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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| New Workers swallow from ten to
| fifteen million oysters daily.
The glucose product of this coun-
try is said to be over one million pounds
day.
They have started factory in
Chattanooga, Tenn, for the manufac-
ture of sheep cheese. The manager
comes from Austria, where the product
of the sheep dairies is q fayorite article
of food.
-Cocoanut growing is becoming an
important industry in Florida. Charles
Maloney has a plantation of several
thousand trees on Stock Island. j. v.
Harris, of Key West, has about 1000
trees, f.. O. Lock, about 10000, and
Lieutenant Governor Bethel is having
an extensive grove of cocoanut trees
planted.
-Hd!son has among his exhibits at
the electric show at Paris a one-horse
power engine operating nine improved
lamps, each of which is to burn nine
months. Edison also proposes to show
his autographs system of telegraphy
by which he produces by telegraph fac
SMILES of handwriting.
The great iron bridge that is to be
built over the Kinzua Creek, eighteen
miles south of Bradford, Mexican Coun-
ty, Pa, it is said, will be the largest in
the world when completed. 1t is for
the extension of the Erie Railway into
Elk County, and will be over 800 feet
high and 1000 feet in length.
The big steam hammer which was
made for the Black Diamond Steel
works at Pittsburgh weighs seventeen
tons, and will work steel ingots two
feet square. The motive power for
this monster will be furnished by an
engine with forty-inch cylinders. re-
curing eighty pounds of steam.
One of the great trials which the
builder has to endure is the ."saltpeter-
ing Of the brfck-work, or the white
streaks which too often dsfgure the
fronts of brick buildings. 1t is worth
noting that this can usually be prevent
ed by adding oil to the mortar at the
rate of gallon to the cask of lime.
Linseed oil is generally used, but any
kind will do which does not contain
salt.
The advance sheets of the census
declare that the small portion of the
State of Mississippi called the "Yazoo
BOTTOM" which in 1879 produced only
25S, 900 bales of cotton. is .capable, by
the exclusion of the Mississippi over
flow and by improved cultivation, of
producing nearly ., 1877, 257 bales annu-
ally of the present production. of, the
whole country.
The pickle business on Long Island
has become an important branch of in
dustry. The picking of cucumbers
has commenced, but the this
year will be light One con-
Germ has contracted for the delivery of
30, 100000 at. 81 per 1000. The usual
product of an acre is 100000 cucum-
bers. and it costs about bne- third of the 1
selling price topick'thern. The grower
nets about sos an acre. The market
price for .cucumbers in New York is 80
TO 81. so per 1000. -
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

