American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-21
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
A PRoHIBIroRY liquor law is enforced
so rigidly in Worthington, Ind, that a
communion service was lately celebrated
with cider, the sexton having been una.
BILE to procure wine.
OFFICIAL reports from Cashmere
say it is impossible to exaggerate the
distress the famine is causing there.
The Maharajah of this province, at the
urgent request of the Viceroy of India,
Is proceeding to Serensgur to superin-
tend organization of relief. Three thou
sand five hundred tons of grain are in
transit to the valley of Cashmere.
DR.. KEYsER of Philadelphia has ex-
amined the eyes of the train hands of
three Philadelphia railways, and finds
that three and one-half per cent. are
color-blind. These can not discern the
difference between colors, and in addi-
ton there are eight and ons-half per
cent. who can distinguish colors, but
can not distinguish shades of the same
color apart.
Col. F. M. ABBOTT settled on farm
in Clay County, Miss, where the land
was rather sterile than fertile prairie.
Instead of going into cotton raising he
started a sheep ranch, and the other
day shipped 1,700 pounds of wool, be-
ing his first clip for the season. Col.
Abbott thinks he will make more money
from his stock than any two planters in
the country will from their cotton.
AN exchange warns farmers against
swindlers in this wise: When a strange
man calls at your farmhouse and gets
his dinner, pays for it and wants you to
sign receipt-just to show his employ
ers how the money went-don't you do
it. If you do, in about one month you
will have a note for about one hundred
dollars poked at you for payment, with
your own signature to it.
THE large New York stores now pro-
vide lunch for their customers. At
one establishment, in addition to
luncheon, there are also comfortable
newspapers, and pens, paper and en-
velopes for any one who wishes to send
off hasty note. Near by is a post
office where there is every convenience
and better attendance than is given in
some of the city post-offices.
SOME time since an agent of the Singer
Sewing machine Company in Indian
apolis attempted to remove a machine
from the house of Margaret Piper, in
default of payment of rent. Force was
used, and in the scuffle the leg of g.
year-old child was broken. Mrs. Piper
brought suit for $31, 200 against the
Company, and recovered from jury a
verdict for $4,000.
A NEW swindle is being attempted in
Vermont. Last fall travelling statesmen
disposed of lot of top-buggies to farm
ers and other at $50 apiece, and now
second gang are around claiming that
they hold chattel mortgages of $50 on
each vehicle. Some have given up
their carriages, while others will con-
test the matter. The dealers are sup
posed to be first cousins to the light
ming rod men who struck the farmers
last year.
THE annual meeting of the St. Louis
Society for the Suppression of Vice has
been held in that city, and most inter-
society were read. Mr.. Comstock of
New York said that during the past
year these organizations had destroyed
"a tons of books, pictures and other
things, which had been printed and
manufactured by depraved men and
women, and which were intended to be
scattered broadcast through the land.
just think of $4,000 pounds of vice be
ing destroyed! And this does not cover
the amount that must have passed into
the hands of innocent children.
CONCERNING old families, there died
in England few days ago a country
gentleman whose pedigree runs so far
back as to make most British Dukes and
Earls land such mere parvemus. This
gentleman was the nineteenth John
Harvey of Suffolk. He was descended
from the family of Nerves, in France,
and still possessed small property,
which had come down to him from a
date anterior to the conquest, in Nor
mandy, being probably the sole English
man holding such a relic. One of the
family, Bishop Harvey, founded in 1889
The see of Ely. In England q family of |
this kind has prestige far higher than
that of a new lord.
Mrs. HATCH has for years been
spiritual medium in Bos-
ton. Her specially is the production of
lowers from spirit sources. She gave
q seance, few evenings ago, at n pri-
vate residence. The lights were extin-
guished, as usual, and the persons in
the circle were enjoined to hold fast to
each others hands. Flowers were soon
dropped here and there, and Mrs. Hatch
began to explain how they had been
from distant places by spirit
hands. All the gas-burners in the room
lad been connected with an electric
lighting apparatus, and suddenly the
apartment was brightly illuminated.
The medium was completely exposed.
IN her lap was a pile of flowers, and she
vas caught in the act of tossing them in
he air.
THE war which Holland has been
vaging with the Achinese for so many