Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1888, Page 1

e Wb A ke il mminwm A sk S b i Vi e et e s e s e e LI(JH'ITF NTH YEAR. THE KAISER PAINED. He Refers to the Scandal Affecting tho Imperial Family. HIS WELCOME HOME TO BERLIN. The Emperor’'s Coronation Expected to Take Place in January. A RECONCILIATION EFFECTED. Family Differences Settled Through the Efforts of Victoria. THE VITALITY OF SOCIALISM. Bismarck's East African Policy—The Constitutional Crisis tria—Poles Hopeful of Obe taining in Aus- Autonomy. William's Return, (Copyright 15 by New York Associated Press.] Benrwiy, Oct. 27.—A municipal deputation in waiting upon the Bmperor William to-day presented an address of welcome on the oc- casion of his return home and were startled by some emphatic remarks, in the course of the emperor’s reply, on the scandal and gos- 8ip of the pross affecting the imperial family. The deputation requested permission to erect on the Schloss platz, in memory of the em- peror’s visit to Vieuna and Rome, a fountain designed by Prof. Begas, the artist. The emperor expressed his gratification and in- terest in the undertaking. The people of Berlin, fe said, had followed his journeys and kuew that the friendly reception which ¥ met with everywhere was not intended 4 for himself, but for the German empire. For the pleasant surprise which the municipal representatives prapared for him he thanked them ail; much more for the reason that it happened to come on the day when the church ot the Holy Ghost, in which his fa ther, the Emperor Frederick, had always shown the greatest interest, was consecrated. The emperor expressed the hope that he would soon see more such fine churches erected in Berlin, He trusted that his jour- neyings would have the best results for the empire. He had learned with regret that during his absence, while using his best ef- forts for the interests of the empire, disputes bad arisen in the Berlin press regarding the affairs of members of his own family. Attacks wi made such a8 would not be tolerated by nor permitted against any private individual. He requested the depu- tation to do their utmost to put a stop to the unseemly discussion, as it concerned them all, He desired to live among the people of Berhin as a Berliner. He relied upon the represent- atives of the capital to respond to that de- sire. None of the members ventured to make any remark upon the emperor's unexpected reproaches, Even if etiquette had allowed it, they were too much amazed to respond. The cmperor spoke in a quiet tone,which was utterly devoid of anger, but his words and manner left the impression that he felt acutely the attacks that had been made. After retiring from the presence of the emperor the municipal authorities considered the purport of the emperor’'s remarks. Sev- eral of the ofiicials professed their inabr'ity to comprehiend his meaning, though it wa obvious the emperor had spoken very ser ously. Mayor Forekerbeck afterwards saw the chief of the emperor's civil court and re quested him to give some of the emperor's Janguage. _Prior to the receiving of the deputation the emperor and empress were present at the consecration of the church of the Holy Ghost, which was founded by Frederick. The church it near the Belle Alliance platz, and when finished will be onc of the flnest cdifices in Merlin, Tne Prince and Princess of Saxe-Meinengen, the Princess Frederick Charles, Prince Leopold, the ministers of state, and the civic authori- ties appeared at the ceromouy. Architect Otzen read an address to the emperor, who, in reply, expressed the pleasure he derived from being presented a spot bearing evidence of his father's activity in good works. The ex-cmpross visited the church on Wednesday, accompanied by her duughter, Victoria. Pas- tor Stage took them over the building. On coming to the altar erccted by Fred- erick and herself, beside which a black mar- ble tablet records the fact that the Crown Prince Frederick laid the foundation stone in April, 1885, the empress burst into tears. Tomorrow Bmperor William will go to Friederihruhe, where ho will spend the night and proceed to Hum- burg. Count Herbert Bismarck and Minis- ters Von Boetticher, Von Gossler, Von Scholz, Herr Furth and Von Schillendort and Admiral Von Monts will accompany him. General Von Moltke, who celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday yesterday, is also ex pected to make one of the party. A report finds credence that the emperor will confer with Prince Bismarck over a project for his majesty’s coronation on the 15th of Janua the anuiversary of the date upon which King William was created emperor at Versailles. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and King Humbert, and all the chiefs of the Ger- man states, it is said, will be present at the ceremony, which will be made a great func- tion in confirming the triple alliance aud glorifying the German un Empress Frederick has definitely arranged to go to Windsor on the 1ith prox., and thence direct to Italy, returning to Germany in May, when the Uts Villa Reis, her new summer residence in the Tannus mountains, will be ready for occupancy. The grounds of the villa have been immensely enlarged by the purgaase of the extensive lands of the Villa Huttenlehner. The princesses will accompa iy the empress to Eugland, the family differences having been finally ar ranged under the manugement of Queen Victoria of England, who has been in direct communication with the Emperor William and has used her influence to effect a con- ciliation all around. ‘The progress of the landtag electoral cam- paign promises still better for the national liberals. The