Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-04-06
THE RoTnscnLp BRIDAL DINNER.-The PAR

THE RorHscnLp BRIDAL DINNER.-The Paris
correspondent of the Literary Guzette says:
A great event in the beau monde OF this place
has been the Rothschild marriage. The magnf-
ccncc beyond all description, and it would APP
pear that Splendors, vicng with those rccounted in
the arabian Nights, were lavishcd upon an enter
t.inmcnt TO which nobody was admitted. ] mean
the dinner given after the nuptia ceremony and at
which some sixty or seventy Rothschds alone
were present rs no one but the family was pres
ent at this taucion-as the Spaniards enttlc their
bull fights and other amuScmcnts-Of course the
feminine public curiosity has been UNNECESSARILY
excited by it, and every young male Rothschild has
been crosexamncd by the fair ladies of Paris ever
Since in order that they may arrive at an approx
mate knowledge of the festive scene 1t SCI Is all
the plate of all the houses of Rothschlds Nearly
forthcoming for this banquet; at least, the Lon
don chief sent his dinnerservicc over to his cousin
of Paris and the entire changes of the more than
thrccscOrc guests were made in silver and silver
gilt; plates dishes, everything was OF the precious
metals as at the royal tables only at dessert, was
perceived the priceless service of old SevrcS belong
lug to the Paris aatertamilias and whereof each
plate represents somewhere about a king IS ransom
As to the viands on the table, they came from eve.
nv country and every cline; there were swallows
nests from China stcrlets "a fish Of excessive high
price in Russia of the size Of salmon, and of fat,
orange-colored eSh from Russia, reed birds and can
vass- lack ducks from America, bustards from Spain,
phcasants from Bohemia entrees of peacock brains,
tillets of buffalo hump and one of my lady inlor-
mant's dcclares-salms of Brazilian parrots! Eve
nv salt or fresh water has yielded up its fish, every
moor marsh, and forest its fowl; every hot-hed,
heated by fire or the sum- its fruit; and every grape
that ever hung anywhere its wine. As to the fiow-
crs with which the table and the dinningroom were
ornamental it is affirmed that there were 1900
pounds worth q mean FL 800 English y All the
windows were covered with trcl!iS work, over which
were framed the choicest creeping plants of the
tropics, shedding their luscious perfumes all round.
If the repast was worthy of an emperor of centu-
ry ago the tribe of Rothschild seems to have been
worthy of it. and to have done it due honor. In
the first place it is affirmed that the ladies present
wore upon their persons between twenty and thirty
millions of francs worth of jewels, and in the way
of doing honor to the banquet those who partook of
it sat at the table from hafpast six to midnight"
CURE FOR A SNAKE BIrE.-Mr. Robert Ramsey of
this county has told US Of the following speedy and
nallible cure for snake bite which he las sew
eral occasions known tested successfully; one ne
gro girl of his, and bitten severely by copper
head moccasn: Administer a tablespoonful Of
spirits turpentine internally soon as it can be
DONE and battle wash the wound occasionally
with the same Persons thus treated in few hours
well and able to proceed about their business
and have not been known to suffer any inconveni-
aterward although they were severely affected
by the virus before the remedy was applied. 1t is
supposed that the same remedy will afford cure in
cases of spider-bite or even maddog. 1t is worth
while enembering.-LredeU Express.