WHILE Mr.. s. H. Burton was in the
safety deposit of Lafayette Bank, Cincin-
natl, cutting coupons from four per cent.
bonds, three men came in. One. of them &C .
cupied the President of the bank, another
engaged Mr.. Burton in conversation, while
. third got away with ten bonds, each Of
thousand dollars making 10000, and the
three men escaped undetected-
THE suspension of Preston & Nc
Henry, of Chicago, has squeezed several
grain firms. Half million dollars IN mar
gins are up and 100000 remain due to
different houses with which trades were
had.
AT Gray's Mills, Miss, the niRe-year-
old grandson of james Freeman. offended at
some action on the part of a two-y ear-old
daughter of Allen Harris, bfindfolded her
and threw her down well, where she was
found dead.
HENRY METZAR was executed at
Titusville, Fla, on the LIST, for the murder
condemned confessed the crime, and said he
had killed seven men in his lifetime. He
was unrepentant to the last.
JACOB WHITMoRE, a young farmer
residing near Bellefontaine, o.. recently
married a 14-year-old girl. The other day
he took his wife into the woods on nuttipg
expedition, and while there forced her to
swallow a white powder, threatening to cut
her throat il she refused. Whhmore re-
turned home alone, but was soon followed
by his victim, suffering intensely from
cramps, from which she was relieved by
death at midnight, revealing BIER husbands
guilt only when assured she could not live.
A RURAL dance on the farm of Henry
Bricbternicht, near Louisville, KY, wound
up with the murder of David Showers and
the mortal injury of Seula Walker. One Of
these men previously ins,ilted Dick Cnrico,
who on meeting them asked which was the
man who had insulted him. There was a
grabbing for revolvers, in which Carico did
the quickest and most fatal work.
A BRAwL in Deputy Sheriff Smyth's
bar-room, Philadelphia, Pa, resulted in
the death of John Kistel, % years of age, by
a blow with fist, dealt by VIM. johnson.
The cause OF the quarrel was trivial dis
pute about a cigar, which Kistel had snatch
ed from Johnson's pocket.
In New York City, the other day,
Frederick Wagner, saloon keeper, quar-
relied with his wife, and, having turned
down the gaslight in his apartments, quietly
introduced a fierce and powerful blood
hound, unleashed him and set the brute on
the unfortunate woman. The dog seized her
ing the flesh badly. Her cries of distress
brought policeman, who rescued her and
shot the hound. The other was fined S..
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The average attendance of tho
Sunday schools throughout the United
States is said to be eighty.
The revised New Testament is now
regularly used in the pulpits of at least
twenty leading Presbyterian churches
in New York.
INSTRUCTION in grammar has been
abolished in the Cincinnati common
schools, elementary lessons in the best
English being substituted.
MIR. Kimball, the 'church debt
raiser" has thus far labOred in behalf
of 100 churches, being instrumental in
raising from church members the re-
spectacle sum of S11 ,O0O,0 600.
A single Methodist college. the
Ohio Wesleyan University, is repre-
scented by two missionaries in Japan,
six in China, three in India, one in
Italy, two in South America, and one
in Mexico.
The New Testament has just been
translated into the Corean language,
and woman of Glasgow promises to
provide half the salary of the first
Corean evangelist for the first five
years.
The Connecticut Bible Society has
canvassed 69,859 families, and found
1,493 Protestant families without Bibles
and 1918 who don't go to church.
The Congregational denomination is
the most numerous, containing II, 220
families. The Roman Catholic comes
next with 15,315; then the Methodist
with r., 3O9, the Episcopalian with g.
907, and the Baptist with 6, 202. There
are only 131 Unitarian families in the
Wooden Nutmeg State, but there are
5, 1853 that represent themselves as hav-
ing "no relig .ous preferences"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
What a Little Girl Did.

Little Betty Grey trudged along
through the streets of r with a
basket full of watercresses for SALE
The clock was just striking six. Pm
glad it's so early" she whispered to
herself. ''No one is out before me;
am sure l shall sell them all to-day"
And down she sat upon a stoop near by
and commenced tying into bundles the
fresh green's, which had been gathered
only an hour before.
r Although but twelve years of age,
Betty was doing her life-work, for she
was almost the sole support of an in
valid mother and little sister. Her
mother had been great sufferer from
rheumatism for many years, and Mamie
was just beginning to help about their
humble home-for you must know that
it was a Gerry humble place indeed
lived. A low bed in one corner, two or
three chairs and small sewing table.
with bit of a broken stove, made up
all the furniture.
Now you will wonder, my young
friends, how watercresses could ever
support anybody. But this was not all
that Betty could do for the dear ones
SO entirely dependent upon her. She
had conceived an idea that was worthy
of an older head than hers, that in the
small plot of ground adjoining the house
there might be planted great many
different seeds, which would spring up
into beautiful flowers, and that her
mother in the intervals of pain, as she
lay upon her bed, could tie them into
buttonhole bouquets, and that, after
her crosses were sold. she and her lit
tie sister might sell them to the many
guests that frequent the hotels. as the
village where they lived was a famous
summer resort, and upon Saturday
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

