American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

! SICILY has $50 known brigands, be
sides large number of chaps who skull
along the roads and esteem it duty tc
kill an Englishman whenever they can.
IT is said the Carlists caught man.
| bathed him in petroleum, applied a light
ed match to him, and danced by the light
thereof. They had no personal grudge
against him.
THE Russian Government spends an
nually $32 600 for carriages in behalf OF
singers at the st. Petersburg opera in Or
| der to keep them out of the snow with
warm feet and clear voices.
THE union of the Black and Caspian
Seas is in contemplation, and project
for the construction of a canal go leagues
long for that purpose is meeting with
great favor at st. Petersburg and Mos
| COW.
IT is recorded that M. Theirs once had
his hat knocked off by some fixtures in
| front of IL shop in Paris, and he was so
pleased with the fact that he was too tall
| for once in his life that he often revisited
| the shop and became a regular customer.
AN unparalleled feat was accomplished
recently in the district of Shahabad, India.
Two unarmcd youths attacked tiger OF
immense size, and with the aid of some
other natives who came up, stranglcd the
those given them by nature.
A MALE convict at Cayenne obtained
permission to marry a female convict; but
as the man was widower the Governor
declared it was necessary first TO obtain
the certificate of the death of his first wife.
A communication was addressed to the
authorities but without any reply. The
convict insisting that the ceremony should
no longer be delayed, the Governor said ::
g But what is there to prove that your first
wife is dead?" The reply of the convict
was tolcrably satisfactory on this point:
why" he said, I'm here for having
assassinated her."
A ROME correspondent describes IA re-
markable suicide of recent occurrence
there, which has caused much sadness and
horror among the professional and artistic
Romans. The victim was the dIstln-
guished Juvara, an cngraver OF the high
est reputation and pupil of the cele-
brated Parma engraver, ,Toschi. He was
sixty-seven years old, easy in means, mar
ried to a good wife and lived in quiet,
orderly, old-fashioned way. On the morn
ing of the fateful day he shut himself up
in his private studio and proceeded, in
leisurely and systematic manner, to kill
himself He was over six hours in per
forming the horrible act, and has left
written record of his sensations during
that time. At O'Clock he cut vein In
his foot and collected the blood in Il dish,
then with Il brush painted with 1t on the
wall, on great cartoon, various sentences
at different hours. For instance, one of
these sentences said: 80 O'Clock. With
a serene and cheerful conscience l am
awaiting my DEATH Another is: 10
O'Clock. Death has not yet arrived.
now cut the vein in my ARM At 80
he wrote: Glow strange! The blood
~ 4 far
| pardon my enemies" The saddest SEN
tence is this '2 O'Clock. l have recev
cred my reason. My God, what have l
donel What a rash act. 1t is too late,
however, to repair the evil l will now
put an end to myself at once" Where,
upon it seems that he took revolver and
shot himself in the mouth, which killed
him instantly. Upon entering the studio
an hour afterward they found the poor old
man dead, sitting in an arm chair, holding
the revolver in one hand! The bloody
writing on the wall told the sad story.