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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

MAY 9.-Mr. Kellogg offered a resolution
calling on the Postmaster General and Sec
retaries of War and Navy, State and
Treasury. for information in regard to en-
ployees in their respective departments. On
objection from Mr.. Ferry the resolution was
laid over under the rules. The Senate then.
session, and when the doors were re opened
adjourned.
MAY 10.-On motion of Mr.. Pendleton,
the Senate went into executive session, and
adjourned at its close. The following nomi-
nations were confirmed; James Longstreet,
Blythe, United States Marshal for South Car
DINA; samuel w. Melton, United States At
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Of
Utah; Albert woodcock, Collector of Internal
Revenue for Third District of Illinois.
MAY 11.-Mr. Kellogg called up the reso-
luton, offered by him some days ago, calling
on the heads of executive departments for
names of clerks and others employed in
their respective departments, etc. Mr.. Brown
offered an amendment calling for additional
information to whether such clerks and
employees are white or colored. The resou-
ton and amendment were aid over for future
action. The following nominations, among
others, were confirmed in executive session:
Michael j. Cramer, Kentucky, Charge dAfaires
do, member of the Ute Commission, rice John
Ii. Bowman, resigned.
MAY 12.-Mr. Kellogg again called up his
resolution calling upon the heads of the vari-
Gus Executive Departments for information
relative to employees in their respective de-
partments, etc. He denied statement by
MIR, Sherman that the information requested
in the resolution could be found in the Blue
Book, adding If it were true that there
were scores of persons employed in
rious departments who were born in the
Northern States, who had never seen n State
south of Mason and Dixon's line, and who
were, however, credited to Southern States,
that wrong ought to be rghted Mr.. Sherman
opposed the resolution, and moved to refer it
to the Committee Printing. So ordered.
The Senate then went into executive session,
and after n long discussion, by majority OF
nation of Stanley Matthews Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court.
MAY 13.-The Senate adjourned to NEE
on Monday, and went into executive session.
The following nominations were confirmed:
Don A Pardce, Circuit Judge of the Fifth Jul
dicial District; Malachi kiebs, Receiver oI
Public Moneys, Boise City, Idaho; Moses NJ.
Barr, Receiver of Public Moneys, Salt Lake
ifx-T fo1,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
The Remains Of Dead Soldier Recov.
cred by His Brother.

DURING the battle at Droop Mountain, West
Virginia, November 6. 1853, First Sergeant
Jacob FrintZ, of the Twenty eighth Ohio, was
shot drought the head and instantly killed
His brother. Lew Frint., helped to bury the
body on the field, and left several distinguish
fng marks by which the grave could be rccog-
Missed. When in ls6. the Government removed
the dead from Droop Mountain to Grafton,
was overlooked, and after n continued cor
respondence with the authorities at Washing
ton and at Grafton, without gaining any def
mite information, Mr.. Lew Fr.ntz came to the
conclusion that his brothers body still rested
where he had buried it. and he accordingly
left for West Virginia and the old battlefield
last week for the purpose of making thor
ough search.
Time had so changed the face of nature that
bat few if any of the old landmarks were rec
ognizable, and the search would have been
fruitless but that a farmer named McCarty
remembered that in blowing he had turned up
a couple of stones that he thought might be
the head and foot stones Of u grave. Upon
digging down at the spot a body was discov-
cred. which was identified by tho hole in the
skull and few boards placed over it by the
living brother as that of the gallant Sergeant,
who had died i'll defense of his cause, and had
lain SO long in unknown and unhonored
grave.
After carefully disinterring the remains
and preparing them for shipment to this city
Lew Friutl returned yesterday to arrange for
IL fitting funeral. - Cincinnati Commercial,
Nays
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
A Touching Incident Of the Frontier.

