The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-13
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The sum Of S31 900 vas presented to Mr.
spurgcon his completion of pastoratc Of Is year.
Adj Major Abdullah Enendi. the mil.
itary attache Of the Turkish Embassy in London ,,
killed by being thrown from his horse IN HYDE Pal ,
other day while riding the rooping o the eolor.
At st. Ouen Cemetery, in France, n nus.
band ancr trimming his wiies grave kueit down. nr.
ranged his hair aud dress took on his hat made ii
OF the cross. aud blew out his brains lie had been
widower since January.
The phylloxcra Is causing Che grcatcst
anxiety In the Department VI the Rhonc tn. I,,,
OMdd says that the plan Of Mr.. Davis an American en-
queer Is to he tried there THIS consists In POISONING M
insect and stimulating the plant with manure
If the Paris Soir is 90 he believed tovn.
ton by torture is now the mode in Egypt Those win
will not cannot pay orc hanged to palm trees ana u
less they pay paid Tor, LETT die Geruspv
has addressed nom.politicnl remoustrancc to Et,t
stating in PLAIN language her views
Cremation, having been pronounced n
measure Of sautary progress by the committee Of tina
Paris Municipal Council appointed consider the nu.
ton is about to he introduced into Pere achasc Gene
terry II has been decided to set up apparatus on
siemcnss principle. and a Columbarum
The present Duke OF Richmond is IN in.
Conservative peer and member Of Lord Bcacons
nelds administration but his ancestor the fourth Duke
introduced bill into the House Of Lords In i7sO in
favorof annual pariamcnts and universal suffrage. Ths
Duke had filled many high Offices among them shat Of
Ambassador Extraordinary 10 France
An American writing from Spain urges
tho shipment Of labor saving Implement, there. Spanish
farmers plough with the end at piece OF wood abou, i've
inches thick done in the middle ages sowing and
reaping machines arc unknown, and grain Is not
tlrestcd oxen tread IL out. nnd It IL winuowed By
women. who toss 1t into the air 10 scatter the chan
The Italian army has for many years
included body Of troops known as the Alpine Com.
pane'. whose special duty 1t is to defend the pas'e,oi
the mountain frontier H. is proposed to raise
similar for the French service for the protcc
ton the dencs OF the Alps the other the Pyrenees
They would he designated Chasscnrs dc Montague.
In the competition for the monument TO
be erected to the memory OF Victor Emanuel at Turin
the sculptor Costa carried Oh the przn nryoar
competitors HIS design is pronounced very beautiful
Four Doric columns with symboical figures form the
pedestal the King stands rchcae acarpct bear.
ing the II Rome. the date 1870 aud inscription
A few days ago the mail train from Sara
gossa to Madrid detained by brgands at the
Of the tunnel Calaiayud hours distance from
the caitRL Tie passengers were ordered 10 remain
quiet while the hand carried "A the chest Of the railway
company with 5000 Some of the bnganJs were
mounted aud they made of before the Civil Guards and
troops could be sent In pursuit
Royal elephants seem to be OF doubtful
advantage to community. one brought home by tho
Duke Of Edinburgh accidentally Killed her keeper on
route To- London. ana now one brought home 10y the
Prince OF wales and presented to the Too" has stepped
on an old attendant who died In consequence The
mai suddenly moved forward. probably because
struck him pulled his tail He quito gentle
The annual ratio Of mortality, according
TO the most recent weekly returns In Calcutta a.
Bombay. 81 Madras. 20; Paris. -. Geneva Is; Brus
sells 2G Amsterdam. AZ Rotterdam. 81. The Hague. 27
Copenhagen. 20; stockholm, -; Chrstana. ~; St Pc
tersburg, ~: Berlin. 2i Hamburg. 30; Dresden %,
Broslau. 81. Munich, 30; Vienna 81 Buda-Pcsth IL.
Rome 81 Naples, 81 Turin. -; New York, 22 Brook.
