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FAMILY OF THE GEEAT CONQUEEOR.
His 31other a Woman of Kare Beauty and
Heroic Qualities—A ISit of Family His
tory—Si^r:i.'ioaiice of a IMece of Tapestry
Inwrought With an Eltigy.
[Copyrnrht, 1S95, by John Chirk Ridpath. I.—ORIGIN. Tho meridian of Discovery and tho parallel of Conquest intersect at the birthplace of Bonaparte. The birthlincs Df CVsarand Columbus, drawn—the one .lue west from Rome, and the other due ninth from Genoa cross each other tvithin a few miles of Ajaccio! It is odd.
Corsica is shaped like a megatherium. Tho bony head is thrust into the strait Df Bonifacio tho long back is bent toward Italy tho thick tail projects in tho direction of the Upper Riviera. The destined town lies between the fore legs,
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LETITIA liOXAI'AUTK, MOTIIKU OF NAPOLEON.
and tho space there is a small gulf. The island beast, skotched flat on tho sea, shows many black spots on the side: they are mountains. There are veins also, and these are swift streams small circles in a few places—towns. The area of tho broadside is 8,376 square miles. It is more than twico as big as Rhode Island—smaller somewhat than Connecticut. And tho population exceeds a quarter of a million.
Of the towns here marked, we are concerned with only two Corte and Ajaocio. The former is tho old home of the Buonapartes the latter, the place to which tho family romoved just at the time when, by the birth of a man-child clad with thunder, it was destined to emerge from mediaeval obscurities, starlike, Sirius-liko, into the open sky of fame.
Tho genesis of Napoleon touches a remarkable ethnic condition. Nearly all of tho West-Aryan races have contributed to tho population of tho island in which ho was born. The people and tho architecture alike show traces of all these remote but potent influences in determining the final race-character of the Corsicans who, after the fifteenth century, becamo essentially Italian. The race is thus composite in its derivation to as great a degree as any people in tho world. Besides tho ethnic origin, the environment—tho narrow confines of the island, its mountainous character, its pleasant situation in the pellucid waters of the Mediterranean, its easy distance from the long bending line of one of the most famous coasts of the world—has tended powerfully, by tho reactions of nature on the human animal, to establish and confirm tho small insular race whoso ono man was destined to give it a conspicuous place in human annals.
The Buonapartes were true Corsicans. The family reaches back obscurely into tho Middle Ages. The naino is Italian, and shows linguistically an origin as remote as tho Renaissance. There were Italian as well as Corsican Buonapartes. A family of this name lived in the Tuscan city of Sarzana another perhaps, in Genoa, and another at Florence. Examples are found in which the spelling is given thus—Buona Parte. They of Sarazana were ennobled in the sixteenth century, and continued to write their name with a di, or de, until the epoch when tho Great One was born. The noblesse, however, became attenuated, both in Tuscany and in the island, wheroto a branch of the family, at some unknown date, removed and established itself at Corte or Ajaccio.
At tha middle of the eighteenth century tho head of the Corsican Buonapartes was Joseph, grandfather of Napoleon. The family resided at Corte, in the center of the island. Joseph received a patent of nobility from the grand duke of Tuscany, making him a patrician and this worthless distinction was carried down to his son, Carlo Buonaparte, whose rights were confirmed by the Archbishop of Pisa and the King of France.
Tho geographical position of Corsica made it a bono of contention among the Powers. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century the island was under the suzerainty of Genoa: The people were partisans. Some favored the Genoese somo, the French and some, other iti*}: ian Statos. At tho middle of the eighteenth century, there was turbulence. The patriots rose against Genoa, and a certain General Von Neuhof was about to be made king, when a French army under General Marboeuf was sent into the island to bring it into subjection. The French had just lost their colonial"empire in North America, and were anxious to make a gain in the Mediterranean to counterbalance the growing power of Great Britain.
After tho episode of Von Neuhof, the patriot leader Pascal Paoli gained an ascendency in Corsica, and became dictator. fie contended valiantly for the independence of his country, and for a while held his powerful enemies at bay. This, however, could not last The French party among the Corsicans desired tho breaking of all connection between their country and the petty stattf of Genoa, and a union with tho powerful kingdom of France. The cause of
Paoli fell iv i„rt overwhelming odds, and in May of 176S, Corsica was formally delivered to the French. Tho patriots were scattered, and their leader found refuge in England.
