American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The London Globe says: "We are in
formed of the equipment of a Spanish ex-
petition for the Sulu Archipelago, the OBJ
ject having connection, it is believed,
with some indignitics suffered by Spanish
subjects"
THE London Medical Record announces
the formation in Paris of a strange society.
The members bind themselves by spec
ial testamentary disposition not to be in
TERED after death their bodies are to be
delivered to the dissecting- rooms of the
various medical schools for dissection.
MUCH amusement has been caused in
Paris by the letter from the Bishop of Or.
leans, in which he speaks of his election
to the Senate as equivalent to his being
placed, like Daniel, in the fiery furnace
The UnSoers reminds the Bishop that he
ought to search the Scriptures, ;" and he
would see that Daniel never was in the
fiery furnace.
The Utramontane organ in Berlin, the
Gesmania, claims that Russia is the mis-
tress of Europe, and that not gun can be
fired without her consent. "Such is the
humiliating state" it says, Z" to which the
Bismarckian policy has brought Ger
many, that the latter cannot now move
pin without first taking the orders of the
Imperial magnates at st. Petersburg
A MAN named Allsopp was arrested in
London few days ago for committing a
petty theft in Leadenhall Market. When
the case was tried it was proved that he
had been ill for ten months, that his wife
had become insane, and that his six chill
dren were starving. Allsopp's character
having been proved good for the last
eleven years, the Lord Mayor discharged
him with a reprimand.
AN Italian journal, favoring the aboli-
ton of capital punishment, remarks that
the severest agony to be inflicted on any
brigand is cOndemning him to be hung to
death and then kept a whole year in pickle
for the hanging ceremony. Dante him.
self, quite fertile in expedients of torture,
never suggested, it further says, anything
harder for the human frame to bear than
the thoughts which criminal under such
circumstances must find themselves under
the necessity Of thinking over.
A SINGULAR case is reported from Shelf
field. A Jew named Coming wrote to a
relative, Fanny Carter, making an offer of
marriage. The young woman consented,
subject to the verdict of a personal inter-
view. Coming sent over money to pay
for his brides travelling expenses, and
went TO Hull to meet her. On seeing her
futur, however, Miss Fanny did not think
him good looking enough" and refused
to marry him. Coming then became
violent and struck her. He was brought
before the magistrate and bound over to
keep the peace.
A SHORT time ago a woman, brought
before the magistrate at the Worship Street
Police Court, London, on charge of
was ordered to pay ten shil
lings or be locked up for seven days. She
went resignedly to prison, and at the end
of her term she applied to the magistrate
for ten shillings. She argued the point
with all a woman's perseverance that the
ten shillings was to be paid her as COM
pensation tor being locked up. But the
magistrate was not to be convinced, and
at last the woman had to be forcibly re-
moved, upon which she resumed her argu-
ment before q crowd of small boys in the
street.
THE statistics of infan.icide in London,
if they could be fairly made out, would be
appalling enough; those of the "acci-
dental Deaths of infants are less so. At
an inquest held in London on the body of
q baby smothered in bed by its parents,
of course "by accident" the Deputy Cor
Oner has just declared that in the central
district of Middlesex alone, 800 children
alone yearly meet their death in this
manner. The statement is one that might
stagger belief were it made on less trust
worthy authority. A noteworthy fact
about these horrible casualties is that a
very large proportion of them occur on
Sunday mornings.