The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-05-29
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poned, has come at last. When the Vst-
sailles Assembly broke up on Friday n ight
it was in the full and universal conviction.
that the morrow was big with the fate OF
the President and of France. Late events
had made q breach between the mai ,rity--
OF the Assemblya and the Executive newt.
able. A tenn PORTING, trimming, wavsr.s
ing policy on The part'of the governments
was no longer practicable, Ne ther the
Monarchisss, rendered desperate as the
line approaches when, by common coma
sent, the Assembly raust be dissolved
and new election held, nor the Repub>f
licans, flushed BY their recent successes ruc
would have tolerated it. The RESULTS
told by the last dispatches. The resiR.
nation of N. Theirs has. been accepted.
and Marshal McMahon takes his place as
the head of the State. ~, ,asa5 "a ,..tsa
Marshal MacMahon, who succeeds
Theirs as President of France, is of
Irish descent, and belongs to a family
who gave all they had to the cause Of
the Stuarts. When this cause was
hopelessly lost, they refused to- give
their allegiance to the government Of
King William, and carried their proud
name and family traditions to France
where their blood soon was merged
with that of the nobility. President
MacMahon is but few years young
er than ex-President Theirs. He was
born in 1903. His career has been
military one from the beginning till
Saturday, when he assumed political
duties for the first time. He began
service in 1880, in Algiers. He was
in the Crimea, and when Sebastopol
was stormed, he was chosen as the
fttest officer to attempt the works of
the Malakoff. How brilliantly he
succeeded every one knows. His
part in the. victory of Magenta won
him the title of Duke of Magenta
from Louis Napoleon. In the lll-fat-
ed war with Prussia his star was less
propitious, and he was defeated at
Woerth and Beaumont. He was
chief in command at Sedan, but was
so fortunate as to receive a severe
wound early in the day, which saved
him the NORTH alton Of surrendering.
This humiliation deYolved upon his
successor, Gen. Wimpfen, who signed
the articles of eapitulation. He was
successful in the defense of Paris
against the Commune, and was of
great assistance to President Theirs
in the organization of the army. The
nearest approach to civil office to be
found in the record of President Mac
Mahon's life is his refusal to accept a.
nomination from the Partisan Press
Union to represent Paris in the Ma
tional Assembly. In his communica-
ton to the President of the NationaE
Assembly accepting the Presidency,
he promises to discharge its duties
with the help Of God and the army.
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The tornado which did such fearful
work in Washington county, Iowa, last
week appears to be only repetition
Of the fate that has befallen the east
ern portion of that state at various
times. 1t is nowtaboatl twelve years
since violentlt temp est Passedthrough
the central counties toward the east,
reaching it's full force in Clinton eoun-
ty, where it utterly demolished the
town of Camanche on the west bank
Of the Mississippi River, blow from
which the place has not yet recovered.
A few years later a tornado lard
waste large tract of fruitful country
between. Muscatine and Davenport,
and only last summer another, some
what less destructive, took, effect just
west Of Burlington. The present
disaster, though less destructive to
human life than that which overlook
Camanche, will doubtless prove TO
have been more destructive to prop