HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-1-24, Page 27.R maw TRH- EXMO(ITIOlen,* lord of the Peeper of %lull°Id. ' oeattiriee agoe In proof ref thle a peseage 18
felon.," Waste told, "were taken within the ated feoMBewleyte "Noble Soldier," len,
Dank he Mearlettn the most annearee -0 liberty of the horotteh with eleth or other in which wemeade "The King I seem I me
ernmelity of the value a *oxen Pelle° trieter *abet the Meg f I shall leave lOnTyy
MauY enrIOVE 1,ATeratX0,44 lf-peeny he was ;liter three Market days aria madet of Me, Bung to the hanging
The employment' of the eleetrio eurreet front hie apprehension aid oendemeetiee to Mem"' j&aotber from "The Penitent
for inflicting the derteh permit, haen On- 1)04,444 to the gibbet nun theme havereffie Teantoeh\he humble petitton of a. Devon-
dthene4 mettlerere maxim: Another atop of head met off from bie borky,', shire geretlemen, who was contiertmed for
regress, he the mlictemeut of the methods of In. April„ 1050, Abreheto megnbeson and eremite, awe executed me me eatreh =so
P4pita1, pnaishatente Awl nem if twenty Anthony Mitchelt were found aunty of leil," the lent verse but WO runs: "How
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G,Lvrs:4-i.Yerfordil!tkolevinii tl'the.t kd i iwois1 dc libwet. scio f't; :Ili, c ''' r::: ecif
pogemsee e mind 44 her own. By way ef
vi.lPloe37-rleggelto jaefrtst"ehee441xerol*PelletQltyProLvern4* thileir
mremier of the colony her expense book,
whiglerevealea a deficiency ef M3Q00 between
coademned crinnealswereaskedtodey whet steeheg ntue yard e of cloth mei ewe eelts cornet I Mem thee, emildet thee tithe away the officen Embrey of the Governer (e200(1)
mode of death they woeici prefer, lt ie. not awl. on the neitlx of the month received ray life an *fanny both ha one dem • Bet and the cost el emintaiaing the Gem:mu:gent
too unecla to arty than tell weeld vote le fever aenteece "to suffer (kWh by having their tido le I:04e arte eurvive, 1 leaow, smog to Hoeme Indy hiresereve lurther told the
a the paat eystere of !winging, becalne the beede severed aud otet ea Irene their hedies thet preachieg tea; 'Fortune 111.5- FOP," Qtmenelancl Preniler that if she bed. not bad
dreed of dehi
eth by edeettleitY, 'wch le meat Halifax gtebet," and they RufrO1 zed AO" Truly a despeeete world was ours at otos a alma prtvate ineome settled upon her by
waterlow in it week, it terrible te antich leordingly. 'Deese were the len pereens time in the echsgab fo' cruelties to be meted her tether, her late hualmed ited herself
pet-am—wed le la in the anteripation of deetlejemeeuted under Helifex gthbet leer. The mit to melefectoritore aad eineers in would not have Iowa able to keep np even a
that the panther at ef erteentele le reneten "original of the Ohba, and the guillotine le kgeeerel. hiodeme ertmluala may perbenee moderate etele of living et Government
imisly emphwieede thought to he Behan, for A meet,. print hylehanM thole Mara, thet they are spared un- gone.
Imeth by eleetaleity will probahly prove Aldegrever, 940 cf, the little Germeaineeessary hedily tortrue, an4 that the MajonGeneral Sir Fraeas Wallaoe Oren-
natintlypatelean Teee the eoadeMned felon mestere, in 1523, repreeenta the ever tree et evident bope el jeelice to -day le to get them fele K. O. Be who is in eotemend at Sure
at to.dey enes a fee lese terrible revenge Manlius. the Boman, by rhe ammo leetett- cat a the world wlth, as little noise an4 hire, hap an experience a ,AMIcan wenfare
awatting bare at the hande of the law thee mew. The French •executioeer is etyled preliminary anfldring as poseible. *particular which has been very large anti
did the erimEnal of pest generetioee. Thel" Maetaieur de Paris," who, when his et- •. dielingeished. He xerved in. tne Griqueland
:nary
of the tozteree auclergoer3 by co:whited fondets faetee the wretch to the fatal expedite= of 130, eon aeametthe Kraut
teen m olden Menai is almost revolting to , hard af the guielotiee, aliment in the . Rare Geld.. irred Gelekem en knowing years. Be was
egetemplate. elect
yet the tubule itt Ithaverst rammer, " Courage, my friend; it • How inaen A MA% by ti win bhnlielf to elm Present at the battle of Vittadt,. AO
entity elletneyed by the ofAciel termeat. 'veill not here yen meth." the ground tre despelr, crashes and neetroye was very faverehly nienteeeml An despatch
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OM la mat4rWAL,g zn ri-Ow of the ree'"3 Tbe fete of afNaa eeeteiden is not igte” forever a thousand flowers of hepe, that es. More receetle General Greefell served
eltamee fat !MVO 1).14= in r.te teethed of in at to contemplate. Reepeeting the 'teeth weemeady to eptenn up an madee all hte on mom magemeyre emote tee mei denote
ftletiog the death: mettaling. of Outten% who attempted the life et Lends peteways cempagn, and again in the h'file expeditiee.
