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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15
A Substitute for Potatoes.

When the potato rot of 1915 threat
ened the determination of the potato, a
general search was made for some edible
tuber or root that would serve as a SUBJ
stitute, and among those proposed was
the Chinese yam, which had long been
cultivated in China and Japan. 1t forms
a long, club-shaped root, two feet or
more long, and largest at the lower end.
The vines run from ten to twenty feet in
length, and have rich, dark green,
heart-shaped leaves, in the axis of
which are produced bulDlets smaller
than an ordinary pea, from which, or
from cuttings of the upper portion of
the root, the plant is propagated. The
root is remarkably white within, rather
mucilaginous, and when cooked is much
esteemed by many, but, lackins the dry.
starchy character of the potato, not
likely to be generally popular. 1t is
boiled, roasted, or fried. The great
obstacle to its general cultivation is the
difficulty of taking the crop, the depths
to which the roots go perpendicularly
downward making the digging of them
largest below, renders it impossible to
pull them, and their extreme brittleness
makes it exceedingly difficult to extract
them without breaking. The plant is
perfectly hardy, and the roots remain in
the ground during the severest winters
without injury. Its cultivation is now
confined to amateurs who are willing to
be at the trouble of digging the roots,
and it is sometimes grown IS an Orna-
mental vine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15
THE LAST HOUR.


Tho long day dies with sunset down the west I;
Comes the young moon through violet fields
of air:
fragrance finer than the south winds bear
Breathes from the seattle time is come for
rest.
WYATT, Birds Westward fly through deepen
o hearth Take comfort, peace will find
For lol between the lights, when shadows
Heart cans to heart across the widening
OF bitter Thought. chill touch and iarring
And Love cries out to take his own again.
Give me the kiss OF peace
Hold not your anger after the spent sun.
Loi l have wrought with sorrow all the
day,
With tear~wet cypress, and with bitter bay
Beside my thought to tighten it for me.
Rise up. asid with forgiveness set me FREQ.
For who may boast a gift OF heightened
And. lest you watch to-morrow's sun arise
Across my face, new-touched with sudden
death
And the mute pathos of unanswering eyes.
Turn not aside my hand outstretched, or
The yearning heart Let Loves repentance
found
Have Loves reward. All life is mixed with
And. o beloved, Deaths angel will not wait
For summoned feet to haste on anxious
wnh quick "Forgive, forgive. we pass to-
1,gntw .u.-
And, lest tomorrow 1t should go with thee,
Give me the kiss of peace.
-Jilict c. Marsh In My Scribncr.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15
Mayor Kalloch, Of San Francisco, to
BE Impeached.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 4th

A San Francisco dispatch OF the 4th
says:
At meeting of the Board of Supervisors
last evening the Judiciary Committee which
had been instructed tie take into conside: al ion
the utteranccs and addresses of Mayor Kali
loch. and to report what, if any, incendiary
language he has publicly used. and to rep ,rt
the proper action to be taken by the Board in
the premises, tlcd a long report reviewing the
history of the labor AGITATION and the part
borne in it by Kaloch, and finding that he has
encouraR ed the iawleSS and discontinued ele-
and endeavored to keep Them in such dis
position aud temperament TO commit
an outbreak whenever it should suit
his purp seS; that he has impeach'd the hon
e>ty of the whole community, accused various
b anches the City Government of corruIt
pretense of counse Sing the mob against viO-
lence. inSdiousy advised them to be in readi-
ness fOr bioodshed and the overthrow of the
authorities They expressed the opinion that
kalloch i unscrnpulo1s and unrrincipled and
devoid Of integrity and fidelity to the public
inter SIS. and that the time has arrived for
the Board to express its condemnation of his
acts, and recommend that prompt action be
taken to vindica!e the fair fame of the NUM-
cpality by judicial inquiry into Kalloch's
case.
The motion to adopt the report was put by
Mayor Kalloch, who announced that it was
carried.
A resolution was then adopted authorizing
the committee to cause judicial proceedings
to be instituted against the Mayor for his
ploy counsel and prosecute the matter to
speedy termination.
Throughout the reading of the report and
the resolution kalloch appeared cool and I'M
nifty of his position as presiding officer of the
Board.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15
The Worst Old Pelicans in the Deck

