Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-28
MR.. KELLEY IN PARIS.
A BRIGHT LETTER FROM THIS GIFTED
WRITER.
The Boulanger Trial The Great Exposi-
tion-Tickets of fAdmission-WOnder-
full TransformatiOn-Our Ex-
hibit a Disgrace.
Especial Correspondence Of the Richmond Dis
match
PARIS. August II, 1889.

special correspondence OF the Richmond Dis
PARIS. August II, 1889.
I was leisurely walking down the Bou-
levard Haussman this morning when a
.gamin of the kind unknown on the
earth out Of Paris approached and Of
fered TO sell me for one sou BOulanger's s
defence, entitled "To the People, Ny
Only Judge" But before ] could COM
plete the trade policeman laid his hand
on the vendor Of "defences, " relieved
him of his bundle Of papers, and marched
him off to the station-house. SO | am IN
able TO tell you the last word OF the brdU'
General 10 the condemnation which was
yesterday pronounced against him almost
with unanimity by the remnant OF the
High Court which tired him in his alb
sence-all 1.-THE Right, with three ex-
cephons, having already withdrawn.
A FARCE OF A TRIAL.
To an outsider n lamer and more un-
supported accusation than that launched
for three days of last week against Bou-
LANCER was never seen or heard. Nearly
every important witness whose name the
Procureur-Geueral cited insupport of his
accusations has publicly contradicted
him over his or her own signature in the
most reputable papers Of Paris and has
defed him to test the truth Of his aver
ments by a trial; and, indeed, 80 per
cent. OF the accusations were simply spicy
stories Of Boulanger's private life or
ayorments utterly devoid Of connection
II time or place or sequence with the
only matter really before the court Was
General Boulanger guilty of crime
against the security OF the State
/ Bv a vote Of 195 to y the Senate, set
ting as a high court, yesterday answered
eyes"
This was, perhaps, in any event, q
foregone conclusion, and remembering
our famous electoral Commission, "
when every Manufacturing the highest
judicial functlonarles Of our country
voted exactly as bis party wanted him to
vote, We perhaps have no right to throw
stones at them.
WILL HELP BOCLANGER.
Long before this reaches you the
! iudgment will have been received by
telocmph. but of this / am certain: 1t
will help Boulanger. And this IS Sc
rious misfortune, for he does not seem
to me to possess any quality needed by
France to-day except mediocrity and
/ by the common consent of all French
men, since the death of Gambetta, that
crop has been excessively abundant.
That his life has been gnd is scandalous F;
/ that he is n general without ever having
won battle that he WAS insUbordi-
nate as soldier and inspt as a poltl-
cian that he Is pOScur and n pOpu-
larity-hunter that he represents no
party and no principle, but simply
| the general discomfort which France 8
great humiliations and tho disap-
pclntment and defeat Of many strong
interests. Imperial and Bourbon, have
occasioned-the fuel which fed the flame
Of Cateline's revolt: all this is admitted
I by the mass of the French people and
/ by many who for the want of n better
weapon are to-day brandishIng Bou-
/ lauger. Except for this following and
for the fact that the fercely-suppressed
but passionately-existant thirst Of
France for her revenge" " fancies that
g., General in come way voices their
appeal and personates their hopes Bou-
| langism would not stand hOar frost.
ASrERCURIAL PEOPLE.
But this trial may give it that stronger
| hold on life which among sentimental
people comes always from sympathy with
man who can fairly claim to be perse-
cuted. If the Parnell trial had occurred
in Paris the Parliament would have dis
solved the Special Commission themor
ing after the Piggott forgeries were de-
monstrGted, unless, which is by no
means unlikely, the Court would have
/ saved Parliament the trouble by dis
solving itself
1t is simply impossible for one Of alcss
/ impresmonsble race to Judge the French
fairly and the proof presents itself every
hour. The day arrived IN Paris, the
7th Of August, happened to look at n
calendar hanging on the wall OF my room,
and there read, "I793. Tne conyen-
ton promulgated a decree declaring
| Pitt the enemy of the human race.
Now it is perfectly easy to understand
how the convention, which was rs mad
as a March hare, could have been guilty
Of such puerile imbecility in 1893, but
why any Frenchman making up n calen-
/ dar should have chosen TO perpetuate
the memory Of such folly on the 7th
ol August, 1889, passes comprehension.
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
Speaking Of 1898, l believe that was
the year OF tho first industrial exposi-
ton the world ever saw-one Of the in
Vulnerable products of the amazing in
tolectual ferment which marked the
final decade Of the eighteenth century
in France and oddly enough it was the
conceit Of a poet. Even more curious
still, it was opened and for several years
its successors likewise, on the very
Champ dc Mars which is the scene Of
the truly-wonderful exposition OF to-
day.
OF this great bazaar Of the nations it is
difficult to speak without apparent ex-
aggeratiOn. Everything about it is pc
culiar. First, the very tickets are ar
ranged on q plan perfectly unique.
Nominally the price OF each IS one franc
twenty cents, bat in point of fact it
varies from day to day, and since have
been here has never surpassed seventy
centimes or fourteen cents. This is how
this happens
REMARKABLE TICKET SCHEME.
Each ticket of entry has attached q
lottery-ticket, and on the last day Of
every month o drawing takes place,
when large money prizes are distributed.
But this lottery y-coupon may be and
usually is detached, 80 that the one franc
is composed Of two separate factors.
Now the Credit Lyonnaise, an immense
banking establishment, has undertaken
the distribution of the tickets, and its
credit is such that it hes been able
to place the tickets on the stock list and
they are bought and sold on the Bourse
like railroad and other securities, and the
Bourse or Stock Exchange price deter
mines daily the cost of tickets. If from
any cause.-the nearness Of the day OF
drawing, the comparatively small num-
her of tickets sold. &c. the lottery cOu-