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CASPER HAUSER.
Some Extraordinary Developments.
The ravstery of that mysterious indi
vidual, Casper Hauser, has puzzled the
entire world. The fate of the unfortu
nate youth at one time created more ex
citement and eager curioaitv throughout
Europe than any event of the present
century. Although his true parentage
and the names of those through whose
instrumentality he was consigned to his
bloody grave have been established al
most beyond a doubt, a dread of the con
sequences of displeasing so many illustri
ous personages has hitherto prevented
the affair being sifted with that regard
for facts which alone could elicit the com
plete truth. In a strange manner the
mystery has been solved, and the Mercu
ry is the first American paper to lay the
solution before its readers.
CASPER HAUSER.
On the evening of the 26th of May,
1828, a casual passenger through the
streets of Nuremberg met a youth about
fifteen or sixteen years of age, whose sin
gular appearance at once arrested his at
tention. Although strongly built,he seem
ed scarcely able to use his limbs, while
his eyes were hardly strong enough to
bear the dim twilight of the late summer
eve. In his hand he held a letter ad
dressed to a well-known citizen, which
he presented to every passer-by with an
unmeaning stare. When conducted to
the house of the person to whom he
appeared to be directed he was offered
food, but refused with disgust all except
plain bread and water, and, throwing
niinself down on a heap of straw, went
into a sound sleep. The person in whose
charge he was left did not know what to
make of him, for, on one hand he dis
played the mingled curiosity and stupid
insensibility of some being to whom all
is new, but who has no perceptible appre
ciative faculty, while he could repeat
certain words with distinctness and in a
distinct hand wrote down the name of
Casper Hauser. As an idiot or a clever
impostor, they finally determined to send
him to prison, where a close examination
showed him to be incapable of any at
tempt at fraud, but on the contrary, to
be the victim himself of crime. * The
soles of his feet were perfectly soft and
white, proving that he had never been
permitted to take exercise. It was clear
that he had never seen and never learned
anything ; he was a complete stranger
to the commonest ties and duties that
bind mankind together, and utterly ig
norant of the nature or even existence
of society and morality ; in short, he had
evidently vegitated in complete isolation,,
and literally in obscurity, for he copld
not bear the effect of light upon his eyes,
and neither knew, at first, the difference
between night and day, nor could he
measure time. Professor Danmer charged
himself with his education. By gentle
degrees, armed with the utmost patience,
he attempted to awaken the dormant
faculties in this extraordinary being.
He learned with rapidity, and vague,
misty recollections of the long, dreary
purgatory in which the years of his child
hood had been spent rose before his
mind. He would often talk about his
jailor, for whom, however, he did not ap
pear to entertain any feeling of ill-will,
but rather wondered, in his simplicity,
how he could have offended him. The
professor, who had never entirely dis
continued his researches as to the birth
of his unfortunate pupil, encouraged him
to track back the depths of his memory,
and hoped eventually to collect the scat
tered facts he from time to time obtained
into some tangible shape. Thus three
or four years rolled peaeeably along.
The world, tired of its nine-days’ wonder,
had forgotten all about Casper, and he
might fondly hope that his enemies had
done the same thing y but it was not so.
They had not let any of his movements
escape them, and probbably the profes
sor’s hopes had been too loudly express
ed, for an attempt was made to
ASSASSINATE THE TOOK YOUTH,
which failed, and resulted in obtaining
for him a more powerful protection than
that of the worthy scientist, that of the
Earl of Stanhope, an English nobleman,
who at that time was residing in Ger
many.
On the 14th of December, 1833, Hauser,
who had been left alone, was enticed to
a solitary grotto bv an unknown man,who
plunged a dagger into his heart. Every
effort was made by the authorities to dis
cover the assassin, and Lord Stanhope
offered a large sum for his arrest, but all
was in vain. Among those well acquain
ted with such particulars of the case as
it was not practicable for the strong arm
of despotism to suppress, but little doubt
will be found to exist, that poor, friend
less, murdered Casper Hauser was by
birth
A SOVEREGIN PRINCE,
New developments prove beyond a
doubt that Hauser was the son of the
Grand Duke Charles of Baden and his
wife Stephania, consequently the legiti
mate heir of the throne. Charles, who
had married Stephania, the niece of Na
poleon the First, in 1806, was a man ef
reckless character. Not long after wed
ding he became enamored of the Baren
ess Geyer von Geyersberg, whom he rais
ed to the rank of a Countess von Hoeh
berg. This women attempted to poison
the Grand Duchess, and when the latter
was delivered of an heir to
the crown of Baden, she caused
that child to be stolen. It was the un
fortunate creature afterward known un
der the name of Casper Hauser. The
Grand Duchess was assured by the phy
sicians, all of whom were in the pay of
the Countess, that her child haa died.
