The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
Foreign Notes.

Gounod nag sold his new opera,
"Cinq. Mars" to Grus, the publisher,
for $50, 900, half in hand.
It is 10 secret that the Gar hates his
English son-in-law, because Of shabby
treatment Of his wife in public on
several occasions.
Rain, formerly very rare IN Lower
Egypt, has become frequent in Alex
andria and Cairo, In consequence Of the
extensive planting Of the mulberry in
that vicinity.
The Grand Duke Nicholas threatened
to shoot a number Of Russian officers
who asked either for the opening Of
the campaign, or that they should be
sent into proper winter quarters.
Queen Victoria has conferred the
Order of the Garter on her eldest grand
son, Prince Frederic Wilhelm Victor
Albert OF Prussia, son of the Crown
Prince Of Germany and Of Princess Vic
toria, and possible Kaiser.
The ex-Prince Imperial was in Flor
ence at last accounts, and with his
young friends, Mura and Raspcni, took
daily veloclpede rides in the suburbs.
His mother is troubled with sciatica in
the knee, and walks with cane.
Some curious compiler OF statistics
and genealogies has discovered that
eighty-nine descendants of the Hugue-
notS, banished from France by the reyo-
cation Of the EdIct of Nantes, returned
to that country in 1870 as officers in
the German army.
1t IS proposed to cut a broad canal
from Manchester, IN England, to the
River Mersey. Manchester hopes
shortly to,De a port of entry, Gccommo-
dating vessels Of 1000 tons. A ship
canal is also projected between the
North Sea and the Baltic.
Fifty thousand Russian Mennonites
have determined to immigrate to the
United States. They have the altcrna-
tive OF taking up arms or leaving the
Empire, and prefer to cross the sea.
Fourteen thousand OF them will settle
in Kansas early in the spring.
Courbet, the man who has been con-
demned, for numbering n woman in the
Rue Taitbout, in Paris, to twenty years
imprisonment, has addressed u letter to
the president of the court, imploring
that the sentence should be changed to
one OF death. He declares that per-
son guilty of such crime as his is not
worthy to live.
When the Marquis of Salisbury first
went to ConstantinOple the Turks, be-
lieving he had come to deliver them
from Muscovite clutches, called him
"Tchal supurge"-the new broom.
Now that they find him echoing the
sentiments of their enemies, they call
him "Salt Bouron" only u trumpet.
Gen. IgnatieiT, during the conference,
was popularity styled 'Tnad EfTendi, u
or the obstinate gentleman"
The Empress Eugene, it is said in
England, will not live at Chlsehurst
much in future. She is going to Spain
to see her relatives, and will endeavoI
to get q royal wife for her son. lie
talks of going to Russia in order tC
there be war Napoleon ~" will be
fighting on one side and "CharleI
VlI," better known as Don Carlos,
will be fighting on the other.
A woman named Marie Celvet has
been sentenced to twenty years at hard
labor for the murder of her sister Ju
liza, in Paris. While the trial was going
on she constantly wore long black
Grape veil. "Why do you wear this
veil ~ asked one Of the officials. Tt
which the sweet girl gently replied
81 am in mourning for my poor sister =
This fairly matches the French parri
eide, who, on being asked what h
had tn say after his condemnation fol-
killing his father and mother, entreat
ed the court to have mercy on poo
orphan"
1t was announced few weeks age
that the only son OF an Irish Peer haC
enlisted into cavalry regiment. Lore
Berehaven was the individual referred
to, and the regiment was the Second
Life Guards, in which he remains, anC
has recently been promoted to the ranl
of corporal. He is the eldest son o.
the Earl of Bantry, and is alleged t.
have taken this step through failing il
the examination for entrance as an Off
Ger. Formerly all the prlvates in the
Life Guards were men of superior
grade to the army generally, and they
are still addressed by their officers al
"Gentlem0n of the First (or Second
rs the case may be- Life Guards"
The English religious newspaper
contain advertisements indicative o.
plagiarism in the pulpit. A dealer ad
vertises for collections Of manuscript
sermons, for which cash will be paid,
but they must be "origlnal, modern
and of thoroughly good church tone.
49, Another offers for sale ''sound, origi
nal, practical, Autographed sermons,
and says: "dore than three hundred
OF the clergy have given voluntary tes-
timony to the great superiority of thu
publication over others of the kind
and the great boon it is to them in
their large, overcrowded parishes. y
These instances are only illus
trative OF business that seems to bC
extensive in England