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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-12-14

The Palmetto Brush Factory, ON
East Bay ST., shows remarkable eu-
couraging state of business. Alt ouch
only six or seven months est h1;shod
and brand new thing, too Hot thev
have thirty men busy, and 20 SoIlid SoSliaed
to purchase large addi' ;onS ~ ~ t5eir.
machinery and add ms ~, "0n' 'oro W. man
Their orders are wa tny l1ol = -. -
supply Union. q ! "ue"N "
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

TEADING, Pa, January H.
SHORTLY aftcr six O'Clock this evening n
coaLoi lamp exploded in the residence of
Wellington ID. Moser. No. 1877 Center avenue,
in this city. which resulted in the burning to
death of two persons. and the fatal bur ping of
two others, both of whom will probably live
until morning. The family had just left the
supper table, and Mrs. Moser had gone to the
cellar to obtain a can of oil for the purpose of
filling a lamp. David Maurer. boarder, blew
into the lamp in order to extinguish it, when
an explosion took place, and the burning oil
was scattered over the room, which wac
instantly sheet of flame. Mr.. Moser and
four children were in the loom with a
girl named Sallie Rothgcrber, fourteen years
of age, Mrs. Moser's strp-sister. This girl had
the youngest child, eight months old, in her
arms, and ran upstairs for the purpose of
escaping from the burning Oil Two of the
children, both boys were carried out safely
by the mother, and the oldest child, Mary
Moser, aged eight years, was rescued from the
fiames but not until she had been fatally
burned and is now lying in great agony, her
death being momentarily expected. The
flames spread rapidly that the house, a
brick structure, was speedily consumed. The
girl Sallie Rothgerher, with the infant, per-
ished in the flames, and their bodies, which
are covered up in the ruins, have not been re-
covered David Maurer, the hired man, WAS
burned fearfully ~about the arms, hands and
face.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

DOVER, N H., January 7.
A DISASTER without parallel in this section.
befell the STAFFORD County Poor-House, situ-
ated about four miles north of this city, at an
early hour this morning, whereby thirteen
paupers and lunatcs lost their lives. At 400
O'Clock fire was discovered in the furnace
room of the main building thrce-story
editice of brick, i'll which lived one hundred
and sixty-four persons besides the physicians
and attendants. In some way the woodwork
the furnace caught fire and burned
through one story before it was discovered 1t
was then burning furiousIy, and in the absence
of facilities for squelching the flames there was
nothing TO do bat to save the inmates, who
were Immediately in II fearful state of excite
ment. Many of them were old. imbecile and
helpless, and the spectacle as they rushed
about the corridors in utter bewilderment,
or crouched stupidity in corners, absolutely
refusing to leave the building. was terrible in
the extreme. For some time the flames
seemed to have fascination which induced
them to return after having once escaped.
Many of the children were saved by being
thrown from the windows into the arms of
those below. One poor Irish woman, who has
been pauper four or five years, stood nearly
naked for three-quarterS of an hour catching
them in this way. Finally, after every effort
had been made, the building abandoned
and the flames had everything their own way.
There was no fire apparatus on the premises.
One engine from this city got within mile of
the place, but could go no further, and could
have done no good even if it had been sta
toned at the farm, there water to
use. When the flames subsidized. it was found
that thirteen human lives were lost.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
How Sparrow Asked Admittance.

