The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-14
AN IMPERIAL HUNTRESS
The Empress Of Austria in ireland.
Hard Riding and Frequent TumbIss-
The Surgeon Busy and the Cor
oner Expectant-Her Ma
jesty In the Mud.
New York Tlmas.l

DUBLIN. Feb 17.-If the Empress Of Aus
trla doesn't give the coroner for the County
of Meath, or the officer In the same grim ItHo
Of business for the County Of Kildare, sema
work to do, 1t will greatly surprise many
people. 1t is an even chance which coroner
shall have the first DEATH for her Majesty
since she came to ireland some weeks AFRO
has been hunting alternately Id both cutiI,,
ties. leading the hunt always ut break re,,k
pace. The wonder to city people, whose per
sonal experiences Of the "pigskin" are OF the
mildest and most limited character, Ia how
to keep up. such d rapid round ii iiendI1nss
racing. Actually, her Majesty, when ia Ires-
land, spends about three-fOurths Of her
time In ;, + The !. ,,.s saddle Out Of Che
uounty OF o. ua!.wxay where The sporting
chasing over the country, IN scarlet coats and
top boots, after tho historic pack oY br,rsIu
known ~ "The Blazers," lthere IL noti1Iur
like It, On Sundays and holidays, when the
Empress improvises q private chase over tho
grounds attached to her residence at Summer
Hill. She cannot get on without daily burnt.
Of riding 1t Is all very fine sport for the En-
press, who may be said to live and have her
being on horseback; but what time of it
some Of her household must have durina
these Irish hunting trips. There's poor Primes
Ltchtenstein, who ID brought out every day
TO enjoy the delights Of the chase" Ne
looks about as happy al the end Of week'E
locked. Ills Imperial Hghness wa was v ysry
near providing a Job Tor The coroasr
for the County Of Meath the otiisr
day. While enjoying the delights Of
call Tremendous cropper;" that ID TO
shy, the Prince, when charging full
speed ut q stiff fence. over which his tIperfap
mistress had, rs usual, led the way In lying
fashion, suddenly vacated his saddle and
went sprawing along several feet OF Irish
earth. IL took him some time to pick himself
up, and when he was overhaned BY the slr-
geoD, whom the Empress has thoi1ghtfusIy
attached to her hunting establishment, tt wna
found that thong he wasn't broker an ywisesv,,
he WINS 30 bruised aud blackened that bed
bleeding and bandages were tho poor Prnega
portion for some days. Then her Maiesty'H
personal attendant. q Hungarian, who HI
bound to follow her wherever she goes ON
over that no Is now lying for repairs az
Summer Hill House, 30 that her MejestyfG
surgeon has no sineeure. On the very first
day after her arrival In Ireland. the En-
Majesty jumped to her feet like an aerobstss
she had been spun into the dank drain
Of a double ditch Her steed, however, lay
where he fell, and 1t was found that the poor
brute had sustained such INJURIES externas
and internal, that his hunting days are at en-
end. Give me another horseT' cried the
Empress, who. fortunately, had no wounds to
be bound up; they got her another horse, and
away she went, flying over stone walls and
big entertainments, until she came up with the
hounds; then she led the way, and, as usual
| WAS one OF the few who saw the finish. The
hardest-riding hunting men we have are mo
where" when this mighty huntress is In the
| field. Some Irish ladies', trying to follow the
Austrian Queen, have performed curious featH
OF tumbling. One OF them was brought home
to the pnternal residence the other day with
| her Lex fractured.
1t IL said that her Maiesty's son, tho Crown
Prince Rudolph, is coming over to visit hie
| mother at her Irish hunting quarters He
has been already In Ireland, but curloualy
enough for son OF such mother, young
Rudolph doesn't hunt. There was notable
hunting gathering near Dublin one day
while he was here. The heir to the crown OF
Austria was therein q carriage and pairs
The story goes that his royal mother has
taken q solemn promise from him that he
will not hunt. Probably her Majesty con-
siders that one slave In the family To the
dashing dangerous sport 10 quite enough at
time. Except as regards her daily appear
ance In the hunting field, the Empress lives
In the strictest privacy No communications
whatever has passed between her and the
VIce-regal people at Dublin Castle further
than that her Majesty sent check last week.
for Goo, to the Duchess OF Marlborough
toward her Grace's Irish relief fund.