Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-02-03
WAR NOTES.

WAR NOTES.
King william has ordered the purchase Of the
lands IN France where German SELLERS are
buried.
As many as twelve French dukes, Of the Oldest
sui most distinguished lineage, have been killed
or seriously wounded during the rresent war
OF forty-seven Sisters OF Charity who have
employed themselves in attending to the patients
who are sfiicted by smallpox in the Paris hospi-
tsls, eleven have died.
OF the seyenty-nine French generals who were
in active service at the beginning Of the war
according TO the Paris .N0nneur), there are
now left only thirteen, the rest being prisoners,
or among the killed and wounded Gems
Aurel.es de IA Piladine and Lamonterouge were
pensioners.
There is characteristic Story Of General Man
teuffel's " liberslity" al houen. The general
seni for barber, who consequently attended
upon him at the inn. The general next sent to
the inkeeper for NAPOLEON, and gave it to the
barber for his services
Twenty-ihree Trappisis have quilted their
monastery at Dombes, in the Ain Department,
and have joined the Garie Mobile A French
provincial Journal which announces the fact pre-
diets that their devoteluess and bravery in the
field will be eQuSl 70 their shuegation and cour-
age in The cloister aud in agriculture
On the memorable battefelds Of Wissenburg
and Woerth there is little left TO remind one Of
the fearful slaughters few houses. parts Of
the wall and gates, and the Chateau on the
Weissenburg side show signs Of the deadly strife,
and a number OF mounds which cover thousands
Of the fallen-sil in hesps OF 50 many hundred
in each-is al that remains
As an illustration Of the accuracy of fring Of
the Paris gunners, it IS stated that German
chaplain and officer, who shared the same bed
room in a chateau before Paris, neglected one
night TO elise their shutters before lighting their
bed-can1le, and Immediately were salutei By
shell from Fort AubervilHers, which came
crashing through their room. killing both its
occupants.
A correspondent Of the London Times was in
formed by the Secretary Of the Friends War
Victims Committee that ,hst Society, up TO
December :. had received el6,Sz7 from the
Quskers Of the United Kingdom As the whole
body numbers only $1,000. their voluntary
Offering in aid OF the sufferers BY foreign war
reaches the surprising sum Of 81 per head for
every man, woman and child.
Around Paris the rich furniture Of hundreds
Of villas has been burned to warm the soldiers
Nothing burns 50 well as piano wood At
Versailles they are eating sll the CO rs, and the
destruction Of every young animal as soon as
born will make famine in the future. At one
point we are toll Of fifty thousand men sleeping
IN the open air on frosty night, warming
themselves from time to time at huge fires OF
unthTeshed wheat, which added their glow to the
hres Of burning villages.
The losses OF the Saxon troops before Paris
amounted, up 10 the 2nd ultimo, to >, % killed,
wounded and missing 90 that day alone the
Schuizen regiment lost SOL mel, or about a
third Of its effective force. " In common with
the whole country, says a letter from Dresden,
our King has been sfresh painfully affected by
the largeness Of these losses" The writer adds
that the entire Saxon fortress artillery has been
despatched to Paris.
The famous factory Of china at Seyres being
in range of the French guns, the director applied
to tine Grown Prince TO have the magnificent mu-
scum Ct decorative art contained in it removed to
a place Of safety 1t WAS stored in the chateau
Of Versailles But Prusssn officers have sue
cessfully selected and conveyed - from it until
hardly anything s left And the frugal homes
Of ofPommeru aud Branieuburg are accordingly
embelshed With the masterpieces of modern pot
terry, the spoil Of Seyres.
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ton in terms Neserlheless. il ever a city was
mildly invaded-oecupiei gently that city is
Rouen Not one shop is closed, nor, as far az
an ordinary observer eau judge, has the petty
commerce Of the town teen in any way iuterfered
with. But capital is too sensitive not to take
fright at an actual occupation Of the enemy.
Nearly sll the great factories and print works,
whose operations constitute Rouen's wealth. are
closed, and the distress Of the unhappy work
people is very great,
Recollecting the unhappy fate Of the library
st Strasbourg, which Was completely burned
during the siege, it is some consolation TO lovers
of books that Metz escaped H bombsTdment, so
that her library and museum remain still intact.
The library consists Of about 80, 900 volumes Of
printed books, and ll57 MSS, many of which
date as far back as the tenth. eleventh. twelfth,
and thirteenth centuries. Some are beautifully
illuminated, and others are historically valuable,
such as the Chronicles Of Paul Ferry aud Philippe
de Vigneulles,
The silk makers Of Lyons recently sent i'm
/ mense quantities of goods abroad under the sp-
prehension Of visit from the Prussians. At
I Msrseiles, one commissionaire lately sent of
/ Lyons silk amounting to l0,000, 600 francs in
value in few weeks another despatched silks
to the value Of 10000, 900 francs These goods
Z
The balloon Iost is threatened with a new enc
my, balloon cannon, constructed by Krupp. at
/ Essen It consists of platform resting on four
wheels, movable in all directions from the centre
Of which an iron cylinder, FIVE feet high, rises
obliquely. In the upper part of this fixed eylin-
| der tOlerably short gun is inserted. movable in
all directions. The arrangement is something
like that Of large stationary telescopes The range
of the gun is 1900 to 1900 feet
At Vernon, writes q war correspondent, we
/ found no Prussians, but. what comes to nearly
/ the same thing. the marks Of Prussisn chalk on
the outer doors Prussisn chalk causes French
paralysis , and when you see 1.-TWO under-offi-
/ GERS and FIVE soldiers " or three soldiers and
six horses - inscribed on the portal Of a house,
we know not only that the PrussiaDs have been
there, but that they may at any time come back,
and that in the meanwhile the place. without,
perhaps, having been materially injured, has
been terrorized. so that the inhabitants do not
dare even to efface the terrible chalk marks,
which are the pslpsble signs Of their humilia
tion.
/ The Pairie on the 18th December gives list
of Paris prices Asses fesh was ? fr per ID. !;
mules, ditto cat, fr.; dog, 10 fr.; duck.
| 20 fr.; chicken, Is fr.; mutton kidneys. 2 fr. !;
mutton outlets. II. 50c.; eggs, IT, each butter,
/ l5s to 2Of per pound ssusages, 50c. each s
turkey, S0f.; goose, 40f.; pike. 25f. leg Of NUT
] ton, l2E; coffee. 81 per To-; sugar, o0c.i salt,
IL 5Oc.; pepper, IT, Soc; lard. af' salad oil,
/ II lamp oil, 2f 50c.; candles, 2E The restau-
rants, il adds, were open as usual, the only DIFF
ference being that while fowls, mutton and reef
were still eaten in the first class ones the flesh Of
horses, asses and dogs was consumed in second
! rate. and cat and rat in small establishments.