The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-20
Foreign Notes.

An English schoOlmistress named King
has died at Tunbridge Wells at the age o
one hundred and one years.
Mr.. James Webster, supposed to be the
last of the Waterloo veterans in Toronto
died on Tuesday.
A Calcutta paper states that the rajah
of Protaburh will proceed to England tc
study for the bar.
A Quebec man died of apoplexy or
Sunday, and his son had an attack of the
same disease on Tuesday.
DIR. Schiestt, at Vienna, estimates the
membership of the various Alpine clubs
English and continental, at $4,000.
Seventy-six thousand ordinary and
two hundred and forty-nine political Of
tenders are undergoing penal servitude
in western Siberia.
Two men have been suffocated in the
schooner Leader at Plymouth, having
lighted a charcoal fire in their cabin.
The agent of the New Zealand gov
ernment in England is instructed to send
out 5000 emigrants during the next five
months.
The Earl of Coventry has been ap-
pointed captain of her majesty's honor,
able corps of gentleman-at-arIns vice
the Earl of Shrewsbury deceased.
On Palm Sunday the wife of a school
master at Hasslach, Hesse Darmstadt,
presented her husband with his tWeuti-
eth sOn and twenty-second child.
1t is stated that the London police
have received information which will
lead to the arrest of several proprietors
of " baby farms" on the south side of
the Thames.
The tunnel that connects the water
level of Liverpool with the Manchester
railroad is 600 feet long, % feet high
and l6 feet broad, and $500 feet of it
pass through hard rock.
Proceedings are to be taken against
several persons who have lately been
fighting duels near PMis. the seconds,
as well as the principles, will be prose-
cuted for infringement of the law.
French papers remark the fact that, at
the banquet lately given to a German
crown prince at Hamburg, the menu
was written in French. OF the fourteen
different sorts of wine drank ten were
French.
The great railway bridge over the Mas,
at Rotterdam, by which direct railway
communication between Antwerp and
Rotterdam has been established, was
formally opened on the 28th of last
month. 1t cost nearly a million of dol
lars.
TLo Hor,op oovarnuan+ 10 praparinr
the organization and equipment Of the
Landsturm, which comprises all able
bodied men from seventeen to fifty years
of age, not belonging to the line, reserve
or Landwehr. The Landsturm has not
been summoned since 1913.
In the Bradlaugh prosecution the
jury have given a verdict condemning as
immoral the pamphlet issued by Brad
laugh and Mrs. Resent, but generating
the two latter of corrupt motives in pub
fishing it. Chief Justice Cockburn
therefore directed them to convict.
The sect of the Pilgers receives con-
slant accessions to its numbers in Siberia.
The Pilgers cut themselves loose from
all family ties, change their names, and
either live in the forest or tramp from
village to village. They hold it no sin
to kill the members of other religious
sects.
1t is stated from Vienna, Austria, that
a mar named Bernik, a groom of an aris>
t~ocratic house, during a fit of religious
ferver nailed both his feet and his left
hand to the floor of his bedroom, and
then with his knife cut his left side oper.
During the entire operation he gave nc
sign of pain.
A curious charge of manslaughter was
investigated in Bristol recently. A boy
having thrown a stone at a shop, the
shopkeeper chastised him. The boys
mother demonstrated, and in the confus-
ion fell down dead. 1t was alleged that
the ~shopkeeper struck her, but he denied
having done 80.
The pages in the sultan's seraglio are
of Greek and Hungarian nationality, Sc
lected on account of their beautiful
looks. They dress like little kings, and
bear themselves in a royalty naughty
manner toward the crowd of ~obsequious
servants and personages surrounding
them in the imperial household.
A great central market has been
erected at Brixton, London, at an outlay
of $4,000. The establishment has
been christened Bon Marche, after its IA
nous prototype at Paris. All that is
good in the French system has been
grated on to the best features of the
English cooperative principle, the aim
being toprove the enormousadvantages of
cash over credit. Most articles essential
to a household will be found under one
roof.
Scene at the seaside Youth with sad,
love-struck air-"O, wilt thou not be
mine--mv own dear bride love Won