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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
How They Get Coffee in Cincinnati.

One of the latest tricks played upon
shopkeepers was successfully performed
at a Cincinnati grocery the other even
ing. A woman entered and ordered II
pound of the best coffee. She carried u
jar under her arm, and when the
groceryman was about to pour the coffee
in paper bag the customer told him to
dump it into the jar instead. The man
did SO, the female leaning over the
counter and still holding the jar under
her arm, with the bottom of the vessel
concealed. When she had received the
coffee the female put her hand in her
pocket, and with well-feigncd express
sion of annoyance cried: 81 do de-
clare, L have left my purse at home!
I'll just set the jar of coffee down on the
counter here while l run in home and
get the money" She placed the jar ON
the counter and went out, but she failed
to return, and when the storekceper
picked up the jar he was surprised to
find that il did not contain any coffee,
and that the bottom had been Knocked
out. 1t then flashed upon his mind that
when he poured the coffee in the jar it
ran through into Il bag concealed by the
female sharper,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
Interesting Facts.

The Tomb of Edward l., who died in
1901, was opened Jan. 2, 1910, after
463 years had elapsed. His body was
almost perfect. Canute, the Dane,
who crossed over to England in 1917,
was found 1879 by the workmen who re-
paired Winchester Cathedral, where
his body had reposed nearly $50 years,
perfectly fresh. In 1869, three Roman
soldiers, fully equipped with warlike
implements, were dug out of peat in
Ireland, where they had probably lain
1900 years. Their bodies were per-
fectly fresh and plump. In the reign
of James II. of England after the fall
of the church at Ashley, in Warwick
shire, there was taken up the corpse of
Thomas Gray, Marquis of Dorset, who
was buried the 10th of October, 1880,
in the twenty-second year of Henry
VII; and although it had lain there
seventy-eight years, the eyes, hair, flesh,
nails, and joints remained as though it
had been but newly buried, Robert
Braybrook, who was consecrated Bishop
of London in 1881, and who died in 1904 ,
and was buried in st. Paul's was taken
out of his tomb after the great fire in
1866, during the repairs of the Cathe-
dral, and, although he had lain there no
no less than 262 years, the body was
found to be firm as to skin, hair,
joints and nails. The Convent de st.
Domingo was lately demolished in
search of treasure supposed to be con-
cealed there, and the body of Prince
Rodriguez taken out, who had been
buried in 1865, exactly as when placed
$50 years before. His daughter, two
and a-half years of age, was lying at her
fathers feet and was as perfectly pre-
served as himself.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
1HEsGoLDEN ISLES.

The poet sits and Smiles f
He knows the golden isles,
He never hopes TO win their cliffs. their mar
BILE mines,
Reefs where their green sea raves,
-rrs-z seThe-caldness Of their caves, - O. I
Their feldspefs fan OF light, tlleir rosy coral
lines
sS.ss AiItbese he of has sought, Z. ct
Their glorious distance hides no inward charm
from him; @ e. Etf
He would not have their day
To common light decay,
shapes be DIM
They soIace all hts pains, e.
ThBy,anfnate his strains.
Within their radiant glow he soon forgets the
- They battle his torrid Moons
In the soft light of moons,
They leave his lingering evenings tenderly
u As one pAe walk anday II
May turn aside to plunge in some sequestered
-. - Ann % may stratshs forget, Z; k
His WEAKNESS and fret,
So seeks the poets heart those islands blue
~ - 'Ssvoi rs ra,ss ,sal55ffs. s7-2
Content to know them there,
Hung in the shining air.
He trims no foolish sail to win the hopeless
His vision Is enough
To feed his soul with love,
And he who grasps too much may even him
self be lost.
HeknowsthSt, 10 he waits,4z
One day the well worn gates
Oflsfe will ope and send him westward DER
Then viii he reach ere night
The isles of HIS delight,
But they nanst hoat until they anchor in the
~ = = l-Edassad " .Gosse
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
MY LOSS.


