, 1876-06-18
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
A Matrimonial Arrangement with
Lega! Complications.
How an American Can Become a
Marquis for $4,000.
street-0pening in Paris-The Family Of
Queen Victoria.
TIE LAWS DELAY.

An amusing and yet tEagical case OF the law's
wise delays, with climax OF tremendous COM
plications, has just come over to Us {says the
New York Wo,iD from the recent dolngs OF the
Paris courts, aud this is its history from the be-
ginning: a marriage was announced between
an aged physician named Morrison and
one Nine Lozfnski, widow, whose first choice
had been 4 person employed BY the Paris, Lyons
s. Mediterranean Railway Company. The cere-
n,ony was set for May &, 1874. It had been con-
templated long while,-a dozen years or more:
50 long, in fact, that q certain child, afterwards
named Lucette Marie, had decided not to wait
for It's solernizatiou before arriving. But, all
the same, the Doctor was anxious to marry the
widow with ner inc,1mbrance; the day Was fixed,
the Mayor Was notified, and the banns were pub
lislled> II the expcctant bride was widow,
the e1pectant bridegroom was "1doWer,-a
wllower Of two. BIZ those two he had had sew
cral children whom he had one by one settled
In life. and It was only when he had married OF
the last Of them that he bethought himself Of
keeping his old.promise and of legitlmatizng bis
Lncrtte Marie, Of whom hc was fond Well, the
bridal-robe was made realty, the carriages were
ordered, the gloves and the bouquets were
bought Alas, vain earthly hopes! On May S.
only one day before the great day, the Mayor
was notified OF protest entered against the
marriage by the children OF the cxpcctant bride
groom. To be sure, children can make no com-
pctcnt objection to tue marriage Of their imme-
date ancestors, but anybody can object, and the
Municipal Magistrate may not pass upon the
soundncss Of proceedings which he is notified OF:
In this case he more readily decided to suspend
oncrations because in the notification these
people described themselves as, "We, all
brothers and sisters, aud jointly interested"
etc. Now, they were doubtless their own
brothers and sisters, but they we're not tho
Doctors. II they had been, THAR " "ob1cction," "
might have amounted to somcthing--as an OBJ
lection, anyhow. But they call these sinful
games " prorcss," and that makes them all
right So the carriages went buck to the stables,
the bridal robes to the closet, the gloves to their
boxes and as for the bouquets, poor things, they
dropped and withored in melancholy wise: The
Doctor wrote letter after letter to his beloved.
manded that the "objection u be vacated.
But to get an objection vacated, even when it is
sham one. there needs some prudent delay,
and on the night OF the 1st of July old DR..
Morisou-died. Luckily, they said, be had,
doubtless foreseeins bis demise, taken the pre-
caution OF formally recognizing his Lucette
AIaric, the illcgitimatc child. But, behold, such
mizcd. Nine Lozins1d deems the Doctors OBJ
jecting children to blame for this catastrophe,
and, as guardian Of her minor child, sues them
for 10, 600 francs damages. Alas, the law steps
in again and says: Before this action can be
entertained, proof must be shown that the
original tsobiection u was frivolous and ground
less; nothing can prove that but its vacation; it
can be vacated only on the Doctors application,
which had not been passed upon at ms ocath
upon. And SO Mime. lozlnsA was cheated out
OF her damages.
;Uorat.H you want to marry, don't wait
twelve years. You may die