New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
March 3, 1886 · Page 5 of 9
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.wmm Hie ^Locksmith's Art* 'ELEMPERADOB. Burnside's Assault at Freder* child to her mother? That is what THE BABY ON THE CABS. and was with him during his last few -j ^fi ty i Prom the Chicago Sews. v,ft she wants. Give her to her mother days, and what he here says must 9g icksburgr. "Tell you something about locksmiths!" pass into history as the true account and be done with it." Touching: Incident Which Occurred on a Belies of Maximilian's ShortReign in Mex- Col. Wm. Miller Owen, an- officer 6t of Maximilian's last moments, an account exclaimed an old craftsman, "Sir," said the dark gentleman, Limited Express. icoNew Details of his Execution at the celebrated battalion of the Wash. not yet printed in English. It stopping and speaking deliberately dolefully "there are none any more. Qaeretaro. It was a bleak December night and was of Soria that Maximilian said: "It "and you all, ladies and gentlemen,' ington Artillery of New Orleans, has The trade is dead. Locks are all made Boston Herald. the wind blew a gale. Hal and I is I who must console this good priest turning and addressing the heads bobbing N lately published a book containing a now by machinery, except, perhaps, and. not let him become utterly over- City of Mexico, October 23, 1885. from behind tbe curtains, "I beg boarded the limited express for New history of that organization which come." Eighteen years ago last June the Emperor to apologize for the disturbance my little safe and prison locks those are York at Chicago and were enjoying a served in the Confederate Army from Maximilian fell, pierced by bullets, one has caused,and the great annoyance "The night before his death," says hand-made because they afford greater cigar in the smoker: He had fallen on a hillside atQueretaro,aslight you have been forced to endure. the Confessor Soria. "the Emperor Bull Run to Appomatox. The following security than the other kind. Time asleep and I was busily absorbed in eminence which the tourist via the wrote two letters, one to thePopeand Believe me, I would have done anything from Colonel Owen's graphic Central Railway may catch a passing was when the lockmaker was a smith the other to his mother. He confided my own reflections.. I glanced causually in my power to prevent it^ account of the assault on Marye's glimpse of as he enters that interesting both to me, together with a handkerchief You," to Halr "suggested I give her to and bellhasger as well, and the trade and with little interest at the Hill at the battle of Fredericksburg. old town. But eighteen years have for his mother. her mother. Sir, her mother is in the was a good one but it is all changed scenes through which I was being not sufficed to obliterate the memory front car in her coffin. I must do-the On the following morning I accompanied "At last the federal line is formed, I rapidly whirled. It was only when BOW, and we-do nothing except repairing, of the Emperor. In the curio shops him to the place of execution. best I can." and appears above the ridge and ad here you still find the "Maximilian twilight shut otit visible objieets and The cortege was composed of three or occasionally duplicating a key vances. What a magnificent sight il No one spoke a word, and every dollar" with his effigy, and the beautiful wrethed coaches. I got into the first the lowering clouds grewblack I awakened head disappeared in his or her curtain is! We have never witnessed such a that has been lost. Paseo remains to testify to his with the Emperor, while Miramon in a trice. Hal stood dumbfounded battle-array before long lines following to the consciousness that it was "The factory-made lock has taken purpose of making this enchantingly and Mejia occupied, with their confessors, for a moment, and then drawing .himself one another, of brigade front. It the place of the-hand made article and night and that Hal had been sleeping situated capital the Paris of the new the other two. up and speaking manfully, said: seemed like some huge blue serpent driven us out c business. Now perhaps an hour. world. A sturdily built, handsome "Hardly had we left the Convent of "I hambly beg your pardon. I about to encompass and crush us in twenty men are required to jroung fellow, himself the grandson of the Capuchinos when I was surprised ought t be ashamed of myself, and so its folds, their musket-barrels gleaming "Come, old fellow," I said, shaking Another Mexican Enperor, walks the make a lock which formerly was the to see MaximiUan strike his breast, am I. Go to bed, ar*d give this young brightly in the sunlight, their gay him, "wake up!" .streets of the city. This young man, saying: work f one man. These men superintend lady to me." colors fluttering in the breeze. The "Hello!" he exclaimed, rousing himself accomplished and athletic, was adopted, 'I have put eight handkerchiefs machinery by which certain "But do you think you could!" lines advance at the double quick,and and looking a little stupid. by Maximilian as his heir, and, here to keep the blood from staining "I think, so if I tried." parts of the lock aoe made. One man the alignments are beautifully kept. 