divergence of the nationals from the conservatives is becoming greater. I'he progressists have decided to support the candidates of the uational liberals in- over (thiety districts. In the First district of Ber- lin the national liberals and free conserva- tives unite to elect Count Dongias, who ac- cepts the vandidatare with o fair chance of success. + Sundsy being the tenth anniversary of the reichstag's law of ropression ugainst the so- cialists, the order seized tho ' occasion fo Bunounco the fssue of the Denk- schrift, & paper prepared by the lead: ers of the purty expressly to show the futility of guvernweut's edicts. But the police prevented its publication, The social- ists resorted to placards, which were posted everywhere in Berlin and oth uters, de- claring that the anniversary was nota day for mourning, but rather a celebration of the victorious vitality of socialism. The Deukschrift, however, privately circulates, despite the efforts of the police to suppress it. Prince Bismarck's policy with reference 10 East Africa becomes clear, his overtures to the Euglish, Belgian jand Italian govern- ments, tending toresult in combined action against the slave traders of Central Africa. A conference is probable, in which France will be invited to join to arrange for the forcible suppression of the Arab slave trade. The plan involves a simultane- ous slayel crushing expedition from the Congo state and the British and German East African territories, The North German Gazette deelares that the Moslem slave trade is extending 1ts resources to such a degree that no single nation will suffice to suppress it, and that only by co-operation can the civilized nations succeed in suppressing a traffic which is a dis ce to the centu The North Germa ette is confident that the German and English people will preve equal to the task imposed upon them by the sacred pim iples of religion and humanity, The coustitutional erisis in Austria has a period of pause, but below the surface of calm the agitation increases, The order is- sucd by the marshal of the imperial court that documents relating to the coronation of the kings of Bohemia be collected and ques- tioned is considercd to indicate Count von Taafe's intention to advise Emperor Francis Joseph to accede to the Czechs' demands. The Bohemiam-German Prince of Clary and Aldringen has been trying to effect a com- promise between the Germans and the Czechs, According to the proposition sub- mitted the coronation will be purely relig- ious ceremony, involving no re-establishment of the constitutional rights of the Bohe- mians. The proposal pleases nobody. The Czechs’ refusal to surrender their historic rights the Germans consider would lead the way to the triumph of Bohemian autono- my, including Moravia and Silesea. In the meantime the clerical party keeps more quiet., Since their representative, Herr Schoenvorn, has entered Count von Taafe's cabinet as minister of justice the clerical Czech hostility has abated. A notable instance of this is shown in Prince Lichtenstein's assenting, it 18 said, at Emperor Francis Joseph's personal request, to a postponement of the clerical school bill until next year. The bill, which commits the control of the public schools to the clergy, would reccive a majority in the reichrath if the cabinet insisted uponits passage, but would leave Count von Taafe uncertain of the support of the coalition, leading to his speedy downfall. With the promised dawn of success for the Czech agitation the Galician Poles are hope- ful of obtaining in their turn some form of autonomy. The Cracow and Lemberg papers discuss the relation of the titular kingdom of Todomeria-Galicia and the crowning of Fran- cis Joseph at Lemberg. The tendency of Count Von Taafec's policy toward the federalization of Austria-Hun- gary is watched with the keenest interest here. The matter already threatens to em- barrass the alliance. A federal Anstria,with Germs, Czechs, Poles, Magyars, Ruthenians and Slavonians in cat and dog discord, could not be a reliable factor in the alliance. The number of the Munich Neuste Nach- orichten, in which an attack was made upon the publication of the present life of the king of Wurtemberg. has been suppressed. The paper charges him with submitting to the disastrous influence of a member of the American legation at Stuttgart, and says the American, with two fellow countrymen as accomplices, gave spiritualist scances at which the king was introduced to the ghosts of his ancestors. The foreigners, the paper declares, h: drawn ruinous sums from the royal exchequer and are turning the king into a crank. The Nachrichten practically advises the kind to abdicate. The wife and son of Prof, Geffcken, who was arrested for furnishing the Deutsche Rundschan with extracts from Emperor Frederick’s diary, ave allowed to visit him at Moabit, where he is imprisoned. AN AUSTRIAN CRISIS, The Czechs Want Home Rule For Bo- hemia, LCopyright 1858 by James Gordon Bennett.] VieNNA, Oct. 27, ~[New York Herald Cable. —Special to Tne Bee.] -Our dual govern- ment is threatened with a home rule erisi which, now that the reichstrath has been conveued, itis thought here may result in the fall of the Taaffe ministry and a disso lution of the chamber, thus fulfilling what was foreshadowed by the curt treatment of the Austrian premier by the German em- peror a fortnight ago. Home rule is sought by the Czech nationality. They have long claimed autonomy for Bohemia and long to see her with Moravia united under onc septre and an independent state, forming a third and new constituent part of the empire, The Czechs in Bohemia and elsewhere are hostile to the German