The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
FOREIGN ITEMS.


Caesar.
THE English commission for helping
the Turkish sufferers has received 81, 500 4
from the Rothschilds.
AT the Government telegraph office in
London, 800 women telegraph clerks
work in one room.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY deaths from
yellow fever occurred at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, during August.
The Pope summarily dismissed one of
his physicians for giving information to
others concerning his health.
THEY are circulating a rumor in Ottawa
that the Marquis of Lorne will succeed
Lord Dufferin as Governor. General of
Canada.
The village priests are newsmongers
in Russia. They read to their focks
every Sunday official dispatches from the
seat of war.
THE amount of tax paid on men serv-
ants in England in 1867 shows that
their number has been reduced by 1000
"a proof of hard times.
THE pilot who caused the recent terri.
BILE steamboat collision on the Volgas
River is to be sent to Siberia for life.
One hundred and eighty lives were lost.
A BILL legalizing marriage with de.
ceased wife's sister has been passed by
the Legislature at Natal and approved
by the Lieutenant Governor of the col
ony.
THE authorities of St. John are still in
vestigating the big fire The Globe adj
vises them to hurry up and come to a de-
cision before the people forget there ever
was fire.
NJ. THEIRS entire fortune is valued at
$3,200,000. He made 100000 by his
History" He left nearly everything to
his widow, for whose devoted affection
he expressed himself profoundly grateful.
A BALAKLAvA banquet is to be held at
London on the 25th of October, by the
survivors of the gallant Six Hundred 1t
has been ascertained that there are 100
survivors, the majority of whom will be
present.
THE annual register of Italy shows
that of half the couples married in 1875
neither party to the contract could write;
in Tuscany and Rome about 40 per cent.
could not write, in the city of Turin only
8, in the southern provinces over 80.
THE statement that the Turks have
used explosive bullets is emphatically
contradicted by the correspondent of the
London Times. A wound exactly like
that caused by an explosive bullet is pro-
duced by conical ball striking at short
distance.
In the war song officially distributed
among the Russian soldiers with the
sanction of the Grand Duke Commander
in Chief, there occurs the following
verse: " Bear down upon the COMPOUNDED
Turks, and take no prisonersl They have
skinned and impaled (the Christians) and
burnt them alive. No quarter can be
given to them" This is a literal trans
lation.
RADETsKY, the Russian hero of Schip-
ka, is fifty -seven years old. He belongs
to noble family of the province of
kazan, and has passed almost all his life
among the hardships and dangers of
border warfare in the Caucasus. He has
taken prominent part in more than $50
battles and skirmishes, and possesses
three St. George crosses-a distinction
very rarely met with in the Russian army.
PRINCE BISMARCK appears to be a
thoroughly impartial person. A military
friend gave him an elaborate disquisition
the other day on the deeds, errors and
chances of the Russian and Turkish
armies, and when he concluded asked the
Prince plainly what he thought abou
them. Bismarck answered with this la
comic sentence: /" think that each army
is getting the threshing it deservesw
AT banquet recently given to the ten
antry off the WILLIAMSON estate, in Wales,
by its owner, Sir Owen Scourfield, one of
the speakers mentioned something inter-
esting to Americans in connection with
the estate. "Some 200 years ago." he
said, man named Adams, residing at
Penback, near Llanboidy, one of the
farms of the WILLIAMSON estate, emf
grated to America, and descendant of
his became second President of the
United States"
ONE OF the most popular eating
houses in Japan is owned by woman,
and has accommodations for 1000 Gus
toners at once. The "bill of fare" in.
cludes about twenty different dishes. No
meat is served, but fowls are cooked in
various ways. The restaurant looks
most attractive at night, when the rows
of lanterns under the caves, and the il.
Elimination of the whole building show
ing through panes of colored glass, pre-
sent very gay appearance. n
A DOG in Sierk, France, returned good
for evil. His master, peasant, attached
stone to his neck and threw him into
the Moselle. The poor brute sank, but
the cord broke, and he rose to the surface
and made desperate efforts to get into
the boat. His master pushed him re.
peatedly with an oar, and at length
stood up and endeavored to strike him a
violent blow. In the attempt the man
fell into the water. The dog swan to
him and held him up by the clothing I'M
til aid arrived.
AN Irish marriage was celebrated by
torpedo explosion. At the wedding of
Mr.. Hamilton Dultrie, of the British navy,
and Miss Agnes Bot, when the happy
couple started for their bridal tour they
were rowed across Tough Swilly in
coastguard boat, and then, the bride hav-
ing pressed an electric clockwork ma.
chine in connection with torpedo which
had been placed at some distance from
the shore, the projectile exploded, trans