Day after day. while at my window sitting,
] see the children at their play near by;
Like butterflies in summer gardens fitting,
Tis~y hover round beneath nay watehful eye.
The little girls. with flushed and merry faces,
Glance mt me slyiy for my answering
And tempt me with their.mast auuring graces
To put sad Thoughts away while they be-
guile.
Blonde hair and brown In soft confusion
Black eyes and blue upturned to meet my
Roses. both white and pink. their contrast
To add new beauty to the 'wildering maze
But when they. one by one. tired out with
Steal slowly. homewnrd through the sunset
Memory goes BACK beyond the dark years,
Among the days of yorc that seem so
bright
turn my head, radiant, golden splendor
shines tro'a the west across the pictured
And glorifies a face divinely tender.
With bronze brown hair waved round it, fall
ON IAN ~ gfIt
With violet eyes so winsome in their sweet
That mine grow Smiling in spite of grief and
with curved lips. the seal of loves complete
All. Heaven, could Ibu. press them once
again.
In vain L watch and wait. she will come only
When night has cast her spell on sea and
shore. -4e f..l
Then when 1 sleep and dream, no longer
lonely,
She comes to feed my hungry heart once
more.
It's then and only then that behold her;
Her Dear voice foats around me soft and
low;
IT'S then and only then nv arms enfield her.
The little girl lost SO long ago.
-Bosfon Transcript.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
waterspout a Thousand Feet High.

Wilbur Hammond and DIR. Mears, of
Greenport, L. l., describe an extraor-
binary phenomenon which they wit
messed while on the Sound shore, OPP
posite that village, on a recent afternoon.
Their attention was first attracted by
what seemed to be an unusual disturb
ance on the surface of the water, di-
rectly under a heavy cloud coming from
the windward, the wind blowing heavily
from the northwest and a heavy surf
rolling. The tops of the waves assumed
the notwithstanding motion peculiar
to waterspouts, which increased until
the elevation was upward of fifty feet
before the water took the cloud form.
This was soon followed by q second,
about mile off shore, similar to the
first, but considerably larger, its height,
Judging from the angle of elevation, be-
ing nearly one thousand feet. The top
of this also resolved into fog or mist
directly under a cloud. Then, at a dis
lance of about four miles, third one
was plainly discernable, which seemed
to meet the sky at the rear of the cloud,
and which must have covered an area of
several acres. All three of these spouts
were moving with the wind, and the
first or smallest one subsidized to the
water level only few rods from the
beach. Immediately there was sharp
dash of rain, followed by hail squall,
as the disturbing cloud passed over, and
when this subsidized, so that view of
the Sound could again be obtained, the
waterspouts had disappeared. So far
as known, these were the only water
spouts ever seen in the Sound.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
PITH AND POINT.

WANTED-A plain COOK reads an
advertisement. Wonder whose wife put
that in the papere- Post.
LAUGH and grow fat-grow fat and
be laughed at. 1t is n poor rule that
! will not work in all directions. Chicago
Journal.
WHAT need is there to worry and fret
And vainly try more trouble to borrow,
When we know that after he sun has set
day Will be yesterday to morrow.
''TENNYsON spends hours on single
line" And SO, by the way, does
the washerwoman. And the line of the
latter is the longest.-NOrriStoeO Her
aLd
Mr.. BILDERBAK laid down his paper
and gazed thoughtfully into the fire.
From the frequency of glowing and
highly eulogistic obituary notices. the
old man said, 81 Judge there is an un-
precedented mortality among the mean
men just now.''
BULKINs, in referring to the time his
wife complimented him, says the coal
fire needed replenishing, and she point
ed toward the fireplace with COM
manding air, and said, "Peter, tie
grate.'' r
DID you ever consider the despotism
of kissingP The men kiss the women
without caring whether it is agreeable
or otherwise, and the women kiss the
defenseless babies remorselessly.-Bos
ton Transcript. ala
IT is the latest decree of fashion that
the wedding dress of widow who is n
second time bride must on no account
be white, but as to the third and fourth
time no rule is given, SO it's probably
-please.-Bosten Post.
THE Chicago Neaos has looked the
field over, and comes to the conclusion
that: "The meanest little thing that the
human eye can behold, even with the
aid of a powerful magnifying glass, is
the American snob.'' fl .ft.
IT was written, t'Her dainty feet were
incased in shoes that might have been
taken for fairy boots,' but the compos-
itor made it read, "Her dirty feet were
incased in shoes that might have been
taken for ferry-boats,' and he is no
longer dweller in Cincinnati, but
fugitive in the land.-C hicaqo Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
,fIIkif SURPRISE.

