The Russellville Democrat., 1892-08-11
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 A very curious chapterin Corsican history has just been closed by the surrender of she notorious Corsican bandit, Bellacascia, who has been out Tn the bush fer forty-four years, and has bafFaei all the efforts of the gendarmerie to capture him. He was born at Bocagnano, says The London Times, 2 small village in the center of Corsica, his father being shepherd, and in 1S4S he killed the assistant mayor of the village in quarrel and took to the bush. His presence was betrayed to the gendarmerie soon afterward, but Bellacascia. having got wind of this, lay in wat for his betrayer and killed him.
 He was then joined in the bush by his brother Jacques, who had been preparing for the priesthood, and the two brothers led very wild existence in the mountains of Cor sica, killing several gendarmes who attempted to capture them. They do not appear. however, to have lost the esteem of their compafriots. for NJ Emanuel Arene one of the deputies of Corsica in the French chamber, relates how about fifteen years ago he and the late Edmond About were received by the broth CTS at breakfast, and how they were introduced to the different relatives of the brigands. all mayors of their respective tribunes. M Arene re lates, too, how the late Baron Haussman was breakfasting with them on another occasion when the gendarmes appeared in the distance and the two brothers made of, leaving their guest to explain his presence there as best he could.
 There was some talk of granting the two brothers an amnesty when NJ. Carnot paid his visit to Corsica two years ago. and the daughter of the younger brother vas presented to him. Noth- ing was done, however, and the two brythers might in all probability have remained at liberty for the rest of their lives. But Antoine, the elder of the two, has at last been persuaded by his friends to give himself up to the authorities, and his mode of doing so was not less dramatic than the whole of his life has been. Another of his brothers, who was for several years himself an officer in the gendarmerie, induced him to take this step, and the two met at daybreak in the forest of Vizzavona, which IS about half way between Ajacco and Bastia They then went to a place where Capt 0rdioni, commanding the gendar- merle of the district, was waiting for them and Antoine laid down his arms in token of submission. They went by train on the line newly opened to Bastia, and Antoine Bel lacascia was delighted at this mode of loeomotion, which was quite novel to him.
 Upon reaching Bastia, where he is to be tried at the next assizes, he went to the principal hotel, writing his name and profession in the wis itors' book as Antoine Boneli, commonly called Bellacascia, pro fession bandit, born at Bocagnano, residence uncertain. 1" Heis not un- der the least restraint or even sur veillance, as Capt. Ordioni, who Is now responsible for his appearance at the assizes, knows that "when Bellacaseia gives his word he never goes back on it. ]" Antoine Bella cascia has several times been sen- tenced to death in contumaciam, but as all the murders for which he was condemned took place more than thirty years ago, they are covered by prescription, and the only ofense for which he can be tried IS an at tack he is accused of having made on a gendarme in 1880. The expec- tation Is that he will spend the rest of his days unmolested among his friends.