The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15

was ordered to stand forward. That's
not the man who commanded" said
Jsrraud. ooh, mol the leader of the
band was S!card." The proceedings
we've suspended, and that same evening
| Sicard was found in one of the prisons,
| It WIS evident he had not long to live,
but they carried him to Versailles to
testify to Pigerre's innocence, and con-
vince ail the witnesses, save the three
communists. that they had been misled
by the extraordinary resemblance be-
tween the two men. The prosecutor
at once demanded that the accusation he
had formulated against Pigerre should
be withdrawn, and SO terminated what
might have proved fatal case of mis-
taken identity.
Yet more singular was the escape OF a
young Shropshire lady from an ignomin~
ious death. Staying in Paris during the
reign of terror, she was dragged with
other Unfortunate "aristocrats" before
one of the tribunals. She pleaded that
she was an English woman; but was on
the point of being hurried out tti the
waiting tumbriI, when one of the Judges
asked her what province in England she
was native o.. In her fright she ex-
claimed " Salope''-a reply greeted by a
general shout and clapping of hands, fol-
lowed by an order to let her go; and
amid cries Of "SalepeI SalOpeI' the
dazed girl was hustled into the street to
run home, wondering that her head was
still on heI shoulders, littl6 thinking
that by uttering the word "SslOpe" she
had effectually rebutted the notion OF
her being one of the hated aIistocrats,
thanks to " Salope" being a word then
used to designate one of the most de-
PRAYED of her sex.
Another remarkable escape of that ter.
rible time was that of M. DeChateau-
brun, for he was not only condemned,
but actually waited his turn at the gull
Iotine, standing sixteenth in a line of
twenty. The fifteenth head had fallen,
when the machine got out of order, and
the five had to wait until it was repair
ed. The crowd pressed forward to see
what was going on, and as it began to
grow dark NJ. DeChateaubrun found
himself gradually thrust into the rear of
the spectators so he wisely slipped
away, and, meeting man simple enough
or charitable enough to take his word
that wag had tied his hands and run
off with his hat, had his hands set free,
and managed to reach g safe hiding.
place. A few days later he pat himself
beyond the reach of the executioner.
Major Duncan vouches for the truth of
the following tale: In 1887 the Chris
tin0 general, Escslera, was murdered at
Miranda, by the mutineering regiment
of tSegovia. About two months later
Espartero and his army arrived at Mi
randa and On the 30th of October the
whole force WAS p2raded outside the
of
fanked by artillery and other regiments.
Accompanied by his staff, Espartero
rode up to it, and said he had come to
look for his old friend and commander,
their chief, EscaIera. " "Where is he?"
he cried. Then, pointing to the dead
mans resting place, went on: He is
there, foully murdered l call upon
ali of you who are true soldiers to give
up the names of his assssSins." Twice
he made the appeal, and silence was the
only answer. EspaItero then ordered
the regiment to be numbered of from
the right, and every twentieth man to
be brought TO the front and be prepared
for immediate execution. At this a
sergeant stepped forward and named
ten men as the actual mUrderers of Es~
calera. These were marched of and
placed in a line, with their backs to
broken wall, one only protesting his in
nOcence as he was dragged toward the
end of the line. Before the fatal volley
was fred he darted nimbly round the
corner OF the wall, and ran along the
front of the troops, but was recaptured |
and taken back to his allotted place. A
voice from the ranks cried out that they
had the wrong man, the real criminal
being soldier Of the same name in hos |
pitaI at Burgos. Espartero ordered the |
man to be removed, while the rest re-
ceived their deserts. Upon inquiry
being made at Burgess, the guilty one |
was round there, taken from the hospital |
and shot, his namesake, of course, being |
set free.
A snake once prevented g thief COM
mittiDg something worse than theft. A |
woman of Dude and her daughter once |
at the station at Hurdee, and |
hired a conveyance to take them to their |
village. When they had gone half |
dozen miles on their way, the driver, |
pulling up in a lonely spot, demanded |
their jewelry, and, upon their demur-
ring, tied the pair to the vehicle and |
seized the trinkets. Then, bethinkiDg |
himself that dead women could tell no |
tales, the rufiGn drew out his knife. |
but, slipping from his grasp, it fell into |
a ditch. He plunged his hand into the |
water to recover the knife, and, as he |
it, black snake fixed its fangs |
in the would-be murderer's hand. He |
succumbed to the poison, and in ten |
was past hurting any body. |
The women were discovered by come |
villagers and released but the corpse of |
the driver was left alone until the police, |
coming on the scene, moved the body |
to the police station.
OF all the wonderful canons or gorges |
of Colorado, the Grand canon of the |
Arkansas, with almost perpendicular |
walls, in some places several thousand |
feet high, is the most wonderful The /
gorge of this canon used to be impossible |
except in winter until railroad opera |
tions commenced and paths of q sort cut |
in the sides of the pTecipices. Wishing /
to see how the ssid operations were pro- |
crossing, Pro essor Nallet and a party |
of friends set out one afternoon FROM /
Canon City. As long as they kept to /
the horse trail all went well, but upon |
reaching q point just beyond it, Mrs. |
Mallet's horse stumbled and fell. The |
lady contrived to disentaugle herself |
from the animal, and dropping some ten /
feet, caught with her fingers the end OF |
the narrow shelf OF rock, and there held |
on, dangling in the air above the rapid /
rolling Arkansas, and to make matters /
worse, the horse, following its mistress,
had fallen or slipped on the same ledge,
where it stood close to the wall, and al /
most So motiODless as the rock itself |
The hoTrifed party hsstened to the |
rescue, and the professor, after soma
anxious moments, 6ad his wife safe and /
sound by his side. To help the horse
was 2 more difficult matter, and an hour
elapsed before men and ropes could be
GOT from the nearest camp, and all that
Fsvoa the NOR craa4u-e GHeTniunrtu avvara /