A gentleman of this city, says the
New London Comm Telegram of a re-
cent date, relates this anecdote illus
trating the almost human intelligence
which birds sometimes display: On
Saturday evening, when the furious
northeastern was penetrating to the
marrow of unlucky pedestrians, and
sitting the fine snow under doors and
window sills, his attention was called
from his newspaper by persistent tap
ping at his library window. At first
he supposed it to be the rafting of a
loose blind or the shaking of a window
sash in its groove; but becoming an
noyed at its continuance. he walked to
the window to secure the noisy frame.
Looking out into the fast falling snow
what was his surprise to discover,
perched on the outside sill, an English
sparrow with its feathers puffed up into
a comical little ball to protect it from
the wind. As he stood before the win
dow the noise ceased, and waiting for
its repetition he concluded that the
little sparrow had been the cause of
his disturbance. Wishing to see if his
conjecture was correct, he drew back
watched the shivering bird. In mo-
iHeH1 1He CoHiicsti Httlc Heiu cHIeISeu
from its downy covering, and, peeping
first to this side and then to the other,
the tiny bird began again its summons
for admission on the glass. The gen
tleman thrust his hand out cautiously
from his retreat and quietly raised the
sash an inch or two, to allow the timid
caller ingress. The sparrow hoped
cautiously onto the inner sill, and grad
ually emboldened by the silence began
an elaborate toilet, stroking its disor-
dered plumage, and settling itself into
Il comfortable enjoyment of the warmth
and light. The strange little visitor
was allowed to pass the night within
the unusual shelter of the library, and
in the morning. when the window was
opened, it joined its chatterlng eompan-
ions in the fir trees on the lawn.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
WIT AND WISDOM.

The man who gets bit twice by the
same dog is better adapted for that
kind of business than any other.-Josh
Billings.
There's an impression abroad, :"
said the irate parent. as he kicked his
daughters young man out of the house.
NJ Y. Nea0s.
Maiden lady's quotation slightly
altered from an old aphorism-" When
singleness is bliss tits folly to be wives.
Rome Sentinel.
The girl who was courted by a
spruce young lawyer said she liked to
be protected by the strong arm of the
law.-Iurners rails Reporter.
Don't swear when you step on the
icy sidewalk. Think of little prayer
instead. Now l lame me-" for in
stance. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
"A Baltimore clergyman recently
preached on the subject, "Why was
Lazarus a beggar?" We suppose be-
he didn't Observation-Disclosures HaeOh-
eye.
To the query of Danbury dentist
to an applicant for new set as to what
sort of teeth she wanted, she said.
Something that won't show dirt. -
Danbury News.
There is great deal of religion in
this world that is like a -preserver-
only put on at the moment of immediate
danger, and then half the time put on
hind side before.-Josh Billings.
When Greece was in her glory
tramps were unknown. If a man start
ed out to be one he was recognized as
philosopher and given a fat position in
the Government Detroit Tribune.
Sentiment for the Young Ladies
Society for Improvement in Broomstick
and Washtub Etiquette: There's a
time we must laugh and time we mus
sweep. Yonkers Statesman.
The Methodist Church in New Jer-
sey has set it's foot down against kissing
at church fairs. and a heap of old bach
elors will have to rub rhubarb on their
lips as substitute.-Detr01 Free Press.
Five years ago six million croquet
sets were sold in this country. This
accounts for the number of old maids
and bachelors left to mourn alone
Croquet will raise rumpus quicker
political discussion.-KeokuE Gate
CitH
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

In North Carolina there are 267
tobacco factories.
"A gravestone at Salem, N. c., is
marked 1856.
Fine specimens of pure plumbago
have been found in Cherokee County,
Ga.
that what Ireland needs is coal CRATES
ond coal-burning stoves from the United
States.
The Safe Deposit Company of San
francisco has laid down an iron vault
weighing 100000 pounds. 1t is be-
lieved to be the largest in the world.
The expected yield of the Ames-
Millaudon plantation in Louisiana is
1,5O0,O00 of pure white sugar. The
Sharpe crevasse has cut short the yield
500, 900 pounds.
According to recent figures the
average value an acre for cleared land
in Maine is S12S7; in New Hampshire,
S15; in Vermont, Sl5.2 %; in Massa-
chusetts, s85; in Connecticut. 500.
Some genius with mathematical
bent of mind figures out that our Ma
tional debt, in silver dollars, could be
removed by rail only with the aid of
CsccO Gals, tCH lOHS
1t is said that the 1880 "crop'' Of
turkeys in Clark County, KY, amount
ed to $4,000. and brought about $10,-
600 cash. 1t is claimed, too, that the
Kentucky-rai birds OF this breed top
the market in New York and Boston.
A Madeira County Texan gathered
over 1000 bushels of pecan nuts from
his farm and sold them in San Antonio
for 50. 40 per bushel. His net profit
was So. 400 on the crop, the entire cost
of gathering and marketing being just
S25.
The expectation of American live
hogs to Germany, tried as an expert
ment in the early part of this year, has
been found profitable, and has largely
increased. About q per cent. of the
hogs die on the voyage. Butchers
in Berlin are said to be very eager to be
supplied with these free-born swine.
During the last five years no less an
amount than $4,000, 600 has been ex-
pended in works of sanitary nature
by the various urban sanitary authori-
ties of England and Wales. The stead
lily decreasing death rate of the period
implies that the large sum has been,
on the whole. judiciously laid out.
The sales OF oysters in New York
City amounted last year to 81, 500, 900.
The shuckers open from six hundred to
nine hundred oysters an hour. This
winter there will be an expectation of
one hundred thousand barrels of New
York oysters. The seed oysters, which
are brought from the Chesapeake. cost
81 bushel, and lie in our waters four
years before they are raked up.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

