Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-11-14
Ia Manpin.

LutIs opera troupe. She was equally
fond of both sexes, and fought and loved
like man (or devil. aud resisted and
fell as a woman. She was married to a
young man, who left her to take an Office
to which he had been appointed in Pro
vence, when she ran away with fencing
master, of whom she learned to fence
They first went TO Marseilles, where, as
they had good voices, they were engaged
at the opera. She soon fell in love with
young woman. The object of her whim-
slcal affection was shut up in convent, to
which Maupiu obtained access as a nov.
ice, when she set fire 10 it, and in the
confusion ran off with her favorite. Mau-
pin was taken and condemned 10 be burn.
ed, hut as the young woman was restored
TO her friends. she was pardoned. She
then went to Paris, and made her first ap-
peararce on the opera stage in 1895,
whe she performed the pant Of Pallss in
Cadmus. with the greatest success. The
applause was so violent that she took off
her casque TO salute and thank the pub
lie, when her beauty caused them TO le-
double their applause. Her success was
from that time uninterrupted. but her
strangest acting was not on the stage.
Dumeni, the counter-tenor, having af-
fronted her. she put on mems clothes,
watched for him in the Place des Victo>
ries, and insisted on his drawing his sword
and fighting her, which he refusing, she
caned him, and took from him his watch
and snuff box. The next lay Dumeni
boasted at the opera house that he had
defended himself against three men who
had attempted to rob him, when Maupin
told the story, and produced his watch
and snuff box as proofs Of his cUwardice
and the Gaming. Another person only es-
capped her chastisement by publicly ask
ing her pardon, after hiding himself at
the Palais Royal for three weeks. At 81
ball, by the brother Of the King of France
she put on mems clothes. and having be-
haved imperLinently to lady, three Of the
friends of the lady, supposing her TO be
man. challenged her out for it, and she
killed them all. when, coolly returning TO
the ball. she told what had happened to
the Kings brother, who obtained her par.
DOM After some further adventures at
Paris, she went to BRUSSELS, and became
the favorIte of the Elector of Bavaria,
who. becoming tired of her, sent her a
purse of forty thousand livres by the hus
band of the woman whom he made his
new favorite, when she threw the purse
at his head. telling him it was a recon-
pense worthy such scoundrel as him>
selt. She then returned to the stage,
Which she Quilted in 1905. She was AT
= Ngth seized with fit Of devotion, (?)
d a" recalling her husband. passed the
Il -,
N" and died in 1907, aged 34.-N.
+ T. Iysicat World.
FRA l4N's SoN.-The Inauguration of
J. 'ne FFpain statute, at Boston, has been
e the occNop for reviving incidents con.
Il 'To'eu ne; ihe life of the philosopher
NJ oI'y \William, was goveruur OF
le He" the time Of the Dcclnra-
r 'lon 0s 1nu" hdence. and did what he
Uu'u ~ prev the legislnlive Assem-,
A. o'y VI ne" ~ from sanctiuniug the
PIoIeJu,"g pt:; OF General Congress of
Ie En't"oeIP"i"' Wise efforts. however,
If did but little to s. 4ahe tide. Of nonnIar
le sentiment in fnvorV Ea.;s,.'v P'Pu'"'
at ny, and soon involW H., ;n ,I;o;o,I',,
le He was deposed OIL nffi.a nv thu
a. Wings to give pin h. W., WV.
IT, lngston. and sent piNaer IN Cnnroc,i.
re cut. where he remalned Nv Nv ''.',,.,
or in East Windsor. in the VI. ~ Con,o;n
- Ebenezer Grant. near wheSA TEodiua;
he cal Seminary now stands. Mo ho 30 !.
IT. exchanged aud soon after - E.
land. There he spent the I'd
a, his life. receiving pension FRI H. r.;
on tiSh government for the losseSN III
nd sustained by his fidelity. Ht az ~
/! 1873. at 'he age OF 80. The oppG 't "a
cd the son to the cause the father eS ~
'e' produced an estrangement betweenN1
20 ard in F'ankIin's will. speaking dNss''
son. he says -" The part he as
TO- against me in the late war, which isl
he public nOteriety. will account for my le
Ter wing him no more Of my estate he {
nd deavored to deprive me of."-PAaQd
he pAia Ledger.
WIFE BEATING ACCORDING TO Sea
nd ruRE.-Rccent London papers report
IL, strange case Of the perversion Of the Ser
- lures. The case is thus stated in /
bo London Illustrated Times
The Rev. Geo. Bird is PREACHING
Jr WhIiehaven. and holding forth the dc
~. trine that it is perfectly scriptural for
mo man TO beat his wife. He is said 10 ha
nj. considerable congregation. One OF
,n- hocE was lately taken before the Mag
for trate for ill-usiug his wife the won
We said she had no wish her husband sho,
be punished. if he would promise not
-. llI'use her again. When asked by
sy magistrate whether he would make
i0N roOnVSlta H.