American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-07-05

blue waters, and she needed it not. b..
How she wal6f&d the days in their pas
sing. She. noted how the summer wan
ed--how the field Of waving grain grew
yellow in the sunGght-she heard the glad
voices of the reapers; and when the leaves
were falling, the children went nut gather
ing in the W. DDS; then the noiseless snow
fell, and lay on the hillside as in olden
days, untilthe genial spring tide sun mel
ted it away, and the violets, and harebells
dotted the fields. So passed year. e e
- She was growing fairer and more beau
tiful--loo brilliant for anything earthly.
Once she knelt at the alter in the little
church, and listened TO the words uniting
her with lhe Sayiour's 5 redeemed on earth;
butt was only anpulward dform, for her heart
had long been in the keeping Of angels.
Again she watched the waning of the sum
mer days, and, when the soft wind swept
over the .silvery rye fields, she thought
of the ocean aiar, with its broad waves.
All through the winter day she grew more
spiritual in her beauty, and the slender
white handswere often folded on her breast,
and she prayed for those who would soon
be left desolate; for she knew she was dy-
ling. ".s. ....a.,t, s,ea .i.f -.
! 1t did not startle her; she had felt long
. ago that the fair green earth would hold
her pulseless heart, ere il had left the clio.
! lister of girlhood. Life was sweet and
beautiful, yet, in her sinlessness, death had
} no agony, save her sorrow for those left in
loneliness. Ii was only very little way
tothe land of rest, and her feethad never
grown weary, yet she longed to look once
Z more upon the flowers and have them
braided in her hair; and so she fingered
till the voice Of spring was heard on the
hill-tops. rs.fs.s,. -.zs-.f.a-t
:, One morning, when yiewless hands
were gathering back the misty curtains Of
the night, and The stars grew. dim in the
glory of carly morn, sweet Alice stood on
} the Threshold of Para iise, and the golden
gates were opened to the fair, meek girl.
There trembled on her lips a prayer and
blessing for Ben Bolt, and her mother
, giving radiance to the fair dead face; and
, they braided spring flowers in her brown
t hair. -,--. 20 J..r-srsr. ..E.
The church bell chimed softly to the few
years. earth had claimed the Stainless sou
S Of Alice May, as they brougbtthe cofir
: in the little old church. How beauiiiu
, she looked in her burial robe-too fair and
RI sweet for deati--loo holy, had there moi
been a resurrection beyond. Close be
5 hind her stood the friends of her girlhood
: gazing on that young face, as if they would
) fain call her back TO life and its sweet love
D So they laid sweet Alice to sleepi the old
t church-yard, and those who had looked
: coldly on her, took TO their sorrowins
: hearts sweet memory Of the early dead
7 There. was au agony too deep for utter
ance when the strcng, ardent-hearted man
I whose guiding star had been the love o
r that sweet girl, came back, 10 find the cot
9 tage home desolate, and Alice sleeping
7 beneath gray stone in the church yard
: But God and Time are merciful; and "a!
0 years passed away. he came to think hel
t as garlanded in the golden fruitage of th'
, EdenIand. 1-, ( ...., .. ..s..,. >,la
4, This was the memory that his friene
l sang of, as they sat in the summer twilight
, years afterward, and talked of the faces
r that bad glimmered and faded in their ear
7 ly pathway. Now, of all the glad hearts
childhood had clustered together, only they
Y two were left. Some slept in the jungle
(; depths; otherin the forest shade, and be
: meath the waving prairie grass. Som'
Q there were who slept peacefully in th'
S green old church yardj and among these
7 the fairest and bestIwas s''SweetAlice. !" All
. , L. ao,,Jl ,ooua, In fo,c.otton that
i He had heard from the lips oftbat desc
G late mother, ere she went to sleep beside
/, her darling, how patientand holy Alic'
} had grown how she had passed calmly a
o way in her ,saint7like beauty; leaving mes
7 sages that fond yearning heart could on
t ly dictate. Down in his heart deeper Chat
t any other earthly thing, be had lain them
n cherishipg their beauty and greenness
e .. Many a time bad the spirit form Of swee
d Alice risen before bis eyes. IN all the beau
) i ty of that far of. land he saw but SO diml
e and he knew when the thing we call lif
d had merged into Immortality, he shoul
meet her again.. y y,s .. y. !.52sly :,
i Years aferward they laid Ben Bolt t
sleep by the side ofsweet Alice, . r..
!, tMYsrERIoUs. " Yesterday afternoon tn
! sexton of the City Graveyard discovered
q barrel which had been buried in ravine
p in the back part of The yard, and whic
4 the recent heavy rains had washed SO as
's expose Il to view. The head Of the barre
: was painted blue, with the words Ne,
i York Brandy, Al gallons upon it. Upo
i opening, it was found to contain a huma
I being in state of nudity. Upon furthe
!. examination it was found to be that Of fe
y male, about 22 years Of age, and far ad
vanced in pregnancy. She was Of rattle
4 low stature and dark brown hair, .doneeu
q in two plaits, about I8 inches in length
{. and tied up on the back part Of the heat
Her lower teeth were short and close SCI
= and the two large front teeth were a littl
{, apart, and inclined to project outward
! The body from its appearance, had ev
= dently been buried some time, as 1t ws
!. very much decomposed. There is a my'
terry surrounding this affair that is diffien
"A to unravel. The probabilities are lh'
- the woman has been ioully dealtfwilh
4 \ broad, and shipped to this city, where. sll
"a was stealthily buried by those who undei
N stood the mystery too well.-& LomsRe1