Per the rueSt Letoomen wed ertml 4extlesi.X.V., ef France, sue ned chew*: kr meye wo eau wily teenage it we one, enty HO ie forty-eoeu nears old, 4 Man Of heod-
we. hoop to gin eredayttc Ceetral Ante where 'I can scarce guide my pen to kelt yea what
the victim le torten An the emeli rep te his three Ineure end. wretehed mortal endeared teet4l'ett.,freeti"3ere'nethbeebtuoordbenea"VemPF;o5Artne: for
al.% 7:413:IllerPrInglg4tie,neitivttlenYt Stt;iteil4enind Gytealty^
theeldere emd, there left ealseratily to dle. befere oe well aa cm Om day ef hie exemn
Seel mare herberioia meeetty were the ex- 'Mon. 1 will peas over the trinean tortares °4114 i'a wei'gb° tb° burden et t'°'"gr°w feeeiriellerwrth YhisfroiletdeSorpsia the 6�h hitin1,1
esemiens of the. past, doae la the torterelbe was pun to in private 444 Come 're the befera we an eillea to be" it"
remats ef the pmeornt where jedgeir soirglan,day el bie puhlie aeneringe, era 4eririegr There itt no eleativeco like the elomernee
to neem
avows by tete Inqst. inhuman means. ', the reeeler to lay down. tl le pie' if. he Me - -eltenle, Andhll dgeti well. whelt hti tate
One Cf the ben ;.;4ZWil ef the reettimvequert well 'reopened to bean reimied hWerde; Int Ise hie irreeletibly cenVineing
ragtheola of ex:emetic:a, perbeee li the emit THE neaeleme Moen Oa TUTlit he Mike with the dee& at an belleet
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called lam Vamele, a nirelel of*whieh nem a. ma pea or vress vrthohethh, ic et_
Life iii met% np, not of gteret Merldee ar
"It Ire eee.1° the gee''' tetteeth'e° 47',F1..!u, agieeil thee the henore were eenlet•ne; miss, but at little thinge, of whielt :mike
C.174"11Vg. "“er° wer° '7t44/417 '4147" °' """'"' erlhenl, .rthert tt 14 said ehet eve i.' 1914.1 ansi kintinegi Sea smell altligettene, gleme
Vit-nnl whiehelteFed tl Vii'l,.11' *4 4;4" did no free the vietim from hie gammen eneet nini, ncznre the cement
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tIte541141. thvah'i."h Dt"'we,s4a64413 01 the wild horten 4rtene to four cc:Ate-dry emigre hemttmAny, are what win awl preserVe ,the
funneled with PQ/Z11"'43 °ht.' t'teu '‘Pee'e41 Tee old. dam:icier amm of tine exemitiou I
thrn, "It was olmerved thet during that net If we work epee marble, It well` pereele ;
, ' awl terrifying operatieu ail the inerea heede liZrwes°r,rkteeroPoe°0107ttlattytbumiVelleleetteirel,44ellteUte5,
DUOI'MU, TUE, Laps: pews
a trap on a erne of eraile, aNVOzdes 2"433ge4 WM turned away trona the horrid eight; tint
nn to t4' eat i'-': t4 liene3r a ra5:4UICa areas'. all the womenn inunevably Axed oe the des" bet* irway(""4141"wArt4 411413t
below Memieg an traees ie awey. 1 criminet. Louie XV. wee a mete ot fd we Imbue them with principlea, with the
The menet 41,A7 pmeerved ter NtIrQnat:',fig fcgt go a temper, 11=4703 1 Imre ceet be fear et Gati end love of our felloweeem
tee:retie= a nthretehtet; 1:14,,e12 tt Zbe 83X- neve the euffermem of the ememia &rem trete e engrave Ma then tablet* oereething thee
tomer. eater to the eover, meameareeterally the love of ble eebjeme, otherwiee 1 weeln etil keep bright teat eternity.
War;,`, .9',49 trout of the ileare ie presided, prefer Wine tee deperted Inmate et De -miens ' In nemeetie life there are faidefal end le,
Ittfies here.
-no 9cmgeee Mieteter at Weshiegton 14
named Mete% lie le a aeholarly Man:, Well
infentleAl Mattere nenerallY.Ite
talka Regliall but little. hat in linprovieg
rapidly by eeperieece. Hie wlfe le A bright
and refitted VirtIMAP• 1,n0 a little tired beeauee
ehe dece no epealt Eogliah. They home
three ehildree, two rerne And 4 AlaUghter
fourteen yeere old, who le now et mimed le
thie otty, and lem (Or a cayman:nil, ellati
Kukit the daughter of the former Mirth:ten
It le a eeetore in Japan for eich mere whe
have no children of their owe, to adopt
them, met Ur. Fura Keen, a gentlemen of
enormone wealth, him xdopted Mr. Muteati
• eldeet Roe, a yomeg man eighteen yews old,
• who hes taken nannt elf hie adopten
father, although he la living at preeernt With
his ;laurel father, the Mien:ten, eta study-
' time of Kin of Femme,' telltemet weirtee Wise dtserireMate between Ing law at Coltiothia College, -
eo ieente ef the lefereel thine is previntes mild the story el Irerrere ie not yet telly the bet preeptem et the home and ite
the Eagle* aether an
With aham? ten epthere, vivlun, wheel tee: enememe ; emea or it Rv,z40,(1 tw imre and who devote their iivea bteAtith
PI4C1r1,VIV.:111,4 Peg,", even nee " itereifyishe for neretal errriernaem e the termer, and wily their ed minetee to 1.4vw ifiltekelelY. hes breftenr (Iowa
tenter ther gt.r411% of QUM; Ain Dlettaziery of
; ' atm hetreermettee ;Nem ameeme hentmme elentee ern, mem the letten ; there are ethere ee WeePPed lay Nsuoutt mows 11,1 Libor t ehhh
e3L..1ta here hem ferment; me ramie mareeeterere slave the eameme ee tee ;mete eetehete etew inatietthige, luxuriant therettne.
