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Show If,ctn from rrnnre. 1'AKIS, tJepL N. Several dia-tlnguished dia-tlnguished Americans are still lingering lin-gering In the city. Among the number num-ber Is Justice Stephen .Field, who came to Kurupe In June for the benefit of his health. After staying stay-ing here for a mouth be went to Aixleo-Balns, and thenco to Switzerland. Swit-zerland. The result Kerns to have been eminently beneficial, for he Is looking remarkably well and he himself says be has almost recov-ercJ. recov-ercJ. HelntcndstoIeaeforhome in a few days, so as to be present at the owning of the Supreme Court Iti Washington during next month Tbe suit against 3L Gounod, the celebrated, musician who fa sued for 15,000 francs lor not keeping his signed engagement, will soon come on for a hearing. Gounod signed to go lo A merica and direct au orchestra or-chestra for sixty performances, for which he was to receive tbe sum of $200,000. When the men were ready to start anJ tbe financiers had the money to pay over, he refused re-fused to go. The only excuse he had to effer is that ho tears that if be were to go to America he would lie J unutd ill the courts by lire. Georgan Weldon. If the case fa not settled out of court tov-eral tov-eral curious developmchUarelooked for, as one of the stipulated conditions con-ditions was that Gounod should be accompanied by a certain female pianist. Ufa family are exciting the greatest efforts to compromise the matter. Communications are now losslng between Henry TEochefort and General Boulanger In reference lo their return to Paris and submission to the deirees of the high courts. The suggestion came originally from Bocliefort, who has written to the General urging this step, but liou-langer liou-langer seems to be rather afraid to make the venture and It is therefore there-fore highly probable that tho ex-editor ex-editor may have to make the journey alone. All Americans will be exceedingly gratified to learn of the extraordinary extraordin-ary success which ban lately been achieved by ills Sybil Sanderson at opera In Brussels. Hi r friends havu received private dispatches, which state that her present engagement en-gagement is the most tuccessful one she has had. She Is called before the curtain several Unit eery alglrt and her singing Is warmly applauded ap-plauded by an audience hich packs the house from lloor to dome and which Is composed of all the best people In the city. |