The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-30
FOREIGN ITEMS.


for a revolution to reinstate Lerdo as
President of Mexico, and seven States
are claimed by his followers to be ready
to pronounce in his favor.
THE French J0urna! Oficiel saws that
the book of the period, which has been
translated into the greatest number of
languages, is "Uncle Toms Cabin" At
the British Museum it has been fixed
upon to give the public an idea of the
variety OF dialects spoken to-day.
A RECENT issue of the London Court
Journal contains thirty columns of de-
scriptions of the ladies' dresses worn at
a recent royal reception Each column
contains descriptions of about thirteen
different dresses, and all the notices are
paid for.
FRENCH trade has benefited from the
Anglo-French treaty of 1860 far more
than England has. In fifteen years the
annual imports into France from Great
Britain have only risen from e21 900, 600
to e24 900, 900, while those from France
to Great Britain have risen from G25,-
900, 600 to f40,O0O,000.
THE Duke de Broglie, President of the
Council and Minister of Justice in the
new French Ministry, has a charming
wife, who is twenty years his Junior.
She is his second wife, and he married
her because, while bathing, she saved
his life. She is of very humble birth,
but bears her honOrs with grace and ease.
THE last legal obstacles in the way of
women students of medicine in London
have been removed by the consent of the
governing body of the Royal Free Hos
pital to admit them to clinical instruc-
ton. Before next winter all arrange
ments will be completed, SO that thor
ough medical education may henceforth
be obtained by women without leaving
the city.
IN England there is an "Order of
Danielites," pledged to total abstinence
from flesh, fish, fowl, alcohol and to-
bacco. Recently a petition was pre-
sented to the House of Commons from
this order, praying for new Polar
expedition, to be manned by persons
who do not use flesh food, alcohol or to-
| bacco."
PRINCESS DEMIDOFF, a young Russian
lady, wearing the full uniform of Hussar,
and mounted on a magnificent charger,
rode at the head of a splendid regiment
of cavalry through the outskirts of Blu
charest not long ago. She is the dauQh-
ter of the honorary Colonel and proprie-
tor of the regiment, who is reported as
| spending $4,000 a year upon it. No
Russian cavalry is so well mounted, the
| horses averaging sixteen hands, compris-
! ing Chestnuts, whites, browns and bays
AT Tonncrre, in France, the police re-
Gently arrested a man in the theater for
too boisterously applauding the "Chant
du Depart" and placed him in the lock-
up with an intoxicated man. One of the
two lit pipe, which set fire to the straw
in the dungeon. Screams were heard,
but these the police attributed to the dis
orderly disposition of the prisoners.
When the cage was opened the two men
were found burned to cinders.
! THE Prince of Wales had his fortune
told during his last visit to Paris. The
wise woman informed him that he was
born under lucky star, but that he had
not always been happy, and was now
contending with serious difficulties. His
warm heart had often led him to assist
ungrateful people, who had i'll repaid his
goodness. If he persevered in the char
acter he had chosen, however, he would
eventually succeed, while he would soon
inherit large fortune, which would en-
able him to marry his true love.
THE city of Orleans, in France, cele-
brated on May the 44Sth anniversary
of its deliverance by Jeanne Dare.
Flags were displayed, artillery doomed, a
high mass was celebrated in the cathe-
dral, and splendid fireworks were ignited
in the evening. The old standard borne
by Jeanne D'Arc was also displayed in
the cathedral and then returned to the
keeping of the Bishop of Orleans, when
Father Monsabre pronounced a pane
| gyric upon the heroic maiden. The
Comte de Paris and the Emperor and
Empress of Brazil were present.
In Jerusalem tenement-h houses for Jews
of itferent nations are rapidly building
| by societies organized for the purpose.
| They are going up on the Jatfa road, and
on both the north and the west sides of
the city, and even within the walls, near
the reputed tomb of David, large group
| Vi IeHeHenlS Is now III progress OF con-
struction. The poor are TO have free
rooms for time, and those able to do
so are to be permitted to purchase their
habitations. Until recently the Jews in
Jerusalem had their quarter" Now
they can live anywhere outside or inside
of the city's walls.
A SINGULAR case of false conviction
has just reached its sequel and conclu-
sion in Germany. In 1859, at Halber-
stadt, mill was burned, and one of the
mill boys, named Schroeder, was arraigned
for setting it on fire. Chiefly on the evil
dence of a fellow-employe, he was con-
victed and sentenced to fifteen years
Imprisonment. Last year, however, aft
er he had served seven of the fifteen
years, his comrade, Gunther, reappeared
on the scene, and confessed, not only
that he had sworn falsely at the trial,
but also that, instead of Schroeder, he
himself was the incendiary. Schroeder
was at once released, but penniless, and
almost ruined in mind. To an applica-
ton for indemnity the court replied
that no funds existed for that purpose,
and every thaler that has been raised for
the poor fellow has come from private
| suhscrintinnS Now then for the Sc