American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-25
FOREIGN. GOSSIP.

| r CHARLES READE says tina. the children
of England require longer time to learn
to read than the children of other coun-
tries do. -r-ysrfa r-z-zY
A HIGH Uhlan officer of the Prussian
| Guards has been sentenced to year and
| halfs Imprisonment in a military fort
| ress for being married to a young lady
| who was not of noble birth.
/ THE Russian Duke who stole his
mothers diamonds and gave them TO an
American adventures repIues in the
| Caucasus Mountains-an exile from home
I on account of his innate good for-nothing-
ness. -t ffH'
Sc A MEMBER of the German Parliament,
who recently, made a journey. through
Turkey, writes: "Our so-calIed Chris
tian brothers are for the most part
canaUe, sheep-stealers- and cut-throats;
and the respectable peorle one meets in
the Orient are generally Turks
THE Parisians are beginning to talk
anew about an underground railway in
their city. They began the process soon
after the establishment of the one in Lon
don, hut now they think they must have
it, and accordingly plans are being pre-
pared for sub mission to the authorities
:. IN the German. Parliament the parties
are divided as follows. National Liber-
ais, 146; the Center, 90; Party of Prog
ress, 81; German Imperialists. 80; Con-
servatives, 80: Poles, 10, and 80 indie
pendents, including the Alsatians, the
Social Democrats and the impracticables
generally. fE.f ..--l--
FoRTY-s chests filled with Ph9nician
antiquities, collected in Tunis by NJ. de
Sainte Marie, were on board the Magenta
at the time of the explosion on that YES
sell Notices. than 2, 0S3 Phenician in b
scriptions were in the collection Fifteen
of the chests have already been recovered
from the wreck.
A RETRIEVER dog, whose owner was
working in a garden in an English town.
lately killed a favorite cat that frequented
the same grounds. Having committed
this unprovoked murder, the dog deliber-
atelv took the cat in his mouth, carried it
some distance, dug deep hole behind
some bushes, and after depositing the
body therein so carefully replaced the
earth that had he not been observed,
there would have been no evidence of his
crime. I- -' 'l1t-
A RUSSIAN journal announces that q
belief in the approaching end of the
world has seized on the Cossacks OF the
Don Many, especially aged people, are
giving up worldly affairs, wearing
shroud, and ordering their collins. On
every road are seen men repairing to
Moscow to be consecraied priests, in order
that the smallest village may have its own
priest and church The authorities are
passive, hoping that the movement will
die out of its own accord. 1t has origi-
mated with the Dissenters.
a MARRIED woman named Bovon has
been condemned to death nj the Lot As
sizes, in France, for numbering her seven
children anda grand daughter b. pushing
needles into their bodies. She had ten
children, seven of whom died while less
than twelve months old, but II was nottill
the death OF her grand daughter that'an in
vestigation WAS made. Her apparent mo-
tive for this last crime was that the child
might tlie before its father, who was in II
desperate condition, and that she might
thus secure part of his property, tn the
prejudice of her dauShterin law, whom
She detested. When asked how she came
to think of sticking needles into her chill
drcn's bodies, she said that at the public
house she kept there was one day con-
vers alton VA inf;lntIcide, and it was said
babies did not suffer when murdered in
this way. The jury in this case could dis
cover no exteuuating circumstances.