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The Yakima Herald.
GABIIB OF BDSCOLL
Ht Swore He VnU list the Empress of
Aistrti
Sent is the Lend ChsMhtr-Tlie Hsw*
•Me Walls—Andrew (lie Keeper
Done Ear—A Remarkable
Escape aad flight.
During the early part of the reign of the
Empresa Maria Theresa, of Austria, the
Chevalier Littro Verena di Bnocoli, a
young man of twenty-four, was an attache
of the Venetian embassy of Vienna.
The chevalier was a remarkably band
some man, and soon after his arrival in
the Austrian capital he became notorious
for the recklessness with which he em
barked in love affairs with young women
in all stations of life. He made no secret
of his scandalous liasioos, and would fre
quently boast of the number of innocent
girls he had seduced qnd had then aban
doned for fresh victims of his libidinous
passions.
As a natural consequence of bis con
duct as a rake, he was involved in numer
ous difficulties. lie was challenged to
fight several duels, but, being a dead shot,
and a splendid swordsman, he never re
ceived as much as a scratch on the so
called field of honor, but, on the contrary,
Inflicted invariably severe punishment
upon his antagonists.
On several occasions, too, exasperated
lovers, whose inamoratas the gay and un
scrupulous chevalier had decoyed from
the path of virtue, attacked him with
clubs and canes, but he was a |>owerful
man, and here, too, managed to avoid de
served punishment.
One day, 1754, he made a disgraceful
proposition to the beautiful young wife of
Prince Kaunita at a court masquerade in
Hchoenbourm. The insulted lady imme
diately hastened to the Empress Maria
Theresa, and informed her of what had
occurred.
The empress, a very impulsive woman,
sent for the Chevalier Buscoli, and, with
eyes flashing with rage, said to him:
"Cowardly villian, leave my territory
this very night, or I will have you shut
up in the Spielberg.”
The Spielberg contained the terrible
subterranean dungeons in which,in former
times, the monarchs of Austria confined
those who were unfortunate enough to in
cur their anger.
Nothing remained for the Chevalier
Buacoli but to comply at once with the
imperial order; but before he left Vienna
he went to the Cercle dee Etrangen, and
there, in the presence of a few fart young
men belonging to the foreign legations,
•aid scornfully:
“Madame Maria Theresa has shown
her bad manners toward me for asking
the Princess Kannits to let me kiss her
shoulder. Now, gentlemen, remember
the oath I will take now. Before many
days I will, return to Vienna and "
KISS THE CXnUESS
herself until she howls for mercy.”
An hour afterward he departed for
Venice. Next day the audacious words
be bad uttered at the Cercle des Etrangen
were repeated to the empress. The in
dignation of Maria Theresa knew no
bounds. Hhe sent for the embassador of
Venice, and said to him in a tone of in
tense indignation:
“Tell your government that I will resent
this infamous affront, which one of its
representatives has inflicted upon me.”
The embassador immediately dispatched
a mounted messenger to Venice to lay the
matter before his government. The mes
senger reached that place even before the
Chevalier Buacoli arrived.
The news which he conveyed was in
the highest degree disagreeable to the
Venetian authorities, for at that very lime
they were most anxious to secure the
friendship of the empress of Austria, and
so they resolved at once to inflict signal
punishment upon the Chevalier Buscoli.
It was then the custom of the Venetian
government to subject dangerous state
prisoners to unheard-of moral tortures,
compelling the unfortunate man to ask
for a speedy execution as the best means
of escaping from a worse fate than a pain
ful death. .
In midsummer prisoners thus doomed
by this infamous and cruel government,
which practiced itk barbarities until Na
poleon I. overthrew it in 1797, were con
fined In the so-called
I.RAD CHAMBER*,
that ia to say, small, low cells under the
lead-covered roof of Bt. Mark’s palace.
