The Nevada journal., 1852-02-14
THE THREE BRIDES.
A THRILLING STORY.


"Do you s,e," said the sextol
"those three hillocks yonder, side b
side? There sleeps three brides who's
history l am about to relate. Loo
there, sir, on yonder hill you observ
a little desolate house, with decaye
fence in front, and few stunted ap
pie trees on the ascent behind it.
is sadly out of repair, and the gardel
is now overgrown with weeds ant
brambles, and the whole place has
desolate appearance. If the wind
were high now, you might hear Graz,
shutters Tapping against the sides ant
the wind tearing the grey shingles Of
the roof. Many years ago, there lived
in that house an old man and his son
who cultivated the few acres of grourc
that belonged to it.
"The father was a selftaught man
deeply versed in the mysteries of sci
ence, and as he could tell the name Of
every flower that blossomed in the
wood, or grew in the garden, and used
to sit up late at night at his books, or
reading the mystic story of the starry
heavens, men thought he was crazed
or bewitched, and avoided him as the
ignorant ever shun the gifted and en-
lightened. A few there vera, and
among others, the minister, the lawyer
and the physician of the place, who
showed willingness to afford him
countenance, but they soon dropped
his acquaintance, for they found the
old man somewhat reserved and mo-
rose, and moreover their vanity was
wounded on discovering the extent of
his knowledge.
"To the ministers he would quote
the fathers and the scriptures in the
original tongue, and showed himself
armed with the weapons of polenic
controversy. He astonished the law
yer with his profound acquaintance
with Jurisprudence and the physician
was astonished at the extent of his
medical knowledge. So all of them
deserted him, and the minister from
whom he differed in some trifing point
of doctrine, spoke very lightly of him,
and by and by looked on the self ed
ucated farmer with eyes of aversion.
she instructed his son in all his
lore, the languages, literature, history,
philosophy and science were unfolded
one by one to the enthusiastic son of
the solitary.
"fears rolled away, and the old
man died. He died when sudden
storm convulsed the face Of nature !;
when the wind howled around the shell
tered dwelling, and the lightning play
ed above the roof, and though he went
to heaven in faith and purity, the vul-
gar thought and said the Evil one had
claimed his own in the elements;
cannot paint to you the grief of the
son at this bereavement. He was for
a moment as one distracted. The
minister came and uttered few hol-
low phrases in his ear, and few
neighbors, impelled by curiosity to see
the interior of his dwelling, came to
his funeral. With a proud and lofty
look, the son stood above the dust and
the dead, in the midst of the band of
hypocritical mourners, with a pang at
his heart but serenity on his brow. =
He thanked his friends for their kind
ness, acknowledged thcir courtesy and
then strobe away from rrc 4rave, to
bury his grief in the privacy of the
deserted dwelling.
"He found at last the solitude of
the mansion almost insupportable, and
he paced the ebony floor from morn
ing till night, in all the woe and DESC
lation, vainly importuning heaven for
relief. 1t came to him in the guise of
poetic inspiration. He wrote with
wonderful ease and power. Page af-
ter page came from his prolific pen,
almost without an effort, and there
was a time when he dreamed vain
MANI of Immortality, Some of his
productions came befere the world.
They were praised and circulated; ;
and inquiries set on foot in the hope
of discovering the author. He, wrap
ped in the veil of impenetrable obs
scurity, listened to the voice of ap.
plause, more delicious because it was
obtained by stealth. From the OBJ
scurity of yonder lone mansion, and
from this region to send lays which
astonished the world, was indeed a
triumph in the visionary bard.
I" His thirst for fame had been graf
ified, and he now began to yearn for
the companionship of some sweet be-
ing of the other sex, to share with him
the laurels he had won, and to whis-
per consolation in his ear in moments
of despondency, and 10 supply the void