The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-03-23

French Gossip.
La Belle France beats the world for COS
sip. French vivacity is ahead of every
thing in the line. Read the brief story be
low and ask if such inhumanty is believe
able. Not until now did we know tina
doctors throughout the world are recogniz
ed as "gossps Of the first water" A littl,
closer attention to the NJ. DIS will be essen
.tial, hereafter!
The latest horror has been excited by III,
relations in the affair Of the poisoning, BY
doctor, of his patients, after having Sc.
cured his fees on gigantic scale, after
their deaths, by the insurance of their ives
to an enormous amount. The excitement
produced by the detection of the culprit
has been all the greater because he happens
to be one of the first amongst the doctors
OF Paris. Added to this, the man is real
Count-the.. Count de Cour.ez de la Pom
merage, one of the finest names in the
Province of orlesnnas. AS may be sup
posed, when we add to this immense advan.
tag. of nohlessc, that Of youth, god looks
and plausible address, the Counts princi.
pal practice has always been amongst the
ladies, and it is by one Of the f,rest and
most interesting of his clients that the
system, that has governed his success in
acquiring fortune, has been discovered.
The victim had called him in, some time
ago, for slight irritation CT the throat to
which she had been subject for some years.
Inc doctor beheld at once the unprotected
position OF widow with a small fortune,
living an isolated life, with but few intimate
friends, and scarcely any relatives. The
prey was marked out and pursued with per.
severance. In short time the widow had
insured her life for the fabulous sum of
five hundred thousand francs, tie doctor
undertaking the management Of the whole
affair. No sooner is the first instalmcnt
paid in than the widow dies-ths excites
the curiosity of the insurance office; the
matter was looked into, no other doctor is
found to have attended her, save one, who.
being sent for by the servant, in whose
mind, mot suspicion" as he says, 'but
uneasincss,' had arisen, went one night to
fetch the doctor who lived in the next
house. This gentleman, on finding the
symptoms to be nothing more S, rious than
q little nausea. accompanied by burning
t''' - Wv SASN~ty oSiiSNSu III more
than Indigestion, and after having ordered
mild emetic, withdrew, promising to re.
peat his visit the next day. But before he
left his bed in the morning, he received
note from the lady, containing the fee for
the single visit, with the request that, ''as
his emetic had done her no good-quite the
reverse--she must beg of him never 10 set
his foot in her house againr' The message
was so abrupt and ill-manncred that it be
came natural subject of conversation
among the doctors, who in every country
are recognized as gossps of the first water.
One Of these, to whom the note was shown,
happened to recognize the hand writing as
that OF the Count, and when the news of
the death of the patient was made public,
he instantly informed the insurance office
of the circumstance. 1t was thus that
suspicion first fell upon the doctor, and that
detection ensued. The affair has made |
tremendous noise in Paris, and so frighten-
ed the women, old and young, titled and
untitled, that the profession is at dis.
count.