The New York herald., 1879-10-31
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

The Governor of Bombay travelled. on tho 10th of
October, fifteen miles upon n locomotive the
railway through the Bolan Pass.
NJ. Humbert is about to be married to Mile. Le-
peetier, sister of writer IN the Mdrseiiidise. to
whom he was engaged before his transportation in
1871. and who has faithfully waited for him all these
years.
The steamer Corisco has arrived at Liverpool from
the West Coast of Africa At Benin trade was entSely
suspended, owing to the natives engaging i'll their
ancient custom of "devil making" honor of their
deceased Queen Dorah 1t is said that she attained
the advanced age OF lO7 years.
There is rather melancholy prospect for the win
ter France. The price of bread already high.
raised recently. The potato crop Is exceptionally
bad; the vintage will be deficient in quantity and
quelity. Many vineyards will not be worth the ex-
pense of gathering what few damaged grapes there
are.
The English Salvation Army have been having high
jinks at Darlington in the shape OF u haelujab
wedding. They had marriage license for their
own hall. SO they borrowed Congregational church.
and Miss Clapham performed the ceremony, in
presence of q crowded and not very reverent audi
The Gaulois has sent q special correspondent to
Abergedie to interview the Empress Euganie. The
Due de Bassano obtained for him an audience on
condition that he should say little about Her
Majesty and report nothing or what she said
This contract is scrupuously fulfilled. The priv
legged correspondent gives pleasant description
of the house and grounds the simple furniture
the hours breakfast and dinner. and the time for
drives weather permitting; but says nothing moro
OF the Empress than that she is monument of
grief. and sees nobody but the Queen.
Mr.. O'Clery, the member for Wexford. has been
charged Ny Mr.. Biggar with endeavoring to cultivate
does go far AS to allege that the member for
county Wexford has succeeded in this iniquity;
depend upon it that we should soon
hear another invitation to visit Belgium. 1t
the ancient sept Of the OClerys, for more than
thousand years princes of Donegal rs Debrett
styles the Chevalier, should find his honored name
coupled with the Brummagem atectation OF an
English accent"
"The breach between the two branches of the
House OF France" says the Paris correspondent of
the London Globe 'has been painfully confirmed by
the sad ceremony which took place the 10th Of
October at the Chapele Expiatoire on the Boulevard
tate of that unfortunate queen. Marie An
toinettc. Masses were said TOR the repose
to overfowing. The seats reserved for the
Orleans Princes remained unoccupied. The younger
branch of the royal family of France was unrepre-
sented. except by the Duke de Nemours and his
daughter, Princess Czartoriska. Queen Isabella of
Spain present with Don Carlos and the Duchesse
OF Madrid and Prince Philippe dc Bourbon. quite
assemblage, in fact. OF representatives of roy
atty. far from the thrones where their ancestors
once ruled.
the summit of Shooters Hill, has just afforded
says the London Morntng Post. q novel example OF
his wife. died. and his lordshp, having placed the
body in plain wooden box, lightly constructed SO
as rot to the OF natural decay buried
it himself IN grave dug on the lawn which fronts
the house, ut spot selected for the purpose by tho
deceased lady during her lifetime. The grave about
four feet deep. and u marble monument will mark
its position. 1t is stated that neither the local
thorites nor any other officials have any power
prevent object to primitive interments of this
description, the only legal conditions being that the
ground shall be freehold, the situation removed
some distance from dwelling house and the depth
of the and other circumstances arranged with
due regard to the public health.
HOW PARIS LADIES DRESS.
London Daily Ne,cs: Tho whirligig of fashion is
bringing round an old-fashioned decoration. which
has its merits. Ladies are wearying of monograms
and adopting emblems and notices. The four
teenth and early sixteenth centuries the time
when mottoes and anciful cmblems hourished
most abundantly. Besides his hereditary bear
ings every knight had sone emblem of fantasy, and
every lady her symbol which might be changed at
pleasure. When these were embroidered on dresses
the effect was quaint and varegated and gave each
costume kind OF originality. Parisians have
discovered this, and birds and notices
broidered all over dresses. well graced land
we'll puffed) actress who is the reverse Of
stout in figure appeared lately with the device
of ravens on her array Her rival, who is not slim.
observed that where the skeleton is the ravens
gathered together swallows are more common
than the sombre bird of the Danish banner-perhaps
to indicate that the wearer intends flying, flying
south. Gold swallows are worn on blue satin
ground. though naturalist might prefer to
reverse the colors. Ladies' of fashion, II the
fashion prevails. will look quaint did
Jacqueline de Ia Grange in her costume broidered
with pink eagles and black ducks, or Anne OF BoLo-
mia with the crowned ostrich. The notices may
slip from writing paper into wider use, and poets
once more style themselves their title pages, ie
Jdnni de hesse. The old motto would serve many Of
the new poets very WE'LL and the fashion will at least
add some variety to existence, till the thing is
done, and ceases to be an outward sign or inward
medi@valism"
STRANGE SUICIDE OF RUSSIAN LADY
Moscow society would appear to be just now cor-
s,derably exercised by the suicide Of ono of its
brohtest ornaments The young and loveIv Conntess
Vera koscheIcG who n short time aoo suidcnIv
disappeareJ from her palace in the old Rnssian
capital only two days after her soie,nn be-
trothal to Count Hermann, which had been
usually magnificent scale No one could i,uayino
whittier she had gone until her steward received
letter from her written AT her chateau in
the Crimea wherein she informed him that "she
WAS going TO bath, In the river running
through her estate and should not rcturn aIive
from her bath" She also described the
exlct spot near which her body would Le
found In the water. search was of course made
the discovery of the beautiful young Countess
corpse sewn up in u large straw sack and sunk