ime. proven to be ter .e.eveer thee he eutienpet
to leen emed Li believe I im here ertelnettel le tome taller Mrinteen r three by. Lamm 'lea; t gee
a1 thet tite7 — —a route etbich la a neetter memo wh
-`ime1.7. Mel to have beee traeteiesemn cf =47,616-pilgta bonvatidrjacialev3hz of the Muth tbee the hettle OXMAN for alt works yawn ;b3 talk ,1.5 exeutitura
ern ilneire tire etien cf lehetiL.5 . 0,plr1tea etc-A$*1,40 pligingief a.-er;zgr,p 'n ite Welfare Ora happittesa Of the inMatel.
met teneMeeth Of C,Z=1,40. Vilnines bele end tien /Menem cr, Lim Traere gen he no reltemete coureariaou '°11-z.leuc° "4 t'54r-' 111.' 4"'lan b"
me. to retire to Ma canary Lento in C4rLIA741
%c..,:.^,A4 engem the Ineenea atte, elibee three nt4r.e feell upea tbem. A favenite method, hneweem eceirem• and oolitude. Thotigli will 14ioreee. teem eugee use, me
ethrerate' f Lteree f5I-4';!C4; oUl tee tern pramiteen feline up te remee cleto u;',0 urilt hereees wilt pret-r the termer, 41,314 i iv= with aeogani eyeli mei
eamertnie er enceenteem 'teem ran the ebeet i tee emplemaimat ef eleptmetente eimeate ems, „tam imrlione the leerier, DO W146 penee will ;,tentei ewe. realm team about eme tbi
Man, 4,
leg et Mallet= le lenee he. tie, British treinheither try teamenfirm the teem= re thenia or, etre me either ars a permatmet steam I Isf wattle 14ngddge nf bulacse 14me eteego.
the =mete et emetee, tee tette-me et Nam bynikVing El -4,11140, ereetete do le wee etle; tegother,er rather tri eltereete ectionhe that red beard aud tepering tea. He Wears the
14Reath amt centithema ereetter the ;at ra,,,lblf.) rroilwa. t47.'S troetterere peeM tetth eielel their richtitt terteatt eamety etiemeth tam wales with a deemed creep,
deem, in reemen. te the LI.VVro may be 'epee the Imed. letieledetne the ith(jughtuP ieviZeretee the f, Vieir' lite emerved in eanvereetion. But white
mitten Meat tee ere:teat erenee te Crept I melt Seim of nemener has rereetly Lehi perm, gladdene the tient, !ma brIgh,,utattens.. Wt. ibe leeks la warmth. and demenstrativenese
.%74,e nt0 Of tee nemeler :melee f pettier; %I Went ememeo of etreta
emeneeLIA343%-rvta^eteio
l,tlteede etrengthens, COnurins, max urce ueeetee ue ree. be au eneneeuteee geuenee
death 1y the iltreatme. TtWrQ %QM qraix. et:vital by lopeieg eff the larettai of hie emedt hal these results, Or meter this la what Ito arm emedeueeeret eentemnon which are
Lgr.E te all no -nettle imeeteinge, la eeme ev,;;;.5 by %vheirsale, until OtclileA by the in; rem earl mem do for him who use them Aright. teetut ;boa" rem moue° thoy are lemma
tee vienteiEMer'5.?%54(' herrn doter:ward, ticeef Zeronean nevem, Ip. depae they (1OJ rauit muting le an* et the waya la winch bough the outface,
aen Gthera tho mate wae rude La thee:leo'the bUaine55 In tins way: lin off:Sala:no thetreett mea to appear mule thee they arm It
et the letter X, awl ea Melt the wrotehee celprie if 14 13 ready. ceble deopatch from Perie t� Now
fn their ogorty.
were rtmtettme, out till eleeth relemed there srlite. the drew et the heek of tho emelt
tome it beet over the eitealnere, keying the Et
th'e ct the a'zie'r'elt5l, SCUM tO *yea them with a degree of author. '
in the eyes of others, who ele not maim York paper receutly trate— Perla has
bared durine the past week the Comtelle 40
-The lr:04131r1310p1.1.ycl, hicga, a eurerla nfek nntl qu of the btek hart, go gat it 1001 nothe eaeleet of ell thing, to find
Pierrefonds, who ie no other then the Em -
leg 'leerier of lemma:ten genera In their then pour: a late mace on the neck, ewe rafe3ts°:"ro el.roirceitK-Pee retheteb'eeterilletoomieereer oitt4oelintteeuue.L.
reaelaieee ter the irentetion et torture, though then for the extly time e et -Rudder rams over gereeissunEerCnretee'd la3ItTichFar7leltkerTth401°rttiltiellra.