interests, whick Count Taaffe has also offended. His favoritism of Czech ations has also alienated Hungarian The pivot on which the fate of L ministry turns will be the new military bill, the object of which is to ntro. duce into Austro-Hungary recent German military arraugements whereby the army estimates and the number of recruits are determined long in ad- vance, thus causing the Austrian parliament to lose control of the military budgets. Count e favors the bill. In order to pass iv must obtain the votes of two- thirds of the reichstag, not a mere majority, So betw een the opponents of the bill and the opponents of home rule, who scem resolved to comibine, a new ministry is imminent. A crisis has often been threatened, but now it is really ripening and well worth watching. MIDSUMMER WEATHER. Paris Now Enjoying What She Lacked Several Months Ago. [Copyright 1858 by James Gordon Bennett.) Panis, Oct. 27.--[New York Herald Cablo Al to Tue Bee.)—We are in midsum- mer again, The thermometer at noon to-day registered 182 in the shade. Open victorias, June dresses and sunshades arc again to the fore. All Paris is living, dining, drivi walking in the open air. Yesterda noon while walking in the Avenue du Bois de Bologne I wet Admiral Mouchez, director of the Paris obsicrvatory. I remarked to the admiral: “The weather seems simnply gone mad. had no summer at all this and now, when it is nearly we are plunged into almost temperature, Can you explain it{" Admiral Neuchez said: *“No, I can give no explanation based on scientific data that has been investignted and thoroughly tested, but as a suggestion, or as & guess, I think that these unprecedented changes are due to some cosmic convulsion that tewporarily diverted the gulf stream further from our codsts during the summcr, and that now the stream, in reverting to its former positk has brought with it 8 superabundance o warmed atmosphere.” Such is the admiral's theory, but he, as well as everyone clse, secms bewildered by this unexpected -\\mu. We year, winter, tropical OVIAHA SUNDAY LINSKA OF CASTILE. The Latest Sensation in the Paris Criminal Courts. A STORY OF LOVE AND CRIME. French Fiction Outdone By a Case in Real Life. RICH WOMEN WERE HIS VICTIMS, Extraordinary Adventures of a Man of Royal Blood. AN OUTLAW IN EVERY LAND. The Heart of a Batcher and the Manners of Don Juan—Cruel Murder of Marie Aguitant, Pranzini O [Copyriaht 1898 by Jumes Gordon Bennett.] Panis, Oct, 27.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tue Ber. | —Prado, the myste- rious Prado, the assassin of Marie Aquitant, the extraordinary Count Linska de Castillon whose exploits have for the past six mont provided Paris with an ever varying series of tions, will be tried November 5 at_the Never did Gaboriau nor Pou- son de Terrail evolve from their prolific brains ahero of romance with a more strongly adventurous career than Prado, Count Linska de Casillon. One day a grand seigneur, next day a chevalier d'industrie, next day an officer in the army of Don Carlos, next day a Don Juan of the publc cross rouds, then a rebber and now an as- sassin. Prado will appear in the prisoners’ dock at the head of fifty-five, the etat major of the adventurers and femmes galantes, Jose, Gureia, Roberto, Andrees, y'Banez, Lorenzo, Encarnacion, Prides and the women Pable, Eugenie, Forestier, Varlay, Mauricette, Murgurite, Courouneaut and Mathilde Ar- gele, Douel. Although volumes have been written about the assassin of Marie Aguitart, Prado still remains a mystery, an enigma. For three years M. Falcimaigne, substit du procureur general, has worked at the dossier of Prado and with unremitting toil has unravelled the strange thread of his cancer. Mr. Falci- maigne has now drawn up the acts d'accusa tion and to-day the Herald is indebted to the publisher of this judicial document that will long be remembered in the annals of French criminal jurisprudence, At 10 o'clock in the evening of ith of last November a man was arrested on the banks of the Seine near the Quai de la Conferance for having committed un audacious robbery, after having wounded a_policeman with a revolver. This man was Linska de Castil- lan. He gave his name, however, as Prado y'Ribo. This name was false as were also the names of Mendoza and Grasset that he had successively called himself. The pame Linska de Castillan s fact inscribed in the registry of the last mar- riage that he made at Madrid, November 1, 1857, and also in the acte de maissance of his child whose mother was a woman named Couronneau at Bordeaux, but he himself ex- plains that this marriage was celebrated by the use of forged papers, In con- sequence his etat civil is unknown, although it is strongly believed that he is a son of N poleon and that his mother was a lady of honor at the court of the emperor. But what is certaiu is that in 1865 he went to hool, he then being thirteen years old, at on, and that an elderly lady, who was always dressed in black, but who has now mysteriously disappeared, used to have charge of him. It was then he committed his first crime by robbing his mother of her jewels and running away. He then traveled around the world. He stopped at Mosambique, at Calcutta, at Hong Cong, at Hayti and San Francisco and re- mained for several months in New York in 1872, He was a lieutenant in the army of Don Carlos. He profited by a ten days' leave of absence to cross the fron- tier to France and consumate a rob- bery of 8000 francs and rejoined the army in time to distinguish himself at the siege of San Sebastien. During the siege he was tuken prisoner and sentenced to be shot, but the daughter of the governor of San Se- bastien, whom he had