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Reliable Testimony,

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OAKLAND, Cal, Apr! ), leSO.
STANDARD SOAP COMPANY-uENrs:
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out of sloep by the severe itching. He
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MICHAEL KANE No. l06e kirkham st.
FORT VERDE, Arizona, Dec. T., 1879.
STANDARD SOAP COMPARTMENTS
Having received your box OF PHOSPHATE
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Territory, in 1871, AID have been sore ever
since until u et PHOSPHATE SOAP.
CORPORAL DENNIS BURKE,
Twelfth Infantry.
SAN FRANCISCO, November ~, 1879
STANDARD SOAP CUMPANY-GENTs:
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pusSlhlc.
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
Youths Department.
GRANDMAMMA'S HOMILX

What's that? A dolly? Dear mel
Where are my specs-let me sesI
Oh! you call that II doll-baby, do your
Well don't. my dears. Fiddle-de-deel
This fine little madam from France,
With her gay dress looped up for the dance;
With her dozens OF sashes, and slippers
Like those on which ballet-giris prance;
With her fiounces and frizzles and curls,
And her necklace of turquoise and pearls
All the fol-de-roiS fashion devices!-
We'll, don't admire her, my girls.
Do you ever tell this thing your sorrow,
Do you eddie her close to your bose
As l did my rag-baby Lauraf
No, she sits in her parlor in state,
Or goes to some other dolls fete:
Just exists for her dresses and jewels,
Her complexion, the curls on her pate.
Nellie, and Annie, my pet,
Sometimes fear eveny
Why, You fear just to sst xQur hands wet;
And You think of your curIs and your
And You prattle of "GermAns'' and
If you never do any thing useful,
Are you better than dolls, do you s'pose?
Oh, know that the day has gone by
For the baking of cake and of pie,
But something y you'll find, If" II You try.
There's work in the world to do still,
If you'll only turn to with a will;
1t is nobler to fill life with tasks. dears,
Than merely to strive time to kill.
This doll-take the French thing away!
Be Off, if you choose, to your play;
But remember, if duties you shirk,
You'll grow to be like her some day
Empty-headed, affected and fine,
Your brightness mere tinsel shine:
And, when beauty and style both have van
ished.
Alone and neglected you'll pine.
Alice Wiutdns BrOthcItOn, In NURSERY.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01

ing at the windows for the express
wagon, until they were called to supper.
Jingle! jingle! jingle! went the door
bell during the course of the supper.
And SO much had that package been
talked about and guessed about that all
paused in their eating and drinking,
and listened in expectation. !
sPlease, ma am" said Katie, coming
from answering the ring, ''the express
man is at the door. He says he's got
most valuable package for you, and
would you please come and receipt for
it?" :
Mrs. Benson found the expressman
standing by the little table in the hall
way where Katie had left him, though
in the meantime he had gone back to
his wagon and brought the package into
the house. please sign there" he
said, pointing to his receipt-book. I
at must be a very small package"
thought Mrs. Benson, not seeing any
package, but imagining it might still be
IN the expressman's overcoat pocket.
II was to say, Mrs. Benson" said
the man, that you must be prepared
for a very great. pleasant surprise"
"Oh! I'm prepared to be surprised"
answered Mrs. Benson.
"Then please turn and look at the
package standing there by the parlor
door"
Motherr'
"Oh, Guy! my dear boyr' joyfully
called Mrs. Benson, as Guy, with an ex-
press tag tied around his arm, rushed
into her arms, and clasped her around
the neck.
"It's Guy himself" said Bertha,
gleefully.
Hurrah! it's Guyr called Ben and
Jim; and they all instantly left the sup
per table and hurried to greet him. !
But the adventures OF package No.
10Y could not be quickly told. OF how
it was discovered that it might be sent,
how it had been directed like bundle
of goods, how it had been receipted for
over and over again, how it had travelled
all the way in the Pullman cars, how it
was given as much care and attention
as if it had been huge nugget of gold.
and very, very many more hows and
whys.-JGnaes B. Marshall, in Hdrper's
YOunQ People.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
An Absurd Idea.

