Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11

morning there was q notable change
for the worse, but the patient was al
lowed to cherish his illusions OF ulti-
mate recovery. In the course of the
afternoon the dying statesman realized
the gravity of his situation and ex-
claimed: 81 am lost. 1t Is useless TO
di simulate. But have suffered SO
much that it will be deliverance." The
death agony began at 10 p. IN. At II
the patient lost consciousness, and al
1:55, after uttering few feeble means
he expired without suspectlng death
WAS so near. kilograms were sent to
President Grevy and other authorities,
and plaster-cast of the face Of the
deceased was taken.
1t is estimated that 5000 persons
visited the house at Vile d'Auray Sun
day. The people were admitted by
groups of five or ten into the hall,
whence they assembled to the small bed
room where the body is lying. The
visitors included ministers, senators
and other functionaries.
The room is poorly furnished The
body lies in small iron beGstead COM
pletely covered by sheets, except the
head which rests on two pillows. The
face is pale, the hair grayer tnan form
erly, and the beard entirely gray.
Gambetta appears fifteen years older
than he really was. His friends SEEM
ed utterly beside themseive5-soin
aged men weeping. There were a few
flowers on the foot of the beed; other
wise there were none of the emblems
usual in France on such an occasion.
A painter was seated at the foot of the
bed sketching the scene. Other artists
for the illustrated papers were simil-
arly occupied in the rooms. The
money Gambetta leaves principally
accrued from his newspaper. A cor
respondent who made q tour of the
Paris streets yesterday, says there was
real CONSERVATION in the bourgeois and
trading quarters. In the ARTISAN dis
trlcts there was stern indifference
among the groups of workmen, and
one person was exclaimed against for
saying the republic had suffered q
crest loss.
Leon Gambetta was born at Cahors,
in the department of Lot, in the south
of France, an obscure village whose
Goth of April, 1888, and was therefore
but A years of age. He was indebted
for his start toward public life to the
assiduous attentions of his mother and
aunt, who were probably stimulated
by his precocity as child to devote
themselves TO him without reserve.
His mother taught him to read by
read by reading to him the speeches
delivered in the assembly as published
in the National, a newspaper of which
Theirs and Armand Cornell were
editors. At Leon could repeat
whole chapters of sacred history, q
fact which his uncle, on the mothers
side. Able Massabie, mistook for holy
zeal. He was also master of many
speeches of Theirs and Guizot, and
when in his 9TH year he entered the
Jesuits' school at Montfaucon, he de-
claimed the speeches at the public ex-
erCises. This was during the republic.
AS Louis Napoleon passed from preei-
dent into emperor these practices be-
came incendiary, and Gambetta was
expelled on the charge of converting
the school into q JacObin club. AT II
ne was sent to the Lyceum, where he
remained shut up until he obtained his
bachelors degree. 1t was while at this
school that he lost his eye, while play
ing in the shop Of carpenter with an
apprentice; the latter made lunge at
him with a pointed stick and inadyert-
emily poked the eye out of its socket.
It is said that this accident made him
Il barrlster, since had he had his other
eve he would have studied medicine.
His father took him home and tried to
induce him to enter trade and to con-
tinue his bazar. His mother however,
supplied him with money aud Clothes
for year and sent him to Paris, where
he went at once to the Slrhonne, and
under the tuition Of Prof. Valette be
gan to prepare for the bar, to which he
was admitted in 1859 He was hard
student, careless in dress, and very eco
nom ioal in habits. In 1862 he held his
first brief, acting as assistant to Cremi-
aux in the defense of Greppo, who was
prosecuted, with ffty-three accom-
plces, for conspiracy against the en-
peror. The public prosecutor, Chaiz
d'Est Aqge, congratulated him upon his
speech, but advised him to stop defend
ing POOR wretches, and put his talents
at the service of the empire. Gam.
beta liked Greppo a little as he did
Nspoleons, but he hoped for the day
when France would need neither en-
porers nor assassins. He threw him
self actively into the election Of 1868,
and mad the JOY to see Paris return all
her nine members Of the opposition.
From this time forward he was an ar
dent factor in French politics. During
the .rylng times Of the war with Ger
many and the fall of the empire Gam.
beta forged to the front as leader,
and assisted wits his best efforts 10
found the present republic. Through
out his entire career he was a "man of
the people and his loss will be sin
cerely mourned by all classes. from
Bourgoise upward,
The Voltaire, Paris and Telegraph
express grief at Gambetta's death, and
refer to his deeds when the country
was endangered. The Soteil (Orleanistl,
dwells upon the blow that opportunism
has received but refrains from saying
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