Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1879 — Victoria’s Fear of Assassination. [ARTICLE]

Victoria’s Fear of Assassination.

Queen Victoria was strangely moved when she heard the news of the attempted assassination of the Czar. She has a morbid dread lest somebody, shall take it into his head to put an end to her happy reign by shooting her. She never travels even from Westminster to London without an escort of from three to twelve stalwart gentlemen. Four of these attendants went to Italy with her to enjoy the scenery and to protect her from assassins. A cotrespondent of the Cardiff Times relates an incident of the Queen’sjpassage through Edinburgh a few years ago. She had gone thither to unveil a -statue of the Prince Consort. The city was full from gate to gate with a loyal and enthusiastic population. AH went well with the procession, till, just as it was about to turn into the square in which the statue is erected, a sudden stoppage occurred. The Queen, who was sitting in an open carriage, seemed struck with a sudden terror. She started, clutched the side of the carriage with her hand, and, with every vestige of color fled from her face, hurriedly asked what was the matter. It was nothing but a cavalry horse performing maneuvers not included in the programme, but it seemed as if she thought that another brainless boy had been caught with his obsolete musket loaded with red pocket-handkerchiefs, and his head filled with designs on the life of the Queer]* of England. The latest. old thing which every fashionable London lady thinks she must have, if she is to remain anybody at all, is an old watch. It is not for the hands, or face, or works, that these are prized, but for the case. These are taken off their hinges and converted into stoppers for the glass bottles on the dressing-table. Saratoga is to have a new opera house in correction with the Grand Union HQteJ, capable of gating 1,200 people. ' v