PANIC-STRICKEN VILLAGE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 292, 20 December 1879, Page 6

PANIC-STRICKEN VILLAGE.

The bratty little village of Aaverg, •_ in the canton of Pontoiae, situated onlj a short jdiatanee, from. Par^a, and f cpn--r f tuining rsiDfe'MhsbiiStfel, W j3S~ i( now, gays the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegf^Dpmmi AjM veritable paniq. Everyday a, now fif^ bfea&g out, kindled by some mysteriods hand, ejnd upwards of houses have already fallen' £^prW (oj|ha : flames, I No sooner is one extinguished '! then the bells peal again, and jEW? J aerviceaj of, the pompiers are requiig4?j{ in another quarter. Do what they will f the authorities are unable to qno)l : 41iJ# ; A scourge; or to deteot the calprit. An ioviajble hand has traced on the wall of a notjae, the terrible words, f«, Not jl roof wiLl remain vstandiqg, ,in Auverp," and certainly the wri^e^ bids fair to keep hia promise. Sqspicioa haa* h^o^ ever, fallen upon an individual, a naiiVe of the country, who ten years ago was condemned for inceodiariipa, ot Gad _ afterwards sent to Marseille?, which %o .';* has lately quitted withooTt parnVis^{bh. This mio waa seen ia the neighbbiirhood a few days before^ t6(fe,. first fire br oka out. Diligent aeiriih has been m»da aWr him, btri bd.l^iinil^l-A' be found. most extrairdtni(ir|^^ part of tSer'jisfftip k that, althoaga Auvera is crammed with gendarmes^ the fires coatiftme 43, before, jt|idjyeater4; ; day, one began just as. "a patrol "* ~ passing: down the very street in which . the house was situated' '. A gi?U hoyf- ! eyer, nimed Clemence wW^jeen tunniiig oqt of the garden door, and atjp- 1 A ped. SSe i is sixteen years 6f digd an^d ~ very prfeti^.' Clemenlie was unable ; explain' to the Judge' d'lastructibn wfty ' , she was there, so she was immediately r transported to Pontoiae Prison. Ifc i*' i ■ thought that she is in a position tb r make important revelations. Curious to relate, the father of Clemence, seized with a sudden fury, made a dash at the Judge d'lnatriiction with a knife, add bad the latter not skilfully, parried the blow, he would have been, killed. ThV mother, in a fit of distraction, felifainbing to \ the ground, and was only re- : vived after an hour had passed. It ' h feared that she will go mad. The agitation in the country continues, and i there are families who have left their houses, taking with them their funu*ture and other belongings. Let us hope that the arrest of Mdlle. Clemence may be the last phase of " strange story," which has: completely clouded the lives of the good peasants of picturesque Auvers.