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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 26 June 1885, Page 7

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Barrios, the Dictator of Guatemala, who whb killed in battle while invading the territory of h:s peaceful neighbours, was a tyrant of the most arbitrary kind, torturing or killing any citizenß who did not fall in with his views, and even subjecting to gross indignities native ladies who refused to accept invitations to his social parties. He seized all the Church property in the country some years ago, expelled the Jesuits and turned the nuns out of their convents. An ex-aid-de-camp of the dictator, now in New York, says that Barrios has been much maligned ; and as an instance we quote his version of the punishment administered to the ladies of Guatemala : 11 Barrios was not terrified by opposition from this quarter, and his inventive mind hit upon a plan to bring these gentle insurgents to their senses. He had a huge sack made, which was suspended from a tightly stretched rope. Into this sack he put a dozen or more of the scheming ladies of his capital, and then hp had the bunch of them whirled round and round until the rope grew kinked then the bag was let go, and it naturally flew with great speed in the opposite direction. The result was that its occupants were made deathly sick, and the subsequent proceedings of Gen. Barrios interested them -no more." The dead tyrant was also avaricious in the extreme. He is said to have accumulated millions of dollars which he invested, against the rainy day, in English and American securities. His death and the collapse of his ambitious schemes are blessings, for long-suffering Central America.— Pilot,