seduced, saved his life. He was afterwards badly wounded at the battle of Sommorostro and was carried in an ambulance to a hospital, where he was nursed by a sister of char- ity of St Vincent de Paul. He seduced the sister of charity who was a near relative of the Duke of Norfolk. He afterwurds married her and made & tour with her to Jerusalem, Palestine, Syria and Egypt. He brought his wife back to Naples in a dying condition, and she died at Ischia. It is belicved that he poisoned her. Prado then went to Savonna, where he dis- tinguished himself by robbing in broad day- light and in one of Jthe most frequented streets of the city 30,000 francs worth of jewelry. Two hoursafterwards he disposed of the jewels and returned to Eu- rope. After baving taken part in the last campaigns of the Carlist's insurrections he went to Peru. At Lima, hemarried a woman of excellent famly who brought him a dowry 1,200,100 francs. By this wife he had one child who died young. His wife also died very suddenly. On the day of his wife's funeral he lost 400,000 francs in a game of poker. Chased out of Lima by the indignunt relatives of his wife, he re- turned to Lisbon. He then made a voyage of discovery to Mozambique and Madagascar. He wrote, accounts of his travels to the royal geographical society at Madrid. Next year he returned to Madrid and opened & gambling house there. In one night he won 200,000 francs by means of a false roulette table. “This,” Prado said, “is the onlymoney that I ever earned with real pleasure, for on that occasion I robbed the robbers themselves.” In a few days he spent all his money and by making love to a Spanish marchioness of eighty years of age, hesucceeded in getting her to make bim presents worth 80,000 francs. In 1879 he met at San Sebastion a beautiful Spanish lady named Dolores Garces G. Marilla who is descended from the kings of Aragon, and on the 1st of No vember he married her at Madrid. She brought with her a dowry of 130,000 francs. This wife is still living in Madrid in a gavret in the most cruel miscry. Iu aletter to the procureur general she relates a heartrending tale of how Prado seduced her, married her, stoleber property ard brutally maltreated her and fnally abandoned her in the gutter, In 1883 Prado left Spain and came to live in Paris, H¢ becawms & cbemisy aud swiadled BN ) tdone. the MORN ING. OCTOBER Monsieur Ramus, a partner in a scheme f the chiemical disinfection of the Paris hospi tal, out of all his money. He seduced, while in Paris, a jeune fille du monde aud after other adventures of theé sawme kind he lived maritally with & woman named F rnie For restier Varley, who for three months haa been separated from her husband. This woman became passionately fond of him and gave him all her money. At this time his entire property consisted of the clothes he had on and three shirts, It was while he was living with Madame Varlay that the terrible murder Marie Aguitant became the scnsation of Pari Marie Aguitant was murdered on the night of January 14, 1886, in the third story of No. 52 rue Caumartin, Marie Aguitant was a femme galante. She cohabited in 1886 with a man named Cles, the secretary of Parisian club, but as Monsieur Bles never came home _ before 4 _o'clock in the morning Marie ~Aguitant profted by this to pass her evenings at the Cafe Amer- icanor at the Eden theatre, whence she ofter broughy home with her to supper any chance acquaintance, especially Americans and English tourists. Marie Aguitant had saved up about 100,000 francs and had some splendid diamonds. She was in the habit of showing th diamonds to her casual acquamtances, When reproached with her imprudeuce she would exclaim: “The only persons who are robbed are those who con- ceal what they have.” On the 14th of Jan- uary Marie Aguitant was at the Eden the- ater. She was seen to leave theater with a man in an English covert coat and wearing a felt hat. She had often been seen in com- pany with this man, whom she called her “petit American.” She returned with her petit American to her apartment. A servant girl, opened the door, lighted the lamp and prepared the bedchamber. When the servant girl retired Marie Aguitant was nearly un- dressed. Prado, during that night, took ‘cat pains to turn his back always to the light %o that the servant girl was unable, when examined, to recall his features, At 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Bles came home. He found the door open. Bles, revolver in hand, dashed into the bedroom determined to kill the intruder. He stumbled over something on the floor. 'This proved to be the head of Marie Aguitant severed com- pletely from the body. The trunk of the corpse, covered only by a chemise, lay across the fireplace. The carpet was completely saturated with blood. A writing desk had been bursted open and Marie Aguitant's ready money, some 5,000 francs, and all her jewels had disappearéd. That same night Prado entered the apartment of Madame Narlay, No. 11 Rue Baudin, and went to bed as usual. He did not sleep, and during the night continually got up to wash his hands. While smoking a eigafette he said that a woman had been murdered in Paris, and that every one was talking about it, but at this moment no living soul in Paris knew that Marie Aquitant had been murdered except Prado. Madame Narlay noticed that Prado’s arms and face bore traces of deep scratches, apparently made by a woman’s finger nails. The next morning he got up carly and put on his dressing gown. In retiring to the bedroom he handed Madame Varley a 100-franc bank note, which had been cut by some: instrument, He said that he had recefved it“from a friend staying at the Grand