Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19
ROYALTYS DOINGS.
German Princesses Oecoyed
and Sold Into Marriage.
DRIVEN TO MISERY AND DEATH.
An Old Score Revived that Will Likely Cause
the Britishers Trouble.
The Irish Struggle Removed from Sligo
to the House of Commons-Tor
ries and Liberal Unionists
Entertained.
DRIVEN TO MISERY AND DEATH
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
LONDON, April 17-Tragedy follows
the abuse and misfortune among
German princesses VINO have been
decoyed or sold into marriage
with the house of Romanoff. The latest
victim is Grand Duchess Cecilia Augusta,
daughter of the late Leopold, Grand Duke
of Baden, and wife of Grand Duke Michael,
brother of the late car. This unfortunate
lady changed both her name and religion TO
please Russia, and became known as olga
She was beautiful woman, OF sweet and
submissive disposition, and favorite at
the Russian and also at the German courts,
where she visited.
The disgrace of her son Michael, whom
the car has repudiated from the Imperial
family, owing TO the marriage TO Countess
Nuremberg has driven the princess to de-
spair and suicide.
THIS TRAGEDY
is the outcome of the famous morganatlc
marriages still prevailing among the royal
houses of Europe, and nearly every
one of which has been attended
by misery for the wife and children
of inferior rank. The car would not have
cared if the grand duke had married the
countess morganaticaly, that IS, as an
unrecognized wife. who might be cast Oft
at any time. The grand dukes crime was
in ''recognizing her as wife, and elevating
her to his own rank"
The story of this tragedy goes back a
number of years. The countess herself IS
the daughter of the morganatic union of
Duke Nicholas of Nassau to a beautiful
Russian named Pushkiu, and is of negro
origin, being decended from a
FULL-BLoODED NEGRO,
who was a favorite of Peter the Great.
Pushkin, the famous poet, belonged to the
family. 1t appears this ancestry was no
obstacle to morgapatic marriage with one
of the Oldest houses in Germany. Whether
it entered the thoughts of the car is not
known.
While misery reigns in that branch of the
house of Romdnorf, another German prin-
cess, who all had supposed to be living
happily with her husband, young Grand
Duke Constantine, is fugitive in SwitZer-
land, after q sensational flight from Rus
STA, which has already been mentioned in
TIE GAZETTE. The princess has with her
two little boys, John and Gabriel, aged
four and three years, determined not to
submit to the pressure put upon her to
JOIN THE RUSSIAN FAITH,
and notified her father, Prince Maurice Of
-Altenburg. who is general in the i'm
perial army. He cordially approved of her
determination. as also did her uncle, Prince
Ernest, reigning duke, who met her with
her parents at IieipSic after her midnight
fight from Russia.
The young wife declares her intention
not to live in Russia under the existing cir
cumStanceS, and negotiations are in pro-
gress between her relatives and husband
as to the future place of residence. The
grand duke is said to be deeply attached to
the wife and may leave Russia and join
her, thereby mourning the wrath of the
car.
Another German princess, wife of the
cars brother, Grand Duke Vladimir, has
lately been subjected to indignities in a per-
sonal order given by the car, and it
has been duly exposed that Queen
Fictoria's grand daughter, Grand Duchess
Sergius is leading life of misery and coer-
cion.
THE CROFTER AGITATION.
The renewal of the crofter agitation is
likely to give the British government a
good deal trouble. The crofters have
many sympathiZers in the house of COM
mons, who have been awaiting an opportu-
dity to raise debates in regard to the work
ing of the crofter act, and the general con-
dition of the class affected.
Hitherto the course of the business pre-
vented this, but now one Or two motions
occupying good places on the paper
upon private members rights, which
directly or indirectly raise the
question. DR.. Clark, for instance,
has the first place on Friday, May l, for a
is certain, as the government has no inten-
ton of taking Friday nights, and they are
pledged to keep house on those nights so
that
COUNT OUT
would be out Of the question, even if there
was a lack of interest in the matter. AS it
is interest will be abundant The front
opposition bench can hardly help moving in
the cause. The crofters have friends
in the Conservative benches, and
the impression prevails among them
that of recent years the high
and dry legal view has been allowed to pre-
vail too much in this. as in other branches
of the law.
THE IRISH STRUGGLE
has been removed from Sligo to the house
of commons, and is now carried on for the
entertainment of Tories and Liberal Union
lists. who do not seem to care which side
is ahead provided they keep up the row.
There is no Disgusting the fact, English Lib
erals would like to get rid of the Irish land
purchase bill and home rule, and Morley's
motion, if accepted, would make the land
purchase bill imperative. The govern
ment, however, and Irish members gener-
ally, want the bill passed-the latter on
the principle of getting all they can out OF
the season, but discussion gives both Par
nellites and Healyites an opportunity too
tempting to forego for taking a whack at
each other.
1t is expected Queen Victoria will meet
the kaiser at Darmstadt in the course of a
few days.
Paris dispatch says that Count De
Montebello is to be transferred from his post
as ambassador to the Porte. and be appointed
either to London or Berlin, probably the