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11 LOVEffSJBfEIGE
Visited Upon the Family of a
Noble Marquis, Who Had
Supplanted Him
WITH A DESIGNING MAID.
The Beautiful Plotter Succeeds in
Ensnaring Her Employer,
The Marqnis, and
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY RESULTS.
The J'oblemiD, His Wife and Secretary Are
Blddled With Bullets, Fired From
Forest Ambush
BI THE JEALOUS LOTEB AND FEIENDS.
Tie Iitlle lair's i Icrttiite'.y Etcipes Assusitt
Ben ry S eg Left BeUti tie Psrty
in Pub.
TEE WOUNDED HOT ZXPECTX3 TO UTX
rzr su2n.xrs cauls cokfabt.i
Pbis, March 14. Copyrighted.
Word comes from Buda-Pesth of the de
nouement of a tragedy that had its begin
ning in this city, in which a noble Marquis,
a designing maid and a vindictive lover
were the chief actors. Scarcely a twelfth
month ago the Marquis Antole Xiebrnn de
Lesseval might have been truthfully set
down as one of the happiest denizens of
this gay capital Possessed of a large fort
une, a beautiful, loyal and affectionate wife,
to whom he had only been married a few
years, and several promising children, there
seemed nothing wanting to complete his
measure of happiness.
Mme La Marquis is a Hungarian by birth
and had brought with her to Paris a maid
of rare personal charms, but whose moral
standard was not hieh. Natalie Kallay was
cot only comely, but she was well aware of
the fact, and proposed to make her attrac
tions as remunerative as possible. She had
therefore not been long a member of the
Lesseval household before she began to lay
plans that, according to her theory, would
ultimately raise Natalie to a far higher so
cial plane than that she then occupied.
Plot Against the Slnrqnls.
Her plan was to inveigle the young Mar
quis and obtain cpntrol over him, making
him her humble slave. Unfortunately An
tole was not a lady's man, and beyond a
certain deference that he never failed to
display to women, he never indulged in gal
lantry. This was, however, only an obsta
cle that Incited Natalie to greater endeavor.
If not successful in attracting the attention
of her master, the fair young Hungarian
was so with her master's young friends, who
frequented the house.
But this was only the means to the end,
and did not satisfy her ambition. It was
the higher game at which she flew her hawk,
and nothing of an inferior grade would an
swer. Although supposed to be constantly
attending to her duties at home, Natalie
managed to spend much of her time at night
an ay from the Lesseval mansion. It was in
this way that the maid ot Mme. La Mar
quise was a regular frequenter of such re
sorts as the balls of the Elysee Montmartre
and the Moulin, in the north of Paris, at
tended of course by her favored cavaliers.
Natalie Iys a Trap.
This was the point in her game that Nata
lie had planned to reach. She now wrote in
a disguised hand a series of anonymous
notes to the MarquiB, asserting that his
wife's maid was scarcely a proper person to
keep in his employ, and declaring that she
was often to be seen at the halls in question.
By a number of artfully worded missives,
she actually arranged that the Marquis
should attend the festivitr at the Moulin
Rouge on a certain night, where he would
be able to surprise Natalie in the company
of one of his most intimate friends. On the
evening designated, the Marquis, thanks to
Natalie's skill, was there. She had also in
veigled the friend in question to accompany
her, and the night was not far advanced
when the denouement came.
This, while apparently the moment of
Natalie's defeat and humiliation, was really
the hour of triumph for which she had long
plotted. Frankly confessing her trans
gression, she appealed to her master's good
nature, and pleaded with such effect that be
fore leavinc the grounds he promised to for
give and forget He little knew what the
promise involved.
Capturing the Marquli' Heart.
It gave Natalie the lever that she needed,
as from that moment she began the siege of
her master's affections, the pity with which
he at first regarded her as an unsophisti
cated maiden who had succumbed to the
powerful temptations of the French capital,
quickly yielded to a warmer feeling. It
was not Ion; before the Marquis was a will
ing captive, and whether at his hotel or in
I'aru, or id his chateau on his extensire
estates in Hnncary, he bore the chains with
which the Magyar maiden had loaded him.
But clever as she was, Natalie was unable
to keep her conquest an absolute secret It
is true that Mme. La Marquise never sus
pected her husband, and on the surface
everything -went on as before,but in Hungary
human passions are stronger and less tracta
ble than in Paris, and Mile. Kallay soon
discovered that one Albin Czakr. a youth
with whom the had flirted before her journey
to Paris, but who had conceived for her a
love whose intensity proved him capable of
iar deper feeling than any of which the
clever little plotter was capable, more than
suspected the truth.
Shot Down From Ambush.
With Albin, to conceive was to act, and
he was no sooner convinced that Natalie had
been faithless, and that the Marquis was his
successful rival, than be bepin to plan re
venge. Nor had he long to wait Last
week the Marquis, Mine. La Marquise and
a secretary le.t Pans for the Hungarian
chateau. Alter stopping in Vienna, they
arrived on Thursday at a little railway sta
tion near Bokoxeg, the village near which
the cattle was situated.
Between the station and Bokozeg was a
dense forestHardly had theMarquis'carriaee
entered the narrow road, that was not yet
clear of snow, when a sudden fusillade came
from behind the trees. There must have
been a number of sharp shooters, for the
carriage was filled with shot, and the un
fortunate occupants are now lying danger
ously wounded at the chateau, neither uf
them beinz expected to lire.
