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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

THE first fruit of marriage is the APP
pie of it's parents eyes, when it isn't
a pear of twins.
AND now the returned city people
write to their country cousins, with
whom they have been staying, that they
arrived safely, but found the city infect
ed with smallpox, which is likely to last
all winter.-Boston Post.
THE height of humanity: To have Il
tapeworm and to avoid taking any thing
that could injure the health of the poor,
dear creature. The height of modesty:
To turn away on approaching river,
for fear it might suddenly leave its bed.
HIGH-HEELED shoes are going out of
style, but don't you begin to rejoice
over it. The women of this country
have never been over three weeks find
ing something to make them look twice
as ugly as the lastfashion did.-Detrot
Free Press.
THEY were talking about the APP
preaching theatrical season. She, in
nocently-"I believe Mary Anderson
has new play Love?'" He, taking
advantage of the uncertain construction
of the sentence" think she has,
DEAR Then she saw it and screamed.
Courier Journal.
HE was told to remain after school,
when the teacher, trying to impress upon
his youthful mind the sinfulness of not
speaking the truth, asked him if they
did not tell him, in the Sunday-school,
where bad boys went who told false
hoods. Choking with sobs, he said:
80 Yes ma'm; it's place where there is
fire, but 1 don't just remember the name
of the town.
AN exchange says some business men
never spend n cent for advertising,
either in the newspaper or any other
way. In the stores of such men are
generally seen old barrel heads, on
which are inscribed in chalk or char
coal such devices as these: Flower,
Korn, Meel, Pertatoes, Pourk, Cheze,
Kaliker, Kountrey projuice bawt and
sould, goods cheep fur Kash, Tee, Shug-
ar, etc.-Detroit Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

A young man whose money didn't
hold out as long as the State Fair, drop
ped into the telegraph Office yesterday
and sent a dispatch to his father in an
interior town to forward him cash to
reach home with. When the receiving
clerk saw that the dispatch read, s'To
John Blank, ESQ.," he suggested that a
saving could be made by erasing the
L" Esq
''Well, mebbe you think so, but l
DON'T replied the sender. ''When l
am Mt home l can call him dad all
day long, but when it comes down to
black and white you've got to Esquire
him right up TO the mines, or walk home
by the dirt road. Don't you dare leave
that off-not with the roads as muddy
as they are now!"
In about an hour the following an
swer was received:
To : John Blank, Esq, forwards
you $40, and you can have more if you want
it. JOHN BLANK, ESQ.
''Didn't L tell ye," chuckled the
young man as he read it. ''Dad's COM
mon enough when we're all home and
rushed to get fall wheat in, but the min
ute his back gets rested and II stranger
comes along he weighs more to the ton
than any s. Esq on legs. L tell We, you
don't know Il man till we've hoed corn
with him ,''-Deti'oa Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
Japanese Carpenters.

