The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

tuition failed, recently committed sui
eide as a consequence of his misfor-
tune
ENGLISH gent efhen tolerate q good
deal of bribery In their servants. Some
OF them. for example, will not buy a
horse until their groom or coachman
has seen it; but the groom or coach
man will not praise the animal until its
owner has paid or promised bride.
Many grain dealers bride stable servants
to pass inferior corn and oats.
The Jews born in Servia having
hitherto been permitted to settle and
carry on business only in the towns of
Belgrade, Posurevatz, Semendria and
Schabatz, are now, in consequence of
a petition they addressed to the Home
Minister, allowed to settle and trade in
other towns of the Principally, where
they may also build synagogues and
schools.
"TH1RTY POUNDS" said an apothe-
cary of Leicester, Dorset, when exam
ined before an Election Committee of
the House of Commons, els tie price
of an Leicester voter" When asked
how he came to know the sum SO &C
curately he replied that he attended
voters families, and his bills were paid
with money received at election.
Leicester has long been disfranchised.
MIR. LABoUcHERE says that when
an attache of the British Legation at
Frankfort -on-the-Main his principal
business was to marry persons. "The
dream of many foreign adventures is
to marry a rich Englishwoman, and
the number o. aged En- lishwomen that
l married to young and stalwalt sor-
eigners was legion. Sometimes 1 would
get the biography of the bridegroom
from the police and present it to the
BRIDE"
THERE has been some difficulty in
settling the precise formalities to he
observed by the new Prince of Bull.
garia when appearing before the Sui.
tan at Constantinople, so as to mark
his vassalage while reco gnizing his
partial independence. This krotty
point has at last, it is announced, been
settled. Among other things, the
question as to the dress which the
Prince is to wear at the Sultan's court
has proved difficult of solution. The
Sultan at fir-t claimed that the Prince
should wea- the Turkish uniform, az
the hospodars of Moldavia and Wal
lachia used to do in former times. II
has, however, now been settled that he
shall be allowed to wear the European
dress; only the Sultan insists that he
shall wear a fez, and this point has
been conceded.
A GLOWING account is giving by the
Golos OF the improvement going on in
Persia since the country has been taken
in hand by Austrian and Russian Off.
GERS. A marked change (says the Rus.
sian paper) appears in Tehcran. Nea..
" all rich Persians now drive in Euro
pean vehicles; some have had bull
splendid and great houses in European
style; the principal boulevards are
lighted. The new Persian army is be-
ing organized by the Austrian officers
in the Austrian manner. The organi.
cation of the cavalry has been confided
to a Russian Colonel of Cossacks. The
police and gendarmes are to number
Is, 900 men. Two foreigners who wish
to establish gas works at Teheran ar
rived there some days ago. A company
for the purpose has been formed, and
counts the Persian Minister of Foreign
Affairs and of Posts among its mem.
bers. The coming of the new Persian
money continues without interruption
the chief of the Mint, Anime Sultan,
furnishes every day as much as 1000
tomans in silver coin.