Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-12-07

any use the silver ornaments of the
churches were sold to buy provisions;
but eventually the stores of the monas-
teries were exhausted, no corn was left,
sheep and oxen had disappeared; only
the flesh of horses, asses and dogs was
to be obtained. According to contem-
porary evidence-that of the 'Besieged
Resident" who corresponds with the
Daily News--donkey is very good eat
ing; and cat he affirms to be delicacy,
against whose use the popular prejudice
is eminently absurd. But the poor peo-
pie of Paris were then reduced to direr
straits than the ''Besieged Resident" has
vet known. They tried to make bread
of bones ground to powder, even ran
sacking human grave-yards for material.
Dreadful maladies broke out in those
who partook of it; and next the skins of
animals and old leather began to be
boiled and eaten. A haggard, scare
crow population filed the streets, some
crying EEGive us bread or peace!" and
200 of them dying daily it soon became
impossible to bury them.
On the 9th of July, Henry ordered
general assault and drove the Parisians
within the walls, thus depriving them of
the slight provision of herbs and vege
tables they had been able to make viii Q
the faubourgs were free The Duchess
Of Montpensier carried a little dog in
her arms, which she said she had re-
served for the last extremity; and the
broth of the huge public soup cauldron
grew thinner, and was now favored
with much tallow and foul grease. At
this date $4,000 people were reported
dead, and at the close of the siege one
account makes the total as high as 100,-
0OO The sufferings of the besieged be-
came of unspeakable horror. The cul-
tivated citizen became again a savage,
tearing and rending like a wild beast.
Men disputed with dogs for carrion,
which they devoured raw; and we read
of mother feeding on the dead bodies
of her two children and then dying of
insanity.
This frightful record of misery and
despair was closed on the 3Oth of Aug
ust by the raising of the siege. All hu-
manity must pray that it's horrors may
never be repeated
A Woman's PeriIs in the Yo Semitic.
The Hon. Theresa Yelverton, Count
ess Avonmore, found the wintry winds
of the 70 Semitic more unkind than
mans ingratitude. Tempted by de-
hghtful autumn day, she recently be-
gun mountain journey on horseback,
while friends accompanied her by stage.
Soon after starting, the weather changed
and threatened a severe snow storm
The lady undauntedly kept her seat,
and hoped by rapid riding to catch up
with her escorts-three Englishmen of
title, who had taken her cloaks and
trunks ahead in the stage. But late in
the day the terrified woman found her
self nowhere in sight of her valiant
protectors-an the snow pelting down.
In this situation even her horse failed
her, and the unhappy lady was compel
led to dismount and wander on alone.
When darkness set in she was overcome
with exhaustion and was forced to seek
shelter in a hollow cedar. Sitting in
this ali night, she held her horse and
awaited the morning. With daylight
she was up, and finding her horse alb
solutely useless, abandoned him and
hurried forward afoot. Almost dead
in search of house. On the verge of a
she almost tainted with Joy at the
sound of human voice as she supposed,
and, darling around rock whence it
seemed to come, she came full upon a
grizzly bear. Happily the beast was as
much surprised as the lady, and she, in
her agitation, starting back, lost her
footing, and rolled down the declivity.
Bruised, bleeding, and almost lifeless,
she recovered presently, and found her
self in dark and gloomy gulch, seem
ingly impenetrable to the outside world.
After frantic efforts she at last found a
bear-trail leading to the valley beneath
by way not less PERCEPTIONS than that
which she had just descended so uncer-
emiously. The situation was desperate,
and she was forced to attempt the haz-
ardous path. Unnerved by her peril
and contidned exertions she missed her
footing and again fell to the foot of the
rocks-over 40 feet-and lay, she does
not know how long, stunned and bleed
ing, where she fell. Recovering con-
sciousness, she again started resolutely
forward, her clothes frozen stiff1y to her
limbs, and weak from "a hours fasting.
Wandering on, she againreached steep
declivity, and, daringly mounting a fall
en- tree which leaned over the steep
bank, she slid down more than fifty feet
and found herself in the valley. Here,
however, her strength utterly gave out,
and had it not been for the wonderful
chance of 2 hunter happening to cross
her track when she first fell, the adven-
turous woman must have persisted The
whole calamity is attributed to the cow
ardice of the three EngEshmen, Lord
Harveys, the Hon. Somebody Struts,
and an Hon. Flowers, NJ. P.