New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-07-13
FOREIGN NOTES.

The shah has sent sword valued at
$4,000 to tho car, and magnificent
turquoise ring to the czarina.
According to nj. Crcsson, when Bis
marck in 1870 was asked to grant an
armistico, he made tho astounding prop
osition that all the journalists in Paris
should be given up as hostages.
A vessel has arrived in tho port of
London from the river Plate with 19, 900
carcasses of sheep en- board, brought
over in a frozen state. They weigh on
an average thirty-six pounds each, and
have fetched AID. per pound in tho
market.
Lady Cavagnari, the widow of the
soldier killed in Afghanistan, now lives
in tho royal apartments at Hampton
court. Queen Victoria suddenly APP
pearcd the other day, and was very
charming to all the inmates, but Lady
Cavagnari's youth, beauty, and quiet
sadness especially touched the queen,
who kissed her tendcrly.
There has recently been remarkable
progress in the principal commercial
centres of the Volga-Rybinsk, Mini
Novgorod, Samara, Saratoy, and As
trakhan. The extraordinary develop
ment of tho navigation of the Volga
during ten years has caused the forma-
ton of new stopping places, wintering
establishments, etc.
A parliamentary return shows that
the total number of ships ordered to be
detained by the board of trade or its
officers since tho passing of tho NOR
chant shipping act, 1876, is 412 for al
legged defects in hull, equipments, or
machinery, and ~ for alleged overload
ing or improper loading. OF the former
class 1893 were found to be unsafe, and
of the latter the whole number report
ed-149.
Among the incidents of modern pro.
gress in Japan is the creation of min.
lister of agriculture and commerce,
whose position and duties are defined
after the model of the similar officer in
France. A society for the encourage
ment OF Franco-Japanese literature has
also been started, and commenced it's
operations with sixty members. One of
its first duties is to be the compiling of
Franco-Japanese dictionary.
At Paris Nine. des Vallieres, daugh-
ter of NJ. Legouve, was stabbed in the
arm recently, while in bed and without
light. The assailant apparently
thinking her dead, made off while she
had tainted. Theft was not the motive,
and tho consierge states that nobody
left tho house after tho hour of the
crime. A key was lost some time ago,
and may have been used by the author
of this mysterious outrage.
Many Russian young ladies of posi-
ton appear to have been beguiled into
more or less completely with the nihilist
party. tits said that an intimate friend
of the duchess of Edinburgh, a young
lady who only the other day was ono Of
the party who officially received the
duchess on her arrival in St. Petersburgh,
has since, under the pangs of remorse,
confessed to a very close acquaintance
with the nihilist leaders.
The Paris municipality lately granted
to one De Mouncie the right to station
COWS and retail milk in eight public
gardens for fifteen years at total rent
of only $50 per annum. Having thcreup-
on bought ono hundred and sixty COWS,
De Mouncie issued a prospectus for
Public Garden Milk Refreshment' COM
pany, with capital of $4S0,0O0. The
municipal council charged him with
abusing their concession. by concealing
that it was revocable at will, and on
this ground Cancelled the contract.