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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-28

MILWAUKEE. Wis. March 27.-Robert shee-
nan the boy who was so severely punished at Racine
about tour weeks ago by Mr. Skowes Superintendent Of
sen o died TODAY ui' asserted that the severity NJ
the Iinpne was accidental. the boy having, IN ying
20 dodge ruler IN skewess hand, received blow ON
the tcMple.
ing the injury his death was unquestionaby the re-
suit OF the blow on the head No inquest was held, as
the attending phy sclan death ceruneae There
Is considerable excitement among the citizens o Racine
over the aar which will dOuhtle culninate IN forcing
an OkaninA ton BIZ the authorities
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-28

MADRID, March l7.-Grent anxiety ia felt re-
sardins the Condition oi the Princess Christina daughter
Of the Duke 81 Munpcusicr The Count and Countess of
the Princess Ines ' N
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-28

LONDON. March 27.-A despatch to the Times
from Paris SAYS tits announced that HAHN Pacha about
10 issue manifesto urging his claims to the Egyptian
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-28

LONDON. March 27.-Reuter's Constantlnople
despatch that the Sultan has sent portion OF his
plate and ewelry 10 be melted Tor the use ot the Treas
uTy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-28

Clear or partly cloudy weather. northe-hv
windA stationary " lower wmpsTatnTe
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
THE YELLOW FEVER.

On the 28th there were IS new cases
of yellow fever in Memphis and two deaths
Camp has been established six miles south
of the city, on the Mississippi and Tennessee
Railroad. Only the sick and those who &c
into camp are to be supplied with free ra-
tions. The city is patrolled by day by the
two companies of colored troops, under
command of Col. Cameron; at night the
regular police guard the city. As an
additional precaution, Col. Cameron has en-
rolled $50 minute men, to be called upon in
an emergency. A census of the city, COM
pleted this day, gives the following totals ::
Number of persons in the city, 16, ITO; whites,
1888; colored, 1887; adults, 1851; chill
dren, $3.50; number who have had yellow
fever, s,743; number who have not had yell
low fever, 1887.
All connecting railway trains be-
tween Nashville and Memphis have been
discontinued.
The National Board of Health and the
Illinois State Board of Health have selected
Island No. In the Mississippi River, Just
below Cairo, as an inspection station, and
DIR. r. w. Reilly will be placed in charge.
New Orleans officially reported its
first case of yellow fever on the 2sth. An
italian girl, Vicenta Spano, died of the dis
ease at the residence OF her parents, corner
of Second and Constance Streets. A second
case was subsequently discovered in the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
FULTON Markets. Big Fish.

The schooner Martha, from Georges
Banks, brought, with cargo Of fish, to
this port, yesterday, the largest whale
thresher remembered by old market
men to have ever been seen in this city.
It was caught In q pound net at Woods
Hole, Mass, on Tuesday, and was killed
with lance. The last one exhibited in
Washington Market was fifteen years
ago, and it was so small a specimen of
its kind that some fish dealers believed
it was a species of shark. The fish that
arrived yesterday was exhibited by G. A.
Lewis. It was very nearly IA feet long,
and it monopolized the entire front Of
the stand. Persons stopped to examine
it, and all day a throng was pressing
around it. Half of the length of the
curious fish was body and the other half
tail. The tail tapered off gradually and
had been 1ooped up by rope attached
to beam above. The weight of the
creature was 600 pounds. Its naked
skin on the back and sides was of a unil
form blush drab color from the snout
to the tip of the tail. The tail was as
much a separate part of the body as q
dogs tail is of its body, which appear
ance made it resemble land or am
phibious animal more than a fish. The
eyes were as large as a cows, and could
be rolled in their sockets. The mouth
was comparatively small, and the teeth
short, sharp and of uniform length in
both jaws. Sticking straight up from
the middle of the back was dark
fin, eleven inches long, of the same
color as the body, tough and
compact, yet neither bony nor
hard. The medal, pectoral and eau
dals fins resembled the dorsal fins. They
flare out horizontally, and were set low.
On the under side the body was of
notified salmon color. The flesh yield
ed like caoutchouc to the finger, but on
releasing the pressure the skin sprang
back to its original form. The body,
from end to end, seemed a mass of car
tilage. The long tail is used by the an
imal like a rawhide in attacking its enc
my, the whale. 1t forms sort of alli-
ance with the sword-fish, the latter
thrusting its sword into the whale from
below, and the thresh attacking it from
above. Threshers run in schools, and
from ten to twenty will attack whale
at once. Those who have witnessed a
combat between threshers and whales
say that it is an exciting spectacle. The
water flies in shoWaSa Of
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
WIT AND WISDOM.

