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American citizen., 1879-04-12
A Good Suggestion by Madam
Roberts.

: Ia it not time that some one in
fettered and put stop to this
walking" maIias There is a
Society forthe Prevention of Cruelty y
to Animals that Is good, believe,
in looking after dumb brutes who
cannot tell their misery, but why
not Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Human Beingsl Il it
not a blot Oh common humanity,
the sad and disgiaceful exhibition
given in New York at Gilmore's
Garden, where six women conImfnc
ed u walk Tor a certain period. Il
forget now the details and bad to
be carried of the track One is
dying, and the Others are in "a
dreadful condition; and for what ?
For money to keep body aud soul
together, and to put bread in
hungry children's mouths. Men
went there time after time to see an
old, grey haired wOman-en0ugh to
any feeling was Ieft-waIkIng
roung, trying, by throwing the
vitality of her last breath almost
into feat of physi endurance, 10
earn bread for those at home. Men
paid to see her aud others walk to
the door of death. when they would
not have given the entrance fee to
any poor soul to keep them from
starving. The money taken in to
see RowelI et al walk in New York
was $4,000. Think OF that, with
the thousands starving. suffering
around us for want of help.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
A COMMITTEE of the prorinen

A COMMITTEE of the pror inen
river men. appointed by the recent
Western river Convention to ex.
anime INTO Captain Cowden's plan
tor Improvement of rivers, have
made a report, at Cincinnati, re-
commesding the adoption of the
plans presented by Captain Cowden
for: the reclamation of Overfowed
'aads inEtbsa Mississippi valley by
artificial outlets for the waters at
,arinns points along the line of the
Mississippi river, and further re-
commanding that Convention be
I.elsi at Bt. Louis and IA excursion
n,sile to Sew Orleans. and Congress
anL others interes' ed in cheap trans
p,rtatjoD be iayjted' to attend.
Tie action OF the New Orleans Com
mrrcial Convention iu y, cewhcr is
iudnr,s'k
American citizen., 1879-04-12

at Is bekeyed;" says a telegram
from Washington, "that in case the
President vrtoes the pending bills
because Of their repeating clauses,
that the Govarsass OF the RepubIl-
can Sfatrs will call their Legisia-
sSres I'm extraordinary session, to
consider tie state of the Country,
ss9d tue St,tes..xir t&ke some steps
toward helping the FEEDER al Govern
msnt to go gu without the usual
appropriations. Not much faith il
hal j" this precious scheme, bat it
u ae~ talked of by men who arc
high in the Republican party's
councils"
American citizen., 1879-04-12
do Him Justice.
Carthage Carthnginian.I

Carthage CarthnginIan.I
A paragraph has been going the
rounds of the papers to the effect
that but for the heroic efforts ol
Congressman Chalmers neither the
Y.zoO nor Pearl rivers would have
had any appropriations. We have
no desire to detract FROM Gen. Chal-
mers reputation as q worker. for we
know he il capable OF making grand
efforts, aud therefore has no desire
to appear in borrowed plumage.
Hence we feel no hesitation in sag
ing that the statement contained III
the paragraph above alluded TO Is
not borne out by the facts Our
own Representative, COl.sSinglefOn,
through his untirlng efforts secnred
the appropriation OF 50, 900 to Pearl
river, and by his efforts in cOnjapc-
'tion with his colleagues secured
$15, 900 to the Yazoo river. Both
amounts fall far below what was
asked, but no more could be obtain
ed.
A point has been sought to he
made uIon Col. Singleton that be
did not vote upon the River and
Harbor bill. The long and short of
the matter is this: The bill was
passed i'm the closing hours OF Con-
gress, when the Committee OH APP
propriations was in almost constant
session, and Col. Singleton bt ing IA
member of CHS committee Was ABB
sent on this account from the Hall
OF the House when the vote was
taken. It is not the habit Ot our
distinguished and faithful Repre-
sentative to dodge vote upon any
question whatever, and any insinua-
.tion to the contrary does him gross
iniustice.
American citizen., 1879-04-12


