The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-11
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Critics say Titiens is losing her voice.
Eugene has withered Saint Beuve by
striking his name off the list Of her soirees.
"A Western critic, wishing to say the hand
some thing about Parepa-Rosa, calls her ''a
washtub full Of melody"
-Reichardt. composer Of 'sThou Art so Near
and Yet so Far" has just published new song
called "Of Thee Think"
-Irma de Murska has made great success
in London as Linda, both by her acting and by
her brilliant vocal execution.
The Princess Salm Salm has sued an
author OF stuttgard FIR having written that
she was mistress to Macmillan.
The value Of presents made by the Sultan
to the Princess OF Wales during her recent
visit to the East is estimated at $4O0, 900.
-Alboni is the chief attraction in the for
,ign performances OF Rossini's Mass. Her rem
dering of the o SatMoris is encored every
night.
His Majesty the King OF, the Sandwich
Islands had marrow escape from death, by
the falling Of q cocoanut, while walking in the
grove at his country seat.
Roger, the once celebrated French tenor,
is now music master, and his favorite pupil
is Amelia Watson, an Eoe lish girl, who is said
to have an extraordinary soprano voice.
Miss Violette Colville is an American girl
who is studying music in Paris. and Warte],
her instructor, says she will become Mali
bran, and that he shall bring her out when she
| is eighteen.
Costa, the conductor, has been visiting the
King Of Prussia, from whom he received the
! Cross Of Officer of the Red Eagle. Costa has
also been kpighted by Queen Victoria, so he
cannot complain Of royal neglect.
Madame Rossini continues at Passy, at her
dying husbands request, her Friday dinner
parties Rossini's vacant chair is still at the
head Of the table, but his favorite dish OF mae
caroni is omitted from the list Of viands.
The st. Petersburg critics admit that Pau
line Lucca, who preceded Adelina Patti at the
Imperial Opera in that city, is better canta-
trice than the Marquise de Caux, but state
| that the latter was in the hands Of such skill
| full mahagers that hsr success was far greater
chan that of the Berlin d;pa. ~
The grave OF Marie Alphonsine Plessis,
| whose history was the basis Of M. Dumas
novel, "La Dame aux Carnelias," is still point
ed out In one OF the Paris cemeteries. II ie
decorated with flowers daily, and in reply 10
inquiries by visitors by whom ia ist done, the
keeper OF the cemetery replies "M. Armand
| The Milanese ere greatly excited about the
presence Of Verdi, the composer, in theiI
midst. His new opera, .''The Force Of Destiny,
was performed iu his presence at the Scala
Theatre amidst extraordinary applause. Verdi
was called ffteen times before the curtain du-
King the first performance. and he was after
ward serenaded by very large concourse 81
people. cn'
1t has been stated That victor Hugo, Tor &C
long the assaiiant and bitter enemy Of Napo.
leon and Napoleonic Imperialism. had mad;
his peace WITH the Emperor, and was about to
resurn TO Paris from hfs exile. A passage In
the last chapter OF aHugos story, aThe Mar
who Laughs" has D saysss paragraph aimed
vt Louis Napoleon that precludes the idea Of
any such reconciliation between the stern old
republican and the French autocrat. Hugo
says: The nglishman's love for his liberty Ii
mixed mp Rith'a certain recognition OF anothe,
mans servitude. This kindly feofink tdsaaras
the chains that bind neiahbor is~ptashei
sometimes even 10 enthusiasts on bsha,f oY !
despot close at hand" Hugo here gets ilou.
bic shot at Napoleon, and at the Engiish peo
pie who pot him. ~ b