Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29

a number of the artists. The official sent
! for him to write ont his resignation, which
| he did, but when he again left the hall two
artists only followed him. The circum-
! stance has created considerable excitement
in the artistic world. No Presidentihas yet
been elected in Mr.. Bougoureau's place
bu it is said that in all probability
Carolus Duran will obtain the position
I 1t must be confessed that on entering the
salon one does not feel altogether at home
/ the change quite upsets one, and as the
French have a great antipathy to innova-
! lions, they will necessarily cry ont from
principle. My first step was in the diree-
ton of the foreigners department, so as
to see what our artists have been working
at during this last year. / confess that 1
was disappointed, for knowing that they
would not undergo comparison with
/ French artists, | expected to be startled
! by their superiority but whether it is
/ they have not done so well this year, or
that their usual surroundings are wanting,
the pictures do not appear as well as last
year. | soon came to Mr Bridgman's pict-
ure, titled "Habitation Arabe (Beshra)
Femmes Tissant lie Burrows" Two women,
dressed in very peculiar Arabian costumes,
!
/ resembling tapestry. On the other side Of
the frame are two little children on the
! floor, one playing with coral necklace
around the throat OF the other. a servant
is just going out of the door. One may feel
/ he is really looking on an Arabian scene
/ faithful to the slightest detail, and which
cannot fail to prove an interesting study,
but the artist seems to have changed his
style, for the coloring is more telUe, and
the brightness, grace and poetry which
characterized his picture, 'The Procession
of the Beuf Apis, of last year, seem to
be wanting. Mr.. Bridgman has two pict-
ures exposed this year-a smaller one, but
of which prefer to speak only after close
study. Mr.. Mosler, whose picture of last
year was bought by the French Govern
ment, and is now at the Musee of the Lux
emboprg, exposes also two pictures this
year, of which shall give description in
my next letter.
A MOST PECULIAR CASE
Is to come up in Court in a short time,
quite romantic in nature and savoring of
the customs Of the middle ages. A young
girl met young man at a ball in the Eau
bourg st. German. 1t seems they fell in
love at first sight, and winter had not gone
by when the father of the young man, then
ambassador of the Porte Ottomane at Lon
don, asked the young lady in marriage for
his son. The young man was found either
not rich enough or not noble enough or not
Catholic enough, for he was follower
of the Greek religion, that the mother
of the young girl refused the prop
osition. The daughter insisting on
having the man she loved fol her
husband, was threatened by her mother
with the convent for the rest of her days.
The effect of this threat was journey to
London by the young lady; accompanied
only by her goverress. On meeting her
lover she said to him, Here am now
marry me-" The young man was all but
too anxious to do SO, but his father objected
to marriage on those conditions, and de-
sired to place the young girl under the pro-
lection OF an influential French family, who
would accompany her to France and en-
deavor to obtain the consent of her mother.
The young girl explained that to return to
France was to enter a convent, and she In
sisted on the marriage being performed. The
marriage was then celebrated on the 18th
of Octaber by an officer of the civil state
of Westminster, before witnesses and ac-
cording to all the formalities of the Eng
lish law. The young couple We're happy
during one month, when a most venerable
looking gentleman presented himself to
them. He came, he said, i'll behalf of the
mother, wins was i'll, and whom the fight
of her daughter had left wretched and I'M
happy, ana that besides she realized the
necessity of the marriage, and that she
desired her daughter to return to her when
the marriage of London would be solemnly
performed at Paris. At the same time
relative of the young girl attached to the
French Embassy at London received letters
which
PROMISED HER PARDON.
The young girl at first firmly resisted.
At last she was persuaded to leave London
and come to Paris to her mother. She has
not since been seen or heard of. Where
can she be? In convent of course. 1t
seems then that even to-day there exist
converts so Theoretically closed that to
enter therein is to be suppressed. 1t is
useless to say that the young husband has
done all in his power to discover her
whom he considers as his lawful wife.
The case has come up in Court the young
man is a son of an ambassador, his lawyer
is Deputy, who carries the affair to the
Tribune, and yet he can get no news of his
wife. The young girl proved her horror of
a convent by her journey to London and
her desire for the marriage, and yet she has
not been able to gain over servant to
throw letter in the letter. box or give
sign of life TO her husband. The first law
yers are engaged on both sides, but there
is little to be hoped for the young couple
in country where the laws are so unjust
for women and where the children are the
property and things of their parents. tbs
reported that
THE DAUGHTER OF ALEXANDER DUMAS
Is soon to be married to gentleman hold
lug some Government position. The news
somewhat surprised a number of Parisians,
for many were not aware that the cele-
brated writer had a daughter old enough
to marry. II seems that she is Is years
old, but owing to the immoral condition of
French society she has seen nothing of the
world until within the last year. Such
was her fathers judgment, who, it must
be confessed, has contributed i'll no small
/ degree to rendering French society some
what immoral. She has acted as secre-
tary to her father in company with her
mother, who was first obliged to go over
the work to extract that young girl
should not read Only this winter has She
been permitted to see one of her fathers
plays at the theater. And if Mr.. Dumas
when he writes would only think of other
peoples daughters who care to so to the
/ theater VAL. q.
/
! EXTERMINAToR.- are a great NUS
ance in any house, and it is perfectly proper
to war against them in every conceivable
way. The Scientific american gives the
| following method of Kidding house of
them. It has one advantage, that, if not
successful, the benefit of cleanliness and