cities and towns
against New Orleans.
The United States Consul at Malta
moras, Mexico, telegraphs that the yellow fe-
yer is prevailing in most virulent form at
Tampico, and that the ''people are dying
like flies.'
There were % new cases of yellow
fever and II deaths at Memphis on the 18th.
The report of yellow fever at Corinth,
Miss. had no foundation in fact.
On the 18th there were 10 deaths
from yellow fever and 40 new eases in Mem
phs. OF the 40 new eases, 30 We're colored.
The fever has invaded Garfield Colored Or
phan Asylum, which contains about 40 in
mates. Acting upon the advice of the Ma
tional Board of Health, more effective
system of isolation and disinfection has
been inaugurated. Yellow flags have been
posted on all houses where there are cases of
fever.
There were II new cases of yellow fe-
yer at Memphis, on the 18th, IL of whom
We're colorcd. The deaths numbered seven.
a meeting of representatives of the
National Board of Health, of the Mississippi
Valley Sanitary Association, and the Boards
of Health of the States of Tennessee, Ar
kansas and Illinois, was held at the qIIaran-
tine station, six miles below Cairo,
the 18th instant. Among others
present was DR.. Langstaff of Memphis.
After long consultation the conclusion was
to continue to carry out fully the plan of iso-
lating cases of fever similar to that proposed
by DR.. Cochran of Mobile. and to render all
possible aid to the State and local Boards of
Health.
On the 10th there were seven deaths
from yellow fever and p new eases at Mem
phis. On the 18th there We're four deaths
and % new cases. For the week ending OH
the 10th. the number of new cases was 1873:
deaths, 46. Total number of deaths to same
date, 1879.
DIR. John johnson has withdrawn his
resignation as a member of the Tennessee
State Board of Health, former differences
having been adjusted.
Another case of fever was reported at
White Haven, Tenn, on the 10Th, also one
at Bailey Station on same date.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
WIT AND WISDOM.

To make raspberry jam-put twenty
five quarts of the berries in your coat
tail pocket and sit on them.
my dear boy said a careful Oil City
mother, sits raining to-day, so don'tgo
in swimming or you'll get wet. "-Oa
city Derrick.
ROBERT APPLE, the wealthy Califor-
MAN who died recently in San Francisco,
bequeathed $4,000 for the erection of
a free drinking fountain in that city.
The old story of Romulus and Remus
being raised by a wolf is outdone every
day in Kentucky, where men are raised
by mules, sometimes fatally-St. Louis
Times-,JoatY7aaI.
JOHN SCRAwL of Chicago is Il shock
ingly poor penman. Yesterday, his
friend Jonas Copperplate of this city re-
ceived a telegram from him. 81 It's as
tonishing,'' remarked Jonas, ''how
much better John writes when he sends
a telegram than when he sends letter.
Detroit Free Press.
You may talk about equality and all
that sort of thing, but until woman
can 90 weeks journey, with no other
baggage than a clean handkerchief and
a toothbrush, she can never hope to oc-
cupy position upon the same exalted
plane with us who are natures lords of
the universe. -Rockland Courier.
IT gives man vivid conception of
the hollowness of all earthly things when
he sees the commander of barber-shop
with head as barren as the bottom of a
wash-bowl, and then reads his name on
bottle of hair invigorator warranted
to produce hyperion curls on a bald head
in three months.-Syracuse Sunday
Times.
'HERE we have the great Egyptian
wonder, captured in the wilds of South
Africa, with loss of five thousand men
and an expenditure of forty millions of
treasurer exclaimed the Snowman,
shaking his whip in a threatening man.
ner at stuffed hide in a glass cage.
''Don't 90 too Close said mother to
her son; sit might seize you.' ''Have
no fears, madam, for the safety of your
offspring observed the Snowman, elo-
quently; ''for does not~the good book
teach us that wonders will never seizep
Pass rapidly on to the next cage and
view the living skeleton, or the man who
married his mother-in-law.'
IT has long been a question in my
mind whether the Pullman blankets are
stuffed or weather-boarded. L think now
they must be built on the plan of the
Victoria bridge. The one slept under
last night was an inch and a half thicker
than Miller platform, and just about
as elastic When the porter folded it
up he had to go outside, lay it on the
rail, and let the train run over it to
make crease in it. When you cover
up with one, you think you have drawn
the drapery of a plank sidewalk about
you, or else covered yourself up with q
wharfboat or the side of a frame hous =.
All last night l dreamed was turtle,
sea turtle, one of the tortoise comb
denomination, and that l had caught
cold in my shell and couldn't bend it
Huuch;PUP
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
One Chance for Grant.