'though a revival of imperialism is impossible, my uniform.' "Nice, sociable chap for a- compan- "Thank you. A little rest would The board fences enclosing the gardens ha-dlesa punch, and cuts out the the Prince Iturbide, as he is ion, I must say." "All the rest of the way the Emperor be a great boon." fall like walls of mere paper. tumblers- another /sakes the sliders universally called, may yet take an busied himself with praying and "How long have I been asleep?" "Come here, Miss," said Hal,ho?ding Then the loud, full voice of Colonel the springs are mads by another, and important part in the game of Mexican sitting upright and looking around recommending his soul to God. But out his arms. "Come along, o?r I'll Walton rings out, "Tention! Commence so on, until all the parts are ready to him. politics. seeing the Hill of the Bells he exclaimed: take you anyhow." fir-i-ngf and instantly tb be put together. None of these men "About an hour, I should judge." To his utter amazement the tiny edge of Marye's Hill is fringed with "Well, between you and me, Will, 'There is where I had thought to could maks a lock without assistance hands were immediately outstretched flame. The dreadful work of the The same government which cherishes hoist the standard of victory, and needed it. I didn't go to bed at all to him, and with a sigh the baby from other workmen, and they have Washington Artillery has begun. The the memory of the emperor Iturbide there is where I am going to die! Life last night so, much to be done, all at nestled against his shoulder. no knowledge of th* principles oi boys soon warm up to their work, refuses to preserve the memorial is a play!' the la-st moment." "By all that's mysterious, Will, Ibok locks. and aim and fire coolly and deliberately. of the reign of the Emperor Maximilian. "And, after somemomentsof silence "That's a fine excuse for you to at this." "Before tne- era of machinery all Nearer and nearer the enemy's Wandering through the executive he added 'What a beautiful view' give," I said, dryly. Hal laughed. Miss Baby's arms were tight around locks were made by hand. That is line advances, and now they are -apartments at the national palace the And what a beautiful day to die'' He was the best natured chap in the his neck, Miss Baby's cheek was pressed why old lock-smiths understand their within range of canister and we other day, I noted that wherever Maximilian "When we had arrived at the place world. A big, strapping fellow, standsix against his own. I saw Hal starfcr business so well. But there are very had left the crowned eagle the give it to them. Now they are near 01 execution, it was found difficult to feet high, with merry blue eyes, and then he clasped the little creature few smiths of the old sehool in the .government had obliterated the crown enough to the infantry in the sunken open the door of the coach. clear cut features and fair almost to closer and kissed her dimpled handsand business now. Most of. them have and left the Mexican eagle crownless road, the Georgians and the north "Then Maximilian, windowr,impatient, being womanliness. He was a great swell, face, and held her tenderly in hisgreat knocking quit making loeks, and are making in republican simplicity. But in the Carolinians and they are unseen by leaped out of the too, and a universal favorite. strong arms. sewing machines* The jjrmciples on splendid chamber where President the enemy, for the smoke is beginning off his hat. '"Abominable night,'' he muttered,a "Will, come and see her," he called, which sewing machines a made can Diaz receives visitors the crowned to coyer the field. All at once the "Hehanded me the crucifix, embracing little irritably for him, "and I am confoundedly "she's prettier than a picture." be easily understood by any locksmith, eagle remains. The superb room is gray line below us rises one moment me. He also embraced Miramon cold, too. I had just about And when I crept out and stole a and there is more money JO be made hung with crimson silk, on which is everywhere to glance along the trusty rifle-barrels, and Mejia,distributedsome gold coins half enough sleep, Will, and if you look at the fairy there she lay asleep in the new husiness. to be seen the crowned imperial and volley after volley is poured into among the soldiers who were to shoot don't mind I'll go to bed." in all her baby beauty with a sw eet "Yes, the modem lock is superior to eagle in raised figure the enemy's ranks. Great gaps appear him, and then, in a strong voice, pronounced "That suits me," I replied, "I am smile curling her rosy lips, and her the old-fashioned one, and for this To have cut the crown would have we give them canister again and in Spanish these words. 