The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-04

hSe 4. eU aaea 70 BE- taking music lessons
at that time teaching her singing. NJ. Rou-
zaud, as lover of music. used to take o pleas.
ure in being one OF n. Colllnet's social circle
Both II. Ronzapd and Miss Nilsson were then
comparative nobodies. It was when they
were thus obscure that they made up their
minds TO- marry each other. Nile. Nilsson
and her husband have taken o splendid man
sion5ir the Champs Elysees, the same where
Patti passed her honeymoon Her father-in-
law,M Rnnzaud, who Is q colonial merchant,
has In honor OF his sons marriage, given a
sumptuous dinner to his clerks, and placed in
each of their napkins @ bank note for one
thousand francs" ~:
There is a remarkable difference in Lon
don between city and suburban property. In
glancing casually over. the advertisements In
the English papers, we find detached villas for
saleror lease at prices which to us seem fabu-
lously1ow. Houses with eight rooms, kitchen,
bathroom, gas and water. conservatory and
wsllsd-tn garden, are Offered for three hun
dred dollars a year, The most eligible dwell
inga, with every convenience, aDd,. as set
forth In the papers, in every way attractive,
seek tenants at from four hundred and fifty to
five hundred dollars. These properties are
not situated In the country, but within the city
limits. One fact accounts Ia a great measure
for this renting SO much cheaper than with US.
In England, an investment in house property
is considered a good one if 1t brings in a net
return of from three to four per cent.
-Blanton Duncan has been interviewed.
he doesn't object to 1t, as 1t Is one of the east-
est ways ofeffecting that notorlety for which
he pines in private and works In public. He
lies In bed Frustrated by the govt, aud dreams
fOndly of the Louisville Convention, of which
he Is the central sun, and he sees myrlads OF
little suns bowling the knee to Blanton. Then
he wakes, but the vision remains upon his
brain, and he retails it to callers. He Is so
strous price upon his vote and infuence-no
less than ten million dollars-and by the same
mathematical rule which leads him TO this es-
innate of himself, he also multiplies Demo-
Gratis who are to attend the astraight-out"
1ovefeast. In his eye he sees f~our-hundred
thousand strong, or four times as many as the
City Of Louisville has Inhabitants, and there
will be such q Jubilee as has not been heard OF
since the builders of the Tower of Babel struck
forwant of a proper understanding with their
employers.
The Grand Opera House, at the corner of
Twenty-third street and Eighth avenue, New
York, Is now the property OF Mrs. James Fisk,
Tr wJd0u of tho 1oto HO1NDo1 Tho nnpra
House proper Is leased to Mr.. Augustln Daily,
and the remaining portion of the building was
leased by Colonel Fisk to the Erie Railway
Company, and eleven or twelve years of this
lease are yet unexpired. The present mana
gers of the Erie Railway, acting In the inter-
est of the stockholders, would, however,
gladly vacate these premises and throw up
their lease If Mrs.. Fisk would permit them to
do 90. But she Is not at all inclined to listen
to any such proposition. In the first place, it
is alleged the rent which Fisk arranged to
have been paid by the Erie Railway Company
under the lease gives a very profitable per.
centage on the property; and In the second
place, the upper floors were altered and orna-
mentea at great expense, by Flsk's orders,
1or Tue purpose of accommodating the varl-
Gus officials OF the Erie Company, and they
couia not now be remodelled to suit other
businesses or for the occupation of private
families at much less than the original outlay.
One of those romantic turns of Fortunes
wheel which are necessary to the success of
novels, but are generally wedged out of real
Life, is now before the world for its considera-