Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-29
GARIBALDrS WIFE.
The romance and Heroisn or Her Ad-
yenfurOus Lire

O1 uaIlDalul, WHICH nave Deen freshly
recalled by his recent death, the public
have become well acquainted. That
figure of revolution" as Pope Leo
XIII. speaking of his death, lately
called him, was familiar to all the world
But with his Anita, the wife whom ne
passionately loved, and whose influence
helped to make him the brave and
fearless leader that he was, sympathiz-
ing with the oppressed every where, and
ready to fight their battle, the world is
altogether unacquainted.
1t was by means of an event which
wore the guise OF great disater that
Garibaldi first met the woman who
soon after became his wife, About the
year 1886 he took arms in aid of the
South American Republic Uruguay
against Brazil. He was ordered to cruise
along the Brazilian coast, for from his
early youth he had been bread to the
seafaring life, while his general, Cant
varro, should attack the enemy by land.
The night alter he sailed the vessel was
sunk in violent storm, and of the
thirty men whom he had on board.
SIXTEEN WERE DROWNED.
Garibaldi saved himself by swimming
a mile, and helped also to save others
stopping on his way, and placing float
ing articles from the sunken vessel with
in reach of the less skiilful swimmers.
The coast on which he was wrecked
was in the Province of st. Catherine.
The rude inhabitants showed him no
little kindness, one of them giving him
q horse on which he rode to hill
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ing, in the midft of rocks and noun
tains, he was offered and accepted
hospitality. His host was wdower,
who had two beautiful daughters, the
the younger of whom was Anita, OF re-
fined character and of gentle manners.
The courtship was shori, ending in a
happy marriage The bridegroom,
attended by his bride, was soon again
on board another vessel of war, and
when, not long after, Garibaldi was en-
gagged in q fierce naval conflict with II
Brazilian war ship, his young wife, not
withstanding her unobstrusive gentle
ness, insisted upon remaining on deck,
cheering the sailors, and thus helping
to secure the victory which, after five
honrs' conflict, her husband gained. In
another naval encounter which soon
followed this. Anita again took and
held the post of danger. She next APP
peared with the army on the land, rid
ing by her husbands side, and endur-
ing with him hunger, fatigue, and
all the vicissitudes of war. In one
of the actions with the enemy
SHE WAS TAKEN PRISONER.
She made her escape, disguised by
the cloak of Brazilian soldier which
she had procured. Without food or a
guide, she rode sixty miles on horse
back, large part of the way by night,
and lighted only flashes of lightning,
as q storm of great violence was rang
| ing. At length she found her
husband, from whom she had been
| separated for eight days. AS the in
and suspense, during which both has
passed through terrible dangers, the
| JOY Of their meeting was correspond
ingly great.
But they were soon again separated,
he to respond to the demands of the
campaign, and she to suffer from an
illness which detained her. While thus
alone, and among an unfriendly people,
her first child Monotti, was born, Sept.
IS, 1S40 Twelve days after his
birth Anita departed from st. Simon
on horseback, with her right hand hold
| ing her infant son across the saddle in
front of her, while with her left she
guided her horse. They were overtaken
| by severe storm, from the fury of
which she saught such shelter as she
could find by dismounting, tying her
horse to tree, and obtaining the pro-
lection of forest. Mounting again
after the rain had ceased, her horse
soon stumbled, throwing her and her
child violently to the ground. The
child's head was cur, but it was not
killed, and SO the mother
rode Onward again until she
met the Montevidean army, with
| which she found her husband, and
in which he held subordinate COM
mand But her trials were not yet
ended, for the army was setting forth
| on march through an immense
Brazilian forest. The rains were fire.
quent and violent, the streams were
swollen, so that the infant boy, Me.
motif, was often carried by his father
tied up in handkerchief slung from
his shoulder as he swan the rivers on
horseback.
THE HEROIC MOTHER
endured all the dreadful hardship of
this march without shrinking, and
came safely through them all.
When at length Garibaldi returned
to his native Italy, anita went with
him to share with him there the dang
ers and hardships and glories of war.
During the defense of Rome against
the forces of France, she distinguished
herself by her courage and her human
ity. On the 4th of August, 1643, soon
after the fall of Rome, group of peo-
pie were gathered around a farm house
in the village of Mandrioli, near Ra-
nenna They were laborers waiting
for their pay. While thus waiting,
phaetor drove up in which woman,
deadly i'll, lay beside the man who
drove. A physician who was present
pronounced her in the last stages of
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