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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-10-20
STRANGER THAN FICTION,

An extraordinary case Of alleged
wrongful detention during a period OF
upward Of forty years in a lunatic asy
lum is now occupying the civil tribu-
nal of Tarascon, in the south OF France.
Jean Mistral, the person in question, IS
the sol Of the late Joseph Mistral, who
was formerly a wealthy wool stapler
Of great local consideration ut St. Remy
in France. No little portion of the bust
ness lying abroad, Jean was employed
as his fathers traveller. During a
journey through Poland in 1887 he fell
in love with Wilhelmine Dombrowska.
a beauty of the country, but Of no fami
~, and, alleging that he was of an age
he married her forthwith. He then
wrote several letters to his father in
forming him Of his changed condition.
and begging that money might be sent
to bring his bride nome. This request,
however. was refused, and. supplies be
ing stopped, the couple became abso-
luteIy destitute. Ultimately, they
found means to buy an old cart and a
WORKOUT horse. Supplied with these
mean of travelling, Jean and Wilhel-
mine resolved to make their way to
France, and by dint of WilheImine's skill
on the guitar, which procured lodging
and food IN the journey, succeeded in
reaching St. Remy. This was in Au-
gust 1883. On entering the village
with their strange equipage, Jean in
rags and leading the horse. aud Wilhel
mine seated weary in the cart, NJ. Mis-
trail, who had been appraised from Saras
con of their arrival, met them with sew
eral Of his n,and. on his coming for
ward to embrace him. gave the order.
"Seize him, he is mad !" The SER
wants obeyed, and after a brief strug-
gle, Jean despite the protests Of the
crowd and the supplications of his
wife. was carried TO his fathers
house, aud a few days subsequently to
a lunatic asylum at Point St. Come
where he has remained up to the pre-
sem time. Wilhelmine Dombrowska is
believed to have made her way back to
Poland, absolutely denying that Jean
Mistral has ever been insane, and affirm
ing that his seclusion was simply to
break off the unacceptable match. NJ.
Fourier. who for ten years has been
leaving no stone unturned to secure
the release of his relative, now invOkes
the intervention Of the legal tribunals.
Jean Mistral is entitled to a fortune
of 10 600 pounds, which is in the hands
of a nephew, who was appointed. guar
dian by a c0nseH de famiile, and is the
in the case.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-10-20
A STRANGE STORY.

New York has some strange histo
ries, we are all told. One which 10 be-
ing whispered in select circles ION.
Germs u WI who became suddenly rich
during the war. having been a veri-
table rag picker, going about with bag
aud hook from barrel to barrel. NJ
one knew how hs got rich. But no
bO"ght u block Of property ind built a
house Oh Fifth av~nu He sent his
children abroad to bs educated, kept a
carriage. had q crest aud al of arms,
and Ut course %vehemently denied all
knowledge Of the rng-pickrr. 1t is
safe to say that it any ,nau had made
that charge against him the man max
ing..i t would have had to pay heavily in
damages. Well, tho years swept by,
the children returned from abroad cul
tured, proud, beautiful, with youth and
hope and promise ; and the fathers
anxiety to keep his low calling conceal
ed Was redou6Ied. He began to tell all
sorts of curious stories of travel. lite in
strange lands, a boyhood spent in Pa
ris, y familiarity with great man in
foreign lands during these dreadful
days Of rag picking in New York City.
This preyed upon his mind SO that he
became crazed. His children began to
observe that he would get up silently
aud 60 out Of a night. He would come
home stealthily at dawn, and they
would hear strange noises in the CUR
ret. He grew thin rs a ghost. One
night a policeman saw a man with a
white shirt, aud diamond studs that
glittered i'll the gaslight, poking in an
ash-barrel with IL rag icker's nook in
his hand and Il great. we!l-tilled bag
Oh his back. THESE he dropped aud
ran lis the officer looked at him suspi-
ciousIy. But being pursued and Cap
tured he gave his nam aud address,
aud VAS taken home, and is now in u
private asylum for the insane. ThsO-
~ ! / have no theory about it. / have
been trying ~ dismiss the whole thing
from my mind :but it haunts me ; and
50 l have written it down and divided
it up by piece-meal with uy readers to
get rid Of it. But is it not just posi-
OIe that this poor man found his money
in an ash barrel. where it had been hid
den. stolen or lost by some government
officer, perhaps during the Hush times
toward the close Of the war. ard SO was
unable to get his mlni away from the
trash of the streets 7 l 10 not know.
The garnet of the house, it is suid. wac
packed full of old rags.
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PERSONAL.

