Tuesday, May 23, was Golden Jubilee Bay m Brazil, and although the Emperor Dom Pedro lay on a bed of sioknoss m distant Milan, far from his tropic home, yet his imperial deoree liberating nearly -2,000,000 slaves, was promptly carried out. V'hat a breaking of shackles from human limbs has takon place m the last twenty <g yen years I In that time Russia has freed 23,000, §0 ; Poland, 5,000,000 ; United Stateß, 4,000,000 ; and Brazil, 2,000,000. ' ' ; The taw, agrinat tjra use of profane lan» gu^ge"lsterrimy severe m Germany, as may be inferred from a oase lately bef.or.o the Imperial Court at Leipsio pn apneaj, A" i^arrne'rwaa h,ear,d by ona o| h^u udr^ants tq , appear aq o^, and a,ooused. fee(o?e" ihft looal tribunal i 'which sentenos ot > (hfee fflonths'irflpriaonment. This has now 1 been oonfirmed by the Imperial Court, on the ground that the blasphemous language was actually heard by two servants, and might have been heard by anybody else hapnaQQdjQ be f wring.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1893, 14 July 1888, Page 3
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163Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1893, 14 July 1888, Page 3
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