Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-11-28
ATROCIOUS PARRICIDE,

ATROCIOUs PARRICIDE.
A most horrible PARTICLE has been lats
ly perpetratsd in the arrondisemest o;
Drives, in France. The circumstauca
| which attended the commission of ,bs
crime heighten, if possible, its atroei,y
A father and son, the latter an unempIO,
cd captain in the army, and chey.G:,
of the legion of honor, inhabited together
house in the country, occupying, how.
ever, different apartments, and keeping
in a manner separate establishments
Disputes had arisen between thsm respec.
ting some property, and proposals for an
arrangement had been made by two friend.
of the family, who on the Sd of Sep,sm.
Der waited on the father fer his consent
but were told by him that he required
time to make up his mind, and requested
them to come to him again in the course
of = few DAYS The two friends having
repaired to the con to acquaint him with
his answer, he in tho most furious m,nns,
laid hold of a double barrelled gun, and
provided himself with powder and shot
He afterwards ran into his bed room.
whore he was followed by one Of the
friends, and having seized a pistol, h.
took some papers out of closet; at thu
same moment he tore from his button
hole the insignia of his order, thrust i,
with violence into the pocket ofthe friend
and holding out to him the packet OF d.
pers: Here" said he, ''is my commissioo
take care Of it." The latter refused
"Take it," he added with oaths, cor | will
force you with pistol at your breast p
After saying this. seeing the person he
addressed retire few PAGES. without per.
sisting further, he placed the papers on
= bed, and descended precipitatsIy into
the garden to prime his pistols. The
friend who had followed this desperate
approached him fer the purpose of soo,h.
ing him; but the latter turning towards
him, said, "ls,ve mo alene, sir, and ofons
evil do not make two" The friend, a.
harmed by this menace, quilted the gar.
den, when his companion joined him, and
said, "lst US retire; have taken care that
nothing shall happen to the father; his
room il barricadsd in such 4 manner that
his son cannot penetrate to him" Unfor.
tunatsly these precautions were insuifi-
cient, and few minutes after their dspar.
ture. the son succeeded in gaining admit.
! lance into his fathers apartment by fore.
ing in a window. lie advanced towards
the old man. who was seated in an easy
chair which his infrmities seldom permit
ted him to quit, and shot him with one of
his pistols in tina breast. The son-in-lav
of the old man, who was present, having
laid hold of his brother-in law, a struggle
ensued between them, during which the
son endeavsredto discharge the other pis.
tol into the breast of his brether-in- law,
but as it burnt printing, he drew from un.
der his coat short two, edged sword, with
which he stabbed him in the stomach.
The thrus., however, was happily i'll.
directed. TIE wounded man, proving
stronger than the aggrsssor, succeeded in
disarming him, broke the weapon into
pieces, and having driven his brother-in-
law out OF the room he fastened the door.
The son-in. law naturally concluded that
she scene of horror was terminated. His
father-in-law was not dead, and he ranup
to him. When he was engaged in render
ing the unfortunate old man his assistance,
he saw the assassin, armed with double
barrelicd gun, reappear at the same win
dow by which he had before entered the
apartment. TIE monster discharged the
first barrel at his father, who died almost
instantly, and the second at his brother
in-law, who fell in consequence, but not
dangerously wounded. The assassin fed,
but on the 5th of September tho corpse
was found in wood near the town of St.
Pantheon, where he had blown out his
brains with the fatal double barrellsd
gun, by means of a string, of which one
end was attached to the trigger, and tho
ether end wound round his foot.
From the North Georgia Gazette, J. Wintsr Giro
nicle, (appended to Parry'' poyage for the e.'
copery Of North Hest Passage.
LINES SUGGESTED BY THE BRIL-.
LIANT AURORA, JAN. Is, 1880.
High quiv ring in the air, a. shadows ny,
Tbs northern lights adorn the azure sky.
Dinm' d by superior blaze, tbs star, retire,
Aad Hsav'n'. vast csncavs leans with sportive
fire.
Soft blazonng in the east the orange hue,
The crimson, purple, and ethereal blue,
Form rich arch, by floating cloud. upheld
High pois'd in air, with awful mystery s~e'Pd;
From whose dark centres, with unceasing roll
Rich coroscations gid the glowing pole.
Their varied hues, slow waving DER the hay,
Eclipse the ,plendor of the dawning day.
Streamers in quick succession DER the sky