One of the most remarkable things
noticeable in social life is the unanimity
with which people shake their relatives.
Recently gentleman arrived in Carson
with letter of introduction to one of
our leading citizens from the citizen s
uncle. After the Carsonite read the let
ter, he remarked:
"Glad to see you, sir. Glad to see
any body who knows my uncle in Cleve-
land. How are all the folksP''
"Splendid. 1 spent six weeks there
last fall, and don't really think ever
met such fine family of genial, hospi-
table and cultivated people"
"YesP''
eyes, indeed never spent a pleas
anter time in my life. Your relatives
are, indeed, the
swell, young man, if my relatives
are such fine people they must have
changed like thunder since l lived with
them. l lived there a year, and l think
they are about the worst pelicans in the
deck. wouldn't spend month with
the crowd for the whole town of Cleve-
land"
Indeed" said the other. "Well,
since you've been SO candid about it,
might as well remark right here that
your uncle and his whole family are the
toughest collection of old fossils have
ever had the misfortune to he steered
against"
Put it there, young man-you show
good sense. Let's go out and take
something"
In few minutes more the two men
were pledging perdition to the Cleve-
land relatives over a foaming schooner
of Carson beer.-LedtlUille Democrat.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

Ta9usn 0a ~ logy has long quess
her opinions concerning legal matters no one
has ever questioned her opinion concerning
DIR Perce's Favorite Prescription. For wO-
men freely affirm that the Pre- cription is q
positive cure for those dragging down " sem
sations, and the many diseases and weak
nesses peculiar to their sex. The Favorite
Prescription is sold by all druggists under q
positive guarantee.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 18th, 1879.
DIR. r. v. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. V:
Dear Sir was treated by four different
liver and uterus. Some time ago l COM
menced the use of your Favorite Prescription
and Discovery, being at he time confined
part of the time to my bed. At first my i'm
provemcnt was slow, but l now fini myself
well after the use of four bottles of each of
the medicines. With MANY, many thanks,
! am, very respectfully,
MARY E. GRACE.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

The old uncle couldn't help smiling,
but he felt a twinge of pain in his most
| fiery toe, and he said: ..O-o-h! what a
fool the boy must ber' and this made
| the niece feel so badly that she went
| up to her room and almost cried.
But the cross old uncle kept thinking
it over, and two or three times he
smiled all by himself when he thought
| nobody was looking. He thought it
over for weeks, and couldn' help mag
lining little Dave sitting and smiling be-
cause somebody else was having fun
| with the things he couldn't use. He
| thought maybe that was the way to get
the most pleasure ont of ones possess
sions. He had mind to try it-ves.
he would. So he called the niece in
again and he said, NOW tell me, all
over, the story about the silly boy that
gave away his trousers" So the
niece told it all over and the uncle
smiled again. When she had finished
he said:
I've a great mind to try it,
"What, uncle?'
Don't bother me with questions.
o, Oh, my foot, o, ooh--my eyes.
Don't sit there like 4 statue; get pen.
and paper. and ink. I'll try it. Get the
paper quick"
So the niece. very much surprised,
brought the paper, and the uncle said,
"Now write" and she wrote, he die
tating, as follows:
To MEssRs. So AND So, Bankers:
GENTtEMENmA !, i have plenty OF money;
as hear that there are good many people who
have health enough bur can't enjoy it because
they have no money, L authorize you to dis
tribute the sum # 100000 among such insti-
buttons my niece shall name t. you, in sums
to get a little comfort in seeing others use the
money that can't use myself.
And then he signed it; the niece's
eyes were as big as some saucers, and
the millionaire said, II suppose you
think m fool-everybody will-but
if that boy gets some comfort out of
his gift why shouldn't out of mine?"
The money was given, and then came
expressions of gratitude in many forms.
Reports of charities, where his money
had been blest; poor women and men
coming to thank him for his bounty: he
found it made him forget his pains. He
became more tractable; he made an
effort and got out to see cornerstone
laid for a Children's Home, to build
which he had furnished the money.
The exercise did him good. He tried
going out again. He became interested
in ever so many poor families, and his
health grew better. He even went to
see Dave, and they laughed together, and
chatted together like children; and
when the philanthropist, that's what
people call him now, went away. he
said,
IF it hadn't been for those
trousers of yours shouldn't have been
any thing to-day but poor, miserable
old millionaire
And SO Dave knew that, after all, in
Gods own way he had done some good;
and the good isn't all out of the story
yet. Daue is getting UeH. His father
says there is a new doctor who has
discovered some new method of treat
ment and that the paral, sis in Dawes
legs is yielding, and strength coming
back, and, ''God willing, my boy will
be sound and we'll again in a year.
Vim. N. +. Round. IN Christian Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

