The Lincoln County herald., 1871-11-09
THE HER AID.
TROY, MO. NOVEMBER Q, 1879.
rhe story Of q Doomed Editor

THO story oI DO00OQ EuISOT~
Colonel Mcrlins court At Versatile
' has just passed its third sentence o
death, asd tho victim IL this time
Journalist, whose short but stormy caree
in the world of letters (ssys a correspon
dent Of the Pail Mall Gazette) iaigh
furnish sn Instructive page 10 any histor,
Of The French press that may be writer
hereafter. Gustave Narotcau is two an4
twenty years old, and has already beer
chief editor Of four newspapers. Person
ally he is q wild, lean, unhealthy looking
young man, with the large, restless eye.
that tell Of an excitable brain, and quick
spasuodie manners, suggestive Of an &C
don on impulse and rashness unlimited
He was brought up by respectable and
orderly parents, a. his indictment tells
him. He camo to Paris At the age OF
elevea to be placed in public school !;
but failing to show himself either dill :.
gent or submissive, he was transferred
from academy to academy until, the year
1865, when being seventeen years old he
vas tarned loose upon the world and al
lowed to shift for himself. Now French
boys who are suffered to follow their own
devices at seventeen are few; neither, may
It b said, does their education often fit
them for such precocious liberty. Marc.
teau was just lazy nough to dislike hard
work, aud just active enough to throw
himsalf with h-apirit into any u.ao-t.L;.s
likely to enrich him rapidly. But rap
idly was q sine qua non. AS he naively
Acknowledged at tho trial, he wanted to
get rich, no matter how, but soon; and
in pursuance of this wish he took to
journalism, "because," said he, "a single
article fracas may bring you into fame,
and place you beyond the reach of pcnury
ever after
After few months sojourn on the
staff of La Rue, 'Gustave Maroteau
started print called Lo Faubourg.
Public opinion was at that time april,
lS7D in to!eratly excited condition,
owing to the plebscitum. Marotcau
guessed rightly that opposition of an cx.
tremely violent character would be cor.
tain to succeed SO far as regarded sale,
aud his first number surpassed in vituper.
ativeness anything that had ever been
seen under the Emperor's reign. 1t sold
like bread in famine time, and 50 the
second, but the third was seized and
Maroteau thrown into prison. This was
severe, in comparison with the usual
treatment extended to journalists for 1t
was customary to summon, not to arrest,
for press offcnses Maroteau was, there.
fore, able to make political capital out
of the fret Of his having been "mur-
tyrized y and though he was soon re.
leased without being so much as brought
to trial, nothing could get out of his
head or out of those of his friends that
he was now champion Of the radical
party; man TO be esteemed, honorcd,
and sympa'hized with.
The rest Of his adventures can be told
in FIVE lines. An exile at Brussels when
tho revolution Of September occurred, he
returned to Paris for the siege, took part
that is, by pen not by
sword-i" ~! tho popular iisIugs or the I
time, sided with the Commune after the .
18th o. March, wrote articles which were
an admixture Of Blllingsgate and Bedlam.
and is now sentenced to be shot.
THE CONFEDERATE POWDER WORKS !
1t is stated by neighborhood paper
that the old Confederate powder works
near Augusta, Georgia, have pecn pur
chased by persons who intend to put
them to their original use in the manu-
facture of punpowdcr. The buildings,
which are by'fa the most extensive in
this country ana are said to be surpassed
by none in the world except the Austrian
factory near Vienna. were erected early
in the war by the Confederate govern
mert, and supplied down to tho surren
der the greater portion of the ammu
milton used in that service. BY an inge.
nious arrangement, which admits of tho
manufacture only in small quantity in
any given sub division Of the works the
danger Of explo ion was SO limited that,
though the works were ,un to their
fullest capacity. but one accident of that
kind occurred during the war, and that,
it was thought, was occasioned by design,
negro employe, as is believed. having
introduced match in some of tho un
finished powder before it was sent to the
mill. The formula for preparing powder
was of a peculiar nature, and is said to
have resulted in particularly excellent
article. The property having como into
tho possession Of the United States Gov
ernment, the present sale has evidently
been by permission
A SENSATIONAL STORY. The papers
Of central New York give long accounts
of an affair which NAV Lc 81 lcd uStrongo