American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE gamins OF London, being forbid
den to beg in the street, have neatly cir
| cumvented the law. They purchase a
I bundle of straw, commerce of all kinds
| being free, and sitting at the corner of a
street, enireat pedestrians to buy single
wisp. 1t is said that some urchins by
this traffic make profit of over $40 a
day.
A FATAL duel has Just taken place in
Spain, where the Marquis dc Sofraza has
been shot by Major Lilburne, an Irish
officer in the service of Don Carlos. The
duel, it is said, was conducted with "cdl-
Various courtesy on both sides. The
first interchange of shots being inefTect-
ual, the seconds most kindly decided on
allowing the combatants to indulge in a
second shot, and thus give them q chance
of compensation for the disappointment
caused by their first Intellectual effort to
destroy each other. This second attempt
was partly successful, for although Major
Lilburne was not killed, his bullet pierced
the brain of The Marquis de Sofraza, who
died in a few-minutes.
THE presents of the nobility of Madras
to the Prince of Wales, if not equal in
magnificence. and costliness to those
which he received in Bombay and
will receive in Bengal, appear to be
unique in their nature. One Reminder of
the Southern Presidency intends to pre-
sent four antelopes which have been
trained to be driven as a fOur-in-hand
team. The Rance of Shivagunga pro-
poses to give sword of steel so beauti-
fully tempered that it can be worn round
the waist as a belt. This sword, more
over, is said to have a history, inasmuch
as it once belonged to Poligar Chief
named Catabamanaik, who gave some
trouble to the Madras government toward
al.
captured and hanged in the year 1893.
LIEUTENANT MURPHY, whose name is
we'll known in connection with the Cam
eron Expedition into Central Africa, ac
cording to the Times Of India, has a CON-
panion also distinguished in African
travel. This is the late DIR. Livingstone's
dOg-the only dog that has survived
journey into Central Africa. This faith
full creature travelled from Zanzibar to
Unyanyembc with the explorer, and then
followed Livingstone's body back to the
coast. The dog wears medal bearing
the following Inscription: :" Mabel, F. r.
g. S., late Livingstone East Coast African
Expedition, 1874" 1t is a bull terrier of
small size and white in color. 1t travelled
500 miles in Africa-a wonderful feat
in Observation-Disclosures it was twelve
months old, and it has since travelled 15,-
600 miles by sea.
THE Herzegovinian correspondent of
the Voir thus writes from Ragusa: "Af-
ter each defeat the Turks, exasperated at
their powerlessness, revenge themselves
on the disarmed inhabitants, and especi-
ally on the women. Decentralization has
always existed in the Ottoman army, but
it has now attained frightful proportions.
The chiefs are afraid to repress the
atrocities committed by their soldiers, feel
ing incapable to maintain discipline
among the troops, who are now beginning
to complain openly of being badly fed,
and to protest against the want of judg-
ment of their chiefs; so that, to calm the
discomfort of the soldiers, all the atroci-
ties that they commit are overlooked. At
Sekouliar they have carried off five girls
belonging to the best families of the local
tiles, and sold them at Mostar.''