Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-01
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
AN election riot occurred at San Luis
Potosi, on the Doth of May One of
the electors was killed by soldiers called
out to quell the disturbance.
A SAD calamity happened lately at
the Waliswyl- Wangen ferry on the Aar
On nearing this side of the river, where
the current is very strong, the boat,
containing seven passengers, besides
the ferryman, capsized. The eight
persons were carried away by the rapid
stream and all drowned.
THE real value of the treaty Just con.
cluded between the British Govern
ment and the Ameer of Yarkund is
not commercial, but political The
total amount of trade can scarcely exceed
a quarter of million. But it is real
advantage to England to be able to
mountain a European Envoy at Court
which knows pretty accurately all that
passes in Central Asia, and has the
strongest interest in keeping itself we'll
informed
IHE Italian government now carries
on more actively than ever archaeology
cal researches in Rome, the Italian
Parliament havingj ust voted $4,000
for the excavations this year; it had
voted 200 for each of the two preyi-
Gus years. The whole length of the
Forum Romanum is cleared out down
to the pavement, with part of the Via
Sacra, the Summa Via Sacra, and the
Colosseum, and the work is going on
steadily under the direction of Signor
Rosa.
The celebration of the Queens birth
day was duly observed in London on
the Both utlimo. There was the usual
ceremony of the colors at the Horse
Guards, and the customary demon
strations of loyalty. The judges in the
several courts wore their crimson robes
and full-dress wigs, the chiefs of the
respective courts having in addition,
the gold chain or collar which consti-
tute the insignia of their high offices.
The Queens counsel also appeared in
there full-bottom wigs.
AT the N1evre election great advan-
tage was taken by the Bonapartist
agents of the visit paid by the Emper-
or of Russia to the Empress Eugene.
They everywhere affirmed that the
Emperor is in favor of the Princes ad-
vent to the throne, the faithful ally Of
France, so that France could then
speedy take her revenge They also
said that the Prince Imperial would
marry the Princess Beatrice of Eng
land, and thus become the brother-in-
law of the future King of England and
relative of the Russian Imperial
family.
The New Shakespeare Society, says
the Orchestra, is engaged in the ap-
propriate labor of attempting to show
that Shakespeare did not write most of
the works popularly attributed to him,
but that he wrote several boshy pieces
hitherto honored by association with
his name. The New Shakespear
Society insists that considerable por-
tlons OF Shakspeare's plays were writ
ten by Cyril Tourneue, Wilkens, Row
ley and others. In course of time the
New Shakespeare Society will argue
Shakespeare out of the library alto
gether. He is already pretty well
chased from the stage.
A CRYSTAL fountain has been manu-
featured in London for the Maharaia of
Puttiala. The height of the whole
fountain is twenty-three feet six inches,
and its weight two and one quarter tons.
On broad marble base is a platform
of richly-cut glass, from which rises a
large central shaft, surrounded by six
columns, composed of prisms of crystals,
very richly cut on the inner side, and
fitted so exactly that the joints are i'm
preceptible. A cornice of glass con-
meets the columns, each of which is
surmounted by large globe of solid
crystal, cut in triangular facets of
minute exactness From the capital of
the central shaft depend two rows of
large crystal pendants. From the
massive trunk rises in curves of great
beauty a crystal basin eight feet in
diameter, IN which is placed the princi-
pal row of jets The basin is scalloped.
and is cut on the upper side to represent
the ripple and play of water. Near
where the basin meets the trunk is
suspended a row of pendants and ovoid-
cut drops perfectin purity and brilliancy.
Above the basin the design changes.
Elegant scrolls of glass, festooned and
arranged In three tiers, carry the Jets
IN the upper part of the work, which
terminates In prismatic star and point
ed hexagonal ornament
A sAoRnEGIoUs robbery of rare au-
dacity has taken place at the Church of
st. Philippe du Roul, in the Eau,
bourge st Honore, Paris. Some work
men were lately employed to do some
repairs to the roof The day after they
were done, three men with s. horse and
cart came down at monday to the back
of the church, set up ladder, gained
the top, and threw down sheets of
lead, which they made off with. The
neighbors, fancying them to be the
same men before employed, took no
notice OF their proceedings. They con-
tinued their robbery for three days
running, and made away with as much
as six Thousand pounds of lead. 1t
was nottill the rain fell through thereof
upon the Vestry room that an inspection
was made, which led to the discovery