The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-25

Not getting enough money out of her at this
vocation, be resolved to make her study medi.
cine and be tender to himself in obstetrical
and other cases. To this Mrs. Zapponi de.
INJURED, when the Doctor thrashed her, and
she brought him into court. They we're di-
yorced; be failed to pay alimony, as ordered,
and got into jail, whence, emerging, he disap.
peared from the banks Of Tiber Creek, and
Washington was without an aristocrat.
cARUsI.
Net to mention Sir Percy Windham, who
keeps at present I believe, a riding school and
livery stable in New York, and who fought on
Garibaldl's staff in the Sicilian and Neapolitan
campaigns, as well as in our own and half o
dozen others; nor Morini, friend of Buchig-
mani, who is dancing master here, let me
bring you to the grand old figure Of Carusi, the
Turveydrop of the American republic, he who
taught our infant eagle how to turn out its
toes, and put our benignant Goddess OF Lib
erty through the five pedal motions. There
is q host of little Carusis here, second and
third generations, but it is of the patriarch
that speak. His hall or academy has stood
on the borders Of the present Smithsonian In
stitute grounds these forty odd years; He has
tau hit the wives of Presidents while they
we're vet maidsns. Many proud belle, with
whom to dance would be to you and l the
recollection Of life, old Carusi has taught
that intoxicating ''one, two, three" which
years OF marriage often fail to efface. In all
the older, in oil the better families he has
been the entire nine muses., playing his violin,
shufllng his feet, scolding, encouraging, pre-
facing for society. The stout, puffy, white
haired old man stands at many bridal rout,
telling The fiddler when to begin, and, as the
newly made bride steps out in the hrst quad
rifle, Carusi cluckles "She has been in my
arms, also, many time" To this city Carusi
has been an ornament and an honor almost
since its foundation. He has held in his arms
and woman, between the administrations of
Monroe and Lincoln.
COUNT BoJ1sco.
Not unfrequently Washington girl makes
good match, in pecunlary sense, with some
one Of the many foreigners who live here:
The best exempliication of this is found
in the case Of little Miss Williams, whose
mother kept boarding-houss in George
town.
Little Miss Williams, tripping along to
school In O short dress, with her books under
her arm, unconsciously attracted the atten-
ton OF old Count Bodisco, the Russian minis
ter, rich as Cresus,. amply ugl', quite along
IN life. From admiration to passion was an
easy stage. Then came the offer OF marriage,
and ambition consented. She made the old
man an excellent wife, gave his sturdy old age
many children. and inherited the bulk Of his
possessions. The widowed Countess is now,
/ believe, in st. Petersburg, several Of her
children and grandchildren reside or visit at
Georgetown still; the memory Of the alliance
is pleasant one, and the Bodisco residence in
Georgetown, now the property OF Henry D.
Cooke, is nearly as reverend as the family
monument in Oak Hill Cemetery. Bodisco
used to fire up steamer on Sundays, and
steam beyond State jurisdiction, that ma might
indulge in his favorite games of cards with
out interference.
He played for gold pieces, and relished it
like any Russian.
These are among the very many foreigners
whose careers here occur to me at this hasty
writing.