tee repo, tleo lever, the eretalt man the pulley the pear wrote': a ante The execetlener ; all be done volubly by per:ions who
ice, %%Mtn formerly a re reigued sunreme,
were the greet =Mee le ell C.1,3M thee of then takes the dipper and peure water elong have nopowertb° teatiegblachbl:Ittotrbwora "tn
qteza f!.11d quietly attended mato la the Cateedrel
tit tr mememerte ot fagots Waz to foriten erne Pattie CF SAS M , overcome ea* a CH
ecforth, nd
ure
the victim firmly by his irtude to the groxinti, alto wattiog the li114':n wrapped. e awho ate in overy way inferior to *et Netts) 1/41140 WbarOx 11.1110> de Montito,
was married to the Emperor of the
urraerelerieit: ituhteearerowgtot4n.i. they erltieleo or et:etre:110e or tee
awe them, by me,tyl of mineloes were:Int the leinele an aa to eFrench. tied, with aunken cheeks, lustre.
het lone arms met etroeg men, pun the Then he quietly mores to the left of lets eyes and vacillating atep, anch are the
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wretch e limber out ofjener by ett.aciaing e. the prisoner, who le motionieres as changes which have come ever the once
rope to hie feet and leugthenleg him atone; two attletants stand in front ati ew Year aesolutions. handful woman who, at the hurt Court bell,
ont gradually till soracthing gave way. tivo behind the kneeling form. There lethe nnheppy" manila to Berlin" wag
Among the _good resolutions appropriete balore
Another metlaerl, for politica/ crimizene, was eine:ice of death on tee crowd. thahgnrated, oned in exultant tonea to the
to hurl them fronetheTatmeican Reek. But tither meeauree hie vietim, lifts the mord
Til° "tem for the New Year tlao following are recom.
rrincoas de Metter:4th : "Remember tine
rtite
even in their methods the oh/ Sexoes with both bands oheuIder hi h—e lightning ahelea'a "betreetrimautttulYaalapetre et4vorintd4.kareoutnbde
hen 1app1er2—
Vox the teem: twelve months 1, —, sol-
emnly prombse that.1 will—
Nat talk polities.
Carefully refrain from speaking of Christ-
mas as Xtries.
Not keep my soot in a crowded oar while • When Barns Bight.
ladies aro ea:ening U. 1 It may porhapa throw some light on the
When telling a story mot to repeat the obscure 09111108 of the stupidity of sheep to
point of iteeveral times in order to impeeas see them fi ht. To wetoh two rents engage
it more deeply on the nitride of the suffering in a duel, which they do in a moat gentle.
listeners. manly manner, as if ib were as much a mat -
Always shut the door. ter of eticinette as an engagement with
Never wear squeaky boots when Igo to swords la the environs of Pens, is better
church, than most farces nowadaya Perhaps there
Say no evil, of anytsboigadye.d) are some 10 or 20 remit in a yard or corral,
and presently two pat them heads together.
1-.4110411111,.- Probably they are having a conversetion
Pew Renta, and in. it 'some debatable matter arops
question m for ono 'lakes his head impetiently at if
In the city of New York the
doubting the word of hie interlocutar. The
pow mints is being de:ceased, Mis being the
insulted ram looks up, advances a step or
season for the seminal renting!' to take plaoe.
two, and they rattle their horns together.
The general practice in New York and
Brooklyn is to rent the pews at a fixed vain. Instantly all the other gentlemen gather
anon There are exceptions to the rale round as the two intending combatants
m.an, armed only with a club, had to defend like Sb. George'a church. of which Rev. Dr. march backwatd step by step with an ad-
hanself against a woman, who was armed Bamford is tea pater, the seats there lnitehle slowness and deliberation. They
are the. two itnighte at the enda of the lista,
with a stone weighing a r ound tied up ia a being free. In Di. Talmaoe's Tabernacle,
hankorohief and attached to a slender will- Brooklyn, within the teat two yeare the There is an instant's pause, and then they
hurl themselves violently forward to meet
forehead -to forehead with a shock that
ought to break their skulls. Then the
solemn backward march recommences, the
pease is made, and the two belligerents
leap at eath other once more, and the
terrible thud is beard again. Sometimes
they run 10 courses before one turns dlissy
maintenance of the letting system, writes to
and declines the battle, but oftener five or
the newspapers strongly advocating iree
six blows make the thinnenskulled tarn
pews. The absence of these he considers
to be contemptuously hustled in the
" one of the very weakest apote in our mod- away,
by the conqueror. Oaeasionally the
ern Protestantism," while certain churches reel'
be stigma- eight of .one set of duelists inspires the un -
which. do not welcome strangers
occupied lookers-on with & noble ardor, and
tizes as " religions clubs." This may be the
daae in New York, but if; would be hard to couple after couple join in to march brak-
e:ell to mind any churehes in this country ward aide by side and rush forward in line
to meet the opposing forces. It 'nem to me
that there is more interest in this than the
mere fa,roes of the displey. HOwever such
a habit anise it can hardly now be admin.