THE miner, Anderson, of whose death in
romantic trip from Summit to Del Norte
Fourteen men drew the body lashed TO a sled
to the top of the divide, and eight men came
on from the divide to the toll-gate with the
corpse. From the toll-gate to Del Nortafhe
trip was male in wagons. Here is an incident
of frontier life well worth bordering upeh by
our Eastern readers. We reprint it from the
POspectOr as an instance OF that unfa4hng
friendship which exists in the breasts OF men
whose exteriors may he rough, but whose hui
manity would impel them TO wade through
flames to pay the last tribute of respect to a
fellow mani. Picture the procession wading
up the snow-cla1 mountain, silently drawing
the body upon a rude vehicle. Above timber
line, where q, silence reigns supreme, the
cold almost uncndurabfc, those friends, stall
wart, good and true, pursue their toilsome
way over the snow crust, to be rewarded only
by the consciousness that the remains of their
comrade shall find Christian sepulture in dedi-
Gated ground Some account of this kind act
will, doubtless, go across the sea and reach,
perhaps, some cottage in Sweden. where the
old parents shall read the letter, and, amid
their binding tears, thank God that in far off
America the body of their son, whose soul
went out of this world from the loneliness of
a cab'n-for Anderson died suddenly. with no
one near-was cared for and decently buried.
So may 1t be with all of us, and not, as i'm many
cases in these rugged mountains, where the
all ingulfing avalanche sweeps the miner to
sudden death and an unknown and unknown
bic tomb.-Ldhe City (ColJ World.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
POLITICAL POINTS.

Its an awful responsibility that
rests upon the Democrats that OF
keeping Riddleberger out of the emolu-
ments of the Sergeantcy of the Senate.
The poor fellow may be an orphan. too.
WHEN you embark in a question
able enterprise, there is no telling
where it may lead. The Republican
organs, having begun the defense of
Mahone's political treason. are now
compelled to defend his personal bad
mariners. Utica Observer.
james A. Garfield has been in
some queer predicaments himself, and
he owes his election in part to this
stolen money and to these Post-office
Department patriots, otherwise known
as thieves. Should he not be lenientl
-Ciucinnati Enquirer.
-Conkling is credited with having
said to IL friend who was going to Eu.
rope and asked my lord if he could dc
anything for him, Eyes, take Garfield
with YOU" And for all that Garfield
is doing as President of The United
States, hemight as well go away with
Conkling's friend.
MIR. JorgeEson, Republican Con-
gresham from Virginia, who does not
believe in an alliance with the Read
justers, laughs at the idea of Mahone's
representing the cause of free elections.
1t is Mr.. Malone men who have done
most of the bull doing and ballot-box
stufling, he lays. They have been
chiefly responsible for interference with
the suffrage in Virginia In his own
district. where he received large
number o! votes from respectable Dent
ocrats, the Rendiusters' bull DOING and
ballot-boX stulling were especially out
rageous. --DetrQiE Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21

The country has an opportunity now
to see how and by whom and with
whose money Garfield was elected Pres
ident. Some of US urged, pending the
late Presidential election, that it would
be in the interest of the taxpayers of
the country if the Government books
could be exposed to the view of the
people of the United States. We were
hooted at by the saints of the Repub-
lican party. Democrats were de-
nounced as enemies of the country
for making such a suggestion, and the
suggestion was scOtfed at as rebel lie
as Pigment of the bourbon De-
mocracy.h Mr.. Dorsey, and Mr. Bra
dy, and Mr.. Tyner and the others were
energetic in their assaults upon the
unpatriotic character of the Democratic
request to look at the books. OF
course. 1t would disturb business"
''obstruct prosperity to make
change, while the Administration for
four years had been so honest. 1t was
alleged that the Adm nistration of Pres
ident Hayes had been clean, and this
believed assertion coaxed many votes
for his successor. The Administration
of his successor is scarcely two months
old, but. by an accident, great stencil
fills the land, putting to shame and con-
luSioH Vi ldcc tHe pIOCldsiuerS Vi tHe
cleanliness of the Republican Admins
tration.
The "Star Route" steal surpasses, in
audacity, in magnitude and in closeness
to the Executive Department of the
Government, all other scandals and
thefts in our National history. The
Credit Mobilier scandal did not directly
involve either of the three great De-
partmenls of the Government. The
Government was robbed only indirectly.
The moneys bestowed Were in insignili-
cant sums. James A. Garfield. if we
recollect Alright, only received ten
shares of Credit Mobilier stock without
consideration. This stock was distrib-
uted, not to secure legislation-for
those railroad people had all the legis-
lation they wanted-but TO prevent leg
islation. The seducers did not seduce
an entire Department of the Govern
mcnt; they only purchased the silence
of Il few members of Congress. This
was only the seduction of a fractional
part of one of the Departments o. the
Government. The men who were Sc
duced did not steal: they We're only eX
pected to keep silent about the indirect
attacks upon the Treasury that had al
ready been made. And yet the Credit
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
A Desperate Struggle With Mad Dog.

