The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-17
TREMENDOUS WEDDING
Presents Valued AT More than % Hun
Sired Million Dollars.


A Rio Janeiro letter to the Albany
State Journal gives what purports to be
an account of the wedding of the daugh-
ter of De Souza Cabral, the Diamond
King of South America, in which fabulous
reports ofprincely wealth and lavish
magnificence are presented and among
them the following about the brides
presents:
And BOW few words about the brides
presents. They were, by actual count
eighteen hundred and forty in number
and the greater part Of them, / noticed
took the form of either gold or diamonds.
The mothers gift was Il dinner set of two
hundred and eighty pieces, of solid gold.
Each piece bears the monogram of the
Cabral and Throckmorton in diamonds;
the cost OF this proof of maternal affection
was something over four millions of
dollars, in gold. In addition Madame
Cabral gladened the brides heart with
one thouand yards of point lace; three
hundred and sixty-five morning, after
noon and evening costumes, one for each
social division Of every day i'll the
wear; and, to crown all, a certificate Of
deposit issued by the Bank of England
England being the objective point Of
the bridal tour-for one million pounds.
Does this last item seem the very
apothesis of prodigality? 1t does seem
so until YOU hear what the father did
for his darling, and then it tai es II
subordinate position. He gave title deeds
of a magnificent town and country
house 10 all the leading capitals of the
world and the more famous watering
places. These many mansions are
thoroughly furnished, and in each-"s
tender reminder TO Malta OF her
Observation-Disclosures is an apartment that
exactly corresponds in fnrnitnrc and
adornments to her own room at her
fathers house. Not contenting himself
with this display of his bounty, CaDral
presented her with as fine steamship
~ could be built on the Glide, with full
complement of sailors under contract for
ten wears service, and with salaries
paid in advance for the full term; one
dozen milk-white Arabian horses, and
this as ioke-one thousand pounds OF
caromels, a confection for which the
bride is said to have pronounced liking.
But his browning gift was a necklace
that deserves to rank among the enulnc-
roted wonders of the world. Sixteen
ve,rs ago, soon after Mains birth, he
bcrau to collect the diamonds OF when
it Is composed. Whenever or wherever
he heard of a marvellous stone he was on
hand in person or by agent and secured
il He had all Europe, Asia and Africa
ransacked in behalf of the proposed
necklace, and at one time actually made
overtures for the celebrated Pitt dia-
mond which cost the Duke of Orleans,
according to history, six hundred ana
seyenty-fve thousand dollars, aud which
Nsnoleon at one time wore on his sword
bilt He was baffled in the attempt
however, much to his DISAPPOINTMENT
but after ten years of unremltting hun'-
inc he at last got together thirty OF the
largest and purest diamonds IN the
,rorld no one of which was much infer
;nr to the Pitt gem. Taking these to
amsterdam, he summoned the best talent
IN the CITY. famous for its diamond cut
TORS and stated what he desifed-whlch
u,as that each one of the thirty stones
should have fantastic face cut upon IT,
Amsterdam at first said that Inc TASK
WAS more than Herculean-that II was
imnossiblc. But when Cabral stated the
'tupendous sum he was willing to pay
for the fultillment of his wishes, Amstcr-
dom recopsidered and consented to d" us
hest It did its best for five years, day
.nd night, and the result was that II
waek before the wedding, the Diamonds,
Ont carved, set on n golden string anu
all ready to embrace the snowy neck ..
the bride, were placed in the hshuS Oh
the iubilant Cabral l happened TO be
nresent when Malta first was shown the
pecklace. a couple of days before she was
n,arr;ed She wore u black silk at the
time. and her father, after throwing the
br;llionts that contrastcd so strong WIN
tha color of the dress, over her mead
stepped back few PAGES TO nocicG VI,
effect. Having grazed ut the n"SI'"E
necklace for u moment or so, ne suo"''',
" broke into loud laugh and crieG oH'
narrily. INV dear, on my life You d d.
Gor the head light of locomotive.
This necklace cost De Souzs 'aGFaI .
stones cutting and carving, one hurarSt
and sixteen millions, nine hundred an'
Si%btv dollars, and lightweight cents
Csbral showed me the receipts, yeS'eT
! d.y so that l am able to state thS eN'e
S%nres And yet this doting father II
naming the cost to me, sdueu 't ia" ~ y
would willingly have paid what ne G u;
twice over rather than to have missed IN: Il.
aim or been unable to give his aatl hn
the wedding presenahe designed Tor ne
,rh;,s vet she was in her cradle. Iner'
wom have the man in his unbounded eX
penditure of money to obtain u, his Send, END,
pnd in his absorbing love for his 'a"sn