She believed it until her husband was
dead, when she secretly caused the
infant's coffin to be opened.
It was empty. Some time after she gave
birth to another son, but the mother
seemed to believe that her child had been
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1875.
taken from her, and another substituted.
This was really the case, the substituted
baby being an illegitimate son to whom
the Countess Hochberg had given birth
about the same time. The bastard was
christened Leopold, and became heir
apparent of Baden. The Grand Duchess
never spoke to him, even after he had
become Grand Duke. She lived in se
clusion, and died a few years ago.
Whether her husband Charles discover
ed the fraud, certain it is that she finally
poisoned him, whereupon her son Leo
pold became Grand Duke of Baden He
nad no right whatever to the position ;
for the real heir, Casper Hauser, was
then alive. When inquiries began to be
made into Casper Hauser’s fate, the
Countess Hochberg caused him to be
murdered. The Grand Duke Leopold
died in 1852, when his son Fredrick Lou
is, the present Grand Duke, ascended the
throne. He married, in 1857, Louisa,
only daughter of the present Emperor of
Germany, who has for a son-in-law, the
grandson of a murderess, and the son of
a bastard, who, in reality, has no right
whatever to the crown of Baden.
The Frankfort Gazette made public
these facts, and was furnished with in
formation by parties in possession of the
secret history. To ascertain the names
of the latter became the task of the Prus
sian police, by order of the Emperor.
Unable to seize the books of the Gazette
on any direct charge, the police took ad
vantage of the fact that the owner was
also partner in a job printing establish
ment. From this establishment had
been issued a circular reflecting on cer
tain bankers. The latter sued the job
printing office, and the police, on that
ground, seized all the books of the Ga
zette, including the subscription list.
Throughout Germany the disclosures
of the Gazette and the oppressive meas
ures of the exasperated Emperor have
created profound sensation. The Empe
ror, who is a stickler for legitimacy, is
intensely mortified by the disclosures
about his son-in-law. His daughter, the
Grand Duchess of Baden, refuses to ap
pear in public since the disclosures have
been published.
“ Like Our Jake’s Clock/'
A genome specimen of the Yankee,
fresh from the Green Mountains, took a
trip for the first time on a steamboat.
The strange sights and sounds complete
ly turned his head, and he wandered
about, drinking in all the wonders that
met his vision.
The engine attracted his particular at
tention, and he pestered the engineer
with so many questions that they were
finally obliged to exclude him the lower
deck. From this time he grew melan
choly and morose, and his baffled curi
osity affected him so that he looked the
very image of despair. Thai night he
went to his stateroom, but not to sleep,
and his waking hours were filled with
feverish visions of all sorts of infernal
machines.
At last he could stand the suspense no
longer, so at the peep of day he sallied
forth on auother march after informa
tion. He made his way upon the hurri
eane deck, a feat he had never before
dared to perform! The first thing that
met his eager gaze was the pilot-house,
where stood the pilot working the wheel
this way and that to keep the boat in the
channel.
Our Yankee’s eyes brightened—he had
found the clue to the mystery I He
went straightway to his stateroom, and
there in bed slept soundly till the dinner
bell rang. Then he appeared with a
face literally wreathed in smiles. The
company, who knew of his previous
quandary and had taken a mischievous
delight in it, stared in amazement, and
the question ran around the table, what
was the cause of the change.
“ I’ll tell ye arter supper,” said Jona
than. “I can’t stop now, for I ain’t en
joyed a meal of vittles afore since I been
on this boat.”
After the cloth was removed, every
one flocked around to hear him explain.
