The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
FOREIGN ITEMS.

=Aldn Eulplre.
THE Italian lottery system brings in
mot less than $12, 100000 year to the
7Istional exchequer. va E.- B
On the 1st of last January the popu-
lation of Holland was $500, 1927, an in
crease of 229, 79S in ten years.
THE total estimated net cost of the
British Navy for the current year is in
round numbers S54 100000.
GEN. SIR WILLIAM KNoLLYs, now
eighty years of age, will be the new
''Black Rod" for the House of Lords, at
a salary of e2,500 per annum and resi-
dence. 5i .G'g as1 ft8 YAH
THE pay of the German Generals in
high command is said to be 81 800 marks
)about $3.50 year, with furnished
dwellings, fuel and forage for eight
horses
THE son of Charles Dickens will not
allow a monument to be placed over his
fathers grave, as proposed, because the
novelists will requested that nothing of
the kind should ever be permitted.
THE total emigration from the United
Kingdom during 1876 was 13S, 222 and
the immigration 81, 647 This is a small
er excess of emigrants over immigrants
than for any year since the Irish exodus
began.
A QUEER bequest is that of Miss Max
well Graham, of Williamswood, England,
who has left 500, 600 to four charitable
societies, wherewith to relieve poor Prot
estants who are named Hutchinson or
Maxwell, and to educate their children.
The amount received by the British
Postotfice in respect of the telegraph
service in the year ended March 81, 1876,
was $500, 911.23 This includes a sum
of SAT 245.34 put down as cost of tele
graph services performed for other pub
lie departments without remuneration"
The gross amount expended was 81, 153,-
.550.43.
On March II the hamlet of Carol, in
The canton of Massat, Switzerland, was
covered by an avalanche of snow, which
Broke loose from the heights of the Pares
Aoantain. 1t was five in the morning,
and the twenty inhabitants were still in
bed. OF these six escaped, and the
corpses of nine were subsequently OBJ
tanned. Those of the rest had not been
dug up at last accounts.
WILLIAM DELAHANTY, who murdered
his brother-in-law forty-four years ago
IN Stonecarty, Ireland, has made full
confession of his guilt. At the time of
the murder Delahanty was arrested, but
was discharged for lack of evidence
His demeanor while making his confes-
sion was that of sincere penitent. He
sought no mercy at the hands of the au-
thorities, and desired that the law should
be fulfilled in his case to the letter.
THERE lives a remarkable family in
Wardsville, Canada, named Galway,
composed of six persons-mother daugh
ter and four sons. Ten years ago the
father and mother parted, and have never
spoken to each other since. The four
sons, and daughter have all been married,
and strange to relate, have all separated
from their wives and husband. A more
extraordinary feature of the case is that
this mother, daughter and sons all live
together in apparent bliss.
THE other day there died in London a
lady named Phoebe Brown, aged sixty
sWO years, who loved cats. For twelve
gears she lived in one room, and system
atically fed no less than dozen cats
when from old age she was no longer
able to work, she starved herself and
E7awned everything she could in order to
Keep her feline pets alive. She refused
TO send for doctor when sick, and was
found dead in her bed one morning, sur
rounded by cats and kittens.
IN a German newspaper the following
singular announcement 1.-THE translation
being iiteraD of a death recently APP
peared:
DEATH NOTICE-It has pleased Almighty
God our beloved husband, father, GRANDPA
Their, brother and father in-aw, the illus
trious Count Moriz zu Bentheim Teklenberg-
Rheda, Commander and Knight of high or
ders, on the 9th Of this month, at four
O'Clock in the afternoon, in his eightieth
year, TO summon into eternity For silent
sympathy begging, we this mournful ntelli-
gence to all relatives and friends send.
(Signed) The BEREAyED ONES.
ABOUT two years since a man, who
was undergoing Imprisonment for muir
der, made his escape from the
Eveche and succeeded in gaining French
territory, where, at a short distance only
from the frontier, he obtained employ
ment. 1t would appear, however, that
bis liberty became burdensome to him,
for he recently wrote to an agent of the
police, making rendezvous with the
latter on Swiss ground and requesting
that his rearrest might then take place.
The day appointed both parties were as
good as their word, and the agent con-
Quoted the fugitive once more to the
dungeon, where he will probably pass
the rest of his days.
A BERLIN correspondent writes of
Kaiser William: "The Emperor cele-
brates this month his eightieth birthday;
ne is strong, lusty and full of spirits. He
gets along very well now with his Parlia-
ment, because in cases of difficulty they
always yield. In his theories of parla-
mentary prerogative His Majesty holds
about the standpoint of Edward l., but
the people respect the old hero for his
unconquerable honesty and for the fidel-
ity with which he fulfills all the duties,
however severe, of his great office. It's
a curious circumstance, however, that
this Prince, who has fought so many
great battles, has always refused to sign
the death warrant of prisoner. Cap
itsl punishment is still the law in
Prussia, but His Majesty has committed
every sentence of death passed since his