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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
WIT AND WISDOM.

SUMMERS tiles are straw hats.
The New Orleans Picayune knows of
an old farmer who used to put jug at
the further end of q row of corn, and
then say to his men, "Hoe, every one
that thirsteth."
IT is not only an empty reason, but
solid truth, that prompts us to remark
that every pocket, unlike every cloud,
has not silver iniDg.-PhiIadelphtG
Sunday Item.
AN editor has one advantage over a
King. When an editor goes out riding
in his open barouche drawn by four
milk-white steeds he is never shot at by
Socialist. You have probably re-
marked this yourself. -Norristoson Her.
aid.
An Iowa husband furnished his wife
$50 to buy silk dress, but instead of
so doing she put the money in the bank,
let it remain there Is years, added to it
whenever she could, and the other day
paid off a mortgage on the farm.
Is comment necessaryp-Detro1 Free
Press.
WHEN a woman buys a kettle of paint
to paint, say the kitchen door, she
doesn't let what's left after covering the
door dry up. No; she paints every
thing paintable in the house with it till
the last drop is exhausted, until all
things about the premises-tubs, boxes,
and barrels, fiower-pots, wheelbarrow
and hoe-handle-have put on the kitch-
en- door tint. be it green, yellow or
brown, black, purple or crimson. She
does this to save the paint; only this and
nothing more.-Boston Transcript.
HERE is an American anecdote, given
in the Paris Figaro as a receipt for find
ing stolen umbrella, which we don't
remember seeing in any American pa
per: A New York merchant had his
umbrella stolen in church. He &C
cordingly inserted in newspaper the
following advertisement: "H the per-
son who took Mr.. KS umbrella does
not return it without delay to his house,
a whole edifice of piety and respecta-
bility will crumble and fall like house
of cards. The person is perfectly well
Known Next day the Yankee when
he came down stairs found in his front
hall mot only his own umbrella but q
score of others, whose proprietors had
recognized themselves in the advertise
ment. The Figaro warmly recommends
to its friends this method of finding
lost umbrella.
Nor long ago, in country town,
barrister was examining a lady witness,
who would talk, and who would not let
any one of the lawyers bubbles get the
better of her. The forensic advocate
grew irate at the old lady's loquacity,
and as she stepped down after her bad
gering, remarked, "You see, your Hon
or, these old women will talk. They are
very troublesome and will waste the
time of the Court" His Honor looked
up, relieved himself with one of his PEI
culiar signs, and replied: "Ah, Mr..
-, there are other odd women in this
Court who waste timeg besides that re-
spectacle old lady who has just left the
witness box" His Honor looked very
serious, but every body else enjoyed the
luxury of broad grin, the hit was SO
liberalization Courier.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
The Facts Concerning Hiawa-
tha's WOOing.

At the front door of his wigwam sat
the ancient Arrow-maker-calle for
short Badly Sours-making arrow heads
of jasper, or what he said was jasper,
though on this point there's q question
in the minds of those who purchased
came for miles and miles to purchase.
At his side sat Minnehaha-sat his
daughter Laughing Water - plating
mats of flags and rushes to take down
unto the village and swap off unto the
merchants for few jim-cracks and tin
cans to adorn her lovely person.
He was thinking as he sat there of
the days when, with such arrows, he
had chased the deer and bison on the
Muskoday, the meadow-chased them
up and down the meadow, and then
saw them scud fast from him.
She was thinking of hunter from
another tribe and nation, young and
tall and quite a masher, who, one
morning in the springtime, came to buy
her daddy's arrows, and, departing,
smiled upon her, saying, "You're the
squaw for me-" Dressed he was, and
all in blankets, of the color of the rain
bow, and his hair was full of feathers.
feathers of the goose, the wawa, and
the cock-a-doodle-do.
Through their thoughts they heard
footstep, heard a rustling in the branch
es, and with painted nose and forehead
suddenly, from out the wildwood, Hia-
watha stood before them
And the maiden leered up at him,
leered up from her seat of rushes,
scratched her head and spake unto him:
Bully boy! I'm glad to see you'll"
"After many years of warfare" thus
began young Hiawatha, speaking to the
Arrow-maker, "many years of strife
and bloodshed, there is peace between the
Jayhawks and the tribe of the Gin
swizzlers," and then added. speaking
slowly: I" That this peace may add for
ever, and our hands be clasped more
closely, and our hearts be more united,
give me, as my wife, this maiden, Min
nehaha undergraduates, and I'll give
you sixteen gallons of the finest fire.
water, fire-water that will make you git
right up and howl tremendous, make
your hair to stand on end, stand like the
quilts upon the hedgehog, make you
dance and sing and holler; firewater
that is hotter than the hottest aquafor-
tis.'
And the ancient Arrow-maker spoke
up briskly, and made answer: "Heaven
bless you, my dear children!"
And in less than sixty minutes by the
watch the gay Tick Tick, the ancient Ar
row-maker, was rip-roaring, staving
blind; or, to draw it slightly milder, he
was fuller than a goose; fuller than the
goose, the wawa; and his children had
gone westward to grow upward with the
country. Cincinnati Enquirer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
AND POLITICAL.