With murmnfs low. upon tire rivers brink.
The restless, aiInless waters idly beat;
The tz&zing cattle droop their heads to
sTf,e Hppsee fso~ing seasly DER their feet; J
The hazy stiffness and the summer air
Make Lie q tender dream, devoid of care.
All chasssd azd.-dheeress in the wintry
That -sweepsifrom shore to shore ip sulien
mood
The river rests, in ghostly sllroud confined,
And clustering breezes sing a requiem
rude.
The slow herds shivering in the fallen snow,
Scatter its,powdered paleness as they go.
And thus IN HE, winter cold snd dre6rf =
Fast follows on the summers joyous
bloom; - - -
And while we wait. and idly wander here,
Times toesfn sounds some dreaded day Of
doom;
: And starting up, with pleasure laden mind,
We see the smiling summer far behind!
n. H. Hiasiosr, IN Good Company.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
The Proposed New Public Land System.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. %.
President Hayes to day transmitted to both
Houses of Congress the report and draft OF
the bill submitted by the Public Land Com
mission appointed under the act of March 3,
1879 The President, in transmitting these
documents, says: The subject of the report,
and accompanying bill, f. of such importance
that respectfully commend it to the prompt
and earnest consideration of Congress" The
public lands are to be divided into four
classes, viz, irrigable, pasturage, timber ana
mineral, and each class is to be disposed of
under laws especially Applicable thereto; The
bill provides, in regard to homestead en-
tries, that the term of residence required
shall be reduced from five to three years,
abolishes the communication system, and eN-
tends the homestead system to settlements
upon surveyed lands of all classes except
mineral and timber lands. Provision is made
for "colony homestcads," whereby twenty
or more persons may dwell together in VII
Iage and acquire title to II corresponding
number of homestead claims by cultiVating
them without being required to reside upon
them separately. The Commission recon-
mends n sweeping repeal of existing mincra!
laws with n reservation in favor OF all vested
rights and an allowance of n sufficient period
to be fixed by Congress within which possess
DRY rights must be perfected or be thereafter
barred,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
TAKING BOARDERs.

ait was a scandal" the neighbors
said, (" that Miss Della should be obliged
to take boarders, after all she'd been
through; and Heaven knows boarders
didn't help q body to work out her sal
walton. And so much money in the
family, too, taking it by and large.
Wasn't her Uncle Eben, over at Dover,
well to do, and not q chick of his own
to care for, except the boy he had
adopted, who was no credit to him? Il
was odd, now, that q man with poor re-
lations should take to a stranger, when
: his own nesh and blood was needy; but
sometimes h did seem as if folks had
more feeling for others than for their
own kith and kin. Then there were
cousins in the city, forehanded and fash
ionable, who never were worth a row of
pins to Della; and there was her Great
uncle Johns widow a-larking on the
Continent, a-gambliDg at Baden-Baden
and trying the waters of every mineral
spring in the three kingdoms, for no
She'd been known TO say that her own
she would endow some hospital with her
property" Plainly, wealthy relatives
were of no value to Miss Della. To be
sure, she had never seen her great aunt
since she was a child, when her
Uncle John had brought her into
their simple life for a months visit, with
her French maid and dresses, her Jew
els and fallals, which won the heart of
her little namesake. Since then Uncle
Johns widow had become q sort of
gilded creation, always young and al
ways beautiful; for, though Della had
received little gifts from time to time
across the seas for the last fifteen years,
she had neither heard nor seen any
thing of the being who had inspired her
imagination, and was quite uncertain if
such a person as Mrs. John Rogerson
was in the land of the living. Dead or
alive, she seemed to have made no
material difference in Delia's hum-drum
life. After having nursed her father
through long illness, Della found that
he had left heavy mortgage on the
homestead, and her mother and her
unless they should bestir themselves.
As her mother was already bed-ridden,
the stirring naturally fell upon Della,
and she advertised for summer board
ers:
n Cupboard II THE COUNTRY BY THE
" riverside. at seven dollars n week. Large
chambers, broad piazHas fine views, berries,
,ddress: DELLA ROBERTSON, Croftsborough,
Maine. -
.-Uheap enough!" commented an
elderly lady who happened upon it.
"Delia Rogersorf. An old maid, sup
pose, obliged to look out for herself.
i've a good mind to try her broad piaz-
zas and new milk. II don't like it,
there'n be no harm done"
And so Delia's first boarder arrived
an old lady, witba false front Of hair,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06

SUMMARIZED water is regarded as a
fruitful source of cholera, diarrhGa and
other diseases in chickens. Be this rs
it may, cool fresh water should always
be supplied. Stagnant water contain
ing organic life is especially TO be
avoided.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06

A WRITER in the Garden says that if
potting soil is placed for day or two in
the henyard every particle of it is dug
over, and all grubs and eggs of insects
are picked out.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06

A sTOCK-KEEPER reports curing many
bad warts on cattle and horses, during
several years, by application to each of
zone good daub Of tar"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06

