American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-04-05
HERE AND THERE.

"A JAPANESE merchant has been con-
demned to 10 years. hard labor for
opium smoking and setting the example.
to other Japanese. u -. 49,, 49,
1ATRAvELINa salesman for q Chicago
firm established a store of his own at
Berlin Heights, Ohio, and left, it in
charge of bis wife and clerk. On re-
turning from long trip he found that
the clerk had sold all the goods and fed
with the money. On further investiga-
ton he learned that the clerk had taken
his wife, too. son 't'i 81 7fhl
:. THE London Economist complains
that, although England is spending
$3.50, 00O, 900 a year on her army, it is
never ready to meet an enemy on short
notice, and that the small demand for
the Cape lately caused perceptible
strain. 1t proposes that Two camps,
each of 10, 900 men of all arms, should
be always kept in campaign order and
ready to start instantly. -a.s ust5
THE present Duke of Newcastle will
be rich man, with something like
f7O,OoO or 1000. a year, when he
comes of age, as the heavy charges on
the Worksop property are nearly paid
off. He is a cripple, owing to an acct
dent when child, which the nurse I'M
pardonably kept from the knowledge of
his parents, and the injured leg had to
be rebroken and set. .s......- y:
A COMMISSION has been appointed,
under the Presidency of H. E. Munif
Effendi, to efecta change, as itciscalled,
in the Turkish alphabet, but that does
not express it's real nature. The alpha
bet used by the Turks is the Arabic,
which is commonly so applied as to be
very imperfectly phonetic. 1t is pro-
posed in printing to isolate the letters,
instead of running them on, and to in
troduce vowels. '''' Z" '0'l '''''i.i'-
| OYSTERS in California, like those of
England, are small and copper-tasted
The Eastern oyster is SO superior that
California gourmands willingly pay the
4 extra cost of overland trans t. Trans
planted to Pacific shores, Eastern bi-
valves fatten, but their spawn perish.
Therefore, Pacific oyster can only
be keptup by constant renewels OF stock
from the Atlantic side. '=3T!4>
The Rev. William Dunbar is the Bap-
fist minister who was lately detected in
stealing vase from Rochester store.
i He had for 80 years been the honored
Ipastor of churches in Central New York,
! and strong effort was made to keep
his crime a secret but accu sations null
/ tiplied, and he is to go to trial. Officers
searched his house and found over, 5000
worth of things that he had stolen from
Rochester merchants. There were
books, shoes, knives, an opera glass,
gloves, and other articles, showing tina
he was a confirmed shoplifter. 'i -'i',
/ CASHIER CLARK of the National Bank
of Lowell, Mich, was another rogue
who hid his wickedness under reli giou!
activity. His word was regarded by thu
directors as sacred, and once, when al
examination of his books was suggested
tears welled up in his eyes, and h
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preached again. In the same meeting
of the directors, he inveigled them int
counting three notes twice as assets
thus hiding q theft of $4,000. He wa
exposed after he had used up about al
) the banks surplus of $4,000.
MISS BLAIsDELL found that the big
gest boy in her North Adams (Mass
, school was unruly, and made up he
mind to settle the question of supreme
, cy definitely. She led him into an ante
room, closed the door, and undertoo
> to whip him. There was q rough-and
e tumble fight, in which the combatant
+ pounded each other, rolled over an
over on the floor, and tore their clothes
> At length the boy was thrown fiat o
i his back, and the mistress knelt on h
It breast to hold him down. He was col
# quered; but an hour afterwar he w;
e taken violently i'll and his recovery
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