Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-23
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| lHE SULTAN OF lURKEY.-A friend of mine
| who has just returned from Turkey. and who
bad occasion to be broughs 10 contact with the
Sultan and many of bis ministers. tel'sms. says
the editor of the London Truth. that the Com
mander of the Faithful is. without exception.
the most utterly faitbless scamp in bis domiu.
ions. Whenever be appoints q minister he
says to him, "You must find means to resist
all demands for reform. and your tenure of OF.
ics will depend upon the length of time that
you Gao do this without compromising me.
Eventually the Ambassadors will complain of
you. when | shall pretend to be most indignant
at your not having carried out my policy, and
shall sacrifice you for having deceived me-"
The Sultan Is the son Of an Armenian mother.
was 40 Armeusn. He is neither q druuksrd
oor voluptuary, and although by 10 means an
able mao be has considerable amount of low
cunning. He is believed to b. accumulsting q
considerable fund, for althous b the 6oauces of
bis country are 10 desperate condition taxes
do com, 10, and yet neither the army nor the
civil employees are paid.
FOOLED AGA1N.-A man who was too poor
even to count votes, and more intoxicated than
lord, tell out of two story window in Hous-
ton. the other day, and crowd seeing him fall.
rushed up to the spot and swors Individually
aud collectively that be was as dead as picked
mackere!. While his wife was running through
the house screaming like tug whistle. he sud.
denly got up, to the surprise of the whole crowd
and one of the party dashed into the house, and
seeking his wife said. THANK God, madam, be
ia nok dead n stil1 lives "
mot deadl" she screamed. "The con-
temptible old cheat; this is the third time he
be has fooled me 10 mooth. Oil if it had
only baen four story window how different it
might have BEEN"
"Madsm," said the astonished stranger,
killed"
Killed." she howled. sustchiug her back
hair down, while her eyes sparkled like swo
gimblet points, why, that worthless, drunken
old brute could tumble out Of the market house
tower and then get over it. He only acts that
way to worry ond disappont me !"
The famine 10 Persia continues with unabsted
severity. Mr.. Sheed, an American missionary
ct Ofomiah, Persia. writes: "The past two
| weeks have been the worst We have seen. In
the city the Mosem charity, afser three weeks
effort, failed. and nearly 5000 whom they had
| been feeding we're turned into the streets. Fifty
| or more are daily dying-dyiog men. little chil.
dren thrown into the streets to die. corpses half
| eaten OF doga, are Common sights. With few
| executions, there is no money or care shown by
the Khaus And the wealthy, and nothiog is done
oy the government. In Moslem villages the
death rate is increasing. 10 ooe village three
women were taken 10 the act of eating child.
Where our relief committees are at work, few
deaths have occurred, but unless the relief is
inoreas ID, many persons thus far preserved will
dsop oH Many are greatly reduced in strength,
aud the two mouths to come threaten q worse
| condition than 10 the two months past. The
price of grain Is very high, aod the supply By
importation only. ."-Christian Herald.
CINCINNATI can we'll CAIN to be great ira.
ding and manufacturing city. Her iron manu-
fac;urss are now valued at $l7.OOO.0OO yearly.
while of other mstsl she produces wares to the
| value of over $5 000, 600. The extent of her
| pork packing is shown by tho fact that her food
SUPPLIES are Vslued 1t $40 500 O(O. while her