AhH Cinclnna., oaSe.e Is au.nori'y
tor Zach Ch.ndlsr .re detern;red mon
pushing him for the Presidencv-
TIE Rennblicans of the Fifth Iowa
District have nominated Mayor Thompson
to fill the vacancy in Congress made by the
decease Of Representative Clark.
Rev. SAMUEL s. HARRIS has accepted
the Rishopric Of Michipan. tn which be WAS
elected by the Episconal Convention held
recently in Detroit. Mr.. Harris has been
for some ve.rs the rector NJ 81 James,s
Chrr,h Ch;..o. N. .. 49,. 90
soe NJ 6ne nersor.i .nnssr.nce snJ stanSs
high among the clergy AZ an eloouent
preacher and able debater.
Cpopor p Rxvvo,ns tho So,.I.
Mormon. convicted of hioar,v under the
limited States law has been sentenced tn
two years. imprisonment in the Detroit PEN
itentiary and $500 fine. A strong effort is
being made to induce President Hayes to
grant pardon.
THE widow of Commodore Matthew
C. Perry, of Japan Treaty fame, has just
aieo. sne was the mother OF Mrs. August
NJ C- N n..c ~.
ne H. moOioA VI I'M
~ ~ 'S
Frencn Academy OF sciences.
GENERAL GRANT and party arrived
at Shanghai, China, on the 18th Of May, and
were received with great honor.
Tuv ,,-ocood;roa .nd fnd;ros NJ tho
court.martial in the case of Col. d. 8. Stan.
lev and Col. w. B. Hazen, of which Gen.
Hancock was President, have been made
public. The Court found Stanley guilty OF
conuuct W Inc preJuoice VI soou oIoel anu
miiitary oisciphne' ana sentenced MN 10 DC
aua, ~ 81. ~ GENERAL ofueiS ny 'n' "en-
CuARIrs Eo,,rr Ceneral Pasaen.
:. y.s.,,. D.,,....-, a., =
8. 80. - ~ ne lei. .~as se "'eN '''
D' o .ne .osn' $50 w.
posrNvn.~s ~. .r,,ron. rh;,oso,,ho- :.
dad
ooole =, lanes ooluon Don-
Ho o 80 ~ 1
e U ~ sA 81
18th. The 25th of June was the date set for
her departure for Behring Straits.
,,d o#,o-. - +h a
soon to be retired. whose terms of service
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

The long-distance pedestrian contest
for the Ashley belt was begun at Agri-
cultural Hall, London, on the 10th.
Four contestants appeared Ennis
of Chicago, Blower Brown of Turnham
Green. r. Harding of Blackwell, and E.
P. Weston of New York. Rowell,
present champion, was unable to enter,
on account of an injury to his foot.
He therefore forfeits his stake and the
belt.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

BED BUGs.-A lady advises the read
ers of the Country Gentleman, if they
want cure for bed-bugs, to take
ounce of quicksilver and beat up with
the whites of eggs, and they have a
sure remedy.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

TELEGRAMs from Cairo report that the
English and French Consuls- General
had an interview with the Khedive on
the 18th and demanded his abdication
in favor of his son, Prince Mohamed
Tewpik. The Khedive replied that
when his creditors were paid he would
abdicate.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

