Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Alfonso’s Bride. [ARTICLE]

Alfonso’s Bride.

“Francis Joseph,” says Truth, has shown himself a generous cousin to Alfonso’s bride. He gave her out of his own private fortune a dowry of 1,000.000 thalers, and sent her away in greater state than was observed at the departure of his only daughter when she married. The trousseau filled five railway vans. Underclothing was on the scale of twelve dozen dozens. Outfit and wedding presents were exhibited at the palace of the bri ie’s uncleThe twelve robes which Alfonso pays for, I am informed by a fair correspondent, are stagey and overladen with metallic embroidery. The taste in which they were oonceived—Mme De Sosto’s— is Empire and the style ball costume, and unsuited to an extremely slight young girl.” London has been startled by the news that Prince Bismarok has written to Lord Beaconsfleld to say that he will visit him in the summer of 1880,