Year: 1870

Every Erei Gilman Suspicious of n Stranger


some Serious Results.


A correspondent OF the New YORK Tribune writes
as follows from Aix-les-Bains, under date Of Sep
tember L.


The publication OF stories relative to the arrest of
russian spies has made all Paris suspicious, and
sgious. At Bouvaix, the other day Ia great manu-
featuring place., a professor OF music was fishing
quietly on the banks o. Of canal when he was asa at
Prussian, threatened to throw him into the water.
In spite of his protest that he was loyal French
man, they beat him, dragged his clothes from his
back, robbed him of his money, and hooted him
through the town to the Mayors ONCE where
r as CRAZY OF hay Ma heOed M and pSF s
by an angry mob who had got 1t into their
russian HI senadr in q sgase TheS had wSs some
reason to be suspicious for this device has been
adopted by the enemy in several cases. The English
chaplain at Marsees writes to the Pail Mall Gazette
that he was attacked by three men, who insisted
mat he was spy, and hailed him to the Prefecture
belief than the fact that he had light complexion,
was stranger (to themD, and that, when in the
Se' Se nsd Sa're held ey his nsne fs snd
only replied to the waiter who asked him
Rheims, few days since, young man, the only
son of well-known, wealthy people Of the town by
the name of Carangeot, was amusing himself with
sketching in field near the city, when 8Stltizen,
driving by in his carriage, asked hin what he was
doing. From what follows one would think the boy
reason for his not replying. The citizen, however,
drove at once to the neighborng and camp reported
what he had seen, whereupOn two soldiers went
back with him, and, finding the young man still
seated at his work, put the same question 10 him
that the first had done. Not receiving any reply,
they at once shot the poor boy dead.


suppose you have ere this published the horrible
story OF the burning alive of the young farmer in
Dordogne. 1t was at first said that he was accused
of being spy, but it Is now ascerained that 1t was
not for this that he was murdered, but because the
peasants had the notion that he had been able toget
rid OF the conscrption by paying large sum Of
money! The facts have not been in the least eX-
aggerated, and it is said that General Palkao has
ordered an investigation. But such horrors not
10 be cured by investigation. They are the simple
natural result OF the ignorance in which the Church
and the Government have joined willing hands to
keep this peasantry imbruted.


close with story which shows that the thieves
have with their usual ingenuity begun to turn to
their own advantage the Prussan Uhlan panic. A
company of these ubiquitous marauders entered a
border town and demanded the Mayor. On his ap-
pearance they told him they sent to order the
Immediate payment OF $4,000 francs, for which they
would give him receipt. II the money was not
forthcoming they had sufficient force near by to
pillage and burn the town. The Mayor assured
them that the sum they demanded was out Of all
reason; that all the money in the place did not
amount to SO much. The Uhlans then declared that
they would not stir for less than 5000 francs This
sum was raised wthId1iculty, receipt in due form
was given and the French thieves who had robbed
Uhlans slain in recent skrmish, of their uniforms,
qalloped of with their booty.