The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-12-21
DOubIy a Hero.

Nadaud is French deputy. He was
a stone-mason in the Creuse in 1S4S.
The late M. Emil de Girardin went
down there soon after the days of Feb
ruary to canvass for a mandate to the
constituent. AT an electoral meeting at
Aubussol the candidate made a speech
which was attentively heard and APP
plauded. When he sat down q man
dressed in blouse rose to address the
meeting. He had Just come from his
work and had not time to brush his
hair. which was white with lime. 1t
areeared to him that NJ. de Girardin
had only dealt in paradoxes. The
mason. with strength, warmth, and yet
dignity, attempted to lay bare the fall
lacies of the brilliant Journalist from
Paris. and so well succeeded that his
peroration carried away the auditory.
Perceiving this, NJ d. GirardD, when
Nadaud sat down, advanced to the
verge OF the platform and begged to
nominate him as candidate. On the
opening OF the ballot-boxes a few days
later the name of Martin Nadaud was
high on the list of deputies who had
been elected. The coup d'etdt obliged
Nadaud to quit France. He went to
London to look for work at his old
trade. But as he did not know En-
glish and did not like building with
bricks, he sought for pupils to whom he
might teach French, They would, he
thought, bring him into relation with
French speaking persons. He
called on Mr.; Hughes, who was
most favorably impressed with
him, assisted him in obtaining the
kind of employment that he wanted,
placed his library at his disposal, and
became his firm friend. Nadaud re-
turned to France with Louis Blanc and
Victor Hugo. Three grandchildren,
doubly orphaned, fell upon his hands.
For two years he could not obtain any
sort of work and had to live on credit.
He then was employed as a builder S
overseer at Belleville, which arrondisse-
ment sent him to the municipal coun-
Gil. He has been deputy since 1876,
and has nothing but his deputys pay.
The grandchildren are brought up un-
der his eve. and the eldest OF them, a
4 girl of fifteen, is his housekeeper. They
are trained according to high standard
Of honor and honesty. Nadaud on pc
rusing the list of coup u etdt indemni-
ties could not help feeling that humble
victims had been sacrificed to the iniiu-
ential ones. The idea that they were
| afflicted him. He was CALLED on read
inc in, monarekical and red journals
4 comments on the way in which the fund
| had been distributed. The more he
thought upon the subject the greater
was his conscientious objection to be
pensioned as victim The notion
of the grandchildren hereafter being in
\ want presented itself to him each time
he was moved to refuse the l,000f a
year. At length it occurred to him to
Fl submit to them the whole case plainly,
4 and in a manner not to unduly influence
4 their Judgment. The youngest was to
pronounce the first and the eldest last.
4 They were to be allowed a day and
night 10 reverse their decision. The
three pronounced for the refusal Of the
pension. Pail Nal Gazette
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j --LongfeIlow's study remains just as
\ he left il. Not a book nor a piece o.
furniture has been moved. The gate'
TO the grounds OF his old home are al
ways open to the visitor, but within thu
house the bereaved family are secur'
! from intrusion. and their life goes on a
it did before his death, save for tn
great void that can never be filed. Tn
poets grave at Mount Auburn is onl,
marked by the fiower-wreaths daily
placed upon it by loving hands. -BOs
J ton Post.