Of General Interest

Álate Providence (II. f.i special to the New York .Sim suya: Last Monduy a littlo son o James Molyncnux, of ttris city, was tnki-n down with symptoma of hydrophobia. On Tuesday the discase was elearly deflned. The ohikl is nine years old, and had been bitten, as nearly as nis parents could learn, some threc weeks before by a eur on the Street. All o; the more violent symplomsof hydrophobia se in. His convulsiona produoed the cliokhii. noise that is someliraes likened to the snappingof a dog, and there was the attendant foamirif atthemonth. While his father and mothot were tcnding: him he bit them both, and it belng itupossible to care for him at home he was sent to the Hhode lsliind Hospital. Last evcning Mrs. Molyinaux. the mother, without the slishtest premonition exeeptin.ï a feeling: of lassitude, was suddenly convulso She was sitting at thu time with some fctenití at her residence on Ship street. The spiism.-) beeame more violent; frotliing at the moiith and other symptoms that had been notieed in the boy were observed. It was impossible for the friends to control her. They say she snapped at them whenever tbey approaehedi and thiit this actlon caused them to romember that she had been bitten by the little boy Harry. Mr. Molyneaux was away, and the poliee were therelore notifled. An ollieer cautiously entered the room and appronchod the bed on which Mu. Molyneaux was lying. She seemed to have gone there in a moment of temporary relief, out the moment she saw the otlicer she sprang at him. The offleer for a few minute3 had a terrible struggle. He eould have inastered the womtm easily, but he feared that in the stnig-g-lo that would be neeessnry she might bite him. He seized the bedclothw and wound them in a great bunch around lus arrns, mi thue protectetlhimself. He also shoutcd tor help, and shortly threo oIHcors arrived, Mrs. Molyneaux's house being but a short üi: ;anee fioin the station. The offlcur then, usin,' ;he bedolothes to proteot hlmself, forcod Mrs. Vloiyneaux as st'iitly as posible back to the jed, and threw the blaokets quickly over her face. In a second the other olficers, with the 3olice surgeoa, who had arrived with an ambulance, had seoured Mrs. Molyneaux, and she was taken to the hospital. Sergeant Runkin, of the pólice, says he never saw a more terrible sight than was this womnn's eondition whonthey were binding her. He describes ïer ütterancea as almost perfect imitations of he growling of a dog, and says she would set ïer teeth and snap as dogs do. The mout palnful part of it all waa that Mrs. Molyneaux seemed fully conscious, and her mental sufferinga were greater than the physicii!. Mr. Molyneaux, the busband, who was als bitten by liis son, was at his place o( busiïcss, employed in some capacity at ligbtinthe stcam-mills. He dkl öót know his raorntaj? of his wlfe's condltion, and the olliccrs of the mili were anxious to keep the act frcin him. Some years io, when there was wbat migtit linost betermed an epidemie of hydrophorfaln the Connectleut Valley, a man in the nst iaroxvsnis bit his attcndnnt. ïlie physllang watehed io attenilant for somemonths, ñtending to m;kc a oaroitil stiuly if the isease, Imt (fce attendaat was ever tha worse tor the btte.