Ign. 20; Philadelphia. Is, and Baltimore, H.
st. Petersburg is TO be made seaport
by means Of maritime canal. which will permit the
large vessels Obliged now to stop at Cronsad to take In
and discharge their carsoes In the capital The works
necessary make ST. Petersburg the largest seaport
the Baltic will be executed within six years
sOoo0o roublcS Tile port OF Lhau, which. according
to It's situation, is destined to take leading part in tho
competition against the Prussian ports be en-.
largcd and dccpcned.
According TO the latest published Off
cal the total expense incurred by Russia from
the 18Th Of September 1870 to the 18th OF January
1879. In prosecuting the late against Turkey.
amounted to 0OaOOnOOO roublcs shout s6S7.oooOOo
OF this 7Oi.UOOOo roublcs were spent general.
s7oOoO1O roubcs for artillery and S3ooOtOO roubles tor
engineer purposes. The average monthly cXprnit
mre consequently amounted to 32.2Coopo routcs, aud
the average daily expenditure to i.u37V1o roublcN
Although the new member from Clare
calls himself The OGorman Mahon" his CLAIMS to chic
aincy not recognized by very considerable class
hi-counrvmen. None however. disputes the right the
knight II Kerry. the oConnor Don. the knight OF Gin
the Macrlicuddy Of the Reek' and the o'ponoshuc to
those ancient titles Tie last longer anccs.
trail acres The Knight Of Kerry nearly all valenua
where the Atlantic cable lands on the other side ami tic
condition o the island reflects great credit upon him lie
Is constant resident
The celebrated estate OF Chateau Mar
gauN has been sold by the v.coun Aguado to Mr. Prt
Will, Paris banker for siOoocOo-an enormously hch
price. when 1t Is considered that the annual produets
about 500 hogsheads OF first wine and 100 hogshcii.o
second wine worth atoscthcr from $1,000 To $500
less tho working cNrcn'cs which hardly be esu.
mated at less than soon leaving only about three rcr
cent per annum the Invested capital The estate Ind
not previously changed hands since 1895, when it came
into possession Of the present Vscount Asuados father
The Nihilist propaganda in Russia is re-
duccd to all sorts Of cNpedcnts defeat the vigilance OF
the police. There was time when prohihiyd Journals
and taboOed manuscripts could get tt frontier
cotton bales or In plaster luss Of the Car. But now
bales OF cotton opened AMI plaster bust smashed
by the customs officers The revouuonares have, there
fore, been fam seek something better and being
men Of inventive minds have found 1t in sagdines
dine boxes may he weighed and charged for but they
cannot he opened and this delightful little fish has be-
come an instrument OF scdton formidable thatitn
seriously question OF prohibiiory ukase upon them,
The Congress held at Paris with refer
ence to the projected ship canal through Isthmus Of
Panama has decided IN favor OF level canal from
Panama to the Gull OF Lmon and 1t appears that the
cost OF this would be little short Of S21OOOoOOO This
avery large sum to invest In such enterprise when
the course Of the next few years there will be
than three competing lines Of railway across North
America without entering upon engineering questions,
1t Is wei to bear in mind that the sucz Canal con
ructod by forced labor that forced labor to be ODE
tanned In this case. and that the inhabitants OF the
ishmus are by means given to hard work, when
tempted BY high rates of pay.
A Saxon official, after embezzing largo
sums. recently settled an berlin and being a gentle.
man Of expensive tastes he exhausted his cash.
and was under the painful necessity looking
cmtioymcut In fow days he obtained a post in the
central tolcgrapnc office OF Berlin Meanwhile the Saxon
police had been making diigcnt search tor him. and he
had hardly begun his new duties when they discovered
that he had transferred himself to the Prussian capital
one day last week they tclegraphcd to the berlin police
ull description OF the cNprit with a request that he
should be captured The Official who deciphcrcd tho
telegram was the offender himself lie despatched it to
the proper address but has not since been heard oi
A statement, says the London Lancet,
has lately been made to the eject that during TIE last
two years the consumption of opium BY the working
has ala, audi