'I with you." golden hair falling 111 tangled curls reason haider to pick. The old lock been to spoil the hangings, and so they a^ain a few leave the ranksmore follow forgive everybody, and I ask We crossed the platform and stepped o\ er her little flushed forehead. was made toaccommodatealargekeyr have been leit, mute memorials of the the lines halt for an instant, and, that all may forgive me, and I desire into the other car. A gust of "She is pretty," I admitted 3 that no matter how fine the construction dead ruler of Mexico. In the vast turning, are seen running in great disorder that my blood, which is going to wind and snow whi/zed past as we "Pretty"' echoed Hal. "Well, I inside, an accomplished apartment known as the Hall of Ambassadorsthe towards the town. The first assault be shed, may be for the good of Mexico. opened the door, which called forth should think so. Will, you may not cracksman could always get an idea portrait of the Emperor Long live Mexico' Long live her has been met and repulsed. The another grumbling imprecation from believe it, but I'd give a good round of the works. The key-hole being Iturbide remains, but "there is independence'' Immediately he placed field before us is dotted with patches Hal relative to the weather. Decidedly fcum if she belonged to me I would, large, he would insert a .no relic of Maximilian. You must his hand on his breast, indicating the he was sleepy. There was not of blue, they are the dead and wounded upon my word." wire, the end of which being go to the National Museum, spot for the soldiers to take aim at. ma ly passengers on board, and these of the Federal infantry. And when he looked up there was covered with wax, would receive an also in the palace to see Maximilian's Then the drums sounded, and in the were the invariable travelers one is such earnestness in his face I knew he impression of the style of key required state dinner service, presence of the four thousand soldiers sure to encounter. First came a garrulous "It was the division of French that meant it. to open the lock. It was an easy matter which was an outrageous cheat it he assembled it was proclaimed that old gentleman, very thin, with had charged the hill, and was scattered, He held her so all night, scarcely to make a key after this model in paid the price of silver for it, because whoever should raise his voice in behalf white hair, who occupied four seats with the loss of half their numbers. breathing lest he should disturb her, wax, so that almost all the oldlocks ut is nothing but a wretched composite of the condemned man would be and essayed to read by the uncertain and when he parted from her in the could be picked with but little difficul- of base metals thinly plated, made to suffer the same penalty. Not light of the railway lamp, which was morniug there was a tear glistening on "Hancocks division now advances in -the proportion being ninety-five per a murmur was heard among the immense of no more use than those lamps usually the baby's white hand, and 1 knew it splendid style.and,being joined by remnants "The xatent lock of to-day, requiring *cent. base metal and five per cent, silver. crowd standing behind the are, and quite as ornamental. was the one Hal had kissed last, before of French's command, pushes a flat key, defies any attempt at Maximilian's state carriage remains troops. Then came the commercial traveler giving her ba* to her father. on valiantly to and beyond the point picking the works, because the keyhole on show, and a really gorgeous "At a given signal the three platoons who was disposed to take things as he Pittsburg Penny Press. French had reached, and then, in is so small and the slots are too affair it is. His bast by a Mexican fired. Miramon and Mejia fell dead at found them and wore an expression little more than fifteen minutes like numerous. For that reason skeleton artist is also preserved in the museum, once, but Maximilian did not die at rather bland than otherwise. our first assailants are forced