1t was natural. perhaps, in the de-
preston that followed the Democratic
defeat in the recent election, that the
suggestion of disarmament of the
Democratic party should be entertained
and debated. But the idea was as abb
surd as the defeat that provoked it
was momentarily disheartening. Leav-
ing out of consideration the fact that
parties do not disband or die till their
mission is ended; that even then they
must be instantly replaced by another
party, and that there is no new par
ty either formed or forming that
can take the place of the Democracy,
the vote itself proves that the Demo
cratic party cannot disband at present.
1t has as much right to continued ex-
istence as the party that defeated it.
In the late election Republicanism was
ly defeated. A change of IL, 900 votes
in a single State-a State which by all
rules of normal party estimates ought
to have yielded q Democratic majority
would have reversed the result and
made Hancock President instead of
Garfield. The Republican vote was
a, 339, AIS; the Democratic vote was
f. $50, O14-Repuhican plurality, 3,4O1.
There are only 3,4O1 fewer Democrats
in the land than Republicans. Surely
an insignificant plurality like this,
which might have been easily obtained
by purchase, furnishes no warrant for
the disarmament of the defeated party.
But even this vote mfsrepresents the
real division of the people.
There are many reasons for believing
that the Democrats Outnumber their
opponents this day. The Republicans
had the advantage of marvellous
general prosperity to help themi they
had the advantage of being in power,
with authority to command the services
of an army of federal office-holders
nearly thirty times greater than the
they had the resdy assistance of a
been attached to their fortunes for seven
teen years. Is it not amazing that,
with these potent considerations and
agencies in their favor. their vote
should exceed the Democratic vote by
only 8, 400 and fall 800, 600 short of a
majorityp Suppose either of the advan-
tages had been denied them; suppose
the country had not been signally
prosperous, or Mr.. Garfield had not had
the united support of one hundred
thousand office-holders, or that the
National banks had not been arrayed on
his side; or suppose that, giving him all
these great advantages. the Democratic
majorities in New York city and
Brooklyn had not been reduced 80, 600
by Republican MONEYS it not an alb
solute certainty that Hancock would
have been elected by a ten, twenty,
fifty, one hundred times greater piurali-
ty over Garfield than Garfield actually
There is no dsparaging the force and
effect of defeat. All that can be done
is to submit to it. But to discover in
the pitiable Republican plurality of
3,40O in the popular vote a reason for
proposing the disbandment of the
Democratic party is the absurdity of
madness.-St. Louis Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

I'm the African Methodist Church OF
North Carolina there are one hundred
local preachers and ninety-two exhort-
ers.
The Methodists have resolved to
establish a missionary station in West
ern China. Mr.. John F. Goucher. a
wealthy layman of Baltimore, assumes
the expense.
In 1890 there were 1850 Baptists
Of sll shades in Pennsylvania, one Bap-
tist~ to every 344 of the population.
Now there are $4,000 Baptists, being
one to every sixty-six of the population.
The English Congregational Union
will celebrate next year the jubilee of
its foundation, and institute a special
jubilee fund. Congregationalists from
other countries will be invited to par
ticipate.
DR.. Legge. an expert in Chinese
matters. calculates that, at the present
rate of mission increase, there will be,
in 1918, &c, 900, 900 church members and
100. 600, 900 protesting Christians in the
Chinese Empire.
Edward Everett Hale admires the
public school system of Massachusetts,
but thinks when the pupils, after care
full training, spell the word ''scholar'
in hundred different ways, there is
some element still lacking.
1t is stated that King Oscar H., of
Sweden, has ordered collection to be
taken in all his churches of Sweden be-
fore May next, for the benefit of Zion
Swedish Lutheran Church in Philadel-
phia. The fund will be used to help in
providing a place of worship for the
Swedes.
The Vicar of Whitfield recently pre-
sided over Nonconformist meeting at
GlOsson, Eng, and said that he believed
the time was coming when the Christian
churches must agree as far as they could
on the points which were essential, and
try to differ as little as possible on points
that were non-essential.
The Lit Ie Sisters of the Poor, Ro-
man Catholic. started at st. Servan, in
Brittany, about forty years ago. The
community now numbers 2, 142 Sisters.
They have 1856 houses throughout the
world, of which twenty-five are in the
United States. They support $1,000
destitute aged persons.
Amherst College has concluded that
its students are men, their ages averag-
ing %, and will, therefore. no longer
subject them to discipline as boys.
They will hereafter be held responsible
for their work, but not for their per-
sonal conduct, unless it interferes with
their duties This has long been the
rule in German universities, but has
never been fully tested in this country.
though Harvard has, to limited extent,
adopted it.
The really greatest prizes of En-
glish clerical life. from pecuniary
point of view, are the head masterships
of the great public schools. Those of
Eton and Harrow are worth from $780,
900 to $35, 900 year, and those of
Westminster, Winchester. Rugby, Char
ter House, and Merchant Taylors are
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 year,
including the spacious abodes attached
to them. The heads of college at Ok
ford and Cambridge do not, for the
most part, receive nearly so much. The
master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
the g boss college, has about Si5.6
year, and the Dean of Christ Church,
who is also Dean of the Cathedral
Church, over $40. 900.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
At Napoleon, O., on Christmas MORN