It is the theory of the police that Albin,
proclaiming his'faneied wrongs to his rela
tives, had enlisted enough of them in bii
service to pour forth the fatal roller. He
probably regarded it as an unfortunate cir
cumstance that the fickle Natalie was not
with the party, she having been left behind
in Paris. No arrests hare yet been made.
PHILOSOPHY OF CHANCE.
TEE UBIQUITOUS EXGUSH SYNDICATE
15 A HEW SOLE.
it
Tackles Monte Carlo frith the Host
Gratifying Success A Shower of Gold
Rewarding Its Efforts to Break the Bank
at That Resort.
1ST DCXLAP'S CABLX COMPJJTT.l
Londox, March 14. That Monte Carlo
gambling sensation, which everybody has
been talking about, and which, therefore,
was in great danger of becoming chestnutty,
not to say a bore, has been saved by the ex
planation which has just beenglren as to its
inception. It really is enough to make one
open one'a eyes in this last decade of the
century to hear that men of intelligence
and good repute should believe that they
could invent a system by which they could
be sure of breaking the bank. Yet such is
undoubtedly the case, if one is to beliere
the story which is circulated.
It appears that some little time ago a
number of gentlemen, finding time hang
ing somewhat heavily on their hands, were
discussing the philosophy of chance at their
club in Pall Mall. They came to the con
clusion that, give'n the resources of science,
it was a possibility to make a very great
coup at trente et quarante, and, in fact, do
for the player what, as a rule,
the table dots for its owner.
This idea found favor in the
eyes of the assembled party, and it was
thereupon agreed that there might be a rery
much worse way of pas'ing the rigors of
Lent than in a trip to Monte Carlo, which
meant at least escape from London during
the worst season of the year, to say nothing
of the excitement of play in the Riviera,
the possibility of winning a large amount
of money and the physical pleasure of liv
ing in an exhilarating and bright atmos
phere. A syndicate was accordingly formed-with
a capital of 50,000, for the pnrpose of
wor-ing tnis scheme, wmch was to pro
duce such a shower of gold. As a proof of
the fascinating power which wealth exer
cises over the mind of man, it may be men
tioned that the syndicate includes three
lords, a well-known sporting officer, a mem
ber of Parliament and a gentleman who is
something in the city. As you know, the
efforts of this syndicate have been
so tar crowned with success. The players
have seemiugly overcome the doctrine of
chance, forced Dame Fortune to smile upon
their efforts and so are in full favor with the
fickle goddess.
Tbo result on the general publio you will
easily imagine; for nothing excites Its stu
pidity so much as the stories that are told of
large winnings made by gaming, whether on
the Stock Exchange, or at horse racing or at
cards. "Wherever one goes one hears the
same remark, in the words of the melan
choly Prince of Denmark, "I would I had
been there."
E0K7XGE-HACKA7 SQUABBLX.
The ASaln or Both Families May Be Aired
In Ziondon Courts
rBT CABLB TO TUB cisri.Tcx.1
London, March 14. The Bonynge
Mackay feud, which is so eminently calcu
lated to enhance British respect for Amer
ican visitors, has been an interesting topic
in London since the pugilistic affair between
the heads of the two houses in the Nevada
Bank, An impetus to the discussion was
added this week by the publication in Lon
don TrufA of a letter written by Darison
Dalziel, In which he denies Bonynge's asser
tion that he (Dalziel) "went down on his
knees" to Bourne, when the latter threat
ened to send the former to prison for two
years, and in which Dalziel asserts that
Bonynge endeavored to induce him to print
a libellous article about the Mackay family.
There is a well-founded rumor that Bo.
nynge's solicitors hare been instructed to
sue both Dalziel end Labouchere, the editor
of Truth, for libel, in writing and publish
ing this letter, while Mackay'a solicitors
propose to make the statements contained In
the letter a basis for action against Bo
nynge. It is said, however, that Mackay
has.agreed to discontinue his suit against
Galignani's Mettenger, of Pans, for pub
lishing the washerwoman story about Mrs.
Mackay, upon that journal making ample
apology.
HIKDOO TOURISTS.
A Unique Traveling Party That "Will Visit
This Country.
rT DETTLAr'S CABLE COxrAXT.l
London, March 14. A unique project
has just been organized at Allahabad and
Calcutta, which Is nothing less than the
formation of a party of Hindoo tourists, who
are seized with aatrong desire to trarel and
risit the chief cities of Europe, America,
China and Japan, the civilisation of which
is so markedly in contrast with that which
obtains in their native India. Several
Hindoo noblemen and gentlemen bare
been invited to join the party, which, will
be entirely under native management and
will travel lu the Hindoo style. This means
attention to tbe caste system, which is a
most potent factor in the national life, and
which imposes restrictions in respect to the
food which its members may eat as well as
to the water they may drink, which, may be
compared to those obserrcd by orthodox.
Hebrews.
The difficulties, therefore, whleh the dl.
rectors of tbe novel traveling party have to
overcome will be practically innumerable,
and may perhapsbe increased by thestrange
ness of the conditions they impose npfa
themselves.
PRIESTS WITH PABHBLL.
A Xarge Somber of Them, Deolare
AI-
leglanee to the Leader.
HIT DUVLAP'S CABLE OOKFAlrr.
Dublin, Mareh 11 The Ber. Christo
pher Mullen, parish priest of Moynalty, in
Bishop Nulty's diocese, who is sending con
tributions to the .JVeeman's Journal in aid
of the Parnell leadership fund, says : "1
will send a second subscription along with
what the people of Moyualty are preparing.
Almost every man in the parish, and in
eTery parish I know of. is on the same side.
