Arizona republican., 1900-10-04
NEWS AND GOSSIP
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From Hungary, where he is staying as the guest of his father-:n-law. Arch duke Joseph of Austria tne Duke of Orleans has issued manifesto to she people of France in favor of his mon archical pretensions. It is probably the most ridiculous document of the kind that has ever received the sigma .;ura of a pretender. and merely con s,itutes an additional nall to the many which the duke las already hammered into his political coffin.
 In the manifesto he brides himself on having defended the army" which certainly has never sunk low enough 70 need his protection. and he likewise boasts of having denounced the Jews to whom he and his family owe so much and the Free Masons. the latter and the Jews being. according to him, the dis honor and the purulent sore of the country"
 The object of his manifesto is to pro claim himself in favor of "adminiStTa- tive decentralization" No weak gov ernment, he says, can attempt 70 decen- tralize "I alone" he writes, support ed by the army. being myself an ener- getic forceful central power, can under take the rask of doing away with that administrative centralization, which is literally suffocating France"
 This manifesto has been received with nothing but contempt. even by his own followers, who do not hesitate to openly express the opinion that it is not by the issue of appeals, such as these. that any pretender can ever hope to win a throne. and that no words. but acts, are needed, if ever anything Is to be accomplished in the directOn of a mOnarchical restoration in France.
 That this manifesto aimed against the French government should have been dated and addressed from one of the imperial residences of one of the reigning houses of Austria. is certain to give grave ofrense to Emeperor Fran cis Joseph who has repeatedly warned the duke that he would not tolerate any political action against the French gov ernment taking place in his dominions. It was the apprehension that the duke might do something of the kind in Ita ly tha,, led the late King Humbart to give a curt refusal to the pretender's application for permission to reside in his dOminiOns. It is for the same req son that King Leopold has virtually warned the duke off Belgian soil, and now. unless I am much mistaken, Elm perOr Francs Joseph. indignant at the manner in which his hospitality has been abused, will adopt some analo- gous measures toward the prince. who styles himself Roy de France"
 It may be rememberel that his fath- CT, the count of Paris. rendered hmS5lf guilty of a similar offense against the laws of good taste and of hospitality by addressing one of the mos, virulent of his manifestoes against the French government. from Windsor castle. where he was staying al the time as a guest of Queen NiO,5T:a. Indeed. he actually used her note paper, adorned with her cipher and crown. for the pur- pose of writing the manifesto. and as it was reproduced in fac-simile in the French monarchical papers. a popular impression was naturally given that the venerable sovereign of Great Brit ain was endorsing and abbeting the ef- forts of the Comte de Paris to over throw the republican government and restore the monarchy.
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 The extraordinary breach Of promise case in London of Mavre vs. Craven. which has just resulted in a verdict of $25,0O0 in favor of the plaintiff, has at traced much attention by reason of the wealth and position of the defendant, Augustus William Craven. The latter, a cousin of the Earl of Craven (mar- ried to the daughter of Bradley Martin, of New York), is not only very rich through his first wife, daughter and heiress of Gen. COrbet Cotton. but is likewise heir to an immense quantity of landed properties in London, which should by rights have gone with the earldOm of Craven, but which are now in the possession of the father of the so heavily mulcted defendant. They are worth about S500. .000 year. and are bound to go on constantly increasing. The damages granted by the jury were awarded. not so much for the sake of the plaintiff as for that of her little boy, who, in the event of William Au- gustus Craven having kept his writ ten promise to the plaintiff, would have eventually succeeded to the possession of these great metropolitan properties. The father of William Augustus Craven by the way, that is to say the actual owner of the estates, is grandson of the first Earl of Craven.
 
 Relations are strained to the utmost just at present between the quirinaI and the court of Lisbon. in spite of the fact that the monarchs Of Italy and Portugal are first cousins. As soon as King Carlos heard of the assassination of his uncle. Humb5rt. he immediately made preparations to leave for Rome for the purpose of attending the fun eral. On learning this the vatican at once notified the Lis5on government that if the king came to Rome in de- tiance of the pope's known wishes. the papal nurcio would at once be with drawn from Lisbon, and diplomatic :e- lations between the papacy and Portu- gal interrupted.
 Now the king of Portugal, i.ke the king of Spain. is menaced by q legiti- mist movement. Dom Miguel. of Rra- ganza, son of the late eX-king of Port ugal. standing in ident!Cally the same position with regard to the throne of