The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-01-25
THE EMPERoR's LOVE.
Some Interesting New Facts About
the Lady Love Of the Russian
Emperor.
A Letter in the Ksn.a. Cuy Times.

A Letter in the Kansas Guy Times.
You last Sunday printed an article
relative to the relations o. the Car
of Russia to the Countess Dslgourouki.
The very entertaining article
was not quite correct with reference
to historical facts, and it did not
mention some matters about the
Countess family which are interest
ing to the people Of this country.
Count Dalgourouki, the father of
the Cars left handed wife, Was a
noted character in Russia, being the
great apostle of the communists there
and really laid the foundations Of the
communisiic movement that BOW 80
much disquiets Russia. Previous to
the communistic heresies he had
written book on the union cf the
Sclavic tribes under the Emperor of
Russia which gave the first LESSONS to
Cavour in the unifcation of Italy.
and which taught Bismarck the way
to united the petty Germspic princi
palities under the Emperor William.
This book gained him recognition at
court and afterwards made his aaugh-
ter q maid of honor to the Czarina
only to become the mistress of
Alexander. His communis,ic doc
trine caused hi. Punishment from
Russia and he came to New York.
where he was for manv wears well
known and was friend and associate
of John Swinton, a noted editorial
writer. and who speedy became a
convert to the Counts communism.
This able Russian wrote the best
book on American slavery that ever
appeared. It had but a very limited
sale, but it was the text book for
many an orator and furnished arsn-
ments tor many n newspaper
article. On one occasion. when John
Swinton's brother, the Presbyterian
minister was visiting him they went
to the headquarters of the Pole aud
Hungarian refugees. In order to
show the minister these wild and law
less fellows At their best. he persuad-
ed the count to 60 also. and after he
got into the room his name Was
whispered around, and az he vas then
regarded BY these people as spy Of
the Russian government. the widest
excitement and confusion prevailed.
Knives were unsheathed, pistols were
drawn, and the count was in imminent
danger, when John SwIpton mounted
q bench and shouted Count Dali
gourouki is my friend! Whoever in
suits him insults me-" Instantly the
tide turned. Shouts of Swinton
Hurrah for Swintou! No traitor or
spy can be the friend of Swinton,
They crowded around the trio flushed
with drinking and reeking with
tobacco smoke. The minister fled 10
alright and declared that the whole
scene Was the nearest approach to
pandemonium of anything he had
ever imagined.
The Emperor Of Russia gets his
title of Gar from Julius Cesar, The
great Roman who has stamped his
impress and his name upon the worlds
history from his time 10 the present
An unwritten law of the Romans
forbade the Intermarriage of cla.--s.
and 10 the glory Of the Republic, a
senator would have scorued to match
his daughter with the son of any
KIM. So strong was this law tina,
Mark Antony never dared to marry
Cleopatra by Roman, or even
Egyptian rites, and the great Titus
was obliged to dismiss the beautiful
Jewess Bernice. and whom Re loved
so dearly. Before the death of Con
he enacted the law in words
and had it inscribed on the alter of
St. Sophia that his descendants
should not intermarry with the bar.
barian princes. Toward the close of
the tenth century the Empire Of the
East Wolodomar, a grandson Of the
Olga, demanded the hand
of Anne, daughter of the Emperor
of the East, and enforced the demand
by a threat Of war end an offer to
become Christian. his demand was
irresistible. He received the Grecian
princess as his bride; the rite of
Christian baptism and the law was
partially mended by comforting upon
him the title of Cesar, which bar.
barous and uncouth Russian tongues
BoOn converted into Scar"
The eldest son of the great Ohio of
Germany married about the same time
the elder sister of Anne.
from whom the Emperor William is
|ineally descended, and the title o.
Caesar, which was bestowed upon the
has been transformed 10.
10 Kaiser, the we'll known appella,ion
IF the German monarch. and i. is
act that there is not a reiguiug fam
ly 10 Europe to day but in whose
veins runs the blood of the miller's |
laughter. whom the Roman captain,
he father Of Constantine the Great
lad for mistress.