The northern section of this city was thrown
into the widest state of excitement by the
terrible attack on a number of persons by an
infuriated build g suffering with hydrophobia.
For some time past Mr.. James NJ. Epply, who
resides on the northern boundary of the city,
has been the owner of two of these dangerous
bea5 ts, and has kept them confined in the rear
yard ATTACHED to his residence. This afternoon
one of the dogs ferociously attacked the
other, and, while they were engaged in des-
perate fight, colored girl belonging to the
house went to the back door to eIdeavOr to
separate them, but no sooner did she make
her appearance than one of them, frothing
at the mouth. seized her by the left
leg and tore a great piece of liesh from
the calf of the limb. Stricken with terror and
pain, the girl screamed for help, and Mr. Will
lam Thompson, who was passing at the time,
came to her assistance and fired at the animal
through the fence with his revolver. The ball
missed its mark, and Mr.. Thompson then
climbed to the top of the fence to secure a bet
ter aim for his next shot No sooner did the
maddened beast sec him than it leaped tor his
thront and, getting a savage hold, together
they fell of the fence into the street. Mr..
Thompson, who is a powerful man, fought
desperately, and finally succeeded in getting
away from the animal, but not unfit his coat
and shirt were torn from him and he was
severely bitten in the throat and
breast. The dog then ran madly down Mary
land avenue, and his next victim was child
named Eddie Simm, son of one of our leading
dry-goods merchants. Dashing at the boy, the
dog threw him down and bit and tore the flesh
from a dozen parts of his body. Painting and
bleeding, the child was picked up and carried
to his fathers residence close by. crowd
had by this time gathered in pursuit of the dog,
but he was not finally disposc Sod of. although
a dozen shots were fired at him, several of
which wounded him, until he had severely Bit
ten Il colored boy named Richard Franklin,
distance of five or six squares from where the
Infatuated beast had started on his blood
thirsty flight. Baltimore t!Md), May ., Special
to Chicago Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
WIT AND WISDOM.

The man who talks least is most
apt to keep his word.-M. o. Picayune.
"A man must get right down to his
work in order to get up in the world
Boston Transcript.
Wealth may be a solace, but a sole
ace isn't worth much when the other
fellow holds three of hem.--LouisUiite
Co,srier-JoasrnGt.
Supreme Court-Paying attention
to two pretty women ut one sitting. =
NJ Y. News. We should think the
women would call that "Mock Court"
--NorristoUn Herald.
-"Oh, give me anything made of
BEANS" exclaimed Boston man taken
sick in the West, when asked what he
would have to eat. They obeyed his
request. They gave him castor OIL
Philadelphia Chronicle.
IA Boston paper says that May is
one of the unlucky months for mar
riages.' The other unlucky months are
June, July, August, September. Octo-
Der, November, December, January,
February, March and April. y Chicago
Tribune.
A minister, while marrying couple
recently, was rather disconnected on
asking the bridegroom if he was willing
to take the young lady for his welded
wife. by his scratching his head and
saying: eyes, I'm willing; but I'd
much rather have her sister" -ProUi-
dence Star. TO-. ,-
-"Never milk while the COW is eat
ing" is the advice of bucolic contem-
porary. Judging from the character of
much of the milk that comes to market,
it would be more to the point never to
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
Confessions OF an Amateur Cook.

