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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-03

and was with him during his last few
days, and what he here says must
pass into history as the true account
OF. Maximilian's last moments, an az
count not yet printed in English. II
was OF Soria that Macmillan said: eli
is who must console this good priest
and. not let him become utterly over
GOMEZ
ssThe night before his DEATH says
the Confessor Soria, "the Emperor
wrote two letters, one to hePope and
the other to his mother. He confded
both to me, together witha handker.
chief for his mother.
On the following morning | accom-:
panied him to the place of execution
The cortege was composed of three
wrethed coaches. I got into the first
with the Emperor, while Miramon
and Mejia occupied, with their comics.
sors, the other two.
Hardly had we left the Convent Of
the Capuchinos when l was surprised
to see Macmillan strike his breast,
saying:
81 have put eight handkerchiefs
here to keep the blood from staining
my uniform
Cal! the rest of the way the Emper.
or busted himself with praying and
recommending his soul to God. But
seeing the Hill OF the Bells he ex-
claimed:
{" There is where I had thought to
hoist the standard of victory, and
there is where am going to die! Life
is a play!
And, after some moments Of silence
he added: what a beautiful view!
And what a beautiful day to die!'
s'When we had arrived at. the place
OF execution, it was found difficult to
open the door of the coach.
"Then Macmillan, being impatient,
leaped out Of the window, knocking
off his hat.
"Heh handed me the crucifix, embrac-
ing me. He also embraced Miramon
and Mejia, distributed some gold coins
among the soldiers who were to shoot
him, and then, in a strong voice, pro
nounced in Spanish these words: 4
forgive everybody, and l ask
that all may forgive me, and de-
sire that my blood, which is going. to
be shed, may he for the good OF NIexi-
co. Long live Mexico! Long live her
independence Immediately he placed
his hand on his breast, indicating the
spot for the soldiers to take aim at.
Then the drums sounded, and in the
presence of the four thousand soldiers
assembled it was proclaimed that
whoever should raise his voice in be-
half of the condemned man would be
made to suffer the same penalty. Not
a murmur was heard among the inn
mense crowd standing behind the
troops.
cat a given signal the three platoons
fired. Miramon and Mejia fell dead at
once, but Macmillan did not die at
the first discharge and uttered three
groans. Then they gave him the coup
de grace"
The priest Soria denied that Maxi
milan, as the legend goes, gave thepost
OF honor at the place of execution to
Miramon, saying "a brave man mer-
it's the respect OF his sovereign; take
the place Of honor" The placing OF
the condemned was by accident Thus
a picturesque legend is dlssipated.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-03
Burnside's Assault at Freder>
icksburg.


