The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-04-12
Tweed in the Castle Of VigO-Hunt In
dignant.

The tale Of the wanderings of Tweed
published in Harprs Weekly gives the
following account of the sojourn of the
boss and his companion in Vigo Castle.
On his way to the castle he tried to
communicate with the guard, but his
defective Spanish enabled him to make
out with difficulty that he must be held
as prisoner of state. In maze as
to what his fate must now be, he re-
sumed his toll up the hill, and in due
time reached his destiny in the castle.
Ushered into an apartn ent, he found
it to comprise stone floor, stone walls,
and stone ceiling. There was nothing
else except the door he had entered
and narrow window. They had the
satisfaction, at least, of being shut in
together and notseparated. 1t seemed
very weary waiting until a servant
woman came, bringing two iron beds,
~-:.h IoIdire Srn-e;sN lsssnIuI4, ~, her
head. Indication was made by Tweed
that he desired to see the officer of the
guard or governor of the castle. But
his efforts merely enabled him to have
permission to get temporary wants
satisfied from hotel or tavern. Food,
such as they desired to pay for, with
beer and wine, and some mating for
the floor were provided, ari the started
in with some idea cf patience and
cheerfulness, waiting what might next
turn up. One morning when the
woman who took charge of their room
brought their food from the hotel. she
attracted attention by her gestures, to
the slop-bucket she had just emptied
After she had left with the sentinel
who always watched her when she
came, Tweed examined the empty
bucket, and found she had left him a
note from his son. Having failed in
every other attempt to communicate
he succeeded in this. An answer was
put in the bedclothes next morning
which the chamber.maid as duly found
and also delivered. In this manner
Tweed came to learn something of the
new phase of his case. He learned
that he was held by the Spanish gov
eminent, and supposed to be Secretary
Belknap, a fugitive minister of the
United States. And this, at least, gave
him the prospect of release, his i'm
prisonment being based on some mis-
take or Spanish blunder.
Another scene which grew out of th'
new postal arrangement WAS the indins
of one of the epistles placed in the bed
clothes by Soledad, the chambermaid
One of thesehappened to fall into tn
hands of Hunt, who observed that tn
address to John Secor was supersede'
L5-. -hot bod ,,rtil .h on beer, unknown
to him, the real name of his compan
ion, William M. Tweed. The result 0
this revelation proved temporarily un
pleasant. Hunt exclaimed in astonish
ment, asking if his companion wa
actually the notorious Tweed. II
broke out In Indignation when he foun
such was the fact. He protested ths
he had never done anything against tn
law to remit this association, and b
stamped and swore and wanted tn
governor of the castle brought that b
might vindicate himself and be set s
liberty, or at least set apart from his M
torious companion. He was not pac
fed, nor wss there much comfortabl
feeling possible between them for th
rem ainder of the fourteen days of tae
incarceration. By that time the Franl
lin had arrived, and they were take
daily on board, where explanation WI
more practicable. Hunt was clamo
Gus on the way to the ship when h
learned of the presence of the Unite
States consular agent, protesting h
! American citizenship, his rights, an
his entire ignorance of Tweed as sue
until the discovery in the castle.
, A Touching Incident.
There is in the Hebrew burial Sc
e vice one prayer which is not read /
the officiating minister, but by the sc
of the deceased, or in cas- e there be I
son, by some orr han in whom the d
ceased was interested. AT the servic
: for the late Baroness Mayer de Roth
!. child, in London, this part of the Sc
!, vice was taken by deaf orphan bo
e a pupil in an institution for teachir
l. the deaf to speak. The Baroness W
largely instrumental in founding tV
= such schoals. He recited the praye
> which proclsims "the exaltation
4 God in that world in which He is 70 I
;. store the dead to everlasting life,' wi
e very distinct utterance. AS he I
IL peated the prayer with the mournf
/, cadence, into which it is said the de
e uyhe ara torrhY tr lix, q