American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-15
FoREfaN GOSSIP.


THE. Cologne Gazette says that the
Russian nobility, : and particularly the
nobility of the Government of st. Peters
burg recently declared spontaneously
that they were ready to pay taxes, an OBJ
legation which hitherto applied only to
the bourgeois and the peasants. The
Baltic nobility do not seem disposed to
follow the example thus Get them.
AT Nugata, in Japan. the latest rage
is one for breeding kind of goldfish
called koi, which has white body and
light red head. A fish q foot long sells
for $37 so. The cause of the fancy is
that rumor prevails that gold can be
extracted from the scales. Some people
have turned their fields into flsh-ponds.
- IN an action for Islander tried at the.
Kingston Assizes in England the other
day the plaintiff charged that the. de-
PENDANT had called him q convicted
felon. The truth of this assertion the
plaintiff did not deny, but he claimed
that having already suffered for the
offense he ought not to be made 10 suffer
for it again. The jury were Of the same
opinion, and gave hun $500 damages.
The latest discovery in France is that
the numerous gypsy bands securing that
orders and military discipline from Ber-
lin. They are wont to pick out their
camping grounds fifty miles. ahead, and
know in advance the name of the man
owning that ground as well as he knows
it himself. Just as the Uhlans did
ADvIcEs from the Persian Gulf state
that intense cold has prevailed there.
Several persons had died of exposure
near Bassorah. All the roads were
blocked with snow and rendered impassa-
bic for traffic For miles along the Persian
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with fish which had been thrown out in
chilled condition and had died upon the
beach. Some of them are represented to
have been from 100 to $50 pounds in
weight.
THEY say that the Duke of Edinburgh
has settled down into q model husband
and father, having sown all his wild oats
and showing no disposition to recon-
mence that Improbable act of hus-
bandry. 1t is said that he passes hours
in playing with his little son and in the
company. of the Duchess. As the royal
family of England have refused to yield
precedence and still insist on her yield
ing the step to the Princess Beatrice on
all public occasions, Her Royal and I'M
periaf Highness appears at court cere-
monials and festivities as seldom as pos;
sible, and leads q life of much more
quiet and d0mesticity than usually falls
to the lot Of married Princesses.
I. THE Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don STANDARD writes, April 10, to that
journal: For years Vienna has not been,
the scene of such a horrible crime as was
committed last Sunday A Czech, tailor
(almost all the Vienna tailors are
Czechs). who had fallen into pecuniary
difficulties owing to the dissipal ed life
he had led, sent his wife out of the
house, bolted the door, and while playing
with his five children, the youngest Of
whom is eight months old, enticed them
into dark, soom- There he strangled
them and hung them up on nails, and
when all were thus disposed of the
wretched man hanged himself The nail
on which his eldest son hung fortunately
gave way g. little SO that his toes just
touched little box, and This saved him,
but the other children and the father
were all found dead. The criminal had
had twenty children, eight of whom
were by his present wife, but only these
five were living. the other fifteen having
been dead for some time.