** Ye see,” said our hero, *l’m a real
live Yankee, an’ no mistake. I can’t
set still like all on ye here, and hear this
boat splash,, splash and splash on at this
rate, and not want to know what sends
her ahead. No, sireey not I! I’ve got an
inquiring mind, and I’ve inquired and
inquired and inquired into this matter
until I’ve discovered it all by mere acci
dent I Gentlemen,” and here he drew
his gaunt, awkward figure to its full
height and assumed a patronizing air,
“ gentlemen, this steam engine is no sich
great shakes arter all. It’s made of iron,
to be sure, and its a darned sight bigger,
but it’s built on exactly the same princi
ple of our Jake's wooden clocks, and if
you’ll step p here on the roof with me,
you’ll see the man in the belfry what
keeps all the time winding it up as fast
as it rwns down. You will, by gorry!”
Ayr That Bury the Dead. —lt
has been discovered that there are some
ants whieh actually bnry their dead.
Recently a lady had been'obliged to kill
some ants, the bodies of which lay
on the ground. Presently a single ant
found its dead companions and examin
ed them and the® went off. Directly it
returned with a number of others and
proceeded to btrry the dead bodies. Four
ants went to each corpse, two lifting it
and the other two following; the main
body, some two handred in number, fol
lowing behind. The four bearers took
their office in tarns, one pair relieving
the other when they were tired. They
went straight to a sandy hillock, anti
there the bearers pud down their bur
dens, and the others immediately began
to dig holes. A dead ant was then placed
in each grave, and the soil filled in. The
most carious pari; of the proceeding was
that some six or seven ants refused to
assist in digging ; upon whieh the rest
of them killed them, dug one large hole,
and tumbled them unceremoniously into
it.
DEVILTRIES.
—How to take life easy—be careless
with kerosene.
—Man respires, perspires, aspires,
conspires and exspires.
—Be temperate in your diet. Our first
Earents ate themselves out of house and
ome.
—Quiils are things that are sometimes
taken from the pinions of one goose to
spread the opinions of auother.
—lt takes 283,648 grasshoppers to
make a bushel, and each one of the num
ber can eat the weight of the whole in a
season.
t —“ As soon as life was extinct I cut
him down,” replied a Kansas woman to
the coroner’s jury who sat on her dead
husband.
—The hipporhinophlegmatoblennoca-
has broken out at Reno, Nev.,
which causes horse-owners “reno-vare
dolorem.”
—A fashionable lady went to a party
not long since. She arrived their about
the first of the evening, but the last of
her dress did not arrive until after 12
o’clock.
—The only thing that bothers a Wes
tern grass-hopper is to swallow a four
legged table. A well developed hopper
can worry it down, but the legs tickle his
throat.
—When a conductor of a Boston car
shouted, “ Ruggles street l” the other
night, a fellow who had been dozing in
the corner started up and said : “ Rug
gles’ treat! Where’s Ruggles? Show
me Ruggles.”
—She was about twenty years of age,
and a self-administered dose of lauda
num set her free from existence. While
dying she exclaimed in a wild and fran
tic way, “ I have seen God, I have seen
God, and he told me to go to hell.”
—A pious minister in South Carolina,
but a great believer in certain weather
signs, was asked to petition the Throne of
Grace for refreshing showers. He replied :
“My friends, I will do so, but it is not
going to rain till the moon changes I”
—An old lady, hearing someone read
ing about a Congressman at large, rush
ed into the kitchen door shouting,
“Sarah Jane! Sarah Jane! don’t you
leaves the clothes out all night, mind I
tell you, there’s a Congressman at large.”
—The simple faith of a Virginia Chris
tian is aided by his faith in man. He
was asked if he thought Stonewall Jack
son was in heaven. “ Wall,” said the old
gentleman, “ I reckon he is if he started
for that place. He always managed to
get round in time.”
—Parisian item from the Chicago
Times. The scene is in a Parisian corset
store. Young lady, examining goods,
remarks that the fastenings of the arti
cle would be hard to undo. “That,”
says the shopkeeper, “is to allow the
wearer time for reflection,”
—** If Tilton is awarded and receives
all the damages he claims,” asks an ex
change, “ what will he do with the mon
ey?” “We don’t know,” answers the
Louisville Journal , f ‘ unless he should
do with it as he did with his wife’s hon
or, employ Moulton to help him squander
—Vice-President Wilson failed to se
cure the confidence of the darkies at
Memphis, as is shown by the following
conversation between two of the ebony
hued race last week : ‘'Say, Bill,. what's
de name ob dat fellah from Washin’ton ?