When the southern sun shone upon these
“lead chambers,” the heat In them be
came absolutely intolerable, there being
no ventilation whatever, and the tortured
victims became delirious, and, in many
instances, went mad I
During the winter, prisoners, whose
death had been resolved upon, were placed
in large and well-lighted cells, but one of
whose side walls was moveable.
The jailers would push this wan every
night a few inches forward. The pris
oner would soon discover that the space
in which he was was steadily
narrowing.
The terror and anguish of the poor dev
ils may be imagined. Only once a day
would they see through an aperture in
tbs Iron cell door the keeper who brought
them their scanty meals.
The keeper would convene with them
readily, as soon as he had reason to be
llevs that tbs prisoners had fully realised
the awful position in which they were
placed. He would tsU tbs (tossed men
that they could not escape death, and
that the most painless was by the “cord.”
But “the cord” would only be grouted
them by the honorable grand council of
the republic as o special favor, and only
at their own written request. Would
they like to see'the honorable secretaire
for that purpoeee?
It la a matter of record that not a few of
the wretches, maddened and despairing as
they were, followed the keeper’s advice,
and sent for the secretaire, who drew up
for them a petition, in which they assured
the grand council that they had deserved
death for their
HIGH CRIMES,
and penitently solicited their own speedy
execution. This petition they signed, and
in a few hours afterward they were stran
gled to death in their own cell.
On the oth of March, in the above-men
tioned year, the Chevalier Buscoli arrived
at lost in Venice. He was at once ar
rested, and thrown into one of the cells
with the moveable walls.
Vainly did he inquire of the keeper who
brought him his food what he was there
for. The keeper made no replies what
ever.
This lasted for one week. On the
morning of the eighth day of his con
finement the prisoner discovered beyond
a doubt that
HIS CELL WAS GROWING SMALLER!
He had heard of these cells before, and,
in bis terror and despair, began to shoot
loudly for help.
His shouts produced no effect what
ever.
In bis anguish, with his eyes bloodshot
and protruding from their sockets, his hair
standing on end, and his forehead cov
ered with perspiration, the unfortunate
attache threw himself on bis narrow
couch, loudly bewailing his horrible fate.
Finally he became almost delirious,
and he did not bear that the keeper had
opened the small window in the iron door
of the cell.
This keeper was a slender man of me
dium height, with a swarthy face, small
twinkling black eyes, a long black head,
and a lurking expression.
Upon seeing the Chevalier Buscoli
stretched out on his couch, evidently a
prey to intense anguish, a malignant
smile overspread the repulsive features of
Andrea (thlt was the keeper’s name.)
"Signor Buscoli,” he said at last, "I
have brought you food.” :
The chevalier sprang to his feet.
With a gesture of despair he exclaimed:
"Keeper, for the sake of the holy virgin,
tell me, what does this mean?”
So saying, he pointed to the wall that
bad moved.
The keeper shrugged bis shoulders.
“Have you heard no noise outside?”
he asked then.
“No, no,” replied Bnscoli, impatiently,
“pray-”
‘That is very strange,” rejoined Andrea,
“he certainly cried loud enough to be
heard for miles.”
“Who cried so loud?” asked poor Bus
coli.
“Why, vour neighbor in the cell right
across from you.”
“What about him?”
“Half an hour ago he received the
benefit of the cord,” said Andrea, with
the utmost coolness.
“The cord ?” asked Buscoli. “What is
that?”
“So you don’t know what that is, Sig
nor Bnscoli ? Well, let me tell yon. In
that cell was the Abbe Ferrati; mark me
well, in a cell just like yours. He was
there two weeks. Then he had enough
of It. Yesterday be petitioned the grand
council for the
“bembtit or thx conn.
“His prayer was granted this morning,
and half an hour ago I took Signor
Valdoni to him. Signor Valdoni, yon
know, is the executioner. We entered
Ferrati’s cell, and Valdoni requested
him to sit down in an arm chair which
he bad brought with him. Ferrati
wanted to know what for. ’I am here
to give you the cord,’ answered Valdoni.
