The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-09-30
uNRETUENED AFFECTION.

The Boston papers throw some light
nnon the suicide of tho two young girls
OF Manc hester, N. H., who drowned them
selves Angus, IA.
Miss Cochran, in early life, became
strongly attached TO young man with
whom she went 10 school. For six years
up to last March, they kept up regu-
lar and alfactionaie correspondence. Last
March he wrote TO her that she need not
write to him again till sh1 heard from him.
She did write sevefnl letters, to which no
response came. She was 10 c>me INFO
possession Of several thousand dollars a,
81 years Of age. Her last billet ad-
dressed to the youth for love OF whom
she gave up her lie at nineteen is in
these words:
AND NOW DEAREST: must write you
few lines though ere you receive ihem,
will be cold in death. Do not think Of
me with regret, for lis better that ii
should de so.
zone more unfortunate weary Of breath,
Rashy importunate gone to her DEATH"
Iforgive all who have injured ME, and
crave forgiveness of yon, if have erred,
and know have. b. happy and iorge'
mc not Even if you marry, still i will
not be wicked to cast thought on your
own Clara. and no one would love YOU
the less for il. | will, | hope, he buried
in Vermont, by tho side Of my mother
Farewell.
| shall soon in death be sleeping,
Far away where strangers dwell
Far from all those haunts Of pleasure
Th1t in youth loved so well.
Flowers shall not be o'Rr me planted,
Nor shall willows o'e: ME wave,
Marble columns, decked with grandeur,
No'or shall mark my humble grave.
Friends will shed no tears of sadness
When nv dream OF life is o'er,
For around me all are strangers
am on distant shore.
A young man in Bddeford, Maine,
b"gan to show Miss Cotton many altens
lions, and became her lover. The time
was Sc, for their marriage: Miss Cotton
ven, home to Pownal 10 mike prepnra-
lions, pot rendy and returned TO Bddle-
ford one week before the day appointed
for tho nnp,iaI ceremony, when she was
informed by her lover that he had changed
his mind, and concluded not 10 marry her.
Her aff ,clions were not to be changed,
and for II months she balhed her pillow
in lenrs, finding relief in sel(>deslEnclon
Oae Of her letters runs thus:
CYRUs:--Several months have elapsed
snce | saw you, and how many sad hour:
| have seen within that time! aud otter
think, o, that | had never seen yon
Wnilc yon are enjoying yourself in 'h'
gay world, remember that you have bee'
rhe destroyer of ihe happiness of ont
Thai loved you sincerely. If yon ha'
,reated mo as you should, you woul'
have found in me devoted friend.
How many times you promised
That you would marry me,
But, ah! now little did think
That | sl ould ruined be.
PRAY, think how you have wronge1 me,
Remember what you've said,
And may it not escape your mind
When on your dying bed.
And when our bodies, they are laid,
Beneath the cold, cold clod,
Our spirits will return unto
A just and holy God.
Farewell, Cyrus, and my you enjo
that happiness your Caihatine can nevt
' share! have forgiven you. In fe'
moments l shall be free from the sorrow
: of this world, and I cannot be more IN
happy in another. When you read !hls
think ,ha, | am dead, and shall one da
meet you in another world!