Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-09-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP

marry the daughter of the wealthy Pal
is jeweller, Edward Handle. jew
The dowrY is to be three million franc
(six hundred thousand dolIsrs), and th
bride is to become Roman Catholic o
the day after the wedding. Cardina
orlot, Archbishop Of Paris. is to off
ciate at the ceremony, and Paris is aliy
With expectation.
Beethoven was accustomed to sit ant
dream of music under the shadow o
an old tree between Heiligenstadt anC
Mussdorf, near Vienna. and the people
in order to preserve the memory Of ths
place, are about to erect a monument
on the spot where the tree stood.
England exported over fifteen million
gallons OF beer last year, to say nothing
of the vast quantity manufactured for
home consumption. The total export
for six years has been over one hundred
and ten millions Of gallons.
The sonorous qualities of mountains
have recently been tested BY German
saUant, who has published the results of
his observations in the South German
Musical Gazette. He saws the sounds
are sometimes like the tinkling of bell,
sometimes like an organ frequently
they resemble the roll of drum. The
phenomenon is generally attributed to
the friction of quartz particles.
The Princess Alice and her husband
are popular among the inhabitants Of
the Grand Duchy of Hesse. During a
recent excursion to the Castle of Furs-
tenlager at Auerbach, they were greet
ed along the road by the shouts of the
people, and on approaching the castle
drove under canopy of flags suspend
ed from the trees.
Four bales of cotton from Queens
land, the first shipped from that colony,
are on their way to England. The cot
ton was grown at Ipswich, on a piece
of land of twelve acres. One hundred
acres are under cultivation in the neigh
borhood of that place, and the quality
of the staple is said to be good.
Lord PaEmerston, in a recent speech
at Dover, said he accepted the Warden
ship of the Cinque Ports with doubts
whether an officer Of such antiquity had
o.. had not outliyed is proper lime, and
whether it was not an officer which I
might without detriment to any interest
cease to be continued. Finally, howev-
er. he regarded its associations as sa-
cred, and so accepted.
The cholera has been raging for some
time past in the Mauritius. Nine. Fu-
ret, millner and dress-maker in that
colony, eager to turn the calamity to
account, inserted the following adver-
tisement in the Cerneen, a journal Of
the island: "Mme. Furet, Rue Desfor-
ges, has the honor of informing her nu-
merous customers that she has added to
her millinery business shrouds for dead
bodies, at moderate prices. To gain a
little on each article in order to sell
arge quantity is the device of Nine.
Furet."
Four Englishmen and their servant
have just descended the Rhine in a light
boat Of their own, forty feet long and
thirty feet wide. They remained one
night at Kehl, and continued their voy-
age on the following morning. declar-
ing that they intended to go to London
in their frail craft, for the purpose Of de-
ciding a wager.
A Turin journal says that Colonel
Charras, who was Minister Of War un-
der the French Republic, is in Garibal-
dis camp.
Three men have been arrested at Bo-
Iogna on the charge of having enrolled
Eve youths for Garibaldi's corps of vol
unteers.
A new variety of flying fish was re-
Gently caught about one hundred and
twenty miles from Melbourne in Aus
Iralia. 1t was seventeen inches long,
and the back had beautiful rose color.
The fiappers or wings were dispropor-
iionately large, and variegated with ir-
regular spots.
One of the Paris papers tells a story
'f Napoleon's generosity. Among the
ifIy-four persons lately tried for belong
Dg to secret society was one whose
wife was compelled during his detention
10 work day and night at her needle TO
provide bread for her family. Even
hose efforts were insufficient, and their
and other articles of any val
ne had been sacrificed one by one to
procure the necessary food. Those re-
sources were at length exhausted, and
the cries of the children for bread re-
NAMED unanswered. In their distress,
a witness to their misery advised the
mother to address petition to the Chief
Of State. "You forget" returned the
"tbat my husband was con-
1emned in 1859 for political offence,
was pardoned, and is again amoIg the
accused. You see it is impossible l'
Necessity and the arguments of the
1eighbors, who described the Emperor
Is often returning good for evil, at last
,vercame her objections, and the petit
ion was sent. Two days after the heart
If the mother was gladdened by receiv-
ng reply which changed their priva-
ion into comparative abundance.
Shakspeare's birthday was this year
celebrated with great eeI0t at the Balla-
rat gold diggings in Australia.
The Victoria (Australis) Telegraph
Company have fifteen Offices and 1875
miles Of wire.