keys are useless to thieves nowadays, Big-Nujrjrets of Gold. where also are his orders and insignia. the first discharge and uttered three A portly old lady with a bird cage back. Of the 5,000 men Hancock and cracksmen rely for success principally But all these things are preserved, as groans. Then they gave him the coup From The-Virginia City Enterprise. and several band boxes next attracted led into action 2,000 fell in th on their possession of duplicate we might keep the uniform of a cap/fciped de grace." my attention. A spinster who sat In the winter of '49 the writer of charge. With Hancock came the Zouaves keys. British General, as trophies of up in a most rigid position, and an insipid The priest Soria denied that Maximilian,as this saw and handled the largest piece fcJail work,' as it is known to the and the Irish brigade of Meaghet 'victory over an invader. miss of seventetn or thereabouts the legend goes, gave the post of gold that had yet been found in bearing aloft the green flag with the a^ele, is the only branch of oxxz business The Mexican Government has not traveling in care of the conductor, of honor at the place of execution to California. It weighed twenty-two golden harp of Ireland. The brav where machinery is -not used. [persecuted the partisans of the Emperor. together with a short stout, Miramon, saying "A brave man merits pounds and nine ounces, and was estimated, fellows came within five-and-twenty "All the locks for jails and penitentiaries On the very street where I am thickset man of uncertain age and occupation, the respect of his sovereign take by carefully weighing in water paces of the stone-wall,and encountered are made of wrought iron, and ^writing lives, in a noble casa, the made up the list of passengers. the place of honor." The placing of and otherwise, to contain about five such a line of shot,shell, canistei constructed with from two. to five spokesman of the deputation of notables No, there was another I had the condemned was by accident. Thus pounds of quartz, the rest being pure and musketry as no command wan tumblers finished off smooth on the who crossed the ocean to tender quite overlooked him. He came on a picturesque legend is dissipated. gold. The finder sold it for $5,000 ever known to live through. The re inside and held together by steel screwsand to Maximilian at Miramar the fatal the train while we were in the smoker. and it was subsequently sold in San suit was that two-thirds of this splendid bra= clamps. The parta when imperial crown. The other day I read A tall, dark man of about forty years, Francisco for $10,000. It was found Knew he Country Girls. and gallant brigade was left upon thus joined are absolutely air-tight over the address of this deputation, with a pale, haggard face and hollow, at Sonora, then known as the Sonorian and the only opening in the lock is the the field killed and wounded." whicji was vaunted the superiority "I'll tell you what I like," said a sunken eyes. His berth had been Camp, in Tuolumne County, on key-hole. Such a lock is ^as durable 'Of monarchial institutions, and the In the following May the attack ol made up and he was seated on one drummer from Cincinnati "I like to the headwaters of Wood's Creek, by a as can be made. assertion made that the Mexican people Sedgwick upon the same position waa side of it, his head resting on his hand, be out in the country and get an invitation lazy old Mexican "greaser," who was desired the Austrian prince to more successful, and the Washington "The principle of the modem lock is when Hal and I entered the car. A to a dance or party. The rooting or "eoyotemg" about in holes come and reign over them, that they very old. I i.ave a book here which artillery on that occasion lost sis shrill little voice which echoed through country dance .or party is the place of or pits that the whites and others had were weary of republicanism and gi\ es a description of a lock found pieces. the silent car caused every one to turn dug out and abandoned in the outskirts-of all the world for fun, and don't you interminable internecine strife. The among the ruins of the great temple around in the direction whence it the town. As soon as he hesitate to recollect it. The last time /reply of the prince was enthusiastic, of Karnac, and which was in use more Horace Greeley, The Farmer. came. found it he washed it off, took it to and in that same spirit Maximilian than forty centuries ago. "The leading I was at a country party I fell in love "By all that's lucky," groaned Hal, The Monthly Advance tells a good the nearest "monte" bank and lost and Carlotta crossed the seas, believing principles of this