New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-29
PARIS TOPICS.
u1cKry-TuE CHERBOuRG FETEs.

-SvCCFSS OF The CHEkBoUkG Fbibo - i>Ni'
prNTs OF THE 'PREslDENT1AL JOURNEY
tyRoN THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
PARIS Aug 13.-The Reactonist press has been
making great noise about the expulsion OF Nj.
Hickey Harden. Baron Thy the grace OF the late no
Nono) of ST. Patrick. The Papal Baron is described
by his friends here American subject" lie
has n notable talent for advertising himself ana
scurrilous little paper called the Iriboatef. ms
journal appears once week. Ii is in the stSle OF
the defunct London 1omdhdwk is hlusuateu,
. and processes. Notwithstanding the coaIseness OF
Its complexion to 60 in for the highest arlstoeTacy
and the whitest legitimacy. very odd comoina-
tion this-Triboule,. the jester created by Victor
Hugo TO lash the Valols king. who built Inc
Chateau de Chambord. is twisted into courtler!
NJ Hickey Harden. Baron of st. Patrick, came
unto the world in California, and there passed his
early YOUTH The fame of some aristocratic mar
Iiages accomplished in Europe by California young
ladies had powerful effect on the Inauguration OF
his parents and of the future nobleman. lhey se'
them thinking about Illusrious Irish pedigree
and about legendary estates contiscated in the Re
bellion of 1898. With Californian gold Young
Hickey Harden or Harden Hickey for his name Is
given both WAYS was handsomely started IN life
over here He was placed in French school, aud
then sent to ST. Cyr. His object in going there was
eventually 10 qualify for a command In National
Irish army and to win back the mythologcal
estates IN which he has brought himself to believe
know Ireland very WELL and the part of it from
which the Baron of ST. Patrick tells bis French
friends that his family was expelled My memory
is stored with legends about the old families OF the
County Wexford, who compromised III the
different instructions against the English authority
But cannot remember having ever heard in my
life of ANYBODY in that part of Ireland of the name
of Hickey who possessed freehold estate toward
the end of the last century earlier. There were
IIickeys who were carriers and dealers IN whishey
In small shcebeen houses and the arsiocrat OF the
family was an auctioneer. Harden is a good name
ON the borders of Scotland. But before the Encun-
bered Estates act was passed as much could not DE
said of IL in Ireland. 1t was essentially working
class name. like Mclaughlin. Ntzhugh, or Meehan.
So far back, it appears. as the time OF James
H., certain Patrick Hickey came to France
and through the prescribed English King at ST.
Germans obtained commission in the Irish Regi-
ment which was incorporated with the army oil
Louis XIV Like Marshal MacMahon's grand
father, DR.. Patnck, this Hickey was tall, hand
some. dashng fellow. and walked into the alice
lions OF ich and titled lady, free 20 dispose OF her
hand and of her fortune She married him. and
they left descendants, now represented by some
ladies OF good family and LeCIimist and ultra
Catholic principles. The Baron of ST. Patrick
naturally found in the emigration of a
tury confirmation Of the legendary pedi
gree which nobody looked into nor
questioned A good-looking young fellow. with
100000 francs a year. who understands how TO put
the best leg foremost and can deal in tall talk
without making himself ridiculous, might claim
here without provoking contradiction TO be de-
scended from Romuus and Rcmus, or for that mat
ter from the she-wolf that nursed Them
BARON HICKEY AND HIS WIFE.
Baron Hickey Harden is now about six-and-
twenty. He is far-harcd, tall, wears fashionably-
made clothes. does not strike one as being fop has
q good seat on horseback and is excellent judge
Of horse flesh. He married Signora SampleIu
three years ago. She claims her
side to be of still more ancient descent
than her husband, having had for her ancestor in
the direct line no less personGge than the Apostle
Peter! According to the Sampcrrl mythology
;he Prince of the Apostles was a widower when he
came to Rome. A patrican lady fell in love with
him. and the Saint was not By any means indifer-
ent to Der charms To convert her and TO obtain
her protection at the Court of Nero for his fellow
Christians. he married her; and the day on which
hewas crucifed, with his head downward, she gave
birth to a som Hence the name OF SampeTr which
the families bear who are descended in the male
line from this Roman Tristan.
BARON HIcKEYs MILITARY PROJECTS.
Baron Hickey Harden aims at doing something
mole-the Prefect of Police and the Minister of the
interior believe-than running saurical paper
addressed 10 Utramontanists and Lcgitimists. BY
the whole hog enmity to the Republic which dis
tinguishes lie 1riJOulet, and by the fines imposed
on il for scurrious articles against Republicans of
eminence and for Unauthorized caricatures, he |
has wen admission for himself and his wife
into some Of the most exclusive salons
of the noble Faubourg Shining there does
not satisfy his ambition. He would like to
play a great part in the Court of King |
Henri V. To this end he has, 1t is alleged |
at the Ministry of the Interior by those in the min
isterial secrets, undertaken a system OF emboach'
age in connection with the JesuIs. To embdacher |
means to seduce military men from their allegiance |
As you are probably aware, 1000 French officers |
have been furnished, since the FallouX law was |
passed. by the school of the Rue des Postes to the
French military service This army within al army |
is under Papa direction. NJ. Hickey Harden under |
took am moreover told to bring in fresh recruits,
and TO make his house at Audilly, in the forest of
MoDtmorency, and his donicile in the Rue Auber, |
the centres OF recruiting operations Having passed
through 81 Cyr he Is up 10 rne mii ia Iree-
mitted on military footing, to the Cafe Heldcr, |
and means were taken by him and his military |
friends circulate the 1ribOale III the army, and
10 group under local heads dlsaffected officers and
soldiers in an association commanded by a central |
chief The Ribbon system was. iii word, to be in |
troduced into the French Army by the Baron Of ST. |
Patrick, with the object OF purgIng FRANCE OF Re |
publican vipers. NJ Constans denied at Cherbourg |
that the Baron was expelled for the Hornpipe |
Cartoon" III which Greyy, Gambotta and Leon Say |
represented IN sailors clothing, IN the act of
cutting those capers which give animation |
to the hornpipe dance. DR.. Clemenceau's |
paper La Justice, has got wind of the true reason
of the expulsion, and presses The Government to de-
clare it, As early as August the decree against the
Baron Of St. Patrick was signed, and the reports Of
the Prefect Of Police and OF the Minister of the |
Interior. recommending It's signature, were of |
uuch earlier date.
SUCCESS OF THE CHRRBoURG FETEs.
The Cherbourg Fetes began. were continued and |
ended very happily. There was fine weather all