I am glad to tell routhat about 40 priests in
our diocese side with the great tribune."
Another parisb priest writes: "In the
present crisis the clerical supporters of Mr.
Parnell, aHd they are counted by the hun
dreds, do not dare gire their names for pub
lication. To do so would be to expose
themselres to such a storm of enthusiastic
boycotting as few would care to face."
They Were Well Armed.
IBT DUHLAT'S CABLE COMPANY.
Qceen Stown, March 14. John Sharkey
and his wife, Jennie Sharkey, of Chicago,
passenger by the steamship TJmbria, were
arrested on landing for baring concealed a
revolver and a Quantity of ammunition.
They were taken before the magistrates and
remanded for trial.
ANTI-BETTING CRUSADE.
A CAMPAIGN AGAINST TOUKQ GA3IRS
OPENED Iff L0HD0IT.
The Christian Touth of the Metropolis As
sume a Heavy Contract Parliament
Takes Cognizance of the Gambling Bvll
and Will Move Against It.
fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, March 14. Several weeks ago
a number of very good young men, instigated
by some good elderly men better versed in
the ways of this wicked world, met at the
headquarters of the Young Men's Christian
Association in this metropolis and opened
tenders for a big contract, harlng for
its object the abolition of bet
ting and other forms of gambling.
They unanimously allotted the contract
to themselres and hare since been hard at
work upon the preliminary operations.
Some wild and rery youthful enthusiasts
thought of storming Windsor Castle, pros
trating themselres at the foot of the throne
and remaining there until the Queen
agreed to order the Prince of Wales
to stop playing baccarat, but their
enthusiasm was damped by the announce
ment that the Queen had written to Mrs.
Arthur Wilson, in whose house the Gordon.
Cumminc scandal had its origin, not repri
manding her for permiting and encouraging
gambling, but merely expressing sympathy
with her lor the worries resulting from the
public exposure of the scandal.
It was erident that the crusaders could ex
pect no sympathy in these exalted quarters.
therefore their attention was turned to hum
bler game. It seems young clerics, shopmen,
errand boys and such hare acquired the
baneful habit of "indulging in games of
chance during the dinner hour."
A rigorous campaign against these youthful
sinners was initiated at a meeting or the
Christian young men held last erening, when
a clerical Boanerges named Wakely inci
dentally remarked that it newspaper editors
understood their business as well as he did
they would knock out all the sporting in
telligence and fill the racant columns with
religious news.
Boanerges might hare giren a startling
illustration of tbe extent of the gambling
evil, by referring to the awful backsliding
of the Secretary of the Prayer Book Bo
rision Society, who confessed in the Bank
ruptcy Court only the previous day that for
years past he had secretly indulged in bet
ting and had systematically backed horses
with godly contributors' mouey. But that
would have brought the evil too near home,
and Boanerges and bis young followers re
solved to concentrate their efforts for the
present upon the dinner-hour sinners.
Other signs point to the contlnnauce of
this crusade for sereral months to come.
The first place on the order book of the
House of Commons next Tuesday is taken
by a resolution aimed against the "crowing
prevalence of betting and gambling." The
House of Lords will shortly send down to
tbe Commons a bin, making penal the send,
ing of money, lending and betting circulars
to lads under age, and great prominence
will be giren to the general subject of
gambling at the annual meetings and con
ferences of rarious religious bodies, which
commence in London theend of next month.
It is not imprabable that when the fana
tics hare become tired of it, the subject will
be taken up by practical men, whose first
effort will je to prohibit, under Heavy pen
alties, the publication in newspapers of all
intelligence relating to betting and to abol
ish pririledged bookmakers' stands at race
meetings.
JOSIE MAHBFIELD BUHKOED.
An American Crook Secures a Valuable Dia
mond Bins From Her.
CBT DDT,AT'S CABLE COHPAHT.
London, March 4. Tom Kennedy, the
accomplished American crook, who has just
completed a two-years' term in a German
prison, has bunkoed no less a person than
Josie Mansfield, the heroine or other
wise of the Stokes-Fiske controversy.
Miss Mansfield has been living for
the last ten years in Paris with her mother.
She was called upon a week or so ago by
Kennedy, who represented himself to be
John Hansom, a nephew of the late Charles
Hansom, who once carried on tbe gambling
business in New York and Saratoga. John
Ransom told Miss Mansfield that he was
in desperate circumstances and he desired
to borrow 100 francs or so, in order to
go to Monte Carlo and try his lnck. Miss
Mansfield lent him the inonev and in a few
days he returned with 100 or 200 franc notes,
wrapped around a larse roll of white paper,
and paid the debt He said he had won
several hundred thousand francs at the
wheel and he considered his lnck entirely
due to her kindness in lending him money
for his dead nncle's sake.
He took her into his confidence, and in
formed her that he was about to be married
to a wealthy American girl, and he admired
a diamond ring Miss Mansfield wore so
much that be determined to have one made
like it for his fiancee. Accordingly Mies
Mansfield lent him the ring, whioh was
valued at 5,000 francs, to take to the jewel
er's for a pattern, Kennedy has not got
back with it yet
BWELLED WITH PBLDB.
The Arbitration League Laying Claim to
Two Big Peace Victories.