lock have served as with a girl. She was freckled a little "a baby." story of Greeley, at the expense of the $500 on it as soon as he could conveniently. that they were the desired of a foundation for most of'the inventions under her ears and forehead, but the "Not a doubt of it," I agreed. Naturally when the "game" late Stanley Huntley, who was once a the Mexican people. Their deception of recent times. The locksmith "And good lungs it has, too," he rest of her face was peachy-blossomy got such a good hold on the "chunk" must have been complete. Prints of of China, we are told, had, centuries reporter on the Tribune. Huntley went on pettishly. "I wish it would yummy-yummy. And her lipswhy, they did not let go, but kept the that time represent the triumphal before the birth of Christ, perfected a was sent to report a meeting of the be quiet." kisses just seemed to dance on them, old fellow drunk for a day or two,or till arches erected on the main avenue of iock out of which a sharp bamboo Farmeis' Club, of which, at that But the baby had not the slightest and sit on 'em, and dare you to come they owned it in full, allowing him $5,- /the capital, and through that avenue thorn would dart and strike the time, Mr. Greeley was President. The notion of doing this. To speak the and take. I dared, but you never saw 000 for it. He had lots of fun in a very you see passing the carriage of the Emperor 'land of any one wrongfully tampering truth, it had not begun yet. The shrill members got into a dispute over anew a girl fight as she did. She scratched bowing to the right and loft, acknowledging short space of time for his $5,000 with it. The end of this bamboo cry continued growing louder the passengers kind of potato, and the reporter the plaudits of the populace. and clawed, tore off my cravat, busted "nusget. In this connection the Gras thorn was steeped in a poisonous commenced staring hard at (it was his first journalistic effort), Valley Union of Oct. 10 prints the kcoction, and, should the luckless my collar button, bit my finger, lost the berth and harder at one another. gave a very funny account of it, which thief escape death, he would be markfor following information the ribbon out of her hair, and got Personally, Maximilian was very The garrulous old gentleman laid aside he took to the office, and not finding life. But this story? is hardly popular with the common people. herself into a perspiration. But I got his magazine and remarked sarcastically: "Louis Blanding says the generally the city editor in at the time, threw entitled to full belief for the reason His memory is not execrated, but "This is pleasant." the kiss. It was good, despite my exhaustion accepted statement that the largest that, as the Chinese themselves claim, the report in the dummy-box for the i rather he is regarded with apathetic The portly lady opened her watery and her perspiration. nugget ever found in California was gunpowder was manufactured by them compositors, and sent it up stairs in aoitb of regret mingled with reproach- eyes as loud as she could and exclaimed, worth a little more than $21,000 is "She was very angry. She sulked a at the time, a Celestial safe-blower VMtiess. Maxmilian was under bad the usual way. "Dear me." an erroneous one. He says that J. J. long while, and refused to speak to me. could easily render the patent lock Influences. His military advisers here The spinster wore an air of virtuous The next day the article appeared Finney, 'Old Virginia,' found a piece Finally I found her out on the back harmless by the aid of a few graines were mercilessly severe. They counseled triumph and said nothing. I dare say on the first page of the Tribune, and of gold about six miles from Downieville, porch. She was alone. of ow der. harsh measures, and made the she congratulated herself upon her young Huntley thought he had "struck Sierra County, on the 21st day "You hatelul thing!" she exclaimed. Emperor believe that he had exhausted 'The mediseval lock's were among lucky escape. The commercial traveler it rich" in his new situation, and of August,1857, that weighed 5,000 "I believe you have impudence enough the resources of kindness, and the most elaborately and delicately looked wicked. Hal I am sorry to locked forward to being made managing ounces. The gold of that vicinity was to kiss me again. If you do, I'll should put the knife in up to the hilt. contrived specimens or these articles say, swore and tumbled into bed in editor. worth $18 an ounce, which would, choke your wind off." Maximilian and his wife were the ideal ever produced. They v.