The Gazette des Tribunaux announces the discovery and arrest of
a gang of sixty robbers in Paris, the great majority of whom were libe- rated convicts.
The Paris and provincial newspapers are filled with details of disas- ters occasioned throughout the country by storms, tempests, and light- ning. The weather had, however, become settled, and hopes were entertained that the harvest and vintage would yet be fine and abundant.
A deplorable occurrence took place at Apt, in the Vaucluse, a few days ago. Two old men, the one aged eighty and the other seventy, bad quarrelled and resolved to fight a duel ! They went without any seconds into a distant field, and after a sharp contest with swords, one of them fell mortally wounded. Some children who were near ran to the town to give the alarm, and the survivor was soon after arrested.
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