The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-01
PARIS NOTES.
N0W-TREE STRIKE OF THE
GtOACMMEN,
photographs of the Prince Imperial Cir"
cuRatfng I'm France-The Prize of Virs
eue-The HippOdrOme. Etc.


PARIS, August 9, 1878.
Strikes are the fashion just now in France.
Scarcely have the miners of Amin concluded
quietly to resume their ordinary occupations,
and thus rid the country Of 5000 malcontents
eer the coachmen have concluded that no OPP
portunity Is more favorable than the present
for redress OF their grievances.
Much of the sparkle and huhbub OF the
boulevards has thus subsidized within the last
three or four days. The Exposition is not SO
attractive In the way Of strange faces Hitting
through its not very open or spacious
grounds, and grumbling travellers burdened
with cumbersome luggage, vainly, at the
railroad stations, seek to know the wherefore
of the present state of affairs.
! THE COACHMEN
| themselves tell 1t to the growing public
They will no longer work for the company
| ''des petites voitures," who only give their
horses two-thirds the requisite amount Of
| bad oats, stable them on sawdust and force
| their employees to work from sixteen to
eighteen hours q day. Each coachman Is
obliged to deposit 30 francs with the COM
pany every morning before commencing the
days business. Whether he makes this
amount or not is thereafter his own lookout.
| These coachmen now demand lettering OF
things and resolutely hold out, much to the
annoyance of strangers, particularly those
| who speaking no French and Ignorant OF the
streets Of the city, find difficulty In navigat-
ing. However, these matters will oil be
Strengthened out by the time that the Prince
OF Wales, the Emperor of Austria, the King
of the Belgians, the King Of the Netherlands,
the Russian Grand Duke and the Princess
Dagmar arrive here. They are all coming
next month.
Can it be possible the ex-Prnce Imperial
Tneien Bonaparte, of Chisehurst, is gifted
with the tricky prOpenslteS OF his late father
Napoleon III! One Ladry, q Pole, has Just
been arrested, tried and condemned to fifteen
days Imprisonment and a fine of 1000 francs
$4,000 for having mdtMtousty distributed
among the corners and goers on the streets OF
Paris II, 230 photographs OF that same young
gentleman. Ladry informed the court the
cartes were gotten up altogether by himself,
and at his oNn expense. fact all good
French Republicans beg leave to disbelieyo.
At
? THE INTERNATIONAL HYGIENIC CONGRESS,
still in session. Mime. Bowel Surge, Doctor of
Medicine, of the Faculty of Paris, paid q
glowing tribute to the memory OF Peabody,
| the great American philanthropist, who left
to New York city E50O,000 for the nllevatiOn
/ Of the working classes and C500,000 TO London
for the same purpose.
Isabella, ex-Queen of Spain, resident at
Paris has sold her jewels for 3,43I JOG francs
:, MILE. JULIETTE DODU
, has lust been decorated with the Cross Of the
Legion OF Honor. The reason reads like one
: of our Southern war rOmances. The young
4 lady had charge Of the telegraph office at
! Pthiviers in 1870. When the rumor of the
! Prussian approach commenced to make itself
heard, she, not knowing what might happen,
hid a portion OF her apparatus. The Prus.
slams entering the city Immediately seized
- the office and for further security shut the
i young girl and her mother up in q room IN
! the second story. No sooner alone than Miss
.Juette pulled the apparatus from its hiding
place, established the connection with thu
wire running above the house and intercepted
+ the messages Of the PrusSinnS sent from tht
/, ground floor. No sooner was telegram in
/ tercepted than it was faithfully TRANSMITTED
y to the ous-prefect still remaining in Pithi
$ vers who in turn sent it by couriers 70 thf
9 chief of the French brigade there. Withou
g the warning it would have been surronndet
. and thrown back on Orleans. AS it was, il
O crossed the Loire and thus escaped. Two 0
q the courers were killed the third alone sue
Il ceeded in delivering the message.
g Miss Dodu did this without ever thinking
= what her devotion might cost her, At las
h denounced by q cowardly servant, who was
+ bribed for his information, the young direct
- ress was arrested, tried and condemned t
10 10 death by council of war She was about tt
q be shot when the news of the armistice wa
e received by the Prussian army. The gov
Il eminent of the national defense conferred
~ the only honor in its pOWer-a military med
q al-On the heroine.
:, A few days afterwards the Prince Charlie
J. Frederick, wishing to speak to the courage
T. Gus girl, reproached her for her 'simpru
It dence:' She simply answered: ~ - am French
q | monsieur and my mother also"
T. Thursday, August |, took place the touch
! ing ceremony Of awarding OF
q THE PRIZES OF VIRTUE
" by the French Academy. Let us take tn
u words of j. B. Dumas, director Of the Achde
J. my, who had the honor OF presenting tn
y prizes to their recipients, IN order TO comre
IL bend the actions that merit like laureIs. Du
d mas is the celebrated dramatic writer an
}. novelist, who has come by his genius yer,
1t legitimately from his father, Alexander Du
r. mas so noted in French literature: ;, ,,
$, Louis SChuller born at Brumalt (Hau
~ Rhne), comes in his turn to witness in faVo
s of mans better nature. Apprenticed as boy
/ (shoemaker) in a shop at Sezanne Department
Us OF Marine, he showed himself honest, intell1
S, gent and devoted to the interest Of the house
J. The son Of his patron died leaving seye
$ orphaned children Want crept into tn
g. household Louis redoubled his activity. A
l. work early and late, he courageous1y SUI
n ported these unfortunate people, threatene
Of BY utter misery. The year 1870 came, bring
81 ing with 1t the invasion. Work ceased and
10 resources failed st the same time. 1 cannt
D. keep you any longer said his patron; lea,
De us; you will find elsewhere less miserabl
- existence"
~ u 81 will stay" answered Louis. and sine
le then his devotion has boon nninterruDte
II The old patroness was struck by paralysi
He became a sick nurse The old patron ca
no longer work. Louis works. for two, fe9
three, for ten. Sometimes business is lacl
ing, and bread too. Louis puts up with al
0. and will not hear Of being separated from hi
ne impoverished master. "Ah,' said he, III the
Of were only left fortune' Then we WouI
49, see.''
ne Surely, the prize Of 1000 francs $4,000 b
slowed by the Academy, added nothing to tt
g, noble patience Of Louis SCHUYLER. A matte
e, can possess no grander trait than the dcSi]
ie to encourage the good instincts Of its chi
a. dren. All honor to the French for their prlz
rk of Virtue.
)" We have gossiped so much on other ma
~ ters we have scarcely space left to describe
THE s'FoUNTAIN OF HELTcoN,'
a. as seen in the Exposition, In the difiere]
~, epartments-French, English, America
al ,ricc Thiunca TapaDecp etc we see SDp(