There is a perceptible pensiveness
on the face of the Grant movement,
something like the sadness that steals
over the face of the landscape when.
the fierce life of summer begins to fade
into the decay of autumn. 1t betrays
the suspicion just dawning on the
minds OF those who have been push
ing the movement that they have run
it for more than there was in it-Over-
taxed it-and now that it has begun to
slacken, there is no source to draw
fresh stimulus from. The authors of
the movement have done an immense
amount of work in the last months,
without doubt; but it has been to little
purpose. They have expended their
energies on the air, and now that the
hurrah is beginning to die out, they
are chagrined to find so small residu-
UNI for all their efforts, while Sherman
is leaving his cold footprints all over
the country in places where they will
do most good.
Still, the Grant movement is not al
together hopeless. There is one con-
tingeDcy which its authors have not
hitherto contemplated, but which they
might direct their attention to with
some chance of success. 1t is the
''dark horse" business. Sherman is
not to have things all his own way.
Blaine is at work, and Conkling is not
idle. The Chicago Tribune regards
Blaine as n most formidable aspirant
-" the same bold, brilliant, audacious
and aggressive man now' that he was
in 1876; and it is certain that if he shall
manage to secure Maine from the DEM
ocrats and Greenbackers at the APP
r,rn "a G
the shaken Republican ascendancy in
the State, his name will again resound
in the Presidential lists. Conkling has
little strengthened enough to do him
any good, but still enough to do great
deal of harm to the antagonist he most
dislikes. He will control New York,
and the vote of New York is a power
that cannot safely be disregarded,
either in nominating conventions or in
the Electoral count. AS Blaine, Nor
ton, Bristow and Conkling defeated one
another in 1876, and forced the conven-
ton to turn to Hayes in despair, SO
Blaine, Sherman and COnkling may
battle the convention again and compel
it to nominate Grant with the acclar1a-
ton he exacts as an indispensable con-
dition of his reappearance. But to
give their favorite the benefit of this
reversionary interest in the estates of
the other three, the Grant partisans
must withhold him at the beginning,
and content themselves with the chances
of capturing an exhausted convention.
1t would not be difficult to make him
the second choice of delegations, and
this might secure for him the nomina-
ton after the movement for an original
nomination shall have failed.-St.
LOnis Republican,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
Was This a Nation In 1S762

