American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-08
HERE AND THERE,

en- in the various professions, $50 doc
tors, APO dentists, 60 preachers, and IL
or 20 lawyers.
OVER the frozen surface of the Nigga
ra River smugglers in sleighs have beer
carrying petroleum into Canada and
bringing back tobacco. Arrests of sus.
pected parties have just been made in
Buffalo.
A RICHMOND (Va.) woman of IS gave
birth to child recently. Her husband
is about the same age. They have fou,
or five children, all of whom are grown,
and the youngest possibly 40 or so years
old.
A LITTLE girl in Hartford, while suf-
fering from severe attack of humps,
held kitten in her lap and constantly
caressed it. In a few days the face OF
the kitten began to swell and there were
humps for two.
ONE of the applicants for a divorce,
at Galesburg, ILL.,, the other day, was a
lady who said she had lived with her
husband IS years, and all the clothes he
had bought her was bunch of hair
pins and a toothbrush.
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has
just decided that the rents and profits
of the estate of married woman, not
settled upon her for her sole benefit and
use, are subject to the payment of the
debts of her husband.
In one of the Brooklyn docks night
has been turned into day by an electric
light for the purpose of enabling a
small army of workmen to repair one
of the largest European steamers.
Hitherto work of this character at night
was impossible.
JAMES WILLIAMS, of Castleton, VT,
leaves an estate valued at $4,000, in
which his wife has life interest, and
which, at her death, is to 60 to the Bap-
fist Church at Castleton. The church
has been so poor that for number of
years no service has been held there land
it has never had settled pastor.
THE benevolent clergyman who goes
about with large estates in his pockets
for buxom widows, has been getting in
his work at Grand view, two ladies.
there having been induced to advance
him money with which to recover the
left by hitherto unheard-of
relatives.
FUNERAL reform is desirable in some
parts of New York. A paper in that
city states that the remains of child
5 years old were followed to the grave
by 48 carriages, and poor Irish woman
spent $3.50 of the 5000 which her hus.
band left her to give him "a dacent
burial"
A NEW sect, the believers in the age
to come, has been started at Boston,
composed of enthusiasts, who hope some
time to join in rescuing Palestine from
Mos1em rule. Jonathan Cummings,
Methodist minister, one of
the leaders, and editor of the lge to
Come Herald, hopes to remove his paper
to Jerusalem for publication as soon as
be can raise the funds.
A BIRMINGHAM (England) manufac-
turer has received from his agent in
Turkey the following order: Gone of
my customers is in want of a dog-skin-
ming machine. You have probably seen
or known such a thing. Through the
holding the dogs, when still
alive, in few minutes the skin is off
them, and the dogs also killed thus,
without giving them much torture
Please send drawings and lowest prices,
etc.
CHARLES F. BARRY, who committed
suicide in New Orleans, left the follow
ing note to the Coroner's Jury: "Gen-
tlemen, you can bring in your verdict
without trouble or delay. have taken
my own life by taking morphine and
laudanum. tried hardIto make liv-
ing, but utterly failed. No person had
compassion on my old.age or would give
me employment. was reduced to ut
ter restitution. There is not a cent to
bury me.''
Mrs. MIX has the reputation of a
miracle worker in Litchfield County,
Conn.,, and wonderful stories of her
powers are told. She is said to cure by
the laying on of hands. The strange
thing is that she will take no pay, be-
lieving that she has been divinely ap-
pointed 10 heal the sick, and that she
could effect nothing if she had mer-
cenary motive. The physicians say that
her influence is remarkable, but ascribe
it to the credulity of her patients. Her
success is usually confined to supersti-
tious persons.
A WELL authenticated report comes
of a recent case where doctor from
New York City, called to a supposed
dying patient in Hartford, Conn.,, got
so impatient waiting for the decease that
he finally filled out and signed the GER
tificate of death, leaving the date to be
inserted thereafter, and fastened back
to the delights of New York. In view
of this act the family abandoned hope
and ordered their mourning goods, but
when the nearly dead patient heard of
all this he was SO irate that his health
began to improve, and he is now con,
sidered out Of danger, for the time be-
ing, at least.
YOUNG Mr.. French made his appear
ance in Stanstead, Canada, half year
ago, and took board in the village tav-
ern. He seemed to have no business,
and devoted considerable of his time to
counting Miss La Pete, much to the dis
pleasure of her parents, who finally for