From 40 till '52, or until men COM
menced to import their wives, the male
population of California was one com.
posed largely of amateur cooks. Every
mans hand was necessarily more or
less in the dough, and his finger in the
pie. Out of all these few fine COOKS
were developed, more tolerable ones,
and a vast residuum of miserable bakers
and broilers. This was noticeable in
bread when loaves and hot biscuits took
the place of fiapjacks. Good bread
makers, male and female, are born, not
made. Genius of any description can
not be educated into a human soul.
That indefinite, impalpable, intangible
and indescribable something which en-
ables one person to get his loaves or
crust light and spongy while others
secure only the consistency of plaster
Paris or gutta percha belongs to the
same order of mysterious causes which
sway the poets pen, the painters brush
and the sculptor's chisei. The mind
must go into the bread or it comes forth
from the oven a dead, lumpy mass, fit
only to hasten man passage to the tomb.
Bad bread is no staff of life at all. 1t is
an ally of Death. A skeleton is baked
in every loaf. l was never a good
bread maker. l baked skeletons in ali
my loaves. Some were heavy, some
heavier, some within were greenish
yellow in hue from excess of sa leratus.
These killed not so quickly, but quite
as surely as the rattlesnake. The outer
crusts of some of my loaves were of an
adamantine hardness, while the inte-
riors, to which the necessary caloric
had not had due access, from overmuch
rapidity in baking, were Il hot, soft.
viscid and glutinous mass, when taken
from the oven, as some biologists, who
know nothing about it, say is the earth's
core. Doubtless my bread has cut
short many a good mans career 1t
was the crime Of ignorance, however.
In the complicated relations of life, as
it involves our dealings with each
other, we are thus ever involuntarily
numbering our species. The greatest
wonder is that should, after having so
long partaken of my own poison, still
live.-Pfentice Multor3-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Germany has now 5000 miles
m darvro,,n1 xu;ra

Germany has now 5000 miles of
underground wire.
The Suez Canal shares bought by
the Beaconsfield Government at 20 in
1875 are now worth 7S, profit of over
fifty millions.
The so-called Turkish bath, which
sweats the patient with dry hot air, is
not known in Turkey. 1t originated
with a DIR. Barter, at Barney, in Ire
land, in 1856, and was soon adopted in
England.
"A vessel recently arrived in London
from the River Plate with $1,000 car
cases of sheep on board, which were
brought over In n frozen state. They
weighed on an average thirty-six pounds
each. and fetched 4 d. per pound in the
market. They sold as fast as possible.
Arabic land in England has been
gradually decreasing in area, the de-
crease in five years being 442. 900 acres;
and there has also been a decrease In
the number of cattle, a decrease of no
fewer than 100000 sheep since 1874.
and an appreciable reduction in the
number of pigs and horses. -
"A diamond which. has arrived in
London from the Cape of Good Hope
is attracting much attention. 1t weighs
an ounce, and is superior in water to
the Kohinoor; $750,000 has been Of
fered for half share in it, uncut rs it
is, and has been refused by the lucky
owner. s!r-ati
The waste of material in coal mill
ing is enormous. 1t is estimated that
only two-thirds of the coal in workable
veins is taken out; there is a further
loss of twenty-five per cent. III the
preparation and delivery. The Read
ing Railroad Company has spent $780,
600 in the attempt to utilize waste coal
by burning it in locomotives constructed
for the purpose.
"A Mr.. Perkins, of England. has
designed an ocean steamship which he
says on a consumption of fifty tons of
coal a day of twenty-four hours will
cross from Queenstown to New York in
four days, and on occasion can make
forty miles an hour. The suggested
steamer has twin screws forward and
aft. the bow screws pulling and the
stern ones going ahead. '"
According to statistics published in
the Ceylon Obseruer, there are now 35,-
600 acres in the island planted with
cinchona, the total number of plants
being nearly 100,000.00O, valued at
$4,000, 600. About 10000 acres are
planted with tea. giving an annual yield
of 100000 pounds. The relative inn
portance of coffee in Ceylon has greatly
declined,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21
A Novel Ready Made.

