Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-29

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From the London Morning Chronicle.
SHOCKING TERMINATION OF A
MARRIAGE IN FRANCE.
A frightful case of hydrophobia is des-
cribed in the Lyons Journals, which, if
the facts are correctly stated, would go
to prove that the fatal malady would re-
main in the system as long as four years
without development. A young farmer
named Peyron, about twenty-five years
of age, in the department of the Rhine,
was married a few weeks ago, 10 neigh
bor's daughter. The young compile had
been long attached to each other but
the parents of the bride had refused their
consent on account Of the stTangeness of
conduct occasionally observed in the
young man, who otherwise was a most
desirable match, his parents being COM
paratively well off, and the son himself
generally Of exemplary conduct.
His passion for the girl became at
length so violent that be could not exist
without her, and his mother, fearing from
his manner that he meditated suicide,
went to the parents of the young woman,
and, after some entreaty, prevailed up
on them to agree to the match. Young
Peyron at once recovered his spirits,
The young woman was delighted, and the
marriage was celebrated with all the rus
tic pomp and ceremony common in that
part of the Provinces, c. including with
grand dinner and the inevitable ball.
The gaieties were kept up until day light,
when the company separated. The new
married couple were lodged in one
wing of the farm house, separate from
the main building but, in short time
after they had retired, cries were heard
in the nuptial chamber. At first they
were unnoticed but at length they in
creased to fearful shrieks, and the father
and mother, alarmed, hastened to the
room, followed by the farm servants.
The cries were by the time they arli-
we'd changed to scarcely audible groans
from the poor girl and on breaking
open the door she was found in the ag-
onies of death--her bosom torn open and
lacerated in the most horrible manner,
and the wretched husband in a fit of ra-
wing madness and covered with blood,
having actually devouIed portion of the
unfortunate girls breast. A cry of hOr-
ror burst forth from all present, and he
was dragged from the room after most
violent resistance, it taking no less than
six men 10 hold him down. Aid was
instantly sent for, and before the doctor
could reach the spot, the unhappy victim
was no more.
Young Peyron was put under treat
ment, and a straight waiscoat was order
ed to be put upon him, but his struggles
and screams were such that the doctor,
apprehensive that he should expire in the
assistants hands, ordered them to desist.
The unfortunate man had by this time
became so wea k that he was easily con-
veyed to bed, and died al four clock in
the afternoon of the same day, without
having for one moment recovered his
Consciousness. 1t was then recOllected,
in answer to searching questions by
physician, that somewhere about five
years previously, he had been bitten by
strange dog, and taken the usual precau-
tons against hydrophobia.
But, although the dog was killed, it
had never been satisfactorily shown that
it was really mad +; and no i'll consequent
ces resulting from the bite, his friends
concluded that it would come to nothing,
and the incident had been altogether for.
gotten. 1t was considered by the doc
tor that the circumstances preceding the
marriage and the excitement of the Occa-
sion itself had aroused .he latent virus,
which had so long lain dormant. in the
blood, and led to the terrible outbreak
offrenzy which had ended so tragically.
An IRISH WIDDER.-Last week some
medical officers were called upon to ex-
anime the condition of some Irish inhab-
itants, situated at the bottom of Wes'g gate
Leeds. One of the medical men asked
the mistress of these houses:
"Why don't you keep it cleaner %
The reply made by the woman was that
she was poor widow and couldn't afford
it.
GLOW long have you been widow?"
asked the doctor.
"Sure enough, your honor, for three
years.
"Of what complaint did your husband
die?' asked the man of physic.
"Och, he never died at all he's run
awav wild another woman"
He whose soul does not sing, need nos
try to do it with his thI oat.