It was in tho midst of these agitations, civil and military, that tho Buonaparte family emerged clearly to view. Carlo Maria Buonaparte was born in Ajaccio, March 29, 174(5. At the time of tho failure of the revolutionary movement and the loss of his country's independence, ho was twenty-two years of age. Meanwhile, in his eighteenth year, he had fallen in love with Letitia Ramolino, daughter of a well-to-do Corsican peasant. With her,nature had been prodigal of all gifts. She was beautiful to a degree strongly marked in feature and person with the excellencies of tho Italian race.
Of the Ramolino family, not much is known. Suflice it that Carlo di Buouaparte—though a noble—recklessly took Letitia in marriage when she was but fifteen years of age. Sho brought him her beauty and a portion of properties, but no additional rank. Sho is said to have been a girl cf heroic qualities, queenly in her bearing, rather silent in manner, healthy as to her bodily life, and ignorant of sentiment. Her face, preserved in a hundred forms of art, shows .unmistakably tho origin of that Napoleonic visage with which the whole world will bo familiar to the end of liuman record.-,.
Tho character of Carlo di Buonaparte, though discoverable only in fragments, shows a mixture of courage and adventure. He was a projector of many things —a visionary. His education was obtained in Italy. He had been a student at Rome, and afterward at Pisa, where he prepared himself to bo an advocate, and obtained a reputation for youthful eloquence. Tho University of Pisa conferred on him, about tho time of the birth of Napoleon, the degree of Doctor of Laws.
Tho collapse of tho patriot cause had induced Carlo Buonaparte, as a measure of prudence, to leave Ajaccio and retire to Corte. The latter, being an inland town and having a mountainous situation, was more deeply pervaded with tho patriotic spirit than was tho lowland region about Ajaccio. Tho coast country gave itself up freely to tho French domination. During tho first five years of tho married lifo of Carlo ho oscillated with his young family back and forth between tho two towns, finally—when safety came with peace—fixing himself at Ajaccio. This was in the early part of 1701).
Meanwhile, beforo this removal, three children had appeared, in rapid succession, at tho hearthstone of Carlo Buonaparte. All of these were born at Corte. Tho first was a daughter, Elise, whose birth was in 1705. This child died in infancy, as did also tho next, Mario Anno, who was born about two years later. Then, on January 7th, 1708, came tho lirst son, and to him the parents gave the name of Joseph Nabuliono, or, as a secondary spelling would have it, Joseph Napoleone, or, Napoleon. Tho latter name, though appearing in the birth-record of tho family, was dropped in tho case of tho oldest sou, Joseph only being retained. It was the custom of the age, in the case of tho death of children, to repeat their names for those born afterward. Nor was there anything exact, as in tho customs of tho nineteenth century, in tho spelling employed.
Tho surname, as well as tho given names, in tho family of Buonaparte fluctuated into many forms, and gave rise to some discussion and confusion afterwards. Ono story ran to tho effect that Napoleon Bonaparte was born January 7th, 1708, and Joseph about ninoteen months afterwards, that is, August loth, 1709. It was believed at ono time that tho father interchanged tho dates of tho birth of his two eldest sons, in order to get Napoleon into tho military academy beforo his tenth year—a thing necessary under the law. But it is now known that no such thing occurred. The only ground for tho invention of tho fiction was tho fact that Joseph's middle name was originally Nabulione, and that this name, in a modified form, was afterwards conferred on the younger son.
The estate of Carlo di Buonaparte, though augmented by his intermarriage with tho Ramolino family, was unequal to his tastes and desires. He possessed a property at Corte, and another in Ajaccio. To the latter he came back in the early part of 1769, and established himself in the house where Napoleon was born. Tho homestead di Buonaparte was favorably situated. The house is still in excellent preservation. It is four stories in height. From the upper windows one may see tho ocean. The building is stuccoed, is rectangular, and has a flat roof, with a small cupola, from which the flag of France was flying at tho time when the first emperor of the French came into the world. "it*
About the birth of great men cycles of fiction grow. Friends and enemies alike invent significant circumstances. The traducers of Napoleon have said that he was illegitimate—that his father was the French marshal Marboeuf. They also say, on better grounds, that the marriage of Letitia Ramolino to Carlo Buonaparte was not solemnized until 1767— that the first two children were therefore born out of wedlock. On the other hand, the idol worshipers would fain have Napoleon born as a god or Titan. Premature pangs seize the mother at church. She hurries home, barely reaching her apartment when the heroic babe is delivered, without an accoucher, on a piece of tapestry inwrought with an effigy of Achilles 1 This probably occurred. It was the 15th of August, 1709. As a matter of fact, there was no omen in heaven or earth—no sign that a beautiful peasant had been delivered of a conqueror! JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.
