Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-01
UNDER THE LlNDENS.
GERMAN NOTES OF SPECIAL IN
TEREsT TO AMERICANS.
RETIREMENT OF JOHN SHERMAN
His Successor to be, Not White1nw
Reid, But Ambassador White-COm-
ment on Our New Tariff Law
Kaiser's Visit TO st. Petersburg.


reached Kiel on board the Imperial yacht
Hohenzollern yesterday. On Thursday
next. accompanied by the Empress, and
by the entire fleet. under command Of
Prince Henry. Of Prussia, his Majesty
will start for St. Petersburg. to visit the
Car. Prince Hohenlohe viii join the
Emperor at Peterhof.
The municipal authorities OF st. Peters
burg will signalize the visit by present
ing 10 their Majesties slices Of bread on
a silver dish and salt in silver salt
cellar. both richly ornamented In the
Russian style, and engraved with the
Joint arms Of st. Petersburg and Ger
| many Upon the rim of the dish is the
following inscription: ITO Their Majes-
ties, the Emperor and Empress Of Ger
many"
The grand autumn military manoeu-
yres, at Hamburg, will begin on sep
tember %, and Will continue till the loth.
The Prince of Wales will be among
the guests Of the Kaiser at the principal
reviews. He has modified his plans
and will take a course Of the waters
| Homberg, as hitherto.
Dr. Arthur Kortegarn, head master
! Of the celebrated school at Frankfort,
| died suddenly at Interlaken last Mon
| day. He was 80 years Of age. and until
| within a few years was headmaster of
| the well-known school at Bonn, where
| many prominent Americans and English
men have been educated. lie was
leading authority on educational matters
| throughout Germany.
The Empress has varied the monotony
Of her stay at Tegernsee by a visit 10
| Munich She was accompanied by the
| five princes, visited all the sights, and
lunched with the Prince Regent, who pro-
| posed her Majesty's health.
| Prince oscar celebrated his 9th birthday
on Tuesday at Tegernsee, from which
place the Empress and her children VIII
return to-day TO Berlin.
SHERMAN'S RETIREMENT.
The rumors rife in London concerning
the possible retirement of Secretary sher-
| man are echoed here, even in official
| German and American circles, but with
this difference: Mr.. Sherman is TO be sue
ceeded. not by Mr.. Whitelaw Reid. but
by Ambassador White. Gossip even goes
| so far as 10 attribute Mr.. Whites hesita-
| tion TO leave the Kaiserhof Hotel for
permanent quarters to the possibility OF
his having soon 10 return to Washing
ton.
Tho comments Of the German press
! upon the Dingley tariff are extremely
acrid. but great satisfaction IS expressed
at the fact that large quantities Of Ger
| man goods were sent to the United states
in anticipation of the event. While wish
| ing TO revenge themselves upon tho
| Americans, the most Chauvinistic Jour
| nails are not blind to the fact that re-
prsals on the part Of Germany would
surely prove boomeranes.
General Count Won Blumenthal the only
surviving commander OF the army OF
1S70-1S7l, completed to-day term OF
seventy years service.
Prince Bismarck is in excellent health.
| On Wednesday he received Prince Schoe-
| naich-Carolat. the new commander Of the
| Halberstadt Cuirassiers, OF which regi-
ment the Prince is honorary colonel.
Owing to tho financial failure OF the
| Berlin Exposition of 1896 the committee
recently announced that the 30 per cent.
| guarantee fund would have TO be sacri-
feed This resulted in Il large meet
ing Of slgners Of the guarantee on Mon
! day. The meeting declared unanimously
! that It did not recognize the right Of the
| committee 10 adopt such a measure, and
! a desperate effort will be made 10 place
| the responsibility upon the shoulders OF
| the committee.
The supposed infernal-machine which
| exploded In a mailbag during the trans
| fer Of mails at the Potsdam railway sta
ton early in the week. turned out to
oe only a package Of large torpedoes of
the kind used by cyclists to frighten
dogs.
MILITARY ATROCITY.
The whole Liberal press is in
arms against the act of a sem
try, who killed an escaping SOL
dier under peculiarly atrocious cir
| cumstances. The man, Saremba, had
| overstepped the boundaries Of the forti-
ncations at DantZig, and was being taken
TO the guard-hOuse, when he broke away
and ran. The sentry fred, and the bullet
PASSED through Saremba's head and two
walls of an iron kiosk, buying itself in a
brick wall. This certainly proves the
efficacy of German guns, but the incident
adds fuel TO the flames Of popular re-
sentiment against military severity.
United States Consul-General Charles
| De Kay will return 10 New York in Sep
| tember.