The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Empress of Austria goes to Ire
Hand foc hunting in February, after hel
sons marriage.
THE Viceroy of Ireland receives $780,.
600 year and " allowances" but loses
money because of the hospitality he
must give.
COUNT Won MoLTKE has just passed
his eighty-first birthday, which was cele-
brated by visits from the imperial fami-
ly, the King of Bavaria and other Ger
man sovereigns. The old soldier is said
to be marvelously active.
NJ. HENRI RoCHEFoRT has recently
pointed out in the columns of L'Intra11-
Sigeaaat that the leading spirits of the
luxury and frivolity of the second EN-
pire all bore German names; among
these he cites the late M. Offenbach,
Mile. Hortense Schneider, M. Hauss-
man and the Comtesse de Metternich.
The question of fortifying Copenha-
gen is just now being much discussed in
Denmark, the supporters of the Gov
ernment urging that such measure has,
in the present state of affairs in Europe,
become indispensable, while the mem
bers of the Left oppose it on account of
the expense it would occasion.
PRINCE BISMARCK has sent commits
sion to Alsace to study the condition of
the workmen there, especially with re-
gard to their dwellings,, which are some
what on the English cottage principle,
every man living in his own house. This
system seems to be in favor with the
Chancellor, who wishes it to be intro
duced all over Germany by Government
help.
THE aged Emperor of Germany is de-
scribed as looking very imposing, when,
with his wife on. his arm, he emerged
from the venerable Cathedral at Co
logne followed by long train of princes
and generals. He took his place in
pavilion prepared on the platz, and
signed record which, after having also
been signed by sixty-seven German
princes and notabilities, was placed in
long silver tube and given over to the
workmen to be deposited in the princi-
pal stone cross at the top of the Cathe-
dral spire, $50 feet above.
A SECTION of the German press is at
last beginning to admit that the annex
alton of Alsace-Lorraine was a blunder,
and that it is another German Venetia.
The immense sums sunk in extending
the Notifications of Strasbourg and con-
structing new ones made great gap in
the war indemnity, and now that it is ex-
hausted, their maintenance and that of
the army of occupation weigh heavily
on the already overburdened finances of
the country. The anniversary of the
surrender of Strasbourg was the occa-
sion of numerous articles favorable to re-
storing the territories wrested from
France, in exchange for pecuniary
equivalent.
THERE have been some curious pro-
'ceedings in England under the new
Burials act. In Worcestershire, vicar
being away from home, his wife read
the entire burial service over parish
Toner. At Seaham a Roman Catholic
priest refused to bury a child when not
ice was given that he would do so; and,
the vicar being away, the body re-
manned some hours in the churchyard
unburied. On the other hand, at Glass
dale, Yorkshire, the vicar has offered
piece of land out of the glebe to the
Roman Catholic. priest for interments;
while perhaps the most remarkable
thing that has happened is that the ex-
treme Ritualist, Mr.. Mossman, vicar of
West Torrington, Lincolnshire, reputed
to be Bishop of the Order of Corpor-
ate Reunion, allowed Dissenting min
lister at funeral to preach In his
church.