American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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THE e3-Empress Gariotta ia CROWN.
crazier, according to the Belgian reporters
BoUCIcAULr says that it takes at Ieas
six months for London to become d" satu
rated with a fact"
LITTLE Greece has a scandal on hand
Messrs. Nicolopaulo and Valuspaulo
Cabinet Ministers, have been arrested fo
taking btibes.
THE Canal de Sues states that lii th,
Mohammedan pilgrimages to Mecca il
1974-'75 the number of pilgrims conveyed
through the Suez Canal was Is, 342.
A MAN called Merlngot, who literally
stoned his wife to death, has just beer
prisonment for life, the jury, as usual
bringing in a verdict of Guilty
with " extenuating circumstances" Thi
abuse of the law has been condemned il
the columns of the MontteNf
THE Russian Gar doesn't propose Il
become embarrassed by the growth of the
| Socialists or Communists in his domin
ions, and is shipping the organization in the
bud. The organization differs from tina
in France in that it is strongest in the in
terror cities like Moscow and Odessa,
while at the capital, st. Petersburg, it i.
almost unknown.
A RICH and eccentric Belgian wrote
lately to his relatives to come and see s
coat he had ordered. They, imagining
| the invitation meant a breakfast, went
and were astonished to see a series o.
collins, which the original was trying ONT
after the other, he having. caused them te
be made by a number of different joiners
At last he found one which suited him
laid down in it, took some poison, and ex
pired suddenly.
A SHOCKING tragedy has occurred or
board the Siamese ship Queen of En-
gland, on her voyage from Hong Kong to
Bangkok. A native seamen, while in a
state of madness, murdered the chief mate
and attacked the Captain. The man Their
threw overheard the compasses, chronome
tiers, charts, ETC., and broke up the furni
ture of the cabin. The crew made an al
tempt to seize him, and he thereupon
jumped overheard and was not seen again
1t is stated by the Captain that the sea.
man was suffering from a disease, a
species of ringwOrm, which invariably &C.
casions insanity.
A PARIS correspondent writes: Almost
all French boys board at their respective
schools, and opening day has created here
new and singular occupation among
that inventive race, the shabby genteel
poor of Paris. IT is against the rules for
the pupils of any of the lyceums to return
to school without being accompanied by a
parent, guardian, or relative, so a num-
Der of respectfully dressed men hang
around the doors of the different schools,
ready to personate the uncle or the
guardian of any unaccompanied pupil for
the small sum of one franc. A neatly
dressed and looking person
can thus amass quite a nice little sum on
opening day.
An American writer, dating his letter
from Gibralter, says: The more l see
of Gibralter the less wonder at the tenac-
ity with which it is held by England and
the dislike the Spaniards have for the
English tenure of the place. The strength
Of the position is something wonderful.
Nature and military art seem to have
worked together in making Glib as in
vulnerable as it is possible to be. Nor
does the Engineer Department allow mod
ern progress in either guns or batteries to
pass unnoticed. OF the former there are
some fifty or sixty about to be changed
for others of a much larger callber. Even
as it is, the army of men has never yet
lived, nor has one of the fleet of ships vet
been built, that could for two hours with
stand the whitening fire of the guns now
in position on various parts of the rock. !"
The stern infexibility of British justice
was very recently in one of the Irish
courts before which young man was
brought for violating the Public Health
acts. The offense consisted in attending
a spellingbee'' while recovering from an
attack of scarlet-fever, and in exposing
himself in other places of public resort
thereby imperiling the health of the peo-
pie with whom he came in contact. The
testimony in the case was unanswerable
and showed that the defendant was, even
at the time of his appearance in court, in
a condition to transmit infection, which
must have been pleasant news to the &C.
cupants OF the crowded courtroom. The
young man was promptly convicted, how
ever, and being fined two pounds paid it
in bank-notes which were, in all probable
ity, quite as dangerous to the touch as he
was. Then he left; and the British Ned
zeal Journal very sensibly characterizes
the proceeding as "a ludicrous example
of doing the right thing in the wrong
way" :