"A large manufacturer saw a work.
man who asked him for employment,
saying pitifully, ''Monsieur, have four
teen children" The manufacturer,
who is political economist, shrugged
his shoulders and answered: "In your
situation it is absurd to have so many. -
This remark was heard by the manufac-
turer's son, Il boy of eight years. Sew
eral days later he was walking with his
father, when a poor little girl begged
charity of them, saying: 81 have
eleven little brothers and sisters" The
boy gave her sou, but moved by ideas
of political economy, said: "In your
situation how dare you have SO many as
that n-Erench.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

Edward Green, who died at Gala
tin, Tenn, last week, claimed to be one
hundred and six years old. The surviv-
ing members of the family believe him
to have been one hundred and twelve or
one hundred and fourteen years of age.
He was a native of North Carolina, and
came to Tennessee when a young man,
stopping at Nashville, which was then a
military post. He assisted in building
one of the first houses erected in Nash
vile. Only last year he was able to
work in his garden.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

An English journal reports that a
man who cut his finger while opening a
can of preserved meat was so poisoned
that he died within twenty days. Query:
Was the meat SO very bad or was tie
mans blood in condition to be infiamed
on slight provocation. The paper from
which we take this item speaks of it as
poisoning from decayed meat" but
how can we be sure of that when cut
inoculated with blood from perfectly
fresh meat has often produced just as
serious result?-Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly for May.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

"A fellow stopped at a hotel in Lead.
vile, and the landlord charged him 81
day for five days. Didn't you make
a mistaken No." said the landlord
I" Yes, you did; you thought you got all
the money! had, but You are mist ken.
have whole purseful in another peck
et.n
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

NERVOUSNESS, and all arrangements of the
nervous system, are usually connected with
diseased condition of the blood. Debility is
a frequent accompaniment. The first thi .g
to be done is to improve The conditi N of the
hood. This is accomplished by taking VEGE-
TINE. 1t i, a nerve medicine, and possesses
a controlling power over the nervous system.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15
Great News,

Great News.
It is great news indeed that there is at last
a r. medy (Warner's Safe Nervine) which will
relieve all kinds of ain and give rest and
sleep without injury to the system. The dis
coverer of this remedy is considered the most
sklllful nerve doctor in the world
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

Is THERE A CENTRAL SUN?-Madler
announced his belief that Alcyone, the
chief star of the Pleiades 1.-THE Seven
Sisters), was the central star of the
universe, which led men to think that
the stellar system, like the solar sys-
TEN, revolves round center. The
only evidence Nader had for this opin-
ion was the DRIFT of the stars of the
constellation Taurus in one direction.
This has since been proved to be no
evidence. as similar drifts have been
observed in other directions. Mr..
Proctor comes forward with his opinion
that the whole theory is amyth, and not
supported by any astronomical fact.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

