Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-23
GNortester 9aiIp SPY.



Just as we enter on a most remarkable and
eventful crisis in the history OF the world-old
and new-we receive intelligence of the APP
proach OF immediate death TO three of the most
remarkable and prominent personages who at.
feet to direct the fate and guide the desnes-
eternal and temporal-of millions of people in
Europe and Asia.
We allude to the pope of Rome the emperor
of China, and the king OF Wurtemburg, each
one OF whom is represented as being at the
point OF death, in our advces by the Arabia
These men represent in their persons each a
peculiar system of rule, considered permanent
it not inviolate and yet we find that each of
them sees the executive form which lie weld
ed likely to be brought to an end by the close
OF his existence.
Pops Plus of the ninth has learned that the
revolution of 1S4S, which drove him from
Rome, was but the first puff of the guns des-
tined to discover the temporal authority Of the
popes from their ecclesiastical supremacy and
church regime, and he dies from congestion
of grief at beholding the Papal sovereignty,
donated and leased by Charlemagne, swept
away by the power Of the catholic rulers of
Sardinia and France.
The emperor of China has lived TO see
barbarian" las he was taught to call it) army
in possession of Pekin, to find his favor;tc
pocket handkerchiefs carried of, and used by
English and French soldiers, and to hear of
foreign steamers trading up and down the Yam
TIE kiang river so, "no chance being left his
feelings or his pride,' he has determined to
die, and already do the imperial funeral COM
mlssionels order the following of his grave at
the burial place of his dynasty,
The king of Wurtemburg is the Oldest sove-
reign in the world, and for many years past
he has witnessed the steady advance of people
at tvit 1l.a
erection of his fortresses by his brother mon
archs so he prepares 10 die, just, it may be,
as the principle of democracy, now SO severe.
ly tested i'll Its American birthplace, is about
to be triumphant in the tall OF royal thrones
all over the world.
LIN view of these considerations we append a
synopsis of the biography Of the men.
Pope Plus of TIE ninth is now sixty-nine
He Is of a noble Italian family, named Farret
ii, and was born in Senegalia, i'll 1892. He
was first intended for the army, but turned
out pious and devoted eccesiaslic Plus the
seventh sent him ON mission-politco-re
ous-to Chill, in South America, and when
there he served both the Pontiflcal ruler and
tile church so well, that every avenue OF adj
vance and promotion was opened to him. Af
ter his return to Rome he was made a civil of.
ficer, Nunco at Naples archbishop of Imola,
cardinal, and in the end pope, after the death
OF Gregory the sixteenth, i'll 1916. Plus the
ninth is a kind, charitable and a1fectionate
man, possessing some show of the stubborn
character Of Hldebrand.
1t is said that when he dies the cardinals
will not 60 into conclaye, but elect his success
scr 0tva voce or, as New York politicians would
say, "by acclamation," in the presence OF the
dead body, in order to avoid the contingency
OF their leaving Rome, and the consequent oc-
cupation of the eternal city by the troops of
Victor Emmanuel during the intenegnum.
Helm Foung, emperor of China, was born in
the ear 1905, and put on the imperial button
in 1851 lie is the seventh ruler Of the Tar
tar Mantchou dynasty, the chief of which,
Tchoun Tchi, was proclaimed in l644, He
he has four sons and one daughter Of the
sons, yin Wei, the eldest, is heir 10 the throne,
provided the rebels in the provinces, and the
foreign fleets and armies in the ports and cities
OF the empire, dc not overturn this ancient
chair, and erect new, reformed and christian
seat of rule for the east on its ruins.
William Frederic Charles, king of Wurten-
burg, was born on the 9th of September,
1871, and is now, consequently, eighty years
old. He assembled the throne III October, 1916,
and has now, therefore, reigned about forty
five years. His first wife was Catherine, the
daughter of Emperor Paul OF Russia, and his
second, Pauline Therese, daughter of Louis
Frederick, Grand Duke of Wurtemburg
The king will leave an exceedingly numerous
progeny, but judging from the impending fate
of the temporal rule of the pope, the chances
OF the imperial house of China, the dispersion
of the Turkish harem by new sultan, and
the changes likely TO be made in the slave
trade OF Africa by the death of the king of Old
Calabar, it is not likely that any one OF them
will mount permanent thr one after his de-
mise