THE London Times says that an ear
| ly dissolution of Parliament is probable,
and adds: "It is obvious that on all
sides there are indications of the ap-
proach of great electoral struggle.
The great questions of foreign policy
which have occupied the minds of the
country for the last few years are rapid
ly approaching solution, for good or
harm. When the time comes for the
English people to say how the Ministers
have discharged their trust, they will
not fail to bear in mind the difficulties
the Government have had to encounter,
as well as their method of dealing with
Them" The Times makes reference to
q dispatch from Alexandria stating that
the French Government had decided to
insist upon the deposition of the
Khedive, and says: cit is not to be sup
posed that the French Government
would have taken q step of such impor-
lance without the consent or acquies-
cence of our Government, and if it has
been taken at all we have entered upon
a new and very critical stage of the
Egyptian question"
The California Republican State
Convention nominated George C. Per-
kins for Governor, John Mansfield for
Lieutenant-G Governor, d. M. Burns for
Secretary of State, and D. M. Kenfield
for Comptroller. The platform sus-
tains the Presidents veto policy, advo-
Gates Congressional regulation of inter-
State railroad traffic, and denounces
Chinese immigration.
WESTON will return to America bring
ing back the champion belt. In the six
days. pedestrian contest at London he
made the unparalleled record of $50
miles, his only lasting competitor. Blow
er Brown, being nearly a hundred miles
behind him at the close. Browns pre-
vious record was 542 miles. Weston
came out in good condition, and could
have added few more miles to his
record had it been necessary. 1t is said
that Rowell will now challenge Weston
THE President, on the 21st, signed
the Legislative, Judicial and Executive
Appropriation bill; also, the joint reso-
luton amendatory of the Civil Sundry
bill.
In consideration of the doubts ex-
pressed by many Senators as to the pro-
priety of making appointments in ad-
vance of actual vacancy Of Office, the
President has withdrawn the nomination
of Mr.. McCrary for Judge of the Eighth
Judicial District
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

THE Kansas Pacific Railroad, after
being for nearly three years in the
hands of a receiver, has been transferred,
by order of the United States Court. to
s. H. H. Clark, General Manager of the
Union Pacific Railroad, representing
the Jay Gould interest
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

publican papers declare that the Napo-
leonic system has no longer represent
alive.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

The Fall River Mass spinners, at
q meeting held on the 14th, determined
that after a 10 days. notice, unless their
demand for Is per cent. increase was
acceded to, they would inaugurate a
general strike. The manufacturers are
equally firm in their determination not
to accede to the demands of the spin
ners, and say they will close their mills
in the event of spinners' strike, thus
throwing out of work some $4,000
operatives.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

IT is reported that Price & Co., the
contractors for the Mississippi River
fast-mail service, having been unable to
secure the necessary subscriptions to
build the boats required. have notified
the Department Of their intention to
abandon the project.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

The International boat race at New
castle-on-Tyne, England, between Han
Ian, the American, and Elliott, the En-
glish oarsman, was won by the Ameri-
can easily by 10 boat-lengths.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

The House Committee on Elections
have decided that the Iowa October cleo
tions were legal. That although the
Constitution of the State was vague on
the contested points, the construction
placed upon it by the judicial and civil
officers of the State was the best method
of determining its meaning. Under
this decision Messrs. Sapp and Carpen-
ter will retain their seats.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

THE President, on the 21st, signed
the Legislative, Judicial and Executive
Appropriation bill; also, the joint reso-
luton amendatory of the Civil Sundry
Appropriation bill.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

DE LEssEPs announces that q first
subscription of two million francs, in
Rhares of five thousand francs each, has
been made in Paris for his Panama
Canal project. cit will now be posi-
ble," he says, "to obtain concessions
and commence the undertaking.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28

DIR. VANDERPoEL, Health Officer at
Quarantine. New York, says unless rig
id quarantine is kept up there is q pos
ability of yellow fever making its ap-
pearance in New York. Two vessels
with the disease on board, he said. were
in the upper bay. discharging their car
goes.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26

The Bellaire Odd Fellows elected OH
GERS Tuesday evening to serve for the next
six months, as follows: Fred. Blckel, n,
G.; WIN. Blamey, v. G.; Geo. D. Heath
erington, Secretary.
Carroll, the watchman who had bis leg
cut off on the bridge, died Wednesday
morning.
Jas. McGregor, Of Martinsburg, arrived
here Wednesday morning. His father
James MCGregor, is lying at the point O.
death at his home back OF this city.
Misses Caldwell, OF Captina, and MOllit
IIamag6 and Milton Ramage, OF Jacobs
burg, we're in town Wednesday. A mum
Der Of other excursiOnists came in OH lhC
narrow gauge.
There seems to DO no lack oil applica
tions for positions as teachers In the Bell
aire schools. Several gentlemen have
put in for Mr.. Whites place, since the ex
animation.
Some boys on Gravel Hill broke thu
windows In Miss Ada Jones school room
and hurt some OF her pupils with th'
stones thrown. For some cause, real Of
imaginary, the boys seemed bent on do
ing damage OF some kind there. One boy
Is reported to have even threatened the
burning OF the building. r. G. +.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26
TIME TABLE.
ELM GROVE RAILROAD.

