Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-10-01
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ANVIL TRAGEDY.

-lor pHllosopnlC ana RATIONAL nope pFoclalul
that Right shall yet prevail. N.
| AWFUL TRAGEDY.
We have seldom heard of a tragedy so trul
revolving to human nature, as one which occur
red last Friday night, at Brownstown, Indiana
! The details given below are principally CLEANED
from the Madison Banner. 1t seems that tw,
| brothers, named Hiram and Warren Francisco
and well known as peaceful and respectable cit
liens, followed the occupation of clock peddling
They usually trave led different routes, bu
made practice of meeting each other frequent
! y. They agreed to meet at public house il
| Brownstown on Friday last. One of the broth
ers reached the tavern, about nine o'clock, ant
! inquired if his brother had arrived, and was in
| formed by the landlord that he had not
| After eating his supper, he called for light
and asked TO be shown 10 bed Francisco fol
lowed the landlord into a dark room, and un
dressed himself and retired TO rest. The bee
seemed TO be wet, and having some matches a
bout him, he struck light. Upon examining
the bed, he found it wet with blood Discover
| ing candle on table near by, he lit it, and
looking under the bed, saw the body of his broth
er with his throat cut from TO ear and per-
fectly lifeess! Fastening the door Immediately
he proceeded to load a revolver, which he had
but before he could do so, there was an etfor
made by several men TO enter his r0om Pre-.
tending not to be alarmed, he asked them tc
wait till he dressed himself. AS soon as he had
finished loading his pistol, he opened the door
and the landlord and two other men rushed OF
him, when he fired two barrels of his pistol i'm.
| mediatey killing the landlord and two of his &C.
completes, after which the other man fled.
THE SENTIMENTAL IoAx-A Paris paper
relates the following story
Along the alleys of the Champes Elysaes arc
three or four blind men who have whistled
through their cracked claronettes, the same
tunes for the last thirty forty years. One OF
them the oldest, who took his station in the
same place, never allowed a day to pass, sum
mer or winter, without coming there accompan-
led by a lovely child of abont fifteen, whom he
had adopted, and a white dog always carefully
combed. He would play, or rather torture one
OF our national airs, repeating it over and over
for whole hours together During this exercise
the little girl begged, and the dog himself, per-
tectly trained, howled bitterly, in a way to at
tract the attention of the passengers This
blind man was named Crique-Touche. He had
a comrade, a friend from infancy, blind like him.
self, and like him playing on cIaronette, but
instead of frequenting the Champcs Elysees, he
had chosen for his theatre of action the Pont des
Touruclls. For three years, without Interrupt
ton, Galimard, as he was called. had attached
himself to that locality. lie wore over his eyes
large green shade, and carried in no" u on on
organ, which served him as q treasury Wai,-
ma rd had soon fOrr rnuol,,.;> 49, fL"C0 Win
Uut trimklng Of giving up his place. lie was &C
companied by child of ten years, whom he put
in retreat as soon as she came to the age of rca-
son. Galimard returned every evening to his
home, which was only wooden stall in the base
mcnt of an obscure house in ST jacques Street.
But death which spares no one, came to knock
at his door. Feeling himself near his end, he
wished to cousnlt a notary. GaIimard made his
will, and two days after he died. We were
crossing the Champes Flysees, and were told
that a few hours before man dressed in black
had stopped before Crique-Touche, the other
blind man, and interrupted him in the midst of
his song, and addressed him in this way: "Sir,
is your name Crique-Touche" Yes sir you
have friend on the Pont du Tournelles? He
was named Galimard p He was named" replied
the man in black, For three days his body has
been in the cemetry' The man uttered pier
ING cry. and then sobbed most bitterly. All right,
you are Criquc-Touch. Galimard has consttu-
ted yon his universal Iegatc by will which !
have here. lie gives you a chest which he bu-
ried some feet deep in the earth, his bird organ,
his clarionette-n word all he possessed
But the chest in question contains eighty thou
sand francs. Crique-Touch was so affected that
his closed eyeids were raised and he appeared
to the amazed Notary, with fine clear black eyes.
The blind man embraced bis dog and his daugh-
ter, and got into a carriage with the two and pro-
ceedcd to the house of the defunct. 1t was ex-
actly as the notary had said. The eighty'thou-
sand francs, in every kind of money, was found
in the place indicated by Galimard in his will, and
on the chest was this inscription - My old
Crique-Touche, if God closes my eyes before
yours, leave you this money. Ion can endow
Marianne. only desire to take with me my
clarionelte, You will bury it with me. If you
die before me, it is to Marianne, your adopted
daugeter, that would give all have. Remem-
Der sometimes the blind man of the Pont des
Tournelles'
u The two clarioneue players were neither
of them ever blind.