President Carter, of Williams College, is taxing
his vacation in Canada.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will spend the re-
mander OF this month ar-ong the Berkshire Hills.
Professor Hardness, of Brown University, has
gone 60 Europe for year s rest and RECREATION.
DIR. Cullls. of Boston, who conducts the faith
cure conventions at Old Orchard Beach, has pur-
chased land at North Conway n. H., on which to
hold similar gatherings.
General A. G. p. Dodge directs that of the 81 500
he has given for educational purposes in Breathitt
Cornty Ky So 900 shall be used in building an
academy at Jackson, ana the remainder In aiding
poor but meritoriOus young men U attend SCHOOL,
Canon Knox Little recently took part in an
open air mission meeting held by Wesleyans at
Chestwood, England" probably the first time"
saws The London Echo, " that any member of the
Rltualistic party has actively TAKEN part IN DIS
senting service"
Field Marshal Won Moltke, and Professors Momm-
sell. Gn-ist. and Dubois Raymond, members of
the committee formed in Berlin to arrange for the
creation of a Luther monument IN tuat city. Karl
Jultus has published The Life of Doctor Martin
Luther a. an Epic Poem" The City Council of
Berlin will devote $1,000 to the publication and
dstr,hution OF u small Life of Luther among all
Evangelical families in the city that do not reesly o
the ciiy's Fest-schrgt on the Luther Day. Inc
snm of SO $50 will be spent In circulating other
Inther literature and $37 800 will be devoted to
tbe erectiou of a home for the daughters or Evan
gelical clergymen and schovlmasters. The city has
made free grant OF the land on which the home Is
TO 10 built.
It's .aid that when President Arthur was at Cape
Nav. alter the public reception was over he re-
ceiyed card from a caller who was very anxious
TO SEQ him. On being shown in. the visitor proved
70 b, a weather beaten. middle aged man. who
grasped Mr. Arthur cordially by the hand and in
formed MIN that he knowed" him as soon as he
" set eyes on him" He then repeated his name to
the President and inquired II he remembered that
In. visitor had gone TO school to him. The Presi-
dent then recalled that during one of his vacations
he had. for the purpose of raising much needed
funds. taken several young fellows Of about his own
ago to impart some college learning" TO, and the
man before him was one OF them. The former
soholar combines the occupation of fisherman and
keeper. and informed the President that
he was doing very well. The President expressed
hi, pleasure at the meeting and the two parted
future happiness. The President said he got grip
OF tho hand which he would not forget for SONS
time TO come.
WAsHINGToN Aug. 3. Postmaster General
Gresham is expected to return TO Washington to-
morrow.
HANOVER, n. H.. Aug. 3.-After forty-seven years
of service as professor of chemistry in the Dart
month Medical College Oliver PaysOn Hubbard,
MD. LID. has resigned his chair and been made
Professor Emeritus. Professor Edwin j. Bartlett,
Of dartmouth College. will fill the vacancy during
the present lecture term. which opened on August
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

city the famous buildings should be crowded
with spectral forms Fleet-st., and the strand
and the Temple, and the Inns of Court; white
hall. Westminster, st. James's Palace, Trafai-
gar Square, Regent-st, and the Haymarket;
London Bridge, and Lambeth, and Crosby Hail.
and Southwark, and st. Pauls and Paternoster
Row-what associations ought they not to have
for him, what startling reality should not the
sight of these historical localities impart Tor
him to Shakespeare, and Richard, and Crom'
well, and Charles; ito Pitt, and Fox, and Dr.
johnson; to Pendennis and to Becky Sharp, to
Mr. Pickwck and Mr.. Micawberl 1t is not the
good fortune of every traveller to make the ac-
quantance of the distinguished men of the day !;
but every well-read tourist can put himself on
intimate terms with the distinguished men OF
the past To do this, however, he.must become
an unconventional stIoller he must loiter in
busting streets; he must pry into solitary
corners; ; he must be ready to ask questions and
to answer them. to be known as a stranger and
perhaps to be thought odd. But it will be well
worth his while to step out of the common road
and to venture upon the unusual, which is
neither vulgar nor absurd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