• BEAU 1,5kruf.
mulden dieceloriug of there briglit
aveteek around you betokees the neighbor -
14o4 t the Tope. estuary even before the
UMW gap or eta undablt hantecome visibta
in.the great wall of cliffs that tower along
the 1.44Pvguoso co ,at ne far. as the eye can
reaeh. Teen, aa the steamer head* in toward
the entrance of the, Ohannel you San far Ula
rathin it, like 4140, of eleeinn white athwart
the wide surfeeeef brownish -green water, the
line at leaping breekere that gnash and
foam Along the formidable -bar, nporewhtch
the oetrestemg -cermet of the river end, the
inmehlog billowe of tbe Atlantio meet in 4
battle thee boa no end. Torun the gauntlet
of this dangerous pessage meat be peenone
work to b. ate, ano even smell veasele, bee
year ateamer pewee it easily anomie. and
now the grand feature.e of this fantout pain
erama begin, to develop themselves in
earnest. High. above yon on either side
auceeseive udgee of wootled triewatanta rich
with all the wonders a tropical vegetation,
sage tip in dark green waves egainet the
werm, bright elty, white along their cresm
there stance' em every here and there 4
quaint, old-iannlOaCa windlinill of the same
prettere ite those againet which Dare qqixota
mete milli leveled lance me the euney plans
of La Mancha three eenturiee ago. And
ea the raeratrer mleir rale away, and
theartre cornea forth in an hie eplendcr. u
see numbers of brightlymaieted boats. man.
tied he red matron Ashen:teem 'dieting to and
fret /Ike fieeflies oVer the smooth, shin-
ing wetere holem, while ever and nen the
thiy white cottegee at Poem gimlet little
nementin villege peep, like sby children,
through the oteateeing 14144 of derk, 00aby
lerwee above.
All at Once a vaat erega preAplee 01
dark gray rook, rendered ootnely gloomy by
the eliadowy fereeta that cline to ita ragged
eides, eterts ep 4 threennung ghat from
the nertheee shore, litgh on its frewilleg
eumerin hundrede of feet (merriment, A urea
elver' CretemArel mem thining dome egelemst
the breedeeitne =alight, while little
keine down, through *tray gape lu the trora-
bre mutat a weeding, you eateh few ea me
kg sling/ma of the unique belt:liege end
• straggling etreeta an old Portugueae city.
•Thie Owtr4* (maw connected with Liabon
golf by A there mile:sada chiefly brawn to
meter world as the 'piece 'Met gave Mt,
to the celebrated treaty by v.hta
legton expelled ttle Itreneh arnitee front
gal and a:thieved the firaz atep lu that
aterwrith which lives for ever in hie.
the Penimmler WAX,
boyene the great templet of Cintre
, on the crest of A lower ringe that
epee upward to It like the buttrees of A
all, eteede a hind, of reieleture peleee
Irby et eery fairy tele in the Arehlen
ighte "—the fer.lented " Hewn of Monter.
tet Noting cm he more dellemerly beau.
libel thee las graceful hlereeeo continent -ire,
he teeming ploneclee end eeelpzuren ear
elect, itt deep, ehalow y rechways, nuil ttp
elentior white balustradea of ite apeeieue
vermide, feetormed with the rielieet trop.
'eel Amore end creeper,. It le sed to think
that oath an armee:he week of are ehould
hero owed ita exiatence to a freek of Capri
dente and vulgar ostentatiore Was built
early* the present century by the , then
richeet man in iloglend, William Beckford,
of Ponthill Abbey, chiefly renew:wet during
his lifetime Inc hos crier toes a ealth and. the
reckleameas with which he equanderen it,
burnew more honoree -1y remembered aa the
Author of the weint aud powerful romance
ef Vo,thek," which be eaid ho,ve emu.
'noted in less than three dams. One of his
requiem Wan to run up tine palaoe in an in.
credibly short apace of time tn order to ehow,
as be hoestfully said, what money could do.
But after living in le with more than Orion.
tat luxury for a few months, he grew weery
of it and sold it for a mere tithe of its real
vane to a Partugueto graucleo, little dream.
lug that the wealth which he misused was to
be auddonly enetchea away from him, and
that o, few years more would roe the lord of
so many palaces a homeless beggar. The
eaansion is now (by a very appropriate satire
upon the purse•proud ostentation that pro-
duced it) the property of an Enhlish pur.
veyor of oat's meat, who has purchased from
the Portuguese Government the title of
Count of Montrterrat.
Beneath this cloudless Sky and this dim.
zling sunshine the beautiful oity of the Tagus
looks as bright and happy and holidaylike
as if neither sorrow nor wrong had ever
darkened it since time began. But in its
checkered history there has bean only too
ample a measure of both. Famine has
scoured again and again. Pestilence has
atalked ghostlike through its eilent streeta,
destroying on the right band and on the
left, The rude hand of war has beret open
its gates and, poured. into it by thousands
upon. thousands the bloodhounds of Napo.
loon. And far w,orae than all these was the
awful and mysterious ruin which smote the
fair city on teat black November day long
ago,. (memorable ever since as "the earth-
quake of Lisbon,") when massive buildings
leaped bodily from their foundations, end
whole streets fell at onae like homes' -Of
earchu and amid the unnatural darkness
which had blotted the noonday sun from the
sky the shrieks of perishing thousands could
be -heard mingling with the orash of the fall-
ing town while through, that litter gloom
shimmered spectrally the foam of the surg-
ing waves that rolled mountain high above
the fatal spot where 'the great stone quay of
the harbor, with 20,000 trembling fugitives
upon it, had just been sacked down into a
fathomless abyss.
