The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
FOREIGN ITEMS.

name of the Secretary of London com
pany whose directors have been indicted
for fraud.
AT the enforced sale of thirty-one
Polish estates for arrears of taxes only
orthodox Russians and evangelical Ger
mans were permitted to bid for them.
The British army in India, exclusive
of Europeans, has III, S21 men-27 900
Mohammedans, 2,270 native Christians,
$50 Jews, and the rest Hindoos.
DURING a recent visit to Venice the
Crown Princess Margherita of Italy dis
tributed 5000 from her own purse to the
city's poor. This Princess is very char
liable and universally beloved.
In the past seventy-two years, of 1858
persons condemned to death in Austria,
only $50 were executed, the reigning SOW
ereigns having been averse to capital
punishment, and having pardoned or
committed the sentences of the others.
THE Turin courts have just condemned
to death woman for paying sixty dol
lars to man to kill her lover of fourteen
years standing, in order to prevent his
falling into the hands of young woman
he was on the point of marrying.
A HUNGARIAN family has offered to the
Vienna Museum its girl, eleven years
old, who has a head the size of mans
fist, and whose face is covered with hair
She does not talk, and behaves generally
like monkey.
THE Commissioners of the Paris Ex-
position of 1878 have appropriated $1O,-
GOO to aid artisans who have meritorious
objects to exhibit of their own construc-
ton, but who have no means to defray
the expenses of exhibition.
LATE advices from Kalanea, Hawaii
state that lake which few weeks ago
was empty and dead, exhibiting only a
vast black pit 500 feet in depth, is now
full of activity and filled with molten
lava to within few feet of the bank.
ONE of the alleged libelous paragraphs
printed by the Paris Mot dOrde, for
which its editor has just been condemned
to two months Imprisonment and 1000
fine, is the following: "Mr. MacMahon
(who descends from mere apothecary),
having arrived from the British isles at
Autun to seek his fortune, dexterously
allowed the rumOr to be circulated, with
out ever contradicting it, that his an
cestors occupied the throne of Ireland"
THE French Postoffice, acting under
instructions from the Minister of the In
terror, refuses to deliver letters or news
papers addressed to clubs or corporate
bodies, and the various Postmasters have
been ordered that the law requires that
all articles passing through the post
must be addressed to some one person.
Thus, even letters addressed to the
Mayor of a town or commune will be re-
turned unless his name is given.
SOME time ago, says Mr.. Labouchere,
a gentleman applied to Baron Rothschild
e4O0. &C. am sorry l lend money to
Kings only" said CrGsus, "but as I am
anxious to show you my good will l will
do something. Take my arm and come
with me to the Bourse. | shall be much
surprised if, when we have completed in
that friendly guise the tour of the colon
made, you have not ten times the amount
offered to you" OF course the plan
proved successful.
GERMANY has been in the habit of i'm
porting an average of SO 900 horses a
year since 1872, and exporting only 49,
600. Since the 1st of January last the
importations have fallen off and the ex-
portations increased immensely, so that
at the rate things are going on now the
excess of imports in 1877 would only be
l, 400, against $4,000 excess in ordinary
years. This is why Germany has for
hidden the sending away of horses from
the Empire for the present.
A FRENCH couple from Calais, having
remained in Dover long enough to have
the banns proclaimed in St. Mary's Par
ish Church, presented themselves, re.
Gently, at the altar. The ceremony pro-
ceeded smoothly until the clergyman
asked them to join hands, when it was
discovered that the bridegroom had no
ring. After an awkward pause the cler-
gyman sent the verger to fetch the
church door-key, the eye of which had
been used in similar emergencies. The
eye was small, and the brides finger was
large, and one would not fit the other
The bridegroom searched his pockets
again, and fished out bunch of keys at
tached to steel ring. This was placed
on the brides finger, and they were pro-
nounced man and wife.
MISS s., an American heiress and
quite beautiful, has been exciting much
admiration in London during the present
season, and is about to marry, it is said,
the son of a nobleman connected with
the royal household. American heiresses
are by no means Stunned abroad; quite
the contrary, for they are generally as
well educated and in every way as pre-
sentable as their foreign sisters, and do
not accept the most impecunious scion
of nobility that has a coropet about him.
Some years ago the daughter of an Amer.
lean Minister in London was much
sought after by patrician youngsters.
She was one day discovered writing let
tiers, and observed: 81 am writing my
declenSi0ns. This London is good
enough place for flirtations, but mean
to conjugdte at home"
A COUNTRY couple went to notary in
a German town to get married, pursuant
to an appointment they had previously
made with him. To economic time he
had already drawn up certificate, and
had entered the marriage in his records
To his great vexation, when the couple
the bridegroom had repented,
" because he'd just heard something
about the BRIDE" All efforts to persuade