The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1883 Page: 1 of 4
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OLD SERIES, VOL. 7, NO. 29.
ALBANY, SHACKELFORD COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 14,1883.
NEW SERIES, YbL. 1, NO F
as
Arrive
6 20 in
depart 8 10 in tbe
CBEliTIOir IN ITALY.
st. vta H. * T. C. R
JuBt twenty-one yews ago to-day.
On the twenty-third ot May,
In eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
Just after the eruel war begun;
little blne-ey«d baby girl,
With jet black hair, too short to curl.
Was sent to bieu our humble home-
all wars glad that abe had oome.
ll Ml 1m—A
little blue-eyed baby grew,
sunny Awe so fair,
8b« wore a orowa of golden hair.
ft to 7 p. m.
l*AW,
Co., Tex.
a troop,
ever a loud war-whoop.
His dusky form's no
brown;
'■*/> r ?
to bati
in Wm H. He
to keep a still
of hie followers
he knows it, too.
they know
it This brings him
while to good nat ured
oat after they've
to say, "HoneB
are the greaieal
J «r
Oil m
That may
for dry goods, but we
men who have kept
e gained what they
th " We cling to th«
idea, though, that
stick." John
of the opinion that
start of a million of dol
efiort
| our
held
avenue
[Milan letter to M. T. Sun.
In one oorner of the Cimiterio
Monumentale at Milan is sitna •
earned, and tbe effect on me was
exactly that which I have oft*n
experienced frdtb the burning uf
the pastiles so often osed in cas-
of sickness The time of cre-
ee
mation varies from three to four
hoars, and tbe completion of the
process is easily determined by
the person in charge from the
7w ♦ L! *• appearance of the body, which
^ ^ geuerally retains to a marked
groand, a small bat picturesque
portion of this large resting
place of (he dead. Conspicuous
among the few graves to be
found there, and occupying the
centre of the piot^ stands an im-
posing monument, erected "To
the memory of the noble cava-
lier, Alberto Keller di Kellerer,
born in Home, September 89,
1800? died in Milan, Jan. 82,
1874," who built at bis own ex-
pense the first crematory in Mi-
lan and presented it to the city.
The front of the monutrient is
occupied by a large Jigure of an
angdl in white marble, holding
in his hand a crematory urn.
Cremation was introduced into
Italy by Qorini at Lodi, but the
popularity and repute which it
now enjoys, both among the
Roman Catholics and Protest-
ants, are largely due to the ef-
forts of di Kellerer. I had long
been desirous of witnessing the
process, which, by the way, is
,bly performed on-
of the nearest
the deceased, and at
u opportunity to
curiosity through
of s friend, who
that I wished to be
for purely scientific rea-
Cremation is employed, as I
have intimated, very frequently
2a i throughout Italy, and cremato-
this latter are therefore very generally
found connected with all large
. Here in Milan, the
is a moderate-sized
bat yery'saitable building, of a
Gothic style of architecture,
at the extreme farther
end of the Climitere Monumen-
tale, opposite to the elaborate,
though stillunfinished, entranoe.
In Italy the law requires that
interment shall take place with-
in thirty-six hours alter death,
and when cremation is resorted
to It almost always happens in
ng succeeding the fa-
genera
degree its normal form until the
platform is removed to thejtnain
•oom, where, when expoped to
the cold air, it soon crumbles,
attd the ashes alone remain. All
is thus reduced except the skull
and the thigh bones, which still
retain their shape* After a
short interval the remains are
gathered together and plaoed in
an urn-like receptacle specially
made and used' here for this
>urpose, and delivered to the
relatives for burial.
In this particular case which
I haye been assured gave a very
correct idea of all cremations, I
can only say there was nothing
revolting to the senses—nothing
in any way to suggest to the*
mind of the living any desecra-
ion pf the remains of the dead.
^Everything was done in a deco-
rous solemn mariner) every, re-
gard was paid to the handling
ot the remains, before and after
cremation, to delicacy and de-
cay. Without venturing an
opinion as to whether cremation
is to be encouraged or not, lean
only note the fact that it has
certainly not fallen into disuse
n Italy, but, on the contrary, is
becoming day by day tbe more
'avored method of disposing of
the remains of the departed,
Kb Siberia. Gsnvicts Shet
Dowoln (!«U Blood
The body
that of a
about 50 years old, who bad di
rected in his will that Inn re-
mains should be thus - disposed
of. The crematory consists of
three apartments, the main one
being tbat in which the body is
prepared for the operation; an|
opening from and con-
in whltih the
apparatus is placed;
ant te third, opening from this
h stands the fur|
Tbe body is placed on
moveable
two leet in dimensions,
ed above the ground, i
about six from the
and
so as
above tbe gro
directly on a< level with
the opening in tbe creraatorial
apparatus, which Is in the form
or an engine boiler, entirely ta|
'the
Hthe
main room, through which the
prooees of ore mation may from
time to time be watched. For
the latter purpose an
cover
so made in the .w
ed with a sliding Iron lid.