opal give them a pointer in wholesale etroke given epperently am. tont effort —a
butchery. One of the favorite mothode aorento-breforgetton thndond the head villa
our dear old barbaric foretathers in diepoalng efit In China dreadful .pizelahmente are im
of their price:mere of war was to sacrifice Rioted upon Jeannie, but they do not ex.
them to thole gods in the Wicker Image, men in horror theme el mediate:11 times
whieh is deteribed as " a eteette or imago of It le annecemery to go into further
a man in a vast proportion, whom limbs detain, such as the employment of belling
conaisted of twign weaved, together ha the oil, the application of the iron bone, the
nature of beeketware ; them were filled arangtalation by garrete, the burial alive in
with live men.and alter that set on fire, and dungeons and a hut:time other forme record-
s': the poor creatures were destroyed in the ed in criminal hiatory.
smoke and flames." A modification of this
LITTLE DETWDMi MAN AND WOJLLN.
system of cruelty_ was that applied to the
Christian martyrs in later yeara. Tne old A very pa:eller preliminary to a death
& mons, too, sentence that deserves to be put on record
'MGM =Pin etee uncross wee that in vogee in Franconia sn, the fifteenth
by means of hanging in about the same way century—that le, in the days of the ordeal,
as we, their demential:Me have done up to in which Heaven itself watt supposed to
the present time. take a hand in the distribution of malice.
Tne erndtiee of the seventeenth and In case a woman had been made to suffer in
eighteenth century were terrible, and in reputation by a man she was at liberty th
the torture chambers the instruments used challenge him to combat, which took place
were surely the devices of hell. The torture in the following way: A regular ring was
inetrutnente in the Tower of London form, a formed for apeotators and chairs were plae.ed
loathesome collection. There Le the trough for the judges. In the middle of a ring was
in which the victim was wracked to arm- a hole abont three feet deep, in which the
fession, the iron necklace, the "Scavenger's
daughter," which consisted of irons for the
neck, hands and. foot; thumb screws,
an axe aud hook for the tearing away of
flesh, then the executioner's block and hatch. owy stick. The lady. had a space measuring free seat plan has been abandoeed in favor
et and. mask m use at the final ceremonies, ten feet in diameter in which to eyelet° and of sale by auction to the highest bidder, a
as shown in Gilbert & Sullivan's last operate to attack. • system which obtained in the late Henry
to., "Yeomen of the Guard," in that scene The rules were as follows : If the man in Ward Beecher's chnrch but which has, since
where librettist and composer really come attempting to make the woman touched the the appointment of Dr. Lyman Abbotabeen
np to the height of the situation in a brilliant ground with arm or hand he made one or- changed to letting at a fixed valuation. Dr.
finale. And men were slain in the good old ror. If he made three snch, or if the wo. Bamford, notyrithstanding the general
times for very small offenses. In Germany, man succeeded in disarming him, he was de -
especially, the most dreadful punishments olared defeated and was then delivered over
were inflicted. to the executioner to be pat to death, which
In forty years, from 1626 to 1666, the was by being buried in the same hole in
• juelges of the city of Lapel° condemned at which he had vainly attempted to defend
least twenty thousand people to torture and himself. Bat if the man sacceededen thwere
death. A refinement of oruelty was that beg the attacks of the woman, or in db.
committed by. the Dutch on the English in arming her, he was then declared the victor,
Amboyna, where the victim's arms were and the woman herself was then the victim
nailed to the upper beam of a doorway, his and was eentenced to death -and buried where strangers are not "made welcome
feet tied to the eides, underneath his soles alive. • and shown to seats."
were placed lighted candles, torches were The unpublicity of the proposed method of •
applied to his armpits, and then after a exeonticn by electricity wilt be deeply. re- To to P"I'ieoes by a Tiger. tageous to the epecies; and must tend to
bandage had beenplaced about his chin, laeor grated by hardened criminals who have read
was poured into his month and he was aom- up the last speeches on. the scaffold by the The I:hocking-death of a female tamer of lower thent in the scale of .intellect, for
palled to swallow it until he was as full heroes of their craft. Many a black -.hearted wild. beasts is reported from Hohenmutb, in while the thickeettakulled • remain lords,
bodied as an ordinary Dutch burgoaiaster. wretch has died oomparamerem .happy after Bohm -Min She was a girl twenty-eix years those with the most, room for btains often
• The idea that the poor wretch was filled being allowed to address the world met be. old, named Bertha Bommgartner. During a get their Craniums cracked with fatal
with beer may be scouted, union it were tore being launched, into eternity, The dare. public performance in a strolling menagerie 'results. This may help to ekplain the very
• stale, and undrinkable. Anyway, in was a est -dyed criminate loved- dearlyto preach a she entered an empty cage, and the door of uncommon idiocy of domestloated sheep,
terrible punishment for any Briton whir had sermon as a warning to the rest of humanity an adjoining cage was then opened to let a 'mist • als the duello among the Australian
tot been a Heidelberg student. • prior to being taken off. Many a brute has lion and a Bengal tiger enter. The lion blaokfellaws may throw fight on the dein
• The French method of executing criminals left his friends with -the disgusting aeruranoe walknffin quietly, but the tiger,. a fere:noes thiek-headedoesa of Some of the native
is by methe of • that, after the fatal noose hat done its work, beast, which, .had three times woanded.its humans in that country: Mee their favorite
THE GIIILLOTINE, he has a fita class entrance ticket for the keepers, crouched in the doorway and meow- method of dueling --at levet it was that of
Otto invention of a certain Dr. Gaillotin. realms of eternal glory. And the great pubed temper. • The girl lost nerve, Cried for which I heard mat—is to take two dubs,
The doctor invent= has been :made the lio enjoyed this kind of sacrilegious spectacle help, and slipped. As she did go the tiger
subject of a painting by Canot, a pupil of hugely. This speeth-making on the scaffold made a spring, bit her On theshoulder, then
David; who in his master's etndio had» be- appears to have been a relic of still remoter in the throat, literally rent her to pieces,
come acquainted with Taltna, Darden, Robet times, when the practice of chanting lasedy. and tossed, her body about. Half the audi-
apterre, Mara and neuillotia lairneelf. The ing speeches in the vicinity of the place of thee ran th the door a in horror; while the
n iature represents Guillain allowing the execution was a common titing atttendants tried to beat off' the tiger by the other man th do Ma best, and so on
model of his death -dealing machine to the ream the notes of a fine. sae= air of the poking hot irons' into the cage. But the until a skull is creaked.
