The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-01
nyra Clark Gaines Percentage.

after the outbreak of the French Rsvolu-
ton. an emigre nobleman, Jerome De
Grange, who fed 10 this country to escape
the guillotine, and who had lost his large
fortune in that great popular outbarst.
There was nothing left for him to do bat 90
10 work, and to work he went and estab-
listed q cafe and confectionery on 81. Anne
street, opposite the Place d'Armes, in what
was then the social and fashionable center
of the little Creole city of Nav Orleans.
Here he met graceful, volup.uous little
lady, Marie julie Csrriere, q Provencale,
with dish of gypsy blood in her veins,
mere chiid in years, but with the form. fg-
ure, and development of full-grown wom-
an. The exiled noblemsn saw, loved, and
proposed, and, dszZled by his title and
sristocratic origin, the little girl-she was
net quite thirteen at the time-consented to
become his wife
1t wss an ill-omed and ill.assorted mar.
riage. De Grange wss moro than twenty
years older than his child wife, very ugly,
tsciturn and unsocisble, while Julie, or Is
they nick. named her--for no Creole girl
ever bears In later life her baptismal name
-Zulime, was gay and lively, pleased with
the attentions OF gentlemen, devoted
TO balls, masked or otherwise, and loved,
-. r,siy E.,ssies of fun, g.yety
ana Enjoyment. The marriage, however,
proved 8 very profitable investment for the
confectioGer Count, for, although his little
wife brought him no money, she brough. to
the confectionery great deal of business and
patronage, and the great men of the then
Spanish colony of Louisiana frequented his
Establishment, seduced there by the smile,
and Establishments Of the pretty gay Madame
Zuli1re.
DANIEL CLARK AS A suIToR.
Among these paitcns came certsin young
IrishmsD, Daniel Clark, .he weslthiess mer.
chant, ard perhaps the first man in the &c.
tire colony in fortune and influence. He was
8 DANCE Ous}y attractive man to any woman.
OF handsome presence, while De Grange was
en- all, weszen and Insignificant, with all the
SOFT, seductive isttery of Ireland, danger
Qua LOtbsrio indeed. when he spoke of lave
in his soit mixture of broguo and Creole. He
IVES in tie very primo of lite, slightly over
thirty, millionaire In an age when million
WAS fabulous fortune, man, moreover Of
talents, ability, courage, and influence, and
of sristocratic if not royal origin; tracing
his descent from the ancient kings of Ire
land.
At balls, st routs and festivities of sll
kirds, ind often at the confectionery. pretty
little Madame Zulime met this young cava-
lier. Carried away by his gsllantry, his
gree, bic elegance, 80 much above that of
Creoles she saw around her, che swoke one
day to the awful fact that she loved this
young lrishmsn far better than she did her
liege lord and husband. At the same time
she was horriaed at another discovery, thst
this husband Of hers, Jerome Do Grange, was
q villain of the very deepest die scoua irel
Who tad telrsyed her innocence, Blue
Beard who hAd an army Of wives elsewhere.
This terrible disclosure was made to be
by ore Of De Oranges victims, his frs
American wife, Ba, bsrs Jean belle d'Orsi,
who hsd come to New Orleans in search of
him. Almost at the same moment third
wife, = young Spanish girl, Maria Yulsh,
turned up. The three deceived women IL
lime, Barbara and Maria, all young and
haRdson.e, mingled their tears together over
Jeson e's villainy, and then marched arm
in arm TO the cid csbildo to lay their
charged against this French Mormon.
THE LAST OF DE GRANGE.
In those days cases Of this kind against
public morals were tried, not by criminal
court, bat before his Grace the Bishop of
Orleans and the Floridas. The unlucky De
Grange was arrested and broguht fore
this ecclesiastical court, on the charge OF i'm
morality and bigsmy-f it be Digsmy to
have three wives. Zulime, Barbara AMI
Maria each testified against him and tol
their SAD stories. how this ugly, peck marked
rsd laced little fellow had succeeded in win
ming all their hearts. So clearly was the
coniec,ioners villaiDy laid bare that his
Grace mo Bishop sentenced him at once to
tie cslabosa.
The days of Spanish dominion in Louisi-
ana were drawing rapidly to cl Sc lst
then. 10 tie excItment that followed the
rapid transfer of that country from Span to
France snd from France to tho United
Statee, friend of De Oranges assisted him
TO escape from prison and chartered vessel
for him III which ne fed from Louisiana and
his tIiun ElTste of woss.
Zulime ives not without comfort and con.
ISOLATION in her wLdowhoot, To- her form 3r
Gdn.irer Clark, redoubled his attentions to
her and whispered dangerous counsel IN her
ear Sic Wa absolved, ne told her, from
sll bends H. De Grange, for their marriage
teiDg bigsmy ON his part, was, in point of
iset, no marriage at all. She was free
woman TO marry whom;oever she chose
AND wOIlc sne not choose him2
The temptation wss certainly strong
one, fer he . Was wealth. position, love, hsp-
piness, all before her; but Zllime hesits 4,
iCr, while the marriage OF D. Grange bad
been sufficiently proven to justly his incsr-
cefs;ion, i. wss not 80 legally demonstrated
as to justify second marriage on her part
1t ould DO beat, she saw, 70 secure further
AID legal evidence Of De Oranges previous
nsrsisca, and to do this it was necessary to
go 70 New York. Clsrk readily as,entsd
10 this, especially as he himself was about
10 take Is trip North to Philadelphia on an
important political mission.
On the very day of their arrival in New
York Znlime hurried TO st. Peters in W aich
the marriage between De Grange sud Bar
bsrs bad taken place. Sne learned, with
sorrow, that sill the records of the church
hsd been burn ed just before her arrival.
When che and Clark met again in Pnilsdel-
phis after this failure, he rene we'd his SUIT
30 vigorously that che yielded to his srgu-
nents and consented to q secret marriage,
rot 70 be made public until they could Sc.
cure some better evidence of Ds Oranges
tigamy. The msriage-on which Mrs
Gaines claims reet-iook place in strange
house in q back street in a retired portion of
philsde'pli There were present An un-
known Irish priest, who performed the