The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-04
COUNT AND EY-OkRDINAL.
1y.ndertuI carser ota Nan About Town.

/ / was crossing Sixth avenlIe at Twenty
| third street with friend last Saturday
| night. writes G. f. l.dthrop from New
| York TO the PittsSurg Dispatch, and just
| sndcr the station of tie Elevated Rail-
| toal We eneountered q weA-dressed man
| 20 whom my friend bowed, Saying as he
! lid 50, Good evening, Count"
Tie stranger replied in German. We
! paused moment and / regarded him
| atieHuvely. His erect. iSure, taunty air
! and generally young get-up gave him the
{ appearance Of man of forty. but there
( we're wrinkles IN has face ard tiTed-loek
/ In his eyes which showed him to be at
| least a dozen years cider His clothes
we're new ard TGl Irada, and his face
| cleah shavsc ey1cpy IoU a sandy nus<
| tache He vuTE shily six hat and car
| Iied a ligist e&aa
| DID yo.l it.l,"a lat man spoke to ="
! inquired ny Tilscc as soon as We were
7ut Of hearing
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! What would yea take hiEQ to be:
/ Does he look like professional Ian or
! , meret snt--Cr Nhatsn
/ =" Well l repllsi eaTelessly. Il heatd
! Teu cait him Count anu a,ist=SS LlIn IN
| S!riuaE; 50 it 5 Just possible that he's 9
| barber He might be a head Sairsrif it
| sere not Tor his nnstache. He Looks to
ne eilkea II a about tJpn. with promo csd
SPOE-ihS PIOc!IFiL!SS
That's about what he IS now" said
my friend. !" 1 should cali him in the
slang of the day, a IoGnder. but be has
not spent all of his lie IL Sixth aven Is
| BY any means. He has had a .variei
career / rasneuiber him when ne was u
Cardinal in Rome
was naturally surprised to learn this,
| for an cardinal Is s much rarer bird
than an ex-King. and there have been very
1 lew or the iatter,ia New York since Man.
! haitian Island was 1GSt settled
At my friends suggestion / called on an
Austrian OF his acquaintance aud learned
| from him the following facts In regard 10
the man who ia, So Ear a. / know, the only
ex-Cardfnal who has. eyer sought refuge
| In this country.
Count B. as he is called hv his few
intimates, IS member OF an influential
| Austrian. family. His grand uncle, whose
name he bears. was famous sOid!e!
In his day and one OF the generals in com.
mand OF the Austrian forces at the hattie
| of Lodi.
! Twenty-Five years ago the then young
Count was a Captain III the Austrian army,
| pursuing career Of reckless profiigacy
| which eventually led to his dismissal
| from the service. He had. however, a
| warm friend In the person OF the Emperor
| Francis Joseph, who remembered the
services rendered TO the house of Haps.
burg by the brave Old General in the dark
days OF the Sapoleonicinyaslon. Through
his influence the Count was made a mem.
her Of the College OF Cardinals at Rome
and duly invested with the insignia of his
| office.
| For some time ho held the high posi-.
/ ton of a Prince of the Church, until q
scandal, in which he figured and which
was the European sensation of the day
brought about his expulsion. After this
disgrace he Disappeared from public view
and was not heard OF for some time.
Then he Mortified his familyand friends
! by turning up in Switzerland as the hero
If the word may be used in such con
nectiou-of another scandal. fully as dis
| crsditable as the first. He iiiveigled s
young French girl of good family into 6
! mock marriage, in which his servant
offieiated as priest. Tho unfortunat,
young woman lost her reason when sht
! discovered the decest which had beer
y praetired oli her. and iI1o-dsy an inunai,
| OF an insane asylum.
Hi2 family, who keeply ielt the dis
grace brought upon them. settled an AT
| nuity of 81 5tn on the Count upon the
condition that he should leave Europe
He came to View York few years ago
and has been living here quietly eva
since cInong people who know nothing
OF his former history.