Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-21
EUROPEAN TOPICS.
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL GOSSIP FROM
1HE LONDON TRUTH.
Affairs "a Viewed by Mr.. Laoouchere-"'
Discusses California rs a Poor Field
for Young Women.


he ia 10 have an allowance OF G3O,OOO
year. He has decided to establish him
self in Paris, where he has bought
house in the Avenue du Bots de Bou-
logne. Milan came to England to pay
his respects to the Queen, but her Ma
jesty has declared that nothing would In
duce her to receive him at Windsor.
PORTUGAL AND THE GARTER.
The King OF Portugal is to be given
| the Garter as soon as perfectly amlcablo
relations are restored between this coun-
try and his-unless, indeed, a revolution
had previously taken place at Lisbon. /
hope, however, that Lord Salisbury Will
not deem it necessary to dispatch spe-
cisl mission to Lisbon to invest his Ma
jesty on this occasion as any such fan
tasticality would involve an expense TO
the country OF several thousands.
CHRISTOPHER conUNBUs's "LoG."
The Academy must have startled
some of its readers by reporting that
the log-book of Christopher Columbus
had been fished up from the bottom OF
the Irish Sea by some Ienby fishermen
out TRAVELLING. This is by far the most
sensational literary discovery ever an
nounced. / am sorry to see, however,
that the Welsh papers state that inquiry
among the Tenby fishermen fails to con-
firm the story. One journal even asks
the editor Of the Ac0demy what he sup
poses the book 10 have been made OF to
have remained in a recognizable condl-
ton after nearly 800 years at the bottom
Of the sea. Perhaps, after all, my con-
temporary has been "misinformed. -
CRIMINAL WASTE OF FOOD.
Waste not, want not. is q venerable
formula which seems to require instill-
ing into the mind Of Mr.. McCallmont,
of Cheveley Park. According to a
Cambridgeshire paper, huge PIT was re-
Gently dug on this gentleman's property,
and in it were buried some hundreds OF
hares and pheasants which the owner was
unable 10 find any other way OF dis
posinp of. 1t isstated that large quaint
ties had previously been dispatched to
various hospitals but 1t Is absurd TO
contend that no means could have been
found for distributing the rest Of the game
among those who would have been glad
Of It. With the first touch OF winter
upon us, and appeals on hehslf Of the
destitute and starving resoundlng on
every side, such a waste OF food sounds
little short OF a crime.
WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA.
In reply to some observations which !
recently hazarded upon California as a
possible field for emigration for young
girls, a lady, who evidently knows the
country, sends me a most unattractiye
account of it. Education, she says,
counts for nothing, all working girls be-
ing thoroughly well educated. No pub
lie posts can DO obtained except by
political influence. The matrimonial
market for all classes is overstock-
ed; "morality is at a discount" Ill
yorces are frequent, and the divorces
are in mach more request than marriage
able maidens among the male popula-
ton. as to domestic service, wages
and food are good, but the work is ex-
cessively hard, menials are much looked
down upon, aud the competition OF the
Chinese, and in hotels and boarding
houses, Of Frenchmen and Germans.
excludes women from all the best
berths. | cannot answer personally tor
the accuracy OF all this, but, if it is a
true picture, "girls educated, thorough
ly domesticated. and willing and able
to work" had better follow my recent
advice and remain at home.
"TREspAss1NG IN PURSUIT OF GAME"
A party of gentlemen from Sunderland
and Bishop Auckland were last week
convicted and fined for trespassing IN
pursuit OF game" under most singular
circumstances. They went out to shoot
over land the shooting of which some OF
them rented from the freebooter. In
going from one part OF this land to the
other they had occasion to cross quarry
rented by the Duke OF Cleveland.
They had their dog in check,
and it was not alleged that
they fired at any game. A game
keeper in the Dukes service, however,
saw them going through the quarry and
hence the prosecution. 1t seems almost
inconceivable that the name of Duke
could be used for prosecution OF such
a character, but it Is yet moro lncon-
ceivable that any bench of magistrates
| should convict on such state OF facts
A North-country paper, however, speaks
of the chairman of the bench the Rev.
II. s. Lipscome) as the Duke of Cleve-
lands "private chaplain" That may
explain the conviction, but, at the same
time, it renders it ten times more scan
dalous.
TEE DUTCH SUCCESSION.
Several of the daily papers have pub
lished the most extravagantly nonsense
cal statements about the Dutch success
| sion. ! read last week that if King VIII
| liam had died without issue the German
Emperor would would have been the
heir to the throne, The fact is that,
failing the present Queen, the success
sion would pass to her aunt the Ouch
esq of Sake Weimar Eisenach. There
could be no dispute upon the point.
as the line of succession was fer
mally settled by the Dutch Cham
bers in 1885. Failing the Weimar
family, the next heir is Prince Albert of
Prussia, the Regentof Brunswick, whose
mother was the late Princess Marianne
OF The Netherlands; but, as the Duchess
Of Sake Weimar- Eisenach has q son and
two grandsons, the succession is tolera-
bly, secure 1t 10 expected that all the
politics of the Prussian Court viii now
be directed towards bringing about q
marriage between the young Queen VIII
helmina and Prince Frederick, the eld-
est son of her cousin, Prince Albert,
who was born in July, 1874, 60 that he
is six years her senior.
is POVERTY CRIME
Three casual paupers charged at
Bishops Stortford the other day with re-
fusing to pick oakum made the following
defence three paupers, understand--not
three murders, or three burglars, or
three forgers. or three wife-beaters-
three men whose only offence is that
they are without visible means of sub
sistence: 1.-THE prisoners, in defence,
said the oakum cages were in field on
bare ground. They were exposed to the
| waathar onI a human bainc, mould