PEOPLE who imagine that this
country has more periodical publ.
cations iii proportion to is populI'
ton than any other may be some
what surprised at the figures below,
hich we take from the New York
Times. New York has about $50
,h,ay, weekly, monthly and quarter
ly publications. Paris, with a
population very little larger, has
nearly three times AZ many. even
iacluding BrooklyB, Jersey City,
HobOken and othpr surrounding
towns. "Of these IL are occupied
with theology, 1O4 With jurisPr,ni-
ence and administration, 153 with
commerce and finance. % with geo.
graphy and history, 139 with recre. .
ton, 81 with instruction, 90 with
literature, .ami pathology, 8 with
architecture, 4 with photography,
l5 with music, IL with the drama
20 With fashions, 134 with industry,
81 with medicine, 4S with science,
2) with army and navy, 3S with
agriculture and % with sport. We
have some % dailies of all kinds /;
PARIS has 40, and II political re-
views, while we have not one. pro
perly speaking, our daily and week.
ly press covering the whole political
field"
American citizen., 1879-04-12

A REPOR5E& Of the New York
Wo.la, an unmarried mar, in ordt r
to expose the facility with which
divorces can be obtained, applied ia
a divorce lawyer Of that city to OF
tanned. for him separation from a
pretended wife. The lawyer obs
tanned a divorce trorn the Circuit
Court of W0olworth coNnty, Wis.,
consin, on the sole allegation Of in
compatibility of temper. Fhc
World asserts that the marriage sic
is a3solately at the mercy of un-
scrupulous lawyers.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
: The Columbus Inder tells a good

The Columbus Inder tells a good
story of an April fooling thereby
a teIeEraH from Meridian that
Capt. Bogardus and his son Eugene
IA wonderful genius of fourteen
years OF age, would arrive in
columbus ON the 1st of April, and
give an exhibition of their skill in
marknanahip. Everybody went to
the depot when the train arrived
6ut no Captain Bogardus was ON
board. The conductor ipGorped
them it was the LIST day Of April.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Proclamation.

BY the authority vested in me as Mayor
of the City of Canton, it is hereby ordered
that each and every citizen of the town
proceed at once to thoroughly cleanse
their premises and remove therefrom all
filth, manure or vegetable matter that
NAV have collected.
The Sanitary Committee are in .tr ucted
to give this matter the strictest attention,
and t. call i'm person at stated intervals. at
every house to Inspect all priviea, sinks,
OF any other places likely to breed disease
anil to report at once to tins office any
party neglectfng or refusing to obey this
order.
In view of the late terrible scourge
through which we have inst passed
and the possibility IF it's return at the
coming of warm weather, I earnestly beg
all good citizens TO unite with tine authori-
ties in SO cleansing and purifying sle' town
ny to remove even the fear of danger from
this source. Any information given the
Sanitary Committee or myself respecting
anyinf fri ngement Of the law will be thank
fully rect ived.
G. w. THOMAS, Mayor:
Mayors Office April 1lth, 1879.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Ono Of Oltr poorest exchanges
promises to enlarge if its pairons
will only "pay up" But that is exs
actly what the PATRONS don't want
the enlargement, The paper is
bad enough Az it is, and an enlarge
ment would only make it 80 much
the worse. they thiAk.-Comet.
Doubtless the size of the "poorest
exchange" above referred to is al
ready larger than the sonl-and
probably too large for the paucity of
knowledge, feebleness of intellect
and fshmarket style of the editor.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
Vicksburg Commercial: Ligh

Vicksburg Commercial Light
ming struck the Hill City twice yes
ter,lay. Several Of her citizens
drew a quarter of the capital prize
Of one million dollars in the Havana
lottery. and another one, Capt. T.
II Dickson, Secretary of the C0ttOn
Exchange, was nominated for Post
master by the President, and will
doubtless be confirmed. While the
rrsppointment Of Cap. Pease would
have been acceptable to large
number of our citiz"ns, the appoint.
ment OF Sir. Dickson will prove
sa,isfactory,
American citizen., 1879-04-12

The New Orleans Times Washing.
ton correspondent in a letter of The
9Th, says the largest National Bank
i'm America shows its confidence in
the sense ami patriotism of the Con-
fetlerate BrlgadlIers ia Congress by
taking forty millions of Government
bonds. This il said tn be the larg-
est investment ever made outside of
a syndicate.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
TIE New York World gives n