Japanese carpenters-a number of
whom have been exhibiting their skill in
fitting up the stage of Il San Francisco
theater for company of gymnasts from
Yeddo-have an advantage over Ameri
can mechanics, in the fact that they
have four hands instead of two, their
toes being as handy as their fingers, but
they gain nothing by it, because they
make no use of work-benches OF vises.
If a Japanese carpenter wants to
sharpen a saw, he squats down, places
the back of the tool to be operated upon
on the ground, grasps one end of the
saw with his left hand, SEXES the other
with the toes of his right foot, and goes
to work with as much confidence as an
American carpenter at a bench. Their
tools are not like American tools, though
they have faint similarity, showing
that all tools have a common parentage,
whether their inventor was Tubal Cain
or some other artificer. All japanese
saws are shaped like butchers cleavers.
The handle is like the handle of a cleaver,
but f1attish. as if whitfield out of a piece
of inch-board; the metal shank of the
saw is driven into that of the handle,
and the whole is secured by being wrap
ped with fine split cane. The metal
of the saw is about the substance of our
saws, but the teeth are narrower, Civ
ing more of them to an inch, and much
longer. They are all pointed toward the
handle, and cut the wood like so many
hooks. When Japanese wants to cut
a plank, he places it across any thing
that will elevate the end a few inches,
then stands on the wood and cuts it by
Selling the cleaver-looking saw and pull
ing it toward him. Thus, by number
of short, quick up strokes, he gets
through a plank not SO speedily, but
penter would with the long, low-dow
strokes of the rip-saw. The planes are
small, with single irons, and no ham
dies. The planes are shorter, lighter,
and the wood shallower than ours, be-
ing generally not more than an
inch deep. To plane piece of
wood they lay it on the ground, squat
down, hold it fast with their toes, and
work the plane with both hands toward
them. To drill hole they have Il short
anvil inserted in the end of round stick
eight or nine inches long. They take
the wood between their toes, squat as
before, and make the hole by rubbing
the handle of the awl between their
hands, in less time than one of our car
penters could drill one with IL gimlet
Their hammers are solid cylindrical
pieces, not made shapely with waists
and graceful outlines like ours. They
have the same flat-sided handles as the
saws. The Japs have iron squares, not
unlike American squares, marked with
degrees. Their measures are brass, very
light and fluted. On one side the inch,
or what stands for an inch with us, is
one and three-sixteenths inches, and di-
vided into ten parts. On the other side
is a different scale, measuring one and
thirteen-sixteenths inches, and divided
into twelve parts
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
The Sinking of Vessel by Whale.

Since it has been generally conceded
that the fish which foundered Capt. Lar
sens bark Columbia in mid-ocean by
humping big hole in her port bow
must have been whale, popular inter-
est in the accident has palpably de-
creased. In truth, it was hardly more
the strange disaster itself than the pos
sibility of II new and dangerous seal
monster being concerned in it that en-
cited attention-somem mysterious, pow
erful submarine creature, it was hoped,
hitherto unknown and unexpected.
Hence the opinion of one of the crew
that Il whale struck the vessel was ut
first secuted in favor of the more seduc-
lively indeiinit statement of another that
il was 80 Il huge something with fins and
tall All the evidence, however, is in
favor of the whale theory, and It's conceiv-
able that a big whale, going at full speed,
could stave in the planks of an old craft
like the Columbia. Had the vessel been
insured, some persons might possibly
have found ground for suspecting II
voluntary scuttling, but she is said not
to be insured. Besides, Capt. Larsen,
who is Il white-haircd mariner, with
candid eyes, broken English, and
an honest smile, has inspired general
confidence in his veracity. 1t is said
that this is the first ease on record of n
vessel actually sunk by Il whale. Per-
haps it should rather be called the first
case of a sunkcn vessel whose crew es-
capped TO tell the story. May not moro
than one vessel that has sailed and new
er been heard of have fallen a victim 10
this form of disaster?-Ncw FORT SIM.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GEN. BUTLER was in Milwaukee on
the Soldiers Home.
THE National Democratic Executive
Committee recently convened i'm Washing
ton, but nothing of importance connected
with its session has been made public.
JAMES REDPATH, the well known lee
ture manager, is missing from his home in
New York under mysterious circumstances.
His friends fear that he has committed sui
eide.
PRESIDENT HAYES and party had n
grand dinner and reception at the Grand
Pacific Hotel i'm CHICAGO on the evening of
the I'D.
THE seventh Congress of Women will
be held in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Capt.
toll. 1t will begin on the Sth of October, and
last three days. Among the speakers an
nounced are Mary Putnam jacob, Miss Alb
by w. May, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
Wells, Miss Goodell, and Mrs. Bagg. The
association invites "every woman whose
thought has been stirred, and who is seeking
to make her life truer and higher" to attend
the Congress.
Mr.. LEVY, proprietor of the London
Telegraph, is dead. He was one of the most
successful editors in London, and had he
lived three months longer, it is reported, he
would have received title at the recon-
mendation of the Beaconsfield Cabinet.
Roscoe CONKLING BRUCE is the
name given to the frst-born of the colored
Senator from Mississippi.
JUDGE A. w. HUBBARD formerly
-
Sioux City, on the 22d, in the sixty-first year
of his age.
Rev. JOSEPH p. THOMPSON, formerly
a well known Congregational minister of
New York, died in Berlin on the 21st of apo
plexy, aged go.
GENERAL POPE, of the United States
Army, is one of the claimants to the Hyde
estate, now lying in the Bank of England.
J. WARREN WOODWARD, Justice IF
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is dead.
PRESIDENT HAYES, General Sherman
and party arrived in Kansas on the oath.
A programme had been arranged Tor visiting
briefly all the principal cities and towns in
the State, returning Eastward about the list.
DANIEL DREW, who died in New
York the other day, aged 81, was few years
ago, quite as prominent a railroad man as
Jay Gould is now. Beginning his railroad
speculations about 1910, he gradually be-
came the greatest operator of his day in rail-
road securities. In single day he guar
anteed Erie's acceptance for million and
half. The panic of 1873 greatly crippled him,
and at his death he left no property in his
own name.
DIR. JUsTO AROsEMENA has been ap-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

