The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-19
FOREIGN.

NJ. Theirs regarded coffee as poison,
and never drank tea.
Russia has undertaken to pay Seryia
one million roubles monthly from the time
the Servisn army is sent to the frontier.
The invader of the potato fields OF
Hereford, England, was not the bug with ten
stripes, but only u beetle with seven spots,
aud England resumes free respiration.
The Spanish government has paid the
American minister five hundred and seventy
| thousand dollars on account of the claims
for losses incurred by the American citizens
in Cuba through the revolution.
Garibaldi has written a 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 oil
lashes and torture.
Shanghai dates of the 18th ult. say
that cholera is decreasing in the coast towns
but is still prevalent in the interior. Greal
distress is reported everywhere from famine
caused by short crops and rayages of locusts
The municipal dog tax of Paris is esti
mated at $133, $50 for 1878. 1t has increased
in thirteen wears thirty-6ve cent. While
the love of dogs thus grows greater, the low
of sport, to Judge by the revenue from shoot
ing licenses, 10 aDate.
Asiatic cholera is reported having
made its appearance in Yokohama on tbs
twentieth OF September. The disease Il
under good control, Ample precaution'
have been taken, and no spread Of the epl
demic is anticipated. TIL foreign ships o
war all left the harbor to avoid the danger.
In a speech at Bradford, England
the Marquis of Salisbury said that the wa
was not likely to be abandoned until one o
the belligerents was strikingly defeated Of
utterly exhausted. England, bel said, wa
not, at the present time, in a position, with
out departing from her neutrality, to ottel
anything but mere general pacllc advice.
The Mexican congress has authorized
the government to expend 100000 in the
construction of a factory for manufacturer
breech.loading fire arms. The government
has contracted for 1900, 600 worth of Renring
ton arms. The government has ordered the
collector of customs at Vera Or z 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. II saws that any negotiations which
NAV 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 a 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 Seville and Grenada are accustomed
to. One OF his duties is to sing to the tinkle
OF a guitar under her balcony at night and
on these occasions he is accompanied by the
Duke de Sexto, who stands at a distance UNI
observed. The marriage will probably take
place next February.
The Bedouins in Syria have entered
upon a life of brigandage. A recent letter
from Acre reports that two months ago they
bounced down upon. liberals and got 81, 900
from the people. The pasha 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 wal
there are scarcely any Turkish troops in the
country, and the m%aTauders are masters OF
the place.
Olive Logan describes the princess Of
Wales gushingly. She says Alexandra is ex
ceedingly gentle and pretty, and she smiles
as frequently as Il pleased schoolgirl, ye
occasionally an anxious and nervous express
sion fits across her c~ountenance, as II sht
were enduring sudden and acute pain. lie
hair is Of a pretty chestnut brown, and i
verv skillfully dressed in a style that was in
vented for her. A large false piece cover
the whele top OF her head, and from the fore
head backward is n nIasH OF tiny curls an'
dainty puffs; at the back the usual plaits o
puffs finish the couture.