The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-07
FOREIGN ITEMS.

THE three sons of the Khedive are be
ing educated in Europe.
IT costs England $5OOa year to support
one soldier, while Austria supports one
for $235.
MEXICO is about to declare an addi-
tional tax of 10 per cent. on all imports
into that country.
THE wages of the working class in
England are said to be now something
like four hundred millions sterling
year.
ONLY fifteen years ago China held the
monopoly of tea production; now India
is proving formidable rival. From
300, 600 pounds in 1861 the export
from Calcutta advanced TO $4,000, 600
pounds in 1876.
AN express train in Russia, carrying
5000, 900 roubles, not only failed, the
other day, to reach its destination, but
has altogether disappeared, without
leaving the slightest traces atfording
clew as to what has become of it.
PUBLIC opinion in Germany is thus re-
Elected in conversation between two
good burghers of Berlin, taken from
Berlin paper: First Burgher-'' So we
are likely to have another war with
France?" Second Burgher-" Let us
pray that they may thrash US, so that
they may be as poor as we are"
LONDON mammas complain more loud
ly than ever of the chronic celibacy of
the eligible men of the period. They
will dine out and take lunches with their
friends on Sunday, but to dance they re-
fuse, will not even Z" sit out" waltz, and
as for " Intentions" they don't seem to
know whatthese mean; 50 the great army
of spinsters steadily increases.
AN extraordinary trial is about to take
place before Partisan tribunal. 4 zeal
Gus husband in the village of Carrieres
fell upon novel mode of Furnishing
his wife for her firtations by compelling
her to swallow live spider every Mon
day morning. After submitting for a
time she informed the police, and the
husband was arrested and put in prison.
A RUSSIAN writer says: "Since 1872
Russia has doubled her territories. With
in eighty years she has advanced $50
leagues on the road to Vienna and Paris.
She has swallowed up half Sweden, and
of Poland as much as would make another
Austrian Empire. She has conquered
from Persia about as much as the area
of Great Britain. From Turkey she has
wrested, by successive wars and treaties,
States as large as Prussia was before the
war of 1866"
\ PARIS letter says AS a son of Sen
ator of the Empire was walking with a
friend in the Rue de Rivoli about eleven
| bn do
about Mac MahOn, his fathers name hav-
ing been struck from the rolls of the
Legion of Honor. Some police agents
who overheard him requested him to fol-
/ low them. He endeavOred to explain
away his condemnatory words, but with
out avail, and was condemned to two.
months imprisonment and 500 francs
| fine.
Two TURKISH spies were lately az
rested in the Russian lines at Giurgevo
and shot. One Was profoundedly indif-
ferent to his fate, and desired that his
eyes should not be bandaged. He re-
ceived the platoon fire with steady gaze,
and fell fla on his face as the balls
pierced him. Before his execution he
cast chances of supreme contempt upon
his companion, who was in mortal fear
and yelled piteously. 1t was necessary
to force him to the spot and tie him to a
stake.
A CURIOUS story comes from India.
The Viceroy had received some otfense
from Scindia, and could not avenge it
openly, whereupon he meditated and
took the following deeply deliberated
method of retaliation: When a large
number of native Princes came up before
him to make their Obeisance, no sooner
did the offending Scindia enter than the
| Viceroy sprang forward with unwonted
effusiveness and kissed him en- both
cheeksi Such contact from an alien and
a Christian is the extremist faint IL native
can receive. Scandals own wives would
not come near him; in a moment he sank
in the eyes of all India from a Prince to
a pariah, and ever since the poor man
has been undergoing purifying ceremo-
malls, costing large part of his fortune,
to cleanse him from the Vice-regal kiss
| by which he was betrayed
THE total results of the long struggle
between the German Empire and the
Roman Catholic Church may be epito-
/ mixed as follows The Arch bishops of
/ Gnesen-P osen and Cologne, the Bishops
of Breslau, Paderborn and Munster, and
the auxiliary Bishops of Posen, six in
number, have been deposed The sees
of Treves and Fulda have become vacant
| by death, and no attempt is made to fill
| them. About GOO members of different
orders and congregations have been ex-
| PEELED from the diocese of Cologne,
among them 1870 priests. In the diocese
of Cologne there are "a parishes without
| priests; in Paderborn, 80; in Munster,
80; in Treves, $50; in Limburg, II; in
Breslau, Ga, and in Hildesheim, H.
None of the Bishops will fill these va
cancies, because the Pope will not per-
nit them to conform to the new ecclesi-
astical laws of the Empire.
A ROMANTIC story is being told about
a Scotch doctor There was until lately
living a Miss MACPHERSON Grant, one Of
the wealthiest heiresses of Scotland.
Originally only the daughter of Scotch
country doctor, she became, by singu-
lar train of events, sole heiress to her
uncle, an Indian nabob, who had made a
large fortune in India last century. She
formed great friendship with another