Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-15
GARRIBALDI GONE.
Biographical Sketch OF the Great Italian uberstor
and Patriot 50 70

ROME, Italy, June 2.-General Gar
ibaldi died at $50 this evening. A pre-
yious dispatch said the general was
lying very i'll with bronchitis at Caprera,
that his condition was precarious, and
that all the members of his family IN
Rome and Genoa had left for his bed
side.
Giuseppe Garibaldi was born at Nice
July p, 1907. His father was sailor,
and in his youth he was also a sailor.
In 1882 he was implicated with Mazzani
in conspiracy against Charles Albert,
King of Sardinia, and was compelled to
quit the Country. In 1884, for similar
offense, he was condemned to death.
He escaped to France, and afterwards
offered his services TO the Bey of Tunis
In 1886, having sailed for Brazil, he
espoused the cause of struggling Uru-
quay, and fought on land and sea for
ten or twelve years in the service of that
little and feeble Republic. In 1845 he
sailed from South America for his nat
i've Italy with few of his companions,
and fought in the armies of his country
against the French invasion. The Italian
army having been defeated and scat
tered, Garibaldi resolved to continue the
struggle on his own account, and at the
head of legion of 4 1000 or 5000 men
he conducted an arduous campaign, but
was eventually defeated, and Garibaldi
fed
The French authorities issued a proc
lamation imposing the penalty of death
upon any one who gave the fugitive food
or shelter, but he was finally enabled to
escape to America, arriving in New
York in the Summer of 1850, where he
was received as a hero. He refused to
be lionized, and became manufacturer
of soap and candles on Staten Island.
Afterwards he went to Valparaiso. In
1854 he visited England, and was pres
ented with sword, and subsequently
settled in the island of Caprera, where
he began farming. In 1859 he Joined
the army of Sardinia in the war against
Austria, commanding the famous corps
known as The Hunters of the Alps"
and rendering important services.
In May, 1860, he captured Sicily, and
assumed the dictatorship of the Island
a few months afterward he took COM
mand of the Sandman army and over
threw King Francis, whereupon he re-
signed the Dictatorship of Sicily and
restored the island to the Kingdom of
Italy. He then retired to his home in
Caprera. In 1862 was made Command
er-in-Chief of the Italian army A few
months afterward he issued an address
appealing to the Hungarians to rise
against Austria which brought him in
to disgrace with the Italian government
and he again retired to Caprera to plan
an attack against Rome. Louis Napol-
con attempted to prevent his movements
but he raised a force of 1000 men and
crossed into Italy, when he was defeated,
being seriously wounded and taken
prisoner. Surprising his wounds to be
fatal, the French Government allowed
him to be taken to his island, where he
recovered and remained in seclusion I'M
til 1867, when he organized another re-
voluton, was arrested and made a pris-
oner at Caprera. He evaded his guards
Joined the insurgents, and led them
against the papal armies, but was again
defeated and made prisoner. His claim
of being an American citizen finally Sc
cured his release, and he again retired
to his island home, where he remained
until 1870, when he again seized his
sword, this time in behalf of the French
Republic, and fought through the Fran
co-PruSsian war. He was elected
Deputy to the French Assembly, but de-
clined and returned to Caprera, where
he cultivated vineyard and engaged in
literary pursuits until 1875, when he was
chosen to represent his island in the
Italian Parliament, devoting his ener-
gies to the reclamation of the waste
lands of Italy, and the anchor alton of
the condition of the poor.