Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
The French Empress.

---- The French Empress.
The European war, which has d:thron-
ed another Napoleon, aud re-estabiisI-
ed fepu Ulic upon French soil, has
broug hit 10 the surface & new phase OF
Eugenie's character. The New York
Tribune" speaks of the wonderful
beauty and small cunning, her extrav-
agance and fascination, her bigOted
devotion TO her church, and her large,
clear-eyed devotions TO her husband ana
her child" and thinks that she, who
used her beauty and her skill in dress
for the service OF her husband aud her
church, with such persistent purblind
fidelity, is one of the most pathetic and
picturesque figures in history. Republi-
canism is great and good thing; bat a
fair figure regalIy draped, giving the
world glimpse of refinement and grace
has it not also its use? We do not
choose to give it up. Are ali men a1
women made only TO show off lib
and progress? Were Cleopatra
Helen and Eugene born 10 be hash
up into morals TO feed our children
withaP We will not look at her in a
hackney coaoh, nor grin when her
trunks are left behind. We choose to
think her refusal TO allow her claim to
be forced Oh the people-'I can bear
their pity. but not their hatred'-a right
royal utterance. Better in that moon
she had died; "a queen, name forever" 1"
The 'Tribunep thinks that 1.-The old
fashioned types of woman have match
ed each other on the three adjoining
thrones-in the profligate Isabella; the
dull, domestic British matron; and this
rare plebeian Spanish girl, who bore
the crown Of fCharlemagne. with a royal
grace such as no Bourbon ever lent to
it. Let her have credit for SO much. !"
A war which can produce bloodless
revolution in Paris, and develop q fri
volous woman of fashion into such a
character, is not all useless and wicked
How a Dog Committed Suicide.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Everybody knows the monotony of
enormous goossberries and three-headed
calves with which some of our coLntry
newspapers fill their pages. French
journalists are more original. The
Memorial de la Loire, for example, pub
fishes, an extraordinary story of the
suicide of a poor old dog, who was driven
to this climax of despair by the deser-
ton of his master:
l was walking (says the correspond
ent-of that jnagnaD by the banks of the
Loire, when L perceived dog, some
thing of a setter, trotting up and down
by the waters edge. He went and
came with uneven steps, sometimes
Fastening his movements, sometimes
stopping short as if he were pondering
some weighty matter His pr ceedings
foused by curiosity, and concealing my
self behind some young trees L deter.
mined to watch him. The dog, who
was old, thin, and to certain extent
deprived Of the Use of his hind legs,
went Oh i'll the same manner for more
than a quarter of an hour; then ap-
preaching the edge of the river bank at
a steep place he sat down and looked
sadly at the water. Presently, having
finally resolved on his course, he raised
himself on his poor paralyzed paws,
made spring, and threw himself into
the Loire l ran to the place from
whence he fell, and sa v him carried off
by the stream without making the
slightest resistance. AS he came near
the tank / called him gently, and held
out my ,eane that Mcknight tahe hold of
it. He made no sign. / tied my hand
kerchief to the end of my cane and
threw it to him; he turned his head
away sadly aud drifted off. 1 lost sight
of him at the end of few minutes. He
must, no doubt, have sunk. Feeling
persuaded that the unfortunate dog had
chosen death by deliberate
act of his will, mentioned the cir-
to several persons, and in
quiries were made which elected the
fact that the poor animal had belonged
to gardner, who, seeing him infirm
and useless, had pitilessly driven him
from his home. He had wandered for
a whole month in the fields and about
the barns, receiving more blows than
erusts. till he preferred violent death
to his miserable existence.