In the general scramble for nomina-
tions in 1880, Gen. Sitting Bull appears
to have been Graphic.
SCANDAL mongers may learn this
lesson from the frog: Once overpassed
the season of his adolescence he gives up
il-beariDg. Gazette.
As the desire of seekers after per-
petual motion is merely to obtain some
thing that will have a never ceasing
revolution, why don't they take Mexico
and be satisfedP-Boston Post.
BoYs who have enlisted on the Wa
chusett have already commenced to roll
in their walk, and to hitch up their navy
pants with their hands. They say faye,
ave." to each other when asked for q
chew of tobacco.-N. o. Picayune.
TAKE her up tenderly.
Lift her with care;
She'll come to pieces If
Raised by the hair.
-Keokuk Gate City.
THIS is the time of year when the
economical housewife takes dollars
worth of berries and four dollars worth
of sugar to make can of jam that can
be bought in any grocery store for
dollar.
A LONDON correspondent informs US
that the peach bloom on the cheeks of
Mrs. Langtry, the famous London
beauty, " does not fade, nor will it rub
Off" The same thing can be said Of
the bloom on the nose of the Prince of
Wales, one of her admirers. Norris
toaO,s Herald.
With scales and measures aud pots and pans
And dishes of fruit beside her,
The wife of your bosom sits all day,
And no one dares to chide her.
A pound of this, four pounds of that,
Is the way she goes on planning,
And to save your life you daren't say word
For bless your soul, she's canning.
Hartford Journal
THE Boston girl who visited her aunt
in San Francisco, and soon after eloped
with waiter, left note behind in which
she said: "Don't worry; we shall be
married before you get this, and as
is from as nice a family as I, if he has
been a waiter, it will come out all right.
He graduated at Yale College, but his
father lost his wealth and became very
poor. He could find nothing else to do
just then, SO accepted the first thing that
offered but he has promise of some
thing better now. So forgive us and
write mamma, and let there be as few
comments made as possible"
THEY were strolling along the side
walks last evening, she clinging to his
shoulder, for they are "engaged." It
was a picture, he SO strong and loving
she so tender and trusting. The ivy
and the oak. "But I'm so pale, Al
fred, DEAR" she murmured, with her
white check turned toward him; " if 1
only had some of your color" She was
white and delicstc; he was two Ak
handles across the back, with a nose as
red as rolling mill furnace. /" Color!"
said brother Gussy, who came by at the
tender moment, isis, if you'd. come
home with nose like that, it 'ud fright
en- the old man so he'd turn in fire.
alarm. Indianapolis NeUs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

