Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19
A COURT SCANDAL.
The Empress of Austria Quarrels
with Her Husband,

with Her husDhmOs
Paris Correspondence Of the n. o. Picayune,l
Court circles smile when the Empress
of Austrias name is mentioned. The
scandalous chronicle says she has fed
from her husband just as the French
Empress fed from St. Cloud years ago
One night the latter, having had her sus-
picions aroused, attempted TO enter No.
poleon Ills bed chamber. She found
the door guarded by Count Baccrach,
who would not let her enter, using main
force to prevent her. She became very
angry and soundly boxed his ears, not
only once or twice, but until she could
from sheer fatigue no longer lift her
hands. She spent the rest of the night
packing trunks and the next morning
took the early train for London, where
she stayed only day or two before 60
ing to Scotland. The newspapers gravely
told us that grief at the loss of her only
sister Ito whom she was most tenderly
attached) had rendered change of scene
desirable, and therefore Her Majesty
had gone to Scotland,
When she quilted Paris her avowed
intention was never to return again, and
she charged her confidential friends to
see Mons. Berrges and get him to bring
suit for a separation. he, with charac-
teristic honor, used all his influence to
reconcile the parties, and as Countess de
Montijo, Mons. Prosper Merimee lwho
was by many persons here believed, l
think upon slight foundations, to be the
Empress father and other trusted
friends actively INTERVIEWED, the breach
YES closed. The Empress letters from
~ ~vt. Shieh' we're published among
~ uapesS found in the Tullerles,
oIn she never forgot nor forgaye the
Emperor tGat wrong ,,o.,u
The Empress of Austria suddenly
omitted Vienna some weeks since, trav
sIed dav and night took the belt railway
which girdles Paris, and without stop
ming more than five min1tes here pro-
ceeded to Havre. Here she rested one
night aud sailed early the next morning
for the Isle of Wight. The Austrian
newspapers all said she had Quilted
Vienna by medical advice; her physl'
clans had recommended channel sea
baths and sea air. Inquisitive eyes
kent watch on royalty. They saw she
took no baths, little exercise, made
visit as short as court etiquette would
allow to the Queen and Imperial Prince
of Germany, went nowhere, not even to
the ROYAL Yacht Clubs regatta, nor to
the curious places of the Island. She
looked grave, sad unto death. 3,
The English newspapers announced
that the Emperor of Austria had Quilted
Vienna to join the Empress in the Isle
of Wight. Ten minutes after these
newspapers reached the island the EN-
peress chamberlain was negotiating the
charter of a steamboat to take her to
SOUTHAMPTON, and the steamboat char
tered, he was at the telegraph othce
making arrangements for a special
train from Southampton to London. AS
soon as fires could be lighted and steam
raised, her Majesty was off for London;
She did not stop at the embassy, refused
TO see the Austrian Ambassador, went to
Claridge's hotel, and began to visit the
nuhlie monuments with the untiring
perseverance Of college boy.
A telegram seems to have been sent to
the Emperor of Austria announcing his
wife's further fight; for he seems to
have stopped on his journey. They
saw that she had declared that if he
pursued her to London, she would ly to
Scotland; if pressed, from there to Nor.
way. She is still in London. de is at
his home In Bavaria.
Their marriage was a love match.
The family wanted him to marry her eld'
est sister. He went to Munich to see
her. The youngest sister took posses
sion of bis heart at first sight, and TO the
surprise and yexation of the families,
and especially of the elder sister, be an
nounced that the younger sister would
he his wife. Her position at Vienna was
not without its drawbacks. The En-
perors mother was imperious, stroye to
exert great influence over him; there
were political and financial embarass-
ment which at times brought the EN-
neror to the verge of despair; there was
he Russian war, which Rt times was a
source of harassing anxiety to the En-
neror of Austria while it lasted; then
CANA the Franco-Italian war, which lost
Austrian Lombardy and Venetiai next
The Prussiau war, which expelled Aus
tria from the German Confederation;
But thew loved each other deyotedly, and
the happiness OF their married life was
nnebeduered, save by those summer
clouds which will occasionally overcast
the sunniest homes.
Viennese women are, as you know, the
most dissolute in Europe. Has some
beauty made the Emperor forget his hrst
love and the troth plighted herr