The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-08
FOREIGN ITEMS.


FOREIGN ITEMS.
Berlin has now twenty-six theatres.
There is another Minist srial crisis in
Spain. s- -'
Smallpox is pronounced an epi-
demic at Edinburg.
The assassination Of Earl Mayo
creates Intense excitement in India.
Charlie Etienne Cont, formerly Ma
poleon's private Secretary, died on the
14th, In Paris.
The assassin of the GOvernor-Gen-
eral of India has been tried, con victed,
and sentenced to be hanged.
The English expedition in search of
DIR. Livingstone has left LONDON, the
necessary funds having been SUBJ
| scribed.
1t is announced that the Pope in
tends to denounce the Concordat, 80
Tar IS it relates to Alsace and Lorraine.
Dispatches from Teberan state that
the famine in Persia continues with
unabated fury. Many persons are
dying daily.
The French Academy Of Fine Arts
Is about to take into consideration the
admission of female members.
The Pope will soon send forth an
encyclical letter on the subject Of Pub
lie Instruction, and its relations with
the Chuch and State.
E;va thousand v>o,,,Io l,ov> h>o,,
! subscribed in Lon Ion toward fund to
defray the expenses of the pro-
posed expedition In search Of DR..
Livingstone. 'Ii -.
A Aspecial London dispatch says that
no English Government continuing
the negotiation 10 regard to the
Treaty Of Washington, in the case
as it stands, could bold Office twenty
four hours.
An attempt was made on Tuesday
to bring the subject OF the Alabama
Claims before the House Of Lords for
debate, but Earl Granville declined to
be drawn out.
| At the Crystal Palace, new London,
| q national festival is to be given May
1st, in honor OF the recovery of the
Prince of Wales. T"-g. .
Lady Franklin has purchased
Franklin House, in Lincolnshire,
England, and proposed to make it
museum Of Arctic curiosities.
Anew cable, four thousand miles in
length, is being manufactured in Lon
don, for the European and South
American Telegraph Company.
The activity of the Bonapartist
agents who are intriguing throughout
France to secure the return of the ex-
Emperor creates some excitement in
Parliament circles at Versailles.
Advices from Mexico state that the
Government is certainly able to defeat
the revolutionists, and that the acces-
sion of Lerdo de Tejada to the Presi.
dency is certain in case of the downfall
Of JuareZ.
The Madrid C0rrespondencia states
that the principal leader of the Car
lists, Republicans and Radicals, have
| formed an electoral coalition ticket
for the coming election to the Cortez.
The Paris Journal Des Debdts, com.
menting on the controversy Of the
| Alabama Claims, declares that
England and America are both wrong,
and fears protracted misunderstand-
ing may lead to a rupture.
Austria Is said to be contemplating
the annexation Of ROumania, the
Emper OF Germany being understood
to consent. Russia may have some
thing tp say in the matter. : j f
The DanDury News says: A Dam
bury German il named Wachlei-
genshamel. How would you like to
stand on back stoop, with the ther-
mometer II degrees below Zero, and
call that into breakfast?
1t has been suggested as . means for
refilling the exhausted Golfers of the
French treasury, that the Govern.
ment should manufacture quantities
of steel and bronze rings, chains,
bracelets and other 1ornaments, to be
called edeliveranee jewely,". to. bear
the Governent stamp, and to be sold
to patriots at exorbitant prices.
A firm In Sheffield, England, have
just succeeded in rolling the largest
| AI0OI pl6leS ever Iu8uc. no pl8t69
are intended to protect the turrets OF
the great war chip Devastation, which
b being built at Portsmouth. Each
plate weighs twenty.fouf tons and
measures twenty feet In length, nine
in breadth and eight inches in thick
ness. ,"1tF
At masquerade ball recently given
in Glasgow, Scotland, an officer OF
inland revenue managed to obtain ad-
mission, disguised as one Of the
walters, and took list Of the names
of all who appeared in powdered wigs.
he has assessed them for double tax
for wearing powder without license,
there being Z tax Of S. per annum for
the privilege Of wearing powder on
the head In Great Britain. .,.., Z
A recent official report states that
last year there were 10000 doctors in
Russsia. OF this number 6,113 held
public appointments, and 4,6S6 con-
fined them to private practice. This
gives only about one doctor to ,1S7 oi
the inhabitants, basing the calcula.
tion on the most recent returns of the
population. There are districts In
Russia where there is no doctor with
In less than q days journey, and in
some parts 1t Is probable that there is
still greater difficulty in obtaining
medical aid. ..A