A MAIN STREET dealer received a
fresh invoice of mouse traps the other
day, and advertises 'tGrand arrival of
spring goods. Marathon Independent.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

WE reap what we sow, but nature
has love over and above that Justice
and gives us shadow and blossom ard
fruit, that spring from no planting of
ours.--G. Eliot.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

LIGHT COLoRED or yellow Axle Grease soon
wears off. Get the genuine Frazer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

REDDING's RUSSIA SALvE. Best family salve
in the world, and excellent for stable use.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

II cough disturbs your sleep, take dose
Of Piso's Cure for Consurn ption. So say all
who have tried it,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

"A fireman on a Minnesota railroad
climbed out on the pilot at the risk OF
his life, and rescued a man who was
lying on the track-a man of straw,
which mischievous boys had placed
there.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

M. DECAsINE has observed that the
use of tobacco by children causes them
to have palpitation and irregular action
of the heart. Also that it predisposes
them to laziness and the use of alec
holics
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

Get C. Gilbert's Linen Starch and try it.
ALL grocer. sell National Yeast Try It.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

A NEW MEASURING IMPLEMENT.-A
remarkable implement was lately de-
scribed before the "Societe d Encour-
agement pour TIndustrie Rationale"
II is called PHOTOGRAPH. becarse when
IN use it mechanically traces on paper
the outlines of the ground over which
it travels. A foreign contemporary de-
scribes it as a small carriage mounted
ON two wheels, drawn by one man, and
attended by another who marks the
levels of the proper places, and under
meath hangs an iron rod with large
ball at its lower end serving as pen
dulum. This pendulum maintains a
constant vertical position. while the
machine inclines in one direction or the
other, according as it ascends or de-
sends slope. To the upper end of
the rod is fitted a pencil, which marks
on a sheet of paper the ups and downs
OF the country traversed, whether on
an ordinary road or across trackless
fields. The exact profile is thus re-
corded to a given scale. At the same
time ore of the wheels acting as
chain-bearer measures and indicates
the distance Travelled throughout the
survey.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15
The Suffering In Ireland-A Rapacious
Landlord.
NEW YORK. May 3.
James Redpath, in a letter from
Mayo, Ireland, tells this story:


"Waltor NJ. Bourke is the largest landlord
proprietor in Clare. and his tenants are the
poorest people in it. He borrowed fl00 from
the Board of Works to give employment to
his tenants. He employed those tenants who
had not paid their rent, and agreed to pay
them six shillings per week, but he kept it for
rent due"
Speaking of the people. the writer says:
b" found them in the west. sad and desper-
ate. Tho people are care-worn and broken
hearted. Old men and boys. old women and
girls, young men and nluidens-alI are grave
or haggard, and every household is as if the
plague of the frst-born had smitten it that
day The famine has tanned their restless spir-
its, and they crowd around bit of peat fire
without uttering word. Often they do not
look second time at a stranger who comes
into their cabin"
Father Corbitt assured Mr.. Redpath that the
political agitation put S30oo.U00 into the ten
ants pockets, by preventing unjust additions
TO the rack-rent. and it gave them whole
swamps of peat. The priest also said that
Sir Robert Bloss has an annual rental of 4l0 :
900. He gave 80 to the relief fund, the only
one of twenty great landlords who gave any
thing.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

Acknowledgements
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

DR.. Picrcc's Golden Medical
common BlOtch, Plnaple, or y
Rough skin. in short. all disc
purifying. and invigOratinS mel
Especially has It manifested
e1cs. sore Eyes. acrOralOas q
Neck, and Enlarged Glands.
II yoa feel dun, drowsy, del
on face or body, frequent hea,ln
alicrnated with hot f1ishes, irr
Torpid Liver, or Z" BIliousnc
Aedical Discovery has no equal
In the cure OF Bronchitis,
sumption, it has astonishcti til
greatest medical discovery OF Iii
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-15

Send to JOSEPH BURNETT q CO., Boston.
for descriptive circular For sale by all Druggists
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-13
SCIENCE WINS !!
A Splendid Surgical observation-disclosures.
full Result and Wonderful Recovery.