On the Goth, at Memphis, there were
six deaths from fever and six new cases re-
ported. Among the dead is the Rev. Father
Reveille, Il well known Catholic priest, 80
years of age, native of France. He is the
fourth of his order who has died from the
fever this season. The epidemic is spread
ing into the adjacent country, cases being
reported at Oak Grove, Presidents Island,
and elsewhere.
On the 9th, at Memphis, there were
eight deaths from fever and four new eases
reported. For the week there were 81 deaths
and 63 new cases reported. Total number of
deaths to date, 49,.
On the 2Sth there were six deaths and
IL new cases reported.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
THE YELLOW FEVER.

On the 22d there were six deaths
from fever at Memphis and I6 new eases re-
ported. At Concorda the number of eases
t" same date had been %, nine of which
were fatal
On the 23d, at Memphis, there were
five deaths from fever and Is new eases re-
ported.
On the 9th, ut Memphis, there We're
eight deaths from fever and 10 new eases re-
ported.
On the 18th, at Memphis, there We're
reported.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

CABBAGE FARCIE.-Take u small,
hard head of cabbage, removing the two
or three outer leaves. Have Il pot of
boiling water ready, with plenty of salt
i'll it. Put in the cabbage and let it stay
ten minutes, and then place it i'll cold
water. Dry it. Take an apple-corer,
and cut out in the middle kind of we'll
like hole. Have any cold meat, which
chop fine. Season this with pepper and
salt, a little grated nutmeg, and some
thyme. To stiffcn it, add the yclks of
two eggs to the farcie. Fill up the hole,
which cover with n bit of leaf. Bind up
the cabbage with Irvine; use plenty of
twinc, So that it will be secure, This is
best boiled in stock, but if stock is not ut
hand, take some pieces of ham or ba-
con, and some beef bones, and put them
in the water. Boil your cabbage thor
oughly, and serve dry. Have tried
stuffed cucumbers, and find the receipt
excellent
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
Fine Clothes and their Wearers.

The daughters of the British Minister,
in Washington, while still schoolgirls,
never appeared in society. Very rarely
they were seen with their mother in a
box at the opera, and then astonished
the gay, bejeweled American girls with
their high-necked, plain, gray stuff
dresses and sailor hats.
English women of good position have
greatly the advantage of American
mothers in the good sense and taste they
display in dressing their girls. A school
girl in England is held to be child, and
is clothed with the modesty and SIM
plicity befitting child. There can be
nothing more pitiable than the spectacle
which is presented on Saturday after
moons on our fashionable thoroughfares,
when they are crowded with girls of
from II to 16 years of age, plumed, fur
beloved and jeweled, and showing in
every motion Il pert consciousness OF
their finery. Many of them, of course,
belong to families of small means. The
foolish mother stints, saves and stitches
until midnight to make the dresses and
finish the fincry which renders her child
ridiculous in the eyes of persons of good
taste, and which gives the girl herself
false notions of the Importance of dress
which debasc her whole nature. The
children of the Prince of Wales, one of
whom will probably some day sit upon
the English throne, wear in public gowns
and coats which many American boys
and girls would think very ordinary and
common.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