Col. VIM. Miller Owen, an officer 81
the celebrated battalion of the Wash.
ington Artillery of New Orleans, has
lately published book containing a
history of that organization which
served in the Confederate Army from
Bull Run to Appomatox. Thefollou-
ing from Colonel Ovens graphic
account of the assault on Marye's
Hill at the battle of Fredericksburg.
cat last the federal line is formed,
and appears above the ridge and ad.
vances. What magnificent sight il
is! We have never witnessed such a
battle-array before; long lines follow
ing one another, OF brigade front. It
seemed like some huge blue serpent
about to encompass and crush us in
it's folds, their musket- barrels CLEAN,
ing brightly in the sunlight, their gay
colors futtering in the breeze. The
lines advance at the double quick, and
the alignments are beautifully kept.
The board fences enclosing the gar
dens fall like walls of mere paper.
Then the loud, full voice of Colonel
Walton rings out, EsTention! Com
mence firing! 7 and instantly the
edge OF Marye's Hill is fringed with
fame. The dreadful work OF the
Washington Artillery has begun. The
boys soon warm up to their work,
and aim and fire coolly and deliber-
ately. Nearer and nearer the enemy 8
line advances, and now they are
within range OF canister and we
give it to them. Now they are near
enough to the infantry in the sunken
road, the Georgians and the north
Carolinians; and they are unseen by
the enemy, for the smoke is beginning
to cover the field. All at once the
gray line below US rises; one moment
to glance along the trusty rihe-barrels,
and volley after volley is poured into
the enemy's ranks. Great gaps ap.
pear; we give them canister again and
again; a few leave heranks-moref fol-
low; the lines halt for aninstant, and,
turning, are seen running in great dis
order towards the town. The first as
sault has been met and repulsed. The
field before us is dotted with patches
OF blue; they are the dead and wound
ed of the Federal infantry.
ut was the division Of French that
had charged the hill, and was scatter
ed, with the loss Of half their mum.
bers
"Hancocks division now advances in
splendid style, and being joined by rem.
nants OF French's command, pushes
on valiantly to and beyond the point
French had reached, and then, in
little more: than fifteen minutes like
our first assailants are forced
back. OF the 5000 men Han.
cock led into action 1900 fell in the
charge. With Hancock came the Zou-
aves and the Irish brigade of Meaghef
bearing aloft the green flag with the
golden harp of Ireland. The brave
fellows came within five-and-twenty
PAGES Of the stone-wall, land encoun.
tered such a line Of shot, shell, canister
and musketry as no command was
ever known to live through The re-
suit was that two-thirds OF this splen-
did and gallant brigade was left upon
the field killed and wounded"
In the following May the attack Of
Sedgwick upon the same position was
more successful, and the Washington
artillery on that occasion lost six
pieces.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
Christianity and Popular Education.

Christianity and Popular Education.
Rev. Dr. Washington GLADDEN., in an
article in the April Century with the
above caption, says: Il have not men
toned this demand for the entire secu
larization of our schools for the sake Of
opposing it at this point in the argu
ment, but rather for the sake of calling
attention to a manifest deterioration OF
public morals which has kept even pace
with this secular tendency in education
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago most of
our public schools were under Christian
influences No attempt was made to in
culcate the dugmas of the Christian re-
ligion, but the teachers were free to
comm end the precepts of the New Tes-
lament, in direct, practical way, to the
consciences of their pupils; and some of
us remember, not without gratitude, the
Impressions made upon our lives in the
school-room by the instructors of our
early days. All this has been rapidly
changing; and, contemporaneously, il Is
discovered that something is wrong with
society Grave dangers menace its
peace; Ugly evils inrest its teeming pop
ulatiuns. Pauperism is increasing. The
number of those who lack either the
power or the will to maintain them
selves, and who are therefore thrown
upon the care cf the state, is growing
faster than the population. The cure of
this alarming evil is engaging the study
of philanihropists in all onr cities.
Crime is increasing The only State IN
the Union that carefully collects its NOR
al statistics brings to light some startling
facts respecting the increase of Grin d"
within the past thirty years. In 1850
there was one prisoner in Massachusetts,
t. every eight hundred and four of the
in 1880 there was one to
every four hundred and eighty sever.
The ratio eff the prisoners to the whole
population nearly doubled in thirty
years. But it may be said that this in
crease is due to the capital growth of
the foreign population in Massachusetts.
There would be small comfort in this
if it were the true ore. The
native criminals are increasing faster
than the foreign-boIn criminals. In 1850
there was one native prisoner to every
one thousand two hundred and sixty>
seven native citizens; in 1880 there W as
one native prisoner to every six hundred
and fifteen native citizens. The ratio
of native prisoners to the native popula-
tion more than doubled in thirty years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08