caused the owners to shut up their shops W
avoid strike and to vindicate their right 70
manage their own business. The employers
will now engage whomsoever they please 70
do their work, including even the twenty-sx
members of the International Union whose
dismissal from the Gutenberg factory the Pro-
gressive Union impudently demanded. Inc
issue of this matter illustrates afresh the folly
of a strike-for that is practically what the
lockout was. The men are out of pocket anu
are no better off in any other direction as an
equivalent Possibly they have learned, how
ever that it does not pay to follow piindiy 'ne
dictates of three or four foreign demagogues'
who have only personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT III
view; in that case their experience has not
been worthless.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04
DEF. REACHING" REFORM.


The Democracy of Pennsylvania have evil
IDENTIFY discovered that n reform of the Civil
Service which has any other end in view than
the turning of all Republicans out of Office and
putting Democrats in their places, ID not the re-
form that the party wants. 1t was all very well
before the passage of the PeDdletOn bill for
Democratic conventions and Democratic news
papers to dwell upon the evils and abuses of the
Civil Service and the necessity for reforming
and purifying it. For the past dozen years they
have been harping upon this theme I'D season
and out of season, prUclaiming their horror at
the iniquitous methods in vogue OF rewarding
party services with official patronage, and avow-
ing it to be the chief aim of their political exist
ence to make an end of the whole business by
establishing the higher tests of honesty, ability
and fidelity. The platforms Of their conveD-
tons and the columns OF their newspapers have
been filed with this sort of thing for years, and
even Tammany Hall, the most corrupt political
organization probably that ever existed, has not
hesitated to avow its devotion to Civil Strvice
Reform In one breath, while in the next 1t an
nounced distinctly thai, 30 far as Tammany Hall
was concerned, the prime article of its creed was
that the first duty following victory was di-
vision of the spols. Having no responsibility
for the Civil Service of the General Govern
ment, 1t was easy for them to prate of the
necessity Of reforming it; but the reform
always meant a simple turning out of Republi-
cans and appointment of Democrats in their
places.
But the passage Of the Civil Service bill puts
the matter In different light. They have been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

the shadow Of thu British flag may DO determined.
he will have the same right TO prompt and
eouicsbls trial which would be accorded to any
Englishman.
Any gentleman who owns Q nice stout silver
plated muzzIe that he isn't using just now would do
the Democratic party of Ohio favor by ioaning IL
to Judge Hoadly for the next few weeks
The Democracy are getting into terrible snari
over the tariff. Six State conventions have peen
held thus far this year, and the platforms make In
structive contrasts. In Iowa the party Is in favor
of gradual but persistent reduction of protective
duties; In Kentucky 1t has no views on the sab
ject in Ohio IL favors free-trade protection; In
Virginia protective froe trade; in Pennsylvania,
protradefreetection and now in Iowa, the familiar
strain" for revenue only" The party should
hudde up as soon as possible and arrange its prn-
ciples.
w. S. Groesbeck in his recent speech assured DIS
hearers that Civil Service Reform was Democratic.
If the Democratic party considered it Democratic,
1t would feel so bad that like as not it would wear
Grape on its left arm for thirty days.
Some Democratic papers in this State are cypress
ing the opinion that campaign beginning IN the
middle OF September will be long enough. From
the middle of September until election day is about
seven weeks, and it will take good deal longer
than that to explain the record made by tho last
Legislature to the satisfaction Of the voters.
Naturally enough the Minnesota Democratic
State Convention declared for anti-prohbtion
Why wouldn't free rum in the concrete and re-
form in the ABSTRACT do for the Democratic Ma
tional platform in 1ss4i The Republican party
must 60.
To Senator Bayard: We notice chat you are
travelling in Kentucky, and sincerely hope you may
enjoy your trip And by the way, Senator. if you
wish to have the South enjoy itself don't de-
liver that Capitalization "speech of yours while
you are gone. An effort better adapted to cast a
gloom over an entire community has rarely been
prepared. Keep it for the next meeting of the
Iroquois Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04
Nesp'a1ork Daily Gribm'1r,
HORACE CIR EELEY
NETWORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST A.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

