Year: 1867

New LION KILLER.-The journals of Algeria speak of


young Frenchman named Betouille employed in the topo
graphical service who bids fair to rival the fame of Jules
Grad Being lately in the neghborhood OF Soukaras he
informed that lion had carried off the preceding
night In consequence he prepared his arms and took up


from the remains of the OK Atabout in the morning the


lion appeared and his repas when the sports


took the opportunity to discharge spherical balls


its body. The animal fell without sound but Immediately
rose and staggering along for little distance again
dropped down. dead 1t measures nearly nine feet and was
supposed be about twelve old few days later M
Betouile went another expedition in the same locality,
having learned that ioness and lions committing
great ravages night Having entered the forest which


the animals fequented he fastened old to tree


ba and then posted himself behind thick bushes He
had been there long before noise heard the hcke
and magnificent lion made its appearance advancing with
precauon and passing within few yards of the marsman,
who unable take aim at the from his rifle
being entanged in the brushwood. The animal then made


circuit round the and licked its lips and crouched down
for the purpose of taking the fatal spring. when the sportsman


about forty yards distance fired and lodged two balls in


its right side. The animal gave terrific and plungng
into the forest disappeared The day its dead body


found at about 500 yards from the place of ambuscade 1t


noble ANIMAL but not large the previously killed
A NEW ~EpIDEMIc-For more than fourteen months
mysterious disease has been displaying rapid and fatal
activity in Ireland The first occurred far back
the 18th of March, 1866. An apprentice to surgeon in
Dublin had felt unwe and remained indoors during the day.
taking his meals however, usual. He had bad night
and complained of headache in the morning and his
then remarked spots upon his chest Dr. Stokes
eminent Dublin physician Immediately sent for and
the patient II He found him perfectly collected
and in apparently ordinary strength but the left and
left breast covered hic with large purple patches of
the deepest hue Both medical gentlemen recognized that
they in the presence of which, if attack of
yphus fever certainly such neither of them had
witnessed before When Dr. Stokes had returned hours
later, great change had taken place. He self
possessed as before left arm and breast were now
pleey black At halfpast the young sitting up
in bed discussing his with his and he
planned of great thirst the latter from the bedside the
window to mix cooling draught but upon turning around
almost instantly he saw to his horror that collapse had set


and by pm, within little than "a hours of the first
of ndspOsition within hours of the appearance
any formidable symptoms and within half being
in full possession of all his faculties and of considerable
amount of muscular strength the patient was dead few
other occurred during the spring and early summer all
presenting the general features and all fatal but with
the of cholera in August this strange disease
vanished With the approach of spring, however, it, reap
peared One of the earliest of the of


healthy child about five years old Here the first symptom
of illness noticed am.; II am small purple
the whole body covered with large purple paches
gradually supervened and at pm death The last audible
occurred the Porobelo Cavalry Barracks the 18th
of April An officer had complained, the previous
night had little Sleep suffered from headache and was
occasionally ncoherent In the morning about nine o'clock
purple spots appeared which spread rapidly both in size
and number until the whole body became covered with them
Collapse set in with the usual suddennes and at II he
dead Within ten minutes after death the superficial
purple hue had given place red In the following
week boy about 10 years old attacked in the
rapid way. When seen, at p.m his body all dotted
with purple specks the pulse were scarcely preceptibe at
the wrist but the action of the heart perfect he in
full possession of muscular strength and mental faculties
and felt little i'll that he complained bitterly of being kept


in bed At pm. he dead. In the beginning of April
the first provincial noticed They connected
with the troops who had been engaged in pursuit of the
insurgents through the Galtee mountains Two three
soldiers married woman, and couple of children were
attacked the and of the soldiers recovered the
others died. The fatal remarkable for great suffer-
ing, which skill seemed capable of relieving Indeed the
children appear have screamed themselves death in the


violence of the pan which no efforts could mitigate In all


these there of considerable Inflammation
of A
these military throwing light upon the question
of The mother of the children washed for
of the soldiers of the flying column among whom we
have just mentioned the attacks of the disease occurred and
in this way the disorder may it is conceived have been
municaed At this moment woman is in the Meath Hos
pita in Dublin, with her young child both suffering from
the malady and Dr. Stokes who has them specially in