Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-17
A Remarkable Career.

Remarkable Career.
The following remarkable sketch Of tie ca.
reer Of Lieutenant d. Rudio Of Custer's old
Seventh Cavalry, nov stationed at Bismarck,
w. T., is told by correspondent :-Ds Rudio
is the man who, with Sergeant ONei, had
suoh marvellous two days experience in the
midst of tho hostile Sioux two years ago. keep
iug them at bay from cover With repeating
rife for hours; then travelling their couutry tor
| two days without food or knowledge OF their
situation. De Rudio was originally an officer
10 the Austrian army, but Was expelled and ex'
lied for sympathy with the oppressed Italians.
! Louis Napoleon had belonged to the Italian
association of patriots, had proven traitor.
and was then, 10 1858, in the way of q success.
| full political revolution. His death would turU
all Europe topsy turvy, and give the oppressed
hearing. On the 10Th Of January, 1858, Ia
Rudio dropped into Paris. He vas there By
appointment. He was fellow oonspirator Of
Felioe Ofsini. 1t was planned that the Emre.
yor should die OF one Of his grand balls at tht
hand of guests dagger. Do Rudio called
| that igoobIe, assassination, criminal. He said:
| Kill him wheu he is surrounded ty bis Ian
GERS ia the public street, when he has every
guard throwu around his imperial person -
Tho plot was changed. and, the now historical
| scene of January ID. 1858, followed. De Ri.
| dos book gives picture OF the drama 10 front
| of the Grand Opera House that ia remarkably
| dstiuct.
The were five hand.grensdes, or bombshells.
| to be thrown-three into the royal carriage and
one some distauce 10 froDt ard one 10 the rear,
| to keep back The crowd until the consplratora
were sure of their work and escape. The Fin
peror's carriage, with the Emperor and Em;;
press Eugene 10 it, approached the grand
stairway Of the opo:a.house through q he OF
| lancera on either side. De Rudo says ne was
| standing immediately behind tho sulders
when the carriage came up, watching the con.
sprator who was commissioned to throw the
first grenade. When he saw his Dim make
curve through The air, De Rudio dropped to
the ground; quick as The explosion occurred ne
raised himself up aud tossed bis grenade over
the heads of tho lancers and again dropped,
waiting for Orsini to throw the third onei but
Orsini was blinded by the smoke from De Ru.
dos shell aud wounded IN the head; this miss
of Orsipi kept the other consplrators from throw
ing their grenades until it was too lato: one
more waB thrown out OF its order
De Rudios shell fell undcr tho front wheels,
killing the horse, the coachman, and tearing
out the whole side ofthe carriage. There was
| tho wildcat dismsy. 1t wss an attack in the
dark. The lancers fell back, the crowd scat
tered, the horses plunged to the right and Left
and confusion confouuded rcignod supreme
De Rudio's design was to dash through the
Iancers and finish his Majesty. With dagger ii
| tho grcnadce failed. Ocsiul'a b!lndncss pro.
! ycuted the execution of that part Of the plot
| Do Rudio kucw tlat his own life was woftl:
,ho hsfn
| third grenade was throWD. lie, therefore,
! The delay in delivering it, and the fact tha!
| it was thrown By the fourth man instead oil tho
| third, demoralizad tho working OF tho pot and
gave the lsncers time TO rally and surround the
carriage. DeKudio saw that personal knowl'
| edes of tho Hmperor's death was impossible at
| that time He Withdrew from tho scene There
| had bsen several killed and any amount OF con-
| starvation created and cOnsplrator Wts
pretty we'll satisfied that the object Of his at;
tack was dead He rapidly realized that sll
Paris was startled. and before sunrise aii francs
would be- 1t WAS q night Of terror In the city:
| The extent of tho conspiracy w&s secret to al
oxcspt the corspirstcrs There WE unlvorsss
| dread Of all tho possibilities of Commune
During the night there wore 81 killed and III
| wounded.
| The storm passed and tne Emperor and EN-
uress remained unhsrmsi, AZ three O'clock IN
/ tne morning DeHud;o Was arrested a. hls
lI,dgnQs A room mate and fellow conspisator.
| Pieri, he'd been arrested, and ulea bis res-
snd brought before the Judge of lnst!uctlons
| for preliminary hearing. The plot covered
! that contingency, snd IN few minutes We
audio proved sn slibi and was discharged ls
| vss subsequently re4rreSted, sen!encec 10 the
guillotiDe and his sentence was only commuteo
! to the French penal settlement In t5ulnea'
| 4 hfrics, from which be escaped to lmerlca,
yh.re be ! lined the United States regular
srmy.
a YEAR WITHOUT SUMNER. An aged
resident of Hartford remembers that the winter
! of 1929 80 surpassed this ia miIdness. Farmers
nloughed every month of the seaa)o, aud DO
snow fell until February 2 The winter was
| followed, however, by cold, backward sprIng,
With snow storm 10 May. which killed the re.
turning swallows As an Offset to the above
story, one of the old residents of Derby tells US
| the year 1916 is what is known as the year
without summer" Old New England farm
ers refer to il ss eighteen hundred and starved
10 death" Jaouary was mild, al was also Feb
lruary, With the exception Of a few days. The
greater part of March Was cold and toisterCus.
10 May ice formed half an inch thick, buds
i anGs flowers were froZaD, aud corn was
killed. Frcst. ice and soow were common
10 Juoe. Almost every green thing was
killed and fruis was nearly ell destroy
3D. Snow fell to the depth, of three
inches in New York and Massachusetts. and
ten iucbes iu Maine. July was accompanied
with frost and ice. Ga the fifth ice was formed
If the thickness Of window glass 10 New York
= New Eoglasd and parts of Peunsylvauia, aud
ooro was nearly all destroyed 10 certain sec
lions, 10 August ice formed bait 40 iuch thick.
Corr was so frozen that a great dcal was cut
down and dried for fodder. Very little rlpened II
the New EogIand aud Middle States. Farmers
> were obliged to pay four aud five dollars
, bushel for corn Of 1915 for seed for the mex
sptiog's planting. The first two weeks o
September were mild; the balance OF tn
= month was cold, with flost, and ice tormcd