The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-03

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So it is with science, with law, wit
mechanics. with journalism, until eac
calling has reduced itself to an agglom
doubt each specially in the future viii
be divided and subdivided as learnin
and education advance.
A Carnival Tragedy
Anne Brewster writes to q Philadel
phia paper "Rome has been visited
with a sad carnival tragedy. A certai,
Raffaelle Sonzogno, the director of a VIC
lent ultra liberal journal, La Cdpitale
was assassinated in his private Office OF
the 9Th of February, at half-past eight
O'Clock in the evening. Sonzogno was
one of those Cain-like men against
| whom all mems hands were raised bui
he possessed q certain degree of talent
or ability, was parsonage, and occu-
pied place of no little imI ortance in
Rome. He was a sort of Rabagas.
Poor man! He had bitter enemies,
| and decent people despised him, but
his sorrowful, tragical end creates SYM
pathy on all sides. It was a sad bust
ness. At the very moment of the muir
der the streets were full of carnival
rioters /; at the Piazza Navona maskers
were dancing gayly in the open air un-
der the brilliant garlands of Venetian
lanterns and glittering in the fantastic
colors of Bengal lights thousands of
maskers we're crowding into the Poll
teama Romana-the vast theatre on the
Tiber banks; everywhere could be
heard the falsetto voices of disguised
ION md fho -
tambourines, shrieks of laughter, mad
saturnalian riot was reigning. During
this fierce frohc huge, powerful man
crept slyly up the long, lonely stairs
that led to the unlucky editors apart
ment, CROPPED through the dim, long
corridor, and entered the Office where
Sonzogno sat writing. The assassin
knew his victims mode of life. evident
ly. Every evening Sonzogno received
the visits of his colleagues and friends !;
by eight o'clock he was alone, and re-
manned alone a couple of hours writing.
The printing Office of his paper was on
the ground floor; the distance of
two long corridors and the long
staircase separated him from it. He
was quite unprotected, you see. But
he was bold, reckless man, and had no
fear. He sat with his back to the door,
and the door was never fastened. When
persons came to see him at work hours
he had the habit of crying out 'ava,ati,'
enter, without lifting his head or look
ing to see who came in. Thus his as
sassin was almost sure of accomplish
ing his murder and getting off unde-
tected. The assassin was dressed as q
polchinel1o, in white linen, masked,
with the pointed polchinello cap on his
head. He stabbed his victim five times
in the back and twice in the head.
Sonzoeno's hat, q soft felt one, which
he always wore when writing, was found
upon the floor afterwards, bloody, and
with two holes cut through it CORES
ponding with those on the head. Poor
wretch He struggled hard for his
life; and when the brutal murderer
found that he had miscalculated the
amount of Sonzogno's strength, that he
had to struggle with him to get off, he
stabbed him most numerically. Seven
teen stabs were found upon the dead
body. Cries for help were heard in the
printing Office. The men ran out and
their employer holding on to the muir
derer's clothes, dragging himself along
the floor. His last words were Luigi, |
These were said to the first man that |
reached the top of the stairs. The fell |
low broke loose from the dying man
and dashed down the steps. Luigi |
lifted up Sonzegno and called to the |
other workmen, who were below, to
catch the man. So powerful was he |
that it took four men to struggle with |
and hold him until the guard came and |
arrested him. Luigi held his master q |
few moments, and then saw that he was |
dead. The murderer, with unblushing |
GOODNESS, denied the murder, said he
was not the man, that he had only gone |
into the corridor by chance, and insisted |
upon being released. Since, however,
it is reported that he has confessed. but |
the confession has not yet been given
to the public. At first the report was
that some political enemy had murdered
him-an agent of the papal or clerical
party; but the assassin turned out to be
/ Trastevere carpenter, named Frezza,
whose politics are of the reddest color.
he belongs to Sonzoeno's own set. But
le never knew Sonzogno ; no person
about the Office ever saw the man he
had no enmity of his own to avenge;
le was the paid assassin of another
md I am assured that when the whole
lad story is known it will prove to be
me of those common but sorrowful do
nestle dramas which often darken the
criminal courts of Europe. Sonzogno
las had associated with him a young
Roman, Giuseppe Luciani. You can
zee his name now in great placards on
he walls and house fronts of the city,
or he was a candidate for election to
he house of deputies this autumn. He
would probably have been elected if it
lad not been discovered through his
opponents that he had not the required
&c, that he was not yet thirty. Lu-
iani is good looking, it is said, and
clever. SonzogIo brought
nth him to Rome, in 1870, a wife ten
ears at least younger than himself, a
retty woman. This autumn Signora
'onzogno left him and went off with
Iuciani. Thus he was betrayed by
rife and friend It is needless to add
hat the suspicious are that Luciani and
is wife know more about the assassin {
ton than any other persons. The
host profound secrecy is observed by
he matter. Frezza is in prison; no ;;
ew arrests have been made. The man, =.
is admitted, was only an instrument,
mployed by another or others. He
ad accomplices near him, for while
le four printers were struggling with
i'm near the front door two men came {
p, jostled against them, nearly upset
ng one of the printers, while pretend
~ to aid the scuff1e, and cried out,
Oh let him gor AS the guard ran {
p these men disappeared. 6
ARABIAN HEAD aEAR.-A correspond
Mt with the Gordon expedition in
frica, writes: "Scanty is the at tire
our five Arab attendants. Bat what .
yer want of attention is displayed as
, scarcity of raiment is made up by the
of their head gear. Golf
xres that would make the first of Mr.. /
ruefitt's young men envious are pos