The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-10-07

anu ike the leaf he SINKS for ever.
0EF The following article is republished at
the request of one acquainted with the parties,
of whom it speaks, who assures us that the
facts therein set forth are literally true.
From the Boston Evening Gazette.
MISS A. NJ. S.
A. M. was the only child of Mr.. S., re-
spectacle gentleman of New York, at which
place she was born. Her father died when
she was yet an infant; her mother after
wards married Mr.. W., who was possessed
of a little wealth, by whom she had two
children, son and a daughter. At an
early age, her step-father sent her to a
school of deserved reputation, where, being
! an apt scholar, she soon became initiated
into the rudiments of an English education ;
and, ere many years had passed, she was the
brightest ornament of the school, not only
for application to her studies, but also for
her mild demeanor and gentle and obliging
disposition. Mr.. W., being man of plain
and industrious habits, thought she had now
sufficiently advanced in education and
knowing it might be his misfortune to be
deprived of the little wealth he had accu-
mulated by his industry-and sickness or
death would disable him from providing for
the necessary wants of his little family-he
thought It prudent to give to each of the
children, three in number, trade, which,
at later period of life, they might resort
| to, should fortune frown upon them.
Twill pass over the trivial incidents which
filled the history of the earlier part Of her
! life, and hasten to the period when she be-
came acquainted with him whose name
! should he blotted from this page.
She had now attained the twenty-ffth
year of her age, when she was introduced
to g., who boarded in the same house where
| she then resided ito be nearer to her place
of business, she had left her parents resi-
dence-a mutual esteem was founded on
this introduction, for she was one to whom
a stranger 10 her heart could not refuse to
acknowledge there was something in her
! looks and manners that entitled her to his
respect, yes, his love; and E., too, was
! gifted with prepossessing appearance, and
seemed to possess heart open to the gen.
tie impulse Of the most tender and endear-
ing claims of honor and of virtue.
A few months after their acquaintance
she was seized with violent attack of fe-
ver which confined her about six months
( to her bed, and threatened her life. Here
it was that E. displayed that kindness
and attachment, which gained the love of
her, for whom he cherished the warmest
regard His was the first to assist her to
her trifiing wants. and to bring such dain-
ties as the nature of her complaint would
permit her to partake Of On her restora-
zion to health, his attention to her was not
forgotten-and he was made her bosom
friend, the partaker in her joys and griefs
| and ere many months had fled, she requited
his attachment with her heart and hand.
By this act Of heartfelt gratitude, she for
feited the care and love of her mother and
step-father for ever-who not liking E.,
deemng him unworthy of her hand, were
averse to the union-but love overruled all
objections, and they were welded.
A year passed on, and she was now a
mother-and the tender pledge of their at
lection, daughter, repaid her for the loss
of parents love and again she felt hap
ply, when at eve, the tolls and perplexities
of the day being banshed, with her infant
in her arms, thus seated by her husband
she would recount the events of the proceed
ing hours, and speak of pleasures and joys
they would behold in days to come-in days
when they should behold their little inno-
cent ripened to a maturer age, and basking
in the sunshine of halcyon hours of happl-
ness-hours, alas, she never was doomed to
see.
Two years had now gone by, and the
prospect of more lucrative business offering
in Boston, they made all necessary arrange
ments for their departure and in few days
arrived at this city, which was to become
inc place of their permanent residence
F. soon obtained employment in one
OF the many large clothing establishments
IN thus place, as the foreman thereof; the
duties appertaining to which, he was fully
competent to discharge in faithful man.
ner. About three weeks after their arrival
an incident occurred which was the ultimate
cause of the death of her whose tale now
recount. Il, accompanied by one o