Washington telegraph., 1851-11-26

BRIDE OF his affections. Oh, sir, the house
assumed new appearance within and
without.
Roses bloomed in their garden, jessa-
mines peeped through the la:tices, and
fields about it smiled with the effects of
careful cultivation. Lights were seen iu
the little parlor in the evening; and many
time would the passer-by pause by The
garden gate TO listen to strains Of the
sweetest music, breathed by coral voices
from the cottage. If the MYSTERIOUS stu
dent and his wife nad been neglected by
the neighbors, what cared they? Their
enduring mutual affection made :heir
home little Paradise. But death came
to Eden. Mary suddenly fell sick, and
after few hours illness, died in the arms
of her husband and her sister Madeline
This was the Students second heavy af-
Fiction.
"Davs and months rolled on, and the
solace of the bereaved was to sit with
the sisters of the deceased and talk of
the lost one. To Adelaide he offered his
widowed heart. The bridal was not one
of revelry and mirth. Yet they lived
happily, and the rose again blossomed as
fatality pursued this singular man. When
the rose withered, and the leaf fell, in the
mellow autum of the year, Adelaide too
sickened and died like her sister in the
arms of her husband and Madeline
"Perhaps you will think it strange;
Young man, that afte all, the wretchsd
survivor stood again at the alter. Made
line. | we'll remember her. She was
Il, of he
she might have sat upon a throne, and
the most loyal subject, the proudest peer,
would have sworn the blood in her VEINS
descended from hundred Kings. She
loved the widowed for his power and his
fame, and she welded hlm.
They were married in that church.
it was on a summer atternOon-l recol-
lect it we'll During the ceremony, the
blackest cloud | ever saw over spread the
Heavens, aud the moment this BRIDE pro
uounced her vow, clap OF thunder shook
the building 10 its centre. All The females
shrieked. but the bride herself made the
response, with a steady voice, and her
eye glistened with wild fire as she
gazed upon her bridegroom. When ar.
rived at his house, she sunk upon the
threshold; but this was the timidity of the
maiden.
"W hen they were alone, he clasped
her hand, and it was cold as ice. He
looked into her Madeline, said he,
what means this? Your cheek is as
pale as your wedding gown The bride
uttered shrek. My wedding gown.
exclaimed she, no, no; this is my sisters
Oh. of hop
rived. 1t is God that impcls me to speak.
To win you l lost my own soul. Yes,
yes-I am a murderess. She smiled on
me in the joyous affection of her young
heart-but l gave her the fatal drug
Adelaide twilled her white arms around
my neck, but | administered the poison.
Take me TO your arms; l have lost my
soul for you, and mine you must be.
land then, continued he, i'll hallow
voice, at that moment came the thunder.
and the guilty woman fell dead on the
floor" Tie countenance of the narrator
expressed all ha felt.
"'Aud the bridegroom. asked I, 'the
husband of the destroyer aud the victims
what become of him."
"'He SANDS before you.' was the
thrilling answer.
DANIEL WEBsTER's FARM. In the
course of biography of Daniel Webster,
published i'll the Boston Bee, the follow
ing anecdote occurs:
I'm the vacation MIR. Webster took
his family to visit nice little place
which had been assigned to him by
creditor, Oh the road from Meredith
Bridge to Meredith Village, containing
five acres more or less. After riding