Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


THE Empress Of Austria goes 10 Ire
land for hunting in February, after her
sons marriage.
THE Viceroy Of ireland receives S100,-
600 a year and " Allowances" but loses
money because Of the hospitality he
must give,
COUNr Won MoLrKE has Just passed
his eighty-frst birthday, which was cele-
brated by visits from the imperial fami-
", the King of Bavaria and other Ger
man sovereigns The old soldier is said
20 be marvelously active.
az. HENRI RoCHEFoRT has recently
pointed out in the columns of L'Intran-
sigednt that the leading spirits Of the
luxury and friyolity of the second En-
pire all bore German names; among
these he cites the late M. Offenbach,
Nile. 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,
an 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 a commits
sion 10 Alsace to study the condition of
the workmen there, especially with re-
gard 10 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
dueed all Lover Germany by Government
help. N..-r ...'-# 90
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 a
pavilion prepared on the platz, and
signed record which, after having also
been signed by sixty-seven German
princes and notabilites, was placed in a
long silver tube and given over to the
workmen 10 be deposited in the princi-
pal stone cross at the top Of the Cathe-
dral spire, $50 feet above. Cd
A SECTION Of the German press Is at
last beginning to admit that the annex
alton of Alsace-IlOrraine was a blunder,
and that it is another German Venetia.
The immense sums sunk in extending
the fOrtitications of Strasbourg and con-
structing new ones made great gap in
tho war indemnity, and now tnat it is ex-
hausted, their maintenance and that of
the army Of occupation weigh heavily
on the already overbnrdened finances of
the country. The anniversary of the
surrender of Slrasbourg was the occa-
sion of numerous articles favorable TO re-
storing the territories wrested from
France, in exchange for a pecuniary
equivalent.
THERE have been some curious pro-
'ceedings in England under the new
Burials act. In Gloucestershire, vicar
being away from home, his wife read
the entire burial service over a parish
ioner. At Seaham 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-
mained 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 a Dissenting min
lister at funeral to preach In his
church. t..t - 10 .uH.r..