The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-27
OLD WORLD ITEMS.

The Beethoven festivals In Germany have been
universal and splendid.
The Mecca pilgrims have been very numerous ana
successful this year. and all the traders VINO accom-
panied their caravans have made money.
In Hungary the arrest has been made OF q band OF
robbers. cuttlroats aud incendiarles numbering no
less than 300, Of whom nfty Will be condemned 10.
death.
caravan Of 900 camels has recently passed from
Bagdad to Damascus with large and valuable
lad,ngs. The overland traffic oil the East Is very
plainly reviying.
A petition Is being signed at Paris at this moment
asking that the Grand Rabbi Isidor should be nomi-
mated Senator "a dignity TO which no member OF the
Hebrew persuasion has ever attained
The Lepont Times, OF Constantinope, has been sus
pended for one month as punishment for reproduce
ing an article from the Independence HettefltQite
which the Porte deemed offensive TO It's dignity.
The railroad receipts In the kingdom of Italy have
produced % Asa s35 francs for the first four months
Of 1870. to contrast with only 27.ll5790 In the same
period Of 1859. However the length OF the lines has
Increased by 2l0 kilometres.
The despatch announcing n Jewish massacre in /
Roumania was dated at Sereth May 80 and was
DIRECTED 10 the Paris Central Committee Of the
Isratlite Alliance 1t was ctrcumstantia aud gave
most fIghtfu report, which the continental papers
extensively copy. sf
The Channel railroad arrangement that is TO con-
meet England directly with the Continent OF Europe,
by means OF piers and the Stephenson system OF
five by the french Academy OF Sciences. 1t has
every chance OF being adopted.
French statistcian curiously computes that eight
pages per diem or 400 per year and the pay OF 100
copying clerks would be saved to the government
by substituting the words greeting and iraternity
an expression OF seven sylables, for the present
oalciai winding up OF business letters.
The Assize Court OF Naples has delivered its sen.
ence upon the band of brigands which captured Mr..
Others are condemned to DEATH nine OF the PRISON.
ers arc sentenced peaa servitude for lfc three TO
twenty-0ne years Imprisonment aud one to twenty
years.
Russia il pushing her ornaments with hot haste.
first class fortress has been built at Brzesc OF SUI
lcient size 70 furnish pivotal point Tor great
army, and the railroad nom St. petersburg TO
Odessa, MOSCOW and Kew, Is 80 CONSTRUCTED that
every STATION on Il can be quickly transformed 10
fortified post. WHAT'S In the wind2
There Is an old man OF liz az Warsaw who still
does duty as sexton OF synagogue IL Is only
three years since his hair turned gray. lie walks
daily from his village TO Warsaw, distance OF some
miles. At the age or ninety three he had fine son
by his second wife. His own father lived tobe 100;
hs grandfather lived t9 reo i2S, and could tell al
about the appearance OF Jonh oopieSAi' tne famous
Polish leader.
The GROWING OF the rosfSre was very brilliant
this year at Nantcrre, which, along with Montreuil
and Surcsnes has preserved this pleasant custom
OF annually browning the young girl OF their neigh
borhoodwno bears the purest Oh racter The roetere,
or selected ''qucen OF VIRTUE" has TO retain the
chaplet bestow.d upon her perfectly imnlacu ate
FOR a year, and cannot marry until o successor mas
ents from the people, and sometimes from tho EN-
peror. The selection IS made by the mayor OF the
district, and is seldom disputed.
M. Mege Minister Of Public Instruction, has re-
fused to accord M. Claretic authorization to give,
lecture ON sLes Derniers M0RtdgaGrds.n series OF
studies on the French Revolution. The author re-
marks on this aair:'i intended, however, I'm this
matter to confne myself to the domain OF history
real and sinccre--treated In accordance with new
documents. The subject is Important enough TO do
30 without illusions. But the fact seems TO he that
the most cruel satire, at this moment Is TO COM
present time. In truth, the comparison Is dis
paraging."
terrible accident has lust occurred In Switzer-
land. The Choral Society OF Vevey had been to
Gruyeres to give concert for the benefit OF
an orphan asylum, and were returning by
the valley Of Alieres, when some OF them
proposed an excursion on the lake which
exists on tho plateau OF Jaman. The place Is
celebrated for delicious trout which the inhabl-
tants fish Tor from species OF raft Upon enc OF
these about thirty or the company embarked, and
had attained the middle OF the lake. which Is not
above 600 yards In diameter, although very deep,
wHen their trail support became disocated and sank
| with them. Although nearly oil were good swim
| mers twenty were drowned.
| Germany has been visited by q dreadful storm.
The disasters lmnen @; houses have been carried
! away and large number OF persons have pershed.
| AT Grosbuu (Siepenburgcn) the rain was 50 heavy
that house and tneir Inhabitants were carried away
| by the current OF water Produced After the sub.
! siding or the food hu dreds II cattle incrspclsed
| with human c0rpses and the ruins or houses, were
discovered IN The slime; more Than forty deal bodies
| have been recovered up to The present time. OF the
sixty families composing the commune scarcely ten
| renaIn alive. AT Nazy-Kun c:ghy houses were car
red OF by the waters. sixty persons were destroy ed
10y TINS catastrophe to nothing OF the loss OF pro.
| perry, which Is exceedingly great. At Erfurt the
ligh ming struck several objects, notably the steepe
OF An Saints ohurch. CONSUMING the epir0.