PARISIAN TRAGEDIES,

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1699, 14 January 1874, Page 3

PARISIAN TRAGEDIES.

A suicide after supper, another suicide after "breakfast, and the death of a demimonde celebrity, are, says the Standard's correspondent in Paris, the grim subjects of animated conversation on the Boulevards. On Friday night week a noncommissioned officer of cavalry, wearing the stripes of a ma/rechal de logis, drove in a cab to the well-known English restaurant, " Hills," on the Boulevard des Capucinea. There he saw a woman whom he wanted to sup with him. He ran up a bill of 55f 950, and then recommended his fair companion to go home, which she did. In the small hours of the morning he made an excuse to go upstairs, and blew his brains out with a revolver. He had not a halfpenny in his pockets, and no papers to show his identity. His body was taken to the Morgue. On the same day, at an early hour, Madame de Baylens, a lady whose equipages and liveries astonished the Bois de Bpulogne in the time af the Empire, but whose fortunes have 1 ately decayed, received at breakfast, in her lodgings, No, 9 Rue Bayard, one of her few remaining friends. She told him that she must have immediately 600 Df., and on his saying that he was una ble to advance that sum to her, cxc' laimed you will never see me again." He left the house hurriedly, and stumbled ags ,inst her lifeless corpse on the paveme nt. She had thrown herself out of the wij idow before he got down stairs. Mi idame Anna Deslions, another celebrity of the Empire, has just died in great po verty at Amelie-les-Bains She was a sa rt of Dame aux Camelias, and once ye ry wealthy. It is said that she leaves de bts to the extent of LBOOO.