Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-16
A SENSATION IN GERMANY.
Don Alfonso and His Wife Attacked b,
students.

Don Alfonso and His Wife Attacked b,
Students.
A letter from Berlin, under date O.
May 3, to the Cincinnati Gazette, says
The notorious Don Alfonso, pre-
tender to the Spanish throne, and his
wife and com panion in crime, Donns
Blanca, the hyena of Cuenza, as she is
called, have had very forcible proof
given them, at their temporary residence
In Graz, of the estimation in which they
are held by the Germans, and, indeed,
by all right minded people. In the ia.
stance of tho students outbreak at
Graz, the cruel tyrant, and his still
more cruel wife, betrayed the same
trembling fear that signalizes all cow
ards at heart. The fiendish barbarities
which they had so inhumanly practised
upon others did not bring varying
emotion to the face, but when threat
ened with like punishment, they blanch-
ed with fear, and sought the protection
of the authorities.
Had this pair after finishing their
sport of shooting and tarring and feath-
ering, in the face Of the warrant tina
was issued by the Spanish Government
for their arrest, been content to have
gone quietly to his family in Venice or
to hers in the village of Henbach, they
could have spared themselves the
knowledge OF public opinion. But to
settle down in Graz, which, though it
belongs to Austria, is a thoroughly
German University town, and there
hold court with all the Ultramontane
nobility, was a provocation which gave
the students the opportunity of consid-
ering Themselves the proper organ of
expressing the opinions of the
Germans. Their expressed devo-
ton and ostentatious piety in attend
ing mass daily at the Dom was
piece of Hypocrisy which the excita-
bic students could not longer brook.
The assemblage of people around the
church, however, made no aggressive
demonstrations until provoked to it by
the sneers and contempt of Don Alfonso
and Donna Blanca They might have
reached their carriage and driven quiet
ly away, but instead of doing SO the
Princess sent the servant to the carriage
to bring her fan. The two then placed
themselves in position, and strove to
emulate the assembled crowd in their
expressions of derision. They relied
upon their relationship to the Emperor
of Austria, sister of Alfonso being
married to brother of the Emperor and
another to the Duke Karl Theodore of
Bavaria. But when they found how
deeply in.earneet the crowd was, tremb
ling like aspen leaves, they strove too
late to reach the carriage. The students
blocked the ways, Kissing and shouting
robbers" murderers," ''abasso Ill
brigante," and prevented them leaving
the church steps. The coachman was
powerless to help his master, for the
crowd had displaced him and taken the
relns in their own hands. The police
came to the rescue as soon as possible,
but were outnumbered and helpless. An
elderly, gray haired, white-bearded man
forced his way to the Princess, and car
ried her fainting to the carriage, which
the students tried to upset after she was
placed in it. The excited crowd
insisted that the pair should
Immediately leave the city, but as
they only retired to their palace and
kept themselves secreted, promising
not to drive in gala equipage through
the city again, the students assembled
In large crowd on the second day, and
threatened to demolish the house. The
military was called out, and the veneer
able rector came from the college, beg
cling them not to FIRE, and he would try
and dispense the students. He entreat-
ed them to go quietly to their rooms,
and not make their countrymen blush
for their behavior. The Mayor assured
them two thirds of the citizens sympa-
thized with them, but the matter must
be conducted according to law and or
der. The rector made them a speech,
after which they conducted him home,
gave him three cheers, and quietly dis
persed.
Many of the Austrian papers criticise
severely the action of the students, and
talk about insulting lady who was
returning from her prayers" but they
forget to mention that the same lady
had one Of her sisters tarred and feath-
cred by coarse soldiers and her husband
horse whipped. They talk about vio-
lating the rights of an asylum, but do
not remember how lately the clergy and
nobility looked approvingly on the eff
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the Old Catholics from performing
| their service in their own church. The
Ultramontanes are using the matter as
political capital against the Germans,
and the Emperor himself was very in
dignant at the treatment the Don and
Donna received. Don Alfonso request
ed Franz Joseph to say if he did not
wish him to remain in his empire. The
Emperor replied he was very welcome
guest, and begged him to remain as
long as he chose. The government is
very sensitive to criticism about this
hospitality, and has already condemned
and suppressed two newspapers for I'M
favorable editorials on the subject. /.
A NOVEL VALEDICIORY.
How an Editor with Bullet in his Brain
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