Every man of honor has loathing
for low thing. Fonkers Gazette.
Next 10. clear Conscience for solid
kumfort Gums an old shu.-Josh Bill
ings.
The man who doesn't make up his
mind for long winter, thin cider, poor
apples and high figures on all eatab1es
will show his ribs before next April
Detroit Free Press.
-" What is the most common relief
used for boil?" The most common
is profanity. Kicking the dog, abusing
your family and getting into lawsuit
with your neighbor are reliefs also used.
Boston Post.
The school year at Vassar College
began last week, and many of the old
chews of gum left in the rooms last
good order. This will be welcome news
to those parents whose daughters at
tend Vassar. Chicago Tribune.
Patrick had been talking excitedly
to man, who replied not one word,
but kept his fingers gyrating in fran
tic manner. ''Och, stop your finger
he cried at last. "Why, Patrick, that
man is deaf mute" said Brown; .sbe
can't speak," Cant shpake, is itn'
exclaimed Pat; "thin why didn't the
spalpeen say SO at oncee"-Boston
transcript.
Ibid you hear of that case up on
Market street," said Barber to Brewer,
when they met at the post-of1ice this
mo; what about itp" in
quired Brewer, interested. Why"
said Barber, "a man lay there in the
house nine day before the family would
bury him. Had the funeral yesterday"
&" By gracious said Brewer, "that's
an outrage. Why didtft they bury him
beforeP superstition?'' mo; not ex-
actly that" and Barber slowly drew
Brewers ear down toward his mouth.
{" That wasn't it. He wasn't dead. ~
Ne,o Hacen Reqister.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
The Way Women Boss a Pillow.

Among the recent inventions is a
pillow holder. 1t is explained that the
pillow-holder is for the purpose of hold
ing pillow while the pillow-case is
being put on. We trust this new in
vention will not come into general use,
as there is no sight more beautiful to
the eyes of man than to see a woman
hold pillow in her teeth while she
gently manipulates the pillow-case
over it.. We do not say that woman is
beautiful with her mouth full of pill
lows. No one can ever accuse us of say
ing that, but there is something home
like and old-fashioned about 1t. that
cannot be replaced by'any invention.
We know, that certain over-fastidious
women have long clamored for some
new method of putting on pillow
case, but these people have either lost
their teeth, orithe new-ones they have
bought do mot grasp the situation.
They have'trieh several new methods,
such as blowing the pillow-case up and
getting the pillow in before the wind
got quit and they have tried to get the
pillow in by rolling up the pillow-case
until the bottom is reached, and then
placing the pillow on end and gently
unrolling the piilow-case, but ali these
schemes have their drawbacks. The
old style of Alewing one end of a pill
low and holding it the way retriev-
ing dog holds duck till the pillow
case is on, and then spanking the pillow
a couple of times on each side, is the
best. and it gives the woman's jaws
about the only rest they get during the
day. If any Invention drives this old
custom away from us, and we no more
see the matrons of the land with their
hair full of feathers and their mouths
full of striped ed-ticking, we shall
feel that one of the dearest of our in
situations has been ruthIessly torn from
us, and that the fabric of our National
supremacy mas received a sad blow, and
that our liberties are in danger. Wash.
in9ton Capital.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
Fashion Notes.
Deep cuffs will be worn.

Deep cuffs will be- worn.
Orange color is revived.
Byron collars are revived.
Ribbons for boIraets are all very
wide.
Jet bangles are worn for half mourn
ing; = 49,,
fashionable.
The wishbone appears amsng new
lucky trinkets.
Orange in small ds,shes or stripes is a
very effective color.
Metallic threads are thrown into the
web of new stockings.
Buckles and clasps will be much worn
on all parts of costumes.
Hair lines of gold in striped stockings
match those in the new goods.
Shaded and mixed effects appear in
the new ostrich plumos and tufts.
Derby felt hats coEle out under the
names of Ascot, Cornell, Elswick and
Bristol.
White toilets will remain in high
fashion until the weather becomes de.
cidedly cool.
Some bonnets have narrow ribbon
strings, but the majority have very
wide ones
Coarse, Unfinished beads introduced
in trimmings are consi Tered in very bad
taste.
Diadem wreaths of artificial flowers
will be very fashionable for full even
ing dress.
Little roosters have taken the place OF
little pigs and baby elephants as chain
trinkets.
Birds, cut in half from beak to tail,
are used for hat trimmings, laid fat on
the side of the crown and brim.
All large bonnets are olassed as
pokes; small ones as turbans and cot
tage shapes There are no FanchoM
as yet.
Neckerchiefs of bright foulard have
pretty lace borders appliqued on with
light gold embroidery in chain stitch.
The new beaded trimmings are made
highly artistic in finish by the use Of
beads of graduated sizes and of the
finest quality.
New bias ties of gray plaid and soft
twilled silk, in bright stripes, are worn
either as cravat bows or scarfs passed
around the neck.
The new striped novelty goods, shot
with golden hair lines. can be used to
advantage in making up with old plain
stutfs of last winters dresses.
If one wishes to be very economical.
a good way to make an old dress almost
as good as new is to buy yard or two
of bright plaid or striped fabric, and
add it to the material, if plain, in way
of accessories, cuffs, collar revers, and
a hanging pocket; or if the old material
is striped, plaided, or figured, get plush;
to match for the accessories.-N T..
Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08

