ITEMS FROM FRANCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1762, 9 February 1888, Page 3

ITEMS FROM FRANCE

I ■— "♦ I (BY OUB PARIS CO<RE6PONDBNT,) j Pakis, De^probe" 15. THK NEW PBEPDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC M. Badi Oarnot tn« new President of the Freuch Republic, is • distinguished engineer. Be is now fifty years of a/c, and la a grandson of the famous memher of the Convention. OnJanua'ylO, 1871, \ he was appointed Prefect of the Seine Inffcrleure and Extraordinary 0 mtuiasioner for the organisation of the National D«f>noe m the depirtmeum of tho Bein» I Ja-ienre, Bare, end Calvados-. Bleo yd m jB7l f-ir the Ooted'ur, he t<;ck hi Saat o»j the Lnfr, a°d was sabßpqacn'ly one of the f*mom (> 363 " He has t*kun an active part m public works, ar.d ia known as the translator o f John Stuan Mil 'a «' Revolution of 1848 and its Detractors. " THE EX PKKBIDBVT OF VBNFZUELA. General bianco, who h<a recently resigned the Presidency of Ye« et lola, and who has been living la Paris at the Grand Qotel for several months, haa decided to remain permanently m France. The exI President has a targe for'uue and intends to buy a fioe mansion. Ia the meantime he bat rented a house m tha Rob Oopernio where his wife and ohildten will join him, BAMBQUAKE IN ITALY. Oon erz» nua been visited with an earthqaake. There were two shocks. Twenty one persons were kil td on the spot, and their bodies were recovered. Many were iojared more or less seriously, and four thousand were rendered homelees. It Is stated that the number cf killed and injured would have been far greater had notihe population raahed out I of their dwellings, inasmuch at the seoond shook was more severe than the first, whioh las'ed on'y a few neoonds OOBJOUB DIBOOVKUT OF OLD KKGLISQ # PKNNIEB At the recent meeting of the Numismatic Society of Berlin, Herr Dannenberg gave an acoount of the discovery laßt spring m Mecklenburg of a number of English penniea. There were about 1850, all of which, wi h the i xoption of tnlrtyseven, bore the feffigy of Henry 111 A few were of Scotch and Irish mintage. These pennies were coined Id twenty-one different towns CAUGHT BY A HAIR. A Hlater turned Montroa -el, has just been sentenced to hard labor fir life, for the murder «i a maiden-lady named Levecq, at Valenciennes Tha murder was of a most bru'al kind, tho poor lady being discovered dead witj her Bkull fractured. Montrounel w*s arrested on suspicion, he having previously worked m the house The only testimony against him was one single hair, which was found sucking to a drop of blood on hid clothe?, A microscopic examination of tbia hair, and comparison with that of the r»urdered lady, convinced the jury that Moatrou' tl w»5 the criminal, an i ha was coaviced after a very lengthened trial. PAKIS AND ST. PETEKSbUKO. While P^ris is ci jojiim an exceptionally mild win it, S-. Petersburg ia already plunged into reai winter weather. Bnow aad raio has been followed by severe oold. The Neva is full of di if ting blocks of ice whtoh have carried a*ay the Twitsky and P<«lsoe pon»oon bridges. 0 immunfcation by waver between St. Petersburg «nd Oronsadt has ceased, because of the ice m the Gulf. Exceeeivo cold Is expected, and the city aathoaliies have just issued an order directing the Chief of Police to light fires m the atrebts md squares as boou bb tho mercury sinks <o 10 degrees Heamur. In the less frtquented parts <f the city, more policemon will be put on duty m order to prompt aid to any help lees vic.im of the approaching " coid nose:" A COPIOUS THEFI. A clever but very unprotuable theft has been committed at the expense of the Hungarian baud, now performing at the Moibi Qie'jien A telegram was eeot to the leader of the Orchestra asking him to bring his fellow mutioians to the Oat^ Yulain the next evening, to play at an impromptu bali given by a Prince with a Hussiati name. The band arrived at the proper time and found that the proprietor of the aA6 had betn also forewarned by telearaph. At midnight neither the Prince nor bis guests hai anived, but shortly after, a letter wasde'-rered to the propriotor postponing tb.B ball to the next evening. The mns:oians, without any suspioion, left their instruments at the restaurant. Next morning a carriage, purporting to come from tha leader of the band, appeared at the restaurant and carried off all the lnatrnmante The police, as usual, are engagud m au enqulry. ' | ALL TOR A PAIR OF U")O'XS. If the harpies aDd harridans who dragged Oafftrel und other soldiers into public notoriety hid act-d like ft yoong person named Mile. Alice, who appeared before a polioa tribunal a tew days ago, France would h*vo beeu spared the degradation which was lately hflloted upon h"t. One of thoee limbs of tha law cailed hui-isiers made bis appearance lately m her alcove, with a piece of " stamped" paper m his hand, and effected a assure of her goods on l^eha}f of her o'ruel creditore. Alice succeeded m abstracting from the huisse/s pile a pair of b 'Ots and a suit of uniform belonging to sn oOiccr In a crack cavaWy regiment, who waa one cf her devoted admirers. When the limb of the law found this ont he ira ncediatfly dragged Alice before the tribunal ; but uhe refused steadfastly to give the name of the owner of the uniform, observing p'irtioularly, that »he would not bring ipto obloquy !a "thsi days of ratndalt au cftieor of the Ffeuc'a A may." The tribural reserved judgmant i Q the I nutter. 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