Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-30
War Scenes in France.

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MIR. Edward King writes to the Boston
Journal as to affairs in Paris:
Some OF the results Of the investment of
tbs town, small III comparison with 9TH
ers though they may be, are curious to
note. For Instance, my correspondent
says one might fancy himself in Constan-
| tlDople, there are SO many ownerless and
pathetic-eyed ours wandering about the
streets, snuffing every one to see if they
can end their lost masters. The new Re-
| public has had to occupy itself with dog
ordinance, to beware of ssmad dogs
within the walls. The garbage heaps
begin to smell to heaven, as the
scavengers are all IN more important occu-
pations than their usual one, and the
health committee will soon ask the non.
combatants to drive dirt carts for a day or
| two. Smoking in the street is prohibited,
fercely in certain sections, because pow
der wagons pass SO frequently. Any one
who laughs in q loud voice, or talks en-
phaticaliy and loudly, soon has an angry
think he is making fun of their sad situa-
ton. All tho governmental subsidies to
the theatres have been suspended. Sever
al restaurants were largo numbers of peo-
pie dine regularly, are becoming store
houses of the future, as each diner gener.
ally puts aside the wine he would like to
drink, and the piece of bread he needs,
''for the women and children by and by"
The same writer says on the authority of
his Paris correspondent: 'sThe French
men are mining the great avenues that ra-
diate from the Triumphal Arch, but do
not intend to blow them up of course IN
til the Prussians get well on to them. The
Avenue Josephine, where so many Ameri-
cans have made their homes in the past,
has huge barricades built here and there
across it, and theya are soon to be erected on
the Avenue de pImperatrice. The miningis
done by taking out small squares Of earth
ana macadam in various places, and liz.
serting the Illuminating substance, in some
cases, so that the passage of heavy body
over it will cause it to explo le. What eff
feet the thunder of the huge guns, like
the monster Krupp ana Others, will have,
he did not say"
He addg in another place: cat town of
Armentieres a perfectly trustworthy eye
witness, recently returned from Rouen,
declares that he saw this sad spectacle.
Men, pale With rage, were trying in vain to
extinguish the fires that were burning down
their houses; women, ia despair, had
thrown themselves on the ground, trying
to cover their screaming children with their
bodies, and budding around them the trag-
ments of their wretched furniture which
they had dragged from the flames; one old
woman, "a years old, was screaming to be
taken cut or a burning house, and her son
tore his hair as he tried in vain to drag the |
smculderlng beams from her aged limbs
and one villager, tremendous athlete, |
was SO overcome with anxiety and sorrow |
that he expired from apoplexy in the |
midst OF his four widowed children.
Meantime the hideous projectiles con-
tinued to fall-as by and by they will fall
On dear old Paris and all the familiar
haunts, to baptize in blood the new repub-
lie. One of the incidents of this avenging
had sinister consequences
Four men stood up together amid the ru.
IFS of their burned and blackened houses
md swore each to Kill Prussian before
the next sunset. Four lancers were found
lead near each o'her on the high road
rom Armentieres to Hericourt the next
lay. Eztravagant as this may seem. it is
strictly true "