Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-21
Foreign Itelns.

Seven thousand women belong to
the German Internationale.
They have established savings
bank at Honolulu, on similar plan to
those in New England.
The steamships Wisconsin, Calabria
and Thuringia, from New York, have
arrived in London.
An "Old Catholic" congress on the
same scale as the great congress held at
Munich, is proposed shortly to be con-
vened at Cologne.
1t is reported that England and
Uruguay have come to an open rupture,
/ and that all friendly relations between
the two nations have ceased.
As a consequence of the new coin
age law, a second law is under consider
alton, authorizing the Bank of Prussia
to keep gold as well as silver bullion.
The Austrian minister of commerce,
Dr. Banhaus, has privately expressed
his intention to adopt the English sys-
TEN of post office savings banks in Aus
tria
-Thiers, at Paris reception, Friday,
spoke upon the Roman question, and in
his remarks maintained that Catholicism
is tradition, and an element of strength
to France.
Several Roman Catholic priests have
been displaced by the Russian Govern
ment for promulgating the infallibility
dogma in their churches in opposition to
a government prohibition.
The Compile de Chambord, while
recently at Antwerp, spoke to a journal
ist ON the Alabama controversy, and
showed that he was conyersant with the
difficulties.and intricacies of the affair.
The French Commission of Pardons
having rejected the appeals of Thedel,
Questin and Giraud, the three Commu-
nists convicted of numbering the host
ages, they were shot Saturday morning
at SartOry.
"A dispatch from Cannes, France,
announces the death in that town of
George Eustis, formerly a member of
the United States House of Representa-
tives, from Louisiana, and later private
secretary of John Slidell when he was
confederate commissioner in France.
"A new petition is in circulation for
presentation to Prince Bismarck in favor
of a further postponement of the intro
ductiOn of compulsory military service
nssAlsace-Lorraine. The petition is OBJ
tanning a great number of signatures.
especially from the Alsatian ladies.
1T is proposed to add a marine de-
Partment to the International Exhibi-
ton of 1878, assigning special gallery
to such articles as can be exhibited on
land, and part Of the harbOr at Trieste
to vessels and other appliances which are
to be seen on the water. 1t is expected
that the maritime nations will send
sufficient exhibits to make the enterprise
a success.
The French Assembly committee
ON Capitulations, which have been inves-
tigating the conduct, during the late
war, of Bazaine. and particularly into
the circumstances of his surrender of
the Notifications of Metz, have finished
their labOrs. The committee submit
a report to the Assembly. recommend
ing that the marshal be tried BY court
martial
SHEEP. The average price of q sheep
in Vermont, not less than one year old,
has advanced since February Of last
year from $275 to $3.50. An advance
of six per cent il Vermont wool is also
reported.
AMOUNT OF FooD FROM 4 BARREL or
FLoUR.-For the purpose of showing
the amount Of food that is ordinarily
made from a barrel of flour, and giving
some idea of the amount of labor it re-
quires to prepare the same, a family i'll
Woodstock, on purchasing a barrel of
flour the 25th of last November, rc6olv-
ed to keep AL account of the amount of
food made from the same. There were
four in the family and the last of the
flour was used Feb. 9th. The result
was as follows: "a loavcs OF bread II
six quart pans of doughnuts; II messes
of biscuits; 81 pies 7 loaves of cake
u dozen of tart crusts; 3 mcsses of
griddle cakes; berry short cake; 3
dozen of ginger snaps; / mess of pail
cakes. -StU5sdGpU