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THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED KVEKY THURSDAY.

y0Li 16, NO. 1- Entered at the Postofficeas

^v ,r:: eoond-class mail matter. W. 8. MONTGOMERY, o."

Publisher and Proprietor.

f- CirciilatioB This Week, 2,700.

Iv PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is being persistently urged to call Congress in special session so that the income tax law maj be remedied. A straight out repeal of fe the entire law is demanded rather than to let the bis land owners and rich 'fe. coupon clippers off scot free, while the mercantile, manufacturing and other business interests that go to make the wonderful business activity in this country are heavily taxed. The law should be amended so that it would reach the classes aimed at, the rich bond holders and land owners or be repealed. Let it be passed, however, in a way that will tji carry out the will'of the people.

Fn ^'K'.ix uovv^has a full-Hedged chicken ordinance which will be in force after the proper number of publications have been giveu it. The city council eviclentmeans to encourage the cultivation of flower gardens at least it belie\es in giving residents of the city an opportunity to follow their own de-sires in that line without fear of molestiou from tjeir neighbors fowls.—Franklin

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j}y pagging a proper chicken oidinance the Common'Conncil of Greenfield would do the proper thing. By it, persons owniug fowls would be compelled to care for them on their own premises instead of compelling neighbors, who are under no obligations to do so, to guard against the depredations of the fowls. Let every man take care of his own property, stock and chickens. No man has a right to impose upon his neighbor.

THE Democrats' predicted tin plate could not be made in this couutry, ai.d said factories were only being established for campaign purposes. Not withstanding theii

however, there are now lo6

tinplate mills iu operation and under construction in this country and 58 more projected. The aggregate out-put of each mill is 30.000 boxes and altogether will amount to 4.680.000 boxes and when all are built that are now arranged for the out-put will be 6.430.000 boxep. That result has been brought about as the direct result of Republican MaKinleyism the McKinley bill or Bill McKinley. This has been done in the face, of the opposition of Democratic papers and orators predicting it could not be done. Protecton, reciprocity and prosperity are winners in this country.

TIIE late dispatches say it is the intention of Gen. Miles, now Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Army, to concentrate a larger garrison iu the. immediate vicinty of New York City. Governor's Island is to be made a large infantry garrison, and the artillery force on David's Island is to be increased by two batteries. The alleged purpose of the change is to have a larger body of infantry near New York City for use in the event of strikes or other disorders in which national interests are jeopardized. Foot troops, it is said by army officers, are the most useful in such service, as they are in cases of war. If the program as talked of is carried out, about 500 infantrymen will soon be in a position from which they can be thrown into any quarter of New York City in an hour^or two. Involved in the proposition is the transfer to New York of the headquarters of the Department of the Ea3t. Presumably Gen. Miles and his staff would have their offices in the Army building in that city.

It is all very well to concentrate troops so that persous may be'kept from breaking the law and destroying the property of others. Would it not be well, however, for the United States to pass such laws that it would not be possible for soulless corporations to grind the wages of laboring men down to such a notch that it is impossible for them and their families to exist on the pittances doled out to them? Let the laws abolish the sweating systems that are grinding the life out of many of the laboring classes in large cities, in coal mines and other places. Why mass troops at these large centers—New York and Chicago—to keep people from destroying property, but allow the people whose property is to be preserved oppress their fellow-men? Life and its enjoyments are certainly more sacred than property rights. We honestly believe both should be protected. If, however, the rights of men and women were first considered and protected, there would be little call to protect property, as there would not be even a shadow of cause to injure it. Laws should be passed to protect people from the an archistic ravings and teachings of professional agitators. We have too many foreign anarchist* in this country, and laws should be passed and enforced compelling them to leave. Let the law of love and justice prevail. Bight wrongs no

Elected 31 ay or of Dodge City, Kan. J. N. Pope, formerly of this county, was on Tuesday, April 9th, elected Mayor of Dodge City, Kansas on the Republican ticket, by a handsome majority. Mr. Pope is a Union Veteran and has many friends here who will gladly hear of hi-* honored promotion.

f'-v The Sunday Schools.

Sunday, Apr.l4th, 1895. Attend'e. Christian 140 M. E. Church 261 Presbyterian 133 Friends 25 M. 159

Totals 7.5 914 &

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

Monograph on the Famous "Man of Destiny."

FAMILY OP THE GEEAT CONQUEROR.

His Mother a Woman of Rare Beauty and Heroic Qualities—A Bit of Family History—Significance of a Piece of Tapestry

Inwrought With an Effigy.

[Copyright, 1895, by John Clark Ridpath.] I.—ORIGIN. The meridian of Discovery and the parallel of Conquest intersect at the birthplace of Bonaparte. The birthlines Df

Ciesar and Columbus, drawn—the one 3ue west from Rome, and the other due south from Genoa cross each other ivithiu a fow miles of Ajaccio! It is odd.

