The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Emperor William is still in
poor health.
The census of India fixes the popu-
lation of that country at 252, 100000
Six hundred Mormons have sailed
from Liverpool for the United
States.
Exhibited States minister to
France, General Moves, had q grand
reception at Cincinnati.
At a stout fight in Limerick,
Ireland, several citizens and SOL
diers received serious injuries.
In railroad collision at Charne-
ton, France, fifteen persons were
killed and many others wounded.
Mount Ncsuvius is in state of ac-
tive eruption aud is sending streams
of lava down the slopes toward Ma
pies.
Arch-Duchess Maria Clementine,
of Austria, aunt of the emperor, died
at Chantilly, France, at the age of
eighty-fOur.
The japanese residents of Paris
are to have temple erected in that
city, where they may conduct their
religious rites.
Forty thousand Scottish volun-
teers were present at the royal re-
view at Edinburg, but rain interfer-
ed with the proceedings.
Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived at
Liverpool last Sunday ON board
steamer Bernard from New Orleans,
and left at once for London.
Ten citizens have been arrested at
Dublin, Ireland, OIL suspicion of
having been connected with the re-
cent raids on POmeroy's house.
The directors of the bank of Eng
land, noticing the continued ship
ments of gold to the United. States,
have raised the rate of discount to
per cent.
1t is officially stated that the trial
of Parnell, Dillon and others. cost
the Irish and British taxpayers S49,-
600 The defense cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
The heat of Tums is so excessive
that the French hospitals are
crowded with soldiers. The troops
of the hey have come TO a halt be.
cause of strike by the Arab trans
port drivers.
Many of the great English towns
have taken advantage of the cheap
ness of money to fund their debts
on better terms-some as low as
three and three-fourths per cent.
1 a. a five
The loss to Great Britain from
the late rains, says the London
Times, is to be reckone by millions.
1t is impossible to gather grain, and
it will soon cease to be worth gath
ering.
Prince Bismarck, il is said, has be-
come SO stout of late years that he
can no longer occupy an ordinary
dining chair, and sits accordingly
on low sofa, with his famous dog
lying at his feet.
The Pal MdH Gazette laments the
decline of English manliness, as evil
denced by the fact that fifty we'll
dressed London men stood around
the pond in Kensington Gardens,
four years old to drown in two feet
of water.
Princess DOlgorOuki, the widow
of the late car, is now at Carlsbad,
accompanied by her son, who is
styled Prince Peter. When at Wen.
ma, the Emperor Francis Joseph paid
her visit, and a court equippage was
sent by thee impress TO convey her
to Schonburn.
Holloway, the English pill manu-
facturer, has given upward of
So, 100000 for charitable purposes
during the last five or six years. 1t
was money wQrthily bestowed if it
went to the persons who had taken
his pills.
In n single catacomb III Upper
Egypt thirty-six well-preserved sar-
cyphagi of royal personages have
been brought to light. They rep
resent nearly all of the kings and
queens of the earlier Theban dy-
nasty, and besides the mummies,
contain parchment rolls and other
articles of interest to the archeolo-
gist.
1t was intended to ship $25, 100000
worth of gold bullion from England
to New York on the twenty-sixth
ultimO, and assurances were effected
10 cover that amount. The bank OF
England refused to sell gold bars to
the intending shippers, and, as the
shipping of gold sovereigns is less
profitable, a smaller amount than
was anticipated was sent.
Dean Stanley use to tell an anec-
dOte of visit made to the queen
by Carlyle in company with other
literary men, on her invitation. She
started as the subject of converse
ton with him the probable future of
the second French empire-a subject
on whichCarlyle was greatly at home,
for in those days he was predicting,
with similar clearncss of vision, how
the whole Napoleon drama would
be eXtinguished in flame and smoke
from beneath the stage on which it
was acted. Both were standing
when the talk began, and as he
warmed with his subject the queen
still remained on her feet. He de-
sired greatly to sit down; was, IN
fact, weary, and finally said to her:
of your majesty would be seated we
could carry on the discussion with
much ease" OF course, she had
never realized his fatigue, but at
once the queen 'of. England-and
probably for the first time in her
life as queen-took seat at the
invitation of n subject.