Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-31

! of France, the ''MarSelllalSe.' IL pro-
duced a climax of frenzy in the mob
and the police charged and showed
scant mercy.
Within the walls of the Opera that
night "Lohengrin's" grand strains
mingled with the echoes from the mob
outside. The audience was extremely
small and very select, but the Direct
ors had triumphed. And such is the
power of success, and such also is the
volatile character of the French that
on the evenings favored with repeti-
tions of the opera there occurred wild
to secure admittance. The excitement
of the time was turned to the right
about, and Germany's music, like Ger
many's guns back in the seventies,
had conquered France.
Beauty and business are to go to-
gether at the Marietta terminal of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Rail-
way during the regime of Supt. j. H.
Brown. Appropriations have been
made and plans perfected for the i'm
provement of the buildings and sur
roundings to an extent that will
change their appearance to a marked
degree. The tracks on Second street
| will no tol- fn q
thirty feet south CT the depot, and in
their place the sidewalk will be wild
ened to the street. This sidewalk will
be elevated so as to slope from the de-
pot to the curb, and will be continued
on around the south side of the build
ing, and from there on down to the
end of the train sheds. The platform
in the train shed will be elevated six
inches, and will be relaid in brick on
the entrance side for a space to in
clude the first line of tracks. The
sheds and freight buildings will be re-
painted and minor repairs and i'm
provements will also be given consid-
cradle attention. Next spring the
grass spot on the alley will be fenced
in and flower beds set out, adding to
this locality an attractive spot of
beauty.
The country has been cheered and
emboldened Of late by the reports
coming from places of safety near the
front, recounting the brave deeds of
the commonplace sons of great men
who have secured commissions and !
have gone to the front in the interest |
Of the society columns of the press |
Their glittering swords have been |
waved aloft on dress parade and other |
glorious functions, and the Commits
sary and Quartermaster's department |
have reaped great benefit from their |
most distinguished services. There
are some notable exceptions among
these owners of great names, however,
who will add true prestige to the
houses of their fathers They are in |
tAe ranks, shoulder to shoulder with |
the brave lads who know the song of |
the Mauser bullet and whose wreaths |
Of glory have been won on the desper-
ate field of battle.
According to the ethics of the |
French duel the honor of Spain has
been satisfied. 1t is well that the code |
is eccentric, and capable of being |
stretched, for otherwise in the present |
instance Spain's honor might lack the |
seal of approval from any source
With her flag overshadowed with
shame from that tragedy in the bay
at Havana; with the hands of her
soldiers streaked with the blood of the
women and helpless in Cuba: with her
fleets swept from the face of the ocean.
and her people on the verge of disrup-
ton, it is well that she can find some
where balm to ease her honor.
Mans inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn" and |
Spanish history is well filled with il
Illustrations of the proverb. But ret |
ribution, stern and powerful, has come |
at last, and has left but a sorry herit- |
age for tue little boy King of Spain,
Alfonso the Thirteenth.
The Washington County Fair Asso-
citation has been smitten with the de-
sire for improvement that character
ICES all things at present in and about |
Marietta. The Association has per-
fected an array of plans for the en-
largement and improvement of its
grounds, which when consummated
will place the organization in a posi-
tion without rival among our neigh
boring counties.
The plans begin with the purchase.
from Marietta College, of a fifteen
acre tract of land adjoining the pres
ent grounds on the north. This deal
has practically been ACCOMPLISHED
opfinp nm the Drona....