The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-04-24

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which you, dear Jules, have awakened in my
breast, that cannot bul pity all who are shut
| out from entertaining similar one. Jules felt
none Of this pity or sympathy for lie Pere Ian.
guard for win the instructive perception Of quick
sighted love, he had observed the furtive CLAM
ces Of the young priest, directed to Annette, his
disordered hair, and changing cOuntenance, hls
agitation, and tremulous voice, when address,
| ing her, and he liked not the flashing of Lam
guards eve, whenever, as the affianced husband
of Annette, he availed himself of the privileges
that character gave him, on holding her hand
in his, or encircling her small and yielding waist
| with his arm. The purity and reserve Of An.
nette imposed restraint on lie Pere Vanguard,
that bnt increased the violence Of his passion,
and as tho time approached for her nuptals, it
became more ungove:nable.
According to the usages usages of the Roman
Catholic religion, persons about to be united,
confess to their priest the night previous to the
marriage ceremony, and receive the sacrament
the next morning, prior to its celebration.
Annette went 10 the church, which was a.
bout two miles distant from her home, accom-
panied by female neighbor and on arriving,
was told that LIE Pere Languard could net re-
celve her confession until later hour in the g.
Vening. Her companion becoming impatient to
return home, quilted Annette, who informed her
that Jules would come to conduct her back to
her mother. Her friend left her in the twilight
in the church, re2osing on bench. and met Ju"
les on the road, whom she advised not to inter.
rupt the devotions Of his flancee, as il would be
some time ere she would have 6nished. He
loitered about, and at length becoming impa-
tent, proceeded to the church; where not find
ing Annette, and concluding that she had return
ed by another route, he hastened to the house Of
her mother. She had not arrived there. how
ever, and the most fearful apprhensons filled
his mind. He returned again to The church, and
knocking loudly at the house Of Le Pere Lam
guard, which joined it, demanded when Annet.
ie had left the sacred edi6ce. The priest replis
ed, through the window, that she had left the
confession at nine o'clock, and that was all he
knew. Agonized by the widest fears and sus~
picous, Jules aroused all his friends IN the vile
lago, and they proceeded in every direction, cal
ling aloud oD AnnOtte;and the night was passed
in vain searches for the luckless maiden.
Morning, that moraing which was TO have
crowned his happiness for ever, by making An.
nette his own. saw Jules, pale and haggard, dis
traction cleaning in his eyes, and drops of cold
perspiration bursting from his forehead, ap>
proach with his friends the bank of the river,
which they proposed to draw with nets,as being
the only place as yet unexplored.
While we leave them employed in this melan
choly office, we must return to the female friend
who had left Annette at the church. She sought
an interview with the servant of the priest,
whom she closely questioned, as she maintan-
ed that the unhappy girl had decided on returns
ing BY certain route, and had she done so, she
could not have failed to meet Jules, and conse-
quently suspicious Of foul play were excited in
her mind.
The servant stated that lie Pere Vanguard had
given her a commission 10 execute at the village
The evening before, and had told her she might
remain there until tweyle o'clock. This unsol-
icited permission struck her az something extra
ordinary, and she did net avail herself of it 10
the full extent. She returned about nine o clock,
and having let hersefn. was eating her supper,
when she heard violent struggle in the room
above that where she was sitting, and sound
of stiHed groans. She ran up stairs, and find
ing her masters door fastened, she demanded il
he was i'll, as she had been alarmed by hearing
noise. He answered that he hnd merely fall
len over chair: but there was trepidation in
his voice which announced that he was agitat-
ed.
This was al that the servant could state; bui
il was enough to point the suspicious already ex
cited, still more strongly to the priest.
The river was drawn, and close TO its hank
was found the corse of the beautiful and i.fat-
ed Annetle; her disheveed hair, and torn gar
ments, bore evidence to the PERSONAL violence
she had sustained, ere she had been consigned
to a watery grave, and the lvid mark of fingers
on her throat, induced a belief that her death
had been caused by strangulaton, ere she had
been plunged into the river. Fragments of her
dress, found attached to the briers, and locks Of
her beautiful hair caught in them, gave indica.
tons of the route by which her cerse had been
evidently dragged along and were traced even
to the door of the priests house; but when ser,
want came forth, with fragment of the kerr
chief Annette had worn, and which she found
in the ashes where the rest had been consumed
there was mn lenger doubt left in the minds ol
the spectators, of who was tho perpetrator Of the
horrible dead. ,.. ....'
The murderer fled, pursued by the villagers
but having rushed into the river, he gained the
opposite side in safety ere they arrived to see hin
again resume his flight. lie passed the frontier
entered Piedmont, and there overcome with .ht
sense Of his guilt, and nearly dead with fatigue
he gave himself up to the civil authorities.
He was soon after claimed by the French. tri'
&C, and condemned to the galleys for lfe; where
he still drags on miserable existence, not dar'
ing to lift his eyes from the ground, lest he
should meet the glance of horror his presence
never fails 10 excite in all who zee him, ant
know his crime.
Jules. no longer able to remain in spot now
rendered insupportable TO him, gave up his littl'
fortune TO the mother of his A nnette. enlisted
Grenoble, and soon after met his death, gallant
" fighting at Algiers.
The house Of LIE Psre Vanguard has been ra7
ed to tho ground by the inhabitants fthe vii
lags; and monument has been erected to tn,
memory of the lovely but unfortunate Annette.
GOOD SENTIMENTS.
} Agriculture il the nursery of patriotism: