American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-03
HERE AND THERE.

KING MTEsA of Central Africa has
liberated his slaves, and commanded
the observance of the Christian Sunday
A CHURCH in Yorkville, N. Y, an
nounces as one of the attractions of its
fair that "neither rafting nor gambling
of any kind will be allowed
WHILST two New Hampshire men
were fighting about the ownership of a
goat the animal fell into a well, and as
neither would quit fighting to go to its
rescue, it was drowned.
The Dubuque Times mixed matters a
little the other day, closing marriage
notice by saying: "The suit has been
running for eight or ten years, and has
cost pile of money!
THE King of Sweden is educating the
lad who, to obtain means to 90 to
school, wrote a threatening letter to the
Queen, demanding money for refrain
ing from killing the Crown Prince.
Mrs. MARY T. SEARLEs, who died in
Troy, n. Y, recently, was the daugh-
ter of a minister, the sister of a minis
ter, the mother of three ministers and
the grandmother of one, all of the
Presbyterian denomination.
A LETTER was mailed at Des Moines
the other day with this inscription on
the envelope: Postmaster. If not de-
ivered in 365 days burn it, and I will
send a man for him. 1t is believed to
be dunning letter.
THE personality of Satan was dis
cussea in a conference of Baptist clergy
men, at New London, Conn. There was
no vote, but majority of the speakers
were on the affirmative side of the ques-
ton, Is there a personal being an
swering to the name Satanp"
SCORES of thousand of camels are
killed by over-exertion and starvation in
every campaign in India, and military
critics claim that the future of Europe
in Central Asia depends upon the ability
of engineers to lay down slow, cheap
steam railways which can carry their
own creek bridges with them and tras-
port food and ammunition in time of
war.
EIGHT Arabs lately landed at Castle
Garden, New York, among other immi-
grants. They claimed to have escaped
from prison at Cayenne, French Guiana.
From the accounts they give of them
selves they seem to have had hard
time since they were taken prisoners,
during a revolt against the French at
Algiers, in 1870. They desire now to
go to Tunis, and hope to be joined there
by their families, who are still in Algiers
IT is on record that Meyer Anselm,
the founder of the house of Rothschild,
entered Hanover, in 1868, barefoot, and
with a bundle of rags on his back. The
present capital of the different Roths-
child houses is said to be at least $780,
100000, and that they can control as
much more. The reticence of the Roths-
childs as regards their business, except
in open transactions, is invariably pro-
found. One of them is reputed to have
said to a friend, 'sOne great reason of
our success is that we know how to hold
our tongues"
Mrs. MARGARET TURPEY died few
days since in Flushing, N. Y, at the au-
thenticated age of 40 years. Until the
death of her grandson she supported
herself by the work of her own hands,
mostly knitting, at which she was
very skillful. Until few months before
her death she enjoyed very good health,
and for the last twenty years had not
visibly failed. To visitors who some
times doubted her great age she used to
say, " 1 am an old woman indeed, and
if did not know better, I'd be thinking
God had clean forgotten me-"
THREE men now living, says the Gin
cinnati Israelite, and we hope they will
live many more years, have lived
through the whole chapter of modern
Jewish history, and have been actively
engaged in making it. Two years be-
fore the death of Moses Mendelssohn,
Moses Montefiore was born, 1884. Ten
years later DR.. Zunz of Berlin was born,
1894, who laid the foundation to the
German Jewish literature. Two years
later Adolph Cremieux was born, 1876.
At their next birthdays these patriarchs
will -Montefore, 90 years; Zunz,
sc years, and Cremieux, 81 years.
A SINGULAR railroad accident oc-
| Cured the other night on the Atlantic
| express train just as it was reaching
Clyde, n. Y. "Down brakes had been
whistled, but the speed of the train was
not much diminished, when a young
woman, who had apparently been asleep,
started up, grasped her bundle, ran to
the platform of the car, and, without
waiting for information, jumped from
the train. Her body rolled and tum-
bled over and over, and the bundle in
her hand was cut IN two beneath the
wheels. Half dozen sleeping-car
passed her as she lay just outside the
rails upon the ends of the ties. She
was found to be badly bruised, but not
seriously injured. She supposed that
the train had made the halt at Clyde
and that she had been carried short
distance beyond her stopping-place
She refused to tell her name.
A CONVICT in the Wisconsin State
prison refused to 60 to his cell when or
dered by the Warden to do so. The
| Warden held a watch in one hand and
a pistol in the other and said: al will