The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-17
Foreign Miscellaneous Items.

Out of the Tichborne trial has risen a very
groundless cdnard, based on the death at sea
last year of the third Earl of Aberdeen. Idle
rumOr has resuscitated him, and asserts that he
is not only returning to England to reassume
his title and estates, but that he also brings
wife and son with him. Tne story is utterly a
fiction. 1t has been demonstrated on the most
indisputable evidence, collected at great ex-
pense by the family, that the George III. Os-
borne who was drowned at sea towards the end
of January, 1870, while acting as chief mate of
the American schooner Hero, bound from Bos-
ton to Melbourne, was in reality George Hamil-
ton Gordon, third Earl of Aberdeen. legal
commission has placed the melancholy fact be-
yond dispute, and as to the appearance OF any
claimant proposing to offer personal denial of 1t
the family have, at least as yet, heard nothing
to that effect. - t
Morning, noon, and night, as you pass the
cafes and taverns of LHgo, Russi, Bagna Ca
vallo, Cervia, says a correspondent writing from
Rome you see men seated with cards and dice
before them. The very beggars, who have just
extorted few centimes from the passers-by, go
on to the steps of the first church and crouch
down to some game, played with fabulously
dirty cards, which will occupy them for
hours. The quarrels which ensue aud the
summary vengeance taken by the loser
on the winner, or the desperate attacks
he makes on the first passer-by who possesses
as he thinks, the means of paying his debt, is
the next step in the drama. Either the man
who has won is murdered, and the account is
settled that way, or the passer-by is Knocked
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| him, and then the whole thing is repeated.
| This is not exaggeration. 1t is a truthful
statement of what has come to light in the
| trials at Ravenna,i and no wonder that the at
| tention of all true patriots is turned to the
| bill which will provide for an amelioration of
this state of things. The bill has gone into
committee.
An extraordinary story is reported from
| Prussian Poland. Itappears among the Poles and
| Hungarians the myth of vampires still finds
| credence country squire at Rosasin, In
Posen, died some months ago, his death being
| speedily followed by that OF his eldest son and
the dangerous illness of several of his relatives
all of which cases occurred as suddenly as they
| seemed unaccountable. The deceased was al
once suspected of being vampire rising IRON
his grave and sucking the blood OF his surviving
| friends. To prevent further mischief his second
son determined to chop off the corpse's head
for which enterprise he obtained The
assistance of some equally superstitious peasants
at very high price. The head was TO be laiC
with the feet, while an assistant collected the
blood dropping from the neck in q vessel to Civ,
to the relatives to drink. The deed was delayed
by the interference of the parish priest but wa
In the end effected at night, net, however, with
out an unasked witness. The case is now befor
the Prussian Court of Appeals. The local cour
had sentenced the desecrators OF the churchyar
TO three months imprisonment and 1t seem
likely that they will still have to pay tina
penalty for their superstition.
t-The list of troops at the disposition OF IN
Paris Commune, published on the 8th ult., b.
Colonel Mayer, charged with the orgauizatlo,
of the National Guards, shows that the Who'll
force consisted of twenty legions (98, 325 meu
matching troops, and twenty lsgiOns (si, 10
mep) sedentary ditto. In addition TO this ther
are 5445 artillerymen, without officers, and n
cavalry, including hfty-three officers, with A
horses in all, which are occasionally used
drag the guns about. The legions of sewers
ACCOMPLISHMENTS are short OF the proper nuu
ber, both of marching and sedentary battalion
Two ACCOMPLISHMENTS have eleven battalion
less than the proper number. Altogeth'
. there is a deficiency of thirty-six bait
] lions. There are about $500 officers
each of the two classes. The Eighteenth a
rondissement Montmartre, supplies 1000 marc
ing officers, consequently twO-sevenths of Il
whole number Out Of the total number
IL, 600 sous officers, 5000 belong to the same di
+ trict; and of the $685. marching privates 70, 3
are also Montmartre heroes. Next In lmpol
/ ance comes the Faubourg du Temple eleven
"a arrondssement), which furnishes lS, ,OOO me
!, The Montmartre district has no sedentary n
= tional Guards, all its soldiers being marchil
p men. The other ACCOMPLISHMENTS have on
average about 1000 each, the Sixteenth, no
d ever, only 600 altogether A