The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-07-21
Scan. Mag.

The present complications in the Euro
pean Courts, viewed relatively to the im-
morality of some imperial and royal per-
sonages, are curious enough, according to
the following from the Philadelphia
Press:
Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the
French, is said to have had only puta-
tive father in Louis Bonapartc, King of
Holland for short time, while bis real
father is reported to be a Dutch Admiral.
His principal Minister, in whom he pla-
ces most implicit reliance, is Count De
Morny, whose father was that same
Dutchman, while his mother was no less
than Hortense Beauharnais, ex-Queen of
Holland. Thus, at any rate, Napoleon
III and Count De Norny, have the same
mother. The Count, it may be recollec-
ted, acknowledged himself father of one
of Rachel's children.
Another pillar of the Napoleonic dy-
nasty is Count Walewski, son of the first
Napoleon, by Polish lady of high rank
and much beauty--one of the few per-
sons who remained true to him when he
abdicated at Fontainebleau in 1914.
There has long existed belief in
Germany, that the present Emperor,
Francis Joseph, instead of being son of
the Archduke F.ancis Charles, by the
Princess Sophia, of Bavaria, bis wife,
claims different paternity. Butler says,
The child whom many fathers share,
Will never know fathers care.
Francis Joseph, however, has been
we'll cared for, and was elevated to the
Imperial throne of Germany, while yet
in his teens, on the abdication Of the En-
peror Ferdinand, his uncle. Wennese
gossip has forked out into two channels
respecting his birth. One account de-
clares him to be son of Count liter
burg, ex-Crown Prince of Sweden. This
gentleman's real name was Gustavus
Vasa, and his father was Gustavus Nv,
who was deposed in 1912, and died in
Switzerland in 1887. This young Prince
travelled through Scotland and Ireland
in 1920, and eventually entered the Aus
trian service where he obtained command
of regiment at Vienna, and a Cham
berlainship at the Imperial Court. The
other putative father of /" His Imperial
Majesty, Francis Joseph, Emperor of
Austria" and so forth, is said to be none
other than Napoleon IL, better known as
the Duke de Reichstadt, ex-King of Rome,
who died July, 1882, aged 81. Francis
Joseph, it may be recollected, was born
August, 1880.
If this last rumor be true, we have
two cousins fighting against each other
in Italy-NapoleoRIII and Francis Jo-
seph THAT is provided the Emperor of
the French be real Napoleon and not a
Dutchman.
A Thrilling Romance.
She stood beside the altar, with a
wreath of orange buds upon her head
upon her back the richest kind of duds--
| her lover stood beside her with white
kids and dickey clean--the last was twen-
| ty and the first was seventeen.
The parsons job was over-every one
had kissed the bride, aud wished the
young folks happiness. and danced. and
laughed, and cried. The last kiss had
been given and the happy pair had SIM
mered down. and sought the bridal bed,
| CHAPTER III.
| She stood beside the wash tub. with
| her red hands in thesuds, and at her slip
shod feet there laid pile of dirty duds;
| her husband stood beside her--the cross
est man alive--the last was twenty mine
years old, the first was twenty-five.
The heavy wash was over and the
clothes hung out to dry-and Tom had
stuck mis- finger in the dirty baby's eye.
Tom had been spanked and supper made
upon a crust Of bread, and then the bride
and bridegroom went grumbling to bed
0.r Three things never agree-two
| cats over one mouse. two wives in one
house, two lovers after one girl.