Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-11
Terrible DestitutiOn and Death.

THE Boston Post Of January 81 has a
special dispatch from Bangor, Maine, con-
veying the following terrible details re-
ported at that place by one of the survi-
vors of q hunting and fishing party, con-
sisting of five individuals (French Cana
dians) who were stricken down by disease
and perished in their camp on the Canada
side, not many miles from the American
border. The party (of which was the
Informant, a Frenchman, who speaks En-
glish imperfectly), set out with two horses
and pung about Christmas, upon hunt
ing and fishing expedition in the wilder
ness near the American line. The party
were well equipped with guns, traps, fish
ing tackle, and provisions, intending to
spend month or two in that uninhabited
region 81
The first two weeks they had good luck
and some fine sport, capturing several
otter, mink sable, etc, and making good
Catch of trout in the lakes. Returning to
camp one evening" one of the men com
planned of a sore throat. Not much was
thought of it by the rest of tbs party, till
towards the middle of the night the man
gave evidence of extreme suffering, his
throat being so swollen that he could not
swallow. He continued to grow worse
during. the night, and when morning
came was quite insensible. He had been
attacked by that most loathsome and
fatal disease, diptheria, which is alike ma
hgnant and terrible in the city and in the
forest. Without medicine of any descrip-
tion, and nearly fifty miles from any .hu-
man habitation, they could but anxiously
await the crisis
They had not long to wait, for before
night set In the man was a corpse. Be-
fore the first victim expired, however, an
other OF the party began to complain of
the same difficulty, and on the second day
died OF strangulation, OR from the filling
up OF the throat. The three survivors
took the two bodies out of the camp and
covered them over with snow for the pur.
pose OF preserving them till they could
carry therh out of the forest Determined
TO ore..K up camp the next day, and re-
turr. with their dead comrades, they were
Doomed to disappointment in consequence
of two of the remaining three being pros
trated by the same terrible agent. The
last two survived about forty eight hours,
when they, in turn, were carried out by
the only one remaining, to be buried in
the snow Alone in the wilderness, fifty
miles from any human being, except the
grim, cold bodies of his ifeless compan-
ions, the sole survivor resolved to start
early in the morning for the abode of civ
ilization, with his freight of pulseless hu-
manity. But griefs never come singly.
During the night the deadly conta gion
fastened upon himself In his own words,
he I" felt the monster at his throat" and
resigned himself as we'll as he could, to
his fate. The poor fellow suffered the
agonies of hundred deaths, alone and
uncared for, in a literally "howling will
dernesss," with the prospect of no one
ever being able to tell the horrid tale.
He lay, ne thinks, some four or five days
before he awoke to consciousness of his
fearful condition. The mildness of the
weather and a good supply of blankets
and boughs, saved him from freezing, in
the absence of fire, which he was too
weak to kindle.
As soon as he could crawl, he went to
the hovel, and, to his amazement and grief,
found both of the horses dead. They had
died of starvation. Returning to the
camp, he thought he would take look at
his dead companions. Judge of his hor
ror when he found their bodies nearly
eaten up by the wolves and other wild
beasts that inhabit that wild and desolate
region. Nothing now was left for him to
do but to make his way, alone, out of the
Nv III pun VI ouOW -ollOC6 upOn
his feet, and as much provisions as his
weak and feeble frame could bear, he
started forth, and on the third day reached
an Indian camp, where he rested till he
was able to proceed ON his journey. He
gave his name as. LIE Roix or LIE Broix,
and states that he was born near the River
de Loupe.
THE Boston Adeertiser says that several
years ago, at an auction sale of books in
that city, it was discovered that the first
two volumes of set of Valpy's Shaks-
peare, which had been on exhibition,
were missing. At the next sale it was
found that of the set of Valpy on the cata.
logue the third and fourth volumes were
gone. This theft was repeated, and each
set which came into the auction room was
diminished by two volumes. At last
when all but two volumes had been taken
the auctioneer privately marked these
two, and awaited events. The thief com
pleted his set. Some years afterwards the
library of gentleman of this city late
ly deceased" was brought under the ham.
mer, and the auctioneer mad the pleasure
of selling complete stolen set of Valpy.l
DURING the past year sixteen persons