ON AND AFTER TUESDAY, April ia, 1879 the
" Cans on the Wheeling and Elm Grove 3. 4. will
run follows Cars will leave the city corner Mar
ket and EIeYeilth slreets Il and StAtnm'Ga nj
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26

day, costs SIS, 582, 900, a difference Of SO,
100000, or more than 8 per cent on the
capital stock Of all the railroads in the
country. nyiew Of these facts, it is not
stranget that theroadS,at lowerireight rates,
are making more money than ever before.
On single road Of heavy traffic, this saw
ing can be- given more exactly. 1t cost the
Erie S2,O30 mile annually to buy It's new
rails for repairs in 1872; since then the
road has been laid with steel rails, the
amount Of new rails needed has thereby
been reduced, and the price OF the rails
has fallen besides; so that the rails now
purchased for repairs cost but $953 per
mile yearly. This, on the entire line Of
the road, Is saving Of 81 800, 900 annual.
IT,
Apropos to this matter Of railroad ex.
penses, we notice that Commissioner Fink
testified before the railroad committee at
New York the other day that under the
present pooling arrangement the alI-rail
late for 100 pounds from New York to
Chicago is 70 cents for lirst.class freight,
90 cents for second.class, so cents for third
and forty for iourth.class. The lines using
lake transportation beyond Buffalo charge
q cents for fourth.Class freight. The New
York Central gets about ~ per cent OF The
40.cent arrangement. Mr.. Fink said that
there would bel loss in charging less than
"A cents per 100 pounds on fOunh.class
freight from New York to Chicago
and anything under 10 cents from Chi.
Cago to New York. The Baltimore and
Ohio road runs twenty-five and thirty full
freight cars TO train, but the Pennsyl.
vania road uses heavier engines and has
- cars to a train; the Erie carries an aver.
age of 81 10 80 full cars oil through trains.
The cost OF transportation on the Erie
road is higher thanon the New York Cen.
trail, but coal on the Erie is cheaper. It's
machinery is also better adapted for haul.
lug up grades as compared with other
roads. The roads doing the largest
amount of business can be operated more
cheaply than roads doing small business.
The cutting Of railroad rates, Mr.. Fink
considers highly injurious to public inter.
ests The railroads are public servants
and ought to serve all persons alike as
common carriers. An insolvent railroad
is dangerous rival to solvent roads, in
competition as to rates, because the in.
solvent roads can carry goods at n rate
that would only pay running expenses.
As general rule distance is taken into
account when there is competition. In
other cases the char ges are too apt to be
arbitrary.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26

Mr.. Vice President Keyser's idea Of the
railroad problem, as expressed to an Ii,
rELlIGEXcER interviewer last winter, is
finding its veriGcation in certain statistics
Just published in regard to steel rails by
tho Railroad Ga:eth. From these it Is
shown that tho annual saving in railroad
repairs effected by the use of steel rails in
this country is placed atSlg,OOO,OOO. This
calculation is based upon the tact that in
1872, when the extensive use Of steel rails
begun, nearly II per cent Of the rails laid
had be be replaced yearly, while in 1878
only 81 per cent had to be'reilatd. This
Is not tho only saving. About 100000
miles Of track are builtin the United States,
and to relay II per cent Of this in 1872
would have cost SSS,5SO,OOO at the price
OF rails then; to replace 81 per cent now,
the average share needed for repairs 10.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26

>TnE extent to which the branches OF a
higher education, German, music and
drawing, are introduced in the lower
grades OF the public schools to the exclu-
sion OF English studies has been attacked
in minority report made 10 the Chicago
school board from committee on option.
al studies. Chicago has school rooms
large enough to hold at any one time but
10000 Of tho l25,0OO children Of school
age. On the average, children in Chicago
attend school but 40 days before leav-
ing the public schools altogether, and one
fourth OF the children in school, 1t was
found on inquiry, had averaged but 100
days OF schooling. Of this limited time,
which must OF necessity include all the
instruction received in public schools in
reading, writing and arithmetic, one.sixth
goes to learning to read music. Taking
the entire number Of children collectively,
and the exclusion Of music and drawing
would add one month year to the in
struction Of $4,000 children in common
school studies; and three.fOurths Of these
children do not stay, more than long
enough to receive rudimentary drill in
those studies under tho most favorable
training. The Chicago school authorities
decided, however, to continue the present
course in music and drawing, course ar
ranged for IL years, although not one
child in hundred completes it.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26

