The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-04-23
Bisnlarck's Bad BOYS.

Prussian Army, and began bis career as
an attachs Of the Prussian Legation at
Dresden, In January, 1874. In January,
1877, he was appointed Secretary Of
Legation at Vienna, but in April left
that position to become his fathers as
sistant in the Foreign Office at Berlin.
There is no end to the scandals connect.
ed with his name. He has acquired q
high reputation as a duelist. On the
18th of July, 1874, on the very day that
the attack was made on the Chancellor's
life by the fanatic Kullman, Count Her.
bert distinguished himself by fighting a
duel at Dusseldorf with an infantry
officer named Zarskow. The encounter
took place at six o'clock in the morning,
at ten PAGES distance, the weapons used
being pistols. Three shots were to have
been exchanged, but at the first fire
young Bismarck shot his adversary in
the abdomen, the wound resulting in
death two hours afterward. The heir
to the Chancellor is described as rather
good-looking, but it is said that the hon.
or of his hand has been steadily refused
BY the father of a pretty Countess of
Protestant faith. The Princess Eliza.
beth, with whom he has eloped, is the
wife of Prince Charles of Carolath- Beu.
then, Count of Schonarth and hereditary
member 81 the Upper House. She. Is
stepsister Of Prince Hermann, ST Hatz-
feldt, Trachenberg, head of Catholic
family bearing the title since 1741, and
daughter Of the Countess of Reichen.i
bach. She married Count Carolath in
1866. and has one daughter, the Princess
Sybilla, now IA years Of age. Prince
Carolath, who is thirty-six years of age,
has left Parliament, retiring to his estates
in Silesia. He will commence divorce
suit. Count Herbert was born at Der.
lin on the 10Th Of December, 1S49, and
Count Wilhelm at Frankfort.on-the.
Main, on the lst of August, 1852. Count
Wilhelm is reported to be even more
refractory and proiligate than his elder
brother. He is too young to conceal his
excuses, and too blunt even il he were
not. He is Of the impression that his
father holds Germany in fee simple, and
If that doesn't give him the right to do
as he pleases, what camp So he does AZ
he pleases, and he pleases to do exactly
what the world in general holds to be
low and very debasing. His haunts are
more notorious for democratic vicious.
ness than aristocratic seclusion. His
habitual state is not one to recommend
him to polite attention, if the face is an
index OF the mans ruling passions.
Herbert is rather ne.lookine. as his race
go, but Wilhelm is dump, blear OF eve,
scorbutic of vi>age, and coarse of man.
ner generally. The only one Of his chill.
dren in whom the Chancellor seems to
have any comfort is his daughter, the
Countess Marie, who is her fathers al
most constant companion. She is older
than both her brothers, having been
born in August, 1913. She was be.
trothed in 1876 to a member of the
Prussian civil service, Count Wend =,
Gutenberg. The Count died shortly
after. and his betrothed was married in
November, 1873, to Count Won Ran.zau.
9 promising young diploma,ist. The
Countess Marie is { lady of high spirit
and cultivated ability, and her admira-
Die behavior at the time Of the ATTEMPT
made upon her fathers life at Kissinqen
was widely commented on in the Ger
man press Of all parties.