^re enveloped no very enviable frame of mind. When he arrived at the office and make the value of the nugget some "And then she threw her arms about sovereigns of the story books. They in steel, covered with beads* and floral Presently every one sought his or entered the city room he noticed a $90,000. This would make the Finney my neck and gave me a terrific squeeze, were easy in their manners and kind designs, and were mostly fou*id on her resting place, the lamps were lowered smile spread over the other reporters' nugget the largest piece of pursgold by way of showing me what she couid to the common people they were fond the doors of the ancient cathedrals or and the porter made himself as faces, but attributing it to jealousy, ever disco vered.so far as accounts do." of one another,r and had all the lovable in the magnificent cabinets that have comfortable as the rules of the company he calmly seated himself at his desk. go. Heretofore the Australian nugget, "And did you beg off and make your virtues, but the Mexican people, fiercely been the marvel of succeedings ages." would permit. But through it In a few minutes the city editor called found in the Ballarat gold fields, has escape?" fond ot liberty, resented their intrusion, all that baby cried. The storm raging him and said that Mr. Greeley wanted been considered the largest. It was "Beg off? Make my escape? Say and Juarez, the constitutional without was mild in comparison to see him. Casting a look of triumph I .Amounted to That. valued at $60,000. Finney, or 'Old do I look like a greeny? I kissed her President, had earnest popular support with the storm raging within. around the room, the young reporter Virginia,' as he was familiarly oalied seventeen straight times without stopping in his prolonged resistance to the He boarded a train at a littl* "By jove!" exclaimed Hal, "bed is a walked to Mr.- Greeley's office. The in those days, afterwards went to to draw breath. I know these .Empire. Western town, and entering thesmoker mockery. Of all the nuisances I ever door was closed. He rapped gently. Washoe when the great silver discoveries country lasses, I do, and when one of The fatal blunder of Maximilian, a sat dawn in one of the forwaid. came in contact with this takes the "Come in," responded a shrill, falsetto were first made there, and from 'em likes a kiss so well as to give me a blunder which has left a stain on his palm. What do the parents mean seats. Pretty soon a man who sat voice. him the town of Virginia took, its hugging invitation td take another, I name, was the issuance of the order wTho discovorecE the by letting it scream like that? Why opposite notic*d a single tear ste^l Mr. Huntly did so. Mr. Greeley name. The man stand up to the racket like a little man. that all of the liberal chiefs taken in don't they attend properly to their wheeled around in his chair with,' 'Well, down his rough, hardy cheek, then another largest nugget in the California mines That's the kind of a grocery salesman arms after the expiration of Juarez's business?" sir, what can I do for you?" until at last, dropping his head and gave his name to the richest miningcamp I am." term should be shot as traitors to the At this he opened the curtain, looked "You sent for me, sir." the world, died in, extreme between his hands, he sobbed li&j a. empire. Juaiez remonstrated, urging out and, calling to me, said: "For you? What is your name?" poverty." bat*. Th-a stranger watched hii^7 fo* that he was President, even after his Where Dr. Talmage Got His Tip. "Will, the father has it, and he's "Stanley Huntley." some time m.silence and let him ^eepfc term of office expired, until the country holding it upside down." "Oh! So you are the blockhead The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, when Rascality is Often Hereditary. could peacefully elect his successor. bi at last that powerful humanJinfc The tall, dark man was striding up who wrote up that Farmers' Club?" in town the other day, said that he That was sensible ground, and According to the press dispatch to sympathy, broke the bonds o&sociai and down,carryin",andmost clumsily The hopes of the future humorist Ihisitqry sustains the Mexican patriot. owed much of his success in life to the the Chicago Times, "Ex-Sheriff Winner at that, the child, who appeared to be e&quettQ" and he inquired: experienced a sudden decline. He K. Maximilian's decree was merciless, and 2- suggestion of a newspaper reporter. about two yeais old, and who beat of Sullivan county, arrested a would now be satisfied with less than "What's ther trouble, pard*"' the -fates measured out to him as he him with her little fistsr young man for stealing, a watch from He was engaged to lecture