The Apaches are getting a correct
idea of the value of the telegraph.
whose workings they once regarded
with awe and terror. Now they cut
the wires, lay for the couriers and get
a corner on all the mail and dispatches.
This system has been followed out by
the White Mountain Indians between
Camps Apache and Thomas, and led to
the first exaggerated stories of the Carr
massacre. It has since resulted in the
very meager reports received from the
seat of the Indian troubles in Arizona.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
Youths Department.
" BRA We AND TRUE"

"BR4 HE AND TREE.p
Once in my happy childhood days,
mother kind knew,
Who gave her boy the rarest praise;
She called him Brave and True"
He was my chosen mate at play,
l loved his bright young face,
Ills pure, high brow, that every day
Shone with SONG added grace.
He was so quiet. fair and mild,
Yet had so brave nu air.
The ncighbOrs grew to love the child,
And kissed his golden hair.
Boys, love the truth and follow it,
Our teacher often said,
As Willie does; your lives Z will fit
For station just ahead.
And ever dare to do the right,
BE patient, earnest, true;
These are the notices, wreathed in light.
That Willie keeps in view.
"And this is why al love him SO;
1t wins his mothers kiss,
1t shows his young feet where to go,
And fills his heart with bliss"
Years since left that old school-room,
But have kept in view,
Come days of light or days of gloom,
The motto; Brave and Truev'
Go den Days.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
The Year Without a Summer.

The year 1915 was known throughout
| the United States and Europe as the
coolest ever experienced. Very few
persons now living can recollect it.
The following is brief abstract of the
weather during each month OF that
year:
January was mild, so as to render fires
almost needless in parlors.
February was not cold; with the ex-
ception of a few days, it was much like
its predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous DUR
ing the early part of the month; the
remainder was mild. A great freshet
occurred on the Ohio and Kentucky
Rivers, which caused a great loss of
property.
April began warm, but grew cold as
the month advanced, and ended with
snow and ice, and a temperature more
like winter than spring.
May was more remarkable for frowns
than smiles. Buds and fruits were
frozen; ice formed half an inch thick;
corn was killed and fields were again
and again replantcd, until deemed too
late.
June was the coolest ever known in
this latitude; frost, ice and snow were
common. Almost every green thing
was killed. Fruit nearly all destroyed.
Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in''
Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the
interior of New York, and also in Mas1-
sachusetts. Considerable damage was
done in New Orleans, in consequence
of the rapid rise in the Mississippi Riv-
er; the suburbs were covered with wa
ter, and the roads were only passable in
boats.
July was accompanied with frost and
ice. On the 9Th ice was formed of the
thickness of common window-g glass
throughout New England, New York
and some pats of Pennsylvania In
dian corn was nearly all destroyed;
some favorably situated fields escaped.
This was true of some of the hill-farms
in Massachusetts.
August was more cherries, if posi-
BILE, than the summer months already
passed. Ice was formed half an inch
in thickness; Indian corn was SO frozen
that the greater part was cut down and
dried for fodder; almost every green
thing was destroyed in this country and
in Europe. On the Both snow fell at
Barnet. forty miles from London.
Papers received from England state
''that it would be remembered by the
present generation that the year 1916
49,, ", I'LL 80, .:~oS
NJ E.,oa III ~ Nt;9dIo 60
Farmers supplied themselves from corn
of 1917. 1t sold at from 81 to S. per
busheL
of ~ widest ,yeather of ~. Season
Soon afte, the middle + hecayne cold
and frostv. ice formod onertar Of an
;roh =. tG,',,,uS d""' VOL ~ ''n
Ootnhar nrod,o.d o,.o than ;ts
oi pId ouuo ~ 'na I ~; 10
H ,nauo o W 80 "o III rUsr anu 10
a,,nrn 0 nf IsIs cold r.;nu and unme.
nal thronobont Eurore was nac,Iiasiv
90 in Erance Constant raina foil Jnr.
;no the months of JuIv Anonst and
Sa,ton,hor p,,t Co. ~, .h,,nda',t
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08

