Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-07
Foreign Notes.


and visitors were excluded five hours
until the beast was captured.
THE London Graphic has been sued
for making a noise by a lodging-house
keeper who occupies house adjoining
the press room.
MARSHALL O. ROBERTS, J. M. Bixby
and August Belmont have spent re-
Gently large amount of money among
the American artists in Rome.
M. THEIRS has a pet dog, known as
Tampa, which roams about Paris all
day with an elaborate collar about its
neck, bearing the name of the owner.
THE debt of the City of Berlin has
been increased IN the course Of the last
year to 8, 1853, ,304 thalers, an increase of
$50, 759 during the year.
In London on the 5th of April VIM.
Alex. Roberts, stock broker, was
brought before the Lord Mayor, charg
ed with forging a draft of Ell, 500.
A LADY now in Edinburgh wears
mole-sbin mantle, manufactured from
the coats of nearly six hundred moles
captured on her own property.
The play bills of some of the Partisan
theatres have printed on them a map of
the principal streets In the vicinity, for
the convenience of strangers.
On train from Paris to Versailles,
recently, the placard "For ladies'" in
d1cating a reserved compartment for
the fair sex, was accidentally changed
to g Unclaimed Baggage
FRANCE has imposed a tax on chest
nuts. AS Paris consumes no fewer than
half a million bushels annually, it is
reckoned that this tax will yield up
wards of $780, 900 to the treasury.
The Ritualists in England, with
view of fanking the liberal party, have
formed a society for the buying of
advowsons in prominent centres as they
fall vacant, in order to present them to
clergymen of unquestionably orthodox
opinions.
OLLJyIRR DE KERNEL lately died of
remorse for the murder of his brother,
while in the prison at Toulon, France,
to which he was sentenced for life.
CALEB CUSHING thinks Sir Alexander
Cockbur injured the English case at
Geneva by his bad manners, as much
as Charles Francis Adams helped the
American case by his uniform courtesy
and dignified bearing.
LEADING members of the British
Parliment have contributed to monu-
ment which is soon to be erected over
the remains Of ptonewall Jackson.
This monument has been finished and
is soon to be sent over to this country.
LONDON letters declare that James
Anthony Froude will make another
visit to this country this year, as his
first visit has given him an increased
desire to become acquainted with all
parts of the Republic.
RIMMIL, the famous French per-
fumer, will have special pavilion at
the exposition, where he will allow the
public to see how he manufactures his
jockey club, white rose, new mown
hay, etc.
Nor long ago 1900 feet of land in
Coleman street, London, were sold for
$50, 900, or $50 foot, and more re-
Gently piece of land in the same
neighborhood was sold at the rate of
1852 foot, OF IS, 500, 900 an acre.
The Russian Government has order
ed the Jewish state schools and the
rabbis' schools throughout the empire
to be closed, and the schools and
seminaries under control of the Gov
ernment to be substituted for them.
The commission intrusted with the
purchase of site for the erection of
new German House of Parliament has
decided in favor of Knoll's establish
ment in the Thiergarten which it will
buy at total cost of 2,541, 900 thalers.
INTELLIGENCE has bren received in
Peru of the death of Don Francisco
Garmendia, the second President
in ITALY, on the 4tn of February last.
His death has been very much felt all
over the Republic.
A FRIAR was lately arrested in Rome
for passing counterfeit money. Several
hthographIc stones that he had with
him were identified as those used i'll
the manufacture of counterfeit twenty
five franc notes since 1869. His asser.
tion that he had found the stones was
not believed implicitly when immoral
pictures and other evidences of lewd
tastes were discovered in his rooms.
The editor of the Roman Catholic
pdDcl OCI IiuJId 1ldS OCOL OChuCnCCo W
four months Imprisonment for repub-
fishing an article from the London
Spectator criticising the action of the
German Government towards the
church. This is very pregnant illus
tration of the kind of civil and relig-
ious liberty which now prevails in Ger
many.
A LETTER from Rome gives the fol.
lowing gossip: How proud you must
be when Story's ''Jerusalem F" is placed
in your new Academy of Fine Arts It
will be severely criticised, of course.
Ali great works of art are. Besides the
ordinary cause of objection that some
persons always make to that which is
worthy of admiration, the tintlng of
the statue will certainly give rise to
carping. But the tinting produces a
! wonderful effect; it makes the marble
soft as flesh. The shading is light
brown, and the face, hands and arms
are darker than the drapery. The life
like expression of the beautiful,
naughty, sad face is startling 1t must
beplaced in a position apart from other
statues, N an alcove alone. Marshall
! o. Roberts, of New York, has bought
/ Story's Salome.
On the night of the I'd of April a
goods train starting from Limerick,
/ Ireland, passed Charlevilie and then
4 stopped. The astonished guard jumped
from his box and ran up to the engine,
but when he arrived neither fireman
nor driver was visible. The light of
i his lamp, however, revealed traces of
blood and hair. He at once searched
the line on the back track, and this
discovered first the drivers hat aud
next his dead body lying on the sleep,
ers Taking the tram on to Buttevant,
he reported the facts to the police, who
set on foot search after the missing
fireman. They found him the next
morning in a cabin not far from the
railway, and got possession of his
clothes, which we're stained with evi
} dence of his guilt. 1t is reported that
he referred the death of his comrade tC
a sudden quarrel caused by the drivers
violence towards him,