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A full cut diamond is called a brilliant and has 58 facets. A single cut diamond has 18 facets. Arose cut diamond is one that is too small for the other cuts, in faceted only on top and la flat on the bottom.,
MINERS GO TO WORK
Strike in the Pittsburg District Has Been Broken.
FOURTEEN THOUSAND AT WORE.
River Operators Agrci! to I'ay tlie Sixty
Niiw Cents Asked ly tlie ."1 iners I'nt il
tlu- iSurges in the IJiver Are Killed anil
as Long sss lit Coating Stages .Last Hail
road Operators Ketuseto I'ay.
PITTSML'UO, March 1:2.—The river coal operators at their meeting yesterday afternoon decided unanimously to pay the 09 cents until the barges in the river are filled and while the boating stage lasts, but the railroad operators as unanimously refused to accede to the demands of the miners, and will pay no more than cents. They declare h:'t it is impossible to pay more in the present demoralized condition of the market and with the keen competition from cue West Yirgnra fields, the freight rates from Inn section being so much lower than from here.
By the decision of the river operators the entire river district will resume work, which creates great ivjuicing among the men. President Cairns is well pleased and says 4,01)0 miners will be added to those already at work. lie says these, together with those who have had the demand grantei^ before, in both rail and river mines, wnl make the number between l.'i.OOO and 14,000 at work out of the "JO,000 in the district.
Secretary AlcBryde of the miners' union is in the city. He says: "The arrangement suits the miners to a T. We only asked for payment of the rate agreed upon a year ago until the year ended, May 1."
The stipulation in the river miners' agreement, to pay the rate while the boating stage lasts, will keep the men at work until the year expires.
Mr. McBryde would not talk on what action might be taken by the men at that time.
TONTONGANY'S MURDER CASE.
Miss Hartsiug Released and No More Arrests Will Be Made Right Away. TOLEDO,
March
12.—There
was an-
other sensation in the Tontongauy murder case yesterday when Nellie Hartsing, Dr. Eddmon's domestic, was released from jail. The release of Miss Hartsing is the result of insuificient evidence to bind her over. Prosecutor Murphy and Mr. Troupe, after going over the information in their possession, decided it was not enough to warrant further steps in prosecution.
Sheriff Biggs is displeased at the turn things have taken. He says he will make no more arrests right away. He. further says there is
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mystery about
the case as people seem to think. He is I satisfied in his own mind who committed the deed, he says, but can not produce the evidence to support his position, The next thing in order probably will be the oiler of a reward by the comissioners.
Prosecutor Murphy does not propose to let the matter rest, but intends tu keep at work until the murderer is brought to justice. The sheriff' says he would like very much to get hold of a Mr. Dennis, a commercial traveler,' who was staying at Tontongauy the night of I the murder, and who was of the first at the scene of the murder after thei crime was discovered. Dennis is uuknown.
BROTHER ELIJAH DIED RICH.
Spriiiglielders l''all Heir to a Vast Fortune in l.razil. NEW YORK,
March
12.—Three
broth-
ers, whose surname is Buffenbarger, and who lived in Springfield, O., received a visit from another brother, Elijah, in the fall of
18553.
Nothing
more was heard from him until several months ago, when tho children of the three brothers were advised by the consul general at Rio Janeiro that Elijah had died in Brazil, a bachelor, apparently intestate, and had left a fortune estimated to be worth $8,000,000.
His heirs, among whom were Mrs. Judge D. C. Badger of Columbus, O., and Mrs. John Crawford of this city, engaged ex-Speaker J. Warren Keifer of Springfield as counsel and sent an attorney to Brazil. A telegram received oji' from Springfield says that a letter has just come from the lawyer sent to Brazil in which lie estimates the estate at $1(3,000,000, and says that the heirs will get their money in a few months if nothing unforseeu occurs. The share of Mrs. John Crawford of this city is put at $1,000,000.
