American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-11-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST,


| ALATE Providence Or. r. special to the New
| York san says: Last Monday II little son OF
James Moyneaux, of this city, was taker
| down with symptoms of hydrophobia. On
tuesday the disease WINS clearly defined. The
child is nine Years old and had been bitten, IA.
nearly as his parents could learn, some three
weeks before by eur on the street All OF
| Inc more violent symptoms oil hydrophobia SET
IN. His COMMISSIONS produced the choking
| noise that Is sometimes Hkcnetl to the Swapping
OF a dog, and there was he attendant foaminp
at the mouth. While his father and mother
were tending him he bit them bot h. and IL
| being impossible to care for him mt home he
was sent to the Rhode Island III spital
Last evening Mrs. Molyneaux, the mother
without tne slightest premontion excepting Il
feeling of lassitude, was suddenly conyulsed
she was sitting ut the time with some friend;
az her residence on Ship street. The spasms
became more violent; frothfnsr mt the mouth
and other symptoms that had been noticed in
the boy were observed. 1t was inpo ssible for
tEc 1riehds TO control her. They say she
st2pped at them whenever they approacheI,
ahdAthat rms action caused them to remember
thatsshe had been bitten by the little boy
Harry. Mr.. Molyneanx was away and the
police were therefore notified. An officer
cautiously entered the room and approached
the bed on which Mrs. Molyneaux was living.
she seemed to have gone there in a moment
of temporary relief, but the moment she saw
tne omcer she sprang Mt him. The officer
for few minutes had n terrible str,p-
gle. He could have mastered the
woman easily, but he feared that in the
struggle that would be necessary she
might bite him. He seized the bedcloth hes and
wound them in a great bunch around his arms
and thus protected himself. He also shouted
for help, and shortly three officers arrived.
Mrs. MQlYpeaux s house being but a short di,
tance from the station. The officer then usnr
the bedclothes to protect himself, forced Mrs
Molyneaux ms gently as possible back to the
bed, and threw the blankets quickly over her
face. In a second the other officers with the
police surgeon, who had arrived with an am
huance, had secured Mrs. Molyneaux, and she
was taken to the hospital. Sergeant Runkin
of the police, says he never saw q more terri
BILE sight than was this woman's condition
when they were binding her. He describes
her utteranccs as almost perfect limitations of |
the growing of a dog, and says she would set |
her teeth and snap rs dogs do. The most pain |
full part of it all was that Mrs Molyneaux |
seemed fully conscious, and her mental suf- |
ferings were greater than the physical.
MIR. Molyneaux, the husband, who was also |
bitten by his son, was at his place of bust
ness, being employed in some capacity at |
night in the steam-mlls. He did not know
This morning of his wife's condition, and the
officers of the mill were anxious to keep the
TACT from him.
Some years ago, when there was what might
almost be termed an epidemic OF hydropho-
'ia in the Connecticut Valley, n man in tho
asst paroxysms bit his attendant The pnysi-
'ians watched the attendant for some months,
Intending to make careful study of the
disease, but the attendant was never the
worse for the bite.