The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-03
FOREIGN ITEMS.

was about 100000.
THE widow of Blanc, the gambler, has
given SAC, 900 toward the construction of
church at Hombourg.
Ten THOUSAND cards of coincidence
were left at the Paris residence of NJ.
Theirs on the day his death was announced.
THE erection of the new Hotel de Vile
at Paris is to cost $3.50, 900, and that sum
does not include the furnishing and inte-
rior decoration.
OUT of total of 1877 prisoners arrested
during two consecutive nights in Liver
pool, England, 121 were taken in for
drunkenness.
THE London papers give discouraging
accounts of the potato crops in England.
They speak of the result as "total de-
struction." For twenty years there has
been no attack of disease so swift, so
general, and so complete"
BISMARCK, when passing through Leip-
sic on his journey to Gastein, consulted
DR.. Georgii. 1t is said that he complained
of being unable to apply himself with
vigor to his work, and that whenever he
has been at work for several hours he is
unable to sleep for many nights after
ward.
TURKISH women do all their shopping
at the doors of the stores in Pera, and
the merchant-generally a Greek or an
Armenian who speaks Turkish-must go
to the carriage window with the things
they wish to purchase. An ordinance of
the Minister of Police prohibits Turk
ish woman from entering any store in the
Frank quarter.
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 and Granada
are accustomed to. One of his duties
is to sing to the tinkle of guitar un-
der her balcony at night; and on these
occasions he is accompanied by the Duke
de Sexto, who stands at distance un-
observed. The marriage will probably
take place next February.
A LONDON correspondent writes that
the Midland Railway has been defrauded
in gigantic and astonishing manner by
some of its officers holding positions of
responsibility in whom the utmost conf
dence was placed. The principal means
by which the company has been defrauded
was by persons erecting private dwellings
and other buildings, both for themselves
and others, with material and men be-
longing to the company. Several delin-
quents are, it is said, in prison, and 9th
ers will be arrested soon.
A sTRANGE-LooKING man recently pre-.
scented himself at Postoffice in Dudley,
Eng, for the purpose of sending tele.
gram, but as he had no money the Off.
Gals refused to send it. He afterward
offered watch in payment, but this they
refused, upon which the man said he
hoped they would send the message, as
he had done worse than murder. The
police were sent for, and conveyance
obtained for his removal, upon which he
deliberately pulled both his eyes out. A
surgeon afterward examined him, and
declared the man was insane.
THE Duke of Portland has sent to the
London fund for the relief of the Turks
suffering in the war another $4,000,
making his total subscription $50, 900
This is very liberal but it was far ex.
ceeded by the late Alexander T. Stewart,
who sent 10000 barrels of -four to the
sufferers of the Franco German war
After the great Chicago fire Mr.. Stewart
sent for the relief of the sufferers his
check for $50, 600; and his present, in
1S47, of ship-load of provisions to Ire
land, when her people were suffering from
famine, is yet well remembered.
DUCoURToIs, Partisan storekeeper,
determined last year that he would re-
tire to the country, and accordingly be-
took himself to handsome place in the
environs of Paris. Being bachelor,
he invited Pous, his former clerk, to bear
him company. They soon, however, be-
came lonesome, and Ducourtois thought
the quickest way of recouping the outlay
would be to heavily insure and then fire
the building. So he and Pous saturated
with petroleum the most intlammable
parts of the edifce, to which they then
set fire, disregarding the fact that seven
persons slept in the tenement adjoining
In his defense Ducourtois, with Count
Fosco GOODNESS, pleaded that he commit
ted the deed because he was unsuited
for rural pleasures, and not made for a
country life" He has been sentenced to
eight years. penal servitude.
THE Italian correspondent of a French
paper, writing from Rome, says the
Pope's mind is beginning to be at times
affected. For instance, the other day he
declared his intention of ordering him
self to be driven in a close carriage
round the city of Rome He wished, he
said, especially to see the Quirinal
and other places associated with the
most glorious day of his pontifcate, par
ticularly the Churches of Saint John
Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore, and
the prelates in attendance upon him had
the greatest difficulty in inducing him to
renounce the idea. His inability to any
longer take an active part in the govern.
ment of the church and in the admins.
tration of the Pontifical House is said
by the same writer to irritate him ex.
tremely. Formerly his influence made
itself felt everywhere. Nothing was
done without his orders or consent.
Everything that went on in the church
was reported to him, and he gave his de.
cision, which was regarded as final, in
all difficulties that arose. To-day, a
prisoner in his chair or on his couch, he
is no longer able to take an active part
in the transaction of business.