The New York World gives no.
'fice that asSsoon as it proposes to
dispose of itself to other parties,
It possesses full facilities for
making the announcemente in adj
vance OF ts esteeWed msddIesome
contemporaries, and will do 40 in
|f.ms to prevent its many friends
-sfom sustaining any losses from the
ychange.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
RANDALL has appointed Soma

RANDALL has appointed some of
nus committees. and Money is chair.
IA" OF the committee on postoffices
and postroads. Money was warm
supporter OF Randall, and the
Winona Advdsce, Mr.. Money .
nsostbpiece in Mississippi, announc.
Cd several weeks ago that he would
receive this position.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

- Mr.. Hayes has any backbone
he will have n chance to show it in
avery short time. The army bill.
Sith all its amendments, has passed
the House. and has been repor ted to
the Senate by the appropriation
committee without amendment and
Will doabtlers pass before the end
Of tie " ek.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
THE Louisyille Coxrie1-.Lour,o,

The Louisville Courier Journal. in
. lengthy double loaded editorial.
pronunces unequivocally for the
nominati0p of TiIden and Hendricks
as the Democratic presidenti Il
neket in 1880. It sa5s "anything
eiset chan the renominaaiss3 of the
Cd ticket, under all the circum.
.staDces, would be monstrous.n
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Northern Republicans are shows
ing their teeth TO the Southern nr>
grOes, now that the latter arc ''col =
Onizing" in Kansas and threatening
other Western States. The Cincin
natl Commercial, a Republican
organ, says, that the people in Indi-
ana who favor coloIe immigration
could he accommodated in a one
horse wagon, wI'hcui any bed or
''fliHnin gears.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
American Citizen.

"A SPECIAL from Columbia, s. c.,
eh' the Augusta EUening NeicS re,
ports Gov. Hampton as locking fine
md apparently as weh as ever, but
says that Ire tf,es- not intent % go
to WasIHn gton unless his presence
is urgently required.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

THE jury of inquest OF the body
at w. Ii. Andrews have found that
nc came to his death BY pistol
esot from q party unknown. and
hrtfcH declared il to be their Gde-
Fserate conviction that said pistol
was not la the hands of w. F. Fitz>
Rcs alJ."
American citizen., 1879-04-12

The Indians of Alaska have some
ideas in "Onf0rmity TO our liquor
laws. Tie late troubles in that sec
tion having grown out of u demand
for indemnity for the loss of brave
who killed himself drinking With II
white man iu that country.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Two Chinese laundry men in Gin.
cInnarI we're in good luck the other
day, and bank teller WAS in cor-
respontlingly bad luck. The Celes.
,ials took two hundred and fifty
dollars in bills and silver to the
bank to get it exchanged for more
convient gold. The teller counted
out the money, and tho Chinamen
gobbled the yellow pile and left the
bank in II hurry. without counting
it. Soon the unIucky teller found
that he had paid them four hundred
dollars, nearly twice as much as
they were entitled TO. He hunted
up the lucky Celestials, but they
wonId not disgorgp. In fact: they
made light of the matter, and
Laughed at the teller and the officers.
They understood very well that
they had done nothing criminal
with which they could be charged.
They had simply taken what tho
bank officer had given them and got
away with it. THE teller tried his
best to get the innOeents arrested
and squeezed, but without avail.
There was nothing to charge them
wi II, SO he charged himself with
the amount of his blunder on the
bank books. He is now of the Opin-
lou that the Chinese are q curse to
this country and wants them driven
out.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

CARLoB in the Mobile Reqistt r
aays: "H:yes isa poor creature at
scsf, with nothing to he prond of in
the past; nothing To- lock forward
to IN the future He wifi ee down
IN history as fraud Who obtained
possession of the White House By
hautl
American citizen., 1879-04-12

SENATOR BAYARD on Tuesday
demanded an immediate repeal OF
the test oath sections of the Revised
Statutes, but Senator Etlmunds Oh
iected, and the bill goes before the
Judiciary Committee.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

The Richmond State understands
that Simon Cameron will not accept
the appointment of Minister to the
Court Of st. James 90 long as Queen
Victory remains widow,
American citizen., 1879-04-12
Lieut.. Bennes's Family CaYed For
New York Tribune

