The Aberystwith Observer

DEATH OF VISCOUNT TEMPLETON. Viscount Templeton died at San Remo on Saturday The deceased general served with distinction in the Crimea, and was formerly M.P. for Antrim. George Frederick Upton, second son of the first Vis- count, and the only daughter of the fifth Earl of Sandwich, was born at Botleys, in Surrey, in the year 1802. in 1850 the deceased viscount married the eldest daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Alexander Woodford, and succeeded his brother in the title in 1863. From 1855 to 1858 he was lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards, and was then made major- general. He became colonel in the 60th Rifles in 1862, colonel in the 2nd Life Guards in 1876, lieu- tenant-general in 1865, general in 1873. Viscount Templeton distinguished himself at the Battle of the Alma, and wfta wounded at Inkerman; was made Knight of the Medjidie; nominated a C.B. in 1865; was in command of the forces in the Western Dis- trict from January, 1865, to January, 1869 and was appointed We governor of Portsmouth and to the command of the Southern District in August, 1870. ^raSmade,honorary colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Westmoreland Rifle Volunteers in 1861 He re- tired from the army in October, 1877. In the House of Commons the deceased nobleman represented Antrim for four years—to 1863. Three years later he was elected a representative peer for Ireland, was honorary colonel of the 4th Royal Irish Rifles, Gold .1 Stick-in.Waiting, and Almoner of the Order of St. John. The new viscount is Henry Edward Montagu Dorington Clotworthy, a nephew, who was born in 1853, married in 1883 to Lady Evelyn Georgiana. Finch-Hatton, daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea, and was formerly a lieutenant in the 60th Rifles. I

A SCARE IN SPANDAU. The inhabitants of the Prussian fortress of Spandau were aroused early on the morniog of Christmas Day a correspondent writes to us, by the bugles sounding the military fire alarm, and the report soon spread that a fire had broken out in the block of buildings, near the town, used for the manufacture of guns and I cartridges. The fire-engines of the garrison and those belonging to the town authorities were hurried to the spot, and the roads to the factory were alive with the military detachments and the officers on night duty. Even his excellency, the commandant of the fortress, was seen hastening to the scene; but on arriving in the courtyard of the factory no fire could be seen, and it turned out subsequently that the false alarm was caused by a misunderstanding in a telephone message. The night watchman at the gun factory, having a friend at the office in the Citadel a couple of miles off, took it into his head at 5.30 am. to send him by telephone the compliments of the season, wishing him Vergnusgte Feiertage." The Citadel man, woke up by the telephone bell from a sound Bleep, misunderstood the friendly message for a report of "Feuer," and touched the electric alarm bell, with the result that within a. few minutes from that time there was not a man, woman, or child asleep in Spandau.

MARRIED ON THE STAGE. There was a startling departure from the conven- tional at a wedding celebrated in Oneonta recently, bride, groom, and parson being residents of that town. The Powhattan tribe of the Order of Red Men, which has its camp there, had been giving an amateur theatrical entertainment for the gratification of their friends and the public at the Opera House. When the regular performance had ended the curtain was rung up for a supplementary spectacle. The scene was that of an Indian camp, with tent and forest accessories. In the foreground, and in becom- ing attitudes, were Conductor Joseph Bedford, of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, and Mrs. Rose Bessey, a handsome young widow of the brunette type, both in Indian costume, and resplendent with feather head-dresses, gay blankets, bead-embroidered moccasins, and fringed leggings. The Rev. E. A. Wilson, of the Free Baptist Church, entered upon the scene, and neatly tied the nuptial knot. Then the curtain fell upon the principal figures, posed in a blaze of coloured lights, to the strains of a wedding march by the orchestra. =-

