Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29

mirers praised the jellies she had made.
After several meetings OF the COM
pany of the Theatre Francois, and
much deliberation on their part,
they have decided not to accept the
resignation of Sarah Bernhardt but to bring
suit against her and claim as damages from
100, 600 to $50, 900 francs. The impulsive
actress SAYS that if she loses she will sell
her private hotel, her silver, etc., to pay
it, but she intends to make hard fight
first. What is hundred thousand francs
with America before her and all its dol
lars She has engaged one of the first
lawyers of Paris, and the company of the
Theatre Francois have engaged another
equally celebrated, so that there will be
enough theatrical gossip to last some time,
and there is enough money in prospective
to keep the lawyers in good humor.
\ MOST FEARFUL CRIsIE
Has been committed lately which has ex-
cited the indignation of all Paris. A poor
woman, Madam Den, the mother of seven
children, whose father is i'll at the hospital,
one day last week missed her fifth child,
Louise, just four years of age. 1t had
rained during the entire time, and
she knew the child could not
have left the house. After inquiring
after her at the different apartments
of the locataires, she knocked at the
door of the apartment of the family Mones-
clon, on the fifth story. Mr.. Monesclon is
employed in ministere, and his wife works
in the tobacco factory. They have one
child, son of twenty years of age, who
has always been source OF great trouble
to them-an idle and worthless lad When
Madam Den penetrated into the apartment
the young man, Louis Monesclon, was In
| bed and assured the mother that he had
seen nothing of the little Louise. The next
day the excitement caused by the disap.
pearance of the little girl decided the COM
missdire de police on making an inquest.
1t was remarked that Louis Monesclon,
who was in the habit of going out OF the
house almost Immediately after his
parents had gone to their work, had
not come down stairs at 10 o'clock. One
of the women of the house went to his door
to listen and heard a noise as though cut
ting with the blade of knife, and then
perceived an odor of something burning.
1t was then the police decided on visiting
the young man and on making inquiries.
He received them with much GOODNESS, and
said that the suspicious of those IN the
house were very unjust; that he had not
seen the little girl, and that, besides, the
apartment had already been visited. The
agent cast rapid glance around him, then
raised the cover of the stove, in which there
was a hot fire, and found in the oven
the head of the child reduced to three
fourths of its size. Before this discovery
Louis started back. He was led to make
confession of the crime. 1t seems he
coaxed the child into the room by offering
her branch of lilac. He then strangled
Der to death and hid her body between his
two mattresses where it was when the
mother had come to ask after her little
Louise. The next morning he waited
until his parents had gone out to cut the
body up. He had scattered the pieces in
every direction = some were in bureau
drawers, the arms were in his overcoat.
The body had been divided into thirty-six
pieces. When they represented to him
the horror of his misdeed he seemed to be
unconscious of it. As soon as the truth
became known great crowd collected
around the door, and the police had much
trouble in preventing mob from Selling
the murderer. Much sympathy was ex-
pressed by the public for the bereaved
mother, and all the journals opened sub.
scription list for her benefit.
MOST SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE
Occurred, and which would occur nowhere
else but at Paris. At the moment gen.
tleman brought sum of money to Madam
Den, a nicely dressed lady called and said
she wished to undertake the expense of
dressing the children in mourning. Whilst
Madam Den showed the gentleman to the
door, at the same time expressing her graf
itude, the lady suddenly disappeared, and
it was found that portion of the money
had disappeared at the same time. The
Mayor of the reimbursement in which
dwell the bereaved family took entire
charge of the funeral arrangements and de-
frayed all expenses. There followed in the
procession seventeen young girls from II
to Ia years of age dressed in black, with
long white walls each carried bouquet of
flowers, but according to the request of the
poor motherno lilac branches were to beseen.
The pere Didon is a very eloquent Do
minican. During the latter part of the
winter all Paris fiocked to hear him preach
particularly the fair sex, ON whom the in
spired words fell with particular charm.
He was instructed by his superior to
preach against divorce, but he was so
mild in his denunciation of that progress
i've institution that the order was soon
countermauded. He at last excited the
apprehensons of the entire priesthood, for
instead of doing as they did, pass his time
in the pulpit denouncing the Republic and
all republican principles, he rather en-
couraged his hearers to obedience of the
laws Of their country. Suddenly pere
Didon disappeared. He had been called
to Rome, to undergo punishment, many
said. They were not wrong, for he had
but reached there when his trunk was
packed for the savage and dreary island of
Corsica. He was not permitted to see the
Pope, whose conciliatory disposition might
have saved him from
A PUNISHMENT
So severe. As he said himself when ques-
toned in regard to his departure "Ah,
there is discipline amongus. You are or
dered to do a thing and you have only to
! obey; when colonel of regiment must
punish his inferior, there is nothing to do
but submit. | believe that l could speak
the language of the Bible / believe-t that l
could prove the great harmony of the
teachings of Christ and the aspirations OF
the people. I wished to conciliate faith
with silence, draw together the faithful
and the unfaithful under the same radiant
light of the spirit of God. 1t seems it was
too delicate subject, which should not be
touched, and as they do not wish me to
forget it, they send me to Corsica to give
nae the time to engrave it in my memory"
Such passive obedience on the part of
man certainly far superior to those whom
he is forced to obey cannot but surprise
one. They say that a good Roman Catho-
lie cannot be a Republican and above all
priest, which would certainly be SANDER
on large portion of the population of
America to whom liberty forms part of
religion, and even Bishop Allemany him.
SELF who is Dominican, would be aston
ished at the doctrine of those Europeans
whose religion seems completely drowned
in politics Never before has
INDUCED in such fanciful caprices as this
spring has developed. The most fantastic
designs, the most hazardous combinations
of colors, which put to test the longest ex..
perience and most perfect taste, come to
bewilder fashions votaries. These gay
foulards remind one of the Dolly-Varden
dresses worn for short time years ago, but
kl.- ,oo,I,,r Of oolorc not