The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-29
VICTOR HuGo.s DEATH.
Peaceful End of the Noted French Poet
Dramatist and Novelist-Universal Evi

Peaceful End of the Noted French Poet,
Dramatist and Noyelist-Universal Evil
dences OF Sorrow Over His Demise Ex-
hibited by the Nation-A Brief Sketch of
the Career of This Remarkable Man.
PARIS, May 23.-Victor Hugo died at
1870 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, passing
away peacefully and without suffering. The
poets condition in the morning was mani
testify so much worse that his death was
regarded as certain to take place within
a few hours. When this fact became
known the clergy of the city sent
to his residence with offers to
visit him and administer spiritual aid and
the rites of the Catholic Church. NJ. Lock
roy. the poets son-in-law, who was in
attendance at the death-bed when the
proffer of the clergy was received, de-
clined it with thanks, and said for the
dying man: ''Victor Hugo is expecting
death, but he does not desire the serY-
ices OF a priest" The dying man lay in
trance for some hours before the end He
awoke suddenly, raised his head, gazed at
his family and friends standing around the
bed, and then sank back lifeless His last
words were: 'sAdeu, Jeanne, adieu," adj
dressed to his favorite granddaughter. His
white hair and beard had grown quite long
during his illness, and his body was much
emaclated, but the brow retains it's grand
eur.
= The news of his death was announced to
the assembled crowd by Victorien Sardou.
There was then a great rush of reporters to
the house, and the servants We're obliged to
repel them. Lockroy closed the front door,
leaving table in the street for visiting
cards.
The death of Hugo causes grief through
out the continent. The newspapers are
eagerly sought for from desire for the
particulars of his last moments
1t is reported that Nj. Hugo bequeathed
his manuscripts to France, and that he left
it to the Republic to select burial place
for his remains, and to decide as to the
form of his funeral.
Populations from the Municipal Govern
ment and from Parliament offered their
coincidence this evening. Next arrived
Mime. Bernhardt dressed completely in
white, bringing with her an immense crown
OF white roses. Jules Simon says that the
whole academy will attend the funeral and
Maxine de Camp will deliver the Grafton.
Lockroy's and Hugo's grandchildren are
bowed with grief. Half of the poets
fortune, 100000 francs, is bequeathed by
Hugo to his daughter Adele, who is in a
lunatic asylum. 1t was Hugo's wish that
his heirs and executors should hereafter join
in building a lunatic asylum.
ROME, May 23.-The Chamber of Dep
uties yesterday paid tribute to the memory
of Victor Hugo.
PARIS, May 23.-The newspapers of
Paris appeared in mourning last evening.
1t is believed that the funeral will be the
grandest seen in France for century. The
poet was sketched as he lay on his DEATH
bed by the great painter Bennett, who will
transfer to canvass the impression taken.
In the Senate, M. Leroyer delivered an
eulogy on M. Hugo The speaker said that
for the past sixty years Victor Hugo had
been the admiration of France and of the
world. he had now entered immortality.
His glory belonged to no party, but to all
men. Prime Minister Brisson delivered an
eulogy in the Chamber of Deputies. He
said the whole nation mourned the loss Of
Victor Hugo, and moved that the funeral of
the poet be conducted at the states expense.
The motion was greeted with applause.
The Senate and Chamber adjourned in
respect to the death of M. Hugo.
1t is stated that M. Hugo passed
through long and terrible agony before
death. 1t is proposed to inter the poets
remains in the Pantheon, and that the day
OF the funeral be declared day of national
mourning, on which all the Government
offices, the schools and the theaters shall be
closed
Victor Marie Hugo was born at Besancon,
France, February 70. l,02. His father was a
Colonel in the French army. Young Hugo re-
ceVed classical instruction in a religious
house, and published his first volume of
'Odes and Ballads" in 1922. He was admitted
to the French Academy in 1841, and was Gre.
ated Peer of France by Louis Philippe In
Ie49 he was chosen President of the Peace
Congress. After the establishment of the
Second Empire he went into exile passed sew
eral years in Guernsey, Jersey and other
places, and refused to avail himself of the
general amnesty of 1862 Returning to
France on the fall of the Empire, he was
elected to the National Assembly at Bor-
deaux, but resigned his seat early in 1871 and
went to Belgium, from which he was soon ex-
PEELED by the Belgian Government, on ac-
count OF his sympathy with the Communists
He returned to Paris in 1871 He has
lived most of the time of late years
at his chateau in Guernsey. He was very
prolific writer. Among his more important
works were "Notre Dame de Paris Les
Miserables,' "Historie dun Crime" IL
Homms qn vi, Rit "Ruy Bias" Marion de
81 AIMEE Terrible" etc.l