EopvIoN-It is reported that plot to restore the
French Monarchy has been discovered. - lhe
Jewisb murder trial in Hungary has been ended
with the acquittal Of the prisoners. :"
The King of AMMAN is dead. - Inc
cbolera in Egypt is less Virueht;
there were 7O2 deaths on Thursday from the as
a.se. - Several Irish informers have arrived at
an Australian port and have been forbidden 10
land - 1t is expected that French military
onerations in Tonquin will be delayed until
November. - A dinner was given to Dr. NorVln
Green near London last evening, at which he ana
others smoke. - The Comte de Chambord's
health is steadily improving
DoMrsTrc-King Fan, Capias Conkling and
Hartford won the Saratoga races yesterday. -
The President started from Chicago on his trip to
y.llovs,one Park. - Colonel f. G. Marshall, a
retired army officer, died. - Charles ii. Lee was
hanoad IN Richmond. 81 Professor Oliver PaysoD
Hnbbard resigned from the chair of chemistry at
Dar,mouth CoIlege - G. Norden, said to be
natural son of King Oscar, OF Sweden, committed
ruic,de near Chicago. - The torpedo class at
Newport was disbsnded.
City AND SUBURBAN.-Mayor Edison yesterday
appointed $. II. Grant, his private secretary, as
Coptroller. - The telegraph operators predicted
that a crisis in the strike was approaching. GO
r. n. Booth the joint-agent at Castle Garden of the
truuk lines has been missing Tor week -
Samuel Parsons. jr., will probably resign as
Superintendent OF Planting 80 The Grand
Jury made presentment yesterday concerning the
frauds in the Finance Department 60 The Fire
Commissioners declared that more building inspec-
tors were necessary. - Patrick quinn was heid
On suspicion in the matter OF the drownin OF
the sonst children - The Metropolitans were
defeated by The Allegheny nine. =lnquests were
Lila In thu Rarca Shenard Patchin Matthews and
Mix cases. - Gold value of the legal-teDder
uilyer dollar (41212 grains), S2.62 cents. -
Stocks opened dull and values improved, but
later they again declined and closed weak.
The Manufacturers local observations in
dictate clear or fair aud warmer weather. iempera-
ture yesterday: Highest, SO; lowest. 65'; aver
me- 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

Tho National Education Assembly, which meets
in Ocean Grove next week, beginning on Thursday
and ending on the Sunday follown z, will bring to-
gether many of the most prominent advocates OF
National aid to education. Senator Blair. OF Now
HAMPSHIRE will discuss that topic on the afternoon
of thursday and the Hon. j. Z. Wickersham, OF
Pennsylvania, on National aid to popular eduoa-
uon in Europe. DIR. II. K. Waite, educational
statstician of the Census Bureau. will speak the
subject, "Who and Where lllitsrate
Massesf" Among the other speakers on that and fol-
lowing days will be Judge Tourgee on Dangers
of Neglect" Frederick Douglass on 1.-THE Negro in
America the Rev. A. d. Mayo on the "Educa-
tional ODD ortunities and Duties Of the South"
Henry S. Pancoast on The Legal Status OF the
Indian" Captain Pratt, Superintendent of the
Carlisle Training School on INDIAN Civilization q
Success" General John Eaton, United States Com
missioner of Education. etc.
A correspondent Of The Hartford Cowant describes
how il feels to be struck by lightning. After the
Presidential election next year tho correspondent
and the Democratic party will find it interesting TO
compare experiences.
A New Hampshire and Minnesota politician
talking to two different correspondents of The
SUNDAY TRIBUNE suggest the name of Senator
John f. Miller, of California as u candidate for the
Presidency next year. One OF JncHl uo
could take both Indiana and California out of the
list of doubtful States. AS to California, that is
not unlikely, Tor the Senator is personally popular
there; but as to Indiana less clear, since he has
been away from there Tor over eighteen years. The
Senator is now living at Napa, California. lie is
the president of the Alaska Fur Company has
crown rich and is in the finest of health. He lost
an eye some years ago whe serving under Rose
crats In Tennessee but the sight of the other has
not been impaired.
The value of the metallic products Of the United
States for 1882 is said to have been 1919 10000
II the brass concealed in the cheeks of the persons
VINO are now shneking that the Republican party
must go could be extracted and sold at the rate Of
a cent pound. tho above figures would be left far
behind.
O'Donnell, tho murderer of James Carey, Is now
reported to be insisting upon his rights Amsri-
can citizen. Those rights under the circumstances
will entitle him to speedy and impartial trial by
the British or colonial authorities. II the fatal
shot was nIod within the Jurisdiction OF Cape
Colony, he will have the same right as an Ameri-
can citizen, which no would enjoy as British sub
joct to be tried by a jury in accordance with tho
recognized oanons of criminal procedure OF tbs
colony. Ii tho murder occurred on the high sea
outside the jurisdiction of Cape Colony and 1t pc
necessary to convey hun to an English port In order
that his responsibility for crime committed znder
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

