Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-11-20
THE LOST DAUGHTER-A THRILLING IN
CInENT.

Cleveland Plaindealer, says:
An incident occurred on last Thursday af.
ternoon, which filed the town with much
excitement, and which called forth many a
legend of the kind remembered by the old.
est inhabitants.
few boys, who had been out on a hunt.
ing excursion, called at one of their neigh
Dor's and began shooting at a mark. A little
girl about eight years old, who had formerly
had an illness that had effected her head
got alarmed at the firing, and ran into the
woods.
In short time she was missed, and i,
was remembered that she had been running
towards the woods, and consequently search
began, but night came on, and with it lain
which rendered farther search for her lhi
night impossible Morning came, and yet
the little wanderer had not returned. lis
frantic parents, with one other child, made
further search till the sun had passed the
hour of twelve, and yet no tidings of the lost
one were had. The neighborhood was
alarmed, and dogs, horns, and every insru-
TO, the search, but again night, with its
Egyptian horrors set in, without restoring
the little cherished one. Minutes seemed
hours, with its distracted mother.
AT length the long wished for morning
came, and with it a hundred men and boys,
who, Notwithstanding the still continued
storm, went forth into The depths of the
woods, in search OF the child, with an eager
ness that was commendable beyond the
compass of words TO express, and yet again
night set in and still the lost was not found.
What the agonies Of The mother were, as the
marshalled force returned without her little
charge, tears, shrieks, g-oans, incoherent
ejaculation, and picture of despair, can only
portray, words are inadequate Another
dreadful night was passed. An increased
force was raised, who marshaled themselves
with the dawn Of the Sabbath, before the
door Of the bereaved parents. Prayers were
offered 10 Almighty God, and the aid of
heaven invoked, 10 direct in the search. The
prelimnaries being around long time was
formed upon the section lines, and the march
renewed. Hour after hour passed, and moi
a vesige of the missing was discovered.
Every tree, stump and log, possessing a
suspicious cavity, underwent the closest scru-
tiny; every bush and lhicket, lhckly folia-
ged, every fir and cradle knoll was visited
as the band pressed onward. Long and ar
dent was the search, and many fears for the
lost little one wero entertained. The sun
had far passed the zenith, and was fastening
behind the Western hill, when an elderly
man and his son partly discouraged as well
as wearied with the search, were drawn by
the hand Of an invisible pilot, in an opposite
direction, far from the the band and while
standing and dscoursing upon the propriety
of abandoning further search, n distant sound
broke upon their ear. They fastened in the
direction from which the sound proceeded,
and having travelled as far as practicable,
they halted and listened few minutes very
iEdenly; again that sound was heard, and
turning few steps in another direction,
what was the surprise 10 behold the little
object of their search sitting upon the ground,
having just awakened and arisen from a bed
of leaves, which i, had collected by the side
of an old log. There the little innocont sat,
in her tattered dress, sobs and sighs heaved
her swollen cheeks.
AS she caught the first glimpse of her de-
liverers, she asked for something 10 eat
"Oh,n said she, t1 have been obliged TO 60
10 bed nights without my supper; please 10
rri, tn
the little sufferer, and started for home, which
was about four miles distant. While passing
through snarl of tall grass, they asked the
girl if she had passed through any such
grass. "Oh, yes" said she, "l have travel
Ell great way through much taller grass
than this, and would call for my father 10
come and get me, but he would moi would
call for my mother TO come and get me, but
she would rot then | would call for my lit
tie brother, and he would not come after me.
So Travelled on" On being then asked if
she slept warm at nights, said eyes, but the
first night my little brother went 10 bed with
me, and in the night he pulled off all the
clothes, so | got cold" Arrived in sight of
the house, the distracted mother rushed forth,
her hageard counlenance now irradlated with
the gratitude of heaven for the deiverance
of her child, and as she received and pres
sed the little wandered 10 her breast, ex-
claimed, "my daughter is safe"
PROTESTANT EXCITEMENT IN EUROPE.
The case of francesca and Rosa MADIAI,
at Florence, is exciting great deal of alten-
tion and OF feeling in the protestant and free
countries of Europe. Depua,ions of highly
influential men have gone from Prussia and
England 10 intercede with the Tuscan Gov
eminent for the annullng of their sentence.
They were condemned for "impiety," the
husband 10 Sc months and the wife 10 45
months Imprisonment at hard labor. The
"impiety" consisted simply in teaching a
servant girl in their house 10 read The Bible
The case has been appealed 10 The hiphest