The weekly clarion., 1879-02-05
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Vicksburg Herald.

Vicksburg Herald
That truth is stranger than fiction is often
/ illustrated in every day life, and sometimes
| the reality is mixed up with deal OF ro-
nance. An instance of the strange viciSi-
tudeS oflite, with a touch of the romance i
/ brought To mind by an article in Memphis
| pager received yesterday. Some years ago,
/ when Mem phiS was mere village, an Ital-
! ian couple located there. and conducted a
small but lucrative peanut and fruit busi-
/ ness on a street corner, until they accumu-
| lated Sufficient capital 10 open little bar
! room. Here the Madame conducted the
| business successfully, made her sample room
a tavorite resort Tor "a good class of custom
| erS and finally. after accumulatlng conSid-
! erable property. moved into more fashion
able quarter OF the city aud opened an ele-
/ giant establishment, and Madame Vim
/ cents came known far and wide.
Meanwhile daughter who had grown
! up int Womanhood, returned from the
/ bpardiug school she had been attending toI
! some years, and her rare beauty and accom-
| plishments rendered her very attractive
| vi dine Vincent was, nutWltns Standing her
/ vocation, much respected. aud her husband,
| Vincent Baccigdlupo was not very long
/ since prominently mentioned in the Mem
! phis papers as Il proper person to fill the
| office OF chief magistrate Of the city. IL Is
! not surprising then, that Mise BacCl9dlupO,
| young, rich, beautiful AID cultured she
was, should number in her train many suit
ors, some of them such as might be account
| ell very attractive to an am EDITIONS, match
making mamma. But before we proceed
further, another character in the drama we
are rehearsing should be introduced. Mr..
James BrizZolAri. a brother of Mad 4me Vim
cent, a young lawyer of fine talent, Was
coming into notice. He had alreauy risen
to the dis nifty oi place on the Democratic
Executive Committee. and was belle we'd to
have good prospects for a seat in the lower
house of the Tennessee Legislature.
He was tall, handsome and spirited, and
carried himself like a chevalier- His rapid
rise to prominence gave promise of a bril-
liant future when, in consequence of a
newspaper article which he construed a
rejecting upon him, he challenged the
author, fellow of the legal profession, and
a duel ensued, in which he, BrizZt lari, was
wounded. The duel was conducted with
great eclat, the combatants sailing down
the river in separate crafts, and saluting
each other, as they passed, in true chivalric
style. While the public mind was still
somewhat excited over the ''meetiHg," and
public curiosity about BriZzolari giving
place to sympathy for the wounded hero,
the announcement fell upon the public ear
like clap of thunder from a clear sky that
this brilliant and promising young man
had elOped with his niece, the beautiful and
accomplished Miss Baccigalupo. The pa
rents were deeply grieved and mortified
that daughter and nephew should have so
dSgraced their family name, but time which
heals all ills, soon blotted out this little ep-
| from the minds of those most closely iden-
titled. and when the elopement was almost
forgotten, BriZzolari was heard from, sa-
| loon keeper in Fort Smith, Arkansas, his
niece, his wife no longer, living alone in
| Little Rock.
| Another actor in the drama, albeit he
| might have been introduced sooner, though
| he only figures in these dramatiS persona
| in the last act of the play, is Angelo Marie
| Like the hero OF the story, Marie was a
| tall, well formed, muscular man, of fine
| ply ysique, and enjoyed a reputation that his
| associates considered enviable. He owned
/ a lucrative saloon business, was popular.
and enjoyed considerable local political
| influence. Early one bright sunny morn
| ing it was discovered that the office of the
| Memphis Chief of Police, the very head
| quarters of the thief-caIchers, had been
! Durglariously entered, the safe broken open
/ and robbed, and the puclic was surprised
| 10 learn that Marie had been arrested on
suspicion of completely in the burglary,
| Marie was Indicted, tried and convicted and
| seRtenced to a long term in the Peniten-
| tiary, After some three years he was par
| doned by the Governor in consideration ai
good conduct, aud passing BY his old home
| he went to Ii tie Rock, where he met the
! late Mrs BriZzolari (uee Miss Buccigalupo
and married her. They lived together un'
| til recently, when the tickle woman lef
the pardoned convict suddenly, and returned
TO her first husband. her uncle Brizzolart.
Again we go back 20 Madame Vincent
/ The yellow fever epidemic in Memphis las
/ s,Im i1cr carried of Madame Vincent ant
her husband Vincent Baccigalupo, boSl
dying suddenly and intestate, and leaving