Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-11-18
The StrasbOurg Cathedral Clock
and Library.

One Of the most lamentable results of the
siege of Strasbourg, leaving out of view the
loss of human life, is the injury which the
bombardment has inflicted upon the cathe.
drnl and its wonderful astronomical clock -
The vast cathedral, which, perhaps more chan
any ono thing, hos made the name of Stras.
bourg celebrated, is one Of the fDest gothic
buildings in Europe. It was founded A. d.
504. The choir was built by Charleunagne,
probably about A. D. 500, though it was not
completed until 1439. The material of which
the cathedral is built is a brown stone, very
much resembling our Connecticut Portland
frcestone, so extensively used in Fifth Avenue.
1t was obtained from a quarry at Wassen-
bonne, in the valley Of Couronne, few miles
from Strasbourg. The architect of the exist.
ing cdifice was Erwin Won Stcinbach, of Ba.
den. One John Huclls, Of Cologne, was the
architect of the peerless tower It's spire is
the lcftiest in the World. It's height, 466
feet, surpasses St. Peters and is about equal
to that of the Great Pyramid The greater
part Of the entire structure vas destroyed by
lightning in 1907, and the restored cdfce
was begun in 1015 and completed in 1896
The cathedral is in every part richly decorated
with sculptures; and the western front, rising
to height of 230 feet, is. or was particular
ly fne with it's wealth of statutes, ornamental
carvings, and basrelefs. It has circular
window 4S feet in diameter. The Prussian
heavy artillery has made, it is sad, "a ruin
of the vast building.
The astronomical clock, the product of a
German clock maker, in about the year 1850,
in marvel of ingenuity and mechanical skill,
and has no counterpart. 1t performs not only
the ordinary services of cIocl;, but exhibits
the days. and the months, und the years the
process of the seasons; the signs rf the zodiac,
and the names and movements of the heaven.
comes out and strikes on a bell; at every
hour another angel comes out and strikes
twice; and at IL meridian, figure of Christ
appears, accompanied by the twelve apostles
all Of whom move arounds a central point
and pass in out of sight, by another door, the
stroke of twelve being given, and cock flaps
his wings and crows The clock is enormous
in size, like everything else connected with
the vast cathedral, and is Invisible from the
outside street.-the spectator passing through
the nave of the cathedral to see it. It has
suffered from fire and violence before the pre-
sent year, having been out of repair aud mo-
tionless since the revolution Of 1903, until
the year 1912, when it was repaired by 8
Matchmaker Of Bas Rein, and has been in
operation since. 1t is to be hoped that this
ingenious piece of mechanism: has not been
irreparably injured by the present lombard
ment.
The loss of the Strasbourg library--a vast
collection of 100000 volumes, including
muny collections of rare and curious monkish
parchments-is total and irreparable. 1t can
never be replaced by any collection hereafter
made. 1t was the slow result of thousand
years; and its destruction by fire, caused by
the Prussian hot shot, is like the burning
of the Alexandrian library in this, that of a
great number of the works destroyed no du.
plcatcs can ever be obtained Hartford
| Times.
No DouBr.-Gen. John c. Brown, the
Democratic candidate for Governor Of Ten
nessee, made capital speech, ut Chattanooga
tho other day. He delivered this admirable
hit:
81 have thus been over the entire platform,
and am sure there is nothing in it to which
any reasonable man could object. The Rad
icals, Of course, object. suppose if we had
adopted the Ten Commandments as plat.
form, some one would have objected. am
sure the Radicals would, for there is, be
lieve, ono of them which says, Thou shalt
| not steal ="
EY- The coler Of the South Carolina Leg.
islature is as follows: OF the thirty one Sena.
tors, Zone vacaucy,) eleven are coloreJ men,
aud twenty white men. Out of the 1874
members Of the lower House, about eighty
are colored mon. AS to politics, in the Sen.
ate, there are rs Republicans and G Reform.
ers-majority 10. In the House, there are
l02 Republicans, and 20 Reformers---maior.
ity 80 Republican majority on joint bal.
lot 90.
HAVANA, November S-A terrible revo.
luton broke out in the State of Guerrero,
Maxico The Goycrnmnnt trnnc, xyora IL