Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23
A STARTLING DISCOVERY.

The New York Tribune processes TO give
its readers an account ofa startling discovery
made by SigGor Nessuuu 'he University
at Bologna, ,-Nessuuo, Our Tall n critic
tells us, means nobody,-who found among
the papyri Of Pompeii, which he has Ieen
many years engaged in investigating, com
plete report Of a tour taken by Her0d the
Great Immediately after the massacre Of the
Innocents. Herod, it appears, was accom-
panied by his old, wary minister, Servius
Vardius. the general who commanded his
armies, the captain Of his fleet, and a crowd
Of parasites. The cause of the journey does
not appear but something Is said about
monument possibly that Of Julius Caesar,
Whpapp0intcd Herod governor, although
after the assassination of Caesar. Herod i'm
mediatcly went over TO Brutus and Cassius
We copy portion Oft the Tribune article
on this great discovery
Her0d had his speech prepared before
hand, and if Professor Nessuno has transla-
ted it literally, it must have been really
comic in its effect He Is reckoned to have
stopped in all at some sixty or a hundred
places before be got back to Jerusalem, and
at every one Of these places he delivered the
same speech the only exception being the
one we are about to mention. Ithappened
that Herod came to a certain large town,
whose name Is not as clear In the manuscript
as il might be, and after dinner large
crowd came about the caravansary where he
was stopping and called for a speech, and he
had just begun to peg away at the old cut
and dried affair that had served mis- turn so
far, when he was interrupted by an ill-man.
nered fellow who cried out 'Iow about
them babies?' Herod Immediately grew
red in the face, made a grab at his crown,
and was about to burl it atthe saucY fellow.
when his wary old adviser Servius Yardius,
adIoitly caught it, and, to put it out oc
harm s way clapped it on bis own head
Herod was in such a state of rage that for
few minutes he was quite incoherent, but at
length he managed to speak Here We
quote Prof Nessuno' delightfully."- free and
naive rendering as literally as we can into
corresponding English ideas 1t must be
remembered that Her0d was not Roman
by birth, but was a barbarian, and had no
advantages of education or Of s0cietyuntil
his accidental elevation to the tetrarchy,
which will account for certain rOwdy air
his speeches have: You i better ask about
them babiesl IF yer knew more about
babies in particular, you d never ask such
questions, | reckon. Who'll Should ike to
know, has suffered more from babies til an |
hev? Who has put up with more from en-
than hev? ] didn' kill those yer babies;
they killed themselves; aud if [ did kill en-,
had to do it, else they uns would have xii
led we uns As for me | hoy sounded all
the depths Of honor and my ambition isgrai-
fed to repletion. have been everything
by turns and nothing long | began life in
a small low way, but honors and dignities
climbed onto my brow, and filed first one
Office, and then another until ! had sat in
the gubeInatorial cheer, and at length be
came tetrareh, which fills the cup of my
ambition and leaves me satiated with glory.
1t makes me mad to hear demoralized and
subsidized mob hollerin out wherever l go:
elbow about them babiesl How about them
babiesl' Let me tell you that them inuo-
cents, as you call en-. was poor, feeble,
insignificant, contemplate band of fanatics