er, was hanged on Staten Island, New York,
on the 18th.
WARREN LONGMORE, the nine-year-
old boy who wilfuly murdered his seven
year old playmate at Machias, Me-, and then
mutilated and buried his body, has been
convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to
the Reform School until he attains his ma
jority.
THE Anti-Jewish agitation has ex-
tended to SaXony, Bavaria, Leipzig and
Breslau..
TIE residence of James O. Buckley,
on IIemlock Lake, ~ miles south of lsochcs-
ter, y. V. burned on the night of the I2th,
and two of his children, aged eight and ten,
persisted in the flames.
GENERAL GRANT has been elected
President of the Worlds Fair Commission.
ANNIE KLoDAsKE, n pupil in one of
the Chicago public schools, was standing in
front Ct stove when the flames shot out
and set bel clothing on fire. Her injuries
were supposed to be fatal.
S. B. VANCE, JR., son of Judge
Vance, a prominent attorney of Evansville,
Ind, and formerly of Henderson, Ky, COM
mtted suicide at Mt. Vernon, Ind, on the
18th, by taking laudanum. Young Vance
was under the influence of liquor at the time
of taking his lie. lie was brother-in- law
of Shouse, who killed himself in Louisville
few weeks since.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
The ExpIOSive Water Pitcher.