BT CABLE TO THE SISFATCB.1
London, March i4. The International
Arbitration League, which held its twenti
eth annual meeting in London this week, is
suffering from a serere attack of swollen
head, caused by the success of its represen
tations to President Cleveland and Presi
dent Carnot in farnr o( referring the Bering
Sea aud Newfoundland questions, respect
irely, to arbitration. The League has not
the slightest doubt that most of the
credit lor both "peace rlctories"
is due to its efforts; hence its
present malady. It cannot be said that
arbitration upon the Bering dispute is re
ceived with nnirersal satisfaction here, an
nneasy, although undefined feeling' pre
vailing in some quarters that it may be in
proportion as disastrous for John Bull's
self-esteem as in the oase of the Alabama
claims. The point to be submitted to arbi
tration is not in tbe opinion of many com
petent judges tbe most important 'of the
many in 'dispute and France will keep tbe
Newfoundland question open so long as one
British soldier shall remain in Egypt
THE SUEVLVS CLOSB CALL.
The HamhurK-Amerlcan tlner Arrives
Safely In Port at Plymouth.
Plymouth, March 14. The Ham-burg-American
Line steamer Suevia,
arrired here safely at 7:40 o'clock
this morning. The Snevia left New York
February 26, for Hamburg, and when near
Star Point, Monday, her low pressure con
densing engine valve broke down and ever
since she has been drifting about the chan
nel until found by the search boats.
As soon as possible after the accident the
-Suevia was headed southward, with her
lower top-sail set She is brig-rigged, and
owing to the force of tbe gale she got good
steerage way upon her, everything con
sidered. Under this sail the Suevia drifted
westward and eventually got out of the
channel, at tbe height of the gale. Under
this sail and heading westward tbe Suevia
continued uutil yesterday afternoon, when
her engineers managed to disconnect the
smashed cylinder and arranged so as to be
able to place her under steam with one
cylinder. She finally reached Plymouth
without assistance.
PITTSBTJEG, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1891
ETENTS QFTHE DAL
A Handsome Monument to the Mem
ory of Davy Crockett Assured.
LATE GOSSIP ABOUT EOIALTT.
Photography of Colars Is Kot Heir, bat the
Holding ot Them Is.
A AEW BTILE IX FAHILT KAHBS
1WBITTEN FOB TUB EISrATCH.l
It is now stated that the monument to
Davy Crockett at Trenton, Tenn., is assured,
$23,000 baring
been raised for
the purpose.
The old boys as
well as the
young ones will
certainly be
pleased to learn
that one of their
LL. vP8rv fk w$ fireatest heroes
is about to re
ceive his due.
Crockett's ca
reer was not suoh
as usually leaves
Daw CroeketU , impr;Dt on
a country's history; in fact, it would be an
impossibility in any other, but, such as it
was, it will not do coming generations harm
to copy it Let this not he construed into
an intimation that our youth should befit
themselres for "grizzly b'ar and greaser
fightin'," but the example set by a back
woods boy whose early lite was as wild and
barbaric as that of the savages surrounding
his home, and who eventually reached the
halls of Congress is worthy of anyone's
emulation.
Who can forget the brare lad of 14 who
tramped from Baltimore to his father's home
in Tennessee with no companion bnt his
rifle? This was in the year 1800, and one
can imagine the character of the path he
trod by remembering that the spirit of the
border Indians was by no means broken at
that time; that they or the wildest of forest
animals might erect him at any turn. But
Dary laughed at danger aud made his way
as courageously as he afterward undertook
when a full-grown man to fit himself for the
Legislature by acquiring an education,
which he lacked entirely up to that time.
Poor Crockettl The manners learned in
early yonth and his utter ignorance of
social usages often brought the blush of
shame to his face in after life, but to us of
the present all these little shortcomings are
lost in the light of his great natural ability,
his manhood and the Independence of char
acter which he at all times displayed.
Borne Desirable Immigrants.
The cables tell us that the majority of the
Bussian reiugees on their way to this coun
try are from Volhynia and the district of
the Vistula. If this be true, Americans
need not fear eril consequences by this ad
dition to their number, even if the new ar
rivals do represent a rather varied assort
mentof Russians, Hebrews, Poles, Ger
mans, Lithians and Tartars, for these peo
ple are all fine agriculturists and manu
facturers, and, besides, having the reputa
tion of raising exceptionally fine breeds ol
sheep, hare developed tbe finest horses in
the Russian Empire. They hare been the"
owners of many sugar mills, eloth factories
and manufactories of rarious kinds and con
ducted a considerable trade in corn, cattle,
wool, cloth, linen, timber, honey, etc It is
for this reason the Bussian Government has
been rery anxious to stay their flight from
the country, but tbe migratory Impulse
which that Government itself instigated for
other purposes has become so strong that
the people of the districts named are stream--
ing over tbe borders in all directions, head
ing eventually to the United States and
Brazil.
Royalty's Matrimonial Relations.
The so-called royal families spare no pains
to keep up tbe strain so far as intermarrying
is concerned. Tbe next spectacle of this
kind will be the
marriage of the
Dnohess of Aosta,
daughter of the dy
ing Jerome Bona
parte, to Prinoe Rol
and Bonaparte. This
affair will unite the
families of the second
oldest brother of Na
poleon I. with that of;
the youngest; the re
lationship of the
present contracting
parties being that of
second cousins. The
Duchesi of Aosta.
Duchess of Aosta was formerly the Princess
Letitin, having married her mother's brother
Amsdens, who died last rear. Prince
Roland, her betrothed, has also been mar
ried before, having in 1SS0 espoused the
daughter of Blanc, the proprietor of tho
notorious gambling den at Monte Carlo. His
wife died in 1883 leaving him a daughter
and considerable money. Taking this odd
mixture into consideration, one is tempted
to believe tbe witty American writer who
.asserted that most of the insanity existing
in tne royal nouses ot Europe was caused
through figuring on each other's relation
ship. Gome Notions Afcont Cremation.
