Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-07-10

him to bribe the grave digger, by whose assis
sistance he raised her from the mb,and con
veyed her to proper chamber, where by
application of all the remedies he could think
of, she was happily restored to life again
The young woman was probably in great con
sternation when she found herself in a
strange house, beheld her darling lover sit.
ting by her bed, and heard the detail of all
that had befallen her during her paroxysm.-
Her grateful sense of the obligations she lay
under to him, and that love she had always
borne him, proved an irresistible advocate in
his behalf; so that, when she was perfectly res
tored, she justly concluded that she owed her
life to him who had preserved it; and, as a
proof OF her affection, consented to accompany
him to England, where they were married,
and lived for several years in all the tender
endearments of mutual love. About ten
years after, however, they returned to Paris,
where they lived without the care of conceal
ment, because they conceived no one could
ever suspect what had happened. But this
did not prove to be the case, for the collector
unluckily met his wife in a public walk,
where he at once recognized her. He I'M
mediately accosted her, and though she en-
deavored to divert his suspicious, he parted
from her fully persuaded that she was the
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been married, and for whose death he had
gone into mourning. The collector, by great
perseverance, not only discovered her resi-
dence, in spite of all the precautions she had
taken to conceal herself but claimed her as
his wife before the court authorized to decide
IN such cases. In vain did the lover insist
upon his right to her on the ground that he
had taken care of her; that, but for his efforts
and the measures he had resorted to, the la
dy would now haye been rotting in her grave;
that her former husband, who now claimed her,
had renounced all claim to her by ordering
her TO be buried ; that he might justly be
arraigned for murder, in not using the pre-
caution necessary to ascertain her death; and
urged thousand other reasons, suggested by
love; but, perceiving that the court were
not likely to prove favorable to his claims,
he determined not to await their decision, and
accordingly, escaped with his wife to for
eign country, where they continued to live
in the enjoyment of peace and happiness till
leath closed their singular and romantic ca
-eer.
A case of very similar character is stated
to have occurred in Paris, in 1901 Madem-
olselle Lafourcade was a young woman of
great personal beauty and Industrious family,
who possessed great wealth. Among her nu-
nerous suitors was young man, named Ju-
len Bosuet, poor litterateur, or journalist,
If Paris, who proved to be her avorite lover.
Bat her high birth induced her finally to re-
ect him, and to wed banker and diploma
list of some distinction, named NJ. Renalle.-i
This gentlemen, however, after marriage, ne
elected and treated her with cruelty. She
passed with him some years of wretchedness.
md died,-as it was supposed for her condi-
ion so perfectly resembled death as to de-
;eive all who saw her. She was buried in
n an ordinary grave, in the village in which
he was born. Bosuet, filed with despair, and
till inhamed by a profound attachment, hast
'ned from the capital the to province in which
he village lay, with the romantic purpose
If disinterring the corpse and getting possess
ion of her luxurient tresses as memento of
Ter. At midnight he secretly unearthed the
ofin, opened it, and, while in the act of de-
aching the hair, he was stopped by the un-
losing of the eyes of her he so tenderly and
rdently loved. She was aroused by the ca
esses other lover from her lethargy or cata-
epsy, which had been mistaken for death. He
rantically bore her to his lodgings in the vii
age, and Immediately employed the powerful
which his medical learning sue-
ested. She revived, and recognized her pre-
erver, and remained with him until she slowly
ecovered her original health. She bestowed
er heart upon her preserver, and returned
o more to her husband, but, concealing from
i'm her resurrection, fled with him to Amer
"a. Twenty years afterwards, they both re-
urned to France, in the persuasion that time
ad so greatly altered the lady'S appearance
ognize her. But it would seem thay were
mistaken. Her former husband, at the first
leeting, actually recognized and immedi-
tely laid claim to his wife. OF course this
lain was resisted, and judicial tribunal
ustained her and her preserver. 1t was de-
ided that the peculiar circumstances Of the
ase, with the long lapse of years had annul-
ID the original contract and the legality of