A DISPATCH from Vienna says the
conference between Bismarck and An
Grassy has resulted in an agreement
that German and Austrian interests in
all pending European questions are
identical, and that the condition of Eu-
rope is such as to leave no doubt that
the two Empires will be able to assert
those interests peaceably. 1t is further
stated that no hostile demonstration
against Russia has been considered.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

TIE city of Deadwood, Dakota, was
almost literally wiped out by fire on the
Goth. The fire originated in a bakery
soon after midnight II gained fearful
Roadway in few moments, and before
the people could be aroused the city's
doom was sealed. A high wind was
blowing at the time, the water supply
was short and the fire apparatus poor
and insufficient, in addition to which the
buildings were mostly of wood and poor
ly constructed, and burned like so much
chaff. About 125 business buildings,
besides so or 60 dwelling houses,
were destroyed, and while it is impossi-
BILE to give any definite figures regard
ing the loss, well posted business men
place it at from 81 SOC, 900 to g., OOO, 600.
The insurance is very small, it being
only recently that reliable companies
had begun to take risks there. About
1900 people are homeless and many
destitute. Upon request of a commit
tee of citizens, Gen. Sturgis, U. s. COM
mander at Fort Meade, detailed ccm-
pany of cavalry to act rs guard over the
burned city and protect such property
rs had been saved from the confagra-
ton.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

The Colorado Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Denver on the Esd,
nominated George Q. Richmond of
Pueblo for Supreme Judge
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

The Pennsylvania rohibitionists have
put State ticket in the field, headed
by William l.. Richardson for State
Treasurer
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

THE Massachusetts Prohibition State
Convention, held on the oath, nomi-
mated full State ticket, headed by Rev.
Daniel C. Eddy for Governor
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

THE Russian advance column of the
expedition in Central Asia has been de-
feated by Turcomans at Cock Tepe,
with "a loss of 200 killed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

THE Minnesota Democratic State Con-
vention, held on the 25th, nominated
Edmund Rice of st. Paul for Governor,
f. p. Barnum for Lieutenant Governor,
Felix A. Bower for Secretary of State,
Lyman b. Cowdry for Treasurer, p. NJ.
Babcock for Attorney General, and
VIM. Colyille for Railroad Commission
er. The financial plank of the platform
was the occasion of considerable wran-
Cling, the majority report of the Com
mittee favoring hard money, and the
minority report the unlimited use of
greenbacks., The majority report was
finally adopted.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

A couple of splendidly attired New
York women, ut the Philadelphia Expo
sition, thrust aside homely looking
couple from one of the cases, with u
glance of contempt at the mans scuffed
coat. They We're astonished to find that
the surging crowd followed the farmer
and his wife with every sign of respect
I" Who are they?' they asked. The
Emperor and Empress of Brazil" was
the answer. That wisest of rulers did
not need Il fine coat to give him rank
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

The War Department has received
official adviees from the fight of the 18th
uIt. mt the head of the Las Animas
River, in New Mexico, in which Victoria
and his band of rebellious Indians sue
cessfully repealed the troops sent against
them, inflicting a loss of five men killed
and one wounded and Sc horses killed
and six wounded. Victoria's band is
said to number about 40. Cavalry re-
Inducements have been sent forward,
and hot work is expected.
GENERAL GRANT, since his arrival at
San Francisco, has been put through
rapid succession of receptions, dinners,
excursions, etc., enough to quail the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

Miss JULIA JACKSON, the daughter
of " Stonewall - jackson, is now II 10
ycar-old schoolgirl in Baltimore. She
is atall and graceful young woman, with
fair hair, Il pretty complexion, beautiful
large gray eyes, and gentle manner.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

