Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-22
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

Countess BISMARCK, Win ncr WOUNDED
son, has returned to Berlin.
| A miner in Baden who guided {
French invading army into German ter
ritory, to a place where they could safely
lie in wait for German troops, was trieC
and sent to the State prison for mum
ber of years.
The fashions are becoming enamel.
pated from the tyrannical rule of Paris.
A convention Of hatters took place in
Berlin, the other day, in which it was
resolved to pay no more attention to the
mandates of Partisan hatters.
The gossips of Cassel say that Napo-
leon III receives regular visits at Will
helmshohe by strange and beautiful
lady who is stopping at one ofthe hotels.
She observes the greatest secresy in her
visits, and has been seen only once with
out thick vail. af
A citizen of Berlin who had decorated
his house after one of the German vic
tories, hung out among the other flags
four small black ones. On being asked
what he meant by this, he stated that
they we're in honor of his four sons, who
had been killed, all in one battle.
When number of French prisoners
arrived at Bremen they asked for the
name of the place. When they were
told they laughed, and said it was a
trick Of the Germans to deceive them.
They said they knew very well that both
Bremen and Hamburg had been utterly
destroyed by the French feet, for a dis
patch had been read to that effect to the
French army by Marshal Mcmahon him
self.
The Steele, now published in Tours, Of
October IA, reports that, by order of
Gambetta, the Common Council ofDreux
has been arrested en- masse and impris-
oned in Tours, where the men will be
judged by court martial. " These
wretches, adds the Steele, did not only
resolve not to defend their city, because
it was unforti6ed, but even sent messen-
gers to the Prussians to notify them of it.
They ought to be shot without mercy.
Poland is infested by sharpers who
swindle French sympathizers by claim
ing to be French soldiers who have ,es-
capped from Prussian prisons. The Rus
sian Government, which is always bru-
tally practical, does away with such
fellows in most simple manner, without
investigating the truthfulness of their
statements. All of the alleged prisoners
are arrested and taken to Russian peni-
tentiaries, where they will be kept till
peace is declared, and then the Govern
ment will transport them across the
border. agaH
The family of a wealthy merchant of
Hamburg, who had remained long time
in ignorance of the fate of the only son
of the house, q private Of the German
army in France, were overjoyed the
other day when they received letter
from him informing them that he had
been seriously wounded, but had entirely
recovered. The father had just finished
the letter and laid it away, when the old
grandmother remarked that some words
were written on the back of the letter. 1t
contained the announcement from the
colonel of the regiment that their boy
had been killed on the same day that he
had written the letter.
French papers claim that the sum
which Napoleon III has saved is the al
legged amount Of sixty-three millions of
francs. The Figaro states that before
signing the capitulation at Sedan, Ma
poleon III stipulated it as the first con-
dition, that his private baggage was not
to be searched. The condition was
agreed to. The private fortune of the
Emperor must amount to fabulous sum.
A statement found in the Tuileries
shows that the Emperor had more than
twenty-eight millions in his possession,
while there are more than eighty mil
lions invested in England. "And that,
it adds, is not all by good deal.
Some of the German papers seem to
be seized with perfect intoxication on
account of the recent victories of the
German armies. A thirst for conquest
pervades them which is truly distressing
The Carlsruher Zeitung, one of the
largest papers in South Germany, for
instance, advocates the forcible annexa-
ton of German Switzerland. Speaking
of performance of Sehiller's master
piece, William Tell, in that city, it con-
demns the theatrical manager for bring
ing such a piece before the public, for it
says the drama is only political glorif-
cation of the secession Of one of her
finest provinces from the German Father
land F ~
At the beginning of the present war
General Turr, the famous Hungarian
revolutionary General, wrote and pub
lished two open letters to Count Bis
marck, in which the latter was charged
with being the author of the project of
the annexation of Belgium TO France.
The North German Gazette in one Of its
late issues asserts that the Imperial cor
respondence found in the cabinet of Ma
peleon the Third, proves the contrary to
be true, and that General Turr had a |
very tangible reason for his uncalled for
letters. In the list Of pensions paid
from the private purse of the Emperor,
which has just been published, Madame
Turr, nee Wyse, is named to the amount
Of twenty-four thousand francs a year
A singular circumstances connected |
with the present war 10 Europe is that
immense progress is being made in the |
provisioning Of armies. The pea sausage
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pleasant dish at any time with only !
very little preparation. Another inyen-
ton does away with the disagreeable |
herd tack. A baker in Spandau, Prus-
sia, after many vain attempts. has at last
succeeded in inventing bread that will |
keep for more than eight weeks Just as
fresh as the day after il is baked. A
commission appointed BY the Prussian |
Government to test the process have
found It practicable and so the Govern
ment has purchased the secret Of him
for large sum.
Whatever attempts the French make
to conceal provisions by burying them,
the Germans viii find them inevitably.
They proceed on very ingenious theory,
which always proves successful. Early
in the morning, when the dew is still on
the grass in the gardens and parks, they
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