Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1877-10-19

NJ. Their regarded cohss As poison,
and never drank YEA.
Russia has undertaken to pay Servia
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 ohly BEETLE With bbfsh spots,
and England resumes free respiration.
The Spanish government has paid the
American minister Eve hundred and seventy
thousand dollars on account OF the claims
for losses incurred by the American citizens
in Cubs through the revolution
Garibaldi has written a letter to prove
that the brigands Of his native land could be
put down II the government w0hld give
them breed and good treatment instead Of
lashes and torture.
Shanghai dates Of the llth nit. say
| that cholera is decreasing in the coast towns,
but Is still prevalent in the interior Great
distress reported everywhere from famine,
eNyrcd y Bhort crops and ravages Of locusts,
The Municipal dog taz q Paris Is esti-
mated aCS1SS, $50 for 1878. Il has increased
in thirteen wears thirty-fve per cent While
thelove 81 dogs thus grows greater, the love
Of sport, 20 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 cpl.
demie is anticipated. The foreign ships Of
war all left the harbOr to avoid the danger
In a speech at Bradford. England,
D a.. n. .VG ! Al -
WIS not likely to be abandoned until one Of
the belligerents was strikingly defeated OF
utterly exhausted. England, he said, was
not, at the present time, in position, with.
out departing from her neutrality, 10 offer
anything but mere general pacific advice.
The Mexican congress has authorized
the government TO expend $300,OOO in the
construction of a factory for manufacturing
breech.loading IRE arms The government
has contracted for 500, 600 worth Of Reming
ton arms The government has ordered the
collector Of customs at Vera Or 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 says that any negotiations which
may be pending would have no aggressive
significance, but would tend 10 secure the
cohesion of Germany and Italy should they
hnd themselves after the French election,
confronted by a clerical, and consequently
aggressive France.
The princess Mercedes, TO whom the
king of Spain is paying court exaets from
her admirer all the little attentions that tn,
bellies Of Seville and Grenada are accustomed
to. One Of his duties is to sing to the tinkl,
OF guitar under her balcony at night anC
ON these occasions he is accompanied by tn,
Duke de SextO, who stands at a distance I'M
observed. The marriage will probably tax,
place next February.
The BedOuins in Syria have entered
upon a life of brigandage. recent lettel
from Acre reports that two months ago they
bounced down upon, Hberias and got 81 ,5Ol
from the people. The pasha went out will
every man he could muster, but was forced
to retreat the BedOuins numbering ZOO
hOremen. the people Of Nazareth are in
panic, as the Arabs are stealing everything
in and about that city. Owing to the wa
tilere are scarcely any Turkish troops i'm tn,
go zryt andaiAs nsr'qndyrs-sfs' n'ssisrs q
Olive Logan describes the princess o
Wales gushingly. She says Alexandra is ex
ceedingly gentle and pretty, and she smile
as frequently as a pleased schoolgirl, We
occasionally an anxious and nervous expires
siOn fits across her cOuntenance, as if sh
were enduring sudden and acute pain. He
hair is Of pretty chestnut brown, and /
very 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 one mass of tiny curls an,
dainty pulIs; at the back the usual plaits o
pu6s finish the couture.