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

A new regulation Of the British Admiralty
requires that candidates for the naval service
shall be able to swim.
The Prince of Wales is making himself
useful by presiding over the British Commits
sion for the Sydney and Melbourne Exhibi-
tions.
A woman OF Bristol England, was recently
convicted of granddaughter for having delb-
erately starved her child eighteen months old
to death.
A piece Of ordnance has been manufactured
at Turin which throws q prolectlle weighing
ton, and requires 600 pounds OF powder
for a charge It Ia thirty-four feet long, and
has an 18-inch calibre.
A man lately murdered woman In London
whom he did not know, and for no reason that
he could give except that he was tired Of life.
He started out with the avowed purpose Of
killing somebody, and he seems not to have
cared who his victim might be.
Russia has had q great bank embezzement
case Mr. TuchentzOff, cashier Of the Landed
Bank of Mutual Credit, has been sentenced tt
Siberia for plundering his institutiopffor fo1l
years Of millions OF roLbles, WHICH he spent In
magnificent living. Like I'Kj1dt, Of Belgium
he went Oh bis career of theft and extrava.
directors Of the bank.
The English estimated revenue for the en-.
suing yessr is made up as follows. The total
Is 9aa,055,OeO. The items are: Customs, GO.
000,000 excise CIT 100000, stamps, E10, 10000
land tax and house duty, CO, 900, property
600, telegraph service, 81, 100000, crown lands
G59O,oOO, interest on advances TO local works,
81 175000 miscellaneous, G3,900,000.
| The Dutch are at last approaching the end
| OF their war III Acheen. and have met no such
| overwhelming disasters as the British forces.
| The leading chief Of the natives has sent In
| his submission. another great tribal power
| has taken to flight and number OF others
| have opened up negotiations for peace. The
| cessation Of warfare comes not moment TOO
| soon. as the rains have set in ana made the
| roads impraeticable, and the health OF the
Dutch troops Is most prsearious.
| The death of the Princess Christina. which
| occurred at 3 O'Clock Monday afternoon, puts
| an end to the ambitious plans Of the Duke do
| MOntpensIer, who ID credited with having
cherished the hope that his second daughter
might be placed In the position left vacant by
| the untimely death Of her sister, Queen Mer-
| cedes, and become King AlfonsOs second wife.
King Alfonso went to Seville Immediately Of
ter the Infantas death and the court will go
into three months mourning. The Princess
christmas remains will be placed near those
Of Queen Mercedes In the Escurial.
short time ago, according to the CORE
spOndent Of the London Telegraph, the St Pc
tersburg police discovered in The immediate
vicinity OF the Kasan Cathedral the body of a
man dying In pool Of blood; by his side
~
Of the unfortunate man was cut nearly
through. On the corpse was o label, and
upon this, inscribed In letters evidently writ
ten in red ink. were the following words
"Ivan Sabego, twenty-three years Of age, Of
the Medco-C hirurgical Academy, Is hereby
sentenced to the punishment Of DEATH as q
traitor. The Socialist Revolutionary Execu-
| tive Committee"
London World: Everybody has heard Of
the Shenandoah, the notorious privateer of
the Southerners In the American civil war,
but do not suppose that many know what
was the ultimate fate Of the ship when the
war ended. Of all places In the world she
now lies 'fathoms deep off the island OF So
cotra, III the Arabian gulf. Her story Is q
strange one. She was busy burning whalerS
IN Behrlng strait when Waddell. her COM
mander, the mildest hammered man who
ever scuttled ship or cut q throat,' heard Of
the Collapse of the South. His occupation
being gone, and being without home or har
Dor to which he burst with safety return, he
ran the Shenandoah TO Liverpool and imme-
diately surrendered her to her Maiesty's ship
Donegal, In the Mersey She was handed
over to the American Consul and afterward
bought at auction by Nlcol, Fleming Il Goa
firm that has earned notoriety in conDec-
ton with the failure Of the City OF Glasgow
Bank-for the Sultan OF Zanzibar. After re-
naming idly at Zanzibar for some years she
was sent to Bombay for repairs, but foundered
off Socotra, all hands being lost except one
EngIishman and a few IascarS.