Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-12-25
IN THE FATHERLAND.
A Cable Letter, Giving the Lates.
News From Germany.
SEVERE BUSINESS OPPRESSION.
Christmas Purchases Might
er Than Usual-The Political
Situation Intelligently' Discus
ed-The Socialists are Having
an Inning = A General Elec-
tion Threatened.
ssscsa! cable TO tAs Sraday REGISTER.


BERIlN, December 2A-The stagnat
of business here and the wet and slo
weather that has been prevailing,
tended TO make the week preceding CT
mas usually characterized by bust
business affairs, about the dullost II
memory OF the Oldest resident. Acc
TO the shopkeepers their holiday sale
never before so small The curse
times prevails everywhere. The "
classes appear 10 be affected
depression and where heretofor
have spent money freely IN Chr
gifts, they this year have made oDl
ted purchases People OF the 1
classes who are usually the best Of clAslm-
ers during this festive period, have bought
only cheap trihes and the workingmcD
with little or no money are obliged 70 llmh
their indulgence Ia Christmas fare. The
outlook for improvement In any branch OF
trade is exceedingly gloomy. Operators
on the bourSe have lost their usual daring
and now enter into speculatons with .
timidity that is foreign 10 their natures.
BoGrse transactions are overshadowed by
fears of political convulsion ln France
and are disturbed by the condition OF home
affairs arising in the army. The projects
for taxation, especially the one regarding
banking and stock transactions, form
another element Of suspense. rlnauclcrS
hold the effects OF these projects will OC
ruin0us, while others s0rm milder cstl
mate Of the result Thelc Is nobody. how.
ever. who does not calsnlate that the
projects will have an iniucCce % prevent
Improvement in the busluossSituption.
The socialist papers seize UPON the ocC1-
sion 10 comment upon the misery that Il
prevailing among the working eitsos. The
VorlCdertS publishes Christmas tgilcle Ia
which emphasis is laid on the frighttul suf
ferings OF tho poor throughout Germany.
The paper says that while there Is plenty
OF carefully nonrlshcd gamo IN the fotNsts
and in the domains OF the arlsiOcrA,s.
workingmen are allowed 70 die OF hunRt,.
Though the article IS written 10 the Gus
tomary style OF socialistic exaserauon, Il
has "a largo basis Of fact. While charity lf
abundant, IL Is badly organized. and rolioi
does not reach the mass Of sufferers Prom
inent among those VINO are working 10 alle-
viate the misery OF the people Is the mother
of Emperor William.
The temperance OF cholera at HAM
burg has caused the authorities 20 order
renewal OF the precautions heretofore taken
10 check the spread OF the disease The
Emperor has directed that regular oaily re-
ports regarding tue disease be sent 20 him
The recent mild weather and the cr'ract.
dinary low water ia the Elbo arc C.arnd
The opinion Is held by German hyeenic ca
perts on the subject OF cholera 81 . thor,
will be an outbreak Of the dise4 70 Ia tn
spring.
Tho FreIssiuge papers continue 10 -
honorahly distinguished Dythplr efforts 10
restrain the Judenhitza. Besides krupr's
.olfer. In 1863 TO supply Napoleon With
cannon, IL has been discovered that Schcr-
ing's chemiva. factory in Berlin supplied
the French government IN 1880 with largo
quantities OF Prussic acid, which was used
in the manufacture OF meiinitc. Herr
Holz, "A member of the Reichstag and
director OF the works. told Pfiuce Bis
marck that France was ordering Prusslo
acid, whereupon tho Prince said: "6o on
and take all the money yon possibly can
out OF the French Despite this kn0wl-
edge. however, the conservative and Cath
oic papers do not abate their incitlng o.
the people against the Jews, DasinT their
articles almost entirely upon the fact thna
Herr Loewe, who happens 20 be Hebrew.
admits that he offered. through General
Boulanger, 10 supply Franco with tho
plant necessary to manufacture Lebis
rifles.
Chancellor Won Caprivi's organs rcit.
crate that the Army oil must be passed
intact, or tho Reichstag will be dissolved.
Tina menace is the strongest weapon ~
the government. Many members OF thb
Reichstsg are quaking NJ the prospect OF
general election through which the Social
lists and members OF the freissinnigc
party alone are likely 10 benefit Her
Richter and other members Of the Fre'
innig party viii devote the
liamentary recess 20 celebrating
anticipated triumph over the b
V0rudsrts, the Socialist organ, VI
that their iuDilation is somew'
ture. Three Of the parlismef
composing the old Cartel pa
visibly approaching one anc. =. "a "a,
official expectation Of the cltimatc Gche.
sion OF the Conservative Ccntflsts and
National Liberals seems likely 70 Be jusfi-
fed. Members OF tho government circles
attach little Importance 20 The rutDors OF
the formation Of new party - 10 coz
posed Of adherents OF Prince Bismarck.
Further experiments made by toe I'M
perial health ofice have led 20 the concln-
sion that pork and hams that are thor
oughly saited or smoked are safe afctinft
trlchinn. Hence the measures 70 reinspect
American pork win be applied With less
severity.
The Strdsser Post, IN an article inspired
by the Foreign ONCE, ospiOrcs the ap-
preaching resignation of toe Hon. William
Walter Phelps, the American Minister 20
Germany. The paper refers 20 the cor
diality OF the relations existing betUceD
Mr.. Phelps and tho Foreign Once.
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