New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-20

hnsh them up. We arc not yss done, IL appesrs,
with the Ney scandal which tho GaElois, the Mot
d0rdre, and the LaHtane, all journals with back
stairs police connections, declare Involves mYs-
terry which the authorities have not taken the
trouble to sift The late Duke, his friends aver,
was not a man to have taken away his life. His
mother in-lsw, on the other hand, denies that she
refused TO lot him have this GOO 900 francs which 1t
Is said he wanted to stop tho mouth of black
mailer. IL he had asked her for million. she SAYS.
che would have given 1t 70 him with pleasure. The
Eey family. on their side, efiaced her name and
that of the widowed Duchess from the lettres do
Jaire part, or letters Of invitation 10 the funeral
According to French etiquette the widows name
heads the list OF relations OF the deiunet in the Te
Dc tire part announcing his death and inviting the
person to whom II is sent 10 the interment. The
usual thing is to make the widow and children lead
of. After them placed the'brothers and sisters,
uneles and acnts grandparents, nieces and nephews
father-in-law mother-in law and cousins The Ecin-
gen children are brought forward In the ees deyde
part issued for the late Generals funeral along with
the Prince and Princess OF Bibesco their aunt and
uncle-in-law. the Prince do la Moskowa. uncle TO
the deceased and the Duchesse do Persigny, ms
first cousin. IL has not been explained why the
wife ana mother-in-law, who obtained by tnelr
personal intercession with the Archbishop OF Paris
and the Bishop of Versailles Christian burial for the
Generals corpse should have been 80 snubbeq ana
indeed insuted by his family-for an insult it was
toshaye omitted their names in the invitation let
ters to the funeral. The not Ordre makes direct
attack on the head Of the municipal police, Caubet
and on the Project Of Police, Andrieax, for keeping
the Ney affair in obscuTity. No reporter was al
lowed to witness the pOst-mortenl examination,
aud the medical evidence has been kept back from
the newspapers. The H0tROrdfe Threatens TO driye
the above named officials into corner by daily
revelation In the meantime it addresses to them the
following nterrogatories: Are the police aware that
latterly the relations between Ney and Madame
Home, the adaptive mother of Madame Ney dElcln-
gen had become extremely cold Do the police know
why they cooled Is it true that General IN &c
tive service Possesses q letter from General Ney
whom we must not NAME he said Ihey Will get
me killed, and then say that committed suioidef
soILED PAGES OF HISTORY.
Whether General Gey was murdered or COM
mitted suicide it is now certain that he WINS man
of odiousy uncIean life. and that his nerves were
greatly shaken by the newspaper reports Of the
Bordeaux scandal. The causes of this scandal were
the too successful attempts made by a military man
Of good position chemist and some others to
deprave the yonthful son and daughter OF the
wealthy doctor belmont, in which they were aided
by a nursery maid. 1t is difficult ~ touch such
pitchy subjects without deiiling ones pen and yet
they are starting forward so prominently that II Is
impossible to ignore them ,,-
lie Parchment, edited by Dufaure, the ex-MInlster
of Justice suggests the constitution IN the french
army Of regimental tribunals of honor Such
tribunal lie opires might have kept the Duc
d'Elcingen straight when he at FIRST took to eva
company. 1t appears that after his marriage
ne scandaiized grave eticers by opcnly IRE, IRE.
WIS only to be gathered. lie P0rteBeRt seems to
think that, however General Ney came By his yIo-
lent death, nc we'll deserved it.