Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Afloat with Napoleon. [ARTICLE]

Afloat with Napoleon.

Two men livtjf” in St. Helena who were born respectively in 1708 and 1802 are not the only persons now living who have seen Napoleon the Great. Thomas De Moleyhs, who was for many years County Court Judge of Kilkenny, who was called to the Irish bar in 1831, and appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1855, served in bis early boyhood in the royal navy. Mr. De Moieyns was a midshipman on board the Bellerophon when Nni>olcon, on July 15, 1815. after ‘'the hundred days,” placed himself under the flag of his country and was received on board the Bellerophon. Astronomers are preparing for the total eclipse of the sun In May. IUOO.