American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-12
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woman of 40 at Ossipee, Mass, live'
with her until he had got possession O
r her 500, and then ran away.
MOUNT HOOP, Oregon, has latel,
been giving out volumes of smoke from
long extinct crater, where ordinarily
a smell of sulphur and slight warmth
| only indicate inward fire.
THE Coleman heirs have paid Patrick
O'Brien, brother of the late William
O'Brien, the San Francisco millionaire
100000, for which he renounces al
slain to the estate.
MAJOR GENERAL W3oLs monument,
now being made, is said to be the largest
stone shaft of the kind which the world
has seen for 5000 years. Cleopatra
Needle is only nine feet longer.
Mr.. WURfH of New Harrison, Wis,
was a remarkably handsome young
man. He was engaged to marry Miss
Dakin, q wealthy girl. She pointed
what she thought was an empty pistol
at him, and shot him in the face, dis
figuring him terribly. She now refuses
to keep the engagement, saying that
such an ugly husband would make her
constantly nervous.
| JAMES PALMER went into an under
takers shop at Riverton, Va, got
measured for coffin, which he said
was for a man exactly his size. "Have
it ready for this afternoon" he said,
&c for the corpse will be ready by that
time.' Then he went to railroad
track NEAR by, lay down on it, and let q
train run over him.
A LONDON correspondent says of the
recent golden wedding at Berlin that
"Queen Victoria had arranged II
months ago to be present on the occa-
sien, but in consequence of the extraor-
dinary inhospitality with which the EN-
press Augusta was treated during her
recent visit to Windsor, it was plainly
intimated that the visit was not desired
by the Kaiser or his family"
THE Russian army near the Caspian
Sea are tormented by the common black
house. flies. The commander of the cav
airy told the correspondent (who wrote
the tale in tent of gauze, within which
there was light, owing to the count
less flies clinging to its exterior) that
he had known horses to fall dead, ex-
hausted by the incessant prosecutions of
these diminutive tormentors.
The New York EUening Post, in re-
marking upon the large number of per-
sons who meet their death on the water
while boating, fishing. ETC., very sensi-.
bly, says: If PERSONS who can not swim
would make up their minds once and
for all never to enter the water or even
to go boating without a suitable life
preserver, carefully adjusted, it would
be the saving, each season, of many val
liable lives.
DIR. TROMBLY, local French physi=
clan, says he has cured case of scarlet
fever at South Holyoke, Mass by put
ting three frogs at the child's mouth.
After each frog had inhaled sufficient of
the breath it was put into water, where
it vomited and was all right again. 1t
was he who cured Pete Aubrey's leg
with vivisected cats. The cats had only
few seconds suffering, as the moment
tht inwhrds WE'RE out the feline Spirit
took its flight.
A STRANGE occurrence is reported
from Wetzikon, Canton Zurich, in
Switzerland. On June the Commune
was invaded by an immense swarm of
butterflies, two-thirds of mile wide,
and so long that the procession took
two hours to pass. They were princi-
pally of the kind known in Switzerland
as Distelfalter, which feed on nettles
and thistles. They few from 10 to 80
feet above the ground, and went off in
a northwesterly direction.
A STANCE case of poisoning is report
ed from Peterborough, England. An
old man named House was walking
down his garden, there, when bee flew
throat, singing him internally, and
causing him great pain. He immedi
ately swallowed a quantity of ammonia
for the purpose of killing the bee and
alleviating the effects of the sting, but
he took too large a dose, and, in spite
of prompt medical treatment, he died
in very short time.
ELIZABETH LEIPEsBERGER, aged 80,
is a resident of Richmond Township,
Berks County, Pa. She is probably the
wealthiest maiden lady in the county,
owning several fine farms. On the day
that her farm-hands began hay-making,
to their surprise the aged lady and land
owner made her appearance in the field,
rake in hand. She was suitably attired
for the occasion, her skirt and dress be-
ing well gathered in and tucked back so
as not to drag or give her any trouble
in moving freely over the field. She
said she was going to show them how to
work. This was greeted with clapping
of hands and cheers. Miss Leibesber-
ger went to work in good earnest, toss
ed the hay over and over, raked it into
rows from one end of the field to the
other, and then helped to rake it on
piles, and finally assisted in loading and
raking after the wagons. She worked
all day.
A LADY offered 800 reward for the
recovery of a pet white rat in the SYRIA
cuse On. " Courier. The reporters
learned that she was a morphine eater,
on a visit to her father, a respectable
gentleman of Syracuse. The drug was
taken to allay pain. After her arrival,
wben under the influence of opium the