Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-02
FOREIGN Notes.

The column fcndOme Will be
completed by the LIST of June.
In England it appears the aver
age annual number of letters is 80
per head; 10 Switzerland 20; in Ger
many IA; in France and Belgium
u; in Austro-H Hungary from 4 to 5.
NJ. Olivier says "that no govern
ment can be founded in France
without a plebiscite, and, if we have
one, the empire will receive far
more votes than all the other par
ties put together"
A bandmaster in the English ar
my for a period of forty-nine years
has Just retired, and has been
awarded the munificent pension of
ten cents per day, the highest sum
the law allows.
Athens Is becoming. after these
many centuries, again a center of
science and literature. It's unIversi
ty. now thirty years old, gratui
tously educates over Loo students
IN theology. law, medicine and ply
losophy, and has 200 900 volumes in
it's library. DIR. S~chliemann's great
work on the Troy excavations is be-
ing issued in German, French, and
English from the Athenian press.
1t has been proposed to remove
General Won Goblenz's body from
Switzerland, where it is now inter-
red, in order that it may repose in
the soil OF his adopted country,
Austria. There seems a likelihood
of the proposal being carried out. in
which event, Trautenau. the scene
of the solitary uccess Of Austrian
arms under Goblenz in the late Aus
tro Prussian war, will he assigned
as the resting place to the Generals
mortal remains.
\ letter from Vienna. in the
Augsburg Gazette states that the
Supreme Court of Austria has just
decided that Il marriage blessed by
an Old Catholic cure is not valid in u
civil point Of view, the State not
having as yet recognized that body.
Some petitions addressed to the
Austrian Chambers request that the
position of the Old Catholics may be
regulated by a law, that their faith
should be acknowledged by the gov
eminent, and that a proportional
part of the property of the Church
be assigned to them.
AS is know, in consequence of the
events of the Commune, twenty
four court martiaIs had TO I've estab
lished as well as two permanent, the
! first aud second, which sits in Paris,
and are reserved for military cases.
That number was successfully re-
duced until only six remain. About
the middle of March only four will
be left, owing to the suppression of
the eighteenth and twenty first
The four remaining, all sitting in
the capital. will he the first and sec
ond, confined to trying soldiers. and
the third and fourth, reserved for
the Communist prisoners.
John Baptist Jussiant recently
died at the hamlet of Mertenne,
near Walcourt, in France, aged l05
years and s months. He preserved
his faculties to the last. He left a
numerous family. His six surviving
children have together 500 years
and 147 children and grandchildren
TO the fifth generation. The eldest
son of Jussiant is IS years old;
he was seven years a soldier in a
regiment of dragons under the
first empire. 1t was a curious spec
tacle to see his five sons, of whom
the youngest Is 40, at the funeral of
their father.
Wooden shoe soles are manufac-
tured by Bohme. of Schandau, by
means of a machine specially devised
for the purpose. These internally
have the shape of the foot, and,
when attached to leather uppers,
form shoes not only as elegant in ap-
p%earance, but also as comfortable, it
is said, as those with leather soles,
from which, indeed, they can not be
dist nguished, although costing only
half as much. Worn out soles can
be replaced at a triAing expense, the
same uppers ~outlasting two or three
soles. Red or white beech wood is
mainly used in their manufacture.
There is a bitter religious strife
going on in the Cheim District Of Po-
land. The Russian government has
ordered the extirPation of Romish
rites, churches, and priests, in that
district, and the substitution for
them of the practices of the Greek
Church. The result has been riot
and carnage 10 many places. men and
women shot down aud knouted. and
a spirit of the utmost bitterness
among the peasantry. The miserable
creatures refuse to allow the Rus
sian rite, and prefer to inter their
dead to be buried according to them
without ceremony. This fact alone
would show the intensity of their
aversion.