Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — A Heroine of the Commune. [ARTICLE]

A Heroine of the Commune.

The following was related to me yesterday of a noble woman whose should live in history. She, together with her lover, a young surgeon, had taken care of the wounded Communists during the days and nights of their tierce fighting with the Versailles troops. Upon the entry of the latter into the city, when excitement was at its height and when every one suspected of complicity with . the Commune was shot without a question being asked, the surgeon was arrested and brought before the drum-head tribunal in the Place du Chatelet. His life trembled for the moment in the balance, but was finally saved by the intercession of one of the Judges present, who was an intimate friend of the accused. As the latter was being led from the room he met the woman whom he loved, who had helped him in the care of the wounded, and who was now accused of the same crime as himself had been. “Good God, Marie!” he exclaimed, “are you here, too?” The woman took the whole scene in at a glance, saw the danger into which she would plunge her lover should she recognize him, and drew herself up coldly, saying: “YoW' are mistaken, sir.”—JVete iork Evening Post. One cause of accident in blasting but little understood and which applies to powder as well as nitro-glycerine is thus stated: “ The blaster, not aware that he is a walking charge of electricity, proceeds to his work, inserting cartridge after cartridge of nitro-glycerine until he comes to the last, which is armed with the electric fuse. The moipent his hand touches one of the naked Wires the current passes through the priming and explosion follows. 'Let a blaster before he handles these wires invariably grasp some metal in moistened contact with the earth of place both hands uguiust the moist walls of the tunnel.” ■. *