Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-13
ANECDO1E OF LOVE.
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From the German.
1t is not long since the following extraordinary ad
venture is said to have taken place in one Of the
districts of Hungary
A number of worlzmen being engaged
opening a communication between two
mines, discovered the body of miner,
| apparently about twenty years of age,
whose position showed that he had fallen
victim to one ofthe accidents of frequent
occurrence in these subterraneous excava-
tions.
The men remarked, that the body SEEM
ed to have lost nothing of it's fiexibility
and suppleness and the state of perfect
preservation likewise, in which it was
found, was attributed, by scientific men,
to the effect of the vitriolic water in the
mine.
On being exposed TO the air, the body
became stiff; but the features and express
sion of the face we're not changed. Still
it could not be recognized, although there
was confused recollection in the neigh
bourhood respecting the time when the ac-
cident occurred, reported through the Will
age to have been above half century ago
No farther inquiries, however, were made
and they quietly proceeded to inter the
corpse according to the usual forms, when
all at once there appeared an old woman,
Fastening as fast as her crutches would
carry her towards the spot. On hearing
the circumstance, she had quilted her bed,
where she had been confined during many
years, and insisted upon seeing the features
of the deceased. Spite of the wrinkles
and fixed expression of her countenance,
it betrayed uncommon agitation and anxi-
ETY., mingled with singular air of satisiac-
ton, which had in it something almost
supernatural and inspired.
She approached, and fixed her eyes
upon the features of the corpse, threw aside
the long hair that concealed part of the
forehead, then bursting into tears and
piercing cries, she exclaimed, that she had
found the body of her lover, to whom she
was on the eve of being united sixty years
before, when he so suddenly disappeared.
When her tears had ceased to flow, she
returned thanks to heaven for having per-
mitted her to behold once again the object
of her first attachment, adding, "Now, in
deed, shall die content"
The violence of her feelings had been
more than her feeble frame could support.
The peasants wished to carry her home
but her mind seemed to have broken the
last links that bound it to earth, and she
was laid in the same grave with him, from
whom she had been SO long and strangely
separated.
ORIGINAL ANECDoTE. In one of our
country taverns few years since, there
happened to be number Of respectable far
mers clad in the usual habit, when a spruce
young gentlema$f came n, rugged in the
highest Style with watch in his pocket,
who strutted round the room, with great
pomp, dingling his gold watch keys and seals
in the most foppish manner. After swagger-
ing about the room few minutes he cried
out and challenged any man in the room to
drop money with him, one piece at time,
and the one whose purse held out the long
est, should take the whole and treat the
company. No one at first appeared disposed
to accept his challenge, which only tended
to render the fop the more inflated with an
idea of his superior wealth, and he became
the more earnest. At length, rusty look
ing, but shrewd, old farmer observed, if no
one else would accept of his offer, he would
do it. at is done," said the fop, and imme-
diately called on third man to hold the hat,
and commenced the game, by dropping a
piece of money into the hat. The farmer
then put his hand into his pocket and took
out what was called a bungtoWn copper and
dropt it into the hat. The fop Immediately
dropt in his second piece, when the farmer,
feeling in his pocket after another piece, but
finding none, gravely observed, own beat
I've got no more-you may take the whole
and treat the company.-Montpelier Patriot