The assertion made by a number of writers
that the cremation of Ernest Sallinger, of
Cincinnati, was the first Hebrew inoinera
tion on record does not hold good. The
claims made were so broad and sweeping
that we are enabled to go all the way back
to antiquity for information on the subject
Thus we might assume that cremation was
in rogue as early as ihe time of Abraham,
for does not the proposed killing of Isaac
and subsequent burning of the body suggest
that cremation of the dead was known at the
time? Bnt it is not necessary to presume
the practice of cremation among the ancient
Hebrews, for it is known beyond doubt that
although the common custom was inter
ment, burning was also practiced, princi
pally as a punishment of offenders against
wedlock, and later as an honor conferred
upon deceased royalty; for instance, the in
cineration of the first king of Israel on
Mount uuboa, alter a battle with the Phil
istines. Speaking of cremation recalls an Interest
ing and amusing anecdote of the late Charles
aumner as related in an Americau maga
zine of about IS years since. In the English
burial service the words dust and ashes are
supposed to be synonymous, only serere
scholarship distinguishing them. Mr. Sum
ner was at breakfast with Walter Sarage
Landor at one time during his first risit to
England, when the host asked Sumner why
General Washington was not buried under
the Capitol in the city that bears his name.
Mr. Sumner answered him and ended by
saying: "And so his ashes rest at Mount
Vernon."
"Ashe6l ashesl" thundered Landor; "I
am surprised to hear a scholar use such a
word under the circumstances. Do you
mean to say, Mr. Sumner,, that General
Washington's body was bnrned?"
Mr. Sumner instantly and with eanal
Ijpirit relied; Mr? Laudoryrjieu I read in.
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fA
MM&mr S&WM
the famous versa of a great and soholarly
English poet:
E'en in our ashes llvo their wonted fires,
am I to understand that Gray refers to some
process of cremation among your English
toreiathers7"
It is hardlr necessary to sav here that
Landor had nothing more to say on the sub
ject
Ho Loves an Opera Singer.
There will be a row among the Orleanists
if the self-willed Duo d Orleans pursued
his bent and mar
ried a woman of
his own choice,
particularly if that
choice should be
the opera singer,
for whose company
he has shown a de
cided preference
recently. It would
not he the first
v IjJitime that royalty
4' has stooped to the
rank and file for a
Mile. Mean. consort, but it
would be rather out of the beaten track for
one of this family to do eo, as they have al
ways been extremely pretentious in their
alliances.
The woman in the present oase is the
famous rjrima donna of the Paris Opera
House, a trood looking brunette who up to
within a few years since was an utterly un
known quantity, one cans irom Australia
and is the first natire singer of prominence
that country has produced. Melba is an as
sumed name, being something of a contrac
tion of Melbourne her birthplace. Bhe was
originally named Nellie Mitchell, but gare
that up as a matter of course on her mar
riage, which took place early in life to a
man named Armstrong, who died when she
was but 21 years ot age, learing one child
en her hands. She then took up music as a
means of support, going to London and
afterward to Paris, where she studied two
years and then made a triumphant debut in
Brussels in "Rigoletta." Since that time
she has been a reigning farorlte at the
French capital. All of which is quite a
record for & woman who is yet under 26
years.
Inspector Byrnes and Bis Medal.
The refusal by Inspector Byrnes, of the
New York police force, of a medal of honor
conferred upon him by the monaroh of
Italy prorokes the inquiry as to Byrnes'
reasons for such an act It may gain for
hinra rather cheap sort of fame among a
certain class of Americans, but all sensible
people will agree that the acceptance of such
an honor from a foreign Government as an
expression of esteem, would not lower him a
hair's breadth in tbe estimation of his
countrymen, in tact it would hare a ten
dency to derate him in their opinion.
Howerer, if he chooses to refuse a gift,
kindly offered from one who cannot hope to
be in tbe least benefited by it, it is his own
affair, as there is nothing in the statute! to
prerent a man from being ridiculously
patriotic if he pleases.
While on the subject, it would not be
amiss to call attention to our country's utter
lack of some sort of recognition for those
who hare distinguished themselres. In
erery country of Europe there is a reward
of some kind, be it a decoration or a medal,
but here there is nothing but the little
emblems representing certain societies, and
as these are bestowed as a distinguishing
mark on erery member of such organization
they go for nothing.
The Attacks on Dllke,
Many persons are ot the opinion that
there is much method in the "hue and cry"
that is being raised
against Sir Charles
W. Dilke in Eng
land at the present
time. An English
man, well versed
in the politics of
his country, said
the other day that
there was no ques
tion but that the,
perpetual hound
ing of this
brilliant man was
done for a pnrpose. Sir Charles W. Dllke.
He would not say that Editor Stead, of tbe
Review of Review was merely a mouth,
piece of others high in authority, but ad
mitted that it seemed queer that so intelli
gent a man should be swayed by such un.
governable prejudices as be has exhibited in
his persecution of both Parnell and Dilke.
Can it be possible that members of the En
glish Government are instigating these at
tacks? It cannot be denied that it is much
to their interest to antagonize Parnell,
whose growing strength some months since
was indeed cause for alarm, and it is almost
certain that the same body has not forgotten
the memorable scene in the House ot Com.
mons in 1872, wheu Dllke offered the famous
resolution of inquiry into the expenses of
tbe crown. Led by the Tories, the erstwhile
dignified Chamber resolved itself into a
riot of colossal dimensions concerning
which the London Spectator said that the
Speaker failed of his duty in not arresting
all the members.
