Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-29
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

Mario Crisis husband, is said to be
hopelessly i'll.
Gen. Kantzler, the Commander in Chief
of the Pontifical Army, is an invcterate
opium eater.
George Sand said the other day that
she received annually between three and
four thousand begging letters.
Roger, ten years ago, the most pop
ular tenor at the Paris Grand Opera, is
now living in that city in abject poverty.
Garnier-Pages, formerly Minister of
Finance, is now making a living in Paris
by giving lessons in mathematics and his
tory.
Pinard, the reactionary Minister of
the Interior, who is now member of the
CORPS Legislatif, has Joined the Liberal
party.
LIE Pere DuChnesnc, Herbert's revived
revolutionary daily paper in Paris, has
been suppressed by order of the Cor
rectional Police Court.
A Mormon emisSary was killed the
other day in Northern Jutland, by a
farmer whose wife and two daughters he
had induced to leave the home of their
parents.
The Countess de Sesto, Morny's widow,
has been notified by the French govern
ment that her return to Paris would be
very unwelcome to the Court of the Tuil-
cries.
Madame RataZzi writes to Florence
journal that the Empress Eugene is
growing old very rapidly, and that she
does not by any means dress very taste
fully.
An official declaration of the eX-King
of Hanover announces that the rumor of
his intention to take the oath of allegiance
to the King of Prussia was utterly I'M
founded
When the Emperor Napoleon read to
the Empress Eugene the names of the
men who were to compose his new cabi-
net, lie PGrLeDleBt SAYS she exclaimed
Il shall not receive those persons ~
There are at the present time five hun
dred and fifty young American students at
German universities, and upward of one
thousand American boys and girls are at
German schools and seminaries
The Priace Imperial of France, owing
to bequest that was made to him some
years ago, is the largest property-hOlder at
Goritz, in Illyria. He pays there more
taxes than any five citizens of the place
The Ultramontane and Carlist papers
in France assert that Prim is subject TO
occasional fits of insanity They also
accuse him of using very strong nacortiCs
for the purpose of relieving his rheumatic
pains.
The King of Wurtemberg is said to be
i perfect glutton. He remains every day
for nearly three hours at the dinner table.
His Queen Olga eats very little, but is re-
ported to be too fond of champagne and
Madeira.
Lorenz BrentanO, formerly proprietor
of the Illinois St00tS-ZeitltHg, and mem
Der of the Illinois Legislature, is now a
resident of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, and
desires to be appointed American Consul
in the place of Emil Klauprecht.
Marshal Regnault de Saint Aorgly, who
died few weeks ago at bis country seat,
near Paris, despised most of the courtiers
of the Tuileries so much that he would
not allow any member of his family to
associate with them.
Richard, Prince of Metternich, ii has
recently been reported again, has
squandered nearly the whole of the i'm
mense fortune left him by his illustrious
father, as well as the large bowers which
his eccentric wife brought to him.
The friendly reception with which the
Crown Prince of Prussia met at the Court
or Vienna, 50 exasperated ex-King George
of Hanover that he left the city and swOre
he would not return until the streets of
Vienna were covered with snow.