Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-21
Foreign Notes.

Foreign NOtes.
The murderer of the late Justice
Norman was executed in Calcutta in a
peculiar manner. He was hanged and
his body was then burned by low-caste
men, the object of this latter operation
being so as to scatter his ashes that
when Azrael, the Angel of Death, comes
to summon sinners to judgement, he
cannot find him.
The slave trade, it is reported, is still
conducted in Morocco, and a resi-
dent of Tangier, in that country, writes
that African children are exposed for
sale every market day in connection
with the traffic in cattle and agricultu-
raj produce.
A TERRIBLE accident has just occurred
on the plateau of Champigny, where
the combats of the 1st and I'd of
December, 1870, were fought. The
share of a plough came in contact with
bombshell which had sunk into the
the earth, and caused an explosion. The
body of the man driving was scattered
about the field in morsels, the horses
were killed and the plough blown to
pieces. .,.
AN effort is being made to erect a,
distinctively American church in Rome.
1t will be Episcopal, owned by an Epis-
copal congregation, and under the
charge of the Bishop of Pennsylvania,
so that Rome, the ancient seat of the
Pope, will in future form part of the
Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. The
present chapel is outside the walls, in
an old granary, and is reached by aSfilthy
street leading through hog market.
In Upper Egypt, or Nubia, rain
| scarcely ever falls but since the COM
mencement of work on the Suez Canal,
numerous plantations have been estab-
Iished about Ishmaila, and it rains IN
that district much more frequently than
of old. .C.f v-.-.-,..-r-fA 4
A PRUssIAN engineer has invented
machine which will manufacture ice
without chemicals, merely by compress
sion and expulsion of air. The speci-
men machine now at New York makes
two tons per day, and the capacity can
be increased to twenty tons. J q.
PRESIDENT Theirs recently had it
| brought to his notice that an American,
DR.. Charles B. Brigham, Harvard
graduate, had achieved a wonderful
operation on a French soldier, and
therefore invited the surgeon and his
patient to visit the Executive Mansion.
the face of soldier found on the bat
tie field. A complete face has been
substituted, even to teeth and eyes.
In Russia, medical quacks do not
rate very high. On the contrary, vigor-
GUS measures are sometimes employed
to repress them. In Moscow, for exam
ple, q DOCTOR of this description was
lately ordered by the police authorities
to depart from the city. Having a
large number of customers, he failed to
obey the mandate. and was consequent
Iy fogged and sent to the workhouse
for one year.
The speaker of the British House of
Commons enjoys a magnificent resi-
dence, finished and kept in repair at
the public expense, and containing 100
rooms. He receives a salary of $25, 900,
, and on retirement is always created a
Viscount and has pension of $4,000,
which on his death passes to his eldest
son. Oddly enough. neither the late
nor the present Speaker, although mar
ried men, have any son to inherit these
good things.
A PRIVATE letter dated the 4th Of
! September, says "The famine in Per
!, , sia is terrible, even in Bushire, where
as seaport, some sort of relief is possi
BILE. The scenes going on under ones
> eyes are heartrending. We thanks to
charitable gifts from India) daily feed
!, over 1000 people. If you only saw
l animated skeletons in rags
!, what were once fair women and chubby
;, children reduced to raging famished
e beasts When feeding them there arr
almost always some trodden under foo
and taken away dead. The most pitiblt
e sighJ is to see the children--number
without a soul to look to for help
I their parents dead of starvation. Th
e little things often lie down, compos
e themselves as if for sleep, and 60 ou
8. without more than sigh"