Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-21
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/ took valk dovs ths Ras Rivoli.
toward the Hotel de Vile. 70 jsage Il
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corner of the Rue Csstiglions became
aware Of the approach Of szsst erswd
Of people yelling and shaking their
fists. The eorsrge was headed BY .
company of mounted gend' armes. be
hind whom came sso atilerymen drag
ging between them 9 soiled bundle OF
rags that tOttered and struggled. and fell
down under the blows that we're shower
ed upon it by all who were within reach.
1t was a woman, who had been caught
in the act of spreading petroleum. Her
face was bleeding, and her hair stream
ing down her back. from which her cloth
ing had been torn. On they dragged
her, followed by a hooting mob, till they
reached the corner of the Louvre, and
there they propped her up against wall
already half dead from the treatment she
had received. The crowd ranged itself
in a circle, and I have never seen pic
ture more perfect and complete in its de-
tails than was presented by that scene.
The gasping, shrinking figure in the cen.
ter, surrounded by a crowd who could
scarce be kept from tearing her to pieces,
who waved their arms. crying drown
her drown her p on one eide barri
cade, still strewn with broken guns and
hats-a dead National Guard lying in
the fosse-behind a group of mounted
gendarmens, and then perpective of
ruined streets and blackened houses. cul-
minating in the extreme distant in the
still burning Hotel de Vile. Presently
two revolvers were discharged, and the
bundle Of rags fell forward in pool Of
blood. The popular tbist for vengeance
was satisfied, and so the crowd dispersed
in search of further excitement elsewhere.
There was one group defiling down the
Rue de la Paix that was of a peculiar
interest. calling down greater amount
of curses and Kisses than usually accom-
panies their progress 1t consisted of
some 20 or 80 girls, we'll dressed and
pretty. shop woman of sewing machine
establishment. who were accused Of hav-
ing inveigled company Of soldiers with.
in their doors. and after dallying with
them like Judith., of having poisoned
ben all in wine. The young ladies
SPed along surrounded by Gordon of
iards, smiling on the crowd that was
Kereeatiug them. and marching gaily to
the Place Vendome, where they probably
were shot. The woman of Paris have
appeared late upon the scene, but their
appearance was inevitable. Many have
been killed on barricades. some in open
street combat, but their special work has
been the organization Of the system of
fires. which has, fortunately. answered
but too well. Three hundred women,
dressed in National Guard Uniform, have
been taken down the Seine in beats, and
it is said that many of the sham sailors
who defended the Rue Royale SO bravely
were women in disguise. Near the Pare
Monceru a melancholy episode occurred.
A husband and wife were seized and Or
dered to march forward toward the Place
Vendome, a distance of mile and
half, They were both of them invalids.
and unable to walk so far. The woman
sat down On the curbstone and declined
to move step, in spite of her husbands
entreaties that she would try. She per.
sisted in her refusal, and they both knelt
down together, begging the gendarmes
who accompanied them to shoot them at
once, if shot they we've to be. Twenty
reeolvers were fired. but they still breath
ed. and it was only at the second dis
charge that they finally sank down dead.
The gendarmes then rode away, leaving
the bodies "a thew had fallen