SURGICAL OrERAIIos.-The operation Of
lithotomy (remoyal of stone from tie blad-
der,) one Of the most severe and critical
operations known to the science OF surgery,
was successfully performed on Tuesday upon
Mr.. Henry II. Pitts, merchant OF this city,
by DIR. David Kennedy. Several friends of
the patient witnessed the operation Mr.. Pitts
has suffered several years from this difficulty
but it was only week before the operation
that he was made aware of the real cause OF
his complaint.
REcoyERY.-Mr. Henry II. Pitts has re-
covered from the effects incident to the oper-
alton, the closing of the wound being COM
pleted the 18th day. His general health
is good-better than i; has been for years,
while ne il perfectly free from all those dis
tre-siBg symptoms characteristic of the
disease with which he suffered. Had this
and similar cases used DIR. kennedy's ia
v0rite Remedy" in the early stages of the
complaint the formation of stone would have
been prevented ''Favorite Remedy" also
purifies the blood, cures Constipation of the
Bowels, and all those diseases and weaknesses
peculiar to Females. This wonderful medi-
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-13
Dailu kfnnftfr Journal.
DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING IN EUROPE.

The fatalities from lightning are very
much greater in number and extent than
is generally supposed In European Rus
STA alone the deaths for five years-Is70-
'14-were .4j2 men and S1s women. No
fewer than ,O92 fires are here also official
ly reported from the same cause during
this period. In Prussia. where the regis
tration Of the causes of death is exception
ally careful, 1,00f persons were reported
as killed by lightning in the nine years
from 1869 to 1877. If we may trust the
report Of our Registrar General. this coun-
try is more fortunate in this regard. fur
during the same period only l9i such
deaths are registered for England and
Wales; but our returns are admittedly in
complete.
In Austria-frOm 1870 to 1877. eight
years-lightnng occasioned upward Of
10000 fires, and destroyed more than / =
700 lives. In Switzerland the returns
seem curioHsly variable. For example,
in 1866 only three such deaths are report
ed; while in 1877 we find rs many a. -.
OF the deaths by LIGHTNING in France, NJ
Boudin some years ago collected statistics
which showed that during the thirty Years
beginning in 1884 and ending in 1868. as
many As 2,03S people were struck dead by
lightning IN that country. During the last
ten pears Of this period the deaths amount
ed to $50, and Of these only 243 were wo-
men. Nothing, indeed, is more striking
in these statistics than the uniform prepon-
derance in the numbers of the maze over
those Of the female sex. With the excep-
ton Of Sweden-where. for some reason
not explained, and not easily TO be inn
agined. this preponderance is not 50 OBJ
servable-there seem to be generally about
two men killed to one woman. The trav-
cller who accounted for the immunity OF
the Swedish women by their comparative
''lack OF personal attractions was as I'M
gallant, aud we believe, moreover, ~ in
correct in his facts rs he was certainly
wanting in the decorIm that forbid, Jest
ing on serious subjects. The country
seems invariably to suffer more than the
town; the village more than the great
city.
Public buildings fare, it seems. little
better than private houses, though cen
fury and II quarter has elapsed since
Franklin's famous experiment with the
kite demonstrated the possibility of con
trolling the electric fluid, and nearly n
century has passed since the learned. tax
ing interest in lightning conductors. were
divided into hostile factions on the famous
question of knobs or points Mr.. An
derson estimates that at least one-half,
and perhaps two-thirds Of the public build
ings, including the churches and chapels
Of Great Britain and Ireland, are without
any protection against lightning while it
is believed that not five out of Il thousand
private houses are fitted with conductors.
ST. Paul's was among the first buildings
in Europe to be protected, benjamin
Franklin's lightning rods having been
first set up over Sir Christopher Wren's
dome in l16S.-LDHd0H NeUS.