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A MATCH PEDDLER'S RISE.
The Romantic History of a Ki i
Mi N'oMoman
The Stranse Career f .Mari San
Bi-silio.on Whoe Estate in Sjmin
Kilrain ami Smith Will Fiiil.t
A um-I of Four MunW
liy Mexican PaiiT.
New York, Aug. KJ The forth
coming fight l-twefn Jake Kilraiu,
of Ealtiniorf, and Jem Smith, the
Englihh champion, is to be fought
in Spain, on the estate of Marquis
le San Bahilio, one of the richest no
blemen of that country. After the
fight the luimruis will accompany
the American party back to this
country. If he dot it will not be
Ihe first time he has been on the
western side of the water, and if the
fight takeH place on his estate, it may
be the occasion of reviving the rath
er unpleasant notoriety which the
marquis' enjoyed some years ago
n hen darkly charged by the press
of the city of Mexico with having in
stigated no less than four murders.
How truthful these charges were no
one but the marquis will perhaps
ever know. The matter quieted
down, and except for occasional hints
in the Mexican papers, seems to have
Wen almost forgotten.
The history of this marquis would
lurnisu a plot lor a sensauoniu nov
el that would gladden the heart of a
imiall boy. Thirty years ago you
might have bought a box of matches
from the present marquis on the
streets of the Mexican seaport,
Guaymas. Now he is 4,one of the
ueathicst noblemen of Spain." and
at one time aspired, it is said, to the
hand in marriage of the younger sis
ter of the late Alfonso, King of
Spain. Years ago he was Jorge Car
mono, the match peddler. Now he I
is the Marquis do San Basilic over
whom New York title worshippers
will rave when he visits this city.
Even as a match boy the marquis
was ambitious, though his ambition
never, even in its wildest flights.
soared to a king's sister in those
days. He only aspired to become a
merchandise vender on a larger scale
than his retail operation in matches
allowed. And his ambition was sat
isfied. By the exercise of the natur
al shrewdness which he possessed,
and by dint of close application to
business, he soon found himself the
proprietor of a well stocked little
store in which matches formed only
an unimportant factor.
Hia business flourished, and with
it his ambition. He now aspired to
the military. The plebeian pursuits
of a tradesman were beneath his
dignity. Accordingly he -sold out
his matches, good will, etc., and with
a part of the proceeds of the sale
te purchased a lieutenant's commis
sion in the army of the republic.
He was now a full-fledged son of
Mars, and he did honor to his
epaulsts.
In the ranks of the republicans,
vnder Jaurtz, he did noble service
against the French invaders, under
tlaximilian.
Where the fighting was fiercest,
and the bullets flew thickest. Lieu
tenant Carmona could always be
found.
He became a captain. He became
a colonel. Then he was given com
mand of a brigade, whose command
er was temporarily disabled.
This was the Marquis's opportu
nity, or rather one of his opportuni
ties, for he has had many.
His ambition, which had made him
forsake the humble but hoaest call
ing of a match peddler, had kept
Iace with his advancement in life,
In fact, it had alwaps kept a slight
lead on. his advancement. He was
in command of a position of vital im
portance to the republicans. To
dislodge him from this position was
almost impossible for Maximilian.
How or never was Carmona s chance,
and he grasped it with both hands.
He sold out to the invaders.
For this piece of treachery Maxi
milian rewarded him by making him
master of the horse to Maxim iifan
t. emperor of Mexico, estwhile a
matchboy on the streets of Guaymas.
Quite a little change. His was the
AWnhle Dosition at the court
of the Austrian Emperor of Mexico.
He lived in the City of Mexico, and
fairly rolled in wealth and luxury.
He became a great favorite with
Maximilian, and was by many con
sidered the most powerful man at
court. Wealth poured iu on him
from all sides. Even-body wus anx
ious to gain the good will of the
master of the horse, and he was in
nowise backward in letting them
see how they could do this. Through
his pocket they could find a never-
failincr route to his heart.
Then came the
the intervention
crash. -through
of the United
States, Napoleon of France, was co
erced into withdrawing his soldiers,
whom he sent over to assist Maxi
milian in setting up his throne. Now
it was republicans against royalists
in Mexico. The Liberal party, with
Juarez at its head, against the church
party, with the foreign prince at its
head. The republicans triumphed.
