Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-30
EUROPEAN AFT AIRS.


 EUROPEAN { AFT AIRS. ' Tho real sensation of tho week is tho turf libel c;,sc. Woods action against .aThe Licensed Tictuallers' Gazatte " is but trial heat for the more famous Chetwynd-Durham contest. Wood, since Archer's death tho leading English jockey, was accused of pull- ing horses, in other words, of riding dis honestly. That Is the issue in tho present ac- lion. But Wood is also the jockey who tn.,nngcd Sherrnrdss stable where Sir George Chcfrynd's horses wero trained. Wood was at;e Il by Lord Durham whom he attacked Sir George. and the Shcrrard stable. Wood was refused a new license for . year by the stewards of the Jockey Club, gentlemen whose honor is above suspicion, but who,
 while friends of Lord Durham, sit in judg- ment on those whora he accuses. The case
 has occupied four days and is not yet half
 finished. Ncxt week will bo devoted to an attempt to prove tho defendants charges. Sir Ch ,rles Russell, himself racing man, had
 Wood under cr,.-.x xaninntion f0rSome hours
 but hardly succeeded in doing more than strengthening vague suspicious. Tho Lord Chief Justice, who trios tho case, has clearly intimated that h., WI: regard nothingas just iflcatioi, for tho libel except specific proof of the specific charges. What interests tho pub lie Lesidos personal matters is tho fact that few witnesses have the stand without having disclosed some now rassality on the turf.
 Two now plays have been produced during the week, both of which have nnusal merits. Mr. Jcrome's .Wocd Barrow Farm is. I believe, by a protegc of MT. Hnre. whose
 managing partnership with Mir. Kendall at the St. James's Theatre is drawing toa close. This piece, played experimentally. as the
 fashion now Is in the afternoon at the Com- edy Theatre, is likely to find a place in some evening bill. Captain Swift" by MT. Cham bers, saw tho light at Haymarkct matinee, and proves to be striking and even original play. It was acted with spirit and finish by MT. and Mrs. Trce and Lady Monckton. This will probably follow < The Pom padour," when the singular popularity of that eccentric play is exhausted.
 IH Paris the great question of the hour is whether M. do Lcsseps and his company will succeed in raising the whole amount of 72O,- COG, 900 francs asked for. Many seem to an- ticipate a complete flasco and prophecy that on no later than Wednesday night the Panama bubble will be blown to pieces. It is stated that the speeches made at the recent banquet givon to Guzman Blanco CPresidsnt of the Republic of Venezuela, who is now on a visit to Paris), and where the success of the canal was 50 loudly insisted upon, were..an paid for with the same liberality as all other publicity is paid for by the company. III. de Lesseps, however, who received correspondent is apparently as full of hope as ever. "Weshall get the money from our former shareholders alone" he said, "and without having to trou- ble the general public. Our shareholders havo, as you know, the preference. I anticl- pate that the loan will be covered three times ovsr." Tho old gentleman sesms to speak with perfect good faith. If the loan does break down he will be the first victim. But the ruin that will be spread thereby through France will have terrible consequences.
 Ar the Cafe do la Paix met a gentleman attached to the Foreign Office here and had some conversation with him. The first thing he told me was that we may look for reprisals on tho part of tho part of tho French Govern ment towards the correspondents of German who may criticise French politics too severely. Great indignation has been felt in France over the expulsion of Ransom and Bonneton, correspondents of tho GAuLo1s and the MAT1N respectively. As tho majority of the Ministers have been journalists at some time in their eheckered careers, they are dis posed to take tho matter mp in real earnest. MT. Ransom's case especially creates irrita- tation, as tho man was i'll at the ume and could barely support the journey. II. Bonne- ton publishes long story of his expulsion. On Wednesday morning he found . police man in his room who took him to the police station, and from there to the Moabit Prison, where he was informed that he had to leave German territory within seven hours. His ofense was triple one, consisting, nrstly, of the authorship of m article comparing Arch- duke Rudolph, of Austria, to the then Crown Prince William secondly, of public letter to Empress Victoria on Alsatian .adairs. and thirdly, of having displayed on several Sooa- sions, in his writings, hostility towards tho now Emperor. The French Government must tcel very sore indeed to advance to the point of threatantng roprisals. sesing how anx1ous they professed to be to maintain friendly rela~ tons with Germany.
 THE Paris season, like that of London. lends to prolong itself more and moro ea6h year. Formerly everybody who was some body, left town immediately after tho Grand Prfx. Now q number of houses keep open nntil just before the national fete of the 14th of July. At present the season is at it's height. Garden parties take place every Sum- lay nt the Elysee Palace, and on Fridays at .he Princesso De Sagau. The Vicountoss Trcdern is giving q scrics of flowor dinners. Each guest as ho enters the drawing-roem re- seives flower from tho Maitre dHotel which corresponds with the decoration of the table It which he is to sit Luxury daily assumes moro extravagnnt form. Ata recent ball at Ii n.. A.lolphe de Rothschild's @s5 ,000 worth ,. s:ulptured silver goods were distributed imong the guests to take home to their chil- lren. These presents consisted of dolls, oonbonnieres, &e. Other houses which have kept open and whero great parties arc about to be given within the nest f,w dnyanre those of tho Baronne Gustave de Roths.hild, of the Duchesse de Ponaar and of the Princesse do la Tour d'Auvcrgne.
 A new scandal is now being investigated by the parquet, or pubii'. prosecutor oi the Seine, In which Il yicOmtess., tho curate of a fasion- able parish in this city, m unfrocked priest, md his son arc implicated. I'll" si..omtesso asserts that ono Bonnet, Il native of Lorraine, after having mada q fortune of 4O,OOO, ,00O in tie East during the last century, becunae 8 ship buildar in Venice. 1T. deposited that in- credible amount in of the banks of that aqueous ca.sit.l and ship wrecked, dying in estate. The vieom- ;esse claims to be Ronnct's heir, and to enable her to ra;sc money to t;.lee the neces- sary steps to secure tho fortune. s!,s has formed society, and associated with i,cr the Abbe D., Father v., disgrac :" priest, and mo F., tho latter's illegitimn:c son. X r,rn- ehlat has also been ssi in which the his-