Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-14
Foreign GOSSIP.

LORD MAssEY's country seat at Linn
erick, Ireland, was recently destroyed
by fire, involving a loss of S375, 700.
THE Bishop of Gloucester, whose sal
airy is $500 week, expresses the opin-
ion that any man who pronounces the
agricultural laborers of England under
paid should be ducked in millpond.
The said laborers receive about $3.50 a
week on an average.
Poor Poland is suffering worse than
ever. The income tax which the land
ed proprietors are obliged to pay is %
per cent of everything, and, in addition
to this, heavy impositions have been
laid for the benefit of the orthodox
churches. Surveyors are marking off
plats of land which are to be coded to
the Government without compensation,
| as glebelands.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE reports Paris but lit
tie changed. A few public monuments
are missed, he says; but the public
buildings destroyed are being rapidly
| replaced. He thinks Communist
opinion, the French people will get on
well enough if they are let alone. They
are intelligent and industrious, and
there is no reason why they should not
be able to govern themselves in salts
factory manner.
The famous Maelstrom, which has
been the scene of so many thrilling
stories, is in reality very tame affair,
and would never recognize itself in the
turbulent picture drawn by the roman
GERS pen. An English tourist, writing
of it from Norway, says: Every year
hundreds of our countrymen row over
it, doubtless even battle in it; for except
at certain periods, and under certain
conditions of wind and tide, it is COM
paratively harmless.
On reference to late statistical re-
turns from Ireland, and comparing
them with those of last year, we find
there is a decrease of 34,2S0 acres of
land under wheat, oats, barley, and
66,602 under potatoes; 1000 under
vetches; 1867 under fax, and 3d. IA
under meadow and clover. There is an
increase of 500 acres under beans 1000
under mangold and beets; 1929 acres
under turnips; 1884 under cabbage
l,4S4 acres under carrots and parsnips.
f With regard to stock, on comparison
with 1871 we find an increase of 1863
| horses, SO,7S1 cattle, 2S,6S2 sheep, and
decrease of227, 027 pigs.
ENGLIsHMEN are beginning to discover
the superior ouickness of the mail ser
vice by way of the United States over
the service by way of India and Suez
The last mail for England, by way Of
|
Yokohama in thirty-six days, while the
, Yokohama mail viG the Suez Canal was
3 fifty-three and one-haf days reaching
$ its destination. The difference in favor
+. of the American route in two weeks ano
!, half, and knowledge of this fact ha:
! induced parties in London having rela
r tons with Japan to direct the trans
mission of advices by way Of the United
l States.
A REVIVAL of the Dickens separation
and its attendant scandal is likely to b,
d brought about by Mr.. Foster, Dickens
e accepted biographer. In his seconc
:, volume of the great novelist's life h
0 touches upon that part of it which
e caused so much misery to himself anC
l. family, and in his devotion to Mr.
o Dickens does not hesitate to throw tn,
y burden of the blame upon Mrs. Dick
s ems. To this her son Charles objects
n and insists that justice must be done hi
= mother as well as his father, and tina
e the truth must be told on both sides
g And as the press very willingly take
Y up the story, the "whole truth"
|, likely to be told, with perhaps trif,
g added.