Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-12
BURIAL OF THE EMPRESS AUGUSTA
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BERLIN. January l1.-Public ATTENTION y
concentrated to-day upon. the Iuhern OK
the Empress Augusta TO the eAciusiou -
all other topics. The threatening news
from Spain. the progress in Austria OF the
German Czech Conference. all seem OF Ut
tie moment to the people here oy COM
parison with the grandiose pageant OF an
imperial funeral. The final ceremony oL
the funeral service was. IKE tne oSue.
parts, all planned to be repetition Oh tne
funeral of Emperor William, Inc CIT ue,s
pious service was concluded In si0ss
chapel at 1890, and amid the tolllng OF tne
church bells the cortsge moved at once ior
Charlottenburg. The way was hned py
troops and by various trade guilds. py
students from the public schools, oy
members of veteran societies, ana so on:
and behind these thronged thousands Oh
silent. sympathetic spectators.
In the ecclesiastical services, as wen as
in the military. part OF the scene was
repetition of the honors pald 10 tne re-
nowned husband OF the deceased, wnllo
the throng of family and official mourners
was nearly as large and as illustrious. The
Duke of Edinburgh represented the queen
of ENGLAND as before. In the immediate
circle of family mourners were the King OF
Saxonv. Crown Prince of Sweden, Grand
Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Christian OIL Scnies-
weig- Holstein, Grand Duke OF Meckien-
burg-Strelitz, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Ootha,
Prince of Hohenzollern, Grand DUKE
Francis OF Austria. Prince William of Wur-
temburg. Prince William of WED, Princess
of Schlesweig- Holstein, Saxe-Meiningln,
SAKE Weimar, Waldeck-Pyrmont,. Sender
shausen, Schaumburg-L ippe, and others:
Besides these were many representatives OF
foreign soyereigns.
The Emperor laid upon the coffin mag
nificent palm branch with long. white SIX
ribbons bearing the imperial arms ana
crown in gold.
stag. laid upon the coffin, in behalf OF the
Reichstag, wreath of palms. white roses,
and cornelias, upon the ribbons OF which
was this inscription: "Reichsta9 10 the
first Empress Augusta. Blessed are the
merciful. for they shall obtain mercy"
Prince Bismarck sent large wreath sur
rounding a cross of yiolets. Princess BIS
marck sent q wreath of roses and lilies OF
the valley. The Kings of ltaiy and Ron.
mania each sent exquisite tributes OF
flowers, as did tho sovereigns OF almost all
German and foreign countries. At the
principal service on Thursday evening the
coffin was Enclosed and the Empress lay as
if asleep. The choral-piece know That
NV Redeemer liveth" was sung as the
court entered.
The Rev. Koreel, the court chaplain. in
an eloquent address, reviewed Empress
Augustus connection with German history
during the last fifty years. lie has since
furnished TO the Reischsdnyige list of spe-
cial scriptural texts of which the Empress
was particularly fond. Among many an
l.. t.,a1a nfrh lic n 0rl 10 flA
dead Empress is one that has the interest OF
actually. In sending gift to distressed
widow she was told that the woman's hus-
band had been Socialist, aud she said
q don't care what the political opinions
of the man were | only remem Der that he
has left a hungry family" To-day the
houses in Inter den Linden are iraped
with black, and the lamps are shrouded
with Grape.
1t is expected that the conference Of the
Bohemian. German. and Czech parties
will end to-day. The delegates are reti-
cent respecting the proceedings The Ger
mans say that Count 1aafe has asked them
to help him solve the insoluble problem
against themselves. In Bohemia there are
two million Germans and three million
Czechs. The Germans stand in that coun-
try in stronger position than the Ulster
men in Ireland; yet Taafe has ignored
them for ten years and given rein to the
Czechs. lie now finds that in this be has
not even pleased the CZechs themselves.
They are not satisfied with the repeated
concessions made to them at the expense of
the Germans: yet he now asks the Ger
mans to help him out of his dilemma by
making further concessions for the sake Of
peace. This they hold to be absurd pOll-
tics. They themselves only demand that in
the German-speaking districts of Bohemia
the German language shall be the ofiicial
tongue, and that in districts where there Is
a mixed population the language of the
majority shall prevail. The Germans ac-
cuse Count Taafe of trying to make all
Bohemia the Czech country. and IN con-
sequence of the success of his efforts In
that direction they say that the German
imperial patriotism is disappearing. They
assert that the German element, which is
the largest and strongest national mass in
the empire. has been kept down for ten
years by combinations OF other elements
made against IL. In coalitions or the Ma
tionalists elements there IS none. they say,
which could govern Austria alone or agree
long with any other nationality except IN
opposition to the Germans. The German
party point out that the Czechs, who
are at heart in sympathy with Russia,
therefore hate the Poles, yet despite this
the Poles unite with them against the Ger
mans. who form the back bone, OF the
country aud on whom alone the mon
archy could rely in crisis. On the other
hand the Czechs do not contemplate the
Germans as such innocent and helpless
victims of prosecution. and intimate that
that is not the first they have heard of the
exclusive viture of that race. They ac-
cuse the Germans of endeavoring to eradi-
cate from the country the Czech language
and institutions and whatever else may
stand in the way of German domination,
and assert that they themselves have had
fair play in the conflict only since Count
Taafe has been in office. They do not dis
pute the full right of Germans to use their
own language in districts occupied by
them. But they do hold that Bohemia
should be as independent as Hungary is,
and claim that the Emperor should recog-
nize their national rights and privileges by
being crowned King of Bohemia at Prague,
as the Emperors formerly were.
Stabbed to Death.
lBy telegraph 10 the Dispstch.l