Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-01 | Page 3 | Incident of the Franco-Prussian War

Incident or the Franco-Prussian War. We breakfasted on a bit of chocolate cake and a eip of wine and a rank orui rough ciar, ami nfter a toilsome inarch, broken by the liance thai the telegraph wagons happen! to be going our way a few miles, we reached Gyrze 6oine minutes min-utes after 10 o'clock, and saw a Frenchman French-man hanging by the neck beside a well, , his breast torn by rifle shots a ghastly spectacle, to warn the people that they must not pollute the water to prevent the German soldiery from drinking it. We pushed on, a shade sickened by an object so repulsive. A beautiful bronze figure of on angel, the signal of the establishment of a benevolent sisterhood, appeared above low trees on the right. There was a remote rattle of musketry In the same direction, and occasionally ; the grumbling, beyond wooded hills, of cannon. Marat H.ilstenri