Facta About Color Photography.
It will be well- for those interested in
color photography, tho alleged discorery of
which Is making so much noise in the pub
lic prints of the day, not to place too much
confidence in the assertions of Lippman and
his associates until it is satisfactorily dem
onstrated that the discorery Is a practical
one. By this is meant one that can be put
into actual and permanent use. The repro
duction of colors on pbotographia plates is
by no means new, but, the "fixing" of the
same would bo. As long ago as 1848, tha
French soientist Berquerel, succeeded In
prodncing on a silrer plate, the Image of
the seven colors of the solar spectrum; but
they ranished on exposure to daylight
Niepee, also produced,photographIo pictures
in bine, green and red through the medium
of salts of uranium, but they soon dissolved.
There is hardly a doubt but color photo
graphy will ba j-erfected some day, but,
there is no necessity for enthusiasm until the
fact is proven beyond question.
Carrying a Tad to the Extreme.
It is presumed that our Ward McAllister
and his set, read the English newspapers,
for if they did not, how would they keep
themselves abreast of all the latest fads of
anglomania. Therefore if the above pre
sumption be not incorrect, we may look for
some orthographical freaks in the near
future. On the other side of the Atlantic, a
family by the name of Farlnjrton, moving in
high society, but, having neither crest nor
title, looked about them for some other dis
tinguishing mark wmch they found by
adopting the following method of spelling
their namel ffarington. The one proper
"capital" was discarded in favor of the two
improper "lower case" letters. The best
authorities demand that capital letters
should markv tbe beginnings of sentences
andproper names. But, what are pro
prieties to people who want fads? Besides
the family, whose name is given above,
would claim, if hard pressed, that they tooK
the ancient style, which recognized no dis
tinction SB to capitals' or small letters.
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MRS. GRINDER'S BODY
The Poisoner's Eemains Were Suc
cessfully Embalmed.
AS PERFECT T0-DAT AS IN LIFE.
Tte Burial Place Ii Unknown at Present
Except to Tiro Persons.
A CASE OP EMOTIONAL IJfSAlUTI
Notwithstanding the solicitude that many
people entertain in respect to tha disposition
of their remains after mortality has put on
immortality, it would astonish many people
to know that a considerable number of the
bodies of their acquaintances of lormer days
are preserved in the city in a state that
makes them appear almost as inviting as
when in the liring flesh.
Among them was the body of Martha
Grinder, the notorious poisoner who horri
fied Pittsburg by her criminal mania in the
time ot the CiTil War. For many years
after she was hanged ber body was
in the possession of W. H. Devore,
the undertaker, who at that time did un
dertaking for the county. After keeping
the'body in such perfect state that any ac
quaintance would recognize it at sight until
some time in the '70s, Mr, Devore became
so exasperated that he determined to get rid
of the remainder of Martha. She had made
him promise when lie was her eostumer that
her body should not be buried as that of a
panper, nor at night, and also that the
doctors should not hare it Bo one day he
and Frank Calhoun put it into a coffin and
sent It to some cemetery, and even tbe man
who dug the crave and put tbe body into the
ground knows nothing of the matter.
The funeral was almost as ex
clusive as that of Moses,. as
but two people kuow where the remains of
the modern Borgia lie. Mr. Devore was
provoked to tbns get rid of the body on ac
count of the pestering of some people who
did not like him and who annoved him al
most incessantly by sending the morbidly
curious to bis establishment to ask for a
sight of tbe body.
The Spiteful and Morbidly Cartons.
Some of the old-time reporters "had it in
for him" also because they could not learn
of the disposition, aud there were some
doctors who badgered him. Among the
importunate was a minister of the gospel,
and one day Mr. Devore gratified
the preacher's curiosity, after making
him swear on the Bible not to divulge.
Mr. Devore's experience proved that it is
not the ignorant alone who are morbidly
curious, but persons of all grades of in
tellect, for beyond a testimonial to the effi
ciency of the modern embalming art, there
was nothing more remarkable about the
body.than there would bare been in a
plaster cast well executed.
The features, save that they were not
lighted by tbe gleam of intelligence given
by tbe eyes, wore as perfect ten years after
the hanging as tbey were the day previous,
A finger or toe might be broken off, but
it could not be hurt, and the sharpest
knife would scarce make a scratch on the
body. There is nono of the repnlsireness
about a properly embalmed body of to-day
that accompanies the Egyptian mummy,
and were the embalmed body of the present
placed in a tomb in the dry climate of
Egypt, there is no reason to doubt that tbe
features could be preserved intact until
Gabriel's horn blows. Such bodies are
worthless to body snatohers, except to those
who work for ransom, as the dissecting
knife would hare no impression on them.
A Case of Emotional Insanity.
Mrs. Grinder was hanged before the day
that the lawyers had perfected their theory
of emotional insanity, for she was emotion
ally insane if erer anyone was, as she
poisoned without any discoverable motive.
The late John Stewart was Sheriff at the
time, and he deputed Mr. Devore to make
"pleasant" funeral arrangements with Mrs.
Grinder, as she was somewhat cranky on the
subject, but always showed a willingness to
yield to Mr. Derore'e suggestions when tho
same coming from others were spurned, and
yet Mr. Devore was probably the uncon
scious cause of her being hanged.
When Miss Buchanan, tbe first known of
Mrs. Grinder's victims, was being laid out
for burial in an outfit she has purchased
for her wedding the ladies bad trouble in
fitting a silk dress on the body and tbey
asked Mr. Devore to assist It seems that
one of them was suspicious and asked Mr.
