Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The village of Sardon (Puy de DOme,)
France, has been almost entirely destroyed
by fire.
An aged mendicant has been arrested
at Bayonne, France, who carried IS, 900
gold about his person.
The old bridge of Ponte a Mare, near
Florence, recently fell into the ArnO from
damage caused by the late heavy rains.
The amount of subscriptions received
in the year 1869, toward completing the
Cologne Cathedral footed up Isl, 2S3
thalers.
The number of emigrants that left
Switzerland for over the sea in 1868 was
9,762, of whom 4, 100 came to America.
An explosion of tOrpedOes recently took
place In the PyrOtechnic school at Toulon,
killing seven persons, and seriously wound
ing several.
The London Bible Society has sent
5000, 900 reals, OF $500, 900 to Madrid
toward the construction of Protestant
church in that capital.
The storekeepers of Rome are disguised
because the meeting of the Ecumenical
Council has caused an influx of only fif-
teen thousand strangers.
The election of O'Donovan Rosa will
be dealt with by the House of Commons,
as no petition has been presented against
his return within the time prescribed.
Queen Victoria has received as presents
from the Chief of the Basutos, OfMoshesh,
in South Africa, a magnificent tiger and
box of diamonds valued at $4,000.
Strict orders have been given through
out the Russian Empire to prevent any
manifestation on the anniversary of the
emancipation of the serfs, which occurs
Feb. 81.
It is etiquette in London for lady to
cut her dance partner next day when she
sees him in the park or elsewhere. A
girl who stops to speak to a man with
whom she has waltZed and supped the
night before, runs the risk of being either
numerically chaffed, or perhaps severely
and seriously rebuked.
A story is told of a London paper
which is rather given to sensational
lines on its posters as a means of attract
ing purchasers. A certain noble lord hav-
ing, in the course of recent speech, re-
marked that the conduct of the Bishop of
Oxford in regard to some public question
''was not decent, a poster, issued with
an edition of newspaper referred to, bore,
in prominent letters, this inscription
''Charge of Indecency against the Bishop
of Oxford :"
Victor Hugo gave a children's Christmas
party at his residence in Guernsey, on the
22d of December, and IN the course of
the evening made a characteristic little
speech. He congratulated himself that
an annual festival which he founded for a
few children eight years ago, had been
extensively copied in America and Eng
land, and was still spreading. He spoke
a few words of sympathy for Hayti and
Cuba, and he wound up with the exclam-
alton: 'Tet us enIghten and teach this
childhood which is under our eyes, that
the twentieth century will dawn. The
torch in infancy is the sun in the future"
A Japan paper says that rats are so
numerous in the fields about Honolulu,
that they defy cats and owls, and by their
| depredatiOns have forced many persons
| to abandon rice culture. The only eff
fectual remedy would be snakes. A spe-
cial commissioner, who has been intro
ducing valuable plants from Malaysia,
sought to introduce the rice swamp snakes
of Java; but the Kanaka Legislature, fear
ing the coming of the serpent devil they
had read about, who tempted Eve, into
their happy islands, compelled the COM
missioner to throw them overheard in the
harbOr of Honolulu.