The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-06
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Dutch government is about
to appeal to the farmers of the Brit
ish nation in favor of the indepen-
dence of Transvaal.
The Porte is about to address a
circular 10 the powers containing
conditions, the acceptance of which
it is believed can alone avert a con-
fiict between Turkey and Greece.
Spain has contracted in England
for war vessels, and is building in
the arsenals of the peninsula several
gunboats and fast sloops for service
IN the waters of Cuba and Manila,
at a cost of nearly S2,0O0,OOO.
"A dispatch from Rome says
The Vatican has sent peremtory
commands to certain of the Irish
episcopacy to abstain from language
tending to cause belief that the
pope approves of the operations OF
the Land League.
Although Brazilian coffee makes
up about One-half of the quantity
produced in the entire world, il
seems to- be held of SO little account
in the markets that to insure sale
it,has to be labeled as Java. Porte
Rico, Ceylon, or Mosha produce
In the country there are no fewer
than 230,o0e,e00 plants covering l..
100000 acres and yieldingYa crop oil
$50, O00tOns, of which $4,000 are, re.
tanned for home consumption.
Preparations for. the coming
census of 1881 in London are being
actively pushed. 1t Is anticipated
that the returns will reveal aistrik.
ng increase in the population, of the
metropolis, which cannot now be fan
short of 100000. The census will
be taken simultaneously in every
district of the United Kingdom on
the same day.
The famine in Russia, it is pre-.
dicted, will assume proportions al.
together beyond previous estimates
and no steps are taken to meet it
The Russian peasant cannot afford
at the best of times to eat wheat
and this grain has been sold long
ahead TO the Jews and other middle.
men. What is needed is an innne.
date importation of cheaper grain,
il such can be obtained. sisi,
I'm the Greek chamber of depu-
Tricoupis demanded AN explanation
of the government regarding the
present position of the frontier
question. He declared that arbi-
tration would destroy the work OF
the Berlin conference. Tricoupis
concluded by saying: Europe may
tear up the protocol, but the latter
ed document will be stepped in the
blood of the Greeks"
The Vienna Presses st. Peters
burg correspondent has had an in
teryiew with Gen. Ignatieff, whom
he reports as saying that the retro
grade movement on the part of the
Greek government would endanger
the throne of King George, and
the revolution could scarcely be
confined to Hellenic territory, and,
moreover, he said, if Greece, in at
tempting to annex Thessaly Epirus
should be reduced to a position of
serious danger, France, Italy and
England would surely help her, and
Russia. too, could not abandon her
Greek coreligionists TO their fate,
should their existence he imper-
He'd. ..s-,
According to the imperial
budget, the German army on a peace
footing, as supplemented by the &C
cession of strength recently voted,
now consists of 1859 horses, the
addition including COL officers. 3d.
6l5 men and 1856 horses. OF these
Prussia receives eight new infantry
regiments and one battalion, with
one field artillery regiment, twenty
four field batteries and one fortress
artillery regiment, the rest being
distributed in small proportions be
tween Saxony, Wurtemberg and
Bavaria. The greater part of this
new force will be garrisoned in
towns nearer the Russian frontiers,
an arrangement which is perhaps
due 20 the existence of better bar
rack accommodation in the east