Then the abbe shrank away from him,
as if be himself had not prayed for the
cord. He wept and cried for mercy. He
shouted and screamed when Signor Val
doni pushed him down on the chair. In
the twinkling of an eye the cord was
around the abbe’s neck, and the execu
tioner began to twist it behind the chair.
The abbe behaved badly, and did not die
game. Had be held still all would have
been over in five minutes. As It was, it
took Signor Valdoni about ten minutes.
I myself held the abbe’s legs. His corpse
still lies in the cell.”
Anrea told these horrors as if it was a
pleasant anecdote. The Chevalier Bus
coli bad at first listened to this recital
dumbfounded with terror. Then bis
courage had returned, and, while Andrea
was rattling off his story, the prisoner
liad arrived at
A DESPERATE RESOLUTION.
He asked the keeper coldly for the tin
dish containing his soup. Andrea banded
it to him through the window. As be
did so, Buscoli suddenly seised bis long
beard and drew his bead through the
aperture. Andres tried to draw it back,
but tbs chevalier held his head in his
powerful gnsp as ia a vise.
"Let as go," gasped tbs keeper.
“Not at all,” replied Buscoli. “There
is but oas way for you to save your
life."
“What is Ht” asked the panting, chok
ing keeper.
"Then the key In the door," aakt Bo
ooll,” and take my place here. If too do
not I will tor loor tjm oat Man I
chako poo to death. I mean what I aap.
Dot wait In two mlmlea I will pot
poa to death."
SUPPLEMENT.
Andrea tried hard to draw his head
bock. Then Buscoli thrust bis left fore*
finger into the keeper’s right eye. Andrea
uttered a yell of pain.
“Now for the other eye!" hissed out
Duscoli.
“Stop!” gasped Andrea; “I will do
your bidding.”
He turned the key in the lock. The
next moment the chevalier pushed the
door back and flung the breathless keeper
into the cell. There he beat him sense
leas with his powerful flats and flung him
on the couch. Then he took the keeper’s
bunch of keys, put on his hat and left
him in the cell, which he very carefully
locked.
The corridor was dark, and the cheva
lier carefully groped his way to the stair
case. With noiseless step he reached the
second floor. There a sleepy sentinel said
to him:
"Andrea, my good fellow, do not forget
the flask of wine you promised me.”
The chevalier grunted assent, and de
scended to the ground floor.
There be was met by the corporal of
the guard, who was likewise deceived by
the huge bundle of keys which Buscoli
bad in his hand.
''Keeper,” he said to the Chevalier,
"VALDONI, THE HANGMAN,
Is waiting for you at the door.”
Buscoli nodded his head. Valdoni did
not know him; but he had seen that ter
rible man often enough.
Taking a quick resolution the chevalier
stepped to the huge front door. He saw
Valdoni talking to several officials. It
was then eleven o’clock in the forenoon,
and raining bard. Buscoli stepped up to
Valdoni.
"Andrea,” he said boldly to the execu
tioner, "wants you to come upstairs. I
just brought him from the head provost,
an order for another little job for you,
Signor Valdoni. Shall I accompany yon
upstairs I”
Valdoni was completely deceived by
Buscoli’s assurance.
"No, no,” he said, "one man is enough
at these little private strangulations, my
friend. Where is Andrea?”
"On the thin! corridor.”
"Aha! he told me he would soon have
more work up there.”
So saying he went back into the front
door, while the chevalier quickly walked
round the corner. There he threw his
bunch of keys into the canal. Then ho
called a gondolier, and ordered him to
row him to terra firma. He reached the
opposite shore in three-quarters of an
hour, and proceeded on foot to the village
of Mortones, which he reached in the
afternoon.
