Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-28
NO.. 27.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A report mas somehow got current In
ST. Petersburg that an apartment is Just
now being furnished very comfortably in
the fortress of Schlusselburg, which has
always been appropriated as the residence
of Russian political prisoners of high rank.
1t is believed that the real chief of the
Nihilist conspiracy has at last been dis
covered, and that this apartment is des-
tined for him.
A millionaire-an Italian Senator-re-
siding at Monteleone, was on his way to
Pizza few days ago, when he unwilling
ly dropped from his carriage packet of
notes of the value of $4,000 francs. A
poor peasant who noticed the accident
picked up the parcel, and running after :
the carriage gave up the missing property
to Cr@sus, who rewarded him with a gra-
cious smile and continued his journey.
The Paris Gazette des Tribunaux pub
fishes the following note: "Several Jew
elers having sent to the Prefect of Police
complaints of swindling against the head
of family bearing very great name, an
inquiry has been ordered. The fact stat
ed is that numerous purchases of Jewels
had been made on credit on the pretence of
marriage, and Immediately sold to other
dealers. The amount is said to reach
nearly Million
The noble ladies of Vienna met last
week at the palace of Count Hoygos, in
the Kaiserstadt, to compose an address of
feciliation to the Princess Stephoine on
! her approaching marriage. To the lot
of Princess Pauline de Metternich it fell
to draw up the document, which has al
ready been covered with the signatures of
the Lichtenstein, the Auersbergs, the
| Schwartzenbergs, the Odelschalchis, and
all that is gllttering i'll the golden book of
Austria.
'Quelques Mots sur les Danses Mod
ernes' is the title of a pamphlet by the
! Viscount de Brieux Saint Laurent.
"Young Christian girls" says the Wis
count, ''will polka, then waltz; then the
| polka-mazurka, then schottische, etc.,
passes them into the arms and on to the
palpitating breasts of excited young men
and now the purest young girl gives her
self up, between two cOmmunions, to the
clasp OF the first cOmer-officer, students.
mar OF fashion, etc-Mothers foo]ishly
applaud, and there are balls where moth
ing is danced but these modern dances,
which regard as prostitution
Another set of st. Helena willow-slips
is going out to Zululand in addition to
that taken by Sir Evelyn Wood. The
Empress herself has some which did not
come direct from ST. Helena, but from a
tree in the deanery garden at Windsor.
| which hoe, n Il ae
shoot from the celebrated tree at st. He
lena, and, like the weired elm in Crook
wood" has grim legend attached to it
At'the time of the fall Of the Empire at
Sedan, one great limb of this tree came
crashing to the ground; and, more strange
yet, last June bough fell off.
Lotteries were suppressed in France in
1886. Since that date they have only
appeared in a modified form. The first
took place in 1849, that OF the artistes.
1t was lottery of / 100000 francs. Then
came the ''Lingots DOR" the '"Vase d'ar-
gent" and the lottery of the "Blesses de
PArmee d'Orient," at 25 centimes the
ticket under the patronage of Prince
Napoleon; the lottery of the "Roe-Ama-
dour' for the erection of church, that Of
'Saint-Point'' for Lamartine, those of the
"Orpheline," the "Enfants Pauvres,'
''Bel-Air,' ''Saint-Cloud, in 1864; the
lotteries ofChateauronx, Bordeaux and les
Andelys, in 1866; that Of Toulouse. in
1868. Since the war there have been the
great ''Loterie Rationale" the Franco
American Lottery, which is still open,
and the Franco-Spanish.
Two adventures named Mandel and
Maujard have been charged in Paris with
defrauding a number of persons of their
savings by pretended financial agency
in the Rue Rochechouart and Boulevard
Magenta Mandel was the leading spirit
in these transactions, Maujard being rath-
er tool in his hands. Their acquaintance
in fact, arose from the circumstance of
these two worthless having for mistresses
two sisters. Although both were without
resources they started a fictitious banking
company with supposed capital of 1OO,-
600 francs and induced number of per-
sons to intrust them with money for in
vestment. Mandel, after short career,
absconded, leaving deficit of 145OOO
francs. He was tried for default and was
sentenced to five. years imprisonment and
5000 francs fine. Mauiard who was in
custody, was condemned to six months.
A swindler named Seligmann, who de-
scribed himself as financial agent, has
appeared before the Paris Tribunal of
Correctional Police on numerous charges
OF fraud. His usual practice was to fre-
quent the reasing-room at the Grand
Hotel, introduce himself under some pre-
text to the travellers staying in the estab-
lishment, boasting of his relations with
persons Of note, Baron Haussmann, M.
Soubeyron and others, and then dupe
them by whatever expedient chanced to
present itself. One witness, Mile. Ne
grini, an operatic singer had incautious-
ly mentioned to him that she was about
to give concert at the Sale Erard. He
at once offered to place tickets among his
distinguished acquaintance, and she in
trusted him with packet representing
sum of 700 francs, of which he sold part