The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-07
PERSONAL GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

the Unit;d States.
Henri Rochefort WAS married on the 10th
of June to wealthy widow Of Brussels.
Sir Roundell Palmer, the distinguished
English Chancery lawyer, makes s125. 900 year
by bis practice.
Costa has been requested to compose
new national hymn for Prussia, and the Ger.
man musicians are wroth.
-Liszt recently gave concert for the ben
eft of the Pope, and sent his Holiness thirty
thousand francs as the proceeds.
A Chinese comic singer is announced in
London theatre. He sings both in Chinese
and English, and is named Caee-Msh.
Wales has been made member of the
French Agricultural Society. Probably be-.
cause of his efficiency in sowing wild oats.
Young walewski, son of Madame Rachel
and Count WaIewski, has been appointed Sec
retary of the French Legation at London.
-Czlr Alexander's grandson, yet pink and
in swaddling clothes, has been made COM
mapder of the 145th regiment OF Novotcbur-
kassk.
Sir Robert Clifton, who died recently in
England, had $780, 900 insurance on his life.
Most of the policies were held as security for
advances made the deceased.
Miss Edith Sanford, of the Surrey Theatre,
London. 10 OF the salamander school Of art, for
she promises at her forthcoming benefit to
ride through flames without saddle or bride.
-E1-King George Of Hanover and all his
family very naturally hate Bismarckaud the
KING Of Prussia. They go 80 far as to have
caricatures of the detested beings on the dishes
from which they take their food.
A subscription has been started in Lyons
to give the Pope chasub!e and cope Of extra
ordinary richness, as specimens of the. best
workmanship OF the city, on the occasion of
the approaching G:umenlcal Council.
-vlscount Adair, son Of the Earl Of Dun.
raven, is coming hero to ''study the germs Of
the great future in American politics and 30
ciety." He has just married an heiress and
has an income of his own o: $500 900 q year.
-Juarez sent two thousan letters found in
the apartments of the late Archduke Maximi-
Ian to French ex-deputy, in order that they
might be published at Brussels in French and
Spanish. The book has been printed, but
there is delay about its circulation.
1t is said to have been part OF the plan
of the Paris revoutionists, if they had been
successful, to appoint Victor Hugo dictator.
AS NJ. Hugo is an uncompromising enemy OF
capital punishment, the Bonapartists would in
that case have been let off very leniently.
The Klng CT Prussia, though strict tenn
perance man, drinks now every morning
great deal of French coenac for the purpose of
appearing in public with the semblance OF un.
impaired health and vig,r Without the nse OF
the stimulant it is said he would be unable to
leave his room.
The Archduke Victor, Of Austria, who made
30 many conques;s during his late sojourn 10
Paris, has lost most of his attrsctveness Tor
the ladies', since they found out that he was
clapdestinely married o year ayo toa pretty
mlIlner glrl Of Vienna. BE is the fourth Arch
duke who entered into such a mlsalliance.
"A speech of little French girl is reported
by MIR. Legouve, OF the lnstiture, which, as a
youthful defiance OF public opinion, is some
thing at once peculiar and profound. The lit
lie girl had been naughty, and on beng threat
ened BY her preceptor that he would tell every
one he knew Of her misconduct, she said:
Every well, tell II you want to; don't care
There are great many people that you don't
know, and they will never hear word about
it'll"
-Duellists who may hitherto have feared be.
ing traced aud disturbed by the police. are
now in clover. The Marquis Of Hertford lends
them his wallet park at Bagatelle, near Parie.
In this charming retreat an affair ofhonor took
placs recently between two geutlemen-very
we'll kno IN, call ID viscount CASTOR du Lau and
NJ. Karle des Perrieres. The sec )nds OF the
Ylscourt we're his relative. Marquis du Lau
d'Alleemaus and Count L. de Biencourt; those
of his adversary, NM. Leon Duohemin and hip.
polyte Nazet. On arriving in their carriages
at the Marquis of Hertfords porter's lodge
th,y we're eraciously received by his lordshipa
steward, who at ono, showed tn m desirable
sootYor the settlement OF their little affair, and
archly whispered to one OF the seconds that it
had been often used before for like purposes.
In the course of five minutes the Viscount du
Lau was disabled by sword wound in the
arm; honor was declared satisfied, all parties
shook hands and separated, after exchanging
assurances of the highest esteem for each
other.
1t is not so bad for one to be ruined when
ono is o Lord. II the poor Marquis of Hast
inss had but taken care OF his health he might
be happy yet. But be died, while the young
Duke OF Newcastle and his pair OF gracelese
brothers, the representative ''plungers" Of the
British aristocracy, still ''llve merry life y
The Dukes racing debts, they Say, have again
been pAid by his mother-in law, whose for
bearing kindness is so out OF character With
the traditions concerning ladies in her relation,
that gossip is ready to hang o malicious ecan-
dal on the act. The Dukes brothers, who
have spent some little time in deb;or's pri.
son, but after sueing for on adjudication in
bankruptcy, are now al largo with mountaln
of unpaid deb-s, drive their choice horse hssb,
dine sumptuously at Frahcatelli's, and get
along batter without money than most people
do vi o good suppl. Another is that
thorough sportsman and fine gen.lemln, Lord
| Wcstmurelan], who did not appear at latter.
salts On settling dav. by that act achnowleds-
Ing that hc was done up" lie b3gan and has
kept going Oh almost nothing, maintaining a
larg, and exocnsve stud, and playing an cnor-