The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-27


Matters appear to be getting worse
and worse, but as usual the French
will come on their feet. The nation
has been positively startled as we'll al
Idismayed, at the revelations thai
have at last come to light, respecting
the Balaklava arrangements con.
Injected with the Tunisian expedition.
When such things are in the green
tree what is to be expected in the
dry. The medical necesssries were
totally wanting: no hospital access
cries were forthcoming, patients
IdoWn with fever, had to lie on the
bare ground; occasionally they had
the luxury OF being between two
blankets. Instead of medicaments
being brought to the patients, the
latter, When in fever, we're placed on
| !he backs of horses, to go elsewhere
for relief, but found none. The doc
tors at last broke into open revolt at
the inhumsnity, and their more than
private letters have found their way
and echo here. The men were
simply left to die. That was
Frederick the Greats principle; he
ever viewed sick or disabled soldier
as a nuisance, ten times worse than q
death, and he left the invalids to
their tate.
The French are naturally irrisated
ard checked; after all the lessons of
1870, after all the millions expended
to re-make their army the glass of
fashion and the mold of form, the first
practical test is something like col
lapse. Before the Prusslan CAM
psign, Marshal Lebanf said. mot
soldiers gaiter wanted even a but
ton" General Lane declared for the
Tunisisn invasion, nothing was
wanting" It is not astonishing that
the public demand the impeachment
of the ministers. fOf with their
heads" is RochetJrt's summary So
luton.
The occupation of Tnnieia is the
necessary consequence OF the Bardo
treaty. 1t was not worth while in.
dulging IN go much roundabout by.
pocrisy. A lev months ago, when
the Kroumir was only on tine tapis,
who ever suggested that France in
tended Selling Tunis. would have to |
count with the public prosecutor. |
But we have changed all that. One of
the chief objects III chasing the Krou
mir, was to test the organization and |
spirit of the new army. The result |
has not been satisfactory, and the
Arabs object TO become giaours. The
home situation reflects the compiled
tioDs and responsibilities. The
ministers in order to escape the con-
of their laundering, desire
to resign, so al not to face psrlia-
ment and compel Gsmbetta to take
Office. But their plan has failed;
Gambetta will not accept the
formation OF ministry till the
late cabinet washes all it's dirty line n
in public, and the house be cleansed.
already the ministers are indulgipg
in back door removals. The Gam,
BETA ministry is damaged In advance!
for the friends OF Jules Ferry will no,t
follow Gambetta as d leader. These
two chefs count 400 rational republi-
cans, or two-thirds of the Nhoe
house; il GsmbettR cannot find his
working majority there, ne canno.
acc3pt ofice-a goal he does not at
ali ambition. and yet cannot shisk
Then he is tainted with Tunis, as the
expedition had received, it is we'll be-
lieved, more than his consent.
The marriage OF Mile. Grevy had
this extraordinary feature, that the
"best informed journals" knew moth
ing OF the event till the banns were
published. Her intended husband |
was believed to be decided |
TO 60 down to the grave al
old bachelor, cared fox ty his
aunt and his sister. He is very rich.
and his name, Wilson, indicates that
if be were not born in Chelsea, un-
like Mr.. CrummIes, he ia not alto
gether Prussian. Mile. Grevy is /
about 20 years Of age: she is nos
what you would call handsome, but |
ia remarkably pleasing; she is little
serious when compared with the
"a Ajority of French young ladies: she
loves books, and drawing, and to re-
main faithful to her set Of plsymates,
rather than to have a school oil &C
qusintances in the fashionable world.
Ihave ever regarded her taste in nat
tor of toilettes as among the most
correci in France. for it is simplicity
and elegence. The impression re-
NAMED Of total Absence o. effort
she is not very rich, bu. she will Ia
heris all her papa possesses; her
husband is not poor inlthis sorld',
goods. The delicate point about the
wedding is, the religious ceremony,
Though n. Grevy has no grea,EIesn
ing Tor any clergy. save the vicar ut
his parish, who is his billiard chum
since years, it is not unlikely the
benediction will be given by the Pa
pal Nuncio. and in the private chapel
of the Elysee.
st. Quentin has had its share in Shell
mania for erecting monuments and Il
statues: the town figures we'll in his
tory as the chief northern barricade
of France; not the least glorious {
episode ia it's annals, is that of 1870 is
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