The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-09

| of sFime-Fanntiy lara which AfHtet
/ the President az the HeRublic-0tIicIaf
| Receptions at the Eiysee-East Year
vintage and the fhyitexera-vhy Nh
ssrewl Ia Heard 6rom tme French werh.
| iugRasn.
| Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat
Pans, February %, 1879.
| Paris Just now is In the height OF the car
rival season, and the gay capital has rarelr
presented brighter view than now. The city
is filed with strangers. Thousands are here
from the United States and all nations fur
nieh a full quota. Rural France has poured
into the Mecca Of ell true Frenehmen, and
animation and hustle are seen in all directions.
Even the recent political changes have not
affected The current OF pleasure. A brilliant
spectacle Is to be found on the boulevards at
all times of the day after Paris awakes and
until far into the night. -Four days more will
bring Ash Wednesday. Then the city will put
on n more sober dress; but 1t would be mac
curate to say that all the excitement and
pleasilrable whirl of the past month will cease.
Paris is always gay Even the solemn season
of Lant, and all the the pomp, power and ex-
hortation of the Church caunot completely
tone down the volatile population, while the
| thousands of Foreigners who spend the winter
here are bent on pleasure and are determined
| to have 1t. So, while the carnival season will
end in the middle of the coming week the gid
dy whili will not entirely cease aud thespleas-
ure-seeker will continue TO find ways and
means to crafty bis peculiar conceit
A CARNIVAL OF ANOTHER KIND,
| But all ts not pleasure In this bright and
| aFI Tpyo fbn 1ttHYc
much misery, and. what affects tho average
| visitor more, much crime Much apprehen-
sion 10 beginning to be felt at the increase
| of night attacks, murderous assaults, and
robberies Of all kinds. People are now mo-
Tested Ia the very heart Of the city, q proof OF
| the daring Of the malefaetors, who formerly
| confined their operations to the less frequent
ed thoroughfares and tho outer quarters of
| the capital. but who doubtless find that their
| criminal hardibood Is rewarded by richer
| booty. The mysterious disappearance OF q
number Of children Is a feature I'm the acts OF
| the seoundrels which causes no slight amount
| Of uneasiness, and the insuf1iciency Of the
police arrangements to cope with this state
Of things Is becoming 50 manifest that
even the semi-oflicial journals remark
rage was the scene Of O crime. A young girl
OF excellent character, 16 years Of age, was
returning from Paris, where she had been in
search Of employment. when, at Batignolles.
man Of about 40 alighted from another car
riage, and, without being noticed by the OIL
cials, entered the compartment reserved for
women. Of which she was the sole occupant.
He made indecent overtures to her and at
tempted violence She resisted strenuously,
and COurcelles. the next station, being her
destination, she was alighting when he
stabbed her In the left side with a knife. The
train went on before an alarm was given and
the girl was taken to q hospital. where she
lies in a somewhat dangerous condition.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS FAMILY.
| 1t was not generally known that the new
| President OF the Republic nj. Grevy. and his
| wife have not been on good terms Tor years.
| Happily, they are now rec0nCtled, aud Nine.
Glevy has taken up her residence with the
| President at the Palace Of the Eiysee. The
cause Of the misunderstanding IS 0t old date.
| Tt was brought about by social differences
and tastes The general belief has been that
nj. Grevy married In youth girl OF humble
| station and poor education, and that he had
to lock her up In his cottage In the Jura.
This Is u mistake. Nine Grevy was OF much
more refined family than her husband
and her relatives opposed the marriage
u
was one Of love, the idea that his wife
was bred to higher expectations than
those of marrying q farmers son, made NJ
Grevy very intractable. He began to atctt5e
the lady Of trivolity. Another person took
her place at the chess board, and Nine Grevy
left the family roof without being asked to
return. Their quarrels began about chess
and shooting of which M. Grevy il fond. His
dislike Of elegance In dress was further
cause OF disagreement. Little by little u
4 f~lfk ~
left to live where she pleased, the husband
being Of too philosophical 2 frame OF mind
to carry the settlement OF the question be-
fore the tribunals.
While this little family unpleasantness
has been happily, ARRANGED NJ Sreyy has
only child, Ia lady of twenty-three years of
age, OF brilliant intellect and unusual accom-
pIishments. She Is an admirable singer,
painter and sculptor. Her only drawback, in
her fathers eyes, Is that she is too romantic.
She tried to run away with Capoul some two
years ago, and has since declared that she
will not marry anybody else. The father has
sternly opposed the match. and 1t may be
that his reconciliation with her mother and
his elevation to the Presidency may cause
Nile Grevy to reconsider her Intention to
marry the man of her choice as soon as she
reaches her twenty fifth year, when, accord
ing to the French law, she can dispense with
the consent OF her parents.
ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE MANNER OF Off
CIAL RECEPTIONS.
President Grevy has departed from the GUS
toms inaugurated by his predecessor concern
ing official receptions, and the new departure
is as widely apart from the receptions OF M
Theirs. The last formal reception at the
Elysee lack the familiar liveliness of those
held In NJ. Theirs time, and had about 1t
more of the imposing brilliancy of those Of
Marshal MacMahon. TWAS more serious,
of irreproachable correctness, a reception Of
which every detail was fixed beforehand, and
not one item of which deviated from the pro-
gramme. M. Grevy, serious, mOtionless, his
black coat buttoned up, the red ribbon OF the
Legion of Honor round his neck, stood before
the mantelpiece, while black coats, and moth
ing but black coats, were ranged round him
Tie herald, as usual, presented to him
the ambassadors and their suites in
the order Of seniority; each diplomatist
bowed was bowed to, pronounced a
few words in low tone. and on fresh
bow from the Presidentretiredt to anotherpa
of the room to chat with his colleagues or