~ furnace having been
to the requisite, tempera-
ture, the platform on which the
body in a nude state rests
slightly elevated pieces of terra
cotta, so that It may not be in
direct contact with the Iron bed
plate beneath it« is by machin-
ery quickly plaoed inside of it.
The opening is then closed, and
the proeeee of cremation at
onoe oommenoes. The fire it
self does not in any way touch
the body, bat cresaation is
tirely accomplished by
St. Petersburg Letter to London Globe.
Sorry, indeed, even w
death does not come to put an
end to his existence, is the lot of
the convict who hae succeeded
in escaping from the mines pf
Eastern Siberia. Without re-
sources of any kind, he must
beg or rob bis way back to Rus-
sia. The alternative of seeking
ploy men t is one which often
has disastrous consequences,
night. Tbe convict of the lowest type
regards tbe Siberian colonist as
interior, and has a saying
which describes him as '"blind
for three days after birth." But
the colonist has bis revenge. He
works tbe supercilous convict
like a beast of burden, and
gives him as little rest and as
little food as possible. When
wages are demanded tbe colo-
nist has an original way of sat-
isfying his laborer. The money
is paid without demur, but be-
fore tbe conviot can get clear,
he falls dead, killed by a bullet
gun of his cruel em-
ploy*. This nethod of pay-
is sometimes carried oat
on a large scale. It is adopted vi
In tbe case of vagabond labor- is
turn to the neighboring village
to be paid off. The wages are
forthcoming, and the lai*>rer«
allowed to depart with their
bard-earned money. Bat they
have no sooner gone than the
peasant farmer assembles bis
neighbors, and having provided
them with horses and firearms,
the whole party sallies forth in
pursuit of the vagabonds. The
* ' " * ' , ipeedlly
killed on
theia-
a small village adjoining the
[highway. "Goue after the
hunchbacks," was the reply.
Such is the prevailing demoral-
ization in this respect that boys
have been heard to ask their
fathers to kill a vagabond In
order that jthey may see "how
tbe fellow will roll ou.his hump."
In some of the governments it is
certain death fur a convict es
caped, or .still under supervis-
ion, to be caught returning from
the mine. Occasionally the
soldiers imitate the colonists in
their explotation of the vaga
bond. The Cossack, as well as
the ordinary colonist, covets
cheap labor, and is in the habit
of awarding with an ounce or
two of lead the convict who de-
clines to pass from one condi-
tion of bondage to another.
During the colonization of the
Transbaikal region the bunting
of vagabonds was one of the
common diversions of the new-
ly arrived settlers. Prom Tomsk
to Chiti there is a locality tbat
has rendered itself notorious for
the pursuit on a large scale of
escaped convicts* In the Tomsk
government itself whole villages
are described as living solely
by robbery of vagabonds. The
river Kansas has been filled
with the bodies of murdered
convicts so as to become putrid.
Near Fingui open woods are
known as a favorite ground for
the slaughter. The whole of
the district is full of the memo-
ries and traditions of 8iberia
man-hunting. Heroes of that
part are still alive. Bitkoy,
Romanov and Zavorota
each expert in different ways.
Romanov, for instance, gained
celiberity in the village of Fin-
gui, where he was in the habit
of lving in ambush close to the
highway, and shooting down
every vagabond who passed. In
the autumn evenings Bitkov us-
ed to pick oft straglers along
ben the banks of the river Augar.
_n During subsequent sport along
the Biryus there were individu-
al Siberians who boasted that
they had brought down a*
many as sixty and in Sortie cas
es ninety vagabonds. Ouly up-
on one of these hunters of men
do the vagabonds seem to have
taken vengeance. They select-
ed one Paramottioh, who had all
his life been engaged in killing
convicts. The vagabonds as-
sembled together, seized him
and brought bis career (o a close
by plunging him alive into
canldron of incandescent
ack tue disinterestedness and
moral courage to d0"#o':—Robert
^aird Collier.