Maximilian was shot. With the fa
tal six shot3 which rang out Maximil
ian's doom at Queretaro, all of the
fine things of this life with which
his master of the torse had sur
rounded himself, was swept away.
His palace, his country place, his
carriages, his horses, all of which
Maximilian had kindly transferred
from the possession of his '-rebellious
subjects" to him, all, all were gone.
The unfeeling rebels conhscated
them. Once snore he was plain
Jorge Carmona, with not a penny in
his pocket.
What was he to do now?
Contact with all the fine people at
Maximilian's court had polished his
tastes to that extent that to go back
to his old honest calling of selling
matches to the walking public he
found impossible. The very idea
nauseated him. No; he would live
like a gentleman by his wits.
For years he had knocked about
the City of Mexico. As a card sharp
he scored ,his greatest triumphs. He
was a complete master of all those
little tricks which are employed by
not over scrupulous "-gentlemen"
when their pocket books are slim.
But as a card sharp he excelled. He
could produce the ace of spades, or
the king of clubs, or the queen of
diamonds, or the jack of hearts,
when they were most wanted, with a
grace and skill born only of long
practice. He became so proficient
that after a while his victims failed
him. He was such a regular winner
that playing with him became mo
notonous to his former lambs. Then
he became shabby. Dreadfully shab
by for a "gentleman."
He was getting into desperate
straits when another one of his great
opportunities turned up. And he
pursued it with all the vim of an
old huntsman to whom game had
become scarce.
M. Vestegui, a Frenchman, who
had become immensely wealthy over-
as
night by the discovery of a silver
mine on a piece of hind he owned,
died after marrying his cook, a Mex
ican woman, begetting three chil
dren, boys. His cook must have
been a most excellent cook, for as
his widow, he left her half of his for
tune, amounting to nearly 12,000,000.
This was Carmona's opportunity.
Through the good Madame Veste
gui he would royally replenish his
pockets. He would marry the form
er cook of the late lamented Veste
gui. No sooner said than done, or at
any rate begun. The Marquis de
Ba&iho never was a man to let" the
grass grow under his feet He man
aged to meet the bereaved widow
when she had worn her weeds six
months. The buxum lady was
charmed with the polished Senor
Carmona, who was clothed in his
most elegant court manners and a
new suit of clothes obtained for the
occasion from a confiding tailor.
He pressed his suit from the start
with an ardor worthy of the big
stake in sight. Mme. Vestegui was
willing, nay, she was more than will
ing, to become wife to the gentle
manly Carmona, whose supreme ele
gance fairly awed her. But there
was an obstacle.
The departed Vestesmi had lft
his relict half of his fortune unem
cumbered in any way. H bd
however, appointed a famous lawyer,
Jose Bolado, executor of his wilh
and Bolado was managing the estate
for the joint benefit of the widow
and the three children, to whom the
other half had been willed. The
widows love for her ardent admirer
was great, but her respect for Bolado
was greater. His iron will, his de
termination and his superior intelli
gence had inspired her with a fear of
him which not even her love for
Carmona could master. And Bola
do frowned down on the proposed
union. He would have none of it.
Here was a seemingly insurmount
able stumbling block in the way of
Carmona's dreams and desires. He
pleaded with this widow. He im
plored her in the name of his over
whelming passion to wed. Day af
ter day his love was poured out in
her willing ears but it availed not.
If Senor Bolado would only consent,
yes, then but Senor Bolado would
not.
For months matters stood thus.
Then one day in broad daylight on
one of the most frequented streets
in the city, in front of the national
library. Senor Bolado was murdered.
He was shot down in cold blood by
a young Mexican of the lower class,
Ignacio Rosales by name, who was
employed as brakesman on the Vera
Cruz road. The assassin was capt
ured red handed and placed in jail.
During the night he escaped.
Gold, and much gold opened his
prison doors and he walked out.
