The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Germans In Paris.
-Justus Won Liebig, the great chemist Of
Munich. is getting blind in ono eye.
Prince Richard de Metternich and his
clever and eccentric wife are said to be the
best punsters in Paris.
The Prussian Court spends daily five hun
dred dollars for charities; the Russian Court
twelve hundred roubles.
Some fashionable Parieian lemi-mondaincs
have lately appeared at the "Bois" with cha
! peaux no larger than medium-sized rosettes.
The King Of Greece is very fond Of negro
music. The royal band at Athens, in conse-
| quence, plays mostly Stephen Fosters melo-
| dies.
The French Government requested e1-
Queen isabella to stay away from Viohy dur
ing General Prim's Hojourn at that fashionable
watering place. ~ 1N
No dispatches in cipher were allowed to be
cent from Paris to any part OF the world dur
ing the panic which the dangerous illness Of
the Emperor created.
After the expiration OF his gambling term
at Homburg, NJ. Blanc will open the largest
"helln that ever existed in the old world, in the
African city OF Tunis.
The most popular caricature in Paris at
the present time is as follows: Death is holding
Napoleon Ill by the throat and Prince Napole-
on stands close by, clapping his hands and
shouting: "Bravo! Bravoi Take him. 1 want
his thronel"
"A French paper says, in regard to tho asser-
tion which Bismarck is reported to have made
recently, that he did not even read the news.
papers at varzin: "We are accustomed to
many bold assertions on the part Of the great
Prussian statesman, but this one is decidedly
too extraordinary for US to believe. We polite
Iy bog to be excused"
The Paris Figaro sold in consequence OF
its sensation articles and reports during the
frst few days when the Emperors illness took
an alarming tu1n, over three hundred thousand
extra copies. NJ. pillemeseant, the editor of
the Figaro, has been prosecuted for the dis
semination OF false news, and will surely be
sentenced to several months imprisonment.
1t is said that Adelina Patti has entered
into written agreement with Strakosch 10
come to the United States next September. and
sing one hundred nights within the ensuing
eight months, for which she is to receive TO-
600 francs in gold for each night. Strakosch is
to pay all the expenses. 1t is enid, further,
that at tho end OF this engagement Patti will
retire from the stage aud "reside in Paris as
the MarQuise, and not as the Diud."
Since the amnesty proclamation has re
stored to liberty tho Democratic politicians and
writers in France, many of the mouchards that
were most officious in persecuting the Liberals
have been needlcssly beaten, their windows
have been smashed, and other Injury OF va.
rious kinds has been inflicted on them. De.es-
var, the notorious police judge, never dares to
leave his house after nightfall. He is constantly
in receipt Of very threatening letters. Tho Mt
titude Of tho Paris police toward tho Liberals
is singulary concilintory. Anew regime really
seems to have set in.
When the Empress and Prince Imperial,
in consequence of tho dangerous Illness OF Ma
poeon the Third, returned from Ajaccio to
Toulon, they wero mot at tho landing BY m
excited crowd Of men and women, who shouted
to them: Madame, is tho Emperor dead, or
is he still alive2" The Empress YVES so PFC
foundly moved that shc was unable to reply;
and, as none Of the members of her suite SEEM
ed to be willing to do 30 in her place, the
scene was about to become exceedingly en-
barrassing, had not General Frcussard, the
Princes tutor, who was standing behind him,
whispered few words into his pupils eir,
whereupon the Prince shouted in loud voice:
"No, TouloDnais. my father is not dead; he is
alive and much better l" These words wero
received in silence by the large crowd.