Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-04-14
From Our Regular Correspondent
Paris Letter.
PARIS, France, March 27, 1880.


The celebrated ham fair is being held in
the Boulevard Richard Lenor. and calls
forth the usual humorous remarks from
the French press. As in former years.
the stalls present Heterogeneous spectacle
of everything that is made of pork, from
hams which hail from all the countries
between Westphalia and York, to sausages
of every shape, flavor and size. At one
end OF the fair large trade is being done
in horse, mule, and even ass flesh, and it
cannot be denied that these unusual arti-
cles of food have decidedly appetlzing
appearance. Crowds of people flock to
the fair every day.
Leaning on the arm of his stalwart
secretary, NJ. Arnaud de rArege, NJ.
Gambeta yesterday visited the water
color show in the Rue Lafitte. The presi.
dent of the chamber, though still some-
what pale and worn, is daily improving in
health.
The German socialists evidently have
not the same knack of making their meet
ings a success rs have their French con-
frereS, whose conviviality generally ends
in the Marsaeillaise." being sung with
more Or less harmony by all present. Last
week the German revolutionsts residing
in Paris held a private meeting, and two
police officers in plain clothes having been
discovered in their midst, the unfortunate
myrmidons of the law were subjected to a
considerable amount of rough handling,
which will probably result in the impris-
onmcnt of their aggressors.
The Paris geographical society is ar
ranging grand reception for Professor
Nordenskiold, and fearing that the socie-
tvs premises would be too small for the
number of people who will flock to greet
the eminent Swedish explorer. the presi-
dent has secured the Cirque and Champs
ElyseGs for the ceremony. The date will
be fixed at the professors arrival, and on
the following day grand banquet will be
offered him at the Continental Hotel.
A manuscript supposed TO have been
written by st. Peter has lately been dis
covered among the property of n man
named Bore, who died last year at Jeru.
salient, at the age of one hundred and nine
The style of the work has led to the con-
clusion that it is authentic, and it is stated
that the London Bible society, which has
dispatched committee to the spot, has
offered Bore's heirs the sum of twenty
thousand pounds for its possession. The
heirs, however, refuse to part with the
manuscript, though it seems probable
that they will allow the society TO repro
duce and translate it.
A most valuable historical curiosity ha:
been discovered by peasant in the de-
partment of the Pas de Calais. 1t con.
sists of piece of gold chain, part of a
necklace, bearing on the one side thu
monogram of Queen Bathilde, wife O.
| Clovis H., and on the other the head O
Christ. with inscription. A lawyer
who bought the relic for trtling sum O
money from the peasant, has, since finding
its value, presented him with a considera-
bic amount
The communists are growing boldel
every day. One of their organs, the
EsaIite, publishes the following paragraph
"At the request of a number of GU
readers, and in commemoration of tn
workmen blood which was shed like waite
in April and May, 1871, the Eyalitc will
continue to appear in red during the tw,
months that the red flag Of the commune
floated at the Hotel de Vile of Paris. " Tn,
DroU SociI Of Lyons says Citizens
you tete the return Of might to right, tn
employment of force for the good G
humanity. The revolutionists of Lyons
full of confidence in this the only element
of progress, send with their hopes of an ap
proaching triumph their brotherly saluta
tions to their co-religionists of the Egatite.