Lieut.. 3enner's Family Ca1ed E'o1
New York Tribune.
The fund held in trust by the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Central Trust Company of this city
for the benefit OF the widow and
orphan children of the late Lieut..
Hiram III. Benner, has been incrcas-
ed by the addition OF $1,000 from
General 9. q. Augur. of Newport
barricks, Kentucky. This amount
is part of the contributors raised
in the South and West, and was
sent TO the committee Of the CHAINS
ber by General Augur, with the re-
quest that it he invested in United
States bonds. The family will now
receive an annual income of S66O !;
and, moreover, a comfortable house
has been purchased with other coIf~
tributions for the widow at E!gin,
ILL.,, where.she will make her home.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Major Ii. S. Foote, JE, lawyer
Of ability and splendid stump
speaker, whom our people have
heard in this county OIL several oc-
casions in the canvass Of 1870 and
1876, is a candidate for District
Attorney for the district composed
of Yazoo. Madison, Kinds and
COpiah.-ILeTingtoA Advertiser.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Mrs. Oliver had u family Bible,
but somebody stole it f; the thief did
not need 1t as much rs did the SO
called Widoy.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Mai. Henry s. Foote of Canton is
a candidate for District ; ttOrney
for this. the 8 II District. The man
who beats him will be elected
Ydzoo Sentinel.
American citizen., 1879-04-12
Fire at Coffee lille

COFFEEVILLE, April "a fire
DESTROY ed Mrs. Hurtley's hotel. the
Morning saloon, AstOr's dry goods
store, Seay Il Kelly's variety store,
Bonderant's grocery store and +. B.
Herr0n's warehouse and G. V. Bus-
wells saloon. Loss estimated, at
thirty thousand dollars. .sa
American citizen., 1879-04-12

The Supreme Court OF Missis-
sippi met at Jackson on Monday
last.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

Gen. Grants MUD is said to be
seriously impaired.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

The widow of the late A. T.Stcw.
art IS travelling in the South.
American citizen., 1879-04-12

T. A. Pr E'Rs,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
Grants Campaign.

Chicago, Dec. 30.-A Washington
special says the managers of the Grant
presidential boom have agreed upon a
plan for the appointment of delegates
to the Chicago convention.
The alleged scheme calls for the
meeting of the republican delegates of
New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana
and Illinois, supposed to be sure for
Grant, in February, and with solid
Grant delegations from these states
SO early in the season it is expected that
all opposition to the third term will die
out.
{ Conkling, Cameron and Logan are
credited with originating this plan.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
"ALL /" OR NONE" "
THE rARTISG WORDS OF HATCH
The General Leaves Early In the
rning-Thoroughiy Disgusted
His UIsimstum to the Utes
Another Conncil.

Los Pinos, Dec. 2S.-The commission
adjourned yesterday to meet on the Goth
inst. at Cline's ranch at Cimmerron
river, 25 miles southeast of the agency,
there to await the arrival Of the prison.
ers. Gen. Hatch and escort left this
morning at four O'Clock in a drizzling
rain. The five days extension expires
on the goth inst, and if all the Indians
demanded by the commission are not
surrendered at that date the peace ne
gotiations will end. "All or Eone,"
were the parting words of Gen. Hatch
to Ouray as he left the commission
rooms yesterday for his ranch to hold
the final Indian council. which ere this
has decided the fate of the Ute nation.
Ouray fully realizes the situation, and
knows the demand of the commission
is the demand of the nation, and IL not
complied with that the Utes must go.
The surrender of prisoners is very doubt
full. Chief Guero, second to Ouray, be-
ing medicine man, has large follow
ing, and lie has done more than all the
others to hinder the commission from
accomplishing its work He is in favor
of war, and at the time of the White
river trouble wanted to massacre the
people living on the Gunnison, and was
only restrained by Ouray.
If the war department takes charge
of the Utes, and the troops are ordered
in, they must come quickly, or Los
Pinos agency may prove second White
river affair. When Ouray leaves for
Washington there will be no one left to
restrain the young bucks, and Guero is
SO hostile to the whites that he is liable
to cut loose at any moment.
Gen. Hatch has been very patient,
and il successful, will be the first to
have been successful in effecting the
peaceable surrender of Indian prisoners
and he certainly deserves some recog-
milton from the president and congress
for his services as president of the Ute
commission.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
THE GRANT BOON.
An Electric Lamp ON the Republics
Outlook