hotel, and that the cut in the bank note had been made by a custom house officer at the frontier. He then took out another bank note from his overcoat pocket and gave it to Madame Varley. He then dressed him- self, and Madame Vurley noticed that his shirt sleeves and his overcoat were stained with blood. When Madame Varley went out as usual to buy breakfast, Prado told her to bring with her a Petit Journal, At 9 o'clock Madame Varlay re-entered the apartment and surprised Prado in the act of burning his shirt in the kitchen stove. He smd: “I have reasons for doing this, but re- member that it 1s none of your business.” A few moments after he burnt up his boots in the kitchen stoae. Madame Varlay remon- strated with him for this because the boots were new ones. At 4 o'clock he went out but he did not shave himself as usual. He said: “I have no razor. I left my razor to be sharpened at the barber shop.” He wore his covert coat, his soft felt hat, and his description corre- sponded then exactly with that of the man seen in Marie Aguitant’s company the pre- vious evening at the Eden theater. At 6o'clock he came home again, He then wore a black suit of clothes, an olive green overcoat and a tall silk hat. He said: “I gave away my old clothes to a beggar.” Prado and Madame Varley dined at a res- taurant and Prado spoke in a joking way of a murder that all Paris was now talklng about. Madame Varley reproached him for joking in such o hard hearted way and he replied: “Oh its only one woman less in the world and plenty more will be killed before long." The next day he came home at 6 o'clock in the evening after having been absent all the afternoon, He was very feverish and said that he was obliged to leave at once for Spain. He had no appetite and would not touch some dainty dishes that madame Varley had prepared for him. By Prado's orders Madame Varley packed up all her Dbaggage and accom- panied him to one of her friends named y'Banez. On the way Prado bought a pair of trousers and at y'Banez rooms a valise half filled with wearing apparel awaited them. All three then went to the re d'Orleans, where Prado bought a ticket for Bordeaux. Madame Varlay ac- companied him as far as Etampes She was astonighed at this sud- den departure that resembled a “flight from justice. She eould not restrain herself from saying: “Are you sure you have not committed some crimeé? You seem to be try- ing to escape from somebody.’ Prado laughed at her and called her a stupid fool. She afterwasds read in the pa- pers the description {6f Marie Aquitant's murderer and nesrly fainted away when she found that it ewactly tallied in every detall with that of her lover., She soon af- terward received aleter from Prado dated Madrid and Saragosa - promising her money. Y'Oanez one dayhanded her 400 francs, together with a leétter from Prado, telling her to rejoin him at Lisbon, whence they would sail for America.” But after this Madam Varlay heard nothing more of Prado. Prado afterwards meta lady named Coueronean, at Bordeaux. She was accompanied by her daughter, a charm- ing young girl named Mauricette, and Prado fell Lead ‘over heels iu love with Mauricette. He said that he was a Polish nobleman, that his name was Comte d» Linska, and that he wished to marry Mauricette, Mme. Courean:an said that it would take sowwe time to have the necessary [apers prepared for the marriage. Two days afterward Prado seduced Mauri- cette and ran up tremendous bills which the mother paid. In - September, 188} Mauricette Coveronean becawe enciente. To conceal her disgrees her mother ook her to Angonlema, where a ¢hild was boru, Prade ‘wntlnud on Second Page. J Ee e UGLY REVELATIONS. ‘Wurtemberg's Royal Scandal as it Appeared in Print. PECULIAR STATE OF AFFAIRS, The King Under the Control of ‘Young Americans. THEIR GREAT POWER OVER HIM. He Heaps Riches and Honors on the Favorites. HOW THEY RETAIN THEIR HOLD. The Prince’s Weak Brain Unballancea By the Spiritualistic Scances Which the Foreigners Conduct. Eccentricities of Royalty. [Copyright 185 by James Gordon Bennett.] Muxicn, Oct. [N York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Bre.|—-A long arti- cle, under the heading “Ugly Revelations,” appeared Tuesday in the Nueste Nachrich- ten, of Munich, It deals with a peculiar state of affairs in Wurtemberg, Though no names are mentioned, the high personage re- ferred to can be no other than the king of ‘Wurtemberg,whose eccentricities and friend- ship for several young Americans traveling in Stuttgart have given rise to very serious discontent among his subjects. . His majesty has squandered large sums of money on the strangers, This, and his mental condition, are freely discussed among the people to such an extent even that officers and uni- formed line officials avoid the table d'hotes and other places where the sovercign is made the target of sharp criticism. The word curatel guardian has been pro- nounced, and only the fact that the king's malady, consumption, promises to put an end to his life before long, preveats the matter being seriously agitated. ‘What complicates the matter is that the heir presumptive to the throne, Prince Wil- liam, the king's nephew, has himself shown signs of peculiar mental condition, Like the king, he avoids showing himself in public, and devotes his time to a few chosen favor- ites, While the king's marriage has never been blessed with children, Prince William, who has twice married, has no chilaren by his second wife and buta daughter by his first. By his death the throne reverts to the ducal house of Wurtem- bers, the head of which is a field marshal lieutenant in the Austrian service. This branch of