Hab you seed him ?” “Yes, I seed him.
He’s gwine to start a nudder Freedman’s
Bank.” “De debbil he is! Well, dat’s
enuff for me.”
—Jones gave a lawj'er a bill to be
collected to the amount of S3O. Calling
for it, after awhile, he inquired if it had
been collected. “ Oh,yes,” said the law
yer, “ I have collected it all for yoth’ f
“What do you charge for collecting?”
“Oh,” said the lawyer, laughing, “ I’m
not going to charge you —why I have
known you ever since you were a baby,
and your father before you ; S2O will be
about right,” handing over $lO. “ Well,”
said Jones, as he meditated upon the
transaction, “ its darned lucky he didn’t
know' my grandfather, or I shouldn’t
have got anything!”
—A coroner who hasn’t had a-job in
a good while, and feels that he has been
wronged, complains to Max Adeler;
“Why, there’s Belcher come home from
Peru with six mummies that he dug out
of some sepulchre in that coantry. They
look exactly like dried beef. Now, my
view is that I ought to sit on them
things. .They’re human beings; nobody
’round knows what they died of. The
law r has a right to know. Belcher ain’t
got no doctor’s certificate about ’em,,
and I’m sworn to look after all dead i>eo
ple that can’t account for bein’ dead, or
that is suspicioned of dyin’ of fol play.
I could have made fifty dollars oat of
them dead Peruvians, and I ought to’ve
done it.”
—The practice of placing down boards
in the mud is revived this spring. It is
a good idea. The board always warps
downward in the centre, leaving the ends
sticking up about six inches above the
walk. The hastening pedestrian comes
along in the dark ana picks up end
of the board on his instep and shoves it
along some six feet, the other leg all the
while- trying to get a foothold and con
trol itself. Then the board swings off
and c&tehes him on the shin of that leg,
and after an almost herculean effort to
recover himself he goes down with dread
ful force, striking on his elboiv with one
arm,, and shoving the other in the mud
half way to his shoulder. If the owner
of the premises should be killed by light
ning in the first thunder-storm that man
w'ould cheerfully lose a day’s work to
attend the funeral.
A Man who Catches Cannon Balk in his
Hands.
Avery singular exhibition was given
yesterday at the Jardin Mabille,
There has been performing here at the
Folies Bergeres a man named Holtum,
an American, who has a cannon fired at
him and catches the ball in his hands.
This prodigious feat was witnessed night
ly, and, although the actors present
avowed that there was no trick, Pierre
Veron, of the Monde Illustre, would not
believe it. He said that the canuon ball
must be thrown to Holtom from the
stage. The latter made a bet of 5,000
frauce that he would perform the feat
under conditions which left no room to
doubt, and, when the bet was taken, Ve
ron designated Mabille as the place for
the trial. All the journalists of Paris
were invited, and they found Holtum
there before his cannon. It was exam
ined with minute care, and the heavy
ball was placed from hand to hand. “ I
am no longer in my own house,” says
Holtum ; “ you are master here, and you
must watch over all the arrangements.”
Having carefully aimed and lashed his
cannon, it was charged, and Holtum
took his place against a plank tar
get some ten yards away. This was to
show that the ball was solid, and the
force of the powder great enough to send
it through the plank. Holtum got the
aim of his gun, and then placed his head
in a certain position against the plank,
giving the command to fire. The ball
just grazed the hair and broke the plank,
rolling some twenty yards further on.
The same ball was picked up by the
journalists who again charged the can
non and sent home the ball, and this
time Holtum caught the ball in his
hands neatly as he does nightly upon the
stage. He won his bet, and no one
seemed disposed to except his offer of
3,000 frances to any one who would per
form the same astonishing feat. The
physical force required must be enor
mous, but Holtum showed his strength
by tossing up cannon balls a's if they
were so many oranges. The only pre
cautions taken are very simple ;he wears
very thick leather gloves, and covers his
breast with many thieknesses of thin pa
per to form a sort of cuirass. This looks
to me like a veiy dangerous feat, and
particularly the first part of it, where
Holtum places his head against the tar
get half an inch below where the ball
will probably strike. If the powder
should chance to be defective, some day
there might be an accident. It is like
the foolhardy trick of putting one’s head
into a lion’s mouth. Oue day I fancy
that ball will snap his head very nearly
off.