A TELEGRAM from Havana states that
three shareholders have emancipated
their 6,0CO slaves and contracted with
them for their services for five years.
The other shareholders intend following
their example. It is also stated that
several Deputies are resolved to move in
the Spanish Cores or Parliament for
the immediate abolition of slavery in
Cuba, without indemnity to the slave
holders
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

THE Exodus Relief Committees of
Wyandotte and Kansas City have, in
consideration of the probability of an
additional influx of colored Immigrants,
resolved that all proper means should
be taken to direct the tide of en-
igration into other and older States,
where accumulated wealth and popu-
lation afford better facilities for their
successful settlement
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

TIE following is the score of the six
days go-as-you-please pedestrian con-
test for the Ashley belt, at the Madison
Square Garder, New York, which ter
minated on the night of the 9th:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

THE rcigning beauties OF England are
daughters of clergymen.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

AN Odessa paper publishes letter
from Kief describing the terrible fire
which occurred in that city on the Sd of
September. While furious storm was
raging the offices of the Fire Brigade
and Chief of Police, a gunpowder maya
zine and four petroleum stores were
simultaneously set on fire. The whole
city was wrapped in a thick, black cloud
of smoke, and. every now and then peo-
pie were terrified by series of detona-
tons and loud explosions. The entire
garrison and firemen of the suburbs,
and many inhabitants, labored indie
fatigably to extinguish the fire, but, de-
spite their efforts, it continued until the
morning of the second day after it broke
out.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

A VIENNA correspondent of the Lon
don Times reports that, in consequence
of the bad harvest and numerous floods,
the distress in parts of Hungary threat
ems to become appalling during the
coming winter. The Banat District is
threatened with famine, and some of the
inhabitants are prepared to emigrate to
Seryia
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-24
SALTWATER NEWS.
Meeting of the county commissioners t
morrow, March rs.

Meeting of the county commissioners to-
morrow, March rs.
District school No. 16 will give public en-
tertainment, consisting Of retorical exercises,
at the Oak Park school house, this evening"
We are informed that there is some talk
of establishing daily paper in this city, but
as to whether it will amount to more than
talk it is impossible to say.
A number of gentlemen are endeavoring
to get up an excursion to go to ST. Paul.
Thursday, Friday or Saturday, for the pur-
pose OF attending tho Hess opera.
James Faust had an ankle thrown out of
JOINT, and one bone in his leg, between the
knee and ankle, broke, Saturday afternoon,in
scuttie. Faust was in Charlie Boo's saloon,
ana slightly under the influence of liquor.
upon the entrance of a man by the name of
Charles Holm Faust stepped up and slapped
MIN on the cheek; this act resulted in few
hot words which ended in a drink. Faust,
however, again became offensive, and the
two men clinching, wrestle ensued, in
"hlcn faust was severely thrown, and sew
eral men who were present jumped on to
-AAA''' ~ 10 AOC huOWu WueCQ0f MS leg was
broken in the wrestle, or when the other
men jumped on to him. The injured limb
was set by DR.. Willard, and Faust will prob
ably be laid up four OF five weeks.
The Harmonic quartette will give de.
lightful entertainment tomorrow evening.
at Opera hall. The desire has long been ex-
pressed that this quartette would give an en-
tertainment. and it is in accordance with
this expressed desire that the present enter
tainment will be given. The following is
the programme:
l. Quartet--Dancing " or the Waves.
z. Duet-Vieni Meco. Messrs Haskell and
Berry.
8. Solo-I Fear no Foe Mr.. Gorrie.
! 4. Violin Solo-Mr. H. Tepas. Piano ac-
companiement by Miss Theresia APPLE
8. Quartette-Lost Ship.
PART SECOND.
1. Solo-My Soul to God, My Heart te
Thee. MIR. Berry.
2. Piano Solo-AIr. H. W. Davis.
3. Duett-The Hunter. Messrs, Berry anC
| Gerrie.
! 4. Solo-Murmuring Voice of the Deep
Mr.. Masterman.
s. Quartet-Medley.