American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-21
HERE AND THERE.

goo, 600, 900 last year, which is double the
product on all the gold and silver mines
in the United States.
A RAILROAD doing IN ordinary bust
ness requires for its current operations
supplies to the extent of 81 900 per mile
per year, exclusive of rails, locomotives
and cars.
A PLEASANT evening game in Detroit
is for each player to oil his hands and
then try to turn 4 door-knob. The one
who succeeds first gets hunk of taffy
on a string.
SOCIETY bellies in Washington now
affect the banjo, which they are learn
ing to play. There are many costly
ones with ebony handles and silver
mountings.
CHARLES JONES, a third owner of a
Leadville mine worth 100000, died
without making will. A lawyer, TAX
ing advantage of small mortgage, got
fraudulent possession of the property;
but some miners discovered the scheme,
and found heirs in poverty-stricken
Vermont family.
RANDOLPH, N. Y, has been the scene
of q romance which, in point of faith
fulness on the part of the woman, is
equal to that of Lohgfellow's Evange-
line. Miss Betsey Knight, who died
few days ago at the age of eighty-fivc
was in her girlhood betrothcd to young
man in Ohio, and shortly before the day
of the nuptials he died. Miss Knight
refused to believe it, and remained faith
full to him all these years in the hope
| that he would return and claim her.
THE Scranton Pa.) Republican as
serts that the following story is true
'tMr. John Merchant came to this
country from England some ten years
ago, and settled in this city. Ills sister
preceded him some nine years, and un-
til last Saturday they did not know of
each others whereabouts, and yet they
have both been living in Hyde Park dur
ing this time, and have attended the
same church. They spent last Sabbath
together at his residence, and were as
happy couple undoubtedly as could be
found within the city,
FREDERICK HETLEn, a farmer of
Marion, o., was approached the other
day by a well dressed man who wanted
to buy team of fine horses. AS the
strangers credentials were good, Heller
sold the horses, taking in pay United
States bond for $500 and giving the
stranger his note for $500. The pur-
| oh ,f n i, to
team, stopped at the next bank, dis
posed of the note, and disappeared. A
few hours after the sharper's departure
Heller found that the bond was bogus, a
counterfeit, and utterly worthless.
REV. WILLIAM NJ. BARRY, an &C.
centric clergyman of Worcester, Mass,
left will which is characteristically
odd. What is left of his estate is to be
applied to the support of service in hi:
former church. He left directions fol
all his papers to be burned, that no no
tice of his death was to be published in
the papers, that his coffin should be s
mere plain box, that he should be buried
n his poorest clothes, an express Wagon
to be used in the place of a hearse, thai
his grave was to be dug anywhere ant
entirely unmarked, and that the only
service at his funeral consist of the read
ing of two psalms.
IT often happens that two womel
claim the same man for a husband, bu
it is rare that one woman claims tive
men, neither of whom wants her. Blu
| Of
in New York, originally begun by thu
second husband, with the connivance o
, the first, to show that the second mar
, rage was undertaken before the divorce
: from the first husband was granted.
| decree in favor would have left he
. married to her first husband. III
changed his mind and resisted the de
cree, but the Court had decreed that III
, divorce was invalid, which leaves tn
5 second husband free, but binds the first
r THE San Francisco Call, referring t.
: William A. Beck and the late Miss Mel
lady, who is well known in this city
3 being related to one of the railroad
: magnates, her father having been ais
9 one of the originators of the Contra
r Pacific, was engaged to be married t.
r the son of an ex-Secretary of State, nov
); in this city. A few days before sh
? died, in New York, the young lady mad
. her will, disposing of 100000, whicl
was in her own right. Rememberin:
/ her comparatively poor friend in thi
! State, she inserted a clause in the vii
, giving the young man 100000 in gol'
coin as a parting gift"
OLIVE LOGAN writes that every da,
during her stay in Madrid she saw tn
, King and his new wife, together o
, alone. They drive in Royal state; in
deed, with outriders and escort of cav
airy, and open carriages drawn by fou
horses. Alfonso is a dark-eyed, dark
!. skinned Spanish boy of %, general.
dressed in light-gray overcoat, prim
rose-colored gloves, and tall black hat
Marie Christine is far from being /
beauty. Thin to the verge of scrawni
ness, with high cheek-bones and grea
hook nose, she is as plain a young CIR
as one would see in a days walk. Olive
Logan feels convinced that this secont
marriage, so hastily contracted, is no
liked in Spain.
/ A VINEYARD proprietor of the Haut'
Garonne, France, while recently en-
gagged in tasting his wine, came to a larg
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