The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-08-08
THE NERO.
Bill Nye Chats Gracefully AbOut the
ancient Fiddler.
How Nero Punished Offensive Partizan-
ship-What Became of His Critics.
His Drowning Act i'll the
Killing Line.


from 81 to 6S A. D., was said to have
been one of the most diSagreeab'e mon
archs to meet that Rome ever had. lie
was a nephew of Calisula, the Emper
or. on his mothers side, and q son OF
Dominitius AhenObarbus. of St. Law
renee county. The above was really
Nero's name. but in the year 80 A. ID.
his mother married CIaudius, and her
Son adopted the name Of Nero Clandins
Caesar Drusus Germanicus. This name
he was in the habit of wearing during
the cold weather, buttoned up III front.
During the hot weather Nero was all
the name he wore.
In SO Nero married Octavia. daEGh
ter of Claudius. aud went right tt house
keeping. Nero and Octavia did not
get along first rate Nero Soon wta
Tied of his young wife, and finally trans
ferred her to the New Jerusalem.
In54 Nero's mother, by conceallng
the riehtful heir TO the throne for sever
al weeks. and doctoring the returns, sue
ceeded in getting the steady job Of En-
peror for nero at a good salary,
His reign was quite stormy, and
several long, bloody wars were carried
on during that period. He was q good
fighter. and could successfully hold Il
mans ceat all day while the man went
to the front to get killed. He loved to
90 out riding over the battle fields as
soon as it was safe. in his gorSe3nsly
bedizened band chariot, and he didn't
care if the wheels rolled i'll gore up to
the hub providing it was some other
mans gore. 1t gave him great pleas
IRE to drive about over the field of car
mage and gloat over the. dead. Nero
was not a great success as an Emperor.
but as a gloater he has no rival in histn
ry.
Nero's reign YVES characterized, also.
by the great contagration and Roman
fireworks of July, "a. by which two
thirds of the city of Rome vas destroy
ed. The Emperor was charged with
starting this fire in order to get the insu
rance on a stock. of dry goods on Main
street.
Instead of taking off his crown, hang
ing it up in the hall and helping to put
out the fire, as other Emperors have
done time and again, Nero took his vic
lin up stairs and played, I'll Meet You
When the Sun Goes Down. This Occa
stoned a great deal of adverse criticism
on the part of those who opposed the
administration. Several persons open
" criticised Nero's policy aud then
died.
A mar III those days would put on his
overcoat in the morning, and tell his
wife not to keep dinner waiting. ~
am going down town to criticise the
Emperor a few moments he would
say. IF do not get home in time for
dinner, meetmeo on the evergreen shore
Nero, after the death of Octavia, mar
ried PSppetSabina. She died after
ward at her husbands earnect ~solicita
ton. Nero did not care SO much about
being bridegroom, but the excitement
of being a widower always gratiiied
and pleased him.
He was a very Jealous monarch, and
kept Rome pretty well stirred up du
ring his reign. If a man failed to show
up anywhere on time his friends would
look sadly at each other and say, "Aias
he has criticised Nero"
A man could wrestle with the yellow
fever, or the smallpox, or the Asiatie
cholera, and stand a chance for recoy
cry, but when he spoke sarcastically OF
Nero it was good bye John.
Nero when he decided that a man was
an offensive partizan that man would
generally put up the following notice
OIL his office door:
"Gone to see the Emperor in relation
to charge of offensive p%artlzanship
Meet me at the cemetery at ? o'clock.
Finally, Nero overdid this thing ani
a it into the ground. He did no
want to be disliked, and so those who
disliked him were killed. This mad,
people timid and muzzled the press
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