Devore what he thought was the cause of
Miss Buchanan's death. He replied that
tbe body looked to him as though it indi
cated arsenical poisoning. Afterward,
when Mrs! Grinder was arrested, he remem
bered that the women looked suggestively at
each other and one made a remark that indi
cated that she thought there had been a
crime committed, but he had paid no atten
tion to it at the time. Mri Grinder then
lived in a court off Hand, now Ninth street
Some time later Mrs. Grinder sheltered a
sick woman and her baby for some months.
The woman boarded with Mrs. Grinder and
the latter seemed to be very fond of her
guest One day the baby died suddenly
and was buried by Mr. Devore, The
mother requested him to bring a buggy and
take her to the cemetery to that she could
mark the place of the child's grave. They
got into the buggy and took the little coffin
in with them. Just as they started Mrs.
Grinder
Offered Them a Drink of Water.
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fused. On the way to the cemetery the
woman became violently ill and Mr. De
vore stopped at a doctor's office with ber.
The doctor gave her an emetic and she vom
ited violently and soon grew better, but
later Mr. Devore remembered tbe circum
stance. Mrs. Grinder finally came to grief by
forcing her supposed kindly services on a
lady named Carothers. The former had
then moved to Allegheny, and took upon
herself tbe task of nurse without compensa
tion. After tha tragedy people remembered
that when Mrs. Grinder gave Mrs. Carothers
her medicine she seemed to grow worse.
Finally the doctor prescribed milk, and
Mrs. Carothers rapidly grew better under
other care. Again Mrs. Grinder ingratiated
herself, and the patient again grew worse
and finally died, and not until after her
death did suspicion take the shape that sent
Martha to the scaffold.
Had cremation been in vogue at the time
and Mrs. Grinder had more method in her
madness, she might hare carried on her
pastime with "ghoulish glee" for a long
time without any fear of detection from the
Bkiil of th'e chemist. She was particular in
some matters, and refused to bo hanged in a
pair of stockings that she had accidentally
soiled herself while putting them on.
COMING HOME TO ROOST.
PITTSBTOG'S 3-CEHT STHEKT CAB FAEB
THREAT USED ELSEWHERE.
Chicago Councils Threaten to Enforce the
Bate There Blue Outlook for Stock
holders TJvely Work Cut Out for the
EJklns-Wldener Syndicate.
rSTECUt TBLEOBAU TO TIDE SISrATCX.1
Chicago, Mareh 14. The street ear man
sgers of Chicago are beginning to feel
alarmed orer the increasing tendency of the
municipal legislature to impose taxes and
other restrictionsnpon them.TiiE Dispatch
has already referred to the present admin,
istration's determined fight to enforce a con
dition in all new ordinances for street rail
way extensions, requiring the roads to make
a cash return of from $1,000 to 51, COO per
mile for tbe franchises.
To cap the climax a Council committee
has decided to report favorablv an ordinance
fixing the maximum rate of fare at 3 cents.
Tbe present Mayor has come boldly out in
faror of any legislation 6f this class, and,
if be should again be elected, the outlook
for street railway stockholders will be just
a little blue.
One Councilman, after the meeting,
summed up the ease in a word. Said he:
"If Widener and Elkins ean afford a 3-cent
fare in Pittsburg, as we hear they can, where
the population is only one-third that of
Chicago, surely they can afford it here
where the number of passengers is limited
only by the capacity of the trains and the
willingness of the company to carry them."
It is qnite within the range of probabili
ties that the City Council will yet interfere
to cnt down street car fares to approximately
near tbe rates at which the great London
companies do business and pay large divi
dends. M.G.Cohkk, diamond expert and jeweler,
takes pleasure in notifying bis numerous
patrons and the publio that he is now located
at SG Fifth avenue witn tbe largest and best
selected stook of diamonds, watches, etc., in
Pittsburg. My long experience enables me
to purchase in quantities and below regnlar
market prices, thus enabling me to sell
goods at prices to defy competition. Don't
forget the. address, 86 Fifth avenue.
iNOKAJNcarnet, worth 25c, at 18fc; heavy
two-ply carpet, worth 46e, at 29c; the COo
grade at 39c; tbe 65c qualltyat4Sc; tome all
wool 700 ctrpet at 68c; 25c floor oilcloth at
lfio; 3 Smyrna rugs at $1 87; complete
brass-monnted curtain poles, worth 80e, at
130 : 75c lace onrtalns at 48c a pair; $1 BO
enrtains, 93c; $2 50 lace curtains at 1 BO.
The hicher grades up to 10 reduced propor
tionately. These few prices tell the storv.
There will be thousands of dollars of
carpets and curtains sold this week in Pltts
burz, and we want to be "in it" We have
made tbe prices accordingly. Read the
special pness for certain lines of drygoods
during this sale in another colnmn.
J. H. Kvvmzii & Bko.,
1347-1819 Penn avenue, two squares east of
Union depot.
IS children's" wraps redustd to 13. all
grades. Must be sold.
John P. Ejtablz Co., 33 Pifth ar.
Ingrain Carpets at Oe
8,000 yards, that hare been selling at 80a
all winter, reduced to 40c per yard for 10
days only, beginning March 10. Ko rem
nants among them full rolls of fall styles
which were not duplicated for spring trade.
