The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-23
FOREIGN ITEMS,

HE IanatlCal spirit or the BaShl-Ba-
zouks makes them desperate soldiers.
THE total number of railroad en-
ployes in Great Britain is about 2S5 900.
THIRTY persons were recently drowned
by the wreck of vessel plying between
Adelaide and the Albany Isles, on the
northwest coast of Australia
RUssIA's public debt is about 81 $780,
100000, and she is able to contract loans.
Turkey, with debt of only 1850, 100000,
has no credit.
QUEEN VICTORIA has granted the three
Misses Defoe, lineal descendants of the
author of " Robinson Crusoe, " pensions of
1915 per annum each.
THE largest contributor to the revenue
of England is said to be brewing firm,
which pays about $1,000 for every work
ing day of the year. .......
Two THOUSAND sheep were lately sold
in Adelaide, South Australia, at twenty
five cents head. This is the effect of
the drought. Drought and flood are the
curses of that country. ..
IT is pleasant to see, remarks the
Poll Mall Gazette, THAT the Russian
Government never enters upon the bust
ness of slaughter except in a devout
spirit"
ACCORDING to returns obtained by the
royal Irish constabulary and the Dublin
police, 1881 persons emigrateG from
Ireland in 1876 Yet the population APP
pears to have increased 1882 in that
year.
A CORRESPONDENT of the american
Art Journal says that the girls of Cash
mere make shawls worth $4,000, and
will show 300 distinct colors or shades
which we cannot make or even distin-
guish.
A SOCIETY "for the promotion of
charitable objects" has lately been formed
in Toxic by eight Japanese gentlemen.
The especial object of the association is
to train and educate deformed persons,
and to provide an asylum for and teach
some handicraft to the blind, of whom
there are a great number in Japan.
THE British House of Commons re-
Gently divided upon the question whether
the maximum number of lashes in the
British navy should be fifty or twenty
five, and by a majority of twenty-five in
one case and of thirty-three in another
the maximum was fixed at fifty lashes.
ALEKsEEYEFF, Russian peasant, re-
Gently said at meeting, while he was
speaking of the emancipation of the
serfs: We were given little land that
was of no use to us. Evidently we are
still serfs. If we are obliged to ask for
a rise of wages we are punished BY BAN
ishment to Siberia"
A GREAT number of Russian ladies in
St. Petersburg have pledged themselves
mutually neither to wear silk nor satin
nor costly ornaments, nor to give balls,
nor to indulge in other luxuries during
the present war, but to devote the money
which they would otherwise have spent
upon such objects to the nursing of the
sick and wounded of their country.
AT the Whit-Monday amusements in
Hull, England, balloon which was
about to ascend was blown against gas
Jet and exploded Eighty-six spectators
were injured. They were taken to the
intirmary, where it was found that sixty
were able to proceed to their homes after
having their wounds dressed. In six
cases the injuries were dangerous.
THESE two are genuine advertise.
ments, one from paper from the north
of England and the other from a Scotch
source: t.
WANTED-A capable General Working
Woman, in small, quiet family in the coun-
try. A Christian at heart, Teetotaller and
a Singer would be valued. Address, etc.
WANTED-As Housekeeper, a Christian
Female. Accustomed to Poultry. Address,
etc. lie.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Cairo,
exposes the humbug Of the Khedive in
pretending to suppress slavery, and says
that at the very time he sent an expedi-
ton for that object down the Red Sea at
the instance of the English Foreign Office,
he was selling 400 female slaves, while
every one of his palaces overflows with
them, " to say nothing of his cruelty OPP
pressed, forced laborers."
A RUSSIAN commissariat officer at
Odessa was detected adulterating flour
about to be sent to the army with lime
and other substances. He was imme-
diately tried and shot within twenty four
hours after the discovery took place.
The Russian Government trust that this
summary execution will put stop to
these practices, which caused so much
suffering to the Russian soldiers during
the Crimean war. ....
HUNGARY has mourned for twenty
eight years the death of her national poet,
Petof, who was supposed to have been
killed July 81, 1S49, at the battle of
Pejeregyhaza by a Russian bullet A
Hungarian named Bords, who was made
prisoner at that battle and condemned to
the mines of Siberia, recently escaped,
and reported he had left Petofi a prisoner
there. Count Andrassy, former friend
of the poet, has instituted inquiries re-
garding him and will petition for his re-
lease. o. '.......
Nor long since little girl in London,
who was going in the evening to tea
party, was sent by her mother to school
with her back hair done up in curl pa
pers. The child was sent home again,
with message to her mother and father
to the effect that one of the rules issued
by the School Board was that children
should come to school with hair properly
brushed and combed.
In addition to the war with Russia the
Turks have begun a war on female Vani-