Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-02-04
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The Key of Death.


men. whom extraordinary talen, is only the
featiJily source of crime aud wickedne,s be-
yond lha, Of other ordinary, men, established
himself as merchant or trader in Venice.--
The stranger, whose name was 'febaIlo, b.
came enamored of The daughter Of an ancient
house, already afIianced TO another. lie de-.
mandsd her hand in marriage, bu, ofcourse Has
rejected. Enraged atthis he studied how III
be revenged. y9.l sal@aHsf aI
Profoundly skilled in the mechanical arts h6
allowed himself no rest until he had invented
the most formidable which co;ld be imagined.
This was key Of large size, the handle of
which was so constructed that i, could be turned
with luls difficulty When turned it dl,coy-
cred a spring, which on pressure, launched
from The other end key, or lancet of suitable
fineness, that il entered into the flesh and bu-
ried itself there without leaving an external
trace -.t ifft
Tebaldo waited in Disguise at the door ia
which The maiden W hom is luved " as about to
receive The nuprial benedic,ion. The ASSASSIN
sent the slender steel uhperceived ini3 Tho
breast Of The bridegroom The wounded man
had no suspicion OF injury, bul seized with sud
den pain in he mids, of The ceremony he faint
ed and was carried to his house amid The Iap,-
enla'ions of the bridal party. Vain was all the
skill of the physicians, who could not dvns
the cause of this strange illness and IN Iess
Il he IioI .er ts. f.r.Es
Tebaldo again demanded the hand OF The mai
lden from her parents, and received second
refusal. They 100 perished mlserably in few
days. @ afaaH
The alarm which these deaths, which ap-
peared most miraculous, occasioned, excited
The utmost vigilance OF the magistrate and
when on close examination of the bodies, his
instrument was found in The gangrened flesh,
The terror was universal; every one feared Gor
his own life. The maiden thus cruelty or
phaned. had passed the first months of her
mourning, in convent, when Tebaldo, hoping
to bend her 10 his will, entreated TO speak irh
her al The gate. The face OF The foreigner hai
ever been displeasing 10 her, but since the death
of all those most dear to her, it had became
odions, (as though she had a presentInent Of
his guir,) and her reply was mos, decidedly in
the negative. TebaIdo beyond himself with
rage, attempted 10 wound her through The grals
and succeeded; the obscurity of The place pre-
vented his movements from being observed.
On her return TO her room the maiden felt a
pain in her breast, and on uncorerlng it she
found II spotted with one single drop of blood.
The pain increased; the surgeons who hasten
ed to her assistance, taught by The past, wasted
no time in conjecture, but cutting deep into the
wounded part extracted the needle before any
mischief had commenced, and saved the life
OF the lady.
The State inquisition used every means to
discover the hand which deal, these insidious
and Irresistible blows. The visi. of Tebaldo
to the convent caused suspicion to fall heavily
upon him. His house was carefully searched,
the invention discovered and he perished on the
gibbct.
To make Kitchen Vegetables tender.
When peas, French beans, and similar pro-
duclions, do no. boil easy, il has usually been