TRUTH may not be stranger than fiction, but
1t is often quite as strange, as witness the fol-
lowing story of real lite which, according. to
the Austrian papers. viii soon be told in one Of
the courts of Bu'la-Pesth, before which n suit
Is now pending which involves the large for
tune mentioned at the end of this novel ready
made:
In 1S5- a merchant had a son whose extray-
agance giving hin great trouble, he thought
ii best to obtain him a commission in the A us
TRAN army. The young man had risen to the
rank of Lieutenant when the war of 1859
broke out. Being sent against the Piedmont
csc he thought proper to desert to the enemy.
but on the first engagement he was captured
by the Austrians, and would at once have been
brought before court-martial had he not
fallen dangerously ill of a fever. On the day
of the battle of Magenta he lay in the IN Hillary
hospital there. The hospital was hastily evac
uated by the Austrians after the battle, tho
patients who were sufficiently recovered were
hurIicdly removed, and the rest abandoned tc
the mercy of tho French. There were thus
left behind in one room the young s. and
Lieutenant-Colonel of Spanish origin, Coun
Rodriguez by name. Between the de
partlfe of the Austrians and the arrivM
of the French the latter diod. and
young s. felt himself strong enough
to make such alterations in the arranse-
ments of the room that should indicate Chat
he himself was the Count Rodriguez. The
peace of Viiafranca found jim restore Ito
health and liberty. and in possessidAof
Count Rodriguez papers. d and nj be.
With this stock-in-trade our Hero set up as
man of fashion in st. Petersburg. where be
gained the heart of the daughter Of a Russian
Rear Admiral -, whom, with her fathers
consent, he married. When the young wife
was about to become mother the false Count
proposed that they should visit his ancestral
home. He did not. however, take her any
farther than Hamburg, whence he wrote to his
father-in-law to. the effect that the home of his
ancestors was, ip the French sense of the word,
n cIpdtcdu en- Espagne, that his rerl name was
s., and that he was in urgent want OF
funds The Admiral at once started for Ham.
burg: but on his arrival found his son-in-law
had died of the smallpox. From the papers
left behind him by the deceased it appe RS
that he was the son of merchant Mt Bnda-
Pesth-a fact which became more Interesting
to his father-n-law from his accidentally re1d-
ing an official advertisement calling upon the
long-lost s. to appear and claim Il large in
heritance left him by his uncle, as in case of
his not appearing it would be distributed
among the collateral relatives.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-21

Contracts are made in various ways,
and one method is just as binding as
another.
There are many modes of proving
contracts. They can be proved by
direct and explicit. or by indirect and
circumstantial evidences; or the exist
ence of the contract may be inferred
from circumstances.
By virtue of we'll established doc
trines like these, millions of property
change hands under judgments OBJ
tanned in the courts every month in the
year. The same general rules of evil
dence prevail on the trial of indict-
ments for crime. In accordance with
these old-fashioned rules, men are sent
to penitentiaries and to the gallows in
all the States.
Malone entered the Senate as an in
dependent Democrat. If, at the out
set, he had declared that to punish
his opponents of the dominant element
of the Virginia Democracy he should
vote with the Republicans, but would
take nothing from them in return,
the country would have under
stood him, and certain class of politi-
clans might have felt some respect for
him. But when he is seen in the room
adjoining that in which the Republican
caucus of Senators is sitting, and when
the outcome is the nomination of his
man Riddleberger, Confederate repu-
diator, for Sergeant-at-Arms; and
when thereafter Malone votes all the
time with the Republicans on every
question that arises, the proof of a con-
tract between him and the Republican
leaders in the Senate is irresistible.
The heated debates in the Senate
seem to indicate that Malone stands
ready to challenge and shoot, if he can,
any Senator who charges that contract
was made in pursuance of which he has
cast in his lot with the Republicans. If
he could only contrive to blow out of
existence the circumstances which tend
to show that such contract was en-
tered into, it would do more to satisfy
honest men than the killing of any num-
Der of Senators on the so-ct!led field of
honor.-M. y San.