same locality. The most energetic measure
were taken by the authorities to prevent tn
spread Of the disease.
Houston, Shreveport, Natchez, ant
some other points quarantined absolutel
against New Orleans on the 18th.
Mrs. Pomeroy, Memphis refugee i,
Louisville, died of the yellow fever on thu
18th.
Mike Fitzgibbon, another Memphis
refugee, died at the New York Yellow Feve
Quarantine on the 2Sth.
Mrs. Loap, Memphis refugee, dice
at Huntsville, Ala, of yellow fever on tn,
2Tth.
The Texas State Board of Health have
stationed medical officers at Cairo, St. Louis
and Hannibal, who will examine all persons
going to Texas by railroad and give them
| certificates of health If found to be we'll OF
not recently from the yellow fever districts,
Memphis reported eight new cases
and four deaths from yellow fever on the
Goth.
There were two additional cases of
fever at New Orleans on the Goth, one being
a child just from Morgan City. There was no
excitement in the city and no fear Of an cpl
demic.
Lizzie Brandy, aged 2, died of yellow fe-
yer at the st. Louis Quarantine on the 9Sth,
the first death occurring there this year.
Her family are Memphis refugees, passen-
gers on the steamer Coahoma.
The Exchange Bank at st. Louis has
gone out Of business, turning over its de-
posits to the Commercial Bank. Depositors
will be paid in full, but it is understood that
stockholders will suffer some pecuniary
loss.
Twelve new cases of yellow fever
were reported from Memphis on the Goth
and but one death, that of Samuel A. Hatch
err, who, strange to say, had previously had
the yellow fever twice, last year and in 1878,
both times severely. The handsome dona-
ton of 50 900 was received from W. W. Cor
coran, the Washington banker, to assist in
removing the people out of the city.
Two more cases of yellow fever, both
very mild, were reported at New Orleans on
the 30th.
There were III deaths from yellow
fever at Havana for the week ending Ju-
ly26.
There were nine new cases and four
deaths from yellow fever at Memphis on the
31st. A meeting of colored people was held,
to protest against being removed from the
city into camps.
Two deaths from yellow fever, con-
tracted on Havana steamers, occurred at the
New York Quarantine on the 3lst.
The ship Templar. 16l days from Rio
Janiero, arrived at San Francisco on the
31st, with several cases Of yellow fever on
board. While at Rio Janiero nine of the
sesmen tisd from the disease; and after
leaving that port, Captain Armstrong; wife
and two more seamen died. The San Fran
cisco Quarantine officers disinfected the
vessel and destroyed all the bedding, car
pets, etc.
There were IL new eases of yellow fe-
yer reported at Memphis on the LIST, and
deaths.
There were IA new cases of yellow
fever at Memphis, on the I'd, with six deaths;
on the Sd there were u new cases and two
deaths. Total deaths for the week from
yellow fever, 90, out of total of A from all
causes.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

James Defaur and wife, living near
Atlanta, Ga, were brutslly murdered in
bed on the 18th, by having their heads split
open with an ak. Mr.. Defaur was q gentle-
man of wealth, and robbery is supposed to
have been the incentive to the crime.
Tramps were suspected, but no arrests had
been made at last accounts.
construction train on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad was thrown
from the track by running over a COW, near
waukegan, ILL.,, on the 18th. Thomas Hal
ligan, conductor, and Anthony Joyce, John
Dugsn, Patrick Conners and Michael Sheri-
dan, workmen, were instantly killed or died
soon after from injuries received. A num-
Der of others were seriously injured.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
Deposed Dynasties OF France.

The manner in which the various dy-
nasties in France have deposed each
other, says the Pail Mall Gazette, is Gu
RIOTS enough for notice at a moment
when it is question whether Prince Ma
poleon could be legally ordered to leave
the country. In 1914, after the first fall
of the Empire, no exceptional measures
were taken against the Bonaparte fam
lily; but after the Hundred Days and
Waterloo the whole imperial family
were banished forever. After the fall Of
Charles x. perpetual Punishment was
decreed against the elder Bourbon
branch, and the prescription of the
Bonapartes was renewed. After the rev.
olution which drove Louis Philippe from
the throne the Republic decreed the
perpetual Punishment of all the families
which had reigned in France. This was
in May, 1s4s, and in the following o.
tober the law was repealed as far as it
concerned the Bonapartes, and this law
has never been re-enacted. In 1871
the Bourbons were likewise per-
mitted to return to France, and
so, in fact, no law of Punishment at
present exists. It is true that in 1872
NJ Theirs considered himself justified
in having Prince Napoleon conducted
to the frontier, on the ground that Ma
poleon LII. and his dynasty had been
deposed, and that this deposition i'm
piled expulsion of all the family. A
good many Liberals in the National As
sembly disputed the soundness of this
principle, and among these was M. LIE
Roger, who is now Minister of Justice
and Keeper of the Seals. In order to
avoid a threatened defeat, M. Dufaure
appeared in the tribune on the part of
the Government and proposed that the
Assembly should consent to the follow
ing measure: "During the five years
following the PRONUNCIATION OF the n71
of
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

currency outstanding, sl5, 1914, 1928. The
increase of the debt is due to the pay
ments on account of arrears of pensions
from the United States notes held for
the redemption of fractional currency,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