KAISER WILHELM'S LOVE AFFAIR. The fourth part of Heinrich von Freicschke's German History in the Nineteenth Century has been published in Berlin. The author, as long as Emperor William I. was living, found it becoming only to say what was absolutely necessary about his love in his youth for the Princess Elizabeth Radziwill. He now adds to the supplement extracts from letters of Prince William, dated 23rd of June, 1826, in which the Prince, deeply moved, thanks his father with the most noble expressions of filial love for the mild, sympathetic manner in which he came to a decision in disfavour of the Princess, who according to the opinion of the Ministers, was not of equal birth. The letter runs thus You have, dearest father, decided my fate just as I ex- pected, but feared to expect, as long as a ray of hope remained. Read in my heart in order to find the inexpressible gratitude with which it is filled for all the innumerable proofs of your graciousness, love, and patience which you have given me in these excit- ing five years, but above all for yesterday's letter, which made a deep impression upon me. I shall never be able to describe what an impression it made. Your fatherly graciousness, love, and leniency, your loving sympathy with the fate which has befallen me, the way in which you recalled to me the duties of my position, the acknowledgment of the worthiness of the object who owns my affections, the remem- brance of all endeavours which your love for your chil- dren caused you to make, in order to fulfil the wishes of my heart—to find all this in the lines which decide my fate gave my much-moved heart so much com- fort and such indescribable feelings of gratitude, that it will only be by the most childlike love, and by the whole demeanour of my future life, that I shall be able to prove to you, dearest father, my true feelings. I shall justify your confidence. I shall pass through this great trial by overcoming my deep sorrew and by showing firmness in bearing what is inevitable. I shall pray for God's help. He never deserted me in such painful moments of my life. He will also now not forsake me. Thus I conclude these important lines, it is true with a bleeding heart, but with a heart, dearest father, which is more than ever attached to you. For your fatherly love has never showed itself greater than in the manner in which you decided."

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Professor Ruskin continues in a very weak state of health, at his residence near Coniston. AN ingenious individual has hit upon a scheme whereby he expects to make a fortune. He will ad- vertise largely: For half-a-crown I will disclose a plan whereby halfpenny postage stamps can be made TO do the work of penny ones." His plan is perfectly emp!e and cannot fail Use two of them.

BACK FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH. The Manchester Sporting Chronicle publishes a list of the survivors of the Balaclava Charge and their condition. It will be noticed that all of them are of the rank and file. The officers, no doubt, have all been amply provided for: 17th Lancers.-Private Brennan-In a London workhouse. Private Marshall—Worked in a machine shop at Lincoln till he lost three fingers; now dis- abled and in extreme want. Private Holland, of Ormskirk-No resources. Private Smith-Cripple, in the Strand Union, London. Private Burns, of Northampton; Trumpeter Brown, and Private Butler -Addresses not known, but all aged and very poor for several years past. 13th Hussars.-Private Cooper-Sweeping roads for the Kensington Vestry; will soon have to give over. Private Mayhew-Miserably poor. 11th Hussars.-Sergeant Brown-Stood outside a Manchester store, placarded, One of the Survivors," &c.; has worked at an explosive factory; left through ill-health; 70 years of ageand failing; pension, Is. 3d. a day. Private Spring-In extreme poverty. Pri- vate Glanister, of Liverpool, ditto. Private Richard- son-Served 12 years, no pension; has Crimean medal with four bars, and the Turkish medal; suffers from stricture, has lost the sight of one eye, the other going past help. Drifts from workhouse to common lodg- ing-house when he gets a little help from concerts, &c, then back to workhouse. The only Manchester man born now surviving of the Six Hundred. Private Lawson-Lost an arm in the charge, has been lucky enough to get into Royal Hospital, Chelsea, by which he forfeits his pension. 8th (King's Own) Light Dragoons.-Private Doyle —Almost starving in Dublin; was Duke of Cam- bridge's orderly at Inkerman; got Z4 from H.R.H. after earnest solicitation and four months' waiting last year. The X4 came from the Cambridge Fund, supported by public contributions. Trumpeter IXAoghue-Living on charity, can get no employ- ment. Private Rogers-Helpless through age and disease; in Withington Workhouse. Private Keegan (Birmingham)—Out of work. Private Grant-In the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, making two only of the sur- vivors so fortunate. Privates Farrell, Carroll, and Brewington—Known to be without work, and in great distress.

