The Osceola times., 1877-10-20
FOREIGN.

NJ. Thiers regarded coffee rs poison,
and never drank tea.
Russia has undertaken to pay Servia
one million roubles monthly from the time
the servian army is sent to the frontier.
The invader of the potato fields Of
Hereford, England was not the bug with ten
stripes, but only beetle with seven spots,
and England resumes free respiration.
The Spanish government has paid the
American minister five hundred and seventy
thousand dollars on account of the claims
for losses incurred by the American citizens
in Cuba through the revolution.
/ Garibaldi has written a letter TO prove
/ that the brigands OF his native land could be
| put down If the government would give
/ them bread and good treatment, instead OF
lashes and torture.
Shanghai dates of the llth nit. say
that cholera is decreasing in the coast towns,
but is still prevalent in the interior. Great
distress is reported everywhere from famine,
caused by short crops and ravages Of locusts.
The municipal dog tax of Paris is esti-
mated at $685. $50 for 1873. II has increased
in thirteen wears thirty-fve per cent. While
the love OF dogs thus grows greater, the love
of sport, TO Judge by the revenue from shoot
ing licenses, TO abate.
Asiatic cholera is reported having
made its appearance in Yokohama on the
twentieth of September. The disease is
under good control Ample precautions
have been taken, aud no spread of the epi
demic is anticipated. The foreign ships of
war all left the harbor to avoid the danger.
In a speech at Bradford. England,
the Marquis of Salisbury said that the war
was not likely to be abandoned until one of
the belligerents was strikingly defeated or
utterly exhausted England, bel said, was
not, at the present time, in position, with
out departing from her neutrality. TO offer
anything but mere general pacific advice.
The Mexican congress has authorized
the government to expend $500, in the
construction OF factory for manufacturing
breech-loading fire arms. The government
has contracted for 5000 600 worth of Reming.
ton arms. The government has ordered the
collector OF customs at Vera Or = to remit
monthly to the United States $4,000 on
account of payment of the American debt.
The statement is confirmed by the
leading journal of Berlin that no alliance
has been concluded between Germany and
Italy. Ii says that any negotiations which
may be pending would have no aggressive
significance, but would tend TO secure the
cohesion of Germany and Italy should they
find themselves after the French elections
confronted by clerical, and consequently
aggressive France.
The princess Mercedes, TO whom the
king of Spain is paying court, exacts from
her admirer all the little attentions that the
bellies of Seville aud Grenada are accustomed
to. One of his duties is TO sing to the tinkle
of a guitar under her balcony at night and
on these occasions he is accompanied by the
Duke de Sexto who stands at a distance un-
observed The marriage will probably take
place next February.
The Bedouins in Syria have entered
upon life of brgaRdage. A recent letter
from Acre reports that two months ago they
pounced down upon. Hberas and got 81 500
from the people. The pasha went out with
every man he could muster, but was forced
to retreat, the Bedouns numbering 1000
horsemen. the people OF Nazareth are in
panic, as the Arabs are stealing everything
in and about that city. Owing TO the war
there are scarcely any Turkish troops in the
country and the marauders are masters Of
the place.
Olive Logan describes the princess of
Wales gushingly. She says Alexandra is ex.
ceedingly gentle and pretty, and she smiles
as frequently as Il pleased schoolgirl, yet
occasionally an anxious and nervous express
zion fits across her countenance, rs II she
were enduring sudden and acute pain. Her
hair is of pretty chestnut brown, and is
very skillfully dressed in style that was in.
vented tor her. A large false piece covers
the whele top OF her head, and from the fore
head backward is one mass of tiny curls and
dainty pufs; at the back the usual plaits or
putfs finish the cofiure.