The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-19
FOR EIGN ITEMS.

| The Germans In Germany smoke 100000
600 cigars II year. besides 81, 100000 pounds of
| tobacco In their pipes
| Tho Oxford and Cambridge boat race, which
| is fixed 10 take place on March ~, will possi-
| hly he postponed until the second week In
| April, as Cambridge has suggested to the Ok
| ford Boat Club the Inconvenience II would
cause to row on March 20. the tide not serving
| after 4 n. m.
| An italian paper thus tabuIates the attempt
| ed Fcgicides of 1873 and 1879: There have
| heen two attacks on the Emperor William
one against King Humbert. ono against King
| Alfonso aud two against the Gar, Sever
eigns,' II remarks, will soon reckon their
ytars Of rule by these outrages. the Gar hav
| i~g experienced four and the Emperor Will
liam five. Napoleon III had seven.
The Gotos calls attention TO tho famine pre-
vailng In the country between the Volga and
the Don. owing the failure OF The crops con-
seqnent upon the summers drought Many
people have already died from starvation,
and bodies are continually found lying on the
roads, The Prefect OF Tsaritzln has arrived
at Vt. Petersburg TO urge the necessity OF
immpdiats relief more especially as famine
typhus has already broken out.
Considerable excitement was created about
Galway on New Years day in consequences Of
intelligence received that passage of n body
OF mounted Constahulary. with baggage. had
been interrupted Mt Carraroe, near Spiddal
some lew miles from Galway. portion OF
the road was torn up by the people and bar
riers of stones erected. The police were In
tended to protect process servers VINO have
processes to serve n consequences OF arrears
arising out Of the prevalent distress.
News from Florence shows how vain are
the laws against converts In Italy The cole
hrHtrh Badla, on the hill OF FieSole. was
Gently acquired and restored to monasttC
purposes hy the SroopianS. Now the Domin-
leans have rcacqulred and re-est ,bltshed the
large convent Mt San Dominica. suppressed
since 1910, And tho still larger convent OF
the Duccia, higher up the hill. which was
founded bv the Davan2au family. aud re-
built by Michael Angelo, is to be restored.
I hus there will be six large monaBteries on
the Fiesoe lIlll.
Berlin takes occasion to crow little In "A
recent report issued by the municipality.
Berlin IS OF the opinion that it has done some
pretty good growing of late years. At the
close of the seventeenth century, when Lon
don and Paris had each over 100000 nhHbi-
tants, Berlin had only 10000. Az the begin
nnE Of the present century Berlin had $50
600 people within Its gates, at the end OF 1860
there 100000 inhabitants In the city.
Since 1877 these has been over l,0OO,000 In
Berlin. Ihe city naturally thinks 1t has not
done 80 badly to double It's population In
seventeen years. It Is now next to London
and Paris IN population.
Miss Til. Petursson daughter OF the
Bishop of Reykj jtvik, Iceland, tnnde an As
cent ot the great volcano Hecta, before the
ing geological observations The tempera
ture Of the sides OF the larger crater3 she
found hal recently undergone d considerable
increase, and from number OF very small
tssnres and holes on these craters there
arose heavy white columns Of vapOr, the sui |
phurOu3 chal acter of which was much
stronger than for n long time past. From
these circumstances 1t is inferred that n new
eruption Of the volcano Is probably to he ex
ppeted. This Is considered the more likely, |
"A nprtai
eseence usually observed between the out
breaks Of Hecla has already been long since
exceeded. The last eruption took place In
the year 1S45.
On March 2 new style) there will be ceIe, |
brated at st. Petersburg, with great pomp-
the anniversary Of the accession of the En-
peror Alexander to he throne OF all the Rus
sias The reason why programme of I'M
usual display Is expected on the occasion II
because the day Is that OF the Cars hal |
jubilee or twenty-tifth anniversary of his sue.
ceedlng his father, the late Emperor Nicholas |
Fo render the ceremonies more imposing |
nearly all the members Of the Imperial fam |
lily will be assembled together, and the Chris |
tian princes Of the Balkan Peninsula will he
among the number of guests hidden to st.
Petersburg. The King Of Greece Is also ex
pected the Prince of Montenegro, too and |
their consort5. it Is thought will accompany |
them. 1t Is rumored that the opportunity |
wilt be tAken for the formal betrothal of |
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria to a Russian |
princess.
On Christmas morning a riot occurred at
Fethard, County Tlpperary, between some
soldiers OF the Seventh Hussars. stationed I
there, and civilians. There had been good
deal of drinking the previous night In the
canteen and in the town. and later on some
civilians encountered three hussars out on
pass. It's alleged that the soldiers, being
from the North OF Ireland, exclaimed Down
with Pope and popery!' and that the civil
ians retorted with other equally insulting
cries. A row was the result and then the
hussars went into barracks and brought out
fourteen or fifteen of their comrades, and the
fight was renewed on a larger scale with
about twentysix young men of the town. In
the affairs hussar lost his swosd The guard
from the barracks, under Lieut.. johnson, soon
turned out dispersed the civilian rioters
and brought back the soldiers some Of whom
have been sentenced to pack drill for pc
riCds varying from seven to fourteen days |
The sword was brought back to the barrack-
ground next morning. No arrests of civilians
have been made.
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