THE GERMAN PATRIOT, BLUM.
Mazomanie, Wis.
Tell us something of Robert Blum, the German statesman, who was shot in Vienna in 1848.
Carl Fehlandt.
Answer.—He was born at Cologne in 1807. He was well educated, served for a time in the army, which he left in 1830 to connect himself with the theater at Cologne, of which he became in time a director. Much of his time was given to literature and politics. In the latter he espoused the cause of liberalism. This was particularly the case after he moved to Leipsic, where he was first a director of the theater, then a bookseller and publisher. Here he founded the Schiller Society of Leipsic, was connected with the German Catholic movement, and was finally elected Vice President of the Provisional Assembly at Frankfort in 1848. In the National Assembly he became leader of the Left, or Radicals. He joined the popular movement in 1848, took a prominent part in the insurrection that broke out at Vienna at the time of the struggle for Hungarian independence, headed by Kossuth, and, being arrested, he was summarily shot, Nov. 9, 1848.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN’S LAST RECORD.
Chebanse, Ill.
When, where, and by whom was the cairn discovered in which was the last record of Dr. John Franklin?
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