The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-07

Berlin. April 6-(Copyrighted. 1895, by
the Associated Press.)-After the ex-
citement which marked the enthusi-
astic celebration of Prince Bismarcks
eightieth birthday. at the early part
of this week. the end of the week ap-
pears to be unusually tame. SO far as
the fetes are concerned. it is generally
agreed that they were fully worthy of
the occasion. and were a complete sue
cess. Incidentlly. it developed that
Prince Bismarck received. on Monday
last. $3.50 kilograms with a total of
2II697 words. In addition. he received
$1,000 letters and about 5000 postal
cards. In spite Of the excitement on
Monday and Tuesday. the ex-chancellor
got over his exertions very well, and
remained in fair health, although he
appears to have aged a great deal since
the death of his wife.
HohenloIle's Birthday.
During the hustle of the Bismarck
birthday celebration. the birthday OF
Prince Hohenlohe. who was born March
81, 1919. was almost overlooked, but the
emperor and empress took pains to do
him honor. Tney both paid the chan
cellor lengthy visit. and the empress
presented him with a splendid bouquet
OF roses and the emperor made him a
present of a gold cigar case adorned
with the imperial monogram in dia-
monds. AT the dinner, which their mai
estes gave at the castle on Monday
last in honor of the birthday of
Prince Bismarck Prince Hoheniohe sat
at the right hand of the emperor. who
conversed cordially with him. It was
noticed on Prince Bismarck's birthday
that Berlin displayed more flags and
decorations than upon the occasion of
Emperor Williams birthday. Nearly
every American house in town flew the
stars and stripes. The Royalist district
was almost bare of decorations. An
especially pleasant side of the celebra-
tons has been the institution Of a mum
Der Of benevolent Bismarck funds.
Commercial Congress.
In commercial and financial circles
the chief interest has been directed to
the extraordinary assembly of the Ger
man commercial congress, held on
Tuesday. A speaker contended that
the existing depression in husbandry
must be ascribed to the reaction which
naturally followed the exceptional rise
in the value Of agricultural property.
1t will be also maintained that COM
merce and industry had as much right
as husbandry to speak on the question
of currency and an anti-bimetallic res
olution was adopted. The bimetallists
in the meanwhile were not idle and
Count Burbach. supported by forty
three Of his colleagues, introduced a
motion in the upper house of the Prus-
sian diet, urging the government to re-
quire the chancellor to lose no time
in taking steps calculated to lead to |
an international regulation of the cur
.
of securing international bimetallism.
The motion was referred to a COM
mittee.
Arrest of the Countess.
Countess Won Perponcher, nee Dross |
the American lady who was arrested |
on the charge of perjury and intimacy
with a physician, is believed to be in
nocent. Her husband, young Count |
Won Perponcher, son of the eX-chief |
court marshal of Emperor William, has |
deposited with the authorities the sum
of 10000 marks, which was required |
for her bail, and is eXerting himself to |
clear his wife's reputation. DR.. Brun- |
nerx Verght, the physician in the case, |
it will be remembered was arrested at |
Munich early in March last and was
brought here on the same charge of |
perjury as the countess. The doctor |
is being sued for divorce by his wife, |
anu Tie cQQuleSS, IL Is
mitted perjury in denying in court her |
intimacy with him.
Countess Won Perponcher came to |
Berlin from the United States, where |
she was married to the count in 1893. |
The marriage was at first concealed |
because of the family opposition. The |
mother-in-law of the countess became |
suddenly i'll when she heard of the ar
rest of the countess and the scandal |
which followed.
Behring Has Consumption.
Professor Behring, the diphtheria /
serumist, is suffering from incipient |
consumption. He has just returned /
from Egypt and has resigned his |
professorship at the Halle university. |
The exports to America from Ger
many for the quarter ending March, |
have risen enormously. The chief
articles affected are chemicals, cloth |
garments, plush, velvets, silks, glass
ware, hosiery. lace, woolens and |
sugar Confidence in the re-establish-
ed prosperity of American commerce
appears to have returned. The ex-
ports from the Berlin district nearly
trebled and those of Frankfort
doubled. The imports only showed a
slight increase.
Henry Willard, who is now residing
in Vienna, has been in Berlin this
week and simultaneously come the
announcement from the Deutsche
Bank that Northern Pacific seconds,
which were left unpaid in October,
1892, will be purchased under certain
restrictions. The Duetsche bank was
Mr. Wizards main ally in Germany
during his Northern Pacific career.
Barter and Sale.
The bethrothal of Miss Lewis,
wealthy young lady of New York to
Prince Carlo Isenburg-Birstein, is
announced. The groom is an officer
of a guard regiment and his family
was once reigning one. but medi-
affixed at the beginning of the CEN
fury. Prince Victor, the elder brother