Mayor Grubbs, of indianapolis, has
decided that selling peanuts on Sunday
is not a work of charity or of necessity,
and has fined peanut man foS the Of
Tense.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08
An American traveller in Europe

An American traveller in Europe
speaks of the fine appearance of the
many soldiers. He finds the French
soldier to be short in stature, nervous
in action. quick in movement and less
careful in dress than the Germans and
Italians. The German soldiers are
large and intelligent, and take pride in
their dress and bearing. The Italian
soldiers are young and fresh-looking.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08

turns received up to Aug. 1: Cotton-The
average condition for the whole country is
IS against 95 on Jaly and 102 Aug. l. 1850.
The complaints of drouth are confined 10 no
section Of the cotton belt, but are universal.
Insects are generally noted, but us yet little
damage Is reported. The plant is generally
mentioned As small, but fruiting well. Corn
General average condition II, n very con-
siderable decline since the July report, which
was 20 and much less favorable prospect
than in August, 1880, when it was rs, the
latter figure, however, being an exception
ally high average. The general cause as
signed for the unfavorable condition of the
crop is droutb, which is reported from every
section, and of unusual severity. There Is
also some complaint of insect injuries, but
only in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas are
their ravages reported as severe. The chinch
bug is the special plague in these States,
though several counties in Kansas also COM
plain of grasshoppers. Spring wheat-Av-
eragc condition 81, against SO in 1880 and 81
in 1879. Tobacco also shows a low average.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
THE monthly bulletin of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, issued Oct. !, gives the
following condition Of crops, based upon re-
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-12-10
Letter frGm Georgia.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 9TH, 1881

ATLANTA, Ia, zee. ON, 1901.
Mr.. ECitor-Thcre seems to be some
surprise expressed by our Northern neigh
bors at the exhibition of industrial plo-
duets ut this exhibition, as indicating
thrift, energy and skill among the South
ern people. \ little reflection would have
silenced this surprise; are not the South
crn people bone of their bone, blood OF
their blood, brain of their brain. DID not
our English, Irish, Scotch, French and
German ancestry come from the same
blood and land to this glorious and pros
porous free country where intermarrying
and unrestrained ambition produced no
mogenous race making us great people;
except so far rs the African population is
mixed up, and this is no special fault Of
ours for the Religious Fathers first brought
them into the North but obcying the laws
of nature and forced by their natural
sagacity and to ponder to the cupidity Of
our ancestors they drifted Southwark.
Climate and surrounding social circum-
stances had heretofore their enervating
influence upon these hybrid people, but
when the occasion require it they can
develope all the muscle and brain power
of any other people. The Southern peo-
pie have demonstrated most extraordinary
material recuperative powers; scourged,
impoverished and MANNED by four years
war, their system of industry radically
changed, taxed to the utmost with state
and national debt, with the national cof-
fers emptying its immense volume of rev.
enue in the shape Of subsidies and pensions
into the laps of the North and West, most
Of which are derived from Southern pro-
ducts, yet there is striking evidence of
thrift in this sunny land.
1t has been admitted that the cotton
spindle can be made to run here for about
30 per cent less than ut the North, the
only drawback being claimed was the
manufacture of the necessary machinery.
Your belt of country suggests itself as
possessing in an eminent degree all the
natural advantages necessary to produce
the construction of machinery for at least
90 per cent less than at the North.
Your Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
and their tributaries abound with ample
water powers which could easily and
cheaply be applied to motive power for
the manufacture of machinery Of every
description, and you have genial climate
and soil whichls capable of producing
food sufficient to feed multitude of oper-
tiveS. What you want rs i start is gem
uine active cooperative spirit among your
people to commence the glorious work Of
manufacturing which will make you L
rich and powerful people.