Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-07-21
Foreign Notes.

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has died at Tunbridge Wells at the age OF
one hundred and one years,
Mr.. James Webster, supposed to be the
last of the Waterloo veterans in Toronto,
died on Tuesday
A Calcutta paper states that the raiah
of Protaburh will proceed to England to
study for the bar.
A Quebec man died of apopleXy on
/ Sunday, and his son had an attack OF the
same disease on Tuesday,
Or. Schiestt, at Vienna, estimates the
membership OF the various Alpine clubs,
English and continental, at -, 600.
Seyenty-six thousand ordinary and
two hundred and %iorty.nine political of
tenders are undergoing penal seryitude
in western Siberia,
Two men have been sufocated in the
schooner Leader at Plymouth, having
lighted a charcoal fire in their cabin,
The agent of the New Zealand gov
eminent in England is instructed to send
out 5000 emigrants during the next five
months.
The Earl of Coventry has been ap-
pointed captain of her majesty's honor
able corps Of gentleman.at-arms, vice
the Earl of Shrewsbury deceased.
On Palm Sunday the wife of a school.
master at Ha>slach, llesse Darmstadt,
presented her husband with his tweuti,
eth son and twenty-second child.
1t is stated that the London police
have received information which will
lead to the arrest of several proprietors
of " baby farms" on the south side of
the Thames.
The tunnel that connects the water
level of Liverpool with the Manchester
railroad is 600 feet long, % feet high
and lG feet broad, and $500 feet of it
pass through hard rock,
Proceedings are to be taken against
several persons who have lately been
fighting duels near PWis. the seconds,
as well as the principles, will be prose,
cuted for infringement of the law.
French papers remark the fact that, at
the banquet lately given to a German
crown prince at Hamburg, the menu
was written in French. Of the fourteen
different sorts of wine drank ten were
French,
The great railway bridgeover the Mas,
at Rotterdam, by which direct railway
communication between Antwerp and
Rotterdam has been established, was
formally opened on the 2S!h OF last
month, 1t cost nearly a million of dol
lars.
The German government is preparing
the organization and equipment of the
Landsturm, which comprises all able.
bodied men from seventeen to fifty years
of age, not belonging to the line, reserve
or Landwehr. The Landsturm has not
been summoned since 1873.
In the Bradlaugh prosecution the
jury have given a verdict condemniug as
immoral the pamphlet issued by Brad
laugh and Mrs. Resent, but generating
the two latter OF corrupt motives in pub.
fishing it. Chief Justice Cockburn
therefore directed them to convict.
The sect of the PiIgers receives con-
slant accessions to its numbers in Siberia.
The Pilgers cut themselves loose from
all family ties, change their names, and
either live in the forest or tramp from
village to village, They hold it no sin
to kill the members Of other religious
sects.
1t is stated from Vienna, Austria, that
a man named Bernik, a groom of an aris>
t~ocratic house, during a fit of religious
terycr nailed both his feet and his left
hand to the floor Of his bedroom, and
then with his knife cut his left side open
During the entire operation he gave no
sign of pain.
A curious charge Of manslaughter was
Investigated in Bristol recently. A boy
having thrown q stone at a shop, the
shopkeeper chastised him. The boys
mother demonstrated, and in the c%onfus,
ion fell down dead. 1t was alleged that
the shoPkeeper struck her, but he denied
having done SO.
The pages in the sultan's seraglio are
Of Greek and Hungarian nationality, Sc
lected on account OF their beautiful
looks. They dress like little Fihg., and
bear themselves in a royalty naughty
manner toward the crowd of ]obsequjous
servants and p%ersonages surrounding
them in the imperial household.
A great central market has been
erected at Brixton, London, at an outlay
of $l50,000. The establishment has
been christened Bon Marche, after its ia.
nous prototype at Paris. All that is
good in the French system has been
grated on to the best features of the
English cooperative principle, the aim
being to prove the enormous advantages OF
cash over credit. Most articles essentiaI
to a household will be found under one