Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-10-13

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rather pride themselves upon their in
difference to %trifles, and profess to de-
spise ''picayunish" folk. But, strange
to say, their carelessness never re-
bounds upon themselves; and while
being very free and generous with the
possessions of others, they are careful
even to meanness of their own.
French %adhou aud their Victims.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The sensation of the hour in Paris is
the case of Jean Mistral, who has been
forty-two years in the private lunatlc
asylum of st. Remy, in Provence. lie
was, it is now admitted all round, of
sound mind when his father, on Il
doctors certificate and in virtue of the
law of 1888, locked him up there. His
reason for ~incarcerating his son was to
prevent him remarrying n Polish lady
whom, in good faith, he had married
abroad. The marriage ceremony, on
the petition of the elder Mistral, had
been set aside by a French tribunal be-
cause there had been insufficient publi-
cation, and other formalties prescribed
bv the code had not been observed.
Old Mistral wa n very wealthy manu-
f~acturer of Jet and beads. He wanted
his only son to heap fortune upon for
tune in marrying the heiress of a Mar
settles shipowner. The Polish lady was
very beautiful, of honorable life, but
poor. and she had been obliged to turn
an enthralling voice to mercenary ac-
count by singing in theatres and at
concerts. Jean Mistral was taking
steps to marry her according to French
law, when his father n day ran
against him in the high steet of Taras-
con in the year 1910, and cried out to
Il couple of policemen who where with
him to arrest the mailman.
The son made a desperate fight for
his liberty, and soldiers were called in.
He was subjugated. and sent off
manacled to an asylum neal Montpel-
lier, where he still is. The factthat he
resisted III force pubAlQue was taken as
confirmation of the doctors lettre de
cdchet or certificate, and he was treated
for raging lunacy. Old Mistral died
soon after. The fortune that he had
made in glass trinkets went equally to
the captive at Montpelier and to his
sister Nine. Barnard. As it was agreat
one, the Barnards kept the alleged
mailman in durance. His wife (the
Polish woman, who in law was
no wife, died when he had been
a score of years locked up. Hel
daughter, after an interval of si>
months, followed her to the grave
Old Mistral had caused the form
err to be expelled from France OF
a., ..o,-,l +l,,1 Oh, ,uo, =, Ind aLox.oo
ter, was disturbing the peace of a re
spectacle and rich family, and had NJ
visible means of existence. Technical
" she was q %vagabOnd, as she was re
, duced to 90 from one small town &
another to sing in cafes. A charg'
brought against her was that to con
mand sympathy she had falsely allege,
: she was enciente. There was no false
7 hood told by her on this score. Sool
!, after she was turned out of France sh
= gave birth to a daughter in Switzer
land. Mother and child died in eY
S treme poverty some years later.
The news of their death threw tn
A., prisoner in the asylum into a state {
e frenzy. The fortune inherited by Jea
5 Mistral from his father has gone on az
= cunluldIlHS ~ ollhPlc anu
interest, and has been very CAREFUL
nursed by the Barnards. who are h
heirs-apparent. M. F%ournier, who ha
been eXerting himself to get the lunati
released from the asylum, is his fir,
g cousin. According to an article in til
y Civil Code, a rich mailman or nadw'
n man is not to be confined in a mac
II house, but placed under treatment
home, and is to be provided with a do
nestle establishment correspondent
If with his or her yearly revenue. Mi