The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

Hordes Of Beers In Pretoria are desertlng and
going over to the British.
Forty nine Listowe land leaguen have been
arrested on ohsrgs Of seditlous conspiracy.
Big anti.coercion meetings in London, Febru-
ary 4th, will be addressed by Parnell and Joseph
CoWen.
A Big nest Of Nihillsts, armed with printing
presses and other weapons, was found in St.
Petersburg.
By the explosion Of boiler at Dewberry, York
county, England, IL persons were killed and le
injured
The Kurlish Chief, sheikh sadyk, has offered to
furnish the Porte with 5000 cavalry in the event
Of war with Greece.
Six thousand and eighty two persons have sign.
ed Prof, Harting's address to the English people
in regard to the independence of Transvaal.
The French Chambers resssembled Friday. In
the Senate Leon Say was elected President, and
In the Chamber Of Deputies Gambetta received
that honor.
The bark Barone Vienycenyi Captain Cosullk
from Leith, January 18th, for New York, has been
totally wrecked of Kensingand, Suffolk. One
man OF all on DOaru WaBsRVeu.
dispatch from Vienna says the Porte has for.
mally declined arbitration Of the Greek question.
France has not altogether abandoned the
scheme Of arbitration, but has allowed 1t to stand
by,
French vessel was sunk off Great Yarmouth
with loss Of twenty lives; a brig stranded
Gorlestsn and eight persons lost A bark has been
! wrecked on the Suffolk coast with loss OF ten
lives.
With the partial restoration Of the telegraph
wires that were prostrated by the storm in Eng
land, instances Of persons being overwhelmed by
snow and frozen to death are given.
An abstract Of the gross product Of the revenue
OF Great Britain and Ireland for the past year
shows that 1t exceeded the previous year by a6OO
600. There was decrease Of nearly million in
customs and excise but there was an increase Of
stamps OF E9i6,OOO, and the postofRce and teles
graph service showed an increase ofnearIy ESQ.,
900 pounds, besides an increase In interest on Ad.
vance OF 100000 The land tax and house duty
gave an increase Of $4,000.
II has Just been discovered that one OF the many
subterranesn passages with which Rome Is bur
rowed, leading from lonely spot beyond the
Porta Angelica, and passing beneath the walls,
has for some time been utilizsd by smugglers as q
route for introducing into an old stable in the
Borgo bales Of sugar and various COmbustibless
From the quantity Of wares found stored there It
is evident that nourishing con,raband trade has
been driven with impunity for some time,
A Turin paper announoes:the discovery, through
the arrest Of some forgers at Milan, Of an exten.
sive international forging association, composed
Of Frenchmen, Englishmen, Americans and Ital.
ians whose operations have been carried on on an
enormous scale. Their efforts are principally de-
voted to themsnuiacture Of spurious Government
bonds, which they offer for sale In foreign coun.
tries, and to the placing Of stolen scrip. II ssup-
posed that property distracted In some Of the
large rObberies In England has been disposed Of
through this association, whose agents are said to
be located in ell the principal cities and towns OF
Europe.
On the 1st Of January, Of total Of 1SS. .Sl2 nom
commissioned officers and men In the British
army, 122,79S were English, l4,i60 Scotch, $3.50
Irish, 1859 were born In India or the colonies @.
S61 were foreigners and 1904 are returned as "nos
reported" As regards religious denominations,
II appears that Of the total Of 1888 942 non.commis
stoned officers and men 115,26O wore members Of
the Church Of England, 1924 Presby terians 1900
other Protestants, 42S61 Roman Catholics, 152
Mohammedans, Hindoos, Jews, &C., while the
religions Of $50 are not reported; possibly these
latter were agnostics, One important fact iS that
1859 British soldiers could neither read nor
write,