Divorce:
Joaquin Miller.
' ■ ■".Jr ■■'i-i-''? If... > ■>
Have you seen the recent sta-
tistics on divorce! Appalling!
And the most cultured centers
seem to be the most given to
divorce. While on thiS'similar
theme I may as well call atten-
tion to tbe hasty marriages of
tbe period and the Consequent
tardy di voi oes. I bate long en-
tertained a notion peculiarly
my own on this sutgect and I
now pot it forth with all aeii-
ouaness and trust that Jt may
be so received; and that is, that
marriages should be almost im-
K>ssible and divorces very easy,
'o be a bit explicit: I would
lave it so established by law'
that no marriage should take
plaoe hastily. Two or three
rears with nniversal publication
of the proposed marriage, in tbe
ase of very young peopIeV
should be required; and on*or
wo years in the case of old«r
people. This, I ..think, would
>ut your divorce courts pretty
well out of employ ment. There
would certainly be but very
few divorces uoder this i
ment. And if there
any I jrould have them obtain-
ed by consent of the parties,-
and as speedily as possible,
without the years of
the fearful publicity of i
which bring all concerned (o
shame aud sometimes to ruijn.
At least something mtist be
done. Maybe my plan is not
the right one. But certainly if
we can stop the marriages we
will stop some of tbe divoaoes;
eh!
valent
respect
ty is the pre-
roblmry has
tbe motive ofsla^jhter, of
Parity
Life.
The present writer has no hes
nation in saying that the social
life of America, taken as
whole, and the whole country
over, is the purest to day in al
Christendom. Having traveled
in most European oountries,
and having lived somewhat in
Prance and Germany . id many
ears in England, this statement
made del if/erately and in view
of a wide social experience.
Here in England, the purest of
all the European States, no
riage Is contacted upon a muob
lower plane than in America
The business element enters in
to it, not only presumably, bu
confessedly. r*om the middle
classes, up the money oonsider
ation is debated ana arranged.
In social life many excursions
far afield of the decalogue are
not only winked at but extenu-
ated. *
It is commonly reported tha'
two of the most important mem
being divided bers of the preeeqt Cabinet dre
living immoral domeetic lives
not a newspaper in al
would venture to inti-
1 fact, and It has not
the least importance In the eyee
of Mr. Gladstone, who is some
what unctions in bis religion, or
of any one else in the kingdom,
so Car as one can discover. This
would be an Impossible case
' >a. No president woul<
of calling into his oabi
a man living in nnhvly do
relations Kvery
in America wodld herald
a violation of soda! dm
Adit be for'^meri
Atf aHigato*>«tHdnt (s an attf-
isted sewer. Everything which
lodges in his open modth goes
down He is a lazy dug, and
instead of bunting for some-
thing to eat he lets his viotuals
hunt for him. Tbat is, he lies
with Uis Afreut moutb opes, ap-
entiy dead. 8ooff a beetle
wis into it, then a fly, tkvU
several gnatumdji colony of
not close his mouth yet} btf is
waiting for a whole drove of
things. He does his eating by
wholesale. A little later a liz-
ard will cool himself under the
shade of the upper jaw. TbfSri
a few frogs will hop op to Patch
tbe mosquitoes. Then more
■otf
mosuuitoes and trnats lurut on
the frogs. Finally a whole *£
lags of nunknt arfd-*eptUea set-
tle down for as aftecnaou pic-
nic. Then all at on«s there *ls
s-.ffai.A'is &
men-
front'
eye; gulps dowtf
>wn-town
who IS celebrated for
his dry wit, a few days ago
| of fals patrons
plaining father noisily of this
food that was sst bufore him.
As be passed the table at which
tbe fault-flndsr sat, the rtttene
host turned and S*!<£ "I al-
ways res poet a man who, *i*v-
lng an opinion, is not afraid .to
proclaim it to the world; 1 have
a large amount of respect for
you, sir." "Wish I could say
as much for you," retoftSd the
easily aa I do."—Harper's Ba*
A nephew of Jeftersou Davis
copappsiioff on tbe SpringMd
(Mass.) Journal, wbteli tells this
story.
Old lady Sqaogge
Heve the uSZTU inhabited.
For/' she say«« "what <m airtl.
la tbe ssaun
■ . Ml <&£
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Robson, G. W. The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1883, newspaper, July 14, 1883; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393965/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.