just at this time the Republicans are
vociferously asserting that ''this is q
Nation" One Republican state con-
vention started the cry, another caught
it up, and it is now running along the
whole line. The corollary to "this is
Nation" is, as the Pennsylvania Re-
publicans express it, that 1.-THE election
of Congressman and Presidential Elec-
tors is subject to the N ational CONTROL"
or, as the Wisconsin Republicans put
it, that 1.-THE elections of members of
Congress are National elections" and
it is the duty of the National Govern
ment to supervise them.
We do not presume to take issue with
the Republicans on this Nationality
matter, and to deny this is g. Nation;
but we desire to call the attention of
that amiable party to an occasion on
which they themselves held that this is
not Nation. Do they remember the
Presidential election of 1876, and the
dispute that followed it? They would
like to forget it, but they cannot, for it
was only three years ago. At that cleo
ton their Presidential cadidate was
beaten, and the Democratic candidate
elected. When the fact was discovered
they suddenly forgot their Nationality
doctrine and became furious CHI ampions
of State-rights. Nationality would not
serve them in the work they proposed,
for the Nation had by majority of
257, 900 votes. declared for Tilden and
Hendricks. But they got round this
by first suborning the mercenary
Returning Boards of Louisiana
and Florida to falsify the result in those
States. and then organizing an Electoral
IN RI IN at
Presidential electors are State officers,
the elections for them are State cleo
tons, and the National Government has
no authority to 60 behind the returns
of them and review the action of a
State Returning Board; to doth is would
be an unwarranta5le invasion of State
rights! The State Returning Board
might falsify the result: they might
certify 3 fraud instead of the fact; they
might send in the names of the de-
feated candidates for electors, instead
of the names of those who were really
chosen, and thus infiict a wrong, not
only on the people of their State, but
upon the whole people of the United
States. No matter; there was no
remedy for such a wrong; fraud
committed by State Returning Board
must be allowed to stand, for there was
no authority in the National Govern
ment to undo it!
This was the Republican doctrine in
1877, and on it they made Mr.. Hayes
President. In fact, all the Nationality
cosideration in the electoral dispute of
1877 was on the side of Tilden, and the
only basis for his opponents claim was
wretched perversion Of the State
rights doctrine.
DO the Republican leaders imagine
the people have no memories? Do they
fiatter themselves that the country
has forgotten the enormous fraud they
committed behind the mask of State
rights in 1877, and that it can be be-
guiled by their present affectation OF
Nationality 2-SE Louis Republican,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A MOST sensational affair, which
promises to develop into scandal of nation
al magnitude, occurred at the residence Of
ex-senator Sprague at Narragansett Pier,
H. L., on the Sth. Various accounts of the
affair have been telegraphed, most of them
designed evidently to cover up the real facts
in the ease, which are briefly that ex-senator
Sprague, shotgun in hand, compelled Sena-
tor Conkling of New York to beat hasty re-
treat from the Sprague mansion, where he
had recently arrived as n guest. The New
York Senator's attentions to the wife of the
ex-senator from Rhode Island have long
been the theme Of Washington gossip. Mrs.
Sprague. as IL well known. is the daughter
Of ex-Gov. Chase Of Ohio, and her beauty
and accomplishments are of national ce-
lebrity.
The Congressional Election Commit
tees investigation at Cincinnati closed on the
9th.
MEssRs. MOODY and Sankey are to
hold revival meetings in Cleveland during
the month of October. On the LIST of No
vember they will go to st. Louis, and re-
main, it is expected, during the entire WIN
ter.
THERE was a meeting at Indianapo-
lis. on the 18th, of delegates representing
the various Temperance organizations
throughout the State. A State Association
was organized, and another meeting will
be held in November.
THE Wallace Congressional Commit
Zee commenced taking testimony at Boston
on the 18th.
BISHOP ODENHEIMER OEpiscOpaD of
New jersey died on the 14th, aged 62.
PRESIDENT HAYES has accepted invi-
tations to attend the Agricultural Fair to be
held at Neosho, Kansas, on Sept. %, also
the Indiana State Fair to be held at Indian
apolis during October.
WALTER PAINE, Third Treasurer of
the American Linen Company of Fall River,
Mass. has used and lost S 1OO, 200 or more
of the company's money in private stock
speculations. Paine is brother-in-law of
Durfee, another defaulter, and is about 30
years old.
THE fund raised for the widow of
Lieut.. Benner, who died of yellow fever last
year, has been so invested as to yield her an
income of 5000 year. In addition she has
Chicago, paid for.
ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the composer of
g Pinafore," is i'm such poor health that his
physicians have ordered him to stop work
entirely for time and to travel.
THE Governor-General of Canada
and the Princes Louise have gone on a visit
to Nova Scotia.
The venerable DIR. Poisal is one of
the oldest ministers of the Methodist Church
South. He was Chaplain of the House of
Representatives, but is laid aside from ac-
tive ministerial duty. He has now been APP
pointed to comfortable position in the New
York POst-office.
WIN. w. ROACH, Cashier of the Citi-
izens' Bank of Washington, ID. c., is Il de-
faulter to the amount of $50, 200. His bonds
men pay 5 600, and he himself turns over
his own property to the bank.
CHARLES G. FISHER, eX-Assistant
District Attorney of the District Of Column
bia, has been convicted Of obtaining money
on worthless checks in New York, and SEN
fenced to the Elmira Reformatory.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
THE YELLOW FEVER.

