, 1876-10-01
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
A Fighting Herzegovinian Priest
and His Standard.Bearer.
Bathing at Trouyille and Ostend
---Ladies in Want Of Lem
Onade.
English Politeness, and improvements
in the Language---Poor Carlotta.
A FIGHTING PRIEST.

"A F1GdI1NV FIJI ESls
a letter from the Moravo Valley IN Servia to
the New York Times has the following:
"After q short survey OF the skirmish we rode
over to the Custom-House to see the fighting
priest,' who had just received bullet In hts
leg and was having his wound dressed as we
entered. 4 good-looking fellow Is this archi-
mandrite, and far more Of soldier than any
one have seen in SerVia, notwithstanding his
clerical dress, which be persists in wearing.
About five or six-andthirty years Of age, little
above the middle height, and we'll made, with
small hands and feet. His hair falls in long
cur1s upon his shoulders, and, like hts beard, is
black and carefully tended. On his head Is the
unsightiy stoycpipe with the rim turned down at
the top OF the torthodox' priest, and his black
cassoek is girded with gilt sword-belt bearing
brace OF reyolvers and a Turkish yataghan
with "a richly enameled hi1t. He is Herzegovin-
ian by birth, and born Of wealthy parents, Bho
sent him first to Belgrade and afterward to Mos
COW, to study theology. He was regularly Or
dained, and became an archimanurite, high
outbreak Of the insurrection in his native coun-
try we find him fighting under the orders OF
Luka kokalovitch. Upon the death Of that
CHIEF, Duchien became First Secretary to Prince
Bosnia and the Herzegovina at Belgrade He
has written several works on the political history
and future of the European provinces OF Tur-
key; speaks several foreign languages tluently,
and is President OF the section OF history and
language iu the Learned Society OF the rni-
Yersfty Of Belgrade. OF much more enlarged views
than the generality of his countryncn, be is the
best educated man whom I have met on
this side Of the Danube. and is wit1M Of
heroic courage and immense endurance. A few
weeks ago, when under the command OF Gen.
Zach, he swan the Lin, near No:i Bazaar, in the
midst Of shower Of bullets, to bring fntelli-
gence Of the enemy's movements to his chief,
whose flank WAS threatened BY column under
Achmed Psslla- He is simply idolized bv his
men, over whom he exercises the combined In
decision Of character, backed up by the weight
OF their fanattcal attachment to their Church,
with whose terrors he threatens them whenever
be secs signs OF hesitation or cowardfce. Weak
kneed Christians he will not tolerate, and, as he
is no respector of persons, he has already caused
to be shot several Popes, whose fear for their
personal safety predolninated over their patriot
ism. With him was his staodnrd-beare Czerni
Andreas,- s,-otherwise Black Andrew giant
from tie Herzegovina, who never lesra5 his
side, and who bids fair to become popular
hero. When thu Khan was taken, later in the
afternoon, had specimen OF his prowess- The
fighting WIS at such close quarters that firearms
were cast aside, and nothing was used but cold
steel. 4 tall Cfrcassian rushed from under the
doorway and grasped at the tla3-the serrlan
.ricolor, surmounted with silver cross. An
..reas looked at him for second, as If in amaze
ment at his enc1ny's audacity; and then, coolly,
and without the least apparent excitement,
struck min twice with his kandiar ar,-with the
first he severed the Mussulman's hand, an; with
the second his head rolled on the ground
(the seryian nickname Tor Mohammedal,sl, the
cross is not tor thee.' 1may add here that the
cutting off Of heads and limbs at asingic stroke
is not at al an uncommon feat in the East"