If there Is any more mournfA sight af-
forded by the daily routine of the great
town than the gathering at a public dis
pensary, do not think that l care to be
introduced to it An hour in the dispensary
o. one of our hospitals the other morning
was enough for me. 1t was a melancholy
crowd that appealed TO the ministrations of
the place, but without exception a crowd
made up of decent poverty. The couple of
doctors were very business-like, but neither
brusque nor inconsiderste, and in several
specially pitiful cases exhibited decidedly
unprofessional sympathy and feeling.
One of the physicians informed me that
the greatest difficulty they have to contend
with is 30 get their patients to take medi-
cine intelligently. Their ignorance is al
most as deplogable in most cases as their
misery. Where dangerous medicines are to
be administered the doctors are always
afraid of the results till the patients turn up
again to prove conclusively that they have
not oyerdosed themselves 1t is a custom in
the dispensaries to charge for medicines at
their cost price-itself the merest trife, gen.
orally, if the patient can afford to pay it
The pooreat people, says my doctor, will
always and willingly pay for prescriptions
if they can possibly scrape the money to-
gether; but there are others who can well
afford the expense who try to wheedle help
out Of the dispensaries when they should be
buying it at the drug storeS-Alfred Trum-
BILE in New York News
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
THE NEWS.

The Cumberland river was higher last
week than ever before known.
Mrs. ParnelI, of New York, is not ex-
pected to survive long.
Geronimo, Apache Chief, who surren-
dered to General Crook. has escaped.
St. Louis strikers who engaged in law
less acts will be vigorously prosecuted.
Friends of Mr. Blaine say that he can
have the nomination in 1888 if he will
take it.
Seventy German societies have joined
the Cincinnati "Bund for Liberty and
Right"
The Railroad strikers in st. Louis and
the Southwest have been ordered to re-
turn to work.
The probability is not good for two
thirds vote in favor of the bankruptcy
bill in the U. S. House.
Congressman, as rule, wear poorer
clothes than any other class of men who
receive $1,000 year salary.
Jerome Stevens, prominent farmer of
North Fairfield. Ohio, was shot and ia
tally wounded by grain thief.
Land in Connecticut, upon which
pine trees were planted a few years ago,
is now worth 500 an acre for its tim
ber
The girls in the public schools of
Brooklyn are compelled to commit to
memory the Constitution of the United
States.
Senator Jones, of Florida, denies that
he is lovesick at Detroit, and it is ex
pected that be will soon return to Wash
ington.
U. 6 Circuit Judge Sawyer. of Cali
fOrnia, says there is a section in the Ret
viSed Statutes which makes boycotting
a criminal offense.
Mr.. Powderly says that if the names
of strikers who destroyed railroad prop
erty are reported to him, they will be ex-
PEELED from the Order of Knights of
Labor.
AL. Bennett. of Memphis, agent for a
Cincinnati sale mandatory, was shot
and killed by his mistress, Laura May
Porter, formerly of Cincinnati, who also
fatally shot herself.
A west+bound passenger train from
on the Air Line Railroad,
met with an accident near Huntingburg,
Ind. A number of passengers were
killed and injured.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
"AFrsR MIDNIGHT coME1H MORN"

The years come and the years go,
And the leaves Of lie keep falling,
Carrie, falling;
And across the sunless rivers hoW,
With accents soft and whispers low,
The friends long lost are calling,
Carrie, calling;
While autumn his red glory wears,
And clouds oppresS the sky like cares,
But the old griefs die, and new joys are
born,
And after the midnight cometh morn.
The years wake, and the years sleep,
And the past is full Of sorrow,
Carrie, sorrow;
The thoughtless laughs and the thoughtless
weepS,
And each the fruit of his follies reaps,
For to-day is the fate of tomorrow,
Carrie, tomorrow;
And new loves tempt US to forget
The old, and old friends love Us yet
So the old gIiefs die, and new joys are born
And after the midnight cometh morn
The years laugh, the years sigh,
But the flowers for you are blowing,
Carrie, blowing;
As girlhoods days go dancing by,
And womanhood's blithe May is nigh,
With hope and fancies glowing,
Carrie, glowing;
While Love his nets for you prepares,
And turks to catch you unawares-
And the old griefs die and new joys are
born
And after midnight cometh morn
The years live and the years die,
And all they touch they saAden,
Carrie, sadden;
But still the heart can time defy,
Hops still with purple flush our sky
And sober friendship gladden.,
Carrie, gladden.;
And well as we have loved before
In autumn we can love once more
For the old griefs die and new joys are
born
And after midnight cometh morn
Albert Pike
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
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eraEdf, are fully explained in DIR. Hart
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These books can be had at all the drug
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w. D. Williams, U. S. Pension Agent
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
Catarrhal Dangers.