in Baltimore and struggled the citv editorship. "WaU, you see, stranger^ my ole Ihad meted to others. to get on the floor, all the while ciying his employer a short time ago. He "Why did you do it?" several years ago, and just before ohum i& dead and I'm caimyin" hia It -was in Queretaro tlhat Maximilian lustily. The dark gentleman was perfectly recognized in the prisoner the son of "They acted disgracefully, sir." he was to begin his discourse the corps* home ter his ole- mother. ^made his final stand after the withlraw annoyed he paced the car in a a man he had a few years ago arrested "Yes, I know but what did you do 1 hat what makes me sad, and then, newspaper man, who had been sent to of the French troops at a word mechanical way.paymg not the slightest for-burglary, and vsho was sent to ths with your copy?" of warning from Mr. Seward. It is a agm I can't help cryin' when I think report the address, inquired, in an heed either to the baby or the penitentiary the gsandson of a man "I didn't copy it, sir I wrote it all lovely old city, with a splendid aqueduct how lonesojme it will be for me. You many uncharitable remarks he could off-hand way: myself." he had arrested r highway ro/jbepy in the Roman manner, many not fail to over hear. An hour passed "Well, Dr. Talmage, are you going "Yes, yes but what did you do while his son was.still in the penitentiary seeT we worked together lor nigh onto ancient and picturesque churches, and and still the night was made hideous to give us many points to-night?" three years." with your manuscript?" for burglary, and who wtes also a soft' and genial climate. Then, as sent to State Prison the nephew of a by those piercing screams. "Points?" repeated the clergyman. 1 "I shoved it in a hole in the wall, "That is kinder hawcan*pard.nontel mtk, bu^~ now, it was a stronghold of the Church gi "Thunderation!'* roared Hal, "will "Points?" and whistled." reckon you ca'n gitu another man he had executed in MonticeSo.in iparty, the very citadel of Catholicism S? the little beggar never have done?" "Yes," replied the reporter, "you meb "Young man, how long have ybu ri 1875 for the murder of a bartender, in Mexico. Maximilian was here besieged Seemingly not, for at that very? moment won't get much space to-morrow unless been on the press?" hkeDick. Yeroughwr knowedhim and the nephew of a woman who was and overthrown, and imprison^ed she burst into fresh and mom your lecture is full of good points stranger He was 18- carat fine." "Twenty-four hours, sir."* 1 i tried in Monticello for the mujrder of in the convettt of the Capuchinos, vigorous cries. that the paper can't afford to leave "Well, sir," said the editor, a merry "Was he sick long?" ?m, her husband in 1872. but whoescaped tv.'and thence, after the famous courtmartial, "Pitch her out of the window," suggested out." twinkle coming into his eyes, "you 4 "Naw he died kiader sudden upon a technicality. The name of led out to the Hill of the the stout gentleman. "I thought very deeply over the^reporter's didn't know, of course, the rules ol Bells to be shot. Recent disclosures this family of criminate is Moffat. "Fever?" -w, words," said Dr. Talmage? in "Do something/'murmuredthecom- the office. But you oughtn't to have ^regarding the last hours of the Era\jfif They live in the Sullivan county backwoods* "Naw he-he"t (and There assothei?' 'V tatKm&V telling the story, "and I saw that they mercial traveler. written that report, indeed, yon peror many legends of the sob choked hibsUvoice), "he coSSttSJi and some member of the family were full of sound wisdom. Since that day and I will here relate the "Let her cry it's likely to kill her," oughtn't. Of course they are a pack 1 suicide, stranger." -H"- jphiatal is defendant in the criminal courts n"0 time I have always endeavored to of fools. They always have been put in the spinster, complacently. '^v contents of a document which the ***&*i "Shot himslll, hey?" of the county at nearly every term make my lectures and sermons and but you shouldn't have said so, at "In the name oi heaven," exclaimed ^priest- Sona lately dictated shortly thaT"11 aU of which goes to ahow the importance literary work bristle with 'points' least, not in the Tribune. Young Hal, springing out of bed iatiesperation prior to his own death. of improving tKe human familv that is to say, with striking thoughts the President of that and intercepting the dork gentleman -How?- ~*T^w-o* I'm man, fp* .Soria was the' Emperor's confessor through atirpicultiural methods. and phrases."Philadelphia Press. jn his march"why don,'-! you give that club.' "Wa, yej: see, he called. iiar a fm% ,1 *,-*%& fait,"* 1 ,*t s't 2&