The Kenosha Telegraph

Why Alexis Made a Trip Around the World.

A correspondent of the New York World, writing from St. Petersburg, says:

You remember the vague rumors concerning the marriage of the Grand Duke Alexis, the handsome youth about whom so many society belles in New York went half wild at the time of his visit to the United States. The story has never been told in print except in a very fragmentary way. Among the demoiselles d'honneur of her Majesty, the Empress, there was a pretty and attractive girl, the daughter of a high official who was a member of the Council of the Empire. She was attached to the imperial household and lived in the palace: Alexis fell in love with her—fell in love over head and ears, which was very wrong for a Grand Duke. He declared his love and found it reciprocated, and with the headstrong imprudence of youth he proposed to elope with her and be married. She, poor girl, did not weigh the consequences, and probably was not aware what a mess she would make by accepting his offer. One day while the court was at Moscow the twain met by appointment, sought a priest and were united. The marriage was kept secret for two or three months, but marriage, like murder, will out, and this case proved no exception to the rule. When it became known there was a scene such as does not often happen. The Emperor swore and the Empress cried, and the whole imperial family was in a funk. Alexis was talked to in a very plain, old-fashioned way. It was determined to send him on a long journey in the hope of curing him of his love, and so he was started on the voyage that brought him to America and took him home by way of Japan and Siberia. Mrs. Alexis was sent out of the empire by a special train, and the eye of the police was not taken from her until she was safe over the frontier. The priest who performed the ceremony was packed off to Siberia in spite of the protest that he didn't know the parties, and that he married them just as he would have married any other couple. They didn't let on who they were, but only gave their names a la Russe as Alexis Alexandrovitch and Marie Paulovna, which are about as traceable or suspicious in this country as John Smith and Mary Jones would be in New York. Alexis came back after an absence of three years, and he is now commander of one of the crack ships of the Russian navy. It is intended when the Grand Duke Constantine, present Grand Admiral, has passed away to make Alexis his successor, and so his voyage round the world cannot fail to do him good. The wife and the priest are still in exile, the former in Switzerland and the latter in Siberia. Alexis has repented of his folly, and the family quarrel has been partially smoothed over.