The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15
DEGENERATE SONS.
How Royal and Noble European
Houses Have Fallen.
From the New York Tribune.

In the little village of Grodno, Lithua-
mia, there died few weeks ago the bearer
of one of the proudest names in Eastern
European history. He was an ordinary
physician, and went his daily rounds
among the village sick. collecting with
the greatest difficulty enough money to
support his aged wife. 1t was Prince
lgnaz Jagello, believed by many to be the
last scion of the royal Jagello family,
which once ruled in Lithuania. By the
victory of Tammenberg, in 14lO, the
founder of the family broke the power of
the German Order" The difference be-
tween the simple life of this "Dr. Rezio'
and the magnifcence of his ancestors led
German writer recently to collect a
number of instances of the degradation of
the descendants of once famous and pow
erful families
I'm Grosswarddein, Hungary" he
writes, died recently a modest and in
dustrious clerk, Johann SZabo, who had
passed his life in semi-poverty. Few who
followed him to the grave knew that his
real name was one of the highest and
greatest in French history. The aged
Szabo was a grandson of the Marquis
Chabaud Rohan, who immigrated into
Hungary after the French revolution.
The old gentleman taught languages IN
the Wenckheim house, adjusted himself
to his changed condition, married and
gave the name Szaco to his descendants.
When it was learned that a Rohan had
died in France leaving an immense for
tune, they came forward and proved that
they were genuine Rohans. But the re-
cognition of their claims was useless, as
they had not been remembered by the
testator. The old Szabo continued to
work as poor clerk to his death, and no
one can say that he ever dishonored the
famous noble family to which he belonged.
That was left for another scion of the
race, Prince Benjamin Rohan, who was
sentenced to prision in Paris two years
ago and subjected to a fine of 1000 francs.
The last Borgia came to his end short
time ago at Guigl, near Salzburg. He
was Baron Calisto Won Borgia, whose
father lost his fortune through the Aus
trian government in 1887, and lived later
in Salzburg, as an employe of tobacco
house. The younger baron was employed
for a short time in the Office of lawyer
and became later photographer, living
for twenty years in Germany. A long
sickness impoverished him, and his widow
lives from the aims of others
ION board of steamer going from Bor-
deaux to the Thames in 1880, Just as the
vessel came in sight of the English coast,
an old man, apparently poverty-stricken,
ended his days. He called himself Charles
was, in fact, the last descendent of the
pretender, Charles Edward, and his wife,
the Princess Louise Stolberg
Leon de Luzignano, Prince of Kori-
coss, a descendant of the Armenian
kings, died in Italy in 1876, in the most
abiect poverty. He had served in the
French army until 1859, and was
wounded at Solferino. Napoleon Ill
granted him pension, which, however,
1Nf moi Of fo11 ,oFt ho
The prince then sank deeper and deeper
until he had nothing. Three of his chill
dren were placed in a charitable institu-
ton. One, daughter, became a servant
in the house of the Bishop of Bergamo,
but was discharged because she declined
| to renounce her. Greek confession. The
elder of the two sons, who bore the title
of his father, married peasant girl and
| became a waiter in cafe of Milan.
The famous family of Mont-Morency,
related to the Lusignans," adds the
writer, "has sunk so far that Mont
Morency is farm servant in the neigh
borhood of Paris A descendant of the
| Valois family is letter carrier in Saint
! Chamas a Marquis de Fatigue is an
omnibus guard, a Saint-Megrin is cab
| driver, a Count Charles de Busserolle is
floor cleaner in Ruffec, and a De la
! Bourdarfiere is a washerwoman.
"Only short time ago minister in the
| village of West Bromwick Yorkshire, dis
! covered possibly the last Plantagenet in a
| small boy-of-all-work. His father was a
chimney-sweep, and, despite the family
tree in his possession, had shortened the
name into Plant, to escape being teased
by his comrades. A Tudor died in Wales
in the thirties as poor coppersmith.
''Ihe fall of the great German noble
family of Van Sickingen is also interest
ing. In the churchyard of the little vii
lage of Yorch, near Sauerthal, stood, I'M
cared for until a few years ago, grave
stone with the following inscription
Here lies Franz Won Sickiugen, Imperial
Count. the last of his race Below was
the legend: From a friend of the Father
lands history On the back of the stone
were the words: He died in misery ;
This was the gravestone of the last male
descendant of Franz Won Sickingen, who
once bade defiance to a German emperor
and made France fear. He died, after
wasting his property, in 1884, in the hut
of peasant, who had given him shelter
from pity.
LAS the Paris Figaro recently told its
readers, a Princess Galitzin works as
stable girl in French circus; a Prince
krapotchin is a cab driver in Moscow; a
Prince SoltikOff is a laborer in a ST.
Petersburg market; Princess Pignateli
is music hall singer, and Countess Olosy
is a circus rider.
"a man was recently arrested in Berlin
who proved himself to be coachman. He
called himself first Lipinski, but after
wards showed that he was Won Pirch-
Lpinski, a descendant of the Polish
Prince Lipinski. He had served a con-
siderable time in prison.
"About the same time the London po-
lice arrested a cab driver who proved to
be genuine marquis, bearing one of the
oldest names in France. His papers
showed that he was related to the late
Marshal MacMahon. Among the cab
drivers of London are also an English
lord, continental baron and an ex-mem-
Der of parliament"
CONSUL HSU A LUCKY MAN.