Three weeks after Lawyer Bolado
had been buried Jorge Carmona and
Mine. Vestegui were married, and
immediately after the ceremony they
left for Europe with the three chil
dren of the woman. For rive years
nothing was heard of them in the
City of Mexico, except through the
newspapers. From this source it
was learned that shortly after the ar
rival of the couple in Europe the
wife of Senor Carmona died rather
suddenly, leaving her entire for
tune to her husband. The wealthy
widower spent his mourning year in
Spain, and during this year two of
his step-children died. The third
boy left his step-father and went to
England with friends, after his sec
ond brother's death. With-him the
marquis is now engaged in litigation
for the estate of the children.
Some months after his bereave
ment Jorge Carmona was made a
marquis by Queen Isabella. Why
this honor was conferred upon him
was not learned. But the former
match boy was now a marquis.
Well, at the expiration of the five
years, the Marquis suddenly appear
ed again in Mexico. His arrival, by
some strange coincidence, happened
to be just ten days after the police
had succeeded in capturing Bosales,
the murderer of Lawyer Bolado, for
whom they had been laying in wait
all these years. The murderer had
been caught lurking about his old
haunts and promptly jailed. Pre
cautions were taken this time against
that powerful key, gold, which had
unlocked his jail doors before. Four
teen days after his capture the trial
of the young assassin was begun.
All the best talent in the city had
been retained for his defence. The
Marquis de Basilio never was out of
the room while the trial was in
progress.
The prosecution presented its
case. They claimed the defendant
was a hired assasin. They proved
he had never known the dead man,
had had no dealings with him,
consequently could have no object in
killing him unless it was for pay.
The prisoner's escape had been com
passed immediately after his capture
by the free use of money, yet he was
notoriously poor, at the time of thf
homicide working for 75 cts a day
Then they proved that the prisoner
after escaping from jail had fled to
Europe, where, during the five years
intervening, he had lived like a prince,
spending money lavishly, traveling
fromplace to place. Where did the
means come from to pay for all this
unless it was a part of the blood
money received for murdering Bola
do? Where did the money come
from to pay for the array of legal
talent assembled for the defence?
Surely not from the defendant. They
reviewed Bolado's blameless life.
They brought out all the events of
his stewardship of the Vestegui es
tate; his influence over the widow,
his opposition to her marriage with
Jorge Carmona, now the Marquis de
Basilio. who. they pointed out. was
! present taking a great interest in the
trial. They went beyond Bolado s
death anil showed that the marriage
to which he had been an obstacle
j was consummated a few weeks after
the niurder. Here they rested theu
case. The defense admitted the killing
of Bolado by Rosales, but claimed it
was an accident. The defeudaut
was shooting at another man, a
brother brakemau who had crossed
him in a love affair. But this brake -man
was dead or had disappeared,
and they could not prove his pres
ence on the street at the time Bola
do was killed. The able lawyers for
the defendant labored hard, but had
a hopeless task. Their client was sen
tenced to death. A month afterward
was shot. While he was standing
before the open grave, ready to re
ceive him, when the six rifles loaded
for his execution were pointed at
him, the judge before whom he was
tried asked him if he had any con
fession to make before he died. ,
"None," replied the doomed man.
'Did anyone hire you to do the
deed for which you are about to die?
Answer tinly, as you hope for par
don in the next world."
"No one hired me to kill Bolado,"
and a few minutes afterward he was
dead.
The papers made a great outcry
during, and for some time after, the
trial agaiust the Marquis. But he
managed to meet the members of
the Press association at a bauquet
given by a notoriously stingy editor,
who had never given a banquet be
fore. During the festivities the ami
able marquis proposed that the
Press association give semi-annual
banquets, at which two plates be re
served for lain, absent or present.
If his proposition was accepted he
would pay half the expenses of these
semi-annuaj banquets.
After that banquet therehvas noth
ing more said against the marquis in
the newspapers, except now and then
by some new sheet.
Paul Latzke.
My liver was fearfully disordered and
I telt so feeble and languid that I scarce
ly took interest in anything. Tried all
the so-called remedies without relief un
til I used Parker's Tonic, which effected
a permanent cure.
36-im. David Bash, Little Rock, Ark.
Suffering to be Beantiful.