During July the United States redeem
ed of 1O-4O bonds, $S7, 6l5, 45O; Of 5-20s.
$50, 1873. $50; in all, 1928, $50. 900, Of the
proceeds of which $S7, 939, $40 was paid
out by check, and sSs, $50 900 was cred
tied to the banks on their bond account.
There are now outstanding about $751;
900, 600 of called bonds of all descrip-
tions,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

THE Porte has finally given in to the
demands of the Great Powers, that Tew-
fix Pasha, the new Egyptian ruler, shall
have the important prerogative accord
ed to his predecessor of negotiating
treaties with foreign countries.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

ACCORDING to an official return, 81
persons died of starvation in London
last year.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

The Congressional Labor Committee,
composed of Messrs. Wright of Penn
sylvania, O'Connor of South Carolina,
Dickey of Ohio, and Sherwin of Illinois,
have arrived in Chicago, and begun the
takingof testimony regardingthe causes
of the depression of the industries
of the country, and especially of labor. "
The investigation is to be continued in
other cities.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

The dwelling of the Wines family at
Marinette, Wis, got atire in the night,
and the lower part was all in flames be-
fore the three children had escaped from
an upper room The Oldest, a boy,
jumped from a window into a bedquilt
held underneath. A younger lad, only
years old, was about to follow, but the
mother saw that a 3-year-old girl was
not at the window. "Run back and
get Sis" she cried. The boy returned
to his room, but the fire cut him off, and
his lifeless body was found with the lit
tie one clasped in his arms
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
Snakes by the Barrelful.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial writes;
Jonathan Rockwell, engineer at the
friedrich works at Sciotoville, Ohio, has
caught and killed the greatest number
of snakes ever heard of in these parts.
Some three weeks ago he purchased five
empty whisky barrels and stored them
in an outbuilding to be used for cider
barrels when his apples were ripe
enough to be made into that temperance
beverage. Near the outbuilding there
is ledge of rocks containing many fis-
sures asd openings, and has always
been ga bad place for snakes.''
Yesterday Mr.. Rockwell took occa-
sion to visit the outbuilding referred to,
and in opening the door he noticed a
number of snakes crawling into the
bung-holes of the whisky barrels. Quick
as thought he got the bungs and drove
them into the barrels and secured the
snakes. He then attempted to roll the
barrels out of the building, but found
them too heavy to handle without as
sistance. He then called in j. D. Ma
thiot, Dustin Jones, Geo. Sturdy, Hugh
Smith and Thomas Powell, who armed
themselves with hickory clubs and pro-
ceeded to kill the snakes. The bung
was taken out of one barrel and some
hot water was poured in, and the snakes
begun to come out so rapidly that it
kept all the above gentlemen busy with
their clubs in dispatching them.
The next barrel was treated. in the
same manner until all the five barrels
were emptied, and the total number of
snakes killed was 1853. To-day there
has been steady stream of people visit
ing the premises of Mr.. Rockwell and
viewing the slain snakes. No one pre-
tends to account for the snakes getting
into the barrels. All we can say is that
they were there, and it is the "whole
truth, and nothing but the truth" The
affidavits of our best and most reliable
citizens will substantiate it beyond any
doubt. The snakes were not all large
ones. but there was none less than a foot
in length, while many were six or seven
feet long. A trench had to be dug this
afternoon to bury them, as the stencil
arising from them was getting horrible.
PORTSMOUTH, o., July %, 1879.
The foregoing is submitted as the latest
and most reliable snake story out. Refer to
w. ii. Bonsall, editor of the Tribune, or j.
W. Newman, editor of the Times, should
you question the truth.
Yours truly, JOHN F. RATCLIFF.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

THE cholera is prevailing at Monte
rev. Mexico, over 100 deaths from the
disease having occurred.
THE public debt statement shows the
increase of the debt for July to be &c.
Os6 344. Cash in the Treasury, $685.
9O5. 273; gold certificates, S15 24o,-
700; silver certificates, %, 1885,
$50; certificates of deposit out
standing, $40 $50 600; refunding
certificates, s6,05s, $50. legal tenders
o outstanding, e346, 742, 4S1; fractional
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

