The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-18
FOREIGN ITEMS.

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wants $3.50 for " horsefesh supplied"
| A statue Of Sir James Young Simpson. the
inventor Of ehloroform, is about to be placed
| In Westminster Abbey.
London Truth. II believe 1t ID an undoubted
| fact that fully one-half Of the beef sold as
English, Scotch and Irish In England is In
reality American"
Mr.. William Marshall, of Glasgow, who
died on May 2, has left q legacy amounting to
over 81 100000 to found Id Glasgow an institu-
ton bearing his name.
A st. Petersburg letter declares that the
heads OF the secret police have discoved that
| three-fourths Of their men are In league with
the Nihilists.
A cargo OF 1907 bags of rice meal from
Genoa was recently destroyed by judicial
order at Liverpool, because 1t was proved to
be aduterated with marble dust.
Rochefort announces In the journal de
| GeneUe his room to let. with possession at an
seating, hoping himself to be amnestied In
| the same fashion.
| There is some probability OF Count Schou-
valof being again placed at the head Of the
| Third Section" or secret police, OF the Rus
sian empire, 10 consequence OF the attempt on
| the life Of the Gar.
DR.. ReuleauS is reported to have arranged
| in London for space OF Al 900 square feet for
| the accommodation Of the German section at
the Sydney Exposition. England will occupy
| five times az much room, France half as much
again, and Belgium about the same
Apropos Of the proposed educational re-
forms In France, it Is mentioned that, from
1865 to 1877, the lay schools lost ii $50 pupils,
while the ecclesiastical establish cents gained
over Il, 900. During the same period the Jesuit
Institutions increased from 81 to s9
| The Swiss government holds hat citizens
OF the United States residing In switzerland
are liable to pay the tax for exens ,,tion from
military service. There Is a pers nal tax OF
g. and an additional tax on fortune and rev
enue
London Examiner We learn from Tifis
that fifteen Russian officers are n engaged
In Persia organizing the Shah's 1orces. Ten
Of these are cavalry officers betwc.:n the rank
Of captain and colonel, while TIL. remaining
five are drill instructors belonging to the Don
and Kouban Cossacks.
Solovieff ID now kept In the Peter Paul Fort
ress, In padded room and In straight waist
coat. The Empress is stated to be seriously
indispOsed, In consequence OF the excitement
she has gone through. Rumor says that the
| Gar himself shows much nervousness since
the attempt
Very few OF the shot which Modelling fired
into the head Of the Emperor Of Germany
have been extracted by cutting, as physicians
have feared fever might result. they, how
ever, gradually approach the surface Of the
| skin, and are then easily withdrawn with
nippers. They had all been fattened against
| the skull.
| The Victoria Cross has been awarded to the
late Lieuts Melvill and Coghill, Of the TWEEN
| ty-fOurth Regiment for their herOism in saw
Ing the colors of the regiment. There is a
precedent for this posthumous honor In the
case OF Col Booth, OF the Forty-third, who 1t
was announced would have received the Bath
had he survived the Maori war.
The National Council Of Switzerland has, by
vote OF seventy-six to forty-nine, adopted
the proposition OF the Council OF State, sub
hitting to vote OF the people an amend
ment Of the constitution Of the republic,
same time prohibiting 1t in the case Of politi-
cal offenses, and forbidding corporal punish
ment.
Referring to the allowance of pin money
given to English ladies, the London Queen
high authority in an article on the subject
says that $500 a year Is the usual sum allot-
! ted in the highest grades Of life, even in the
, case Of men who have from 100000 to $780,
600 year. lady whose husband has from
$4,000 to $4,000 would get ANNUALLY from
$1,000 to $4,000.
| A poor woman at Birmingham committed
suicide lately on account of the worriment
caused by receiving letter on which she had
70 pay ten pence, and which contained nothing
I 9ut 2 blank sheet of paper and farthing.
~ was intended as a practical joke, but the
poor woman who had to borrow the money
" pay 1he Charge on the letter, took it very
| seriously to heart
AS an incident Of the celebration of the
5,lysr Wedding Of the Emperor OF Austria s7
" lsoheis, whose offenseS were committed
through indiscretion or poverty. were par
made a. and H. t1n university donations
tiorlns, and providing yearly forty nurses Of
wv HORNS each Tor poor students. and twenty
Tree places in schools for officers daughters.
ne commission appointed to make nrenar-
a as. LOT tne celebration next year Of the
hdeietn ta1nnhlyersary Of Belgian independence
In Brussels an exhibition Of Industry, aori-
culture la. and horticulture in a building to be
to open on the fifteenth Of June AZ the first
stone has not yet been laid it is doubtful. con-
sidering the dilatoriness with which puhlic
works are executed in Belgium, when It viii
be ready for the exhibitors, and loud com
plants are made in anticipation of a scram-
BILE to get the goods placed before that date.
In order that the principal provincial towns
may take part in the celebration Antwerp ID
to have maritime exhibition, while art and
music are reserved Tor Client and Liege.