The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-30

born in our country. You know very we'll that
l am at my fathers; you will not inform against
me-"
81 will denounce, you--you and the rest--as
sure there is a Cod" replied NJ Brossard I;
| $50 you are fully warned.D
No one took up the word The mayor pushed
his way through the crowd with some difficult
! ty, and crossed the street to enter wine shop
| where he seated himself to play q game of
cards with the revenue collector and an timer
| ant merchant, named Gautrou, who had cone
! to Bignan for the approaching fair.
| The peasants remained for long time in
compact groups about the door of the town
/ house. But no one touched the proclaInationj
or even attempted, had been done else
| where, to atiix Il seditious one beneath it. Fhe
! wine shops did poor business that day, for
no quilted the churchyard between mass
and vespers. All the peasants remained there,
motionless, not talking among themselves, not
| crying ont the men standing, the women seat
| ed on the tonbstones. The mot1er OF Jean
| Brien approached him two or thr(stimes, aud
motioued to take him by the arm. He gently
put her off, and drew aside with the other re-
| fractories.> AT the last stroke of-the vesper
| bell every body entered the church. The mayor
| then came the door of the wine shop, looked
across to his fptact handful, and turning to
his confederates with profound satisfaction, re-
married., "All that is wanted is to have o little
! The Hemp Fair fell on the following We'd
nesday, and the gendarmes of Plumelec were
| to come TO Bignan for the day. Under the cir
cumstances, however, no one was surprised &c
see arrive as early as Tuesday score of mem
u
rand as many movable gendarmes.
The mayor made himself very buoy with the
installing of his garrison. He kept the sub
| officers to supper, and advised them that the
! refractories bad not Quilted the commune, that
they had assembled at Kerdroguen, about half
| a league distant, in the house of rich miller,
who had more than once Joined them in the
| field during the past year; that young men,
strangers to the country, had been seen slip
/ ping through the garden into the mill; that
| there were, perhaps, twenty of them in ALL
| we'll armed for the most part-and that it was
I necessary to arrest them that night, because
| they might find defenders among the peasants,
! who would be focking along the roads from
early morning of the next day.
& The adjunct, who had been sergeant in the
! army undertook to guide the soldiers and the
1 movable gendarmes through the fields, so as TO
take the mill in the rear while the gendarmes
from Plumelec should come up BY the road
i straight to the door. AS for the mayor, he de-
clared himself fully competent to do all the
police service of the burg alone, untiiIthe re-
] promise, for in the Breton villages on fair days
the population is astir by 4 O'clock IN the mnEns
ing. There isunpackiHg of merchandise and
setting mp of stalls slices of pork begin 20
4 sing in the frying pans; the cider barrels are
tapped the blind and the halt lift up their
| voices the mountebanks are mailing togetheI
their booths with loud hammer strokes, and the
cattle mingle their lowing with the noisy con-
fusion. Bat.M. Brossard was only the more de-
lighted at having SO fire an opportunity for tlae
display of his zeal and activity. After the de-
parture of his guests he threw himself on his
Il bed without undressing, recommended his adj.
iunct to wake him as soon as the prisoners
were brought in and fell peacefully asleep.
The night was dark The soldiers went out
of the village in different directions, and reas'
sembled at "A little distance. They were not .
. ouarter of an hour in reaching kUriroghen
, aud about midnight the house was surrounded
, Hidden behind "a clump of apple trees ina
. | grew almost to level with the roof-the mil
being at the base of Il slope--the adjunct DIS
cerned the officer fGonf> Plumelec arriving VIII
his four men, and heSrd him knock at tile doc
, of the mill. Immediately q dog fell a-barlSIng
, but one answered from within Inc mel
, in ambuscade put their hands on their gunloeki
r and held themselves ready at the slightest 81 g
, nal to run TO the aid of their comrades- N
f movement was discoyerabie in or about tn
house, and when the dog ceased burizrrLs7 rroets
|. ing was heard but the gurgling of the waite
under the paddles of the wheel
r During this expectant interval, which laste'
full quarter of an hour, the officer repeatedt.
/ beat on the door, calling to the miller by name
. and warning him that no would be obliged t
/ use forceif It were not presently opened.
. last, receiving no answer, he gave orders 2
, break in the door. At this moment most of tn
soldiers hastened up to lend their aid to tn
i operation, hut the door yielded at the frs
: blow and the company entered.
f within all was dark as an oven. The ad
/ iuuet struck fire, and some resin candles Yer
soon lighted a careful search then began ,
I the first chamber. : Che table cloth was on tn
: great chest with the plates and mugs; 1t wa
3 evident that fifteen or twenty persons ha
I supped there. TYo BEDS ono placed above tn
I Fother as is usual in Breton cottages, had no
ben disturbed. Of the four oF'fye guns tina
! ordinarily garnished the chimney not one wa
= to be seen.
, Suddenly steps we're heard in tho upper story
1 The room where the soldiers were immediatei
f became as still as the grave. All raised thel
/ ewes to the i'll iointed planks that served Tor
. Ceiling: they seemed TO see the muzzie Of
: pun. ia every crack. A riekety ladder led !
/ the upper floor. The sergeant rushed TO =
i lilsss a soldier who sees bomb iail within &c
! PAGES Of his company and deyotes his lie I
;, ass.s mis- e0tnFatles Some resoiate men follow