Prsom tearing torn for The "G1on, and Sum.
mer Travellers, can hare THE DAILY TSrELLI.
uEScER mailed to them, postpaid, torG5 cents
per month, Mradin@ being changed as often
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26
A valuable Digest.

A Valuable Digest.
We acknowledge the receipt Of an ad'
mirabIy condensed budget Of statistics in
regard to the iron trade Of the country
from Messrs. Il. l.. Harper 4 Co., Of Gin
cinnati. They have put into series OIL
tables, in nicely printed shape, the facts
and figures recently furnished by James
NJ. Swank, Secretary Of the American Iron
and Steel Association, to the meeting OIL
manufacturers at Pittsburgh. Some oil
these figures we have already given to our
readers, but it will do no harm TO so over
the same ground little in order to get at
the useful information furnished by these
condensed tables. Beginning with 1850 the
annual production Of pig was 7SG, 2lS tons.
The yield increased year by year till 1873,
when the heaviest total was reached
9,SGS,27S. During the then succeeding
years production decreased, the total Of
1876 being 9, O93, 23G tons. From that time
it has increased, last years production be.
ing 2,577,3Gl tons. The stock OF pig iron
on hand ut the close Of 1878 was 574 ,565-
over 200, 600 tons less than at the close Of
1874. These figures prove healthful
growth Of consumption.
Taking for guide the statements Of one
Philadelphia foundry, an idea Of the vari'
ation in price Of pig iron can be obtained,
In 1914 the average price per ton was
S2j 70. The highest average price for any
month was reached in August, 1864, SIS 80.
For any one year, 1854, furnished the
highest average, $50 %. The average price
for November, 1878, was$lG so, the lowest
ever reached. The same year furnished
the lowest average, $l7 81. The average
for May, this year, was SIS 50. Since the
first Of January the advance in price has
been steady. The price Of iron rails, Amer
lean, has varied MS much. The price-and
in each case average price is given-in
1913 was 500 % per ton, in 1864, Sl20; in
1878, 1913 10. In September, 1864, the high
est price WIS reached for any month,
$l53 10; the lowest, in October, 1877,
$50 so.
The lowest prices in the history OF the
American iron trade were reached last
year. This years prices are lettering and
production and manufacture are increas,
ing. Repairs Of railways are calling for a
great deal OF iron, and IN increase OF con.
struction is making itself felt Already
this year more miles OF new road have
been constructed than during all of 1878.
Steel rails are used by the leading corpora.
tons, and wise economy is thereby
growing, it being estimated that replace.
ment is lesscned fully 20 per cent by their
use. Bessemer steel rails sold for Sl9O 80
per ton in 1873; last year for SIS 50, and
even less. Rail mills aud car shops are
driven to their fullest capacity at present,
and in most cases have orders far ahead.
In these figures and facts are clear proofs
OF bettcrcd times. The railways report
largely increased business, and from all
sides, and every department Of industry
come the same joyful stories. The shad.
ow has been deep and heavy; the light is
growing bright and clearer.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-26

Few people are aware that the proud
hoast that the sun never sets on the Brit.
ish Empire is equally applicable to the
United States. Instead Of being the
Western limit of the Union, San Francis
co is only about midway between the fur
thest Aleutian Isle, acquired by our pur'
chase Of Alaska, and PASSPORT, Me. Our
territory extends through 1917 degrees oil
longitude, or II degrees more than hall
way round the globe. The Rocky Noun
tain Presbyterian, in commenting on this
fact, says that "when the sun is giving its
good night kiss to our westernmest
Isle, on The confines Of Behring's Sea, It Is
already flooding the fields and forests Of
Maine with It's morning light, and in the
eastern part Of that State Is more than an
hour high. At the very moment when
the Aleutian fisherman, warned by the
approaching shades Of night is pulling his
canoe toward the shore, the woodchopper
OF Maine is beginning to make the forest
echo with the stirring music Of his AK"