CHARCOAL for pigs is worth rs much
per bushel Us corn, and don't cost half
as much,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06

FEB. 23.-!Sendte-Mr. Bayard moved that,
in respect to the memory of George Washing
ton, the Senate adjourn, which, after the
transaction of u little routine business, was so
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mrs. Mary ii. Thomas, of ia South Hal
stead Street, Chicago, was burned to death
on the night of the 22d by the explosion of a
can of kerosene, with which, she was re-
kindling her kitchen fire.
Philip Boaltz, a bachelor 81 years old, said
to be quite well off, who lived alone on his
farm five miles northwest of Milan, Ripley
County, Ind, was found murdered in his
house on the morning of the 18th. He was
beaten to death with club. William Stris-
singer, nephew of Boaltz, is under arrest
upon suspicion of having committed the
murder.
John O'Brien and A. D. Parshall, well
known frontiersmen, were recently killed by
Indians, on the Redwater i'm Dakota.
James Howard Miller was hanged at Ozark,
Ark, on the 9th, for the murder of his
wife about year ago. A large crowd Of
spectators witnessed the execution. Miller
steadfastly denied the crime of which he was
convicted.
John Henry johnson, colored, was hanged
at Savannah, Ga. ,on the 9th, for the murder
of Daniel McDermott, seaman, in March,
1873. johnson confessed his guilt,
pressed penitence, and said he believed he
would 90 to heaven.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06

The Union Pacific Railway Company, on
the 21th, by order of Jay Gould, took forci-
BILE possession of the telegraph business
along their lines, by abruptly severing the
Western Union 5 connections at all principal
points and making connections with
their own offices. The Ameri-
can Union Telegraph Company, of
which Mr.. Gould is the principal pro-
moter, will succeed to the business, unless
the courts decide that the Western Union
Company own the lines, as claimed by them,
by virtue of their contract with the
Union Pacific Railway Company. The
Western Union Company had already OBJ
tanned an injunction restraining the Union
Pacific Company from interfering with their
lines, and an almost endless litigation seems
likely to result from the proceedings al
ready taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-27
Wall Street To-day.

NEW YORK. August 2I.-The POst's financial
article says: AT the Stock Exchange govern
ment bonds and other flrst-class Investment
securities are strong and In demand. OF the
former the four per cents are up 10 1l0a "A
Speculative bonds are Irregular, with the Erie
seconds the special feature declining TO SIS a
from S15s with subsequent recovery to Sc
Speculative shares opened strong and higher
about IL O'Clock, since which time the market
mas again been strong. The upward movement
has been led by Hannibal and 81. Joseph. which
advanced 2E per cent for the common and 4 !
per cent for the preferred on reports that q
basis for the settlement or all questions In dis
pute between the Hannibal and s.. Joseph,
Wabash and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
roads had been definitely agreed upon. The
improvement in the balance OF the list ranged
from ! TO u per cent. Money continues 10
good supply at 2a3 per cent on call. Time
loans remain TO 6 per cent Prime mercantile
paper is 4ka5E per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-27
The Saratoga Races.

SARATOGA. N v. August 27.-The weather to-
day is cool and threatening. The track is I'm
good conGition but the attendance small.
The first race was for purse OF Si00, handi-
cap for all ages, OF which $50 TO the second one
mile and a furlong. Pools sold as follows:-Ga-
ortel, $3.50: Juanita. Sl5: General Phillips sos;
Mark L.. St5; Turfman. S15: Lancewo0d. $40. Ga
hIlel Won. General Phillips second and Juanita
third. Time, 1:5s.
Second race purse $500. for all ages, OF which
$50 10 the second, entrance free five furlongs
Pools sold as follows--Hermit, $l75; Blythe
Way. $95; Dan Sparkling. f90 field-Suannanoe
and Mamie F1eldS-S35. Hermit won. Suanna-
noe second and By-the-Way third. Time, 1908.
Third race. purse $500. handicap for all ages.
OF which 500 10 second, entrance free. mile and
half. Pools sold as follows:-Checkmate $500;
Gold Bug. $3.50; Governor Hampton, Sis: Gen.
Philips. ass; Lottery, $50. Checkmate won the
third race. Gold Bug second and Governor
Hampton third. Time 2:SaH,.
Fourth race. purse $500, for all ages. OF which
$50 TO second, entrance free, one mile. Pools
sold as follows:-Warneld, 500; Dan X, s2S5;
Suannanoe, $50. Warfeld won the fourth race
Dan Is. second and Suannanoe third. Time
l:45l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-27

