American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HERR JOSEPH FENGER, parish priest of
MatZenheim, IN Lower Alsace, has been
condemned to a months detention in a
fortress for speaking in sermons against
the new school organization.
THE Paris correspondent of the Echo du
Pdrtement writes that Col. Villette, the
aide -de-c camp of Marshal Bazaine who
aided in his escape, has finished the pc
Rod of imprisonment to which he was
sentenced, and has become a wine mer-
chant, in order to earn a living, as he has
been deprived of the right to pension.
EARL FITzwILLIAM has taught strikers
a rather severe lesson. The GOLFERS struck
for higher wages nine months ago at his
Rotterdam pits, which were then closed
They now want to resume work on the
owners original terms, but the Earl has
declared that the collieries shall not be
re-opened during his lifetime His
Lordship is sixty years of age.
THE latest dodge in London is the fol-
lowing: Ascamp enters adwelling house
toward noon, and scares the females by
announcing that the main has burst, and
that he is sent by the water company to
see that all water is Immediately drawn
from the cisterns. Every available tub,
pail and utensil is Immediately requisi-
toned, for the fellow tells them they will
not have a drop of water for the next
forty eight hours. While the servants are
busy fulfilling his orders he pockets every
valuable within his reach, and finally
vanishes, after ordering all fires in the
house to be put out.
A PARIS correspondent writes: A new
and magnificent ornament in the window
of Sampler, on the Rue de la Paix, late
jeweler to the Queen of Spain, attracts a
crowd at all hours of the day. 1t is a
the front formed of peacock's
head, neck and wings in diamonds, while |
the fan-shaped tail, also in diamonds,
rises behind. The eyes of the tail feath- |
ers are composed of immense diamonds, |
the stalk and filaments being in small |
stones. From the beak there hangs an
immense pear shaped pearl. The head |
and neck are to come Just over the brow
IF the wearer, while the glittering wings
curve round the temples. This gorgeous,
out somewhat barbaric, ornament is in
ended for wealthy Russian Princess.
AN almost incredulous case of reckless
less was Investigated at Barnley, in En-
gland, the other day. In one of the Dod-
worth d Skilstone COmpany's mines a
certain portion of the workings was
officially pronounced Dangerous" and
he colliers were warned not to go into it.
Nevertheless, two of the men who had
leard the warning went into the place
arrying open lights, and one of them
ctually applied his candle to bore
Iole" and ignited the gas which was issu-
ng from it. No serious harm was done,
ut the act was properly stigmatlzed by
he owners of the colliery as one of the
rossest possible recklessness. The Mag
strate thought that penalty of forty
killings and costs would be sufficient, !
nd imposed it accordingly.
A MARRIED woman named Boyon has
cen condemned to death at the Lot As
ICES, France, for numbering her seven
hildren and granddaughter by pushing {
eedles into their bodies. She had ten s
hildren, seven of whom died under
xelve months old, but it was not until the {
cath of her grand daughter that an inves- 1
cation was made. Her apparent motive
,r this hast crime was that the child |
light die before its father, who was in a 9
esperate condition, and that she might
lus secure part of his property, to the &
rejudice of her daughter-in-law, whom
he detested. When asked how she came
} think of sticking needles in her chill
ren's bodies she said that at the public
ouse she kept there was one day con-
ersation on infanticide, and it was said {
lat babies did not suffer when murdered a
that way