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To purchase immunity from such a fate should
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
DUKE DE MoRNY's WILD DAUGHTER.

Spoiled and Petted Beyond Measure-A
steeplechase After Pleasure.
Sophie Mathilde Adele, Marquis de Bel
beuf, is not quite twenty three years of age.
Those who expect to find in this grand
daughter Of a queen and daughter of a
princess any of the naughty grace, the Sc
we're reticence, the strict attention to the
rules of high-breeding and etiquette that
one naturally associates with ones ideas Of
royal or imperial blood, have only to look
at her portrait, as published by Dentu, to
find themselves undeceived- A small head,
covered with short chestnut curls like those
of boy, irregular and saucy features, an
arm planted akimbo on one hip, soft felt
hat in the other hand, a goose-head um-
brella leaning against chair as accessory
to the picture, all go to make up type
very different from the imagined reality.
The bar-sinister on her escutcheon, traced
there by her paternal grandmother, seems
to have exercised a baleful influence over
her life
She has been spoiled and petted beyond
measure by her mother, whose darling she
has always been. She was a mere infant
when her father died, and her pet name of
"Bebe" seems TO have clupg TO her, half ex-
cusing the eccentricities of her existence
She is said by her intimate friends to have
the best heart and the widest head in the
world Her life is steepleehase in pursuit
of pleasure. She cares little or nothing for
the more formal amusements of society,
finding local balls and operas and evening
receptions anything but amusing. Her
dogs, her horses, her drives in the Bois are
varied by her artistic labors, for she is de-
voted to painting.
She is an accomplished billiard player
and a "crack shot" with the pistol, grace
full fencer and an excellent musician, her
favorite instrument being the violin, though
the piano, harp and guitar are not neglected
by her But of all heI occupations she likes
best to drive herself in the Bois with her
little low English wagon filed with her
favorite poodles, of which she possesses a
great number. Her latest freak was to
import from Spain noted dog-shearer to
keep the coats of her canine darlings in gooi
order-Paris Letter
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
When Mamma was a Little Girl.

When Mamma was little girl,
Or so they say to me.
She never used to romp and run,
Nor shout and scream with noisy fun,
Nor climb an apple tree,
She always kept her hair in curl
When Mamma was little girl
When Mamms was little girl
1t seems to her, you see,
She never used TO tumble down,
Nor ereak her doll, ner tear her gown,
Nor drink ber papa tea;
She learned to knit, plais, seam aud
purl-
When Mamma was little girl.
But Grandma says-it must be true
How fast the seasons DER us twirl!
Your Mamma, dear, was just like you
When she was Grandmas little girl"
So. Nicholas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
Aniline colors Unsuited for Painting.

In paper on the action of light upon pig
ments employed in painting, an Edinburgh
astist states that his experiments have led
him to the conclusion that Prussian blue in
oil is the most stable of colors He asserts,
however, that it would never do to employ
the fieeting aniline pigments upon the same
canvas with the stable Prussian blue-paint-
ing one portion of picture with the latter.
In fact, the aniline colors are found to be,
for the most part, quite unsuited for paint
ing purpos IS, and some of them, as is well
known, are so changeable in the sunlight as
to be used in the production of Photographic
images They ara also extensively employed
for coloring photographs, their thin trans
parent character rendering them particu-
hrly suitable for the purpose, it being pos
sible to see the shadows and outlines of the
image beneath the layer Of color. Never
theless, photographs tinted m this way soon
lose their bloom, and the colors are often
seen fading while the pictures are yet ex-
posed for sale in the shop windows-Boston
TranscriDt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-08
They VIII Surely Find You.

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