Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-06-04
BETHROTHED TO A PRINCE.
The Union of Great Riches and High
Rank-The Daughter Of Very
Wealthy Russian to We'd Alexander
Of Bulgaria.
New YORK Times.

For the first time the notabIeS of Bal
gala have gratifed their sovereign
with the title of Highness in their ad-
dress OF congratulation on his return 10
the society of his faithful subjects
The notables of Bulgaria are really glad
to see their Prince once more, as when
he left their midst the chances were
decidedly against his coming back
again. The Bulsarians had not been at
all nice with young alexander Won Bat.
tenberg, whose life they rendered quite
miserable during the few months OF
his residence at Tirnova, and he told
them very plainly that either they
must behave themselves or seek new
ruler, and he was entirety in earnest.
But, as in the case of welded pairs on
the eve of separation, both parties re-
flected on the consequences, andagreed
to postpone a definite rupture until
some more suspicious moment. The
natives are not a very intelligent race,
but among their teachers and preach
ers are to be found few individuals
possessinga little common sense, and
these were shrewd enough to take in
that, if Alexander should be forced to
abdicate, some worse thing might be-
fall them. Either the Turks would
come back or a Russian protectorate
would be established, either hypothesis
implying that Nihilo-Socialist ranting
and agitation was not to be tolerated.
The unexr ected liberal victory in En-
gland was powerful lever in the hands
OF the Russian party, and the so-called
liberals of Bulgaria prudently fell back
to blde th cir time for another antimon-
archlcal demonstration, to be gotten
up simply in the interests of Austria.
So much for the Bulgarian politicians,
who threw up the sponge as soon as
warning was sent them from st. Peters.
burg, For the the Bulgarian Prince to
be tempted back again was not nearly
so easy. He is a gentleman, accus.
toned to the society of gentlemen, and
to live among these Doors is naturally
very repugnant to his feelings But
Imperial commands brook no disobe.
dience; it suits Russia's policy that
Bulgaria shall be an independent state
just now; Russia is not quite ready tor
q regular annexation of the Balkan
Peninsula, and until she is ready, it is
expelient that some one in her interest
shall sit on the throne of Turkeys
nomlnally vassal state, so that when
the fullness of time arrives conyen-
lent pretext for another interference
can be fou nd.
Prince Alexander was loath to 60
back; the car, who knows the sweet
people with whom this unfortunate
youth is condemned to cohabit, was in
exorable in sending him back, but, be-
ing of a benevolent turn of mind, has,
so far as possible, gilded the bitter pill
with rich marriage. 1t is quite set
tied at last, and daughter of Prince
1oussouwoff is the destined victim. A
curious parsonage is the old prince,
celebrated throughout all Russia for his
colossal fortune and his eccentricities.
His family is of Tartar origin, and be-
came naturalized in Muscovy, under
the reign of Joann CROSBY, whom his
tory has surnamed Ivan the Terrible.
No one can tell how wealthy is the last
scion of this race, whose ancestral pal.
ace stands on the banks of the Moika,
in the great Morsksja, but his extrava-
gances are rs familiar as household
worcs to the population of st. Peters.
burg. He began his career by marry
ing his cousin, and as unions of this
kind are forbidden by the orthodox
church. the ceremony was performed
in Austria, and never again did he set
foot within the Russian empire, so long
as Nicholas WAS ear. He besought
forgiveness and dispensation; his
friends reminded his majesty that there
were precedents; that other soyereigns
had been less stern toward the mobiles of
the land; it was all in vain the emperor
was inflexible. 'princes," he said,
ARE no more, in my estimation, than
serfs; what is prohibited to serf can
not be permitted to prince" Only
when Alexander ii. succeeded to the
throne was Youssoupof authorized to
reside where he pleased, and even then
SO conditionaliy tha., as Russian law
makes all foreign marriages between
Russian subjects irregular, he has set .
tied several millions of rubles on each
of his two daughters, in order that they
be provided for should his will be dis
puted. Perhaps the greatest stock
gambler in Europe. Prince Yous-
soupotf employs some twenty clerks
on his correspondence with his
broker in Paris, where he
had been almost uniformly success
full, and with the German bankers who
manage his operations at Berlin and
Vienna, on whose Bourses he lost count
less sums at the moment of the famous
Berliaer Rrdch. At present he is on
amicable terms with the court, save, it
may be, with the Czarowitz, in whose
honor he alone in all St. Petersburg
refused to illuminate his palace some
years ago. He is an imperial chamber
lain, also and consequently has right
to the title OF Excellence, which he pre-
fers to any other, as he is not "a Most
Serene" but only "a Most Illustrious,"
Prince, thus taking rank after the Loe-
ven, Doieorouki, and Galitzine, whom
from this pinnacle of his golden grand
eur, be affects to look down upon as
parvenus,-merem mushroom aristocrats.
Still, he is very benevolent, a doting
father and averse to anything in shape
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