The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-27
OLIVER PAINS HISTORY
Rocheforte Made Him II Reporter
Under the Empire.

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r. Tehclr1'oreign Minister, a telegram
ae 11H Kitchener denying the story
3ikovitch, who said that Oliver Pain
phad been shot under the very eyes of
Mai. Kitchener. The telegram goes on
to say that various reports confirm the
statement that Pain died Of fever last
autumn: that Selikovtch was dismissed
from British employ for misconduct, and
that the English never wanted to arres
Pain.
N. de Freycinet has been searching for
Selikovitch but so far without success.
NJ, Rochefort publishes a letter from Sell
kovitch repeating his charges in relation
to the death of Pain and also a copy Of
document lauding the zeal and capacity
of Selikovitch and signed by Sir Oliver
Sanyon, member of the Egyptian staff.
Sclikovitch resides at No. As BouIe
ward st. Germain. It is reported that the
French government has sent a commu-
nication to the English government, ex-
pressing regret for NJ. Rochefort's attacks
upon Queen Victoria, Prince of Wales,
Lord Lyons, and others.
PAINS ROMANTIC LIFE.
Few men, if indeed any have had a
more thrilling and remarkable career
than Henri Rochefort, the notorious yet
brilliant French journalist. The interior
of nearly every Jail in France is familiar
to him. He has been carried in chains
more than half way round the globe.
Crowned heads vince at his name and
smart under the savage hes OF his caus-
tic pen, while to his instrumentallity
was due the overthrow of n mighty EN-
pire. NJ. Rochefort now appears to have
determined on the general humiliation of
John Bull. on account of the alleged ex-
ecution in the Soudan, by British agents,
of his faithful Achates-Oliver Pain.
But who is this II. Pain? In the
stormy days preceding the fall of the
Second Empire there came mp to Paris
from the Province, for the purpose Of
studying law, salIow, repuIsive look
ing youth. with little or no scholastic
dust upon his heels. All night would
this unattractivc lad sit, with mouth
open and a half empty mug Of beer be-
fore him, in either the Cafe PrOcope in
the Latin quater, or in some of the So
,cialists' haunts in the Rue de Bercy,
listening to Rochefort and Gambetta |
breathing forth threatenings and slaugh- |
ter against the social machinery of the |
world in general and against all con
nected with the empire in particular.
This unSainly youth was Oliver Pain. |
In him Rochefort thought he saw a re-
cruit for his army of irreconcilables, and
accordingly enlisted his services as u re
porter on the staff Of one of the five
Journals then controlled by Rochefolt
Pain proved an able lieutenant. After |
the notorious Baudin affair, through |
which Glmbetta sprang from obscurity |
into the brilliant prominence III which |
lie died and through which Rochefort
found himself in the jail Of st. Pelagie.
Pain left no stone unturncd to cause
Rochefort in prison to be more of 4
source Of public danger than one hun
dred Rochcforts ut large. When Napo
leon was made a prisoner at Sedan, and
Rochefort became II member OF the pro
lattera secretary. In the various out
breaks of the commune, from October
1870 to the end of the following May.
he took am active part, and assisted IN
the massacre of the siqty nine priests,
the destruction of the Nendome column
bv Courbet the tiendish work of the pc
troleurs. the as destinations of the Rue
Al 1f NJ fThiar's
house. and the futile attempt to burn
alive in the ruins the aged President of
the Republic.
Upon the end OF the seige, and at the
restoration of order. Pain attempted 10
flee the country with Rochefort. They
were however arrested and sentenced
death, but the extreme penalty was
commuted to penal servitude for life III
! Noumes, New Caledonia, whittier they
were carried in chains shortly afterward.
Pain was one of the two who escaped
with Rochefort from this penal settle
ment, and after floating about the Pa
cific in small boat for several days.
they succeeded in hailing n vessel which
took them to Melbourne. whence they
reached San Francisco, and ultimately
London Arrived at the British capital,
they Immediately resumed their lncen-
diary publications, which led to their
being, at the request of the French gov
ernment, expelled from British soil.
From London they went down the
Rhine to Geneva, Switzerland. and took
up their abode a short distance from the
French frontier. under the very noses OF
the gendarmes. who were spoiIinc to ar