Edwaed Groetslnoeb,
rrrsa 627 and 629 Penn avenue,
Dom't strain your eyes trying to see, bnt
get yonr sight tested and your eyes fitted
with spectacles and see easy, at August
Leeh's, 145 Federal street. Fitting done by
Prof. Dodge. tufsu
650 CHILDBEs'a hose reduced to 25e.
John P Kjtable Co., 35 Fifth ar.
Read Edward Groetzinger's advertise
ment on second page.
Free To-JIorrow.
A handsome satin shamrock to erery ris
itor to our store. Guskt's.
Steoiai. ingrain carpet and laee eurtsln
sale continued this week. Read "local"
,elsewh,eie Tj H, KvHKSb & Bso,
ATTHESEffOFWJlR
Letter on the Chilean Rebellion,
From the Dispatch's Special
Correspondent.
PRESIDENTAL SUCCESSION
Is the Question Which Precipitated
the PresntSituatioDi
THE C0HGRESS IS KESPOHSIBLE.
Bad
Ealmaeeda Seen Firmer Bloodshed
Would Sara Been Averttd.
HOW BUSINESS HAS BE EX P1EALIZED
icOBBZSFOimzncz or tob dispatoki
BAJtiiAao de Chile, Feb. 12. In view
of the present serious disturbances, this ob
streperous little Republic, which considers
herself fall v capable of whipping the whole
world, is neither a safe nor pleasant place
for foreigners to risit just now, but, journal
istically speaking, is "a seat of war" by no
means to be ignored. Howerer, it mates
little difference in what part of South Amer
ica the scribe may pitch his moving tent,
for in everyone of these miscalled repub
lics, political troubles are brewing always
and liable at any time to bubble up in
armed rebellion. Chile has boasted much
of being the most peaceable of them all, as
well as the most prosperous and law abid
ing. We made a hasty trip down here from
Peru during last July (the midwinter sea
son on this side of the equator), in the midst
of the excitement, then at fever heat, which'
was really the beginning of present compli
cations on purpose to tudy both sides of
the question at issue.
Very Hard to Get News.
It is impossible to arrive at a fair under
standing of them at a distance, because
J'rerCdent Jote Balmaeeda.
South American newspapers, mostly printed
in the Spanish language, are few, inefficient
and universally- 'bought up" by one faction
or tha other; while the telegraph wires,
when not seised or torn down by insurgents,
are owned and controlled by the Govern
ment. Indeed, it is easier for you at the
distant North to receive reliable, though
tardy, information concerning events oc
curring on the Southern continent through
private messages sent by foreigners engaged
in business here, to their houses in London,
France or New York, via Buenos Ayres
than for people liring in different divisions
of the same country, who must depend en
tirely upon local facilities.
On that first risit to Chile, we came orer
to the capital to hare an interview with tha
President (which was easily accomplished),
and to attend some of the exciting sessions of
Congress; and it chanced, by rare good for
tune, that wo left Valparaiso the rery day
before that dreadful 21st of July, when for
some hours tbe old seaport was in the hands
of a howling mob and its streets were bathed
in blood.
Didn't Realize the Danger.
Rvsn then prominent Chileans assured
me that the trouble was only a temporary
strike, which might occur anywhere, and
that there was not the remotest dan
ger of revolution, because the peo
ple were altogether too patriotia to
bring discredit on their beloved ' country.
It seems to be the fashion, especially abroad
among those whose knowledge of Chile's
anairs must be, to say the least, somewhat
superficial to attribute all tbe blame of the
muddle to President Balmaeeda, and to
characterize him as a tyrant and would-be
dictator. The truth is that if the executive
had not been too pliant and anxious to
please in the first place he would have
crushed the rebellion in its infancy, before
its ngly hydra-heads had grown too strong
for him.
The fault is principally with a deter
mined and unscrupulous political faction
which unfortunately happens to have a ma
jority in the legislative chamber, and whose
primary ooject is to control tne approach
ing Presidental election, which can only be
done by breaking the power ot the present
incumbent.
The1 trouble began in this way:
The Bottom of the Trouble.
Ever since Chile has claimed to.be a Re
public, her Constitution has permitted ever
President to nominate his own successor
and to practically elect him, with the co
operation of his Ministers; an unwise and
foolish custom, we of the North may think,
but, having been firmly established by law
and precedent, there is no reason why Don
Balmaeeda should not exercise his constitu
tional prerogative in the matter, the same
as his predecessors have done. If tha system
Is now at variance with popnlar feeling, a
fieaceable change might have been effected
n the Constitution, withont-all this loss of
life and property. The disaffected Congress
men, having eausa to fear that the President
would name as his successor a certain Cabi
net officer who is obnoxious to them, delib
erately instigated revolts by obstinately re
fusing topassanypresupuestas,as the appro
priations are called, until Balmaeeda shqpld
come to their terms; the first demand being
that he dismiss his ministers, one and all
(in order to get rid of the obnoxious one),
and then appoint others more to their
liking. .
This the.President declined to do, on tha
ground that the Chilean Government, like
that of every other republic, gives the execu
tive the right to select his own immediate
officers and to Tetain them unless they be
come guilty of grave offense; that be bad al
ready changed his cabinet twice within lit
tle more than two years in the vain effort to
satisfy them and to do so a third time, for no
fault of the ministers, would not only be ex
tremely unjust to those gentlemen and ren
der himself ridicnlous in the eyes of tbe
world as a party puppet 'with no "back,
bone," bnt would establish a dangerous
precedent for his succcessors in all time to
come.
Balmaeeda Wasn't Tina Enough,
The revolts of seven months ago wire th
jdixect result cf this refusal, or ratherjof tha
si