The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-13
A sad Domestic stery.

"Died-Mary, aged %, wifo of De Witt Gin.
ton Packard, Of Providence, r. L., In the
editorial column there is q sad and touching
story, relating to the announcement, which Is
given below. It tis lesson from the tomb. to
the young and thoughtless, and told SO elo-
quentIy that 1t cannot fail to make an impress
sion for good on readers of every age II
says:
sin another column we record the death Of
a young lady who died of q broken heart We
do not like TO trespass upon the sacredness OF
domestic grief to unfold the details of her sad
story; but when the privacy of afiiction be-
comes public feeling, 1t Is not improper for the
Press to place the events on record. 1t is not
necessary to repeat names or relate minute
particulars. 1t is enough that we draw the
outlines of a picture for the reader to paint
with appropriate colors. Many months ago,
in the neie hboring Town of Belchertown. d
young man sought and received the promise OF
the haad of q young lady, whose home was in
attractions made all pleasant around her.
Like too many confiding ones of her
sex, she trusted mans unhailowed pro-
mise, and yielded all to him; From
her, and soon removed to o distant State
When it became evident that ne had exposed
himself to the penalty OF the law, at the re-
quest of her friend he visited her to fulfill the
married in one of thosehasty, unoeremouious
ways, which occupy but little time or atten-
ton. Late In the evening they returned to her
fathers house, where he left her in the street.
promising to return in a short time. But that
promise was never fulfilled. She wrote TO
him, and received encouragement that he
would soon provide q home for her, but delay
followed delay, till her letters and entreaties
were unheeded and unanswered AZ length a
pledge Of woman's love for her husband came
into the world to open new fountains of af1ec-
ticu to the young wife. Still the hus band and
father came not.
"Tha mother recovered from confinement
but, after repeated letters to her husband found
no answer, the idea that she was deserted by
him forced itself upon her, and she gave way
to dependency and despair The child, par
taking OF its mothers grief, soon died There
was nothing more that she could live for, and
though suffering from no disease, she sank
upon dying bed Then the swift wing of
lightning bore to the distant husband the in
telligence that she was dying He still hesita-
ted, but at length set out to meet his expiring
wife. Conscious that her hours were few, she
only wished TO live long enough to see her
husband; he was still all to her. Her last
words to her friends were Tell him that
still love him-that / died for him. When
evening shadowed the earth, the husband
came. As he approached the bedside of his in
jured wife; he was recognized, and the words
Hes come burst from her lips. Already had
the wing of the death angel cast its shadow
over that dwelling and she was entering the
dimness OF the dark valley. Next morning, in
that room, lay the corpse of beautiful young
wife, on which the husband had looked for the
last time, and departed.
Last Sabbath afternoon, the funeral of the
young wife took place under her fathers roof.
Her neighbors and friends, to the number of
five hundred, were present; but the hus band
who had left her to die for him was not there.
A deeply affecting address was made by her
former pastor, and Just as the sun was sink
| ing behind the western hills, four young ladies
| of her acquaintance, clad in garments OF
white, bore her to grave in the garden, where
| the green turf was laid gently over her. Such
&c fha,r rfsN< <tt 1~rxt
| The grave is quiet place for The injured wife,
but where in all the world can there be peace
! for him who would thus bring sorrow and
| death upon her The story has its moral, but
| we will leave the reader to apply it; it is full
of warning, and we leave the young 10 heed
| it,"
| THE DISTANCE OF THE Sun lNCREASIEG.-A
| German publication has given the calculations
TO prove that the distance between the earth and
| the sun is annually increasing, and attribu ties
| to this fact the increasing humidity Of our
summers, and the loss OF fertility in the soil Ot
| the formerly most favored regions of the earth.
| The vegetable and animal remains found even
in the recent strata within the Arctic circle,
| show degree OF heat formerly prevailed there
| which eq uated that OF tnAae -2s2t0ffai regions
| at the present time, and although many inge-
| NOUS theories have been started to account for
| this deSoiation of a once sunny region, none
| seem so rational as the very obvious one OF Il
| gradual withdrawal of the great source oflight
| and heat. Egyptians, Chinese, and other ma
| tions, have traditions that at q very early pc
| rod of their history the apparent diameter OF
| the sun was double whatit now is, and accord
| ing 10 the tables of the German savant, in the
| course of six thousand years more the disc OF
| that lumnary will have diminished SO that
we shall receive but one-eighth part of the lar
| influence which we at presen enjoy, the whole
! earth being covered with eternal Ice. 1t is
| now admitted by the most orthodox school of
| science that the earth and other planets We're
| thrown OFF from the sun, so that our globe has
confessedly travelled already one hundred
| millions of miles from its birthplace, and no
| absurdity exists in the supposition that it has
| not yet ceased receding, though at constantly
diminishing rate, which may or may not reach
the point before IL arrives such adistance as
| to be uninhabitabe, when following the analo-
| gy of all other known perturbations and eccen-
tricities among the different bodies of the uni
verse, II Will undoubtedly retrace its steps, to
| point much nearer than any 1t has occupied
during the historic period, and so move back
| and forth like mighty pendulum, forever,
measuring Off perhaps thousands of ages each
| beat Or, perchance, having run its course, IL
will fall back into the suu-as man. who
| springs from the dust, returns to dust again
| to be again evolved in the form of nebulous
| matter, and again condensed into q habitable
| giobe.-Nsu5Hrypor' Herald.
THE NORWICH CELEBHATIoy-I.ast Wed.
| nesday the Bi-