THE announcement that a German army was threatening Strasbourg was received with incredulous astonishment in Paris, where not a single journal had hinted the possibility of such an event. ...
Article : 649 wordsSOON after 7 o'clock a.m. yesterday, sergeant Lowery received information that the dead body bf a female infant was then lying on a grape vine in the rear of the premises No. 246, West Thirty-seventh-street. ...
Article : 574 wordsAs a French writer of high position was saying recently, " Nobody in France for the last twenty years has studied or thought." The French have done everything in a superficial andtrivial manner, and have lived ...
Article : 144 wordsHER Ma jes ty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, left Windsor Castle on 17th August, at twenty-five minutes before 8 p.m., for Balmoral. Her Majesty ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, September 6th.—The Tribune correspondent had an interview with Bismarck at the King's head-quarters on the 2nd. In response to the inquiry what were likely to be the conditions of ...
Article : 408 wordsNEVER have I beheld a sight so extraordinary as I came on by the little streamlet the Sauer, which flows by Gunstett. At an angle of the road, by a vine plantation, there had been evidently a ...
Article : 375 wordsTHE intimation by the French Consul in Waterford, that no brigade was being raised in Ireland to assist the Emperor, was a great damper on the enthusiasm of the bellicose youth in that part of the country. ...
Article : 583 wordsTHE special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph furnishes to that paper the following very interesting account of the siege of Strasburg:— Koenigshof, September 1. ...
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Advertising : 531 wordsThe news of the Emperor's capture reached the foreign embassies here at 10 yesterday morning. Count Palikao concealed it in his communication to the Chamber, and as an instance of the disorganization ...
Article : 1,436 wordsTHE Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune says:—Let us hope that for humanity's sake his boyish cheek paled a little when he saw the mitrailleusemow men down like wheat; when he saw the ...
Article : 253 wordsTHE telegraph, a few days ago, gave some particulars of the execution of aman in Shelby county, Illinois, at which a mob threatened to interfere, under the impression that the convicted murderer had been ...
Article : 690 wordsA CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tribune says that " One requires to be in Germany to have brought home to one the full practical working of a system that so sharply, without distinction of ...
Article : 283 wordsUNDER date Varennes, September 4th, the King of Prussia telegraphed to the Queen as follows: " What a thrilling moment that of my meeting with Napoleon! He was cast down, dut dignified in his ...
Article : 105 wordsTHE Empress, who escaped, from Paris attended only by two companions, fled through the long gallery of the Louvre; but suddenly her course was stopped short by a locked door. The little party could ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Wed 2 Nov 1870, Page 4
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