Corsica is shaped like a megatherium. The bony head is thrust into the strait of Bonifacio the long back is bent toward Italy the thick tail projects in the direction of the Upper Riviera. The destined town lies between the fore legs,

LETITIA BONAPARTE, MOTHER OF NAPOLEON. and the space there is a small gulf. The island beast, sketched flat on the 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 the broadside is 3,376 square miles. It is more than twice as big as Rhode Island—smaller somewhat than Connecticut. Anc| the population exceeds a quarter of a million.

Of tho towns here marked, we are concerned with only two Corte and Ajaccio. Tho former is the old home of the Buonapartes the latter, the place to which tho family removed just at the time when, by the birth of a mau-child clad with thunder, it was destined to emerge from medieval obscurities, starlike, Sirius-liko, into the open sky of fame.

The genesis of Napoleon touches a remarkable ethnic condition. Nearly all of the West-Aryan races have contributed to the population of the island in which ho was born. The people and the architecture alike show traces of all these remote but potent influences iu determining the final race-character of the Corsicans who, after the fifteenth century, becamo essontially Italian. The race is thus composite in its derivation to as great a degree as any people in the world. Besides the ethnic origin, the environment—the 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 the reactions of nature on the human animal, to establish and confirm the small insular race whose one man was destined to give it a conspicuous place in human annals.

The Buonapartes were true Corsicans. The family reaches back obscurely into the Middle Ages. The name is Italian, and shows linguistically an origin as remote as the 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 the Great One was born. The noblesse, however, became attenuated, both in Tuscany and in the island, whereto a branch of the family, at some unknown date, removed and established itself at Corte or Ajaccio.

At th9 middle of the eighteenth century the head of the Corsican Buonapartes was Joseph, grandfather of Napoleon. The family resided at Corte, in the center of tho 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.

The geographical position of Corsica made it a bone 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 some, the French and some, other Italian States. At the 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 Marboenf 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 tn 'the Mediterranean to counterbalance the growing power of Great Britain.

After the episode of Voh Neuhof, the patriot leader Pascal Paoli gained an ascendency in Corsica, and became dictator. He 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 the breaking of all connection between their country and the petty state of Genoa, and a union with the powerful kingdom »f France. The cause of

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Paoli fell tutorfe overwhelming odds, snd in May of 1768, Corsica was formally delivered to the French. The patriots were scattered, and their leader found refuge in England.

It was in the midst of these agitations, civil and military, that the Buonaparte family emerged clearly to view. Carlo Maria Buonaparte was born in Ajaccio, March 29, 1746. At the time of the failure of the revolutionary movement and the loss of his country's independence,he 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. Witli her, nature had been prodigal of all gifts. She was beautiful to a degree strongly marked in feature and person with the excellencies of the Italian race.

Of the Ramolino family, not much is known. Suffice it that Carlo di Buonaparte—though a noble—recklessly took Letitia in marriage when she was but fifteen years of age. She brought him her beauty and a portion of properties, but no additional rank. She is said to have been a girl of 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 the origin of that Napoleonic visage with which the whole world will be familiar to the end of human records.

The character of Carlo di Buonaparte, though discoverable only in fragments, shows a mixture of courago 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 I he prepared himself to be an advocate, and obtained a reputation for youthful eloquence. The University of Pisa conferred on him, about the time of the birth of Napoleon, the degree of Doctor of Laws.

The collapse of the patriot cause had induced Carlo Buonaparte, as a measure of prudence, to leave Ajaccio and retire to Corte. Tho latter, being an inland town and having a mountainous situation, was more deeply pervaded with the paCriotic spirit than was the lowland region about Ajaccio. Tho coast country gavo itself up freely to the French domination. During the first five years of tho married life of Carlo he oscillated with his young family back pud forth between the two towns, finally—when safety came with peace—fixing himself at Ajaccio. This was in the early part of 1709.

Meanwhile, before this removal, three children had appeared, in rapid succession, at tho hearthstone of Carlo Buonaparte. All of these were born at Corte. The first was a daughter, Elise, whoso birth was in 1765. This child died in infancy, as did also the next, Marie Anne, who was born about two years later. Then, on January 7th, 17(38, came the first son, and to him the parents gave the namo of Joseph Nabulione, or, as a secondary spelling would have it, Joseph Napoleone, or, Napoleon. Tho latter name, though appearing in the birth-record of the family, was dropped in the case of tho oldest sou, Joseph only being retained. It. was the custom of the age, in the case of the death of children, to repoat their names for those born afterward. Nor was there anything exact, as in the customs of the nineteenth century, in the spelling employed.

The surname, as well as the given names, in the family of Buonaparte fluctuated into many forms, and gave rise to some discussion and confusion afterwards. One story ran to tho effect that Napoleon Bonaparte was born January 7th, 17G8, and Joseph about nineteen months afterwards,that is, August loth, 1769. It was believed at one time that the father interchanged the dates of the birth of his two eldest sons, in order to get Napoleon into the military academy before his tenth year—a thing necessary under the law. But it is now known that no such thing occurred. Tho only ground for the invention of the fiction was the fact that Joseph's middle name was originally Nabulione, and that this name, iu a modified form, was afterwards conferred on the younger son.

The estate of Carlo di Buonaparte, though augmented by his intermarriage with the 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. The 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 the time when the first emperor of the French came into the world.

