Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-05-15
A SWEDISH TALE.

In Falun, a mining town in Sweden,
hundred years or more ago, young mine
kissed his fair bride, aud said to her, "Ol
St. Lucia's day, our love will be blesse,
by the priests hand. Then we shall b
husband and wife, and We will build US
neat little nest of our own"
"And peace and love shall dwell in it,
said the beautiful bride, with swee
smile, "for thou art my all in all, and with
out thee | would choose to be in my grave
But when the priest,in proclaiming tbei
banns in the church for the second tim.
before St. Lucia's day, said, "if, now, any
can show reason why these persons shoulc
not be united in the bonds of matrimony,'
death was at hand. The young man
as he passed her house next morning in
his black mining garb, already wore his
shroud. He raped upon her window and
said "good morning he never re.
turRed to bid her "good evening" lie
never came back from the mine, and al; in
vain she embroidered for him black era.
vat, with red border for the wedding day.
This she laid carefully away, and never
ceased to mourn or weep for him.
Meanwhile, time passed on the Seven
Years War was fought; the partition Of
Poland took place !; America became free :;
the French Revolution and the Long War
began; Napoleon subdued Prussia, and
tue English bomdarded Copenhagen. The
husbandman sowed and reaped, the miller
ground aud the smith hammered, and the
miners dug after the veins Of metal in their
subterranean workshops.
As the miners of Falun, in the year
eighteen hundred and nine, little before
or after St. Johns day, were elcavating
an opening between two shafts, full three
hundred ellis below the ground, they dug
from the rubbish and vitriol water, the
body Of young man, entirely saturated
with iron vitriol, but otherwise undecayed
and unaltered-so that one could distiu.
guish his features and age as we'll as if be
had died only an hour or two before, or
had fallen asleep for little while at his
work. But when they had brought him
out to the light of day, father and
mother, friends and acquaintances, had
long been dead no one could identify the
sleeping youth, or tell anything of hi, mis-
fortune, till she came who was once the be-
throthed of that miner who had one day
gone to the mine and never returned
Gray and shriveled, she came to the place,
hobbling upon crutch, and recognized
her bridegroom, when more in joyful estacy
than pain, she sank down upon the below
ed form. As soon as she recovered her
composure, she exclaimed, alt is my be.
tro,hcd, whom l have mourned for fifty
years, and whom God now permits me to
see once more before I die. A week be-
fore the wedding time, he went under the
earth, and never returned"
All the bystandcrs we're moved to tears,
as they beheld the former bride, a wasted
and feeble old woman, and the bridegroom
still in the beauty Of youth and how,
after the lapse of fifty years, her youthful
love awoke again But be never opened
his mouth to smile, nor his eyes to recog-
nize and she, finally, as the only one be,
longing to him, and having a right to him,
had him carried to her own little room
till grave could be prepared in the church
yard. The next day, when all was ready,
and the miners came to take him away,
she opened little drawer, and taking out
the black silk cravat, tied it around his
neck, and then accompanied him in her
Sunday garb, as if it were their wedding
day, and not the Gay of his burial. As
they laid him iu the grave in the church
yard, she said, "sleep well, now, for few
days, in thy cold bridal bed, and let not
tuc tihAc s0Suu iooS " euSe. uSSC ~"
but little more to do, aud will come soon,
and then it will be day again." As she
was going away, she looked back once
more and said, "What the earth has once
restored, it will not second time withhold.
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ENDORSED BY HIS ENEMIEs.-A bet
ter ticket than that nominated at Harris.
burg On the Goth ult., has never been pre-
sented for the suffrages of the People.
The candidates are men of the highest
character in private walks Of life. The
Uuiontown, Fayette county Genius, (Dem-
ocratic,) thus endorses one of our candi-
dates:
flames Veech, Esq, one Of the oppo-
sition candidates for the Supreme Bench,
our readers all know. Against him, per-
sonally, We have no word to utter. He Is
an able lawyer, and has the qualifications
to make good Supreme Judge in every
respect except bis politics. If he we're
the Democratic instead of the black
nominee, he would be elect.
ed, aud would bo no discredit to the Su-
preme Bench.