Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-03
Etch RTen Of ancient and Modern
Times.

Etch nc ell Of ancient and Modern
Times.
| The auoieut historians cape great deal to
sag about the wealth If Vsti3us old Greeks aud
Romans; bu: uons cf thtm vas 80 rich In oil
probability, Says New Yo:k paper. as are
| many liyieg Amtr'can5. T. e'us. king OF
Ly dis 500 years b=toie the Cbristlaa era, bad
| 20 much gold. ai.b other properly, that rich
as Cie us" h.s oeen for ayes a throadbare
smile. b Was tha ere It p'u ocl a: Of antiquity,
and it is difficult e dge Of the value OF hIs pos.
s:s,iols; but /, is uot at sl lIksly thai il ever
r.. cbsd more hso $40 GOO coo to $4,000 900
of our money. There are, no dOub!, tOr'y New
Yorkers 81 least wGs.h mora than he, acd sem,
s1 or te7ru hava tourfod lis wealth. Tne
rlchost Rouan 10 Juliua { 90 e,at's tims, aud ous
of the trlum Yira.e, was Ma.cds Licuius Utsssus.
su as:ute spccuator botcd for avarlcs. hla
fortuoe bas cfteo b en- ettImated and never
above S9, 900. 600 TO $40 900, ,OOOiPU UdltedStat
currency Ao athebiau or Romae who could
count his estate at wlst would be one mi!l0n
of our dol ars was coUsitered imu, nsely wealthy,
but residents of NJ Mauhsttao VINO have no more
than 81 600 600 are not now coosldered gartleu'
larl; vel off, and are unko0wn among the opu'
'ent members of the community. Mere mil
lionsires are 40 oommou here ts TO mart little
dissipc ion e .aucialIy. There weru no such
estates in aoceDt times as those OF
the Astoss a1d Vandstbils, aad DO
such prvats fortunes as sra held not
noy here bur in Boston, Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Chicago. SAP Frauclscn aod othsr
iies Of the Republic. The growth OF wealth
has been pyodisious 10 this County Wlthn ibis
generation. Some OF the largest accu nu' atoms
IN the lacd have oeen made within tofty or tfty
years. Half censury ago only ons man 10 lido
metropolis vas worth 81 900 000 and bis oaue
vas John Ja,ob Astor huodreds OF our
feiow-ci.izsns can 90 beyuud those figures aud
they fe.l rathcr moor than otherwise. WSen
Stephen Gr,rd died 10 1881 be vas o!nsldered
the richest man 90 this cOutl0eot-no one ap-
proached or begao TO approach him mone-
tarily-ard YET hls property was no. valued az
over So, ,O0O 00O Msn Wbo d. Dol regard them
selves ts Very old c1o easily remaDber when
500 600 was thoueht TO be for,uos evan III
our larges. cities. and whea 5 0 900 i. the small
tow, gas deemed 40 iadep odsDct. At pre-
sens 500. 900 is hardly r:okoost sofliout 10
make Is u "a comfortable, nod $4,000 Hould
10. bs d.sar9lag Ut 10 iuJn, uLia5' ID rural
vi l.ge cf NV 4l'ed, %hgrs genersl DoV-
erty lends msgotyluS power 10 any eye
that conlempla:es aoy klad OF c1ln. Wlthlo
the neIi fifty years 1t Is likely shat private
ortuoes sli! bs iucte5sJd b77ood WAatlna rave rave
been 10 The same parlJd 10 tbs past 10 l93O
and 1910 i: is probable eoougl WS sha ha.r "t
PLAIN American citiz ,us who arc worth SlOO'
900, 900 to $3.50 900, 900, and Sno Will b
gvumbling that tney have % more,
Was Joan of Arc Burnt at the stake:
The Mayor of Conpisgue Is quite genius IN
bis way. He kuew that the prevailing notion
was 10 sac1la5ze everything, ald consequently
he invented republican manif station 10 honor
of Joao of Arc, the Nj aid of Orleans, who de-
Tended Compeigos sgslust the Eng'lsh and
Burgurdlsus 10 1880, aod was BETRAYED into
the hands of John Of Luxembourg. Wlo sur-
rendered her to the Eoglishnen who bul Mt her
at the stake in the ma,kot plsc> of Roueo. The
rujns of the Msideu'5 low show whera tbe
P,csri9 archer ruiied the unfortunate Josu
from her wsr horse, and when those Who ars
fond OF going back to the history Of other days
tLiok of tho Legend and then of that horrible
s,atus of the Maid cf Orleans at the end OF thr
Rue des Pyr,mldes in Paris, they mus; deDlo o
,hs fac; th 1T the man of Piosrdy lett 90 de-
soendsut who wou'd voiun.eer to come forward
and uohoise the f. surs which surm Iuots the
pedestal
M. CHARLES Monselet has 'browo soma doubt
on toe legend of Joan of A C having bean burnt
by the English. He quot:s paragraph from
the Mercury of 1853 announcing tdst certain
d: cumenrs racenty discovered led to the coD.
clusion that Joao of Arc bad been married, and
tha, consequently, some unfortunate vic i'm must
have been sseri6oed 10 her pl,ca 81 R1uen. The
documents c,nss.ed of 90 sttsgtarlon m;de
by Father Vignisr. who said Five years after
the juG gment of JOSH ct Arc. oa the ZU'n OF
May, Joan, the Maid, visited m"S. e. "a Thas sne
ihon oh, she hsd beeu burnt, ba. when they saw
her tbe7 recoynizsd her st once They took her
witb than 10 Boauelon. Whereon yeoman
nsmsd Nicolle gave her horse. and two OF Ter
parsops ,ntributed sword and p!umed ast.
and the said Maid sDru1g very clever'y on me
said horse, saying 8 nulIltu1e VI 'oins' w 7
yeoman Nicolle"
Tbe old priest wrote lhis history with his oHn
hand and made oatn as to it. siacerlty betore
public notary, adding IS PROOF OF Wnst ne
had advanced copy of the Original contr- ot
msrrisgs between "Hobert des Armoiaes and
Insn o1 Arc. otherwise known 90 the Maid of
I)rlesns." Conpiegne has treasured no faith
| full souvenir of the heroine, and about nftSe
wears ago q subscription vas opsned To eoaDie
the town to erect status to her memory Inc
| idea WAS staried by rather uapepul.r person,
and WAS soon allowed to drop. The present
Msycr again took up the matter, aod with tina
| aid of the municipality has at leegth succee1ed
| In giving tbs to wn statue OF the Maid. who's,
words rai vCr me bons anis de Uomplegne.
b We been cut in the pedestal
yUST RgCslvED at e8 King s., cotner
| n koyal, supply OF Raugoon True 5Ipe'
Y,ttler and other celebrated SAZOHS aud IA
ito nj