There he remained at the only tavern
until after dark. He counted his money;
he had exactly twenty sequins. For one
of them be purchased a peasant’s suit of
clothes; then be hired a seat in a cart
bound for Mantua. He arrived there on
the third day, and heard at the tavern
where he took his breakfast that the sen
ate of Venice had offered a reward of 10,-
000 sequins for his apprehension. This
was an enormous reward, and the fugitive
knew at once that, familiar ashisfeatures
were to numerous persons in Upper Italy,
he was in imminent peril of speedy rec
ognition.
At the next table to him sat two re
cruiting sergeants of the Duke of Modena.
A sudden thought struck him. What
could be better for him, under the circum
stances, than to enlist in the small army
of the Duke of Modena?
He spoke to the sergeants, and they ac
cepted him at once as a recruit. He was
then taken before their superior, Lieuten
ant Monaldi. This Monaldi was a fugi
tive from Venetian justice, like Bnsooli,
and he recognised the latter as soon as he
was brought twfore him. Monaldi said
nothing about Buscoli’s troubles, but the
chevalier saw at once that the lieutenant
knew all about the offer of reward, and
that he was cogitating how be himself
might earn it.
In this dire distress Bnscoli told the
two sergeants who he was, and that he
suspected treachery on the part of their
lieutenant. To his great good fortune he
found them to be two good-hearted, hon
est fellows. They promised him their
protection, and told him that if Lieuten
ant Monaldi should attempt such a thing
and fail it would be certain death for him
as the Duke of Modena was at "swords*
points with the Venetian government
An hour afterward Monaldi ordered
Buscoli to accompany him in a closed
carriage to Modena.
BULCOU REFUSED
To go unless the two sergeants should ac
company him. Monaldi turned livid with
rage.
“Dog!” he cried, “bow dare you diso
bey met”
“Because you want to betray me to the
Venetians,” replied Buscoli defiantly.
Monaldi drew his sword, but Buscoli
wrenched it from his hand, and broke it
to pieces.
Then one of the Sergeants said:
“Lieutenant, we believe you area traitor
to our Duke, and we will take yon to his
highness himself.”
Twenty-four hours afterward they ap
peared before the Duke Ferdinand d’Este,
who ordered Monaldi to be searched. In
his pocket was found a letter to the sen
ate of Venice, in which he offered to de
liver Buscoli op to the republic for a free
pardon and the above-mentioned reward.
lie waa placed at once before a drum
head court-raarti.!, and shot the tamo
Boecoli aa bia dip
lomatic agent at varieoa court*. The
chevalier Battled afterward ia Parle, and
Urn became owed the earlieal vktlme
of the reffn of tenor.
V«, U Ih Sprit,.
The little lawn mower baa been brought
forth from its winter resting place and
put to work. Fruit trees are in btoasoin
and the fragrant violet scatters its delic
ious odors on the vagrant breeze*. The
yellow Faster flowers are in full bloom,
and the smiling faces of dainty pansies
peep with laughing eyes from the beds
where they have just awakened from their
winter’s sleep. Convivial bees sip with
uneloying lips, delicate nectar from the
dainty chalices in which round limbed
and rosy spring senes her sweet distilla
tions, unlicensed to the myriad forms of
animate creation, her dewy breath warms
into the intoxicating bliss of perfect life.
The busy ant yet uninformed after his
winter’s school, repeats his old-time tac
tics, and drags his plunder through de
vious meandering* to his underground
home. By these, by budding leaf and
fragrant flower, by droning bee and dart
ing bird, by verdant hills and blossoming
vales we know that spring has stooped
again to kiss the gladsome earth and stir
its dull pulses with the ecstatic thrill of
love and life.
Other evidences which corresponds with
the allegations and is confined to the
point in issue, also demonstrates that it is
spring. The dismantled parlor stove, de
nied the luxury of smoking and deprived
of its pipe leans disconsolately against the
back yard fence, crowded out like a poor
contribution for “lack of space.” The
carpets droop unattractive (to the head of
the family) and dusty from the family
clothes line. The busy housewife with
her head in a sling is omnipresent with
her dustivorons broom. The paterfamil
ies looks as glum as a cigar stand Indian
with the war paint washed off, and keeps
his backbone from cutting a hole through
his title page by the introduction at odd
times of cold potatoes and other articles
of culinary miscellany between the two.