the royal house is Roman Catholic and a ruler of that faith would scarcely be acceptable to the people, a large majority of whom are pro- testant. The king's strong affection for an Ameri- can dentist living in Stuttgart was some years ago the subject of unkind comment in 2 number of German newspapers. The den- tist has since then been joined by a couple of young American relatives of bright intelli- gence and pleasing manner. These young men live in a magnificently furnished light house, presented to them by the king, and here he passes most of his time, ostensibly in the investigation of spiritualistic phe- nomena. The gifts of money to the young Americans ave been so numerous and so great that the king's exchequer has been depleted. Some of his household are in arrears of pay and the annual visit to Nice had to be under- taken this year on a more modest footing. ‘The late king, the present king's father, lived to a green old age. Ho had an aged maitresse en titre to whom he was devoted, and for whom he neglected his excellent and popular wife. When he died the Stuttgart citizens very nearly mobbed the house of the old king’s innam- orata, who received notice soon afterwards from the police that she had better quit the country. Theold king was noted for his love of King Charles spaniels, and was al- accompanied by two or three of his silken-cared pets during his walks. More eccentricstill was his predecessor, the enor- mously stout king of Wurtemberg, who vis- ited France during the reign of Napoleon I, and was one of the partarre de rois who ap- plauded Talma, “There are certain things,” begins the ar- ticle, “'dificult to discuss in the columns of a newspaper. They are bandied about from one mouth to another and re-echo in the drawing rooms or the beer house. Public opinion or public discontent makes note of them, but to see them in black and white all people are afraid. This accounts for the re- scerve maintained by the newspapers in the capital of aneizhboring state concerning mat- ters widely discussed among the educated classes there. This condition of affairs ex- isted in our own Bavaria not so very long ago. For a ncwspaper to discuss what is wrong in the surroundings of a prince is to take hold of a red-hot iron, but a plain, frank, honorable exposure of a very much-to be-regretted state of affairs is better than to abandon the field to umny. We have carefully sifted all the evidence and have decided, after wature deliberation, to give the public certain facts that have oc- curred at a neighboring court, while dis cussing them with all tenderness and deli- cacy. “The country where these events took place is beautiful, rich and inhabited by a brave, industrious aud intelligent people, Its prince is one @f a race that has furnished many illustrious names to German history. He stood by Germany manfully in her great struggle for unity. Trade and commerce, together with art and learning, flourished Quring long years of his reign, but age and the fatal inroads of diseuse have estranged him from a people whose devotion to their princes is famed for centuries insong and story. His beautiful capital among the hill s he only visits for a brief por- tion of the year, His summers ae passed in acastie situated at the extreme southern boundary of the dominion. His health obliges him to pass his winters in France or Italy. His malady causes him to avoid man- kind with the exception of those whom he admits to his intimacy. He holds no com- munication with his ministers. His secretary attends to all ti As the ministers are un- impeachable, both as to honesty and brains, the transaction of busi has been carried on without dificulty. But the people are not sure that all is as it should Le, for the very reason that they are so faitnfully attached to the monarchy. They wiss the presence of their prince among his subjects and the splendor of the court to stlmullw trade, or they attribute to its absendd the distress ex- stiug in the capitul, 'his feeling is aggravated by the fact that the guilty p.rml are Nufianfl’- Buch 2 g . a one, attached in a subordinate capacity to the agency of a foreign power, managoed some seven years ago to attract the attention of the prince, The 1llustrious sufferer took a lively interest in the handsome and intelli- went foreigner and appointed him as reader and coyered him orders, titles and presents, Other courts showed him similar favors, Alone Emperor William withheld the honors the stranger craved. Before long the prince and the parvenue were inseparable, while a real nobleman, a life-long companion and confidant of the prince, was sent summarily 10 right about. ‘It must be admitted that the new favor- ite did not abuse the advantages of his posi- tion. He refused to act as an intermediary in private matters, abstained from all inter- ference in public ones. But a change came. Two new faces were seen at court. Th belonged to a couple of young men, country menof the new favorite. How they came to be there no one knows, but they soon capti- vated the king, who loaded them with favors, These young gentiemen were by no means modest in their desives, They asked for and received very large sums of money, which they soon squandered. And they had hangers-on, whom they likewise sought to benetit, The monarch presented them with a magnificent Louse in the capital, borrowing the money to build it from a wealthy manu facturer. It is here, in this exquisitely fur- nished abode that the royal patron passes most of his time when in the capital, “Busy tongues have much to tell of mys- teries within those walls. We will confine ourselves to mentioning that here spiritual- istic