Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-03
ALEXIS AND HIS WIFE.


Their seiouFn In Exile in saxony.
A letter from Dresden, speaking Of the
residence Of the Russian Grand Duke
Alexis in that city, says;
During the autumn and early winter
the Duke has been touring with his wife,
bringing up finally in Dresden, where,
within a week, they have a taken a mod
est villa on Berg Strasse and gone 10
housekeeping in a charmingly simple
way.
Dresden aristocraoy was in a fever
over the arrival, when il was known that
the Grand Duke was really here-a fact
frs, made known by the presence of fifty
trunks belonging to the Princess at the
Hotel Bellevue, Official Dresden held
aloof, 1t must first be seen what
the King would do aud say. The King
of Saxony is a particular person. So
far as power goes he is not great Sax.
ony has perhaps three millions of people,
but what the kingdom lacks in the pres.
tige OF power It makes up in the stiffness,
e~xclusiveness aud prodigious punctilio
of the court A left.handed recognition
was finally accorded the runaway. The
Grand Chamberlain called on the Grand
Duke. There was nothing said about
the Grand Duchess, mind you. Alexis
refused TO be seen on such terms, He
had sent his cards to the King, as is the
custom Of princes arriving in the domin.
ion Of friendly potentates, and the Grand
Chamberlain should have brought cards
from the Queen as we'll as the King. A
truce was pitched up by the King calling
in person, the young people capturing
him by their youth and good looks.
Meantime the young people enjoy
burgher life very evidently. They ride
about and walk about when the weather
permits, and look as happy as the tabled
doves. The cares Of the household
don't seem to trouble Mrs. Alexis. She
comes out in charming Partisan cos
tune daily, her golden hair hanging
over her shoulders in girlish carelessness.
With light blue eyes and creamy COM
.plexion, she looks hardly seventeen, and
is only nineteen, while the Prince is
twenty. four. The Russian Court has
been doing everything to drive the
young nan home, where the proper ma.
chinery may be set in motion to annul
marriage. Requests have been made
on all foreign governments to refuse the
Grand Duke official recognition while
the ban Of the Car. There is an
insuperable difficulty, however,
in the way to an annulment of the mar
as the Greek Church allows no
divorce. 1t is supposed that the Car,
as tae head of the church, will take the
responsibility of declaring the rite void,
if he a bring his son to consent, but
even this power is held in debate by
those who understand the relations Of
The church to the State in Russia.
The family of Mrs. Alexis are enor.
susly rich, and if yearnings for place
10 not come to the young man, he need
nave no fears for the future. His father
.n.law gives the bride q colossal dowry,
and SO far as money goes the match
rejoice the most worldly of par.
ents. Even in the event Of a ~reconcilia.
lion the wife cannot be received, accord
ing to her husbands rank, at the impe.
rial court, an obstacle which would be
apt to keep the couple in ~seclusion, un.
less they Can make up their minds to the
annoyance which the Marquis of Lorne's
marriage has brought upon him. All
considered, as the thing stands,
the Grand Duke, even without a formal
reception into the imperial family, has,
as chessman say, the best of the board.