Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-23

About year ago the archduize re- eeiyed severe pistol wound in the shoulder which necessifated his going on q long leave of absence. An effort on the part of the friendly press was made 10 attribute the wound to an at- tempt at suicide. But this story was in fragrant contradiction of the well- founded rumors that he had received the injury in duel, his adversary being no other than his brother-in-law, Prince John of Saxony One thing, at any rate, is certain, that when a man attempts to commit suicide, he does not generally discharge pistol at his right shoulder.
 1t is of Archdul5e Otto, too, that the story is told of his stopping peasants funeral in order to permit him to amuse himself and his companions by leaping his horse to and fro over the dead child's bier. Emperor Francis Joseph not only detests him, but is known on one occa- sion to have struck him in the face in fit of fury at some piece of blackguard- ism that the young prince had perpe- trated. He sees reflected in Otto all of Crown Prince Rudolph's worst faults WltnOuL u SlHSie oHe ol HIS DldHy IC- deeming qualities.
 Only short time ago the stories above related were published in detail in the leading newspapers of Buda- Pesth. The arcbduke appealed to his uncle, the emperor, to punish the editor of the journal in question; but Francis Joseph, declining to comply with his entreaties and acting in deference to the advice of his Hungarian cabinet ministers, recommended Otto to prose- cute the paper for libel just as if he had been an ordinary citizen instead of U member of the imperial family. The archduke had no alternative but to fol- low the monarch's advice. Proceedings for libel were instituted and the case was brought to court in the Hungarian capital, but the jury, after short de- dict in favor of the editor. Inasmuch as the latter had admitted his responsi- bility for the publication of the asser- tions about the arch6uke, and had only pleaded in justification that they were based upon fact, the sole inference to be gathered from the verdict, subsequent- ty confirmed by the court of appeal, was that the obnoxious sentiments were ab- so1utely true. That ended the matter, and consequently the prince, now of ficially proclaimed as heir to the dual empire, stands branded by the great courts of justice of the land as repro- bate of the deepest die. Itmay be added that about year previously Viennese newspaper, having ventured to allude in a much milder and more guarded manner to some of these unsavery epi- sodes in the archduke's career, had it's offices invaded by band of his imperial highness' friends, who proceeded to. thrash the editors and reporters with the flat of their sabers and with sticks, destroying both machinery and plates before leaving the sadly-wrecked es- tablishment. So great is the sub serviency to the imperial house in the Austrian portion of the dual empire that this outrage was permitted to pass by unpunished, save by the arrest per- sonally inflicted by Francis Joseph upon his nephew. But the Hungarians are much more democratic and Independent, and it was because the archduke real- ized this that he did not venture to pur- sue at Pesth the same tactics that he had adopted at Vienna. Such, then, is the future emperor of Austria