Mr.. WILLIAM II. LEvERGooD. Principal Of
the Boys Secondary School, this city, hal a
singular experience on saturday morning
last, at his home in Wrightsville- He was
sitting with certain members of his family
when a loud report-as of the discharge of
n hcavily-loaded gun-waS heard in the
sleeping apartment occupied by his moth
err, and he rushed there to ascertain the
cause. Imagine his surprise to find that the
pitcher had exploded, and, with the bowl, had
been broken into fifty pieces by actual count,
some of the pieces having been hurled across
the room. The most singular part of the af-
fair was that the apartment was heated by a
register. and that the pitcher contained only
about pint of water, and that was not frozen.
Had the pitcher been filled with ice, the crack
ing of it would not have been remarkable; but
there was no such cause, and the vessels were
not merely crackc l, but seemed to have been
blown TO pieces by an explosioA-Lancdster
(Id) Netc Era.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The movement to raise SIS, 900 for
house of worship in Paris for Pere
Hyacinth Loyson drags slowly along.
Boston has completed its High
School building, at cost of 81 ,036, 900,
and considers it the fine It in the United
States.
The San Francisco School Board
has made a rule declaring vacant the
position of all lady teachers who marry
while employed in the schools.
1t is reported that the statistics of
the Reformed Episcopal Church show
greater addition to it's membership
during the past year than in any pre-
ceding one, not excepting the first year
of its organization.
DR.. John Mcintosh, of Ireland, has
call to the Second Presbyterian
Church, in Philadelphia, at a salary of
$4,000, another to the Second Church,
Chicago, at a salary of $4,000, ard still
another to a church in Scotland.
1t is said that the Rev. j. p. Craw-
ford, missionary of the Southern Bap-
list Board at Tung Chow. China, has
recently discovered there two genealog-
zeal tables which he identifies with the
generations of ADAM" Genesis, ",
and the generations Of the sons of
Noah" Genesis, X.
M. Chesnelong, a French Senator,
told his brother Senators few days ago
that if God was banished from the pro-
gramme of studies in French academies
the collegiate young ladies would grow
up materialists and atheists. 1.-The no.
blest work of Christianity is the Chris
tian woman
AT Harvard the old recitation
system in mathematics has given place
to lectures. except in the prescribed
courses in algebra. geometry, and trigo-
nometry, which form continuation of
the common academical instruction. In
analytical geometry, advanced ana
quaternions, and mechanics, textbooks
are used only as works of reference or
as texts for the lectures.
AT recent meeting of the London
School Board. Editor Grove of the School
master asserted that the system of
government in the French schools was
one of constant espionage, the effect
being to destroy frank intercourse among
the children and to make them sly and
deceitful. This assertion having been
brought to the notice of Ambassador
Challemel-Lacour, he writes to the
Times that Editor Grove doesn't know
what he is talking about. eff there is
a fault from which French schoolboys
are exempt" says the indignant Am
bassador, sit is precisely the odious
one of which Mr.. Grove SO fippantly
accuses Them
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE mining town of Alta, Utah, has
been almost buried under the snow. A series
of avalanches have occurred, causing the
deaths of at least ten persons. The names
given are Mrs. -Haskius and her daughter
Jane, Charles Borbridge, Frank Laporte,
Robert Haworth, Van Morris, John
Fitzgerald, p. Ii. Lee, VIM.
Hollingshead, and man named
Darby. Richard Williams and John Wash
ington are missing. Other disasters of a
similar nature are reported from other
localities in the Wahsatch and Big Cotton
wood.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has been on a
visit to Mentor.
The Greenback members of Congress
sent congratdlatory telegram to Governor
Plaisted, of Maine.
"BUCK" WALSH, a noted burglar,
sentenced to the Sing Sing On. " Prison
for twenty years, was shot dead on the 18th
by guard while trying 10 escape.
THREE men were recently lynched at
Colorado, n. Mex, the present terminus of
the Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe Railroad,
Tor having robbed a woman; and ut San
Marciai, few miles distant, two desper-
ADDE'S were disposed of in an equally sum-
mary manner by Kidding their bodies with
bullets.
AT Point au Pelee Island, Lake Erie,
on the 10th, a man named Reinheimer shot
another, Andrew Henderson, 4 mail carrier,
and then blew out his own brains. The two
men had always been good friends, and in
sanity Is suspected in the murderer, as he
had previously attempted to take his own
life.
KNOX PINCKARD and colored SER
want were buried under n snows!ide at
Georgetown, Colo, both being dead when
exhumed. William Pinckard escaped with
his life.
THE Texas & Sta Louis Railroad has
been compiled to Corsicana, BOB miles from
TeXarkana.
IT is reported from Tucson, New, tina.
stage from Messila to Fort Cummings was
attacked by Indians about ten miles Fort
Cummings. The bodies of three men and
one woman, passengers, Were found NUT Hat
ed and burnt. They We're removed to Cum
mings. The Indians are supposed to have
numbered forty. They We're being pursued
by troops.
CAL. HUEY was hanged at Osceola.
Ark, on the Nth, for the murder OF john
Broadway, in Crittenden County, in the fall
OF 1879.
THERE was no session of the Sonata
on the 18th. The debate on the FUNDING
bill was further continued in the House, a
large number OF amendments being proposed.
and mostly rejected.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
An nl-Founded Republican Sheer.