From their earliest youth the Bur
mese men tattoo their legs from the
thigh down to the knees with designs
both floral and animal, and puncture
the upper part of their bodies with
numerous round holes, into which
they rub vermillion powder. The
operation is such that opium is often
administered to deaden the agonizing
pain that it causes, and I have heard
that deaths frequently occur from
inflammation, the result of these
punctures. But there is a proverb
which says: "II faut soufirir pour
etre bel;" and the admiration and
envy excited afterward may, perhaps,
compensate these victims of vanity
for the torture to which the deco
ration subjected them. The tattoo
ing is effected by the, juice of a plant
which stains the designs an inky
black. Fortnightly Review.
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A Defaulter About to Return.
Galveston, Tex., Aug. 16. The
defaulting ex-treasurer of Galveston
county, W. J. Burk, has written a
letter to a friend in this city in which
he announces his intention of return
ing to Galveston and giving himself
up to justice. It has only been
about eight months since Burk dis
appeared. He had been county
treasurer for several terms, and it
appears that his defeat at the last
election so preyed upon his mind
that he concluded to disappear in
the usual mysterous manner, at the
same time forgetting to settle his
accounts with the county. The
total sum of Bulk's defalcation was
30,000, irrespective of confiscated
bonds.
A DEMOCRATIC OFFICIAL
Orders Millions Acres of R. R. Lands
Thrown Ojkmi to the People.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 16 The
secretary of the interior revoked the
order of withdrawal of indemnity
lauds for the benefit of the Atlantic
and Pacific railroad company, and in
a long letter to the commissioner of
the general land office directed that
they be restored to settlement under
the pre-emption and homestead laws.
It is stated that between 25,000,000
and 30.000,000 acres are involved in
this decision in the case of the At
lantic and Pacific company alone.
Mr. Lamar contrasts the liberality
shown to the railroad companies as
compared that shown the homestead
settler, and adds: "The department
is not now to be charged with in
justice or illiberality because it does
not propose to keep in perpetual
reservation a territory, of such vast
extent as was withdrawn for the
benefit of this road. Criticism upon
the alleged shortcomings of the gov
ernment with respect to this grant
comes with an ill grace from this
company. .The people whom the
government represents had some
rights under the grant as well as the
company."
THE COMPANY NOT SUPREME.
Mr. Lauiax quotes at length the
original contract between the govern
ment and the railroad and asks: "Did
the company comply with this clear
and specific contract? Did it com
mence the construction of its road in
the two years named? Did it prose
cute the work as required? Did it
complete its main line at the time
named? In fact has it yet completed
the main line? On a full "consider
ation of the whole subject I conclude
that the withdaawal for indemnity
purposes if permissible under the
law was solely by virtue of executive
authorityjjiud may be revoked by
the same authority; that such re
vocation would not be aviolation of
the law or equity, and that said lands
having been so long withheld for the
benefit of the company,the time has
arrived when public policy and justice
demand the withdrawal should be
revoked and some regard had for the
rights of those seeking and needing
homes on the public domain. I
prefer to direct that?all lands under
withdrawal heretofore made and held
for indemnity purposesunder"the
grant to the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad company bejrestored to the
public domain and Jbpenedforset
tlement under the general land laws,
except such lands as may be covered
by approved selections; provided the
restoration shall not affect rights
acquired within thejprimary orgrairt
ed limits of any other congressional
grant. As to the lands covered by
unapproved selections, applications
to make filings and entries thereon
may be received, noted and held
subject to the claim of the company."
A man in Baltimore played ghost
the other night by wrapping him
self in a sheet, and then sallying
forth on a dark street to frighten
people. He was so successful that
one man in his fright pulled out a
pistol and shot the ghost in the
mouth. The ghost fell to the ground
and howled until an ambulance was
summoned and carried him to the
hospital. All such ghosts should be
promptly suppressed. They are en
tirely too funny to be allowed to run
at large.
There is a fat men's club in Hud
son county, N. J. The president
weighs four hundred and twenty-one
pounds and the reception committee's
combined weight is fifteen thousand
pounds. This is rather a robust
organization.
The Splendor of Dress
and the artificial effects ot cosmet
ics, no matter how deltly applied,
can never make beatiful and attract
ive one who is subject to emaciation,
nervous debility, or any form ot fe
male weakness. These must be
reached by inward application' and
not by outward attempts at conceal
ment, and the ladies may take hope
from the fact that thousands of their
sisters have made themselves more
radiant and beautiful by the use of
Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"
than they could ever hope to do by
the aid of the appliandes of the toilet"
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