New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-07

= high holiday on the sixth of April; on tn,
!, day hettook Pontidea; on that day his ge,
: eral Parmenio overthrow the Illyrians; o
;, that day his horse carried off the prize :
. the Olympic games, and on that day hi
a famous son was born-destined to win
" great sea fight triumph over Darius, an
! die upon his fathers fortunate day. TIL
e nineteenth OF August is the anniyersar
alike OF Augustus adoption, the commence
ment of his consulship, his triumph owe
u the Triumviri, and of his death. Upon til
third of September, 1919, Oliver Cromwell
, marched upon Drogheda; on the third @
September, 1850, he won the battle of Dur
bar, and the following year made the. da
more famous by scattering the hopes o
the rOyalists at Worcester, "after
stiff contest of four or five hours" and OF
= the third of September, 1858, England'
= great uncrowned king was called to his rest
, Charles was born upon the twenty-fourtl
OF February, 1900, defeated Francis q
France at Pavia on the twenty-fourth o
February, 1925, and was crowned emperor
on the same day five years afterward
Charles Ill. was born on the twenty-ninth o
May, 1850, restored on the twenty ninth OF
May, l66O, and two important events in hil
reIgn-the defeat of his feet by the Dutch
and the breaking out of the Covenanters
rebelllon-occurred on the same day. Ma
poleon the Great was crowned upon the sec
ond OF December 1904, and won his great
victory at Austerlitz exactly twelve months
afterWard; the coup detdt of his nephew
took place on the second of December, 1851
ana the empire was proclaimed upon the
first anniversary of that achievement Upon
the thirteenth of October 1882. a denuta-
ton arrived at Munich to tender the crown
OF Greece to Ohio, and on the very same
day, thirty years later. King Ohio left
Athens forever. Some of these datal coin
eldences are singular enough; but an exam
pie supplied by the criminal records of
France 1t would be difficult to match. One
Jean Marie Dubarry was executed for par
rlclde upon the twelfth of February. I746
and upon the twelfth of February. 1916. a
descendant of his, bearing exactly the same
names, suffered the same fate for the same
| crime.
Josephus was amazed at the TACT
OF the second Temple being burned
by the Romans i'll the same month,
and on the identical day of the
| month that Nebuzaradan, the captain of
Nebuchadnezzar's guards, brought the
Temple of Solomon to desolation. Some
Jewish doctors carry the coincidence still
| further, and aver that the officiating
| LeVltes were singing the same psalm-"He
shall bring upon them their own iniquitv,
and he shall cut them off in their own
wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall
cut them otf"-upon both occasions
When Henry II. lay dying, says old Can
grave, those who stood round him gave
way TO such rapacity that his body was
long allowed to lie bare, until a certain
boy covered the lower limbs of the cerpse
with short cloak. Thus did the surname
appear TO be fulfilled which he had borne of
Henry Curtmanteles, that is, with a short
coat, for he was the first to Introduce short
coats from Anjou into England" The
same chrOnicler makes Henry of Agin-
court die day earlier than he really did.
apparently only for the purpose of manu-
1acturlng sort of coincidence. ellis end
tell well on the feast of Saint Felix, for he
was teIcltous in all things-felicitous in ell
downing the church, felicitous in ordering
more clearly the divine offices, felicitous in
the administration of justice, and. in fine,
telicitous in all his life. And as the
blessed Felix laid low the statutes by the
breath of his most strong faith. so did |
the KING shatter the statutes of the |
heretics with the hammer of his Justice. |
and burn them to ashes lest the cross of the |
church should be spotted with their doc |
trlnes, and the company of the faithful de- |
stroyed by the false-hearted." Some histor- |
zeal predictions resolve themselves into mere |
condolences. When Henry " is told that
he swOOned in the Jerusalem Chamber. |
Shakespeare makes him say:
Land be TO Heaven! even there nv life must end
IL hath been ProPhesied to me many years
i shOulu not die but in Jerusalem.
w hich vainiy supposed the HOLY Land
But bear me to that chamber; there m lie:
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
The great Lancastrian leader, the Duke of
was warned to shun castles. and
met his death close by the Castle Inn, st.
Adams:
Underneath an alehouse paltry sign,
The Castle OF St. Adams Somerset
Hath made the wizard famous in his DEATH
So, in 1850, the Duke of Suffolk was warned
the Tower would he fatal to him; he net
his death on board shipnamed 81 Nicholas
p the Iotcer, commanded by Walter Whit
more, the sound of whose name makes
Suffolk start and exclaim:
Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.
A cunning man did calculate my birth
And told me that by water" should die;
md certainly if the Duke could make such
/ miserable pun III such miserable circum-
stances, he deserved his fate There was |
something like a coincidence in the circum-
stances attending the rise in turn of the
lVal houses of Lancaster and York: thus, | ,
Richard H., the son of warrior, famous for |
lis victories over the French, assembled the
hrone when minor, and by weakness as a
uler lost his crown, and admitted the ,
iouse of Lancaster to the throne of England I
n the person OF Henry w., who, rumor said 4
Get his death by poison, slthoug Oh no proofs !
we're ever forthcoming Henry VI. became !
ing III his minority, and he tOo the son of
he hero of AgincOurt. lost his Inheritance
hietiy through his own weakness and gave :
ray 10 the representative of the House of :
'Ork, Edward w, who was popularity sup
osed to have met with foul play
When Andre wrote his satirical Cow
hase," in ridicule of an expedition com :
landed by the American General Wayne, =
nding with the lines !
Lest the same drover-warrIor Wayue |
Should catch and hang the poet
C little thought he was anticipating sad f
nth, and that he should be taken prisoner v
y some of Wayne's division, TO die the o
,nominious death at which he tested a
rchbishop Usher, when a young man, Ii
reached sermon in Dublin, in 1901, from C
he text, And thou shalt bear the iniqllity o
the house OF Judah forty days, have t
ppOinted thee each day for a year" Ap- q
lying this to the governing powers of Ire b
md, he said: And then those whom You O.
9w embrace shall be your ruin, and you o
lall bear their iniquity." 'Atethe time. r.
lis was looked upon merely as an outbdrst il
ON young hater of popery; but when Il
lactly forty years afterward the Irish re- D
elton broke out, and thousands of II
rotestants were murdered, his words were n
and held a proof he had the | n
it of prophecy, although it is not likely | a
sher had any more idea of the fulfilIment nj
what he said than Napoleon when he %
rote to Macmillan upon his displaying h;
mptoms of withdrawing his acceptance of g
e Mexican throne. "What would YOU s.
y to me, if, after you had been in Mexico IL
rec years, were to say the same thing ga
you" And yet that was precisely what p;