An Electric Lamp ON the Republican
Outlook.
Washington, Dec. 30,-The presence
of Gen. Grant in this city has naturally
given forward impetus to the current
Of political speculation concerning the
next presidency. The latest talk
among the prominent advocates of
Grants nomination is that it can be
absolutely assured before the middle of
March. They say the republican state
conventions will be held in New York
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana, in
February, and that the delegates of
those states will be instructed to vote
for Grant, in which event he would
thus early have pledged to him more
than half enough votes to give him the
nomination.
1t is asserted that Senators Conkling
and Cameron have already arranged
for the conventions in New York and
Pennsylvania in February, and that
Indiana is being manipulated by the
Assistant Postmaster Brady and others
to hold its convention the same month,
and that Senator Logan has promised
to see to it that Illinois follows suit.
1t is further assumed that if the
plan succeeds, the states which held
their conventions subsequently will
want to go with the popular tide, and
hence the influence of four great states
declaring for Grant in February, will
be felt upon all the others.
An enthusiastic Grant man of much
promise said to-day, Why, believe
that by the middle of March it will be
shown SO definitely that Grant is to be
the nominee that Sherman will retire;
that Blaine will be reconciled to take
the second place on the ticket, and
that when the convention meets in
June, the only name before the conven-
tion will be that of Ulyssus S. Grant,"
The friends Of Blaine and Sherman
content themselves at present with
smiling at these confident predictions,
or remark simply that the Grant boom
is little too exaggerated in its present
manifestations to last as long even as
February without very material abate-
ment
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
GREAT GUNS
AND AnmUNrTIoN FOR AueusrA
The Military stores At Bangor sent
by Order OF tho Governor TO
the Capitai-Garee-
Ions Course

Bangor, Dec. 30.-The arsenal was
opened to-day under the order of Adj't.
Gen. Levitt, who called OH Mayor
Brown to notify him of the orders
FROM the governor for the removal of
the arms. The mayor suggested that
the removal be made in the quietest
manner, and believed there would be
no interference with those acting un-
der proper authority.
This afternoon several teams laden
with arms and ammunition, without
any military or other guard, passed
through the stress to the Main Gen.
trail depot without molestation, the
people standing on the sidewalks in
large numbers. The ammunition will
go to Augusta on the night train.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31


Capetown, Dec. pa meeting of
the beers took place on the 10th inst,
from which trouble was anticipated in
some quarters, but it dispersed quietly
after adopting a resolution to maintain
the demand for the independence of
Transvaal and elect volksraad. Paul
Kruger was chosen to the leadership,
and was instructed to summon the
volksraad. The meeting was earnest,
quiet and orderly. Another meeting,
to take place on the sixth of April. has
been provided for. - q
Sir Garnet WolselY, supreme militia
ry and civil commander in Natal and
Transvaal, at public dinner in Preto-
ria, said that henceforth Transvaal
would be regarded as crown colony.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
.maarits Forthcoming.

Pennington, Me-, Dec. 3o.-In an
swer to the statement by Councillor
Brown, in his remarks at Fairfield that
Pennington was thrown out because
the returns were not sealed up in open
town meeting, two of the selectmen of
this town, both greenbackers, (the
third has not been seen) will make affi-
davit in substance that the returns
were made and sealed in open town
meeting, and in presence of the town
clerk and a full board of selectmen,
and that each signed his own name to
each return, and in the presence of the
board, after the returns had been made
up; that the returns were then attested
by the town clerk and sealed up in open
town meeting in. presence of the full
board The town clerk will make affi-
davit in confirmation of the same
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
AN INCOME WITHOUT CARE.

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Messrs Lawrence & Co.'s new circu-
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All kinds of bonds and stocks wanted.
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
That Railway Accident.

London, Dec. 30.-The official report
of the North British railway in regard
to the terrible calamity on Sunday from
the break in the Fay bridge, says the
falling girders made very clean break
from the portion standing. Almost the
only signs of the smash are the ends of
the rails on which the trains ran, which
are torn asunder. The rails remaining
are wrenched out of their chairs for
some yards. .Y .0a8
The gale of Sunday extended from
Boscastle to Liverpool and much dam
age was done on land and to shipping,
including the loss of French barque
and eight men.