The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-02
FOREIGN ITEMS.

THE rising novelist of Germany is one
Frau Won Ingersleben.
A LOT of Paris surgeons have formed
a mutual dissecting society.
DURING the past year 1856 tons of
amber were dug in Prussia.
THERE are 35,00O,OOO Catholics in
France and only 100000 Protestants.
The uniform telegraphic rate be-
tween France and Germany is now four
cents q word.
The Earl of Roseberry is to marry
Miss Hannah Rothschild She has an
income OF $1,000 900 year.
THE Mexican Senate has passed a
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the reelection of Presidents of the Re-
public and State Governments.
LEADING articles have been published
in the Mexican papers discussing the
means of defense against the aggres-
sion of the 9 barbarians'' of the United
States.
BREACH of trust is not viewed leni-
emily in France, where people are very
careful of their money. M. Guilhot, a
very noted notary at Angouleme, has
been found a defaulter to the tune of
S240, 900, and consequently goes to jail
for ten years.
THE Roman Catholic hierarchy in
Ireland has forbidden any persons to be
present at wakes except the immediate
relatives of the deceased; and no spirit
Gus or intoxicating liquors are to be
used on such occasions, under penalty
of the deprivation of the services of the
priest.
FROM 1870 to 1874 the profits to the
Government from public lotteries in
Austria amounted to nearly $50, 900, 900.
The prizes won by ticket-holders in the
same period amounted to 5000. 900.
In Italy the net receipts of the Govern
ment from lotteries in three years
reached $40, 800, 900, while the sum won
by the people was S20,500,000.
THE following advertisement lately
appeared in the Huddersfield (nOrth of
England Daily AdrertiSer: Wanted
for the sorting-room of rag ware
house an active man with a thorough,
practical knowledge of cotton and wool
en- rags, and capable of managing about
eighty women. To a suitable party Il
very liberal salary will be given" "And
so there ought to be- is Punch'S COM
ment thereanent.
SOME time ago an imperial ukase re-
called to ST. Petersburg all Russian la
dies who were studying at the Berne
ytechnicum, threatening with Sc
we're penalties all those who did not
speedily obey the command. Eight of
these ladies, belonging to the best fam
lilies, have been condemned by the Rus
sian tribunals on the charge of being
members of secret societies-siX of them
to exile in Siberia and penal servitude
in the mines, and the other two to i'm
prlSOnment.
GREAT doubts have often been thrown
on alleged cases of burial alive, but the
London Lancet mentions recent most
undoubted case at Naples. The grave
in which a woman had been inferred
having been opened for the reception of
another body revealed the clearest
proof of this dreadful circumstance
The poor creature had torn her clothes
to pieces and even fractured her limbs
in her efforts to release herself The
doctor who signed the certificate and
the municipal officer who sanctioned
the interment have been sent to jail for
three months for involuntary man
slaughter"
LOUIS STREET, member of the So
ciety of Friends, living at the capital of
Madagascar, has written to England
that slavery has not been abolished in
that island that 4" the Prime Minister
is cOnsummate hypocrite, and that
some of the missionaries are his tools"
He states, also, that the Christian
churches in all Madagascar are under
the jurisdiction of the church within
the palace and that the whole organ
ization is State machine. This intel
Ggence has awakened a painful feeling
among the supporters of the London
Missionary Society.
AN Irish jury has had the audacity to
assess woman for damages done to
mans heart. Mr.. Egan, a linen
draper assistant, of Rosorea, was Tilted
by a winsome young lady of thirty-five;
and, after hearing the sad story of a
lovers woes from his own lips, the gen
erous jury awarded him 81, $50 as dam
ages, so that the consolation afforded
him is of very solid kind. The lady
coolly admitted promise to marry the
plaintiff, but pleaded that she was not
very much in love, andthat she " de-
clined to be dictated to- during the
cOurtship.
HAVE women who 90 to church for
other purposes than to get married any
right to wear orange-blossoms? This
question in France appears to be seri-
Gus one, and was the indirect cause of
the death of a young gentleman at Mar
settles who took a negative view of it,
M. Daime, editor of the Aigle, expressed
his opinion on the subject in the presence
of M. Clovis Hughes, editor of the Jeatne
Republique, who, having been married
without any religious ceremony, sup
posed that an insult to his wife was in
tended, and sent challenge. They
fought with swords. NJ. Hughes was
slightly scratched, and NJ Daime was
run through the lungs and died immedi-
ately.
A MONTEvIDEOl letter of Nov. 20 saws:
" This quiet city was astounded by the
noise of a fearful explosion on the aft
ernOOn of the 9th inst Conianturas