Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-31
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81. 1865.


loTk lasI iali'o y penn run over by an omnibus,
and hair dresser named Ferrie, from Cincin-
naseusome 80 years old, appears and claims
her property, some 800, 900, as her son by
! youthful marriage, in France. His claim is
resisted by parties in France, not on the ground
/ that he was not her son, but that he is an il
| legitimate. The case is holly contested by the
lawyers, and their investigations bring out a
very romantic story, which is thus condensed
by the N. Y. Tribune -
In IVA, according to the records of a par
ish in the little city of Pau, Jean Ieard, d.
rector of the public stage-otherwise, post
boy,-was Joined in marriage, by the aid Of
the holy sacraments, to Madeline Riviere-
In l775, a son was born of the marriage, and,
in l777, daughter, Jeanne Icard, the heroine
of our love case. Little Jesnne's father died
when she was eight years old, and it is sup
posed that her mother died when she was
quite young. At any rate, she had no friends
to watch her so sharply that she could not
fall in love with Jean Ferrie. The Ferries
We're a family of tanners, who had their watts
in the south Of France at st. Gerome. in the
Department of Arriege. Jean added to his
tanning business that of trader in horses
and mules, and used to 90 to spain, now and
! then, on a trading expedition. Whether "Je-
annette and Jeannot" were married or not, is
the point at issue; one thing, however, is toll
erably certain, and that is, that they had issue,
a son, named after his tather, Jean. For some
reason, our Jeanne did not choose to nurse
her boy herself, and he was put out to nurse
at a farm, some ten miles Off lie was visited
occasionally by his father and mother. Soon
his nurse died, and he was put out with an
other. Before very long his father was kill
ed, on the road from Toulouse to Spain, while
attempting, perhaps, TO smuggle. some mules
across the Pyrenees. Little jean grows mp;
his mother goes to Bordeaux is engaged in
the establishment of NJ. Catalan, a silk mer-
chant, and there she becomes acquainted with
Nj. DuluX, also in the employ of NJ. Catalan.
She had adopted her maiden name if she
had ever departed from it, and for some rea-
son she thinks it prudent to conceal her for
mer marriage or liaison from NJ. DuluX. Lit
tie Jean, therefore, did not see his mother very
often, and he was kept out on the mountains
with one and another of the farmers. He
was then taken to Bordeaux and placed in
college to be polished. Our Jean, however,
does not take to city lille very kindly; in two
or three nights he finds out how to let him
self down from a window and run back to the
mountains. He was soon found by his moth
er's agents, and placed in the country again
to lealn Latin with man by the name of An
Mere. One of Galatians agents is sent by and
by to see how he gets on, and finds that An
Mere, who had been reporting him to be get
ting along prosperously in the abstrusities If
Latin Grammar, has been teaching him moth
ing at all except 70 skip about the mountains
like a goat. In fact Ferrie himself says that
he was as ignorant as n goose He was
then taken to Bordeaux, and put to hatters
trade
Meantime the young widow, or otherwise,
began to find out that she was still pretty,
with her dark eyes and hair, her piquant nee
retyousSe, and her plump, round form, and
she, with prudent eye to the main chance,
entered into a liaison with NJ. Dulux. who
promised to be well to do in the world. In
1907, they came TO New York and set up
millner's shop in Pearl street. He lived with
her here, excepting 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 very unamable. Soon after their arrival
here, learning that their peculiar mode of life
was not Ia mode in this country, with a
laudable desire to conform to its customs, they
were married ciyilly and religiously, and in
all possible forms. Soon after Dulux left her,
she sent to bordeaux Tor her son. He was
then so near the age for consumption, that he
had to be brought off in a double bottomed
fiat. boat about ten miles to elude the vigilance
of the French custom house officers He
landed in Philadelphia, and came to New
York to live with his mother. But the old
lady's prudence has been developing itself FUN
til Jean finds that, while the hatter's boy got
white bread in Bordeaux, tie rich womans
son only gets black bread in New York From
fondling him, and from calling him mons ills
and mon garoon, she came at last to.slapping
him in the face. Jean was now some % years
old, and he could not stand this. Sometimes
maternal authority extended far al to make
the blood run. So Jean Went to a benevolent
barber, and took up his abode. Madame was
exceedingly indignant at this: " she wanted
to put him 10 some high trade, like mer-
chants" Jean was with her and away by
times and at last he went to Cincinnati. The
old lady was now left alone. Her brother had
died long ago i'll the disastrous expedition
which Napoleon sent to st. Domingo. We
hear something about neice, in 1874, with
her from France, girl of fourteen, with dark
hair and eyes. But this is apocryphal She
was living a. lonely life. She had grown old.
Her nez retrouSse had become decided pug,
and she was little dried-up knotty woman,
with only her black eyes, and even they had
come to look as though they were continually
searching for money. In the street, she wore
an immense straw bonnet, with a shovel 'front.'
and carried a huge rectieule, stuffed with mo
ney aud papers. She lived in a third story Of
one Of her buildings in Williams street. Men
went up to borrow of her CON mortgage of
course.) She asked "Where is the property
Who owns it? Is it built on ; Is it down
town." Ii all these questions were not an
swered satisfactorily, she would say $50
long, I've no money to lend
AT last her time came She was run over
by an omnibus last November IN Broadway,
near the corner of Fuiton-si., and her ankle
was crushed. She was taken to ST. Vincent's
Hospital where she fingered for twelve days.
She talked about having will made, about
giving $40 900 for hospital to be called Du-
lux'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 mot even for Duluxs hospit-
al. She sent for her son, but he was sick and
could not come. So she died without will and
now that sou, John z. Ferrie, makes appica-
ton to be appointed Administrator OH her es-
tate. The Public Administrator, Mr.. Swee-
ney, does not waive his right Messrs. Sher-
wood and Brady appear for the applicant, and
Messrs. Whitehead and O'Conor for relatives
supposed to be now living i'll Toulouse.
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CURIOUS ExcuANeE.--The Buffalo Com
mercal Advertiser relates the following anus
A gentleman whom we may call Mr. A.