Wichita eagle., 1889-11-01
A MEROENARY PRINCE
The Gallant Hurat Explains His Position
to His Friends

to His Friends
PARIS, Oct. 3o.-Prince Murat, the gal
liant French cavalry general. who has be.
come variously decorated and extensively
gray in the Paris salon and provincial
chateau, has finally refused to let himself
out as mari DECORATE to the pious
American heiress who gave half g
million to Catholic university. "Hein,
said the prince to circle OF init
mates last evening. ''the Jockey club was
assez de la gallette. Not enough money,
say nothing to my fancee about money
until Saturday. The lawyer calls at hel
hotel where we were all gathered by ap-
pointment to sign the settlements. l had
expected to witness ON her part some gen.
erous elan. What do you imagine l saw!
That during my life time l was to be
allowed $1,000 francs only, and should she
die before me leaving no heirs the money
was all to revert to her family
| Madame said, You deceive your
self greatly; am not an Italian. French
princes are quoted much higher in the
matrimonial stock list, and with my most
| distinguished salutations left"
| The prince was congratulated for the
noble stand he made against the American
bear movement on the European matri-
monial market. and the mighty baccarat
Caldwell plainly stated from the
commencement of the affair that
should the marriage take place she
proposed to run her finances as
before. She was willing to give her hus-
band $4,000 francs per annum for cigarettes
and Paris mutuals on Sunday races, but
had no idea of entrusting her fortunes to
such spendthrift hands. Murat acquiesced,
hoping that by good behavior he would
obtain more liberal terms, but Miss Cald
we'll never faltered in her thrifty resolu-
ton. Though on pleasure bent she evil
IDENTIFY had frugal mind. Finally Murat's
family, and in particularly Prince
the head of the house from a
mesalliance by which. owing to
the hard bargain driven, the
family was not to profit, and when the
Princess Joachim learned how cheap her
father-in-law was going she offered out of
her private fortune to give him the same
allowance, provided the marriage should
not take place, and as the Princess Joachim
is the niece and principal heiress of the late
Nine. Hurtado Heine, it was simply flea
bite. So the engagement has come to a
happier ending than the friends of both
parties were ever justified in hoping for.
Prince Murat has gone to Fontainebleau
today to take part in large
shooting battle of two days, which James
Gordon Bennett is giving at his celebrated
castle there, while Miss Caldwell's house
on the Avenue d'Alma is alive with con
gratulatory visitors, and everything goes
merry as marriage bell without the chill
ing presence of a sexadgenarian groom
The moral of the story which American
helresses must take to heart is that they
can not be provided with a first-class prince
without paying for him.
NOTHING KNOWN IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Nothing has yet
been heard by the friends of Miss Gwendo-
line Caldwell ion this side of the water
about the causes of the postponement or
abandonment of her marriage with Prince
Murat in Paris. The most reasonable ex-
PLANTATION advanced is the slight defect
which it is known exists in the record of
her fathers death, which was forwarded a
few days ago in conformity with the strict
requirements of the French law in this re-
gard. The trouble of American young
women, who find it impossible to sat
isty the exasperating legal require
ments preliminary to taking unto them
selves French husbands has become an
old story within few years. The OBJ
stacles in Miss CaldwelPs case have been
particularly trying. In lieu of their writ
ten consent to the marriage the law re-
quires first, official proof of their decease,
with record of their birth and parentage;
second, the written consent OF both ma
ternal and paternal grandparents to the
union or the decease of these ancestors.
Messrs. Coudert Bros, Miss Caldwell's
solicitors in this city. forwarded to her
some time ago certified copies of the Off
Gal records of the decease of the
necessary number of her ancestors. In the
case of her father, who died in this city in
1874, and who was buried in the ST. Louis
cemetery at Louisville, certificate of his
burial was sent. Soon after Miss Cald-
well received it she cabled to her LAWYERS
that the Judge was to perform the civil
ceremony would not accept this record as
sufficient proof. Accordingly Messrs.
Coudert collected fresh evidence in the
shape of certificate of death from the of
flee of the New York board of health
This certificate, however, fails to set forth
any record of the birth of Mr.. Caldwell,
American vital statistics making the as
sumption qnite unwarranted, according to
French law. that if man dies he must
have been previously born. Careful search
failed TO bring TO light in time for use. Of
fetal proof that Mr.. Caldwell was ever
born, and so the record of his death was
sent a week or ten days ago in the
hoped that it would be accepted as suffi-
cient. If no delay occurred this record
should have reached Miss Caldwell just in
time for the wedding. Whether she has
received it, and whether it answers the
Messrs. Coudert do not know.
They have received no word from the other
side
Euruene Kelly and Charles NJ Fry, Miss
CaldwelPs guardians, are still ignorant of
the cause of the postponement of the we'd
ding.
Physicians prescribe Ayers Pills as the