There is not little cheap sneering
on the Republican side at the Demo-
cratic declarations in Congress of a be-
lief that Garfield has been elected and
will be inaugurated. The New York
Times, in particular, speaks of these
declarations as a parade of virtue,
and points to the fact that Garfield has
PA votes to Hancock's 155, as if it
were quite sufficient to make ridiculous
any expression of u willingness on the
part of General Hancock's supporters
to permit General Garfield to be count
ed in without objection.
But if any candid person. acquainted
with the recent history of the country,
will fairly look at the matter, he will
see that the sheer is not only ill-found-
ed, but comes with very bad grace
from the Republican party. Four years
ago that party, defeated at the polls,
did not announce it's willingness to ac-
cept defeat, but proceeded to falsify
the votes of two States, and eventually
succeeded in inaugurating the defeated
candidate. If there had been no such
experience, it would be ridiculous for
the supporters of defeated candidate
to announce that they accept the verdict;
but in the light of that experience it has
become NECESSITY for the quieting of the
public mind, that the defeated party
shall make the announcement. The
Republican party created that necessi-
ty. Its organs recognized that neces-
sity when they began. Immediately aft
er election-actuated, no doubt, by the
twinges of conscience-of accusing the
Democracy of intending to follow the
wicked Republican example. 1t does
not lie with the party or organs to
sheer at the Democracy for also recog
nizing the necessity and giving assur
ance that the Republican fraud of 1876
is not to be repeated.
There is nothing in the fact that Cen
eral Garhelds apparent majority of the
Electoral vote is larger than Mr.. Til
denis was, which would make a denial
of General Hancock's defeat any more
ridiculous than the denial of Hayes
defeat was. To reverse the result now
would require the acknowledgements of
no more voters or States than the re-
versal of 1877 required The vote of
New York could be falsified and given
to General Hancock with the sacrifice
of as few votes as were sacrificed in
the case of Louisiana. The fact that
in the latter case the sacrifice changed
only eight Electoral votes. while in the
case of New York it would change
thirty-five, furnishes no basis for argu-
ment that the crime of classifying the
vote OF New York would differ, either
in character or magnitude. from the
crime of falsifyiug the vote Of Louisiana.
-Det1OH Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

THE New Orleans Times reports that
Jay Gould Is negotiating, with every pros
pect Of the bargain being contaminated, for
the purchase of the Morgan Railroad to
Donaldson, which is to be made part of
the New Orleans Pacific Road, thereby has,
tening by a year the completion of that road
to New Orleans
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

GOVERNOR FOSTER of Ohio denies
the rumor that his withdrawal from the Sem
atorial contest was in pursuance of an I'M
derst~nding with Garfield and Sherman that
the hitter should resign and enter the Cabi-
net, and he (Foster) succeed to the Senate.
He says there has been no understanding
whatever about the matter.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

Superintendent Smart. of Indiana,
has been studying the public schools in
the South, and has found surprising
growth of the system, especially in
Georgia and Tennessee. The colored
people take great interest in the educa-
ton of their children. and the new gen.
Grafton can. as rule. read and write.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

TIMOTHY COOPER, colored, has re-
eeived verdict for 1000 damages under
the Civil Rights act against the Peoples
Omnibus and Baggage Company of Chicago,
for forcibly ejecting him from one Of their
conveyances on account of his color. This Is
the second trial and a reversal of the former
verdict
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
INTERESTING EVENTS,


THE Hartford Conn Times says that pas
senver on a train from Springfield recently
gave the conductor IA ticket purchased in Oc-
tober, 1861. He bought it at South Framing
ham, Ma 81, for Hartford at that time, but.
stopping over in Springfield, had it stamped,
and then went to Hartford by another route.
1t was taken up 10y the conductor who said
that the oldest one known to have been taken
previously was eighteen years old.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

THE Western Union and the Ameri-
can Telegraph. Companies have been con-
solidated.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

The latest Cabinet speculation at
Washington is that Sherman, after his cleo
ton to the Senate, is to resign that position
and remain in the Cabinet, and that Foster
will then be chosen Senator by the Ohio Leg
stature.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22

THE House Committee on Education
and Labor will report favorably the bill pro-
viding thst proceeds of sales of public lands
shall be applied to the education of the peo-