Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-09-16
Thrilling Incident in a Statesman's
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Life.
Tho Nevv YORK Herozd hoe slotob of
tho 1ifa of Co,1n+ A,,d,.ass,z o,,a <,f Az
fnro,,1nst E,,ro,,ao,, statos,,o 80 a
iii racentlv the Anstr;an Prime M;n;sta-
| We onote from the Hera1d,e a1t;cia. T.
was of Zemlin Hnngarv that T,l;,,S
y,t,s bo-,, Nfa,.eb 1909 II Is r.
raoe;vad .s aooI i;iera,.y - adnoa ia, M
traveled eytens;veiv in connect;oI, - With 1tllf,
| his father's. industrial nI1rsnits Rnt
comm erce iii snited his tastes and aarIv
4 he abandoned # fnr literature ana noli,
| tics Al the aoe If twenty fo,,r 1laA7I ha
was ALREADY aelTnovvled ged as one of tho
hest orators in the Hungarian I,andtag
| At the time when-the Austrian voiSe
becoming more and more intolerabie~
the rebellion of the Magyars broke out
| he was appointed a member of the Gov
renment Of National Defence. Hungary
| soon needed however. soldiers rather
than Diplomats. and then Andrassy
abandoned the uei1 for the sword IN.
vested with n military command he gal-
llantlv fought the enemies of his conn
try in several battles. and was one of the
/ last to retire before the Russian invaders
| l849).
After the battle of Kazolna. the Mag
vars. completely routed by the over
whelmine forces of Schlica. were fleeing
or their lives. Several officers. among
whom were Andrassy. exhausted with
long march. decided to halt for the night
at a deserted farmhouse which happened
to be on their route The snow Was fall
ing in thick, heavy flakes. No sound
was heard but that Of the violins and
''cymbals % of he Bohemians who
PLAYED their me .ancholy melodi in the
camp of the Honveds a little Way off.
Little by little the music died away, and
every one had fallen asleep, when sud-
denly terrible noise of human voices
and the report of muskets awoke the fu-
gitive officers. Some of them took up
| their arms and Immediately rushed for
| the door. Andrassy was still sleeping
when two Bohemians and a few Honveds
entered the room, crying, . Beware, be-
warel the Croats are coming We are
betrayed? Andrassy started from his
companions in the fight. Readily recog-
nized by one of the two players, Rame-
ney by name, he was entreated not to
venture to pass the threshold, as the
Croats in great numbers were within
| few Yards distance. "Take off YOUR uni
form" cried the Bohemian to the Count,
3" Ell Sc you are lost. 1t is too late to 90
anywhere. Janosh,'' added he, turning
to his fellow player, help the Count to
take off his uniform" But Janosh.
having gone to the window to explore
whether there was any chance of escape
from that side, was struck in the breast
b. a bullet and fell dead to the floor.
Rameney seemed to hesitate a minute, as
though grief would overcome him. But
quickly controlling his emotion he hast
lily divested the Count Of his uniform,
and helped him to put on his overcoat
Take1take this, else you are lost? he
was wildly telllng the Count; nave no
fear on my account; they Will do no
harm to poor bohemian like myself.
Before Andrassy had fully recovered
his wits Kameney had forced the violin
| into the hands OF his protege, and com
PEELED him to kneel by the dead body of
.Janosh. Rameney had also kneeled by
his dead friend and begun to play furious
| ly on the cymbaln that he had taken
from the latter's hand. still CRYING to the
count. "Plav. play, on the yiolinp'
which Andrassy, in fact, tried to do.
Meanwhile a handful of Austrians
rushed in and were momentarily aston
| ished at the sight OF the strange group
What are you doing there?" thun-
dered the Austrian officer.
1--WE are playing q farewell air TO our
friend, whor you have killed, though
he had harmed no one. We were on the
road to Pesth when the Honveds arrested
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