A Oircus of Pleas.
The latest excitement in Berlin is the
exhibited of drilled flees. The exhibi
tion taken place on a large sheet of white
paper, fastened upon an ordinary table,
to which all the spectators approach in
turns, so as to be able to witness in all
details the extraordinary manceuvers of
these little, but marvelously powerful
and gifted rascals. Here you see one of
tire muscular fleas rolling a small barrel
along with its feet, as the men do in the
circus } there you see a slim,, voluptuous
ly built maiden of the species walking
along m crinoline and carrying her para
sol, with all the affectation of a city
miss ; at another place a well trained fel
low performs on the flying trapeze —
without any danger to his neck, how
ever, since the biggest fall would not
break that - f while below the trapeze, on
the paper, a host of little ones are turn
ing somersaults at a fearful rate. The
largest specimens of the collection have
been trained to draw wagons, drays, car
riages, etc. To fix the harness properly
on them, the flea tamer places his pupils
on a piece of paper covered with muci
lage, where they have to stick. He then,
by the aid of a watchmaker's loop, ar
ranges a strong gold thread around their
bodies, and attaches it to the wagon or
carriage. The ladies of Berlin attend
the exhibition in large numbers, and
seem to take an extraordinary delight
in the performance of the little creatures,
who are fed regularly every morning
from the arm of the flea tamer. A simi
lar exhibition was given, we believe, in
London a few years ago.
A Curious Bird Trap. —Abraham
Mayer, who resides in the old Bartholo
mew place, east of the city, yesterday
made a very singular discovery. Sup
porting his porch area number of pillars,
made of four boards nailed together,
W hile sitting on the porch he heard a
noise within one of these pillars, which
prompted him to investigate the cause.
The sound seemed to be made by birds,
and he procured a saw and cut a hole at
the base of the pillar. From this hole
he drew out more than fowr hundred
dead birds, one hundred or more of
which his son brought down to- the city
for inspection. They were in all stages
of decomposition, from the bird just dead
to the skeletons of those which had evi
dently lain* for years. Two live birds,
whose fluttering and noise had attracted
his attention, made their escape as soon
as the hole was opened. The larger
number were blue-birds, but besides
there were sparrows, woodpeckers, wrens
—indeed,a miscellaneous collection of the
smaller birds of this-latitude. To ascertain
how they came there was the next ques
tion, and a further search was made.
This showed that near the top of the pil
lar there was a small hole, just sufficient
to allow the ingress of a bird, but so near
the top that egress was impossible. The
birds seeing this opening went in, but
were unable to get out, and died of star
vation. This seems Much like a ghost
story, but the skeptical can, see a full
peck of the carcasses of these birds at the
Grand Central Dining Rooms, —Lafayette
(Ind.) Courier.
irnmm 9
Sftn marry in haste, and then sit down
aud think it carefully over.
VOL. I—NO. 37.
Josh Billings on Marriage,
History holds its tongue as to who the
pair wuz who first put on the silken har
ness, and promised to work kind to it, thru
thick and thin, up hill and down, and on
the level, rain or shine, survive or perish,
sink or swim, down or flote.
But wotever they wuz, they must have
made a good thing of it, or so mauy of
their posterity would not have harnessed
up since and drove out.
There is a great moral grip to marriage;
it is the morter that holds them together.
But there ain’t but darn few pholks
who put their money in matrimony who
could set down and give a good written
opinyun whi on arth they comefcodtd it.
This is a grate proof that it is one or
them natral kind ov acksidents tbwt must
happen, jist as birds fly out ov the nest,
when they have feathers enuff, without
being able to tell why.
Sum marry for buty, and never dis
kover their mistake ; this iz lucky.
Sum marry for money, and don’t see it.
