The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-02-20

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seer er isappeaflI. ii tsese apartments,
tslo chairs Vefe All being cleared 8us 5f the
concert faozn. and At about -past Twelve
o'clock dsneE4g commenced, shortly 10 be
brought tn an untifaeiy closely one Of those
terrible tragedies Of everyday life that realise
the ghastly Egyptian custom by which one
guest, at least, al every feast was compelled
to accept a skeleton for neighbor A very
charming and accomplished young lady, the
wife Of Earnest Won Teschenberg, the editor
Of the Wiener Zeitung, was leaving the sup
per-room with her husband, intending to re-
turn home. While crossing the ballroom,
where brilliant waltz was being played, a
friend asked her 10 take a single turn round
the room. t. temptation was too great to
be resisted, SO consigning her burnous to her
husband, She joined the dancers, and whirled
off with great rapldity by her partner. She had
scarcely got half round the huge circle when
she fell from his arms, as though struck by
thunderboIt, dead. They raised her from the
ground gently. and carried her into another
room. A dozen doctors were in attendance,
and every expedient that science could sug-
gest was tried to restore consciousness to the
fair young form lying so strangely still in its
gay toilette. All was in vain. She was dead.
A smile upon her lips; flowers in her hair
Of the scene I cannot convey an idea such
agony as that | witnessed on Sunday morning
in the robing-room of the GartenbaugeseIls-
chaft is too dreadful to recall-too sacred to
describe The gay groups melted away in
breathess, horror stricken hurry; within a
few minutes the spacious ballroom was silent
and empty all Of the ''Hesperus members
and their guests, none but handful of mourn
ers remained behind to watch over that which
half an hour before had been happy wife
and mother. have now witnessed three sud
den deaths in ball-rooms-the first two were,
if possible, even more terrible than the last,
In the first case, lovely girl was shot through
the heart by the man whom she was engaged
to in the second, the belle of the bail was
burned to death before her garments, which
had caught fire while she was being whisked
past the open Fireplace, could be torn off. But
the tragical episode of yesterday morning is
rendered more melancholy than either by the
remembrance that two little children, the eld-
est not three years old, are left motherless by
the consequence of a waltz
Vienna Correspondence London Telegraph.
The New York Tribune thus sums up the
substance Of the lengthy cable dispatches Civ
ing in full the unimportant correspondence
between James Gordon Bennett, junior, and
Prince Alfred
James and Alfred were two good boys. who
had little ships, and James, ship sailed over
the pond. Alfred was so glad that he asked
James to dinner, and they had gingerbread.
So James offered to give Alfred his little ship,
as a proof that all James's countrymen were
so glad Alfred had given him such nice
dinner But Alfred wouldn't take the little
ship because it was too good for him. and so
both boys were glad, and hoped their families
would never quarrel. For further particulars
see cable dispatches.