The ragged toothed garden rake and the
rusty shovel and the hoe are taken down,
and the fiddle and the bow, the piano and
all other stringed instruments, figurative
ly speaking “bung op.” The furniture
has assumed new positions, the bureau
has jumped the location of the bed, the
bed has withdrawn itself and is elsewhere,
and general displacement reigns supreme.
By all these and by the woven wire mat
tress on the back porch more than all else
we know that U is spring.
Bits #f Information.
Texas has one county that is larger than
the combined states of Massachusetts and
Connecticut.
There are 20,000,000 dogs in the United
States, and $200,000,000 is required to
support them.
There were 14,900 divorces in the United
States during the last twenty years, caused
by drunkenness.
There are sixteen colored members In
the North Carolina legislature. Of these,
two are in the senate.
The United States pays $900,000 a year
for its weather service. Great Britain
comes next with the second highest ex
penditure, but it is only SBO,OOO.
March 6th, 1886, the millennium will
dawn on the earth, is the calculation of
Rev. Michael Baxter, of London. The
prediction is not, however, accompanied
by vouchers.
Man is the universal animal. It ia esti
mated that there are 1,260,000,000 of him
on the globe. The sheep ranks next with
600,000,000. Three hundred million cat
tle. 100,000,000 hogs (the four-footed vari
ety) and 00,000,000 hones continue the
list.
The Aston have recently added five
miles of property to their already enor
mous holdings, and on those five miles
they are building as fast as masons and
carpenters can execute their orders. Ac
cording to a writer in the New York Prtu
a reasonable estimate of the Astor prop
erty to-day is $300,000,000.
Aa l>lill lidertakiag.
A dispatch from Ellensburgh states
that duringihigh water in the Colombia
another attempt will be made to run the
little steamer City of Ellensburgh up the
river to connect with the Okanogan
mines. The effort of Ellensburgh mer
chants to compete with the mer
chants of Spokane Falls for the trade of
the Okanogan country will henceforth be
an up-hill undertaking. Ellensburgh is
some thirty miles from the landing on the
Colombia, and the road is op the side of
a mountain. The steamer on the river to
reach this landing must pass over the
Rock Island rapids, making navigation
practically out of the question. Reaching
the nearest point on the river to the
Okanogan mines the distance inland is
still to be covered, whereas Spokane Falls
has two railroads extending out within
an easy distance of the Okanogan mines,
and before the present season closes one
or both of these roads will be nearly to
the mouth of the Okanogan river.
Ellen*burgh will have to look tor trade
in some other direction; and this sending
oat of telegrams to the effect that Idaho
miners are coming to EUeosburgh to start
to the Okanogan minee will not change
the situation a particle. — Spokane Fallt
Review.
—Alfalfa seeds at the I. X. L. •
—Remnants In embroideries at the I.
X. L. •
—All styles of Job printing at the Han*
▲ld office.
DON’T READ THIS!
lilm Ih fan Tiw T* like Bmm Ittej
it Hu.
BIT JI'HT mrt A FEW FACTS,
TO WIT: It is often said, and truth
fully, too, that it is not so much what we
make as what we save that makes os rich
—or, in other words, the person who
makes the dollar go farthest gets the best
value out of it. The value of the dollar
is known by its purchasing power, and
not alone by the given quantity of 100
; cents. In certain places in Europe, one
dollar will purchase twice the amount of
| life’s necessaries that it will in the United
States. The consumption being no more,
it there provides for twice the length of
time, or is worth 100 per cent, more In
actual value. The prudent person will
always consider the value of a dollar in
relation to its purchasing power, and be
fore spending it will ask himself, “Where
will this dollar go farthest In the way of
buying necessities and comforts?” A
moment’s reflection will answer, “At
'V'iniiifg' At Bilger's,
where 80 cents has about the same pur
chasing power as a dollar in most any
other places here.”