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! This probably occurred. It was the 15th of August, 1769. Asa matter of -fact, there was no omen in heaven or earth—no sign that a beautiful peasant had been delivered of a conqueror! JOHN CLABK RIDPATH.

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COREAN WAR ENDED

Peace

Convention Signed Both Countries.

TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.

Independence of Corea—Japan Retains the Places She Has Conquered and All That East of the L.iao River—Formosa Permanently Ceded to Japau— Indemnity of 9100,000,000.

LONDON, April 16.—A dispatch to The Times from Shanghai says that Li Hung Chang's son-in-law telegraphs that a peace convention was signed at Shimonoseki Monday byjthe plenipotentiaries of China and Japan.

Following are the terms of the convention: First—The independence of Corea.

Second—That Japan retains the places she has conquered. Third—That Japan shall also retain the territory east of the Liao river.

Fourth—That the Island of Formosa be ceded permanently to Japan. Fifth—The payment of an indemnity of $100,000,000.

Sixth—An offensive and defensive alliance.

Not Reported to Washington. WASHINGTON, April 14.—There is no information obtainable on the subject at the Japanese legation. The official to whom the dispatch was shown was inclined to credit the report that a treaty of peace had been signed, as in view of the near approach of the termination of the armistices, some action was probable. Still, nothing had been received at the legation to confirm the statements contained in the dispatch.

The Final Conference.

SIIIMONOSEKI, April 16.—The conference today of the peace commissioners lasted five hours, all the envoys attended the meeting except Viscount Mutsu. It is believed that today's conference was the final one. It is stated that the Chinese plenipotentiaries are preparing to return to their homes.

DEADLY DUEL.

Five Shots Fired and One Man Fatally Wounded. SKLMA, Ala., April 16.—J. A. Minter and M. R. Dudley, two prominent planters, engaged iu a fatal duel at Tylers, 11 miles east of this city, at an early hour yesterday morning. Minter fired three times 'and- Dudley twice. The last shot fired by Minter utok effect in Dudley's b&wi'is. He was sitting in his buggy when tiic shooting took place, and as soon as ho v. as shot turned his horse's head toward home, a mile and a half froai tho scene of the affray.

He realized that he could not hold out until he reached home and stopped at a negro cabin and had a doctor sent for. He is fatally wounded. The exact particulars of the shooting can not be learned as there were no eye witnesses to the duel and both men refuse to talk. There has been an old feud between the men for several years past.

Attempt to Cremate Five Families.

NEW YORK, April 16.—An attempt very near successful was made to burn an old 4-story brick tenement house, 132 West Nineteenth street, at 3:50 o'clock Monday morning. The stairways, landings and hallwavs of tho place were literally soaked with kerosene and a torch applied in at least three places. In the house there were five families, all colored. That they all escaped without injury is miraculous. This is the third time there has been suspicious fires in the same house. Before there were no traces of an incendiary, but there were strong suspicions.

Minister Dies in the Pulpit. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 16.—Rev. J. M. Jessup, an aged primitive Baptist preacher, met death in a horrible manner at Sandy Ridge, Ala. While delivering his sermon he suddenly fell to the-floor in spasms and died with his awe-stricken congregation about him. It afterward developed that he had taken a lot of strychnine, which he carried in his pocket, on bread crumbs to poison English sparrows that infested his yard. He was also in the habit of carrying sugar in his pocket to clear his throat for his sermon. He took the strychnine by mistake.

Perry Still at Large.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., April 16.—The authorities of the Mattewan asylum have not given up hopes that Perry, the train robber, is still in the vicinity of the asylum. Further particulars of the robbery of George H. Abbott's house at Hughsonville, on Saturday night, strengthens the belief that Perry has not left Dutchess county. The house was entered by somebody during the night anfl $40 in money and a gold watch and some clothing wrere stolen.

A Fred Douglass Memorial. PiTiT.AnKT.PHiA, April 16.—Honor will be paid to the memory of the late Frederick Douglass at a memorial meeting to be held at the Academy of Music. Addresses will be delivered by representative white and colored citizens on the life and services of the deceased leader of tho colored race, and appropriate resolutions will be submitted for presentation to the family of the deceased.

England Warned.

NEW YORK, April 16.—A special from Washington says: From what can be learned from trustworthy sources Secretary Gresham through Ambassador Bayard has informed Great Britain that this country will not permit, without protest, the bombardment of Greytown, and that the landing of English troops on Nicaraguan soil will be viewed as an act inimical to American interests.

More of the Chieora's Wreck. CHICAGO, April 16.—A large piece of the forward bulwarks of the wrecked steamer Chicora was picked up yesterday afternoon about 15 miles northeast of Chicago. The monogram "G. & M." of the Graham & Morton line, was on the portion of the bulwarks. The lake for a mile around the spot was strewn with wreckage, but no sign of any bodies was seen.

Conscience Fund Increased. WASHINGTON, April 16.—United States Treasurer Morgan yesterday received from Canada a Now York bill of exchange foi 4*465 to be placed to the C*ea.i/ of m- conscience Jund.

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