The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28
FOREIGN PERSONAL AND OTHER

Lamartine's last word was, {" Enough''
Rev. Mr.. Palmgren, Swedish preacher, who Is
indicted In Sweden for the murder OF three young
girls. has fed to the United States.
There IL but one school for shorthand writer's In
France. No one cares 10 learn phonograpby. In
the whole country hardly forty shorthand writer's
find employment
The Wurtemberg police has prohibited the re-
presentation of play. the scene of which Is iaid
in America, and In the course OF which uenerai
Grant appears on the stage.
The rumor that King Leopold Of Belgium had
already signed his abdicstion. and tnst ms WE,
the queen. succeeded only by the most urgent
entresties in dissusding him from his purpose, has
created great sensation ct Brussels.
An old lady who died in London, 1854, be.
questhed considerable sum to one church on
condition that her coffin, In the church vault, be
busted on every anniversary of her birth. The
conditions have been carefully observed.
When Lamartine was at the height OF his politi-
cal fame and popularity, In the spring of l64S he
was 90 hard pressed for money that his vile one
day had to pawn the family plate and her own
jswelry for the purpose of paying her household
bills.
London promises to have the most wonderful
season of opera ever known, In some respects.
Her Msjesty's Thester is rebuilding, perfectly hre
proof and Rorgeously ornamented. but at q cost
barely Of $3.50 900 gold. Meanwhile Arditi Is to
conduct London's only Italian opera, ct CO.
vent Garden Theater, with company which IN
cludes Patti. Nilsson, Ttiens Lucca, and 1t Is also
said, Miss Kellogg-perbaps the five leading
prina dounas of the cosmopolitan Italian stage
besides Sanity and other world-renowned singers
for the male parts.
Victor Emmanuel has niDety.seven palaces.
The emperor of Russia has sixty-two; the king OF
Prussia seventy four; Napoleon eleven official
ones. and ninety three which be might occupy as
chief OF the State. Francis Joseph. Of Austria,
has upward of one hundred. Isabelle, OF Spain,
had ffty-two, and she has now only one, which
formerly was private boarding house.
The fabulous sounding report about the birth
of little girl with living and growing fetus In
q tumor on her back. at Schliewen, In East Prus-
STA, Is fully confirmed. A great many physicians
have already inspected this wonderful tisus ma
turG, and most of them believe that the fetus will
arrive at maturity and be safely brought to light
The little girl on whose back the tumor is, is not
yet month old.
shooters Festival, in Vienna, Mary Geistnger. the
famous soubrette, who was gaily talking with the
Jolly gentlemen on the fest pldtz. The Suabian
asked who the pretty girl was. and when he was
told that IL was the grand duchess Of Gerolstein,
he thought she must be one Of the German prin-
cesses who lost their crowns In consequence OF
the events of 1885, and, admiring as he did, the
stoicism with which the dethroned grand duchess
bore her misfortunes. he begged somebody to pre-.
sent him to her royal highness. The grand duch'
ess of GerolsteD of course, entered into the joke,
and finally she decorated her new acquaintance
with the order of the Faithful Carter" which,
she said was all that remained to her of her sover
eign rights.
"A horrible crime has been committed at the
village of Doce-Aqua. North Italy. caused BY
the enforcement of the grist tax. The popula.
ton rose in mass and killed the mayor, whose head
was then mounted on pike and paraded through
the streets. During the same day twelve of the
municipal councillors were assassinafed.
Rochefort says, in No. SO Of La Lsnterne. that
he has no more faithful subscriber and reader
than the Emperor Napoleon. In the same num-
ber in noticing that the Empress Eugene has the
humps, be Is malicious enough to advise her
majesty to cure the disease by touching Queen
Isabella. The Parisians know what Rochefort
means.
Pauline Lucca the celebrated prims donna, has
gone TO Tubingen. TO have there painful and
difficult operation performed on her throat, by
Professor Bruins, the eminent lecturer on surgery
ct that university. IL is predicted by the physi'
clans of Berlin that this operation will restore TO
Nine. Lucca. the full use and extent of her mag.
nihcent voice.
I" Fritz Meyer" the mysterious parsonage that
sent President Grant that congretuiatory telegram
from Berlin, the 4th Of March, used TO be clerk
at the house of Messrs. Schlochauer & Co., dealers
In lard and hams. He made money by judlcious
investments in United States bonds, and occupies
now prominent position among the leading spec
ulotors at the Berlin Exchange.
nice state Of affairs seems to prevail In the
Lithuanian city Of wilma. The ladies are forbid
are inclined to do in opposition TO the Russian
government; and those who show themselves 10
the streets in other dresses than black or gray
have viriol sprinked on them by secret Polish en-
missaries. The Russian papers say this state OF
affairs requires the sternest measures. which
means the knout, applied without regard to person
or sex.
After General Prim had angrily denounced, in
the Cortes, those who questioned the govern
ment's conduct in the affairs of Cadiz and Malaga
Oooe ola skn hltaon mfr fhno I'D.
dressed the irate marshal, "Who are you, Don
Juan Prim, that you should declare yourself i'm.
patient to evaporation because we, on behalf oil
our murdered fellow citizens-murdered by your
sodiers-call in question the legitimacy of those
actsi Know that In this assembly we are youE
equals-nsy, we are your masters. You are In
the presence of the national sovereignty. Listen,
then, and bow your head.n The effect this well
timed rebuke produced was prodigious; the dead
silence which It imposed was far more eloquent
and significant than any amount OF applause could
have rendered it. Prim did as he was hidden.
The Glasgow papers state that Mr.. John Thorn
son, the husband Of the sole surviving daughter Of
Burns, died at Crossmyloof. He was brought uF
at the loom, but about the beginning OF this cen
fury was sergeant in the Stirlingshire militia
and his colonel, by whom he was much respected
often spoke of him as the handsomest man in the
regiment. While az Dumfries, he met Elizabeth
daughter of Burns, whom he married while she
was not quite out Of her teens; and on leaving
Dumfrlee he was presented by Jean Armour VIII
many manuscripts and relics of the poet
Thomson was not only man Of great physca
strength. but had q vigorous intellect and |
great fund Of genuine humor, and in his day pro
duced some good verses. For manly independence
of character be was such man as Burns woulG
have been proud Of as q son-in-lsw. The fact o
his marriage connection might possibly have pro
cured him some preferment, but while he hat
strength he Stunned taking advantage Of such re
latonship, and was proud 20 bring up his femiI,
by his own industry. The sentiment, " the LORI
be thanked I can plough" applied in bis case mos
emphaticslly.
il Is said In Berlin that Bismarck. whose desire Il
cultivate the most smicsble relations betweef
Prussia and the United States Is so well kcown II
diplomatic circles In Europe that one Of the am
bassadors at the Prussian court recently said 4"
You want TO obtain something from the prime min
ister you ought either TO have q very good caus,
or TO be an American" He actually intended :,
celebrate the Inauguration of the new regime q
Washington by a banquet and ball on the 4th 0
March. and only the feeble health Of bis wifi
caused him TO abandon his purpose in the las
days of February.
Emile Olivier, the French deputy, whom Ma
poleon wanted to make president of his cabine
IN 1867. says in his political book. which has jus
appeared in Paris, that everybody in France seem
20 believe that the year 1869 will be the last OF tn
imperial dynasty. An opposition paper Is ma
licious enough, in criticising 0llivier's work, .
saw that the reason why its publication was 8