The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-14
FOREIGN NEWS.

lean napleS To plant Ill his forests.
King Kaiakaua has had $50, 600 palace
voted him by the Hawaiian Legislature.
Another Dutch Arctic expedition Is being
prepared. II will start Ia the summer.
In Dude and the northwest provinces OF
India 4Dt ,0BO persons died of fever last OctO-
Der.
A vigorous effort is making to suppress
that favorite amusement OF Spaniards, bull
lighting.
1t is charged In Seniors Conversations"
that Napoleon Ill hid under q carriage at
StrasburR.
The number OF persons ID the British En-
pire who enjoy hereditary titles is about hf-
teen hundred.
The Duke Of Newcastle Is 16 years old,
Marquis Camden is 5, Earl Russell is 15 and
Lord southampton IL 13.
Mr.. Harris, formerly of Preston England,
has left that town Sl,250,O00 for educational
purposes. and $580.000 to what is known as
the Queen Anne's bounty fund for aiding poor
clergy.
The German papers complain that an enor-
nous amount of tobacco has been smuRgled
across the German frontier by an organized
band, the members of which are principally
Dutchmen.
The London Standard proposes lottery,
under the sanction OF the Lord Mayor and
| corporation of Dublin, for the relief OF Irish
distress. The proposition meets with favor
from several other quarters.
The Suez canal receipts are reported to
have decreased In 1878 $323, 200 from those Of
| 1877, and 1879 showed still tgreater falling
| Off About three-quarters OF the vessels
passing through are British.
MIR. Z. Ashmead Bartlett has gone to Ire
land on behalf OF the Baroness Burdett- Coutts
with the sum OF E5000, part OF which is to be
expended on direct charity and the remainder
In the form OF small loans, without interest,
to farmers and householders.
Cardinal Manning's brother. whose death
| has just been announced, was man OF culti-
waited taste and . staunch Protestant, SO much
SO that he had provided the money to build a
Protestant church. He and his brother the
Cardinal had not spoken for many years.
The Pope is said to have commissioned
Father Ballerini, 9 Jesuit, to examine the dis
England and the religious orders domiciled In
that country The religious orders dispute
the claim Of the bishops to supreme authority
In their diocese.
All the articles belonging to the Prince I'm.
perfal when he died have now been recovered
pieces between two stones In order "to get at
the inside" His uniform coat. with eighteen
assegai thrusts. all In front, his overalls,
boots. shirt, etc, have been given up.
| A London paper, in tracing the mode In
which 122 OF the titled families have acquired
IAUuS, SLALeS tuuJ bCHTCely u uOIeu vi
number got them by professional or CONNER
cial pursuits. The writer asserts that not
one-tenth OF the 100000 acres possessed by
the 122 was acquired for value received.
Infanticide was terribly common in the
northwest provinces OF India during the year
| 1889. The inspector general OF police re-
ports that no less than 20 per cent Of the
| female children born were killed. Among the
poorer people higher value Is placed on the
| boys; and, therefore, when food is insufficient
for all, the girls suffer most.
duel between son Of NJ. Waddington,
the ex Premier, and another young man,
apropos Of an article In country paper
deemed by the former offensive to himself. was
fought on the twenty first ultimo Oh the Bel
gian frontier. The distance was thirty feet,
| with the option OF advancing ten feet, two
balls to be exchanged. M. Washington
slightly wounded his adversary at the first
shot The second did no harm, and the sec
onds declared the combatants courageous
| fellows and honor satisfied.
The fact that steam engine is being
erected In flour mill In Jerusalem is start
ling announcement, but 1t Is an evidence OF
who have thus introduced modern inven-
tions to the "holy" city are firm of Wur-
| temburg colonists, who, with the character
istic enterprise Of the Teutonic race, are doing
all the Oriental powers will let them to make
the historic and Old World city march with
| the times.
At Crueawn, Mayo Ireland, when a pro
cess server, aided by 100 police, attempted
last month to serve notice Of ejectmeut, his
progress was arrested by 900 women, armed
with heavy sticks. The women we're remon-
strated with, but all arguments failed. Al
length the police forced their way through
/ with fixed bayonets. several Of the women
receiving thrusts. and reached the house
where the process was to be served. Here
again crowd Of women opposed, and sew
eral were wounded. The process was, how
! ever, served.