Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-11
A ParIs-Storv.
Paris Correspondence of the Rostop.p po

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Some few years ago there came to reside
IN the capital of the civilized world lady
OF great beauty and. apparent wealth. She
represented herself as the widow of an
English officer of the Coldstream Guards.
and called herself "Meestress Hare ~
Whether the tale was true or false, it took
so well that in less than two years we find
the fair "meestress" still in possession of
the same youth and beauty, with the addi
ton of an enormous fortune, n splendid
hotel in one of the most fashionable quar-
ters OF Paris, eight high bred horses in her
stables, and about twenty thousand pounds
worth of diamonds in her eorin. All this
properly, acquired in so short time,
might surely be thought sufficient to satis-
ty the craving of any woman on the face of
The earth. The great Paris millionaire, who
contributes an income of 5000 year to-
wards 1t, had enabled the fair "meestress"
10 Operate" in building ground uud build
ing leases with such sure means of success
that she had become millionaire herself.
But alas! in addition to all the visible and
tangible possessions mentioned above, ,Mees.
tress Hare had yet another, which consist
ed OF most devoted passion for one of the
pandles OF the day--a man with fair hair
ana moustache, yellow gloves and clean
shlrt collar, but without single idea be-
yond. The youth, who had lntely iDher-
tied the fortune of the chiet magistrate,
came one day recently to take his leave of
'the Hare,'' as the lady is familiarly CAL
led among her fellows. He was frank. if
not just, iu his dealings with her, and an
noupced his return to his native place,
ChamIbery, for the purpose of getting mar
rled. Thereupon terrible scene of disap-
pointed ahection-tears, supplications and
tears-all of no avail. The old menace of
suicide, too-the one of all others the gal
iant knew best, and had laughed ut the
longest. u will throw myself into the
Seine" GGOh, yes, aud be fished out and
jorough home dripping wet" "I will poison
myself II you 60" "Oh, yes, and have
the horrid stomach pump and the apothe.
cnry-Psha have known and seen it,
all But you have never seen this"
exclaimed the lady, seizing one of the
wax-lights from the table and setting fire
to the houuces and furbelows, spread out
yards wide BY her crinoline. In an instant
her whole person was enveloped in flames,
and through the corridor of the Grand
Hotel, the echo of the shrieks of pain re-
sounded with appalling effect. The flames
we're extinguished after awhile--but the
Vlctlm lies in hopeless state, suffering the
martyrd0m, Of pain, which those who
""H" suhsFeuL rom ioQrulng declare to be
more intense than any other. Her life is
despaired OF, al for the whole body is
said to be, one mass of burus-while
by a singular chance the face and neck
iunscathed, still retain the beauty which
has made "the Hare" one of the great
celebrities of "a Paris. The whole of
the denli-nonds at first gathered in
the sympathy of fellowship round her bed:
soon one alone took possession of the place.
and drove the traffickers of sentiment from
the chamber where death was waiting to
seize bis prey from the hand of the doctor.
This single defender is the cure of the
Madeleine who bas rescued the soul from
perditiop, and obtained the beuuest of all
the property OF the. Jing Magdalen, to tbs,
church, should she die, and the VOW of
retirement to a convent, should she hve.-l
The triumph is. great. Demimonde, awed
into silence at ,frst, is beginning to chatter
Tbout this sad resolve; while the cause of
this dread catastrophe, after twirling his
Bmoustache and rejecting that after all
there was another proof of the indestruc-
tibility Of q woman by suicide for love, as
she had been rescued. and Still might live.
drove to the railway, aud started off as
tlrst- class passenger to be married at
Ghambery.