American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-09-11
!. FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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!" stealing gas by attaching rubber tube
| to q, pipe in the cellar Of an unoccupied
house nexted to his own. He. had
drawn off 100000 feet in five years.
[ A FATHER and son, named Cote, when
I on fishing excursion in Nicolet, Que.
| lately, kindled a fire against a tree and
then went to Sleep In the meantime the
fire burnt the trunk of the tree and it fell
on the son and killed him.
In the recent death of Admiral Excel
mans, in France, curioas coincidence Is
noted. His father was Marshal Excel
mans-a great cavalry soldier of the First
Empire and most famous for wonderful.
charge or horse at Rocquencourt. He was
in the saddle on the 10th of July, 1850, was
thrown in the road and killed. On the
22d of July, 1876. his sons mind ran.
strangely on that event. He talked about
it all day In the evening he rode out.
was thrown and killed ins the same man.
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THE Dundee -Aduertiser -publishes an
item of some interest TO numismatolo-
1gistss Having prcmisedf that money was
once coined in Dundee, this journal ststes
that the rarest specimen known of the
local miat:is a unique silver halfpenny
OF King Robert H., in very good preserve
ton. 1t is the Only one, sof. that reign
known TO be in existence, and is. further. :,
the only still existing regal halfpenny
coined at Dundee in any reign. The coin
is not much larger than a herring scale
and only weighs seven grains.
The authorities of st. Petersburg are
engaged in active measures for more
scientific and sanitary system of drainage.
the fact being that, in this respect the
great Russian metrQpolis-is--f Ear. behind
most OF the cities of Europe. Several
plans have already been proposed by emil
nent engineers for removing the vast &C. >
of sewage beyond the circuit
of the city, both on the hydraulic and
principle, but none of these
have as yet been determined upon, owing
to the magnitude of the Undertaking and
the difficulties which are likely to be met
with on suchla swampy soil as that upon
which st. Petersburg lis built. To over
come these the best engineering skill will
be required, and the cost OF construction
will necessarily be great. ~
; Two PEASANTS, husband and wife,.
named Retty, live at Plessis-suy- Marine,
near Paris. They have b. little boy, aged
six, to whom they are uniformly brutal.
The other day the child became weary of
life from being sbeaten SO often and, de-
scending tothe court yard where ferocious
bulldog was chained. he approached the :
animal resolutely and said: Tom, do =.
you want to eat me up ?" The dog looked
up and growled, but did not move
!. Tom" said the little one, "you must
,at me, because papa beats me too much;
md then1 promise you I am good to eat.
5eel l Shall not resist" and he threw =
pebble at the dog, who, springing fiercely
It the boy, threw him down and fastened .
lis teeth In the shoulder At this instant
neighbor Jumped through the window p
md, driving the bull dog away, saved the
.hild - - = - 70
eGALIGNANI states that q fatal accident :
ecently happened on one of. the passes
lear Monte Rosa. After period of
forms clear weather set in, and three sep-s
rate parties of tourists, with their guides,
net on the highest point Of the Triftjoch,
where they lunched together and fingered y
, enjoy the splendid- sisw- of -the~peaks,
overed with snow, freshly fallen. One 4
f the guides, named Anti1le, wished to
eturn to his hsme and joined the party
which descended toward Zirval.s He was
Ot attached 10 the others by rope and,
7hen halfway down, his foot slipped on
he melting snow and he fell, from rock to
ock, to the bottom of the Immense ravine.
lis comrades hastened to his rescue, but
hey only found his remains, horribly man
led which were eventually removed to Ter
latt. Antille was much esteemed as q
uide and had married only two mouths 81
20. The visitors in the neighborhood
re making a collection for his widow. =