Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-02-14
over the ships side and made fast with


over the ships side and made fast with
ropes.
As soon as the breakfast was concluded
the boatswain piped all hands to the bu
rial. The Storage passengers were seat
ed on the long boat and the water barrels
and the cabin passengers were gathered
on the quarterback. When the poor
widow had come forward, and taken her
seat on little cabn-stool set for the pur.
pose, with her twos children by her side
the captain commenced reading the burial
service. That nobly eloquent service
never sounded to me more solemn. When
the captain had concluded the words,
T" We therefore commit his body to the
Deep the signal was given A heavy
splash was heard, and the unsightly mass
sunk like lead in the mighty waters. p
There was a general rush to the ships
side, as soon as the plunge was heard: but
a few bubbles merely were seen rising to
the surface-the only memorials that shall
ever rise to mark his resting-place.
During the day, the wind died away,
and by night we were perfectly becalmed.
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. 500 n wolL;na e. - daot u IN n VIZ
tbo COW Got of 81 wv 800, tIua ny
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CLASSY swells. The moon had just risen
from the bosom of the sea, and poured it's
broad stream Of light, which played and
flashed on the slow undulations of the
waters. While stood watching the ne.
culiarly beautiful appearance of the ravs
upon the ocean, which every one who has
been to sea must have observed I saw q
female come up from the pangway and
creeping up upon the nile of snars where
the body had laid, sat down and gazed
intently down into the water. Il was the
poor widow. She had no grave to 90 to.
She could only look upon the treac6erous
sea which had SO suddenly swallowed IN
all that was left OF him she had SO long
loved. When | looked at the heart-strick-
en- woman, solitary and forlorn. bereft
even OF her broken reed, and left with
her helpless children, alone, in the middle
OF the wide ocean, my heart ached for her.
To my mind, the miserable object which
had been SO unceremoniously cast away,
seemed scarce worth a tear. Not so to
her, He was her husband, the father of
her children, who had not yet sinned
away all her early love, and whose degra-
datlon and wretched end drew forth all
her compassion and united it to the mex
tlngulshable affection OF the wife.
Her case excited great interest among
che passengers, who, as a substantial proof
of their sympathy, raised handsome sum
to defray her immediate expenses on arr.
wing in strange land. When took her
this tribute of their sympathy. I asked
her some questions relative to her circnm.
stances and her history. This she viii.
lingly gave me. 1t was the old familiar
tale-beginning with the golden DAYS Of
her girlish love: the vows nlipbfed before
the altar Of the VILLAGE church. and tho
little iyied COTTAGE With liz woodh;no
trailipo over the door. and CONTAIN IN IN !
seated bv ire hnmhle Grns;da Tbaro ~
was as bannv as tba dav ,onn I,h h..
came the temntation-fbe fgtoJ frats o-ll, go
offered nv an old romrada waS 80 6 ~ 81
lowed Inv tba second and t,,;a 80 soon ~,
Nv the fh;rd and hefaro ' IL 9oone, own -,
he had become . confirmed dr;nL 20 '' e.
Jaw f and warnad. ttnt i mas too i o ~
And tban cane nnon har 49, - : -, ~ ~ = ~
which mo- one Who hoe no tlF fl Ip's ason5
tba Avs NIL, hronn s,9 nos lslI = Anow 7,
niabts which hrougb{ No ras5. 49, ~, a bo 'ne
81 wearv watchfnlaass. A. 70 Iao loui
from morn;ns tilI n;mbt matapod m .apor
an unbidden fears tho slaw 0i ooso ~ ~ ,es tha
hearts Hood dron Nv Nv d 5som Uo4o y .ae
~ tba 49, 1922 ~ aloe - UP "runs lof1,
treatment and al -. nao.ta al ~, n cruel
With ,ran, sn a. ;'9 hesseos' cue pore
like she retnrned caresaos anu woman
AZ The end IF f;va uaors SS ~ ~ pie~
oona Mo landlasd a ,nho G hi Sslius was
him verv nat;entiy IT. isst ;aeas nS WIN s
that as tbera wsra 81 n,s 49, a' lteu I'M
out Of emnlovmeot he conld 1os sog AL ne ~
employ q drunxard Tbere W. vac en- ~ ! ~ -
source but the ayorLhouse and the b 80 ~
and / do not wonder that these have ts'1 ter.