The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-10-19
MiareIla1lfulls Kraaillg.
an itaIiap Jragsog.


the Genoese territory is founded on the
following tragic story; A few years
since there lived at Port Maurice, near
0neglia, two lovers named Anna and
Guiseppa, the former eighteen, and the
latter twenty years of age. The pa
rents had given their consent to their
union, and the wedding day was soon
to be fixed when, during short alb.
sence of Guiseppa, probably brought
about by artfui contrivance; an intri-
guing friend Of the family prevailed
on the mother of the bride to give her
daughter to more wealthy lover.
Anna, overcome by maternal impor-
tunity, did what she had not firmness
to refuse to do, and promised to be-
stow her hand on man for, whom she
had no affection. Grief, however,
soon undermined her health, and by
way of amusement, she was sent to the
mountains to the olive harvest. Her
mother also went to see some relations
in the country, and an elder sister was
left at home.
Anna, nevertheless, grew worse I:
nay, she was so i'll, that her friends,
alarmed for her life, sent her back to
her mothers house. Meanwhile Gui-
seppa had returned and the report of
Annals intended compulsory marriage
soon reached his ears. On the following
Sunday he met her sister at mass, and
with the urgency, and with the resig-
nation-of despair, he implored her to
procure last interview with his be-
loved. They agreed that he should
find 'Anna in the garden in the even
ing by moonlight, while the only guar
dian domestic, an old sailor, was at the
public house.
At the appointed time Guiseppa,
was in the garden, and there he found
his Anna, weak, melancholy, and silent;
she went up to him with faltering steps;
! but in vain he questioned her, in vain
he endeayored to draw from her the
acknowledgement that she still loved
him and acted by compulsion-not a
word could he elicit--mute, pale, and
motionless she stood like beanteous
statue before him. At length he clasp.
ed the adored object in an ardent en-
brace, during which he buried a poig-
nard in her heart. She fell without a
groan. The murderer hastily fled over
the wall of the garden. The sister,
alarmed at Annals protracted absence,
went out into the garden, where she
found her lifeless in her blood, and
with the assistance OF the sailor, who
had returned too latc,. carried her into
the house.
The wretched assassin, impelled by
savage frenzy, after strolling about all
night, again scaled the wall of the gar
den, where. he no longer found his An.
ma, but only only her blood, which he
was busily employed in wiping up with
his handkerchief; when the mother,
ignorant of what had happened, re
turned early in the morning from the
0sltegiatttra, accompanied by the friend
who was the cause Of the catastrophe,
and, unlocking the gate, entered the
garden. The frantic Giuseppe ran to
meet her, and holding the bloody,
handkerchief close to her face, wildly
cried, "Conosci tn nuel sangues" TDo
you know the bloodgo The mother
rushed with fearful presentiment into
the house, where the first object that
met her view was the corpse of her
murdered child. The. maniac again
fled to the caverns of the neighboring
Ymountains. :
+ The corpse was decorated after the
Italian fashion, crowned with a gar
land of myrtle, and deposited the night
before the fnneralin asopen coffin in the
church before the high-altar. Here a
/ person was placed to watch it by the
light Of fconsecrated tapers. After mid
night the assassin suddenly forced his
way into church the affrighted watch
manran of, but stopped at distance to
observe his motions, and beheld the I'M
fortunate Giuseppe covering the re-
mains of her whom he had murdered
from affection, with thousand kisses
and burning tears; after which, with
the rapidly of lighfasing, he dispatched
himself by several pistol shots, and fell
tlifeless on the corpse of bis beloved
victim. The unhappy mother went
irasing mad. Daring her insanity she