American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A LONDON correspondent says that the
| Prince of Wales left England in very low
| spirits, and impressed with the idea that
he should never return alive.
THE Pal Mall Gazette says the English
occupation of Egypt is only a question of
time, as that step is necessary for the
preservation of the Indian Empire.
A MOVEMENT is made in England to re-
form the traditional civic robes that now
make every state ceremony more or less
ridiculous. The wearers desire robes
suited to modern times.
DETAILED reports of the so-called battle
of Makhram, which put an end to the
Khanate of KhOkand, have come in at
last. There was no battle at all, the enc
my running away at the FIRST approach of
the Russians.
ANOTHER monster telescope, the largest
yet attempted, is in course of construc-
ton at Dublin for the Austro- Hungari
Government. The object-glass will have
an aperture of twenty- seven inches, and the
total length is to be about thirty-two feet.
THE royal family of England is said to
be little mixed in religion Queen Vic
in simple form of worship. The Prince
of Wales, on the contrary, enjoys the
forms of the church whenever he attends,
which is seldom. His eldest sister is a
Lutheran. The Marquis of Lorne is a
Presbyterian. The Duchess of Edinburgh
is Greek Catholic and her husband is a
Low Church Episcopalian.
AT a conference of Latter Day Saints,
held in Sheffield, at which ten elders
from Utah were present, an apostle assert
ed that he was divinely inspired. An
elderly man in the audience hereupon
arose and said if the speaker were in
spired he would be glad if he would lay
hands upon his wife and cure her
from rheumatism. Great confusion en-
sued, and the apostles laid hands on the
applicant and pitched him into the street
A ROCHELLE France) dispatch of a
recent date says bottle had been picked
up there containing the announcement
that the crew of the British ship Tennie
had mutinied on the 31st of October and
murdered the Captain, mate and boat
swain. The vessel was subsequently
overhauled off Yarmouth, England, and
only boy and five men found oh board
A bOat-load of Greeks, supposed to be
the mutineers, put off from the vessel on
the evening preceding.
A CURIOUS correspondence has been
published between the Earl of Darnley
and one of his tenants, Mr.. Lake, the
Mayor of Gravesend. The Earl quar-
relied lately with the officers of the West
Kent yeOmanry and resigned his COM
mand. He expected his tenantry to fol-
low him, and most of them did so, but Mr.
Lakes son did not and the Earl, resenting
this as breach of the "feudal tie" be-
tween them, gave Mr.. Lake notice to quit
his holding, which he had kept for thirty
three years, as his landlord Acknowledges,
" in good care and culture.''
ENGLISH physicians are in the habit of
sending patients to Italy to get the benefit |
of the climate and drink asses milk. In |
order to insure the purity of the milk the |
asses are ordered each day to the patients |
door, where the milking is done under |
his own eye or that of a servant or |
friend. A traveller, writing of this Gus |
tom, says that 1.-THE ass-milkers in the |
Italian towns usually carry a bladder of |
lukewarm water under their cloaks, kept |
up to the heat Of the body under the arm
pits, of the contents of which they furtive- |
ly infuse portion into the several milk |
jugs in the face of the domestics, who |
never suspect the trick. Thus are poor |
patients, when given up by the faculty |
and sent to languish under an Italian sun,
and die, turned over to the tender mercies |
of tricksters, generally the associates or |
of cheating hotel keepers"