The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-05-20

some wears since, through Connecticut, in
her fathers carriage,when they were brought
to stop by woman, coming from cottage,
near which they had passed, and beckoning
to them. Drawing the rein tight and stop
ping his horse, Mr.. T. waited her approach.
As she came nearer, her face appeared intel
ligent and very attractive, but melancholy
withal, and her eye was restless and rowing;
but as she reached the side of the carriage,
and laid her hand on the window edge, she
gazed with intense earnestness into the face
of the lady, and asked, "Have you seen
William, any whereof =.
| Startling as the proximity of a deranged
person manifestly must have been, the lady
had sufficient presence of mind to assure her
that she had not seen William, and the poor
watcher by the roadside turned away with
sigh.
Years had passsd, and the incident was al
most forgotten, when few weeks ago tne
same lady, now the wife of lawyer IN tnis
city, was riding through Fulton street, IN
Brooklyn. A loud cry attracted her atteh-
ton, and looking at the sidewalk, she saw
a woman with streaming hair and wlId eye
running down the street, screaming, Wlily'
Willy, Willy, in avoice that seemed as she
described it to be, so unutterably mourhlul
and thrilling, that it must reach the ear OF
him she called, unless that ear was sealed in
the silence of death.
Was it the same person she had met long
aoo in Connecticut! and had her poor wan
dering brain been searching all these years
for the boy she loved, and searching all in
vain! Who was he, and where on the broad
earth could he keep himself out of the reach
of that wild love! She had asked a million
persons if they had seen him, and none knew
him. She had called him in the forest, in
the crowded city, in the day and in the night,
now hopefully, now mournfully, and always
he had answered her not. Orwas he, per-
chance, beyond answering; and did the voice
reach him in that land whence he might not
reply to her, however much his soul might
yearn to her! Mayhap, if so it be, and he
strive hard d,-mayhap some pleasant evening,
when she sits all alone and murmurs his
name in accents of unchanging affection,
God may grant to him utterance in tones
that will reach her worn old heart, and then,
then-how it will spring back through the
r lonesome years, and with the freshness and
beauty of youth and youthful love go forth to
meet him. Or, as these lines will in one day
90 further than she can in thousand, if viii.
. liam be any where on earth and his con.
! science tells him he is wandering from the
I love he owes allegiance to, let him know
when he reads this, that there is ringing
8 through all the world, now here, now there
voice that is calling him mourniully, bu
n oh, how lovingly, back to arms that yearn t.
:. embrace him.-N. Y. Jour. Of Commerce.
i ONJIn the eastern part of Delaware coun
/ ty, N. Y, resides b, a justice of tht
n peace, and sensible man, but by common
l. consent the ugest looking individual in the
county; being long gaunt, sallow and awry
% with a gait like u kangaroo. One day HI
e was out hunting, and met man on foot ant
m alone, who was longer, gaunter, uglier by
r. all odds, than himself. He could give tn,
=, Squire" fifty and beat him. Without I
>" word, b raised his gun and deliberately
st levelcd it at the stranger. "For goodnes
er sake, don't shoot" shouted the man in grea
ur alarm. STRANGER" replied b" 81 swor
!, ten years ago that if ever | met man uge
than Twas, would shoot him; and you ar
~ the first one have everseen." The straI
ne ger, after taking u careful survey of his r
sh val, replied, "Wal, captin, eff | look an
wuss than you do, shoot! don't want to liv
=, no longer. .".-KnOck.
70 UNGRArEFUL SON.-The following is cir
he ped from the Senate proceedings as rcporte
at in the Journal. The statement of the pet
or TONERS is too revolving to be thought true I
ne any human being:
es Mr.. Mack, from the committee on Publ
ID. l., L., to Ga
"' red the petition of the Trustees of MAI
rs' tua township, Portage county, in retc
at ence to u case which they state thus: "a
mt unnatural son, residing in this townshi
vo who is worth at least 100000 turned his o
Mother away, like an old horse to die, fe
years ago. She was then supported at puI
~ lie expense, and is now dead! Last Januur
H. his aged Father,R helpless and dependel
old man, whose head was whitened with Il
SHOWS of 81 winters, was consigned, by tn
a brute of son to the county poor-house
'c- On which the Trustees pray for law
A. compel children, who are able, to take cal
en- of their helpless parents-reported the
A. think such case should be regulated by puI
re lie opinion. They remarked that they the
he such treatment by children was evidence
an bad bringing up. They asked to be dischar
nst ed from the further consideration of the su
ler ject.
nm A GHOST IN LovE.-The Abeille Ca
md choise tells the following story:
s. "a few nights ago worthy farmer, livir
near Yvetot,who has lately become widow
he cr, was aroused at midnight by the loud bari
no. ing of his dog. On going to it the amin
in betrayed extreme terror, whcreupon the ia
a mcr took his gun, and proceeded to an il
'us spcction. All at once he saw horrid phal
tie tom, clothed in white sheet, rise behind Il
hedge The farmer turned deadly pale, al
ns- shook his limbs with dismay. lie howeve
ty, contrived to calculate, "If you come fro
.he God, speak, if from the devil, vanish!"-
wn "Wretch!" exclaimed the phantom, 81 a
your wife, come from the grave to warn yC
las not to marry Marie A., to whom you Al
nd. making love. The only woman to succet
me, is Henrietta B. Marry her, or pc
oJ secut;on and eternal torment shall be d
~ DOOM" This strange address from the go
,Io lin, instead of dismaying the farmer, resto
7, ed his courage. He accordingly rushed on Il
IN ghostly visitor, and stripping off its sheet
u.s. discovered the fair Henrietta b herse
'in looking excessively foolish, 1t is said tn
oi the farmer, admiring the girls trick has h.
~ ~ the bands published for his marriage with he
ht CHEESE AND BUTTER.-Geauga county,
M this State, according to the last census r
hd ports, produces annually, 2,39S,27O poun