The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-05-16

| lid PeffdiOas 4tbiOn- Spiritudtisn,-
L0Ue and Murder.
| PARIS, April %, 1868.
To the Editor of the Press.
Charity balls for workmen without employ
ment, the English annual charity ball. an
concerts for divers charities have for man
weeks occupied the young, the fashionable
and the benevolent. These charity balls 6tel
entendu, are gatherings of a very mixed ma
ture Any one goes who pays for the ticke
which averages from tt to twenty francs.-
The Protestant French ladies have been inter
esting themselves for sometime in the gettin!
up Ofa concert the pecuniary proceeds of whicl
| are to be paid over to what NJ. Dupanloup
Bishop of Orleans, regards as a very "odt
branch of learning"-the Professional schoo
for girls. The object of this institution is to
prepare women to support themselves in some
honest calling. From the earliest hour of its
conception M. Dupanloup rushed at it and
trying to stamp it down groaned out, "what
do women want more than is given them by
the Catholic Chureh?" and he declared in
that gorgeous invective that he loves to use
that the school was a mele seed-bed of infidel-
ity. The Minister of Public Instruction stood
the bullying of the fiery bishop with that calm
philosophy which the bishop of Orleans has
given him ample opportunities to cultivate
The dispute was carried before the Emperor.
To his honor Napoleon decided in favor OF
those pale animal faces that indicate plainly
as faces could tell, the small cold, hard, made
quate moral food that was doled out to them
those faces, that in every generation have been
upturned like Mr.. Dickenss Oliver Twist, to
the Beadledom of authority, asking for more.
The school is supported by some of the best
Drained and largest hearted women of France.
This year they have achieved great triumph.
They have extorted from the Emperor permis-
sion to hold concert in the Conservatory, the
Government Academy of Instrumental mu-
sic and singing. The grand orchestral band Of
the Academy is to play some of the choicest
pieces of classical music. American ladies
have largely invested in this charity. Some
months since visited this Professional school
and passed through the different rooms
Some found engaged in learning book-keep-
ing, another studying the English language,
while another room was occupied by girls en-
gagged in sewing, cutting and fitting garments,
and one class was at work on wood engraving,
and another was painting on porcelain Tu-
ition, believe, is free, but the result of their
labors goes towards the support Of the school
till the last year when small percentage is
accorded to the scholars. / wish Maine, re-
membering her motto, would begin by found
ing Profe ssional school for girls. I will
procure at the fountain-head all necessary in
formation should your plucky State decide ON
leading off in this matter
The recent copious rains have been fayora-
bic to the transplanting of the lovelest flow
ers to their beds in the little groves and plat
bands or borders in Champs Elysees. These
flowers are grown in gardens; the more deli
cate ones in Conservatives near Paris. They
are brought into the city with the prepared
earth suited to their habits. During all the
fine season these generous incense bearers
lend their rich perfume to this gayest of prom
enades. Speaking Of flowers reminds me of
the chronicles that come up from Trouville,
a place where invalids resort, telling of the
state of health of Monsieur FORBADE, the editor
OF the Semdine Financisre. NJ. Eugene For
cade is suffering from mental alienation; the
physicians say it is only passing episode. 1
am going to relate the following incident to
show how exactly Shakespeare sniio,.oaz
-4--~1-a roPrvtrng Ophelia's INSANITY, NJ For
cade in one of his morning walks entered the
garden of the Mayor of Trouville. After
having taken a turn or two he stopped and
gathered flower which he put into the but
ton-hole of his coat. The CHEEKY picture
pleasing his fancy he plucked another; then he
made bouquet which he placed at his neck
In an hour every border was colorless, and all
the flowers were massed in the breast and
pocket-slits and button-ho,es of M. For
cade. He strutted and was laughing joyfully
over these things of beauty, when the garden
er arrived and scolded him. He burst into
tears and returned to him all the flowers!
The news of the English success over the
poor Abyssinian hero Theodore, whose artil-
lery was so soon auenched by the twelve
FOUNDER Armstrong;, was received while the
ma ton was writhing afresh under the Fenian
attempt ON the life of their sailor-prince
The French look upon the poor King with
some compassion as a little sovereign that the
pertinacious English bulldogs have run dowI
in his native fastnesses, much as their terriers
give chase to a rat; and the report that the
the Russians have seized the occasion of the
withdrawal of English troops from India to
raise serious disturbances in British India i.
currently believed.
The Spiritualists on this side of the water
are being not little annoyed at the rougl
jokes perpetrated against Home, who once oc
eupied large share of public attention. Mrs
Lyon, from whom Home, the Spiritualst, alb
stracted the sum of thirty thousand pounds
by persuading the old lady that her deceased
husband, wealthy tradesman, had adopted
him as spiritual son, and wished her to, also
to the tune of the above mentioned pounds, ha
recovered from her morbid condition, tn
| scales have fallen from her eyes, and she be
| lieves that she was the dupe of knave an
asks favorable verdict from the twelve me
before whom she wishes her case to be poI
| dered. limitations are generally fatal. VIII
| should a modern Daniel suppose only gol
was to be gathered in a Lyons den? By tn
way, Spiritualsm has firm believer in tn
Marquis de Boissy's widow, she wh) as Ma
dame Guiccioli was Lord Byron's friend an
mistress. Her beautiful apartments in Pari
she believes often cheered by pleasant mes
sages from her English lover, who to her {
least was never harsh or wayward.
The transition from spiritual affininties |
the fearful crime of the beautiful Hungaria
the baroness Julia Ebergenyi is easy. Since th
disgusting drama of the woman Frigaro, n
history of passion, intrigue and murder, hs
more disturbed the imagination OF quiet fol-
Certain features in the defence were similar
the Frigaro had mysterious William for
scapegoat and the barones talked of a Ma
anne Howarth upon whom she wished to thro
the odium of the affair of the poisoning of Il
Countess Chorinsky. The baroness Eberge
vi, who is only twenty years old, belonged
the high nobility of Hungary. For some yeai
she had been living a bold adventurous Ii
at Vienna. She brought under her enthra
ment the Comte Chorinsky, an Austrian Q
ficer, son of the governor of lower Austria.
| The Comte had married at Rome, against
familys wishes, an actress of Baden, but, whi
they became reconeiled to her, he conceive
disgust and hate for her, and in 1866, wht
wounded in service, he would only enter II
paternal roof on the condition that they sci
his wife from the house. She wandered fro
J city to city, and finally fixed in 1867 her rel
dence in Munich, where she met her sad fat
The Comte became enamored with the beau
: full Hungarian, who was coquettish and ma
bold piquant toilettes. She appears to ha
. returned his passion. They conceived {
project of getting rid of the wife. The cou
at Vienna have just convicted the Hungar
of the poisoning of the Countess and condem
/. ed her to twenty-years hard labor, the loss
her rights of nobility, and the expenses of t