The daily gazette., 1880-05-04
COassaciI WiU Protest
AGAINST BEING sUMMARILY RJECTED
FROM THE WATER AND SURVEYING
DEPARTMENT OFFICES.

AGAINST BEING sUMMARILY RJECTED
FROM THE WATER AND SURVEYING
DEPARTMENT OFFICES.
While waiting at Havre de Grace for
the train from Washington yesterday,
Council assembled as q committee of
the whole, and Mr.. Paynter announced
the Intention of the Levy Court build
ing committee to require the Water and
Surveying Departments to vacate the
bindings they now occupy by the 10th
inst. Mr.. Paynter said temporary re-
moyal of these departments should be
avoided, as 1t would cause considerable
expense and annoyance. 1t was desira-
Die for these departments to stay where
they now are until the new city build
ing at Sixth and King streets is COM
pleted, about August lat,
Col. McIntire, Chief Engineer of the
Water Der artment, said the al Igument
advanced by the building committee
was that they wanted 10 commence the
construction of stone wall around the
Court House lot, and the removal of
these buildings was necessary in order
to secure the proper grade. This reason, ,
he Thought, was entirely insufficient, as
the grade could readily be obtained, and
the walls constructed around three sides
of the lot before the buildings on Tenth
street need be touched.
After an Interchange of opinions it
was resolved 10 instruct the Clerk to
address the Levy Court In relation to
the matter, and request that body to
allow the city to retain possession of tn 8
buildings until August 1st.
Effete Monarchs.
The ex-King and Queen of Naples
live at the Hotel Vouillemont, in
Paris, in the Rue Boissy, d. Anglais,
life of perfect seclusion. The
King cares for only two things -
first his crown, which he still fol.I-
ly hopes to regain, and secondly, his
consort, whom he worships and
whose every whim and caprice he
humors and obeys. He himself cares
little or nothing about horses, but as
the Queen, like her sister, the EN-
press of Austria, adores horsefiesh
His Majesty is ever ready to give any
price for the best cattle. The life of
these royal exiles is tedious and
monotonous enough. The King
spends his days when he is not with
the Queen reading Or detailing to his
secretaries, fondly imagining that he
is really the head of a party, and
that the few Italian noblemen who
gather round him care more for the
success of his cause than for the
pecuniary assistance he may afford
them. His Majesty will sometimes
dictate or write far into the night,
walking up and down the room in a
| feverish state of excitement, and at
length, when rosy-fngered dawn be
gins to spread her palms in the sky
going to bed to dream of a triumphant
return to the throne of his father
Bomba. The Queen has nothing to
occupy her time but her toilet anC
her horses. She will have her hail
dressed four times day to kill time
and keeps five maids, although she
does not receive and goes nowhere
save to her sisters, the Duchesse
d. Alencon. Her great pleasure
however, is riding, and she is even g
finer horsewoman than the Empress
of Austria. During the bad weather
Her Majesty went every day to the
circus and latterly and actually has
been taking lessons how to do circus
tricks on horse back, a servant
throwing balls to her, which she
catches going at full gallop and lean.
ing back SO that her head almost
touches the horses tail. The poor
King stands by admiring and ever at
hand to see that his beloved consort,
whom he worships as a goddess,
meets with no harm.