GOLD IN MARYLAsD-Wer repaired to the Ment-
gomery gold mines to see how they were aver
aging. After weeks trial. the company being
so well satisfied, is putting up permanent and
Fourteen hundred dollars were the proceeds
from the experiment, and then with partly
temporary machinery. The officials were all
smiles yesterday. Capt. Hocheder was direct
ing the sinking OF shaft 200 feet deep Oh a vein
OF quartz feet wide. When he reaches 200 feet
he VIII drift and then remove all the quartz to
within 5 or feet OF the surface, which Will
furnish quartz enough to run the mill wear.
On Monday as bucket OF quartz was landed a
piece OF free gold, valued at $l1, was found I'm
IL adher1ng TO piece OF rock The Impression
is that the deeper the shaft the richer the quart
In about two or three weeks the mill viii sfarf
again, and then. being In a substantial en-.
dit.on, viii be the b0Bapza mines of the Atlantic
coast.-Rockrile Sentinel 9Th -'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-27
The Markets.

BALTIMORE, August 27.-yirgnia SKIES. de-
Ss do past u Gt's oSuoHs. soy do new sefls5. tea
forries. AS; do. forty coupons s4s BID TO-
| BALTIMORE, August 27.-Cotton sh lde better
but easy Iniddhns, ~ Flour dull snd in buyers
do; extra. 4.tOs4 IS; do family. b0oa5 IS: city
mills SUPER; ; o9aS. 80: do; extra, 4.OO.4 so do.
PaiaIsoc family. eco Wheat. southern steady steady
western lower o1a1 and dul,asogthern red.
western winter red, spot and August, 051s sal O6;
septemhSer 3Ss,aI SS5, da o. October lgsai Gs
western ne neglected-southern white, 54a55; do vel
9s Sests5P %Ked sROt and A9Eus 81
sts Ste stsadya;s.ousherp, zes4l western white. Ssas9
hHs ae and a. Hs S to RG SIo
visions firm, mess pork, 16 75al7 90. Bulk meats
do none Psosd s and r1 ae
shoulders; q clear e rie sides 10 Hams l2hal3H.
CHOICE western packed l.aso Ea 1ehh9rs hraF s5s e
firm. IL: Petroleun-crude. nonainal; refined, 3.
ieS sussr very tfronS "A soft 1Ss. n'i TssSs ss
hisaef and f5 I4 frs1shis 20 Liverpool per
i5s bushels; corn Goo bushels oats, S2e So
SnR Fse se s0ns
S4s SIW 55t knss bnshels; corn 80. 80. 72a bushels:
2a2I h1ehange.iong. % 4so% short. 4S3. Govern.
NEW YORK. August 27-Four duh and de-.
elnlng; SaI1 a. wheat @ % shade easier and dul. Corn
.LoNpoN. August p. u 30 p m.-New Jersey
soils, 81. Illinois Oentra. lis Pennsy.vsnis Cen
tral; 6oss. Reading. llx. NeE York Central.
LONDON. August q, 4:3o .. m.-Consos.
s7k for beth Illinois Central. 1l5h heading.
LONDON, August ~, p. nl.-Anantio and
Great Western first mortgage trustees cerficatea
70k. Erie. 40l. Pennsylyania Central, coz The
amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of
England on balance to-day is el60, 900.
w,. . sEw YoRK IsEE MAaEETs THIS AFTERNOON.
f0-62 n n m Ffn6h hu Tnl<.
o. per cents iii aalfiH: New Jersey Oentrsl. 70;
ON ono osIs1. ana Mississippi ssS Ere ss Nichi
Lake Shore. l07K Northwest. l00h do preferred.
O. 9. Iron os Mountain. -; kock Island. li4X;
Kansas and Texas S6x: W. o. Telegraph. ioox;;
O. Q. anc /. O., l9A; Pacific Mail, 405.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-27
The Price Of Coal Advanced.

PHILADELPHIA. August 2I.-CommitteeS or the
Lehigh Schuykill Coal Exchange met this
afternoon and agreed TO an advance In prices
OF coal for september. The Lehigh companies
Will incrt ase rates 25 cents per ton on all grades
and the Schuykill interest will advance prices
rs cents on all grades. except lump, steamboat
and pea, which viii be unchanged. The har-
Dor prices OF the Philadelphia 6 Reading COM
pnay, for coal delivered on board vessels at Port
Richmond will be: Lump ana steamboat 81 20;
broken egg and stove, Si60; chestnut, s.. .35; pea
S So. The coilerieS Will work continuously
throughout Septembar