Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-31
DAILY \lRGINIAN.

ne New nork Tribune gives the ioho"ihS
history of singular will case now before the
Courts of that city:
In l77l, according to the records ot parish
in the little City of Pau, Jean lcard director OF
! public stage-otherwise, post-hoy-was joined
in marriage. by the aid of the holy saoraments,
| to Madeline Ryierc. In l775, son was born OF
that marriage, and, in l777, n daughter, Jeanne
! lcard, the heroine of our love case. Little jean
nes father died when she was eight years old,
and 1t is supposed that her mother died when she
was quite young. At any rate, she hnd no friends
to watch her sharply that she could not fall
IN love with jean Ferrie. The Ferries were
! family of tanners who had their WITS IN tho
south of France, at Saint Ferome, i'll the De-
| partment of Arriege. Jean added to his tan
ming business that of II trader in horses and
mules, and used to go to Spain, now and then'
on trading expedition. Whether "Jeanpette
and Jeannotn were married or not, is the point
at issue one thing however. is tolcrably certain.
aud that Is that they had issue, II son, named
after his father, Joan. For some reason our
Jeanne did not choose 10 nurse her boy herself,
and he was put out to nurse at farm, some
| ten miles oil He was visited occasionally by
! his father and mother. Soon his nurse died,
! and he was put with another. Before very long
his father was killed, on the road from Toulouse
to Spain, whilst attempting, perhaps, TO smuggle
some mules across the Pyrenees.
lhttIo jean grows up his mother goes to Bor-
deaux; is engaged in the establishment of NJ Ca
talan, merchant, and there she becomes nc
| quaintcd with NJ. Duux also in the employ of
NJ. Catalan. She had adopted her maiden name,
II she had ever departed from it, and for some rea-
son she thinks ii prudent to conceal her former
marriage or liaison from NJ. Dulux. Little Jean,
therefore, did not see his mother very often, and
he was kept out in the mountains with one and
another of the farmers lie was the taken 10 Bor
deauX and placed III II college to be polished.
Our Jean, however, does not take to city life
very kindly; i'll two or three nights he finds out
how to let himself down from window and run
back to the mountains lie was soon found by
his mothers agents, and placed in the country
again to learn Latin with man by tho name of
Annlcrc. One of Catalan's agents is sent by and
by to see how he gets ON, and finds that Anniere,
who had been reporting him to be getting along
prospcrously in the abstrusites of Latin Gram
mar had been teaching him nothing at all except
to skip about the mountains like goat. In fnet
Ferrie himself says that he las ignorant
goose" He was then taken TO Bon deaux, and
put to hatters trade.
Meantime, the young widow, or otherwise, be-
gan to find out that she.was still pretty,wth her
dark eyes and hair, her piqunnt nez refronSses,
and hcrplump, round form, and she, with n pru-
dent eye to the main chance, entered into liai-
son with NJ. Dulux. who promised to be we'll to
do in the world. In lSO7 they came to New
York and set up II mner's shop in Pearl street
lie lived with her here excepting IA visit or two
to France, until 1917, when he went to France,
and from some cause or other did not come back
again. Jeanne was getting to be 40, and her
temper was never very amiable Soon aftertheir
arrival here. learning that their peculiar mode Of
life not Ia mode in this country, with
laudabe desire 10 conform 10 its customs, they
were married ciyy and religionsly, and in all
possible forms. Soon after Dulux left her she
sent to Bordeaux for her He was then
near the age for conscription, that he had to be
brought OFT in double bottomed tlatboat to elude
the vigilance of the French custom house off
Gers. He landed in Philadelphia ard came to
New York to live with his mother. But the old
ady's prudence has been developing itself until
jean finds that while the hatters boy got white
bread in Bordeaux, the rich woman's only
gets black bread in New York.
From fondling him and from calling him
fis and mon garcon, she came at last to slapplng
him III the face. Jean was now some p years
old, and he could not stand this. Sometimes
maternal authority extended SO far as to make the
blood runs. So Jean went to benevolent barber,
and took up his abode. Madame was exceeding
ly indignant at this; she ''wanted to put him to
some high trade like merchants" Jean was with
her and away by times; and at last he went to Gin
cinnati. The old lady was now left alone. Her
brother had died long ago in the disastrous expe
dition which Napoleon sent to st. Domingo
We hear something about niece, in 1874, with
her from France, girl of II, with dark hair and
eyes. But this is apocriphal. She was living
lonely life. She had grown old. Her nez retrou-
sse had become Il decided pug, and she was a
little, dried up, knotty woman, with only her
black eyes, and even they had come to look
though they continually searching for
money. In the street, she wore an immense
straw bonnet: with shovel front, and carried
huge retcule, stuffed with money and papers.
She lived in the third story of one of her building
in William street. Men went up to borrow mon
ey of her Ton mortgage, of coursc). She asked:
where is the property! Who owns it, Is it
built on Ist down town." If all these ques
tions were not answered satisfactorily, she would
say $50 long I've no money to lend
At last her time came. She was run over by
omnibus last November in Broadway, near the
corner of Fulton street and her ankle was crush
ed She was taken to st. Vincent's Hospital
where she fingered for twelve days She talked
about having will made, about giving 100000
for a hospital to be called DuluX's Hospital, and
various other donations; she sent for her lawyer
several times, but could never make up her mind
to give her property away-not even for Dulux
Hospital She sent for her son, but he was sick
and could not So she died without will,
and now that the son, John p kes appli-
cation to be appointed administrators Mr. Swee-
ney does not waive his right Messrs Shcr-
wood and Brady appear for the applicant and
Messrs Whitehead and O'Conor for relative sup
posed to be now living in Toulouse.
Large quantities of evidence have been taken
and yesterday the question of administration was
argued before the Surrogate
New DONE FOR THE CAPlroL.-The Wash
ngton Sentinel says:
We learn that the accomplished architect of
thc CaritoL Thomas l.. Walter, has completed