Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-21
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

Inauguration OF the Suez canal
Rochefort is at work upon an autobio-
graphy, which viii be entitled ''Remin-
iscences of Short Life" Michael Levy
Brothers viii publish it.
Veuiliot, of the Paris URiUers, viii go
TO Rome for the purpose of laying his
quarrel with Bishop Dupanloup, of
Orleans, before the Holy Father.
Old Auber, who was recently reported
to be falling rapidly into the childishness
of extreme old age, is said to have re-
covered much of his former intellectual
vigor.
The wealthiest notary public in Paris
has been arrested and committed to prison
on charge of forgery. His fortune is
estimated at 900, 900 francs.
Richard Wagner, the German COM
poser, lives so extravagantly that, as he
said himself, the other day, he can not
get along with less than ten thousand dol
lars year.
The Gazette de BruxeIles asserts that
the Emperor Napoleon recently again
made efforts to induce Victor Hugo to re
turn to Paris, and even to visit him at tn e
Tulleries.
The semi-oficial Paris papers are hardly
able to conceal their VACATION at the fiat
tering reception with which the King OF
Belgium met at bis recent visit to Windsor
and London.
An English couple, seemingly belonging
to the best classes of society, stole, the
other day, a diamond necklace wOrtI
80, 900 francs, at fashionable jewelry
store in Paris.
Father Hyacinthe's successor as preach
er at NOtre Dame, is a Dominican named
Father MOntsabre, a man of little elO-
quence, and mentally immensely inferior
to his illustriOus predecessor.
The Ebretto of ''Pipele," Ferrari's new
comic opera, is taken from Eugene Sue:
Mysteries of Paris. Sues heirs have ap-
piled to the poet and composer for a share
of the profits. The opera is very success
full.
Franz List, the composer and able,
has returned to Rome, and is treated with
more distinction by the aristOcratiC
strangers now sojOurning in the Eternal
City than most of the eminent prelates
are.
The friends of Ferdinand de Lesseps.
the Suez Canal man, Indignantly deny the
report which was circulated a short time
ago, that he is bankrupt They say that
he is worth rather more than less than
two million francs
The nuns at the Carmelite convent in
Cracow have been indicted for doing great
bodily harm to the famous Barbara
Ubryk. The trial, which will come of
in the course of a few weeks, is certain to
create great sensation throughout Eu-
rope.
The public, it is well known, is now adj
mittcd also TO the sittings of the French
Senate; but so little interest is taken in
the proceedings of that Senate body, that
hardly any outsiders avail themselves of
the privilege of listening TO the debates.
A French chemist has invented fluid
which will be found extremely valuable
by swindling debtors. A man who gives
his creditor a promisory note moistens the
paper with the fluid, and a month after
ward nothing remains of it but a little
dust.
Rouher, who was formerly called, 'cNa
pOleon's GRANDMOTHER and even ''Nice
Emperor, is making desperate efforts to
obtain again a seat in the Imperial Cabi-
net. But his prospects are hopeless. IN
ROuher againln said the other day a
witty Partisan lady; "why, his very name
produces to-day the effect of fashion
plate issued in the year 1850"
Jerome David said the other day to
Napoleon the Third, that he felt disposed
te ask the Chamber not to admit Roche
fort to his seat. owing to the manner il
which he had spoken about the oath OF
allegiance. The Emperor requested the
Legitimate son Of Jerome Bonaparte not
to harass the representative OF the first
Partisan district in any manner whatever.
On the Sd December Henri ROchefOrt
delivered his first speech in the Corps lie
gislatif. Granier de CassagnaC interrupted
him by exclaiming, You are a profes-
siOnal slanderer!" ROchefOrt, turning to.
ward him, said cody, "Ah, ali! Are
you afraid that l might spoil the trade you
have been carrying on for ever so long
Granier intended to reply, but the Presi
penis bell drowned his voice.
Gen. Flcury is greatly petted by tho
Russian aristOcraCy at st. Petersburgh
He is an accomplished sportsman, and tn
Russian nOblemen, who like to talk abOu
horses, say that the General understand
that better than any distinguished French
man that ever came to the great capital OF
the Camps of the NeVa. In regard to TN
diplomatic mission of Gen. Fleury, it i
asserted that be has not yet dared to say
a single word about it either to the En-
perOr Alexander the Second, or to hi
Chancellor, Prince GOrtschakOff.
Monseigneur Dupanloup, the well know
Bishop of Orleans, is denounced by tn
| UltramOntanes as an sat heist' and IRE,
| Republican. simply because he wrote hi
| famous letter against the dogma of the infa
bili5y af the Pope. Vieullott intimates il
an article in the UHjCeFS that the mos
reverend gentleman took his stand agains
the pet measure of the reactionary clique a
the Vatican, which Dupanloup's admirer
vehemently deny.
The following shocking anecdote is pub
lished in a late number of the Paris Figaro
A priest was exhorting miser who wa
| living at the point of death, but the oil
skinfint lent a deaf ear to all prayers
'sHave confidence in God, my son, san
the priest. Il never have had cOnfdenc
in any body, was the reply. what, 20
would not even trust Jesus Christi aske
the priest, shocked beyond expression
'.How can you expect" said the misel
that 1 should trust a son whose fathe
will never die?"
The Parsian children are known to b
the most precious in Europe The othe
day little girl, who secretly reads a gre'
many books which she ought not to read
was surprised by her mother, who saw he
quickly concealing a volume which the Ii
tie girl had been reading, apparently wit
much satisfaction. What book was
you was reading, my dear?' asked II
mother. 1T was my Bible History,
''How far din you get in it % up to Il
chapter where Chevalier Faublas-entel
the whales belly, replied the naughty Ii
tie demoiselle, in her confusion.
Prince Napoleon recently sent his oides
son, little Prince Victor, who is no
about seven years old, to private schO,
in the Rue Camartin, which contains on
fourteen or fifteen pupils. The principl
| of the institution had been the day befol
at the Palais Royal in order to make Il
acquaintance of his new pupil. He askc
Prince Napoleon with what name he shou
address his son. ''Cal him simp
Victor" was the reply. ''But on Il
tables of honor continued the teache
''On the tables of honor you may call hi
Victor Napoleon, but when his schoc
mates give him kick, or when he gives
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