A REMARKABLE OLD MAN, On Sunday, Peter Laing, the Elgin centenarian, entered on his 106th year. He is a carter, and still continues to enjoy excellent health, all his faculties being unimpaired and any day he may be seen in the streets of Elgin in charge of his horse and cart. He is come of a family celebrated for longevity. His 1°9 years of age, and his great grandfather, who fought under the standard of the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Calloden, died at the remarkable age of 135. Peter lived in the time of Burns, and his memory is so retentive that he can recall an episode in the life of the Scotch National Bard. He was over 60 before he was married, and since his wife died, over 30 years ago, he has been his own cook and housekeeper. He has a most robust constitution, his diet being brose, porridge, potatoes, and salt herrings and he confi- dently declares that a change in the shape of dainties would be to him worse than drugs. He was never known to have an illness with the exception of an occasional slight attack of rheumatism in one of his legs, and had never any doctor's drugs.

s WRA.T is the difference. between a summer dress in winter and an extracted tooth ?—One is too tiiin, the other tooth out. ^ad s.tolen some apples was forgiven, u* ff n-f mgenious manner in which he excused nimseii, Ine schoolmaster asking him what he had to say for himself, the urchin replied, The apples were Tom's; I don't know how he got them and now they're mine, and he don't know how I got them."

CENTRAL AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY. The latest of Mr. Stanley's fascinating letters to reach London for publication (comments the JJaily News) is one written to Mr. Alexander L. Bruce, the son-in-law of Livingstone. It is dated from Ugogo, in October last, and it must have been written at about the time that Mr. Stanley reached Mpwapwa, and once more came within the purview of civilisa- tion. It gives an encouraging account of the great progress of Christianity in Central Africa, and it shows that Bishop Hannington's murderer, Mwanga, has met with his reward. The persecuted native Christians have been powerful enough, in alliance with the Mohammedans, to drive him into exile, and he has now verified the proverb about Satan in sickness, by announcing himself a very pious Catholic. Ha had been received in his flight by the French missionaries, in noble requital of charity and goodness for the brutality with which he had driven them forth from his dominions. He is now waiting for an opportunity of returning to claim his inherit- ance, which is held by a nominee of the Mohammedan party, who soon began to act for them- selves when the immediate danger which dictated their temporary alliance with the Christians had passed away. Mr. Stanley's point is that the native converts are now strong enough to make a revolution in one of the most powerful of the f African Kingdoms, and that this, if he could have foreseen it, would have delighted the heart of Living- stone, and would have made him more than ever con- tent to quit the scene of his lifelong labours. The Christians of Africa, it is evident, are passing through all the stages which marked the earlier growth of the faith in Rome-from persecution to an enforced toleration, and from that to political supremacy. Much may be hoped now that the butcher Mwanga is a fugitive from his capital, so soon after his butchery of the most unoffend- ing of men. He bad sent forward a party to solicit the aid of Mr. Stanley in restoring him to his throne. The astute explorer, borrowing a hint from the state- craft of Uganda, dissembled" until he came to a place of safety, and then spoke his mind with becoming freedom on Mwanga and his deeds. One ought, no doubt, to set this ruffian a better example; but it is impossible to repress a glow of satisfaction at the thought that he has so soon met with an instal- ment of his deserts.

A BARRISTER came into court one day with his wig aU awry, which caused a general titter amongst his brother lawyers aud the Bench, on which he turned to Curran and said, Do you see anything ridicalow in my wig ? Curran drily answered, 11 No; nothing but your head"

THIS is a sad and bitter world, remarked a gen- tleman of Irish extraction. We never strew flowers on a man's grave until after he is dead." A GOOD-HUMOTRED wife abusing her husband on his mercenary disposition, told him that if she was dead he would marry the devil's eldest daughter I if he could get anything by it. That's true," replied the husband, but the worst of it is one cannot marry titv sifters,"