At Napoleon, O., on Christmas morn
ing, W. G. Drury, aged 90, drug clerk, was
shot and instantly killed by General II. X.
Scott, formerly Governor OF South Carolina.
Scott's son, in mpany with a party of
other young men, had been celebrating
Christmas eve in a cOnviyial manner, and not
desiring to 60 home i'm his semi-inebriated
condition, he accepted All invitation from
Drury to share his bed in the drug store.
Some time after midnight the elder Scott,
ascertaining his sons whereabouts,
went to the drug store. He was
admitted by the clerk, but upon attempting
to 'enter. the bedroom Drury protested
against it, whereupon Scott drew revolver
and shot the former through the head, kill
ing him instantly. He then got his son and
went to his dotel, where he announced what
he had done, saying it was accidental. Scott
was arrested and taken to Defiance for safe
keeping, there being some threats made of
1ynching him. Drury was most estimable
young man and was to have been married
the following week.
A. M. CONKLIN, editor of the Socorro
On. Mex.) Son, was shot and instantly killed
on Christmas night by young Mexican
whom he had elected from a church festival
where he was an usher, for an alleged insult
to young lady present. The murderer es-
capped.
JASPER ERNsT7s building in Bridge
water, Nova Scotia, burned on the 26th, and
his two children persisted in the flames.
A SEVERE snow-storm prevailed east
of the Alleghanies on the Goth, accompanied
by disastrous gales along the coast. Rail-
way trains were generally blocKaded by
snow drifts.
ANDERwERT, the newly elected Pres
ident Of the Swiss Confederation, committed
suicide on Christmas night in the public
promenade at Berne, by shooting himself.
No cause is assigned for his tragic taking off.
MISS ADA HEBDEN, aged %, daughter
of the rector Of an Episcopa! Church at
Hamilton, Ont, but for the past six months
Y. Hebden, at Chicago, on Christmas day
committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with small revolver.
She was a handsome and accomplished girl.
Two young negroes, named Sam and
John Campbell, were lynchcd near Rowlett's
Station, in Hart County, KY, for the rob-
berry and attempted murder of Esquire John
A. Gardner.
The Lockwood Hotel, at Parsons,
Kans., burned at an early hour on the
morning Of the 10Th Several of the inmates
were injured, but all escaped with their
lives.
THE house of the Widow Anthony,
two miles from Weston, o.. burned 81.
Christmas eve, and her daughter, aged II,
and niece, aged Il, persisted in the flames.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
Predictions That Are Not Verified.

OF the many assertions that supplied
the lack of argument, ON the part of the
Republican writer's and speakers dur
ing the Presidential campaign, none
was used with more telling effect than
the declaration that business would be
good if Garfield was elected, while Han
cocks election would produce the oppo-
site effect.
The changes were rung on this con-
tinually. and, senseless as it was, it had
powerful influence. 1t induced life
long Democrats, in some instances, to
desert their party. 1t impelled bust
ness men to contribute immense sums
of money to the Republican campaign
fund. 1t was 50 powerful factor that,
without its aid, General Garfield would
have been very decisively defeated.
The campaign ended with the success
of the Republican ticket. The people
decided to take Garfield and the good
times which his party promised.
They have Garfield, as President
elect. But the good times; where are
they?
The truth is, there has been a gen.
eral depression of business all over the
country since the election. Money is
abundant. In all the great commercial
centers the banks are full of currency
Millions can be had at three per cent.
on call. Good paper, on long time, is
discounted readily in New York at five
to six per cent. But these favorable
conditions do not make business lively,
except in Wall street, where the
"bulls" and bears" have been unduly
excited of late.
There have been more large failures
of commercial houses since November
came in than happened during the ten
preceding months of the year. These
disasters have occurred in various cities
in the East and West, showing that the
depression is general, and not the re-
suit of local causes.
1t is melancholy failure of the
roseate predictions with which the Re-
publican leaders deluded the credulous.
We are not disposed, however, to
charge the unpromising condition of
trade to General Garfield or his party
All men of sense know that our finances
and business are not set up or tumbIed
down by the election or defeat of any
candidate. The demagogues who
promised good times as a result of Re-
publican success, and prophesied pros
tration of business if Hancock should
be chosen, knew that they were deceiv-
ing the people. They knew that trade
was controlled by laws which could not
be suspended or seriously affected by
the success of either candidate. - Wash
ington Post.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

