Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Prince Rudolph will be married by civil
ceremony at Brussels; the religious rites
will be conducted at Vienna The
young people are to live at Prague.
EARL BEACoNsFIELD was never bet
ter than at the present moment. Health
and spirits are both excellent, and he is
so good walker that he tires out any
lady friends who venture pedestrian ex-
ercise with him.
QUEEN LOUISE WILHELMINE FREDE-
RIKKA CAROLINE AUGUSTA JULIA, of
Denmark, although past sixty, is re-
markedly youthful in appearance and
has been sometimes taken for the elder
sister of her daughters, Alexandra and
Thyra. The Queen is devoted mother.
She is an admirable pianist and is fond
of music TO enthusiasm.
THE French Communists are growing
holder every day. One of their organs,
the Egdlite, publishes the following
paragraph: "At the request OF num-
Der Of our readers, and in commemora-
ton of the workmen's blood which was
shed like water in April and May, 1871,
the Egaiite will continue to appear in
red during the two months that the red
flag of the Commune floated at the Hotel
de Vile of Paris
THE German Crown Prince and Prin-
cess have been objects of much pleas
ant feeling during their stay at Pigli.
An English lady who visited them not
unfrequently relates that it was delight
full to see ''Unseren Fritz" the hero OF
a hundred fights, in his domestic circle,
the companion and cOmrade of his
children, gathering bouquets of wild
flowers with fresh and healthy pleas
ure, which are borne in triumph by
father and daughters to their mother,
who has always genuine English taste
for country enjoyments.
The brigands that lately captured
Col. SINCE have now seized DIR. Marulis,
. German naturalist, who was travelling
through Albania and Bessarabia for
scientific purposes. The ransom de-
manded for the prisoner is 5000, be-
sides a full assortment of trousers,
waistcoats, and jackets. The letter
forwarded by the brigands to the Ger
man Consul at Salonica threatens to
put the prisoner to death if their de-
mand is not Immediately complied with,
and promises, on the other hand, that a
new suit of clothes will be presented to
the Doctor if the ransom be paid forth
with.
AN exceptionally clever young man
has just been made Secretary of the
German Embassy in Paris. His name
is Baron Thielman, and he has written
some excellent books of travel in the
Caucasus and Central America, and is
fine ancient and modern linguist. He
fought through the Franco russian
war, and distinguished himself at Sedan
by strange feat-the writing in Hin
doostanee on the field of battle vivid
account of Napoleon's surrender. The
letter, which fell into the hands of the
French, produced great sensation,
particularly as it was said to have been
the work of common soldier.
THE admirers of Marshal MacMahon
will be sorry to hear that he is in pecu-
MARY difficulties. A few weeks ago q
great part of the furniture of the Paris
residence of the ex-President was sold
by auction. The property disposed of
included several valuable paintings and
some rare old furniture of the Louis
Quatorze period. The auction was
largely attended, and from every mouth,
without distinction of party, there fell
expressions of respectful sympathy with
the old soldier who neither in the army
nor as chief of the State had ever turned
a farthing of the public moneys into his
own pocket.
The interesting old Flemish city Of
Bruges, which in the height of its pros
perity had a population Of some 200, 900
souls, has since the sanguinary perse-
cutions under Philip H., been gradually
declining in wealth and numbers, so
that at present it does not possess one