The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-15
FOREIGN NEWS.

| Emigration from the North OF England liz
on the increase. The destination OF most 81
| 1t Is Australia and Manitoba. -.4
Two hundred and forty statues for the
| decoration OF the Hotel de Vile, In Paris,
| have been ordered at $500 each.
| Gambetta had bust Of himself removed
| from the Paris Salon after It had been &C
l cepted, because 1t Was unauthorized, and too
| infinitely exact q likeness.
The shortest sovereign in the world Is the
Emperor OF China, who stands four feet three
Come to think Of it, the Khedive seemed
pretty short when he made his last treasury
| statement.
The sea-serpent Is on a visit to Japan. The
| Toxic Times prints an account written by the
captain OF the Kinshin Maru OF his tussle
with q whale. 1t reared itself thirty feet out
OF water and was "about the thickness OF a
junk's mast
The largest houses in England are Wrest,
Earl Of Cowpef's; Wentworth, Earl Eitzwil-
liams, and Knobe, Earl Delaware's where
there are five acres of roof. The largest in
Ireland IL Gosford, Lord Gosford's, In Ar
magh, and III Scotland Drumlanrig.
In recent German debate Herr Tiedemann
stated that there were In Germany 100000
landed proprietors, 100000 OF whom were
untaKed as having incomes under $105 q year.
Out Ut the actual taxpayers there were not
more than 100000 whose incomes exceeded
$3.50 a year. Forced sales OF lands and farms
are OF daily occurrence, and general distress
prevails.
At the present moment, write correspond
ents from Palermo. every day brings news Of
fresh assassinations in the surrounding COM
muness aad the country Is ravaged by bands
Of armed men, while threatening letters are
delivered la the city by the messengers Of the
brigands In the very houses Of the citizens.
Either the police and troops are inert, or they
are sent In too small numbers.
Ia q recent speech to his Condom constltu-
ents, M Paul de Cassagnac boosted ct hav-
ing melted the Bordeaux Bonapartists to vote
for BlanQui, whose election he described as q
slap in the face for the Republic, and declared
that he should also promote the election of
Rochefort and Pyat, in order that the Repub-
lie might bring forth its natural fruits. He
also advises the Right to vote for the confir-
nation OF Blanqui's election.
The Grown Prince Of Sweden Is believed
to have gone to England with matrimonial
designs on the Princess Beatrice. He Is tall
and dark, with good features, though his
general appearance is marred by his being
obliged to wear spectacles The royal race
of the Bernadottes is modern ono, but it is
one OF the most respectable In Europe, and is
Ekelyto hold its place at least as long as any
or the reigning houses OF the day. The Prin-.
Ihe baby Princess Of Meiningen is;
siagnlarly gifted with living ancestors. She
has two Observation-Disclosures the. German En-
perez and Duke Bernard OF axe-Meiningen.
as AoA & CdA> SLdAIGkLOblcISC lItGle
girl has four, the Empress Augusta, now
slxty-eight years old; Queen Victoria, who is
sixty; Princess Mary Anne Of tie Neither
lands, ane maternal grandmother OfShe baby g
father, and lady Of sixty-nine; and The
Duchess Mary Of SAKE Meiningen, his pater-
nal grandmother. The little Princess has,
her two grandfathers living, but
only one grandmother. the Grown Princess of
Germany.
Macedonia, according to the latest news of
the insurreetion, is full Of armed bands Of
rebels, and several engagements have taken |
place between them and the Turkish troops
and Bashi Bazouks In the rebel ranks re
Greeks and Servians, aud thew
ire divided into Eve corps OF from SOC to 1850
men. The chiefs are the priest Constantin
nd the yolvodes stavro, Et.enne, Basile and
s.,as VERY man ~ = armed i WIZ Martini
battalion possesses two flags. one Bulgarian |.
md the other Greek, and the commander-in-
thief is supposed to be Nathaniel, bishop of
)chrida. In consequence Of this rising, the
Turkish government has distributed Martini
ifias to the Mussulmans residing In Mace
Onia.