The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-09

DAY use until they were worn out. an,
without some stratagem practiced on hin
It is believed that he would never hay
. changed his clothing.
d On one occasion-during the season q
r. sugar making-Monsieur lie Prince ha,
the misfortune to fall into a vat of syru
some degrees above the Fahrenheit est
: mate OF temperature. The bystander
stood aghast, or rushed excitedly to tn.
rescue; his own only thought of the sit
uation, he afterward expressed it, was
8 Kate will make me wash" The dis
tasteful fluid, water, he declared wa:
only intended for beasts of the field. and
he never drank it unless we'll disguised
with brandy.
Col. Murat (for | knew him as Colonel
as well a. Prince was a man of singular
resources in dietetics, as in many other
matters. One day, on occasion of the
unexpected arrival of guests, he, discov-
erlng the larder to be rather empty, and
finding the embarrassments of the men
age aggravated by the consciousness of
Madame's absence, ordered all the ears
and tails to be cut from his hogs, allow
ing their swIneshIps to roam again at
large, while these appendages lay seeth-
ing IN the cuisine preparatory to a most
saYory meal "A pity" declared the
master Of Lipona, 4" that hogs could not
| be all heads and tails"
As a browning feat of his enterprise
in the field above alluded to, it was his
boast that he had tasted of every bird
and reptile in Florida. q" Alligator-tail
SOUP" he said, would do, but de buzz
Yard was not good" OF experiments in
/ pnn ha 4
noyed Mime. Murat and the cook by the
strange mingling of sauces and condi-
ments furtively introduced into the family
food. No tree or shrub of all the State
botanical repertory but he would appoint
to some use, many as vegetables for the
| table. From the magnolias, myrtIes.
and some other glossy-leafed trees of the
tlorldlan forests, he would extract wax
while many medicinal herbs (the cincho-
ma or quinine plant among them) were
brought forth as really worthy thophies
of his passion for research.
One day Prince Murat assumed his
sometime philosophic, or rather moral
mood. He persuaded his wife to spend
the day with a near neighbor, and de-
scanted profusely on the duty to those
whom Holy Writ commands we shall
love as ourselves. The lady consented.
and he promised to call in the evening
and escort her home.
Expecting her lord out of the dusk of
the groves separating the two plantations,
naturally homeward she looked as twi
light shadows began to close upon her
social day. In the direction of Lipona,
10! strange, alarming light! The
dwelling must be fired, thought the mis-
tress, and she hurried thither accompan-
led by her friends.
On their arrival they found no cause
for excitement of the kind they antici-
pated. Murat was deserted in the yard
most industriously at work, heated and
smOke-stained, over a huge kettle, be- |
meath which still famed the fire that had |
occasioned such trepidation. He rushed |
toward his wife on her approach, exclaim-
ing, g Oh, Kate, | have made all your
clothes a most beautiful pink!'
Horrors! He had actually taken her |
clothing indiscriminately, dresses. I'M
dergarments, wrappings, and dyed them |
all the same rosy hue, conclusively to !
test the virtue of some native dye-wood |
which he had secretly ordained should
not blush unseen"
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have been to the I" Kate" of his adora-
ton, she was most excellent and de-
voted wife, the quality of these virtues |
being additionally tested subsequently
through long years of disease and help |
Iessness on his part.
A solourn in Brussels of nearly two
years duration, formed an agreeable cpl |
sode in the life of the Murats. There
the Prince had the command of regi-
ment assigned him, and there he had the !
pleasure of seeing his wife adorn her new
position among Counts and Kings as she |
had heretofore reflected grace on the sur
roundings of her American home. 1t
was the general verdict that she seemed
"native and to the manner born, and
in no wise inferior to the renowned Pau
line and Caroline of the Bonapartes in
all feminine graces.
The wary eyes of monarchs soon dis
covered cause of fear in the sojourn of
Murat in Europe, and there may have
been something more than mere appre-
hension in the idea that he might make
his regiment the nucleus of force for
the restoration of his family to France
and Naples.
He was frequently stopped in public
by old soldiers and subjects of his uncle
and father, who knelt to him, covering
his hands with kisses. His resemblance
to Napoleon created demonstrations of
enthusiasm, indeed, among his old men,
alarms, that, as already limited, there
appeared some shadow of plausibility in
the royal suspicion as to the possible or
designed ultimatum.
And so, by order of the King of Bel
cium, Prince Murats regiment was dis
| banded, the Colonel, in resigning the
command, addressing his men in seven
different languages, evincing the national
/ variety of that body as well as his own
/ linguistic attainments.
The exiles were still forbidden France
and Italy; they therefore turned their
faces toward England, finally selecting
London as the headquarters, where they
spent wear of delightful social inter
course, their house being the resort of
all the exiled family. Here were fire.
ouently Hortense and Louis, the latter
of whom, in his hour OF triumph years
after, did not forget the kind sympathy
of cousin Kate" extended in his days
of poverty and obscurity; and here came
freely, also. Washington Irving and other
noted Americans sojournIng at the time
in London.
\ Doubtless much disappointed, whether
Justly or not, that his visit to Europe had
developed no hope of the restoration OF
the Bonapartes, Murat returned at last
to Florida, where he spent the remainder
of his DAYS, industriously but not effect
: ivelv, with MS experimental and visionary
tendencies, cultivating the plantation at