Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-07-26
Foreign Notes.


Foreign Notes.
SMALLPOX is said to prevail to an
alarming extent in several of the larger
German cities.
II is said that the house in which
John Calvin lived and died, in Geneva,
is now occupied by Roman Catholic
school.
The perquisitions in the catacombs
under Paris have led to the discovery of
a number of bodies of insurgents half
devoured by rats.
A PARIS halter, whose stock was rid
died with bullets during the seige, now
sells the damaged hats at fabulous
prices as souvenirs of the war.
The proportion of the Iron Cross in
the German army is very unequal.
Where only three soldiers in every
hundred have it, ninety-seven officers
out of each hundred possess either the
first or the second-class cross.
They call the big gun in England the
Woolwich Infant, and load it with
pieric gloxiline, hthofracteur, or some
such compound, whose discharge is
fatal to iron clads at 1000 yards dis
tance.
NJ MILLIERE, formerly aDeputy of
the National Assembly, and then mem
Der of the Commune, was, according to
the Opinion Rationale, recently recog-
nized in Liverpool He did not en-
deavor to conceal his identity, and was
preparing to embark for New York on
one of the Cunard steamers.
The late brilliant festivities at Ber-
lin were accompanied by promotion on
a large scale in the German army. All
soldiers who had been in the field re-
ceived war medal with a ribbon in
the new national colors. To the STAN
dards of the regiments which had been
under fire, ribbons in the colors of the
Order of the Iron Cross were added.
The Paris Figaro says: eve have
learnt that the government of the
United States has announced that it
will prefer no claims against the be-
ligerents for the damages sustained by
American citizens residing in France
during the Franco russian war of
1970-71. Behold how the government
of the model republic guards the inter-
ests of its people,
MAHI-ED-DIN, a son of Abdel Kader,
took part in the insurrection of Algeria
and was killed in the province of Con-
stantine. Abdel Kader disavowed the
step of his son, and as soon as he heard
of his death, issued proclamation
urging his followers to remain true to
France.
The Munich Neueste Nachrichten
reports fact hitherto unprecedented
in Bavaria Formerly the King, all
the Court, the Ministers, and other
great functiona1ies of state, followed
the procession of Corpus Christi; now
the King has informed the Episcopal
body that he should not only be per-
sonally absent from the procession, but
that he should not even be represented
| therein Government employees were
left at entire liberty in the matter.
This is regarded by the opponents OF
Infallibility as a demonstration in THEN
/ favor.
In a recent conversation between
| Prince Bismarck and the Austrian Gen.
| Klapka, Bismarck said: ''The force OF
circumstances, and not our intention,
has brought us together with the South
Germans and led us to acquire Alsace
ana Lorraine. With the German pro
vince of Austria the case is quite diff
ferent We arein want of strong un.
divided Austria, for therein lies a guar
antee of the peace of Europe. We de-
sire to live in peace and friendship with
| Austria Our historical "reminiscences
lead us to Austro- Hungary as the natu
raj friend and ally of the German EN-
pire; that our language is understood
almost throughout the monarchy, and
that we may be said to nave a common
means of union"
ALEX. DUMAS, ir., informs his coun.
trymen, that for some seventy years
they have been nourished upon fictions
upon words that absolutely signified
nothing. Liberty, military glory, uni
versal suffrage, the nation, universal
brotherhood-iD short, every idea that
has dominated Frenchmen since the
year 1889, has been either burlesoued
or misdirected. Everybody is calling
loudly for the man who is to save the
nation. ''He is not far to seek, says
M. Dumas, with an inspiration of com
hand; it is you and I, and all of US j
AT Moscow, Russia, project has
been preached for celebrating next
year the two hundreth anniversary oil
Peter the Greats birthday by grand
national musical festival, to be divided
into two principal parts. It is pro
posed that the first part shall consist Of
a competition between Russian com
posers and the performance of occa-
slonal pieces, or pieces written ex
pressly for the occasion. The second
part will be kind of musico-ethno
graphic exposition, at which the differ
ent races belonging to the Russian En-
plre will execute in their respective
national costumes pieces of popular
music, vocal and instrumental. The
government has signifed it's intention
of contributing one hundred Thousand
roubles toward the enterprise.