The Osceola times., 1880-09-25
ments of the surrounding tribes annihi
late the race of brave men and blue.
eyed women "of the North"
DECAYED NOBILITY.
Tho Rotten House Of brunswick End. [,
the French Hulks

The Rotten House of brunswick End. T..
the French Hulks.
Paris Correspondence OF the New York VOL,
The origin of the great houses is loo,
in obscurity, and the end of them eonoI
ly, but il is always interesting when one
can trace them either to their origin or
in their decline. A case which has inc,
been tried in the law courts in France
helps us to this in the case of one great
European house, that of the Duke Of
Brunswick. II is not 80 much of do.
cline as a rotting out. 1t ends in ths
hulks. 1t ends, it is true, only in the
person of an illegtimate Representative
of the roval Duke, but we must taks
what we Fl I'd. The other dav Uric I'm.
gene Fuelfe de Collin de Bar, Vicomto
de Civry, appeared before a French inrv
on a charge of robbery and general
swndling. He had been arrested in
England on an extradition warrant. and
before he went 10 England he had ami.
etly relieved the landlady of the fnr-
nished apartment which he occupied /,
Paris of considerable quantity of her
property. He had hired the apartment
for a considerable sum in the fashionable
quarter, and he no sooner obtained DOS
session OF it than he broke open tho
drawers containing the private effects Of
the proprietress anG made off with them.
His confederates in this transaction were
his own valet and stewart and other
Officers of his household" The poor
landlady had no suspicion of her lodger,
for he bore noble French name and
was Of princely origin. His mother was
the daughter of the Duke of brunswick.
His father was a French gentleman of
extremely good descent. The poor lad
was born into every species OF elegant
corruption, il that adjective can ever be
applied to that noun. His grandfather
| lived the life that every one in Paris
knows, went about painted up to the
eyebrows, and wearing curled perfume.
while his morals were even more artif-
cialy nasty than his manner of dressing.
lie Installed several temporary favorites
in his household at short intervals of
succession, and the mother of Uric dc
| Ciyry was one Of them. She was
brought up in kind of splendid Bohe-
mia. Her father took little notice of
her. being entirely engrossed with his
notice of himself, and he made very
slender provision for her education and
training. She therefore had but little
of this description t. transmit to her
son. In worldly goods she was almost
rs badly off, for the old.Duke kept a
tight hold on his purse strings. She OBJ
tained very little money from him.
though he rolled in millions; yet at the
same time, though living in his house,
she was always within sight of the great
est luxurles that money could purchase
Her lips, as it were, touched river a
liquid gold, but she was still athirst.
She formed most costly and extravagant
tastes. and had nothing TO CRAFTY them
with. Her son was in this respect a true
child OF his mother, and in Others the
true grandson Of the illustrious Duke SO
that be was thoroughly well equipped
with bad qualities on both sides, ard not
q single vice was wanting for his compo-
sition. lie could not work to beg he
was ashamed, but he was not ashamed
10 steal. and he lived pretty comfortably
for time in Paris on his wits and his
name. His grandfather was known to
be 80 rich that nobody hesitated to trust
the young fellow, and even when the
grandfather died and left all his money
away from the family to the City of Ge-
neva, there was still hone of recover.
ing it by a lawsuit. In the meantime
Uric de Civry went on cheating IN the
hope that something would turn up in
the shape of favorable decision in hia
mothers suit for the recovery of the
property. He might probably after that
have turned an honest man. That was
| 4 l., ,nta L.. r.
ly before he turned honest he had TO get
his grandiather's money, and before he
could get his grandfather's money, he
ran short of ready cash, and was obliged
TO clear out the clothes-presses of hi
landlady, as before stated. There was
hue and cry after him, and he ran
away to England. In England he was
not idle. He was handsome fellow, as
may be inferred from this description OF
him as he stood in the dock the other dav
| "Twenty-sevcn years old, elegantly
dressed, dark blue eyes, bright red lips
white teeth, elegantly-curled mustache'
in fact, perfect dead-shot in the war
fare Of drawing-room and ball. With
these advantages he could work as we'll
in England as in Paris. and he found
means to commend himself to the favor
of a lady of the British aristocracy, and
was living very comfortably on the
pocket money which she gave him
when the police quietly took him by
the collar. Some sort of defense had 70
be made for him as he stood in the
French dock, but it was little to the pur-
pose The whole case was proven 10
the hilt. He had become the accom-
plice Of his very servants in the
most scandalous kind of robberies, and
robberies were the least disgraceful
things in his career. lie denied them
to the last, though he incidentally al,
mitted other weaknesses which woulu
have been quite sufficient TO hang EN-
in country where lynching-law ~
vailed. The judges sent him TO prison
for three years-and thus ends the story