Strikers Act Ucly.
MARTIN'S FEKKY, O., March 12.— Early Sunday a dozen of the glassworkers assembled near the Buckeye works. When Thomas Mitchell, a special policeman, ordered thein to disperse, one of them seized hiin by the throat, and as the others showed a disposition to follow the first assailant, Mitchell drew a revolver and fired at them. Mitchell says that he knocked one man down, and that he thinks he shot one. He recognized several of the men, but not the one supposed to have been shot.
Internal Revenue Tax Abated. WASHINGTON, March 12.—The secre
tary of the treasurer has abated the internal revenue tax, amounting to $640,794, on 711,994 gallons of spirits destroyed by fire April 5, 1893, while stored in a bonded distillery warehouse at Louisville. The spirits were owned by William E. Bradley, Allen Bradley company and John McKim.
Old Resident Called.
COLUMBUS, O., March 12.—John L. Gill, an old resident of Columbus, died yesterday, aged 89. He was founder of the Gill Car Works company, once the largest in the United States, and during the war constructed cars for the government.
Badly Crushed.
TRIMBLE, O., March 12.—Charles Brown, a machine inqn at No. 10 mine, was caught under a fall of coal and badly crushed about the head and shoulders.
Cash and Gold Reserve.
WASHINGTON, March 12.—Yesterday's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $184,* 184,111 gold reserve, $90,008,608.
Kx-Senator Dead.
VAN WERT, O., March 12.—Ex-Stato Senator L. Meredith is dead. He had been ill for several months, and hia death was unexpected.
CCREAN WAR.
Prospects of IVace, but Still the Fighting, Is lSeing Kept. Up. LONDON-,
March 1 '2.—A dispatch to
Tlie Times from l'ekin says that tha Chinese government, through the United States ministers, Den by and Edwin Dun, have already agreed upon thi? points in the peace conference regarding the independence of Corea, the cession ot territory and money indemnity, the amount to be agreed upon by the envoys.
Tlu- dispatch adds that no imperial edict relating to tin war will be pubai.hed for a month, and there will bo nu ^published reference to the peace mis— .-ion as the foreign oflice unwillingly yielded ir.- policy to that of the war department in order to bring about harmony.
It is expected that the agreement willbe feigned at an early date.
Another Uattle .Fought.
LONDON.
I Irc11 12.—A Shanghai dis
patch to The Times says that a Chinese force of ,()()!) men, supported by guns, was at cacki by the .Japanese at JJeiedioial on Saturday last, Gener .! Ivatsiira commanded the center division of th«! Japanese army, which fought bravely, (.e.ieial Oku was in command of the right wing of the troops'. The left wing was composed of the Yamagis soldiers from Kaipiug. The attack was suceessiul. and in two hours the Chinese tied toward Chin-Chow, losing 4(J0. The .Japanese loss -\vas killed. After burning Den^hotal for strategic reasons, tlie Japane.se rccrossed the Liao.
TWO ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE.
A11 Insane Woman Who Wants to l»e Run Over by a Train. TOPKKA.
March 12.—Mrs. E. G. Mur
phy of Wichita, a well dressed woman about 4.1 years of age. came here to visit her wayward son. who is confined in the reform school. When the flock Island passenger train was starting to pull out again she jumped on the track directly in front of the engine, but a man standing near dragged her from her perilous position iu time to save her life.
Yesterday Mrs. Murphy renewed her attempt at suicide. This time she got down on her hands and knees, and was in the act of crawling under a slowly moving boxcar between the tracks when Brakeman Ed Cunningham saw her and succeeded in dragging her away. She is temporarily insane from brooding over her son's actions.
Negroes Ordered Out, of Town. UNIONVII/LE, MO.,
March
12.—The
excitement attending die shooting of
Knocked Out in One Kound. LONDON,
March
A1
Todd, the colored man, by City Marshal Clark, lias not abated, and a deplorable state of affairs exists. Parties unknown, with strong prejudices against the colored race, have sent notices to all the colored men ordering them to quit the town. The letters are adorned by a skull and erossbones. Prosecuting Attorney Lee T. Robinson has issued a manifesto, and the chances are the would-be Wiiite Caps will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
12.—In
a boxing"
match at the Central hali. Holborn, yesterday evening between Prank P. Slavin, formerly or Australia, ami'. Frank Craig, known as tho Harlem". "CoU'ee C«»u:eiv' for a purse of $5,000,. Craig was knocked out
1:1
one round.
