Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-05-25
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Long Cherished Revenge.

its dusty archives many tale of love, Of sor-
row, Of blighted affection, Of bitter, remorseless
persecution, and of long cherished vengeance,
which needs not the pen of Warren or
Dickens TO invest il with every attribute of
startling interest which can make the widest
narrative Of fiction
In the year 1885, there came into the county
Of Lapeer German, from the province of
Wurteniberg, by the name Of UIrch, bringing
with him young and attractive wife, to whom
he had been some years married. This lady,
when girl, had boen belle in her little
nelghborhood, in Wurtemberg, and had been
sought in marriage by more than one anxious
suitor, and among them was one Daum, by
whom she was courted, and to whom she had
extended such encouragement as led him TO fix
his affections upon her with all the fervor of
the German heart. Daum was a man Of un-
usual strength Of mind, of stern and impressive
demeanor, Of great depth Of feeling, but, as The
sequel will show, Of the most implacable dis
position when his animosities had been aroused.
lie loved the girl with that intensity natural to
men so constituted, and having few or no
aHinties with others, owing TO his reserved
and murose disposition, he commenced by Law
ishng his hours of leisure, and the earnings of
his industry upon her alone. Unlike her lover
in all respects, the girl was attractive, fond of
society, and unstable in her affections and
when the wedding day came, to which Daum
had long and impatently looked forward, as
the consummation Of his bliss, after the we'd
ding guests had met, she told him that she
loved him not, and never could be his Daum
sold his estate, and removed at once from the
scene of discontinue TO distant province.
Time passed on, and the lady was again
wooed and won by lght-hearted and comely
youth, her former suffers superior in personal
appearance, but his inferior in wealth anG in
tellect. His courtship was now followed by
marriage, the news Of which reaching the self
banlshed Daum, reused every latent feeling OF
rage and jealousy of which his strong heart
was capable, and he turned 10 the scene Of his
former happiness, insligated by the sole desire
for rcrenge! He skulked about the neigh
borhood, lying hid during the day time for the
most part, but watching every opportunity to
way-lay and destroy his rival AT length they
met in a wild, narrow mountain pass deadly
and fierce struggle took place, at the termina-
tion Of which Ulrich was left upon the ground
slain, as his assassin supposed. Daum fed,
and Ulrich recovered and returned to his wife,
pale, bleeding, and faint. The officers of JUS
tice sought for Daum in vain he had fed 10
England, where he spent the next six wears Of
his life.
The circumstances had passed away from
the public mind, and the parties most ineres-
ted had ceased to think of them, or to feel any
apprehension at Daum's return. Five years
passed on, and the married couple, with their
children, joined party who were emigrating
to America, aud settled in the county of La
peer. There they resided in quiet comfort and
happiness for three years. The wild farm had
began to assume the appearance of cultivation
the Lighthouse TO be encircled with creepers
and Towering shrubs-the white-haired chill
dren played around the door-the old German
hound lay watchfuly at the gate, and the tru-
ant sweetheart, now a cOmely matron, sang al
her wheel the sweet songs Of her Faderand.-
All was peace in this sequestered home, when,
at the close of bright day in August, 1898,
~ tha y-bi
swered by the woman, who, upon opening 1t,
met face TO face her old sutor. The recogni
tion was mutual-not word was said between
them, but while the heart of one of them sunk
within her from very fear, that Of the other
was reused TO a frenzy, which made itself man
ifest in wild CLEAN Of long pen.-up ven
geance.
The husband was absent, having got upon a
distant hunting excursion in pursuit Of deer.
and all that night, with doors and windows
barred, sleepless, fearful, trembling wretcher,
awaited his return. He came not, and his step
never again crossed that threshold.
Precisely one year to-day from the time Of
the occurrence Just narrated, Mr.. Thorn, an
old resident of Lapeer county, walking upon
baImy Sunday morning upon the borders Of
one of those beautiful little lakes which lie
embosomed upon the flowery openings Of that
country, found upon the beach, just within the
waters edge, a human skull AT loss TO ac-
count for its appearance there, he followed up
the steep bold bank which overhangs the lake,
and upon lis verge, found the body to which
the skull belonged. A jury was summoned TO
the spot, and the remains were at once identl-
fed by the halffranlic widow, whose wounds
were opened afresh by the discovery which
shut out forever the last ray Of hope which had
fingered ia her breast for long, sad year.
The cause and manner of the death of the
murdered man were obvious by an examination
of the skelctnn-a rifle ball piercing through
the vertebraI column from behind, had passed
out through the breast bone, The murdered
man had never known who or what had took
his life He lay as he fell, npon his face,
with his undischarged rife resting by his side,
and upon his bleaching skeleton the hunting