RETURNS from all parts of Kansas
show that while the wheat yield may
possibly not be so large this year as last,
the quality is better, and the value to
the farmer will be greater. The corn
crop of the State for this year will be lit
orally immense, and all other crops will
turn out much better than was antici-
pated early in the season.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

TIE Cabinet has decided that tn.
money appropriated by the recent &C
making appropriations for rivers and
harbors should not be withheld. Ths
full amount, nearly %, 600, 900, viii
therefore be expended this year.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

THE final decision of the German
Government on the religious questions
at issue with the Vatican has been COM
municated to the latter. It is as fol-
lows: An of the exiled clergy who ask
permission will be allowed to return to
Germany. The May laws will be tacit-
Iy suspended, provided the clergy obey
the common law, and all fresh nomina-
tons are 20 be submitted to the Govern
mept. The Pope is satisfied with these
FERNS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

IT is said that our Government in
tends to hold the Canadian Government
responsible for the results of Sitting
Bulls invasion of our territory, he hav-
ing placed himself voluntarily under its
Jurisdiction, and that country having
accepted him as de facto citizen or
ward.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

The coinage for the standard silver
dollars for July fall some $500, 900 short
of the minimum amount fixed by law,
$4,000, 900 monthly. The deficiency was
caused by scarcity of bullion at the San
Francisco and Carson City MINIS. The
Mint at Philadelphia will be run night
and day during the present month to
make up the deficiency.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

The gross earnings of all the railroads
of the country for last year were $780,
10s,S61, against $472, 909, 272 for the
preceding year. The gross earnings of
the railroads of the Western States were
SOS, 1855, 275, against s193, 2O4 $40 for
1877; net earnings. 81, 1858, 229, against
e66, 065 ,243 for 1877. The dividends
paid amounted to s19,S41, 222, against
S14,556, 462 for 1877. The earnings
from freight, mails, ETC., were $3.50. $780,
795, and from passengers, $49, 1895. 4sO.
These figures are from Poor's Manual.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

GENERAL TERRY, commanding the
military in the Department of Dakota,
on the Slst received q dispatch from
General Miles, dated at q camp on Rock
Creek, 10 miles south of the boundary,
saying that Sitting-Bull's band of Sioux
had fed northward to Wood Mountain,
leaving their property scattered along
the line Of their route for so miles. The
Sioux are estimated to number 5000,
with 1000 fighting men. General Miles
says he believes he has force enough to
deal with all the Indians Sitting Bull
can muster.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09

patriotism, and the love of right liberty and
With this faith, have no fears of the verdict.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
As to what the Democratic party proposed
preserve to the peopIe and to perpetuate in
the administration of the General Govern
mant freedom OF religion and worship. the
from arrest without due process, either by
eminent, either at elections elsewhere;
the right of election by the people, unawed
and uncontrolled by the presence of troops
or armed men at the polls, or of Special Dep
uty u. S. Marshals of Elections, the absolute
supremacy of the civil over the military au
thority; the right of trial by juries impartial
ly elected; the absolute acquiescence in the
will of the majority; the encouragement of
Industry, and the foundation of individual
and general prosperity, and of commerce as
the hi metallic system: the perfect Equality
of gold and silver as coin and bullion, with
the establishments of the tariff on a basis of
revenue only, and not for the protection of
the few to the oppsession OF the many; the
substitution of United States notes for
tional bank circulation, with repeal of the
laws authorizing the charter or incorpora-
ton OF any more national banks or the issue
of any circulating notes by them; the issue
directly by the General Government of all the
paper circulation of the country; the SUP
port of the state Governments in all their
rights as the most competent administration
for all our domestic concerns and the surest
bulwarks against all anti republican tenden-
ctes; the preservation of the General Gov
eminent in its whole Constitutional vigor
the sheet anchor OF our peace mt home and
safety abroad. thus making of the General
ana state Governments an indi5soluble union
OF indestructive States
After referring briefly to the Greenback
movement, and inviting all Greenbackers to,
ing the party, to give streng' h to theiG
crate enemies. the Repubiicap1
Cockrell took up the conma1
advocating, especially, tb6
the Mississippi layer p