(iovernmeiit Forces Ieleated. BUENOS AYKKS,
March
12.—Advices
from Lima are to the effect that an engagement has been fought at Cabanillas, Peru, between the government troops and the insurgents. Tho government forces were defeated with a loss of 300 killed.
Indieai ions.
Generally cloudy with light snow or ruin hlightly warmer easterly winds.
7 E A E S
lievicw .)f tli» Grain and Livestock Markets For ."\Jareli 11.
Cincinnati Tobacco.
Hilda.
Offerings 2,288 Rejections 754 Actual sales 1,5514 Receipts l.tKKi
Tlie new and old tobacco offered this week sold as follows: 1,381 hluls of new: 4(35, $1( U5 140, $4 @5 95 1SI,
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114, 95 52, H0(d
11 75 82, $12(^14 75 37, $15(£19 25 5, $20$
907 hluls of old: 194, $1@3 95 253, 5 95 197, 95 110, 95 (3, 11 75 58, $12(^14 75 29, $15^19 50 3, $20 @22
Boston.
Wool—Ohio and Pennsylvania XXX 18oj XX and above 10^^ 17c, l(5c, No. 1 lU(g)£0c, No. 2 192(t£21o, hue unwashed 12c, unmerchantable 13c, Ohio combing No. 1 blood 20(tt.21c, No. 2 blood 20ist^lc, Ohio Delaines 18(4'19o, Mieh^ iKiin and above loe, No. 1 18(aj l!»c, No 2 19c, tine unwashed 10^@llc, unmercantile 12c, Michigan combing No. 1 blood 20c, No. 2 j-^-blood 19c, Michigan dtv laines 17i(«18c, Kentucky, Indiana aud Missouri combing %-blood 16£(i518o, do blood lti^CsfilSc, do brahl l(5(«!17o, clothing blood 15c, do coarse 15c.
l'itMburg,
Cattle—Prime, ?5 25(c§5 50 good, $4 S0& 5 10 good butchers, $4 20@4 GO rough fat, $3 50@4 20 fair light steers, $3 25i$ 3 (JO fat cows and heifers, $3 00($3 80 bulls, stags and cows, $2 00@3 25 fresh cows and springers, $15 00gl40 00. Hogs— Philadelphia, $4 45(^4 60 best mixed,., $4 35@1 40 Yorkers, #4 20($4 35 pigs, 10 @4 20 rougu, S3ti4. Sheep—Export wethers, |4 o()@4 70 extra sheep, $4 20(04 40 good, $3 80( '4 00 fair. $2 50(^3 25 common, $1 00®2 00 bust lambs, $5 50@5 80, good lambs, |1 70(t£5 20 common to fair lambs, 12 60(^4 30 veal calves, 15 00@6 50,
Uuffitlo.
Wheat—No. 2 red, 00c No. 3 red, 59c. Corn—No. 2 yellow, 47%e No. 3 yellow, 47 No. 3 corn, 47c. Oats No. whito, 35^c No. 2 mixed, 32}^c. Cattl® —Steers, $3 50($4 90 mixed butchers, $2 79 @|4 stockers and feeders, |3@3 65. Hog* —Mediums and heavy, 14 60(t£4 60 pigai. $4 30@4 40. Sheep and lambs—Sheep, @3 86 extra wethers,14 85$5 00 lamtMU $4 26^6 95.
Cincinnati.
Wheat—55^o. Corn—43@44c. Cattle-— Select butchers, $4 75($5 00 fair to good, t3 85@4 60 common, |2 75(33 75. Hogs— Selected and prime butchers, $4 40® 4 50 packing, 14 25($4 40 common to rough, «3 85($4 20. Sheep—$2 00(t§4 60. Lamb»— IS 00@5 00.
Chicago.
.Hogs—Selected butchers, $4 45@4 55 packers, $4 25®4 46. Cattle—Prime steeraL |5 05(g)ti 10 others. $3 76(g)4 66 cows and bulls, $1 76£4 75. Sheep—12 26@4 50^ lambs, 13 2505 50.
New York.
Cattle—$2 00@5 50. Sheep-fi) 50@4 lambs, 13 BOOS 7(L