American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-24
HERE AND THERE.

ABD-EL-KADER is not dead, a. was re-
ported, but is in the enjoyment of excel
lent health.
A YOUNG lady went from Alabama to
Rome to Marry an Italian Count with
whom she had correspondent, but the
Counts wife and four children raised so
many objections that the marriage didn't
take place.
TWENTY kegs of gold were received
in Chicago from New York the other
day. Each weighed about 300 pounds,
and contained 5000, making 81, $780,
900 in all. This money was sent to Jim
Keene in payment for wheat.
ALL the able-bodied men in Metho-
dist congregation ut Adams, Mass, were
employed to eject five disturbing rowdies
from the church. The religious element
was victorious, but only after fight
that ended the services for that day.
REV. JOHN G. BRADY, who has re-
turned from Il stay of two years in
Alaska, says that the natives have
learned how TO make 90 a ruinous intoxi-
HUN hlohsooNos eSsiea eAASy
drink so much of it that alcoholism is a
common disease there.
| IT is fashionable in Massachusetts,
this winter, to ride in the Oldest sleighs
that can be obtained. A wealthy Pitts
field man proudly uses one that is over
a hundred years old as to body, while
the leather wings of the dashboard are
more ancient by half a century.
The place known as the "Tombs of
the Kings q short distance to the north
of Jerusalem, has recently been pur-
chased by French lady, and by her Or
ders excavations have been undertaken
there. Capitals and other architectural
remains have been found.
Mrs. SCHREIBER was assured by q
San Francisco fortune-teller that great
trouble would come to her in conse-
quence of speculation in stock, if she did
not quickly get out of that sort of bust
ness. 1t happened that Mrs. Schneider
and her husband had just risked all their
savings in stock operation, and the
words of the fortune-teller frightened
and worried them SO much that they
committed suicide.
ACCORDING to the reports of persons
returned lately from the Spanish mar
riage fetes to Vienna, the prevailing dis
position at Madrid is such as to justify
not only serious apprehensions with re-
gard to the tranquility of the capital,
but also to the dynasty. OF a real af-
lection for the monarch there is no trace
to be found, and the young Queen has
in general also been received coolly. 1t
struck the visitors that Queen Isabella
was eagerly saluted wherever she ap-
peared.
TOBY HUGHES was not considered OF
much consequence in San Francisco,
where he was brokers' clerk. He
quietly bought 10000 shares of Chal-
lenge mining stock at 81 share, which
was all that it was worth. Through a
friend, he went through the form of
daily selling some of the stock at an adj
vance, being always himself the pur-
chaser. In q month he got the quota
ton up to $3.50, though there had been
no real sales. Then he left with sew
eral brokers bogus orders from Flood,
the millions man, to buy it at $3. They
thereupQn purchased Toby's 10000
shares, and he, with the $4,000 profit,
hastily quilted the city. Challenge has
dropped back to 81.
A WOMAN at Stockton, Cal, who had
a drunken husband, was waiting late at
night for him to come home. The lamp
was in her bedroom and she was in the
parlor. Hearing Il noise outside, as if a
man who was drunk was trying to find
the gate, she went out, and sure enough
drunken man was there. She helped
him into the parlor,as she had been used
to doing, and placed him carefully on the
lounge. After a hard struggle she got
his coat and vest off, and then pulled at
the boots Gas she thought they were),
but they would not come off. At length
she felt up about the ankles and found
that the man had shoes On-something
| that her husband never wore. Striking
a light she saw he was stranger.
The question has been raised by the
| Jeaoish World of London whether the
| hlC uOb VI oCWloh VI hesc
paper asserts that the prevailing type of
the Afghan physiognomy is strongly
Jewish-more so than any other living
race, while in their religious customs
considerable analogy can be traced
| between them and those of orthodox
Jews. In the case of certain branches
of the Afghan people this is particularly
| striking-so much so that one writer
| went so far as to conclude that he had
found in them the descendants of the
lost tribes of Israel. All the native
Afghan histories contain detailed
accounts of the early history of the
Jews from Abraham to the captivity;
and, although the bulk of the population
was converted to Islam years and years
| ago, it is stated in a local history that it
was not until the middle of the tenth
century that Judaism was entirely given
up and Islamism had become the pre-
vailing religion.
| EMPEROR NORTON the First is dead
| He reigned in San Francisco, and firm
| ly believed in his self-imposed title.
His subjects were old Californians, who
humored his whim by paying the as
sessments he levied. He was naturally
| a handsome man, but he made himself