DEC. 2o.-The Senate passed the House
resolution providing for a holiday recess from
December . to January5. Nj, Cockre!i pre-
sour and Kansas, reciting their citizenship.
their desire to settle on lands in the Indian
By United
said i isnd.s and build 's up homes there
should go to the Committee on Territories or
on Indian Affairs, It was ordered to lie on the
ering all the points involved was pending in
a former committee Che Oklahoma bilD.
sns a0S S Mi Dsn1 Certain Dub pub
and asked that 1t be referred to the Commit,
moved that 1t be referred TO the COMMITTEES
on Indian Affairs, and it was SO ordered.
bi hf psssed. Mr Prics X. Iowa.. nnaer the
direction of the Committee on Banking and
psss lie S 'ns sa na
made On that the blu had not
to the COMMITTEES on ways and Means. A
long discussion ensued relative to the subject
being TAKEN to suspend the rules e was lost
yeas, l29; nays, 6s-not the necessary two
thirds Several bills passed under a sus-
to establish an assay ONCE at st. Louis.
DEC. 21.-ln the Senate, Mr. Beck intro
duced a bill to authorize the issue of legal
tender notes of the United States upon depos-
its of gold also, bill TO repeal all laws which
impose taxes on capital or deposits with
Mr. Ingalls, one for the admfs
sion OF New Mexico as State. The
bill extending to sixty days the sessions
OF the Territorial Legislatures passed. In
the House, Mt the expiration Of the morning
hour. Mr.. Wood d., n. " moved tho House
20 into Committee on the Funding bill. Mr..
Robson (R-, y. j. rose to question of priv
ilege and offered q resolution prescribing the
method OF conducting the Electoral count The
speaker decided the question to be prfvi-
legged one, hut by a party vote the House re-
fused to entertain il. Observation-Disclosures wit h
the exception of Mr; Lndd tMe.l voted with
the Republicans. The House then went
into Committee on the Funding biIl.
Mr.. Wood attempted to limit the
debate but was unsuccessful. An excitina,
discussion followed. Messrs. Weaver &C.,
Iowa. Bland ID. MOI and Mills 3D., Tex
spoke strongly in opposition to considering
the bill before the holidays, and stated that
>they would oppose its passage by every par
liamentnry means in their power MIR. Weaver
made n humorous speech arrai,ning the
Democratic party for inconsistency on
the financial question. Mr. Bland
replied, charging Mr.. Weaver with acting in
the interests Of the Republicans and likewise
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01
An Irish Landlady.

A recent Dublin dispatch saws: Miss
Harriette Gardner, of Farm Hill. Kill
lala, who was almost mobbed yesterday,
in Ballna, and who intimidated the
crowd by drawing revolver, is consid-
erably over fifty years of age, and is an
old maid of unprepossessing appearance
and attire. She is very masculine
woman, rides and drives about like
man, hitching and unhitching her
horses. She always goes armed and is
a regular daredevil. She goes out
shooting with her dogs, and jumps over
bog-holes like a boy. She inherited
Farm Hill from her mother and drove
her father, Major Gardner, out of tho
place. She scarcely even recognizes
him or any of his children by his second
wife. She lives q solitary life, sur
rounded by queer household. She is
arelentless woman with her tenants, and
her pluck has hitherto enabled her to
carry everything with high hand.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01

with Inconsistency and bad faith. Dur
ing the debate sharp passage occurred be-
tween Messrs. Weaver and Sparks ID, I'LL, in
which the former called the latter n liar and
the latter reiterated by branding the former
as n scOundi ell and a villain. Weaver there
upon advanced toward Sparks in a threaten
ing manner, but friends interposed and the
pugnacfous members were separated
Dec. 22.-In the Senate, on motion of
Mr.. Morgan. the resolution offered by him in
June last. declaring the President of the Sem
ate Is not constitutionally authorized to count
the Electoral vote, was taken up, and Mr..
Morgan spoke Mt length in Advocacy thereof.
The House bill for the relief of settlers on re-
then went into executive session..
In the House. after prayer and the reading of
the journal, Mr.. McLane ID, Md, rs a ques
ton affecting the dignity of the House. called
attention to the scene of disorder which took
place on the floor on the previous day be-
tween Messrs. Weaver &C., Iowa) and sparks
3D., Iu.). and suggested that both the offend
ing members relieve themselves of the
As neither of the gentlemen manifested
any disposition to act upon Mr.. McLane's
suggestion, the latter offered "A resolution
curing them to apologize. This was subse:
instead of required" Mr.. Weaver then arose
occurrence; he admitted the language
used by him was wholly unjustifiablc,
and he made his apology humbly to the
House. Mr.. Sparks then said that the Ian
guage used by him on the occasion referred
the rules of the House, and he apologized for
it. Upon motion the whole subject was
thereupon laid upon the table. :. Both Houses
adjourned till the 5th of January.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-01

ton in the South rose before him.
Under this inspiration he fastened to
develop the stalwart policy in the
North american ReUieW. But the Re-
publicans will be unable to organize the
House without the aid of Southern
Greenback votes. and they are likely to
remain in minority in the Senate
unless they can cajole or seduce South
ern Senators into an alliance, which is
now more improbable then ever in
view of the menace made by Bout
well who expresses the sentiments of
the stalwart leaders. Boutwell, has
blabbed too soon and has thereby seri-
ously married the success of the stalwart
party managers in their intrigues to
usurp control of the Senate. Hence
the process of reconstruction in the
South will be indefinitely postponed
HARRISBURG PATRIOT