What object there is in starting rumors of
Monarchists plot in Paris just now it is diff
cult to understand. The crazlest kind of
Legitimist conspirator would hardly conSpire
at present. The Comte de Chambord still lives,
but with small chance of recovery, and the
Comte de Paris is too cautious to encourage
conspiracy so long as he is merely an heir to
the discarded throne. Indeed, it is doubtful
whether he will ever make any great effort to
he King. He knows that a King of France
would be the favorite mark for every dyna-
miteur in Europe, and he is not of the stuff
of which martyrs are made. Possibly the ru-
mors have been started to scare the Govern
ment, and in that case the Partisan news
mongers who are behind them may succeed in
their object. 1t does not take much to throw
4 French Ministry into Mysteries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

Tribune readers ordering the Daily sent to them at s'-
er resorts are requested TO make sure Of the eract name
rthe Post Office TO chch tho paper is to be sent Much
trouble arises eUay summer from neglect Of hs pre-
caution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS IN NEW-iOEk
From Chicago Tribune Intervfe0 icth James W. HuSee
"What are the prospects Tor the future la
NewYorkp . go. 80.
'As far as the party itself is concerned in the state my
in that tue members OF the state Admins.
ration who were nominated and elected Garfield mca
will be nominated this fall and have doubt wnsv
ever n Ohio carried by the Republicans, that new
York will follow suit" go
What about the Legislaturei" m
81 nave no doubt whatever that the Republicans VIII
carry both of the next Legislature. That hey
might very readily do aud yet lose the state, and a.
paradox they might carry the State aud lose the Les
lature. That has been done, but 10 In way nsey
be the again. There Is general feeling OF dssuss
at the OF the Democracy In the Legslaturess
lodging the convictlabor question: the incressSS
of State taxation, aud the general policy ~
the parry which seems TO be to grab all i can ~
people whatever-all OF which will have great aeS
to do with giving the Republicans the controi, ~
both branches of the next legislature Anos lin.
factor which will have good deal 10 DO with tns
ton Of problem 10 the fact that tho incoming
viii have = voice In the selection OF Untea ss
Senator 10 succeed Lapham, whose term expires w.
from next winter" 49,
=" Wlll hs be q candidate for re.electonin ~,
"No, I think not" replied General Hustled VIA VII
degree Of posyeness which seemed TO mean morr lad
he said You know how Lapnam was elecIeu
time. Such accidents not likely TO happeu .sss
"will Arthur be able 10 carry New YORK nn5sni
"My Impression 10 that General sherman VIII 70 IN
nominee OF the Republican party nave M
good while, and am not prepared 70
position on that question think ne IL the ~
man In America, and don't think any EAAissh -
viii b. nominated for the Prssidency."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-04

The acquittal of the Jews arraigned In Hun
gary for the murder of Christian girl, now
leaves the ground clear for some student In
sociology to make 1t known why the prosecu-
ton ever was begun. To impartial observers
II has been evident all along that there
was no truth in the charges against the
prisoners, but still they seem to have been
sincerely believed by most OF the Christians
In that part of Hungary. This belief coAld
hardly have been due to race prejudice or
hatred alone. There must have been some
thing else back of either or both of these
feelings, which made the charges seem rea-
bonable to the men and women who accepted
them as true. Was it a mild form of insanity,
such as some writers say possessed the people
of Salem in the days when it was fashionable
to hang so-called witches2 Or is over-cre-
dulity a contagious disease which sometimes
spreads through an entire community