The way to prove this is to call and ex
amine goods and prices, which will be
cheerfully shown to all. They have the
newest and liest selected stock in town,
ami it is certainly the place to go to find
all you want very cheap in the line of
Hardware, Cutlery, Tin, Granite, Iron and
Wooden ware, Bird Cages and Lampware,
both stand and hanging Lamps. You
can save money by comparing prices, and
satisfiaction guaranteed at
Vining & Bilger’s!
To thb Fabmeb and Gabdbneb —We es
pecially call your attention to the fact that
we are sole agents for Enerson Taloot A
Co.’s Standard Reapers, wide and narrow
ent Mowers and flay Rakes, Norwegian
Plows, Cultivators and Harrows, Newton
Wagons, Badger Seeders, Feed Cutters,
Ac. Come and see them.
Tie Bid-Tod Bislinl
and
Cigar ©tore
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(OR. YAKIMA AVK. A Depot
NORTH YAKIMA, W. T.
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Tobacco,
Of the Moet Popslar Brands.
Pipes, Cigarettes,
And a Complete Aseeortaent of Excellent
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8. E. Cor. Yakima Are. and Front St. opp. Depot
Jos. J. Appel,
—Dsalss is—
FlgeWHpis
Tbs Bsst Brands of
liported and Domestic Cipn.
South Bide Yakima Avonno.
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Gaze On These Things!
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84 Lots in College Addition:
♦4OOO, 11000 CASH, BALANCE ONE, TWO AND THREE YEARS, S PER OEM.
For SIBOO, Cash:
LOTS 7, 8, AND 9, IN BLOCK 30, ON SECOND STREET.
For SB6O0 —Special Terms:
LOT 8, IN BLOCK 30, ON YAKIMA AVENUE
Only SIOO Per Acre:
30 ACRES ADJOINING THE HOLTON TRACT, WEST OP THE CITY.
W. bin • Ihh list of Properties west o4 ton, when great dsvetoaaMnt vll
soon take piece, end we urge parties content Dieting investments to cell oa as serf
investigate.
Goodwin & Pugsley,
ovn ran national un.
JAS. KESLING,
Blacksmith & Wagonmaker,
NORTH FRONT STREET. NORTH YAKIMA, W. T., „
Has concluded to reduce the price of Horse
shoeing to |1 per horse for New Shoes, all
around, and all other work in proportion.
A First-class Workman now has charge of
the Shoeing Department, and if shoes do
not stay on for one month they will be Reset
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HD HOT-mm OF SHOES ALLOWED WITHOUT Cdfflff.
J. W. MASTERS,
»l<yd to»wtantheo>dc—HawnndtaiMw smm HiHwlMa tbefirjliMliipfi
In Uw city in
Drj ClotUiL Boots aid Shoei. ¥iniihiu CMi Hiti & Cqi
LAMPS Ac CROCKERY,
Qroceriesl Groceries I
fT 1 ! will fIT« yon • Sqnnra Daal, full Valin, and Bedrock Men tor CaahT^A
Yakima, Wash.( J~. W. Masters.
“The Old Reliable,”
a-. w. CAttY,
Is still to be found “doing business at thsoW stand,” on Yakima Arenas,
where will always be found a complete stock at
General Merchandise,
Consisting of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, GROCERIES, Re., of army variety.
In connection with the stare Mrs. Cary conducts a
Millinery Department,
Embracing *ll the latest novalttea la Indiaa’ Waar.
Yakima Ave, North Yakima, W. T.
EL KUECHLER,
uroim of An nuu im
Dlmls, Mr, mis, iMs, silnmn, it.,
YAKIMA AYR. (Goodwill BolkUn(), NORTH YAKIMA, WASH.
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