Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-27
IN GERMANY.
Hard Times Prevailing. -SuTering of
the Peer.

the Peer.
BERLIN, Dee. 2i.-rhc week pre-.
ceGing Christmas, usually character.
lied by bustling business, was about
the dullest In the memory Of the Oldest
inhnbitapls. According T. shnpkeepcrs,
holiday sales never oeiorc were 20
small. The curso Of hard times PIE.
vale. The wCalthior clnsece appear 20
be affected Ivy tho depression and
where heretofore they have spent
money at great freedom, they have this
year maize only linilted purchases. rhe
people Of tho middle Glasses, who are
usually ihe Test Of customers during
thn festive period, have bought only
cheap ,riiics, and wOrkingmen with
little or no money have boen obliged to
to do without their small share OF
ChrtttmAs fare. Tho outlook for Inn
prOvemeut In any branch Of trade Is
exceedingly gloomy.
Commercial aud financial circles
take pcssiuiistic view Of the situation.
Operators Oh the bourso have loN their
usual daring, and now enter into specu-
lations with timiuitY foreign TO their
natures. Boursc TRANSACTIONS arc ovef-
Swallowed by fears OF q political con.
vulslon In France, aud disturbed by
the condition OF home affair, arising
from the army hin. Socialist papers
have seized upon tho occasion 20 com.
mont upon the misory that Is prevail
Ing among the working classes. POr.
pd6'ts publishes Chhstnias article In
which II expatia,es upon the frlghtiIil
suflerings OF the poor throughout
Germany. The paper says that while
there IL plenty " careful nourlshod
game Ia the forest and In tho domains
OF the nristocrais, workingmcn are
allowed 10 hunger. Though the article
IL writton in the cnstomary style OF
socialistic cxaggotatlop, It has u large
basis on fact.
The temperance OF cholera nj Ham
burg has caused the authorities TO order
the renewal OF tho precautions hereto.
fore taken to check tue uprond
OF the disease. Tho emberOr has
directed that regular daily reports re-
garilng cholera be sent u him. Tho
recent mild weather aud extraordinary
low water In the Elbe are claimed 10
have assisted In the recent outbreak. A
discussion held by the German Hygenlc
Society ON the subject OF cholern elicit.
cd the concurrent opinion from experts
that there will be another outbreak In
tha epring.
News from ~. Petersburg stntes that
the Russian government haa sum.
moncd congress vi 800 doctors which
will sit for eight days aud will prepare
reports ON measures to be adopted 10
meet the expected recurrence OF the
epidemic OF Russian doninions.
Tho Freissinnige papers continue
attacks upon the Jews. llle statement
IL made that In 1855, Scbering's
chemical factory supplied the French
government with large quantities OF
nitric acid, and when Informed OF tho
fact Prince Bismarck said: go on,
take all the money you possibly can
out OF the Ffcnch. Despite this
knowledge, however, conservative and
Catholic papers DO not abate their
iuciting OF the people against the jews
owing 10 the fact that Herr Loewe, w no
happens TO be Hebrew, admits that
he offered through General Boulanger,
when French minister OF war, 10
supply France with n plant necessary
to manufacture Lebil rifles.
Chancellor Won Caprlvi's organ
feiteratcs that the army bill viii TO
passed intact or the Reichstag dissolv-
cd. These mcnaces arc the strongest
weapon OF the government. Many
members OF the Reichstag are quakiDg
mt the prospect OF u general election
through which tho Socialists and
members OF the Freissinige parties
alone are likely TO benefit. Members
OF the government circles attach little
Importance TO the rumors OF the forma-
ton OF new party 10 be composed Of
the ndhercnts Of Prince Bismarck.
Ihe Strass5i1ger I'o,t In an article
inspired by tho io-eign Office, deploreB
the approaching resignation OF Hon.
William Walker Phelps, American
minister to Germany.
No OFFICIAL REPORT.
WAsiIINdToS, ID. O., Dec. "a
Secretary Elkins had conference
with General Schoheld today with
regard to the best methods OF edootu.
ally suppresslng the apparently in.
creasing lawlcssness along the Rio
Grande. Captain J. q. Bourke, OF
tho third cavalry, who has been sum.
moncd from Texas for consultation,
will probably reach here Monday
night. No Official report Ia regard u
these troubles has been received fer
the past two days.
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