The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-12
FOREIGN NOTES.

The monks of the Gothard Hospice state that DUR
ing the ending September 80 they have relieved
whom they have distributed Al, 900 rations. They
have also granted hospitality to l32 persons suffer-
ing from the effects OF exposure
London Maxfair:-s'There Is a strange story going
round that Russian peasant who formed of a
party OF pilgrims to the Holy City the other day,
begged, during her sojourn in Rome, audience
with the Pope. alleging as excuse that she had
weighty secret to imIArt His Holiness, acting
under advice declined the proffered honor The
peasant. however, before leaving. confded OF
the priests of the Vatican that she hidden by
her mother on her deathbed to acquaint the Pope
that huge treasure some 6000 900 gold rubles) had
been hidden in the city of Moscow by Napoleon /.
during his stay there in 1872. and that the where
abouts of this treasure known only to the pill
grim. What truth there is in the statement remains
yet to be but report says that the Holy Father
IL much exercised in mind"
Don Carlos has not, as alleged been expelled, bet
has been told that If he continued travel about
France for the purpose OF demonstrations he will
incur that penalty. He therefore repaired Eng
land but this under previous arrangement. and
he returns to Paris in few weeks. when he
by the warning. Meanwhile the Gasette
de France represents the government
inconsistent In taking no notice of senior Gorilla or
Mr.. Gladstone "implacable and violent enemies of
the Spanish and English governments and Cabinets"
and regrets that "nstead Of the English Italians,
Swiss and Badeners who rule France, there is not
Turk who would restore the traditions of Louis
XIv.s reception of the Pretender and would initiate
the Sultan's refusal to give up NJ Kossuth to Aus
tra.
London MaWair 81 am sorry to hear that Lam
artines villa III the Bots is to be demolished 1t has
been sold, and the Paris Municipality decided that
the purchaser should pull it down. Such the
fate OF Rossinis villa. which once stood near it,
Both the houses were historical, and l cannot but
think that the demolition OF these old landmarks is
becoming too common in Paris nowadays. house
in which such poet as Lamartine lived and died.
and in which his widow. the romantic English girl,
dispensed such noble hospitality and charity is to
me something of sanctuary. and should think.
share better fate than to make way for
mental garden or stucco fountain. Such is France
however and the spirit of the age to be whole
Tho tna
Republic seems only one whit less ferocious in its
levelling propensities.
Afew days ago one .Amicus" declared in the st.
Petersburg Vodomostt that "the women Of Germany
undoubtedly hold the lowest place among the women
OF the Continent not only in beauty but in wit and
..does this Anxious (which take to be
Latin Lat for ass know n of the world beyond
names Of beauties and wits that crowd upon
our memory, where. we ask, will you find grander
ideal of constitutional sovereign than in Queen
Victoria, greater diplomat than in Catherine the
Great, more lovely female than in Marie An
toinette? The theory is too ridiculous to deserve
mediately arrested lunatic at large" English
society journals are indignant that Queen Victoria
should be thought to be q German.
curious tragedy was recently enacted at Lttowk,
the Russian frontier il may credit the Austrian
journal the Fremde,s1latt. 1t appears from that
hsS pnp yed o and at s the
hired peasant for twenty-five pieces of silver,
facilitate the departure OF the ola man from this yale
crime the peasant repented, and. going to the in
tended victim. confessed all that HAD passed The
father made him promise to pretend to hisemployer
that the crime had been committed. and he then
went to the Rabbi Joseph Beer. before whom
he laid tho matter. After due elaboration
the rabbi determined to the and
to inform him that his murdered father had
appeared to him in dream. and he asked his MUIR
whether he would appear before terrestrial
celestial jury. The son. quite overwhelmed. chose
the former tribunal, which was accordingly formed
and consisted OF ten influential parisaioners The
father placed behind curtain. The prisoner
having been placed at the bar the judges rose and
the rabbi solemnly invited the spirit Of the dead
to bring forward his accusation Hardly had
the recognized the voice of his father when he
was seized with and fell down dead. The
of the province learning what had passed,
at cansed the rabbi and the other members OF
the court to be arrested.