Convention, which adopted it in place of be- time of Elizabeth called "Fortune M F " girl was dead long before the animal was
• heading by the axe. The „first trial was published in "Chaypell's Popular ,Musio of driven away. Thelirin seems to have been
given to 10 Dampen 15, 1792, When a dead the Olden Time,' 10 14 learned that this a much trighMrted as .the human spec- • The Vander/41a family now poseesses the
body ware deCapitated 'successfully. The tune nerkh is immortalized by being _men- tators tor he took no pert '* the, carnage. • ,song BUM of $271,000,000 and an "mum-
• guillotine was, however -,only the imprcve- Moiled hy Shakespeare and is alluded to by , .a inopme-of $13,864,000. It irr estimated
Ord& of an earlier death -machine itt uae ee Bee joneon, Beaumont & Fletcher,/ Lilly, A favourite skirt kr wearavith the .hand- that in 25 yeare this sum will have rolled tip
' Halifax, in Yorlethire, England, and called Chatle and old Burton—was the one to tame broeade goats for evening wear is of tet $1,00,000,000. No reformer OM nation-
' Yorehire gibbet It was in the form of a which "reetrieal lamentations of extraordint white silk muslin. It has a deep hein above alise inuoh of it for the investments are not
guillotine and Wee under the control of the my criminals" were chatted in England which comes a cluster of tucks. • largely in real estate.
is my war—not the Bummers." She uow
panes unnoticed whom she was once the ob.
nerved of all. While hare elle is residing
with her niece, the Duchess° do Alemohy,
nee *incase Isinrail,
and, having drawn lots in some manner for
the firet blow,' to' strike the loser on the
head as be lendtt down with the utmost
force possible. If that blow Is not decisive
—and it is not always so—it is the turn of
• In order to reach the broad, white atone
steps of the Custom House landing place
you have to run the gauntlet of a perfect
armeda of queerly-ahaped boats, manned by
sallow, bare-footed tatterdemalions in suits
of grease with a cap to match, who °Manor
ously offer for sale their miscellaneous ma -
goes of oranges, grapes, dried figs, and
raisins, wood- carvings, embroidery, photo;
graphs'°alma basket chairs, monkeys, and
parrots, in tones which the latter might
vainly strive to imitate. Through the cease-
less din of -these "moat 'sweet yokes" .you
at length make your way to the place of de-
berkation at the corner of ette famous
"Black Ease Square" & vast paved open
space in the middle of which you see, in a
bronze medallion upon the tilde of a neat,
White monument of hewed stone, the high
forehead and stern, massive features of the
tearquoie de Pombal, (one of the few great
men whom Portugal has produced during the
past century)) keeping silent watch upon the
pillared areadee of the huge palacelike 01111.
tem House, the construction of which was
one d his many public achievements.
And so you page on into the town, where
you will find more than enough to look at.
The splendid "Prima, de Dont Pedro," a kind
of glorified Trafalgar -square, with the addi-
tion of a chatming little public garden around
the bays of the great monumental column
which towers in the centre of it —ebbe gem
permeative of the Rua do Chiado, (Cloth-
areete the chief thoroughfare—the magni-
ficent church of the Santa 13strellae Holy
Steel with its wonderful copies of the Old
Masters in Atomic, the labor of a lifetime for
the moot akillful artificers of Portugal—the
**toot caeleedral, itself a trephy of tuttienha '
nroweee, lehnlen °UPC been 4 Morish moahne
—would suffice to oceepy sightseerlor a
whole 4ay. In f•act, thituke to the whiteness
of its hewers gni the Absence, of smoke and
scot, the lower 111 wn Liebon 1(3°1;am:role= `
and pretty tetthaeyea of fomign triettore as
elmort to dieeredit the rutty ton true stories
current respeetieg the habiteal filthiness of
l'ortugeeee aties—very like a village chtld
which hes been snatched. by its careful moth-
er from the mud peel la which it Was ped-
dling te appear 4 few minutes Meer before
4 critical echoel inspector with a clean face
and epotleee pinafore looking AS good as 11 11
had never kuown a epleteli or a stain itt 114
But the sperm changes :surprisingly when
onen you begin to retooled the Weenie and,
Mum, from the Lower te the Higher Town,
Little by little the lemma grew emaller and
meaner, the streets become narrow, crooked
and -unclean; while the fine public builings
disappear althogeher, awl instead of head -
some earrlages and faehinnable COataMeaa
yan 864 around you lean, bare limb, soul
tattered red alairte and greasy woolen. caps
and Mena that would be tennuable to any
painter egareh of 4 model for a crew of
lemmas. Tele, however, in easily accounted •
for, The great earthquake of 1755, which
ehettered the Lower Town lute A sin:poleax
beep of Mlle, Make Me fermi egainst thevest
rampeee of gelid rook upon which the lepper
Town steads, and thus the latter has pea.