There were "a new eases and six
deaths from yellow fever at Memphis on the
11th. Among the dead is the Rev. J. Rid
ley, popular colored preacher. pastor of
Collins Chapel.
DIR. Edward Norman, Il young physi-
elan recently from the yellow fever district,
was stricken with the disease ut Louisville
on the I1th. He was sent to the hospital. and
the house where he was stoppin" was thor
oughly disinfected.
TWENTY-FIVE new eases and eight
deaths was the yellow fever record ut Mem
phis on the 18th. 4 case had developed ut
White Haven, eight miles south of the city g.
where Il number of families had taken
refuge.
Ninety-thrcc deaths occurred from
yellow fever in Havana for the week ending
July 9. II decrease II 10 FROM the previous
week,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
In the Embrace of a Bear.

A few days ago John l.. Campbell,
William Whiteman, j. A. McNerney of
Lock Haven, Pa, and a gentleman
named Brown, who were camping on
Mosquito Creek, in Clearfield County,
left camp to go to Clifford Run, four
miles distant, to fish for trout. Each,
in addition to fishing tackle, carried a
rifle, in the hope of getting shot at a
pack of wolves that have their lair in IA
wild gorge at the head of Clifford Run.
When about three miles away from
camp while passing through the woods
McNerney separated from the rest of the
party, and soon afterward was startled
by noise in the brush short distance
to his right. Looking in that direction
he saw Il small bear cub. He gave
chase and captured it. So elated was
he with his success that he failed to no.
tice the approach of the maternal br1lin
until she was within few feet of him.
Being unable to get to his
rifle, which he had laid aside
when he pursued the cub, he
clstSJci tHc young besti uuuci MS ei III
and darted down the mountain side.
The enraged dam followed, and before
the hunter was aware of it he was in the
animals rude embrace. He tried to
free himself, but in vain, and he began
to cry for help. Campbell and White
man heard him and arrived not Il mo-
ment too soon. They found McNerney
in bruins embrace, his clothes literally
torn in shreds, and his body so badly
lacerated from the teeth and claws of
the animal that he was helpless. White
man and Campbell advanced to within
IA few feet of their comrade, and taking
deliberate aim fired ut the bear. Al
though both charges took effect the con-
test was not ended. With II savage
growl the Infatuated animal sprang upon
Whiteman, bearing him to the ground,
the shock rendering him insensible. AT
this juncture Brown arrived and sent Il
bullet through the brain of the beast,
killing it instantly. The wounded men
were then carried back to camp and
their wounds dressed. Bears are nu-
merous in the mountains of Clearfield
County, and berry pickers are frequent
ly driven home by them.-Cor. N. y.
SIM
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
VOLUME xxx.

DIR STANFORD f.. CHAILLE, Chair
man of the Havana Yellow Fever Com
mission, reports to the National Board
of Health that he has investigated the
facts relative to the prevalence of the
disease upon the Island of Cuba, and
finds that more than 20 years ago out of
Sc towns only two insignificant were
free from the disease. Every seaport
town had it. Dr. Chaille claims that
the first authenticated epidemic occur
red in 176I instead of 1862, rs heretofore
accepted, and that it has continued cpl
demic ever since.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23

AT what time in a horses life may he
be said to be in "his primer" Ninety
nine per cent. of our horses are destroy
ell by abuse, overwOrk or neglect, mostly
before they arrive at maturity l know
by experience that 1O-year-old horse
will do his work better, and more of it,
than horse 5 years old. l knew II
small, well bred butchers horse in Eng
land, which was 80 years old, and he had
been at that business many years, and
butchers did not then drive slow by any
means. | knew horse broken at II
years old, which for the next II years
could endure excessive driving without
getting off his feed, or showing injury
or fatigue
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23

The daughter of the Treasurer of
Greenfield County, Ohio, stole $500 of
public money, and her father was likely
To soon discover the crime. Seeing two
strangers in the village, she threw the
account books on the floor in the office,
tore up some papers, scratched her face
and screamed. To those who respond
ed to the alarm she said that two men
had overpowered her and taken the
money. The strangers were arrested,
and she pretended to identify them as
the robbers: but her story did not bear
close scrutiny, and at last she confessed