The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
Foreign Notes.

The impending trouble between Tur-
KEY and England is getting worse.
Forty nine Afghans have been hang
ed for completely in the massacre of the
British Embassy.
ences IN the British Cabinet, especially
regarding affairs in Afghauistan.
The Cote EurOpienne Paris states that
IA 600, 000f, in French gold, 60 to
America in the steamer Losing.
the Mexican Congress has approved
the contract for laying telegraph cable
across the Gulf of Mexico to the United
States.
The French government has sane
toned lottery of 2, 600 000i, organic
Ell by committee OF journalists for
the benefit of sufferers by the floods in
Murcia.
The retirement of the Minister of War
at Copenhagen is expected, he having
incautiously expressed hisiconyiction in
public that Russia intenis to occupy
Denmark at the fist opportunity.
According to Mr.. Lowe the cost of
bringing the 1000 Sepoys to and from
Malta last year, at the time of Lord
Beaconsdeld's grand coup, was $765 per
man, or or, s, sum of 50, 355, 600.
The Committees of the Irish National
Convention resolved that the pan of
the late Daniel O'Connel for the recon-
struction of the Irish House of Com
mons be made the basis of that for the
: convention; that the delegates shall
number 300, aud that the convention
shall meet in Dublin, in April, 1882.
According to the Investigations of a
Russian professor, DR.. Monassein, sing
ing is an excellent means of preventing
consumption, and tor the Development
and strengthening of the chest 1t is
more efficient than even gymnastic ex-
ercises. The Professor has examined
$50 singers varying 10 age from 8 to SO
years, and found that the chest is
greater and stronger among them than
among persons of any other occupa-
ton.
The unfortunate ex-Empress Eugene
wcut through Paris without even look
ing from the windows of her carriage
at the brilliant streets and boulevsrds
that were once 60 dear to her. Her
mother, the Countess de MONTH";, was
diving In Madrid, and the miserable
widow and mother of the Third and
Fourth Napoleon crossed France to
reach the dying womsn's side. The trite
savi Do abnnt rraIsfqTisastqsssft5tis r nc a.
dom more fOTcible. There is a certain sig
niticance in the fact that everywhere In
France the ex-Empress, when recog-
nized, was treated with quet respect.
There was 70 cheering, even of scat
tered sort, no cry of give fImpera-
trice," but hats were uniformly raised,
and the carriages of the party suffered
to go by in silence.
As the President of the French Re
public has committed the capital sem
tence passed upon two youths named
GILES and Abadie for the murder of
widow, and as no other criminals ale
lying under sentence of death in Paris,
there will not, for the first timo in liu-
log memory, be q single execution in
that city during the year. Since the
beginning of the century the number of
executions has been steadily decreasing
both in Paris and in the,provinces. In
the first quarter of the century the ay-
| OidSO lOI IuC Wlblc vi t TduC6 was
about 120 ye,r; and IN the second
half, du-lng which the forging of bank
notes ceased to be capital Offense, only
900 persous were executed out of 1868
sentenced to death, this being equiva-
lent to an average of rather less than
forty a year. During the ten years
from 1850 to 1860 there was a further
decrease TO 2S3 executions cut of 500
capital sentences. or % per annum;
while between 1860 and 1870 only 119
persons were executed, or only 10 each
year. In the nine years which have
since elapsed there have been 90 exc
cutions, 10 in 1871, "a in 1872, Is in
1878. ~ in 1874, 10 IN 1875, 1876 and
1877, 6 in 1878, and only one this year