served los at tique character almost mann
pared, while the fernier, heving been roheilt
from ene mid to the ether, nOW entirely
modetemethe nineteenth century ;Me by
:ride with the fourteguth.
One yery impreetive memorial of that tee.
mendeee oetteetrophe mote you helf way up
the hillelde la. the form of the rutned Carmo
Ohureh, along the front at which a line of
hreken AAXOCIA Stende but ift afAlant and Oast.
ly deeeletiou, the slime witheseee of A by
gone trogedy. Equelly theegh 13
different way, le the meatier) etrength
thagreat aqueduot (by far the most remark.
Able publie work itt Inertegen which rune
like A (non along the ridget brieging water
to the Capital from a village aeveral leaguee
Away. Ineleniug verioue brariehes, le pea-
reinee a totel leugth of fully 16 miles of
gelid mascomymmt the leaet weeder:at pert
of which is the meguificent line of erchee,
(nti in number!, end at ene paha rieing more
than e00 toot iritril the groaed) that opens
t e deep earrow valley of Alcantem.
The Helier.
Here's to the Holly.
The bright green holly
That laugha le the wintern aterm;
Neither heti nor MAW,
Can o'er hy bim
Nor hrevriemee bend hie foam
Here's to the Holly,
Tee eirerp related Holly,
Tint chnutei rt wilo coverall fear;
Shoull the wild winti roe;
Jilo laughs the mom,
Aral eolde up his gHtteriun sperm.
Then herine to Olio Holly,
The faithful Holly,
Whom adversity cannot chill;
When the leaves aro all fled,
And the Meyers aro dead,.
Tho Holly its (uniting attn.
line. 11. Pzusase, TOTAMO.
lkuturance.
new much Olio heart may bear, and not
break 1
Bow trarele the Ileak mey suffer and not
die 1
I queetien much if any pain or eche
Ot gout or body brume our end more nigh.
All evils mem be borne.
e shrink and shudder :at the surgeon's
knife.
Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel,
Whoa:ledge meta searching for the quiver.
Ing life;
Yob to our sense the bitter puma reveal
That still, altheugh the trembling Reale Ito
torn,
This, alto eau be borne
We see it eorroar tieing In our Want
And try to fly from the approathing
We seek some smail. escape—we weep and
- pray,
But when the blow fella then our hearts
are still—
Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn,
But think it eau be borne.
We wind our lives around another life,
, We hold it closer, dearer than our own;
Anon it fain te and falls in deadly strife,
Leaving us stunned, and stricken, and
alone
But ah 1 We do not dionarith those we
' mown ; . .
This, Mao orm be borne.
Behold, we live through all things, famine,
thirst,
Bereavement, pain ; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and
worn;
Lo 1 All thin a oanb3 borne.
•
Awful Death in a Wilde Bast Cage.
The shocking death of a female tamer of
wild beasts is reported from nfohenmnth, in
Bohemia. Snit 'was a girl twenty-six years
old, named Bertha Baumgartner. Daringa,
public perforreence in a 'trolling menagerie
she entered an empty cage, and the door of
an adjoining cage was then opened to let a
lion and s. Bengal tiger =tete • The lion.
walked in quietly, bat the tiger, a ferocious
beast vrhice. had three times wounded its
keeper's, crouched in the doorway and "hew-
ed temper. The girl Tat her nerve, cried
for help, and slipped. As she did so the
tiger made a spring, bit her on the shoulder,
then in the throat, and literally tore her to
pieces, and tossed her about. Half the &u-
nion:3e ran ter the doors in horror, while the
attendants tried to beat off the tiger by pok-
ing hot irone into the cage. B n b the girl was
dead long 13efore the animal was drivenawan,
the lion seems to have been as innohlright-
ened as the human spear:tore, for be took no
part in the carnage. The proprietor of the
show has since admitted that this same tiger
lied already killed two people.
' An Interesting'
interestieg relic was received on Mon-
day at the Navy Department in Washington.
It wasm month about three feet in length,
of oneef the Millers Of the Sem Pablo; one
of the ships which composed the femme
Spanish Armada, which melee ,o conquer
England 350 year e' ago. The San Pablo
was one of the 'Mimi which escaped. She was
efterwards.renained "Navin Soberano," and
after several °rubies was wrecked on the
coastmear Santiago de Cuba, where the hulk
new Hers buried 14 the mud.— (Ez.