The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-03-01
Foreign Items.

GOLD has been discovered on the
River OIekhta, near Nertchinsk, IN
Eastern Siberia
ELEVEN new Hungarian banks. it is
reported from Vienna, are to be form
ed under government concession, with
a united capital of $4,000, 600.
DIR. WESLEY the eminent church
musician and organist of Gloucester.
Eng) Cathedral, has been placed on
the civil list for an annual pension of
f100.
GARIBALDI is said to be writing a
novel entitled 1.-The Hyena of Paris, y
the title to which, report speaks, as
referring ungallantly to the Empress
of the French.
ONE of the objects of Count Schou-
valoff7s mission to London is said TO
have been the negotiation of mar
riage between Prince Alfred and the
young Grand Duchess.
The Unltarians are about to erect in
the central part of London. a public
hall, at a cost OF $4,000 toward
which subscriptions to the amount of
sS55, 900 have already been subscribed.
SANITARY measures occupy the atten-
ton of the citizens of St Petersburg
| Cholera and small -pox having become
domesticated in that city, system of
drainage has at last been decided upon.
News has been received at Hong
question has been conceded, and that
foreign ministers will have an audience
of the Emperor at the first Chinese
moon.
A SIGNAL light has been introduced
| upon one of the towers of Houses of
Parliament at Westminster, to be kept
burning when the House is sitting, to
be extinguished when the House has
adjourned.
A SIBERIAN railway is talked of. It's
proposed course is from RybInsk to
Viatka, via Yaroslavi and Kostroma-
its farther course being from Viatka to
Perm (on the Kama and thence across
the Ural to Exaterinburg.
In view of the anticipated influx, next
summer, any quantity of boarding
house agencies have been established
III Vienna, and all are said to have
more orders than they have any rea-
sonable hope of being able to fill.
The new streets of the part of Rome
now being built near Pratorian camp
are to be named after battles fought
for the independence of Italy; as, for
instance, Magenta, Solferino, Pales-
tro, San MARITIME, Vclturno, Castelfda-
TO, etc.
THROUGH desperate ARRAY with
poachers at Felix Hall, near Kelvedon,
England, the seat of Sir H. Western,
two keepers have sustained injuries of
such severity that their state is con-
sidered critical. The poachers fought
most determinedly, and got off with
out one capture being effected.
Mr.. CALDWELL has just taken an i'm
portant step which should have consid-
cradle influence on the morals of the
English army. Hitherto, if a woman
has had an illegitimate child 10y sol
der, she has not been able to enforce
any contribution from the father to-
wards the maintenance of the child.
This regulation will no longer be one
of the rules of the service.
HE treasury of the city of Paris re-
ceives from the Punch and Judy booths
and merry go rounds in the Champs
Elysees SIS, $1,000 annual rent the
cafes, &C., in Bots de Boulogne, sos
294 those in Bots de Vincenncs, S14,-
093 those in Parcide de Buttes Chau-
moni, $3.50: squares and public gardens
only S205.60, The rent of chairs and
the sale of orange flowers are not in
cluded in the foregoing figures.
The strike of the 10000 coal miners
III South Wales mas already produced
serious consequences. The shops of
the Great Western Railway Company
at Swindon have been compelled to
stop work from sheer inability to obtain
the coal which supplies their motive
power, and this is but single instance
of the effects of the strike to be traced |
III every direction. There is some
little hope that the masters and men
may arrive at a settlement OF the dis
pute between them. The men are per-
fectly willing to submit to the propos-
ed reduction of wages if a board of |
arbitration shall decide that it is nee
essary; but the masters, with at least
an apparent distrust of the merits of
their own case, have thus far declined |
to submit to this arrangement
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Dres-
den, Saxony, of the winter season in
that city of favorite resort with Am eri-
can and English visitors, makes some
interesting revelations concerning the |
ways and manners of our countrymen
and couutrywomen there. The num-
Der of the American colony in the Sax
on capital is put down at l, 200 iudivid-
uals, and of English about 800. An
American and English quarter is now
recognized as among distinctive local.
ties in Dresden, the limits being well
defined. Indeed. in certain section
MANY spacious and elegant villas have
been built i'll a quarter beyond Bis
marck platz, and the street known as
Wienerstrasse, which is occupied mostly