seances are supposed to be held. This takes one back to the time of Frederick William 1L, of Prussia, whose minister, Von Woelnerr, invoked apparitions to help secure him his royal master's favor. At these seances, that must have a most disastrous effect upon the prines's delicate health, cer- tain of his illustrious ancestors are alleged to be raised from the dead. Certain dis- tinguished residents of the capital are pointed out as having taken part in these unhallowed comedies. The effect of them, however, on the prince is so bad that3 a distinguished professor from @ neighboring university, who had been called in consultation, insisted on the instant departure of the two stran- gers, This the latter agreed to do in consid- eration of a certain sum of mon though they disappeared for a time, th turned as soon as the eminent physician had quitted the bedsido of the prince. ““Phis happened about a year ago, and ever since the two foreigners have managed to work themselves more and more into the confidence of the royal sufferer, They played with his money at public gaming tables and led such a luxurious existence that the ex- venses of the royal household had to be cut down. A number of royal horses were sold. The ex- penses of last winter's visit to Italy were 80 enormous that they are not yet settled, and it becomes necessary to raise money by mortgage. The inhabitants of the capital consider the two strangers responsible for this condition of royal financial embarrass- ment. Dissatisfaction is loudly manifest. Government employes shun their friends in order not to hear angry protests. Collections are being taken up to celobrate the coming of vhe twenty-fifth anniversary of the king's ascension, and some very painful comments have been the result. One of the strangers is to be ennobled. No newspaper printed in the capital alludes to this with the exception of a radical one, which says that it is proof of favor. It will scarcely appear in the Staats-Anzeiger or the Official Gazette, but it is true nevertheless and awakens the most curious feelings, and sorrowfully one asks one's self, ‘How will it alt end " “Unconsciously one is reminded of the state of affairs in Bavaria that ended in such a mournful, such & terrible catastrophe. That there is a certain analogy between the two cases cannot b» denied.” Such are the ugly revelations of the article in the Nueste Nachrichten that causes pro- found emotion in Germany. The King's fa- vorites are all Americans, e A FRI RIDAN'S, ND OF SHE A Military Man Who Admired Fight- ing Phil, [Copuright 1858 by James Gordon Bennet.] Loxvoyn, Oct. 2i.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tur Bee.|—I visited Sir Beauchamp Walker, K. C. B., to-day, who ‘was with General Sheridan during the cam- paign of 1870 at Gravelotte and Sedan. Sir Beauchamp was there as a spectator and as an English military guest. 1 found he had not yet read Scribner's magazine for Noven ber. [handed him the substance of its arti- cle by the late General Sheridan as printed in the Europeun editionof the Herald. He ran over the extracts with the greatest nterest and then said: “Iknew General Sheridan in the Franco-Prussian campaign. We all agreed that he was the most churming of men. I was attached to the staff of the crown prince and he to that of the king, wherefore we were generally in difterent parts of the field.” Sir Beauchamp was again glancing over the Herald account and to judge from the appearance of his face he liked Sheridan’s account immensely. For some time he remained immersed in the contents of the Herald, every now and then ejaculating pleasant comments, He ap- pearcd greatly amuscd at the incident where Bismarck appeared with the two eggs, He observed: ‘Just like him. He is much too £0od a sportsman not to be a good forager,” ““What do you think of the incident of the black bread “Quite likely. We often went hungry dur- ing that campaign. Those of us who knew our way about always endeavored to stow away something in our pocket, for the be- tween meals were apt to be long, and often we had nothing to eat from dawn to dusk,” “General Sheridan mentions you in his memoirs.” “Yes, and he gives me a luncheon with the king which I never got. At the time of that luncheon I was going hungry in another place with the crown prince, but he was al- ways thoughtful about us, vet I think he had, like ourselves, had nothing to eat since 4 o'clock in the morni oon after the hour of that luncheon we were all called in hot haste to be at the surrender.” 8ir Beauchamp here turned the Herald to the Sheridun account and added: “‘General Sheridan was certainly present at the most in sting episode of the war, the famous meeting between Napoleon and Bismarck, at the weaver's cottage.” “Did you see anything later of General Sheridan “Not much, He then went on to Paris and Versailles. At the latter place he stopped at the Hotel des Cascades. Everybody of note went there. However, I was on a delicate mission and it was necessary for me to keep my tongne between my teeth, so I put up at @ small, quiet hotel. Hence 1 did not see much more of Sheridan, nor as much as I could have wished, for I lhnuuhl him asplen- did soldier and a verun_ummn‘ man, Destroyed by Nightning. Orrawa, I, Oct. 27.—Hess & Crotty's lime works of this city were set on fire this morning by a bolt of lightning and burned, Loss, $15,000; insurance, #4,000, BRITALN'S BURCHARD. English Pross Comment. THEY DENOUNCE OUR POLITICS: Their Ministor Made a Toy for Pare ties to Play With, STANDING BETWEEN TWO FIRES. Both Elements Will Damn Him for Doing What He Did. THE DEMOCRATS DON'T LIKE HIM Because His Indiscreet Screed is Line ble to Alicnate the Bulk of the Irish Vote from Their Candidate, Sackville's Silly Letter. [Copyright 1858 by James Gordon Bennett.] LoNDON, Oct [New York Herald Ca- ble.