The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-08

as her honor She scorned the proposal.
/ Months elapsed, and Salaries fortune
was dissipated; he had bribed officers
/ and judges in vain; Misterbianco's ma
Ign intrigue did not fail of its purpose
At last the wretched Marchesa sue
cumbed TO his prosecutions, and on hear
ing her shrieks of agony a man servant
| rushed TO her assistance and encountered
the duke coming from her chamber.
/ rearing the consequences. now that his
/ brutality had a witness, the duke the
next night stabbed the Marchesa to the
heart and accused the man servant of
her murder. The hopeless wretch was
sent to the galleys innocent. He was
q young noble, who had taken service I'M
der the Marchesa. because of his passion
for her-a passion she never knew of. On
leaving the galleys he avowed his rank
was restored to the privileges of his rank
and challenged the Duke to a duel They
fought in the very room in which the
Duke had pOniarded the Marchesa, and
the Duke was severely wounded. In the
meantime Don Salario had escaped from
prison in rags and beggared. The Duke
got well and retired to a monastery,
leaving a large sum of money to be
divided between Don Salario and the
faithful servitor. Neither of them ac-
cepted it.
LOVES SACRIFICE IN VAIN.
ASOAObi 41u1Sd AflduCullO, VI syracuse,
was betrOthed 10 the Baron di Baro, an
officer OF the army. He did not appear on
the wedding day, having in the meantime
been taken prisoner by the French. She
retired to a nunnery in grief and rage,
and was visited in the convent parlor, on
his return some months later, by her
military lover. The unfortunate nun had
a convulsion, tore her hair and shrieked
aloud in her misery. No human power
could absOlve her vows and unite her to
the man she loved. Finally, in her des-
peratiOn she set the convent on fire, and
in the confusion escaped and ran toward
the cottage which her lover had taken
near by In her mad escape she had set
her own robes on fire, and her flight so
famed the flames that she fell and died
on the threshold as her eager wooer
rushed to the door. In his frenzy Baron
di Baro ran to the blazing convent and
stabbed several of the nuns before he
could be apprehended. He then killed
himself
THE HERMIT ROBBER OF LA SCALA.
A holy man lived in a cavern on the
slope of La Scala Graeca, near Syracuse
Travellers between Syracuse and Catania
often disappeared but their destruction
was aScribed to banditti. for which Sicily
has ever been famous. The hermit was
of great stature and always came out TO
the middle of the road to ask aims One
day a gentleman who had stopped to
draw out few scudi from his purse saw
a long stilletto up the holy mans sleeve.
He instantly dropped his purse as if by
accident, and when the holy man stopped
to pick it up smote the shaver pate a
mighty blow with his riding whip and
dropped the highwayman in his tracks.
The bones and plunderof twenty-One muir
dered travellers were found in the pious
hermit's cave, and he was duly put to
death.
THE BLOODY GHOST.
The Marquis of Ancona fell in love with
a village girl and carried her of by force
to a vault under his private chapel.
There he visited her and took her bread
and water. His only daughter was ena-
mOred of a young officer in Palermo, who
visited her on night to persuade her to
elope with him. He encountered in the
garden the Marquis disguished in a sheet,
and on his way to visit his village victim
in the chapel. The Marquis supposed the
young officer to be the betrOthed of the
poor girl he had carried away, and ran
him through. The bleeding corpse he
had put in a coffin and lowered into the
vault where the girl was chained. In the
meantime the Marquis daughter discov-
cred her lovers handkerchief, all bloody
in the garden, and surmised his fate. She
lost her reason, and when her fathers
victim was removed from the vault,
where her frenzied shrieks had been
heard when the coffin was lowered with
its CHASTITY load, she too, was maniac.
The old Marquis didn't mind these trities,
but went calmly on his way. He quit
playing ghost, though.
THE LITTLE vEsPERs.
The Sicilian Vespers. when under
Charles of Aniou, every E'renchman in the
island was murdered, and the Sicilian
wives of French husbands, even, were
ripped up by their own kinsmen, are de-
scribed in history. Giannone in his His
tory of Naples" tells how the priests
butchered their French penitents. The
Little Vesper' is the name given to an
other later massacre Of the French by the
Sicilians in the year 1900.
The city of Augusta has as bad repu-
tation as any in the whole island. Three
hundred and fifty French invalids, una
BILE to continue longer at sea, land in Au-
gusta on their way home from Egypt to
3 France Many of them had Ophthalmia SO
badly that they were re- practically radctaE
ing their health when it began to be
noised abroad in Augusta that French
men were cOncealing a great treasure
The hospitable Angus Janese thereupon
murdered every man, woman and child
the massacre extending through the cry
| down to the DedCn. Inc L fenCn SHIPS Ill
, the barbor we're seized, and the unfortu-
, mates who had succeeded in escaping to
them had their threats slit in full view on
! the decks. The wife of the French com
mandant escaped in a boat manned by
four sailors She was pursued and over
taken; her brains were beaten out with
the oars, and her unborn infant dashed
against the gunwales of the skiff. The
/, men who had tried TO save her life were
I then butchered to make the job complete
Nice town that, Augusta!
; BREAD RIOTS IN SICILY IN 1877.
!. Riots quite similar to those recently in
t progress occurred in Sicily in 1896. The
senate of Catania levied heavy taxes ther
on bread. wine and oil. The size Of the
loaf diminished then and its cost ln-
= creased. The people revolted and mer-
= Ger named Rosolia led them. They
: sacked the palace of the bishop anc
burned the houses of the mobiles. Inc
: senate house was destroyed, and every
granary and magazine was looted. the
, Prince of b. agreed if the rioters would
dispense to support the whole town at
! his own expense for a month, and he
kept his word The price of bread was
reduced and Rosoia, the capo papoIo, or
:, rinCleader, was hanged.
In 1910 and 1871 the chief OF police OF
y oav;+or1i notte and the Sub-prlOr OF oaT