The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-25
FOREIGN.

NJ. Theirs regarded coffee rs poison,
and never drank tea.
Russia has undertaken to pay Serva
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 lesses incurred by the American citizens
in Cuba through the revolution.
Garibaldi has written 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 IIth 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 S133 $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, and no spread OF the epi.
! demic is anticipated. The foreign ships Of
/ war all left the harbor to avoid the danger.
In speech at Bradford. England
the Marquis OF Salisbury said that the war
WAS not likely to be abandoned until one Of
! the helligerents was strkingIy defeated or
utterly exhausted. England, hel said, was
not at the present time, in a position, with
| out departing from her neutrality, to offer
anything but mere general pacific advice.
The Mexican congress has authorized
| the government to expend 100000 in the
construction of factory for manufacturing
| breechoading fire arms. The government
has contracted for i2OO0 900 worth Of Reming-
ton arms. The government has ordered the
collector of customs at Vera Cr 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. IL says that any negotiations which
7 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 Sevilleand Grenada are accustomed
to. One Of his duties is to sing to the tinkle
of guitar under her balcony at night and
on these occasions he is accompanied by the
Duke de SextO, who stands ut a distance un
observed. The marriage will probably take
place next February.
The BedOuins in Syria have entered
upon lie Of brigandage. A recent letter
from Acre reports that two months ago they
pounced down upon, riberias and got 81 800
from the people. The pasba went out with
every man he could muster, but was forced
to retreat, the Bedouins numbering 1000
horsemen. the people Of Nazareth are in a
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 sushingly. She says Alexandra is ex.
ceedingy gentle and pretty, and she smiles
aS frequently as II pleased schoolgirl, yet
occasionally an anxious and nervous express
zion hits across her countenance, as if she
were enduring sudden and acute pain. Her
hair IS of pretty chestnut brown, and is
very skilIfully dressed in style that was IN.
vented for her. A large false piece covers
the whele top OF her head, and from the fore.
head backward is one niasa OF tiny curls and
dainty pulls; at the back the usual plaits or
puiis tuish the coiifure.