—Special to Tne Bre.|—Even the weck- lies pointed their current 1ssues to the sonsa- tion about Lord Sackville, first communi- cated here through the Paris edition of the Herald, and then chorused by the London daily papers. For instance, the Saturday Roview says: “Lord Sackville has becomo for the moment not so much a mark as a missile, for the ropublican and democratic parties fling him back- ward and forward like genial young giants at play, from one to another. The former exclaim in scandalized indignation against the unwarrantable interference of the British minister in the affairs of this country and the latter, not to be behind hand, denounce him for compromising them with the unpopularity of a patronage which they never solicited and to which they indig- nantly object. Nuturally the democrats who cannot afford to have the Irish vote altogether alienated from them by being suspected of enjoying the favor of @ nation now connected with treland by the union of hearts, are a little more offensive in their lectures to the peccant minister, but the other side runs them pretty close. For- tunate Lord Suckville! What a delightful government to be accredited to in such lively times. An indiscreet correspondent elicits from you, or perhans a party wire-pulier en- traps you into writing a confidential reply to a private letter of inquiry and here is the res sult.” “The Spectator, which one of several papers that has leaned towards Harrison, remarks: “1t is to secure the Irish vote as well as the ultra-protectionist vote that this nonsense is written about English intrigue in favor of Mr. Cleveland. Can not Americans. under- stand that if the world were at stake Eng- lishmen “are too stumd to intrigue! Re-, publican papers_ declare that Mr, Cleve land is FEpgland’s man and demand that the minister should at once be sent home. In a country where no one respocts any right of privacy and on tne eve of an election, LordSuckvilleshould have returned A more evasive answer or none at all, 5o as to avoid even the appearance of in fluencing one vote. But the anger expressed is ridiculous. Foreign ambas- sadors in England are always favoring parties from which they hope for help, and American ministers all over the continent stand for liberal ideas, No objection is raised unless they break some diplomatic ctiquette, which Lord Sackville has not done. He has ouly made the mis- take of thinking aloud. The affaie only proves the excessive importance attached in the states to British opinion. Had the letter been written by the French minister 1t would have been considered proper cour- tesy toward a president who has still in any event five months to reign, Loxnoy, Oct. 28.—New York Herald Cablé, Special to Tur B carly all the Sun- day papers give attention to the Sackville sensation, The Dispatch remarks: *‘Our sleepy foreign secretary, Lord Salisbury, hag missed an opportunity. He ought at once to have recalled Lord Sackville by telegraph, but he has waited until it is too late, Ac- cording to the report in the New York Herald yesterday the American cabinet has met and senta dispatch to London in- forming Lord Salisbury that a good under- standing between Great Britain and the United States would be promoted by @ changeof head at the british legation at Washington, but even this step will not undo the mischief. Lord Sackville's letter may seriously influence the Irish vote and imperil Mr. Cleveland’s chances. The republicans are of course using it to the utmost.” Loxnox,0ct. 27.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tue Bee.|—So far as the pro- vincial papers have had time to notice the Suckville matter they seem to chorus the sentiments already sent the Herald from London, condemning Sackville's indiscre- tion. Doubtless Joseph Cowen's newspaper, the Newcastle Chronicle, may be aceepted as one of the best exponents of provincial sentiments. It contains a long leader In the course of which it sa; “It is a lamenta- tion that the great republican party should resort to tactics so dishonorable, It is, morcover, particularly annoying that a British minister should have become the vie- tim of a trick so transparent, Having shown how easily he may be deccived, it may be necessary to find Lord Sackville some other post than Washington. Though it is quite understood there is no great culpability in his action, it is humiliating to England that hes ambassador must be discredited during what remains of the eclectoral campaign in America.” Parnell's Case in Scotland. EpiNpung, Oct. 27.—In the court of ses sions to-day the case of Parnell against th London Times was again called. Parnell's counsel moved that closure of the record of proof be allowed. The court, after consider- able debate between the counsel, granted the motion of the plamtiff. Murray, counsel for the Times, said that the only publication averred in the complaint was that copies of the Times had been mailed to persons in Scotland. This averrment, he contended, was irrelevant. The prosecution, he said, further claimed the right under the registva~ tion act to certain funds which he was sure theact gave them no right to. The judgs then decided to send the case to the proe ceedure roll for a decision on the various points submitted. et Business Tronbles, GREAT BARINGTON, Mass,, Oct. 27.--The Bershire Woolen company, of Great Barring. ton, suspended this afterncon and the works are shut down. ' Resources and liabi are yet unknown. In 1570 the evs 1 for ,000. lmlny