The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
KING CETYwAYO, of the Zulus, is so
fat that he can scarcely walk.
IT is proposed that the Chaplain
General of the British Navy shall in
future be Bishop.
THREE French warders were detailed
to watch M. Filloux, q murderer in the
Paris conciergerie, who was suspected
of suicidal intent. The three warders
went to sleep, and M. Filloux hanged
himself with strip of linen torn from
his bed, after writing D brief note to
thank his jailers for their consideration.
INTELLIGENCE has been received at
Alden from the factory agent of Ham,
burg house at Nossible, in Madagascar,
of the death of DR.. Gutenberg, young
German savant, who, during 1917 and
1873, had been travelling Ia Eastern.
Africa and Madagascar. No particu-
lars have as yet come to hand, but the
report states that he was murdered in
Menabe, a district inhabited by the
Sakalava tribe. in the interior of the
island. .....
A NAPLES paper says that a young
lady of that city, whose name. is Rosa
del Pretc, has been in the habit of
making up" as an old beggar woman,
and in this guise collecting aims in the
public street. She has got 80 much
money in this way as to enable her TO
dress and live in most luxurious style,
and has actually, it is said, been accus-
toned to receive in her elegant saloon
in the evening the very persons from
whom she had begged in the morning.
A CURIOUS case has just come before
the Bourges, France, Law Courts. The
Patriotic de la Nsevre publishes an arti-
Gle accusing cure named c. of
forcing his flock to buy wax candles.
Thereupon all the cures in the depart
ment whose names commenced with
G., and who are fifty in number,
brought joint action for libel against
the journal. The case came on for
hearing, when the advocate for the de-
tense stated that he was ready to give
the name of the priest alluded to and
to prove the fact charged against him.
The court admitted this course of pro-
cedure, and postponed the case for
week for the production of the necessa-
ry evidence.
In Russia taxes are collected in this
way: A peasant, representative of a
district, comprising several villages, is
charged with the duty of collecting a
certain amount of money, and it is the
business of the people to distribute the
taxes among themselves as they like
the best. For the prompt collection,
in the first place, the representative is
responsible, and in case of hardness
he is imprisoned for q week with COM
mon criminals, and furnished with
food at the cost of three cents q day.
A district is obliged to LAY for all its
members, whether they are actual res
idents. or have gone elsewhere, or are
in the army. In case tax collector
is unable to do his duty, he reports to
the authorities; then the police appear
armed with rods, and if the rods do not
secure the desired result the property
of the delinquents is sold at auction.
The manager of great company in
Madras recently addressed the following
clever and doubtless effective letter to
one of his European subordinates: cit
is with extreme regret that I have to
bring to your notice that I observed
very unprofessional conduct on your
part this morning when making trial
trip. allude to the abusive language
you used to the drivers and others.
This consider an unwarrantable as
sumption of my duties and functions,
and l may say rights and privileges.
Should you wish to abuse any of our
employees, think it will be best in
future to do so in regular form, and 1
beg to point out what l consider this
to be. You will please submit to me
in writing the form of oath you wish to
use, when, if it meets my approval, l
shall at once sanction it, but if rot
shall refer the same to the Directors,
and in the course of few weeks their
decision will be known. Perhaps, to
save time, it might be as well for you
to submit list Of explosives generally
in use by you, and I can then at once
refer those to which object to the Di-
rectors for their decision. But pend
ing that you will please understand
that all cursing and swearing at driv-
ers and others engaged on the traffic
arrangements in which you may wish
to indulge must be done in writing and
through me-"