Sum marry for pedigree, and feel big
for six months, and then very sensibly
cum tew the conclusion that pedigree
ain’t no better than skim-milk.
Sum marry bekawse they have been
higsted sum where else ; this is a cross
match, a bay and sorrel; pride may make
it endurable.
Slim marry far luv without a cent iff
their pocket, nor a friend in the world
nor a drop ov pedigree. This looks des
perate, but it is the strength of the game.
If marrying for love ain’t success then*
matrimony is a dead beet-
Sum marry because they think wimmea
will be scarce next year, and live tew
wonder how the crop holds out..
Sum marry to get rid ov themselves,
and discover that the game was one that
two could play at, and neither win.
Sum marry the second time to get even,,
and find it a gamblin game—the more
they put down the less they take up.
Sum marry to be happy, and not find
ing it, wonder where all the happiness
goes to when it dies.
Sum marry they can’t tell why, and
live they cant tell how.
Almost everybody gets married, and it
is a good joke.
Sain think it over carefully fust and
then set down and marry.
Both ways are right if they hit the
mark.
Sum marry rakes to* convert them.
This iz a MStle risky, and takes a smart
inissieoary to do it.
Sum marry conuetts. This is like buy
ing a poor farm heavily mortgaged, and
working the balance ov your days to
clear off the mortgages..
Married life has its chances, and
is just what gives it its flavor. Every
body loves to phool with the chances, be
kause everybodv expekts tew win. But
I am authorized tew state that everybody
don’t win.
But, after all, married life iz full az
certain az dry good bizness.
No man can swear exactly where he
will fetch up when hr tuches calico.
Kno man kan tell jist what calico hax
made up its mind tew do next.
Calico don’t kno evert herself.
Dry goods of all kinds is the child ov
circumstamsis-
Sum never marry, but this iz just az
risky ; the disease iz the same, with an
other name to it
The mm who stands on the bank shiv
ering, and dassent, iz more apt to ketch
cold than him who pitches hiz head fust
into the river.
There iz but few who never marry be
kause they wont —they all hanker, and
most ov them starve with bread! before
them (spread on both sides), jist for the
lack of grit.
Mary young! iz my motto.
I have tried it, and I know what I ami
talking about.
If anybody asks you why you got mar
ried (if it needs be), toil him your don’t
recoMekt.
Marriage is a safe way to gamble—if
yu win, yu win a pile, and if yu loze, vu
don’t loze anything, only the privilege of
living dismally alone, and soaking your
own feet.
There is but one good excuse for &
marriage late in life, and that iz— a sec
ond, marriage.
How a Dutchman Told his Son
an Interesting Story.—' “ Shon, mine
Shon,” said a German father to his heir
of ten years, whom he had overheard!
using profane language, “ Shoo, mine-
Shon! come here, an’ I vill dell you von
little stories. Now, mi nr Shon, shall it
pea drue story, or a makes pelieve ?”
“ Oh, a true story, of eoterse V* answer
ed John.
“Ferry veil, den-- Dere vas once a
goot oldt shentlcman (shoost like me),
and he had von dirty little poy (shoost
like yo®). Andt von day he heard
him shwearing like a young fillian,
as he vos. So he vent to de winkle
(corner) and dook out a cowhide (shoost
as lam doing now), and he dook der
dirty liddle plackguard by de collar
(dis way, you see f) and voilepped him
(shoost so f) And den, mine tear Shon-,
he bull his ears dis way, and smack hi
face dat way, an’ dell him to £0 mitonZ
his supper, shoost ae* you vilt do- dir
efening.”
The Highest Mountain in thr
World.—A genuine surprise awaited the
best informed geographers —the discov
ery of Mount Hercules*, in the Island of
New Guinea, off the coast of Australia,
where the Indian ©cea aavd Paeifie
meet- The new discovered mowdoo*
3*2,786- feet high, over six nwfec. Mount
Everest i the Himalayan* range, hereto
fore credited with the sovereign altitude,
is only 29',##2 feet high- Mount Her
cules stands near the centre of the is
land, and the discoverer, Captain J. A„
Lawson, gives a thrilling account of his
ascent to the height of 26,314 feet till
the blood flow ed from the nose and ears
of himself and attendant, and gasping
took the place of breathing.