New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-06
SUBJECTS OF TALK IN PARIS.


RoCHEFoRI's DUEL WITH KoECHLIN-INTEREsr IN
THE WOUNDED MAN-vIsIT OF THE KING OF
GREEcE-DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
rBr CABLE TO THE TRIBUSEJ
PARIS, Saturday, June s. 1880.
Deputies Clemenceau and Lockroy are back from
assisting Rochefort in his bloody duel with Koech-
lin. brother-In-law of the Prefect of Police. The
conditions of the duel were Of an ordinary nature
gloves and the fighting to end with the disable
men of one or the other of the combatants Through
the tiQhtness of his gloves RJchefOrts hand slipped,
allowing KoechlinsswOrd to pierce his (Rocheforts)
epigastrum. KOechlln is tall, powerful, an Alsa-
tian. and thirty-six years old. He enlisted in the
dragoons won his epaulettes, and retired from the
Army to direct his widowed mothers factory at the
Troges -
Rochefort was excited and plucky. A copious
hemorrhage and syncOpe followed the wound. but
his transportation was possible from Gervoix to
Geneva, fatal result is not certain, but owing to
RochefOrt's excitability and chronic gastrits
tbe worst is feared. Fever is setting In
and the wound is badly inlamed. Roche
fort ia we'll reputed ut Geneva for his devoted
love to his children and grandchildren. He is now
white-hared and fat, retaining OF his former self
only the keen burning eyes aud demeanor. On the
eve of the duel he reminded Clemenceau OF Mer-
Quito entertaining at dejeuner his seconds and
other friends. His wittcisms kept the table in q
roar. The gayety at dinner was contagious. After
dinner they went to theatre with q party of
arfO nnnaa Of n DIN
Monde.r and Rochefort was the greatest child of
the lot.
Rochcfort is attended by his gentle and accom-
plisbed daughter and the wife Of the painter De-
foux. The wounded Lanterner is the object of
immense sympathy here, fourth aud ffth editions
of the Journals giving medical bulletins were
fairly torn from the venders The prevailing feel
ing is that it is crying injustice to exclude Roche
fort from the benefits OF the amnesty. He un-
doubtedly was wrong in accusing Koechlln, IN q
letter published in the Mot dOTde OF foul play IN
fatal duel and Andrieux of screening the offence
nm. this mssiye was written in moment OF exas-
neration Mt seeing marks OF thruss and blows in
aicted on his youngest son at the Place Bastile by
nolicemen's swords. The angered parent imagined
Andrieux compassed the wreakng of vengeance on
Rochefort by getting his son killed.
THE KING OF GREECE. q
The King of Greece was mere. de mas won popu-
larity by sterling work, personal distinction, ana
unaffected Cracousness. He lived OH the fourth floor
of the Hotel Bristol His Majesty was deeply grateful
for sympathy shown HIM. He talked of Grevy, Gam
betto. Freycnet, Dixie. and of the satisfaction o
King ever had in dealing with an American Minis
ter and of agreeable personal relations with Mere
dith Read. His Majesty was unfavora-
BILE to the bag and baggage policy
the Turkish lower orders being honest
and peaceable. He prefers the Sultan to Austria at
Salonica. King George is an earnest and
enthusiastic believer in the great destinies
of the Greek race. His six children are
thorough Greeks aud his sons are Dukes
of Athens Sparta and COrinth. The Royal
nursery III the mountain palace looks down on the
Athenian plain. The musings are brought up IN
the opeu air, and no doubt will have mOuntaineers
ardent patriotism.
A CHINESE PLAY ACTED.
.Iudith Mendez's Chinese play Of the Tea Rose"
was performed last evenings at tho private theatre
of the Baroness Polly. The accessories were
Chinese the stage decorator being member OF the
Chinese Mission which, headed by Iheng, ATTENDED.
The audience was highly fashionable. lhe baroness
polly used to act In Proverbs with beautiful, clever
1voyTenI Of EuGenie's court at Compiegne She is
of the Gallifet-Sagan clique, but talented and
ortistic. Judith Mendez Is daughter of Theophile
Goutier and Emma, sister of the famous Julia
Grisi. and as handsome as that cantatrice She is
Wagnerite and gave lately concert at
which eight pianos were going at the same time.
THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
The Empress of Russia's death was noticed by
obituary articles In most of the Paris journals They
were written in kindly spirit. The Czarinas
dominant virtues were charity and self-denial.
She was an unloved daughter. loving wife and
mother sincere and constant friends but latterly
her condition threw her into superstitious
priests hands. and her sedentary habits developed
a gloomy tendency, and she deeply took to heart
the Cars latterdsy passion for the Princess Dol
GOrouli.