The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-15
COUNT LEDOCHOWSKI
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young Arohduke Charles Francis who
is at the present moment the second
heir 70 the throne of Austria.
Count Yladimir's younger brother
Count Joseph Ledochowski. about
eleven years ago was forced 10 resign
his commission of captain in the SIX
teenth Hussar Regiment OF the Aus
TRAN army and likewise his titular
office of chamberlain to the Emperor
under circumstances that created a
great deal Of sensation az the time
The Marquis TacOh. Lieutenant OF
the same Hussar regiment. also
cham berlain OF the Emperor, had
taken one of his brother officers Wig
orously 20 task for having spoken
slightingly and in mis- presence Of a
member of the imperial family. The
archduke in question which the mar
Quis was able TO disprove. and he
thereupon branded his comrade as a
liar. Of course there was no alterna-
tive after this but for the officer 10
challenge the marquis 70 a duel
The marquis first of all refused TO
be expected to cross swords. with, d
man who had not only brought dis
graceful charge against a member OF
she 5eSes sr and
worthy of being considered as "A gem
tleman. The matter was brought be-
fore military court OF HOnOIs
insisted that the marquis. should &C
cept the challenge. Tacoh thereupon
refused. on the ground that the laws
Of the Catholic Ghureh not Only
the penalty of communication upon
those who take part in duel Ihe
court would not accept this argument
and passed a verdict demanding the
retirement OF the marquis from the
army. This decision received the ap,
prevail of the Emperor. who deprived
lain. while all the clubs to which he
belonged exacted his resignation.
Count Joseph Ledochowski, for hav,
com rade. the Marchese Tacoli. and
for having expressed his sympathy
with him, was also compelled TO resign
surrender his chamberlainship to tho
Emperor. Ledochowski, however, was
not required TO resign from his clubs
woman, a Countess di Cont. of Man.
tua. he lives with her at Vienna. and
is one of the prominent. and most ac,
tine society .he of Wsidh Dom
the late Spanish legitimist pretender.
Don Carlos. is the president.
The Hohenzollern Museum at Ber-
lin, which IL devoted to the preserva-
ton, of relics concerning the members
of the royal house of Prussia. has Just
received a rather interesting acquisi-
ton from Major-Generai Count Won
Reichenbach. 1t consists OF a pair Of
gloves and a handkerchief, which he
carried on the occasion of Nobiling
attempt on the life of the. late En-
peror William. with whose blood they
on the I'd of June. 1873. as the Kaiser
was driving back to the palace In Ber-
lin. along the avenue known as Inter
Kaiser, who had his only daughter, the
now widowed Grand Duchess of Baden,
seated by his side, the would-be assas-
sin attempted to kill himself.
At the moment when the shooting
took place Count Reichenbach, then a
young lieutenant, was standing at the
f fsdRied Sob sh Count von Reichen-
bach leaped into the carriage, hitting
the fainting Kaiser. and stanched the
blood that had b neeR
later on, he sent for the young officer.
promoted him to a captaincy, and con-
ferred the Hohenzollern Order upon
him.
The name OF Sir walter. Scott. the
author Of the WavsrleSy ~, Novels Ssv WAS
been director of the leading Edin-
burgh life. insurance company. IN
order TO demonstrate the fact that
underwriting was no more modern
form of business. 1 would draw at
tention to the fact that insurance
was known many hundreds OF years
of the Caesars at Rome. For the his
torian Gibbon, in the forty-fourth
chapter of his Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire" records that the
Justinian Code, which determined the
rate of interest permissible TO Roman
citizens. had decreed per cent as the
legal standard for ordinary loans. but
IL was granted to nautical insur-
ance But except in this -perilous adj
venture. the practice of exorbitant
usury was severely restrained.
Marine insurance was extensively
practiced in the Middle Ages at Genoa,
Venice. and in the Netherlands A
Chamber of Assurance" was estab,,
lished in 1910 at Bruges. Three hundred
years or so later, that is TO say: about
1859. Lloyd's came into existence in Lon
don. as the headquarters of marine
insurance, and Sir Walter Scott, in
his novel, Rob Roy" describes the
hero of this book as having IN 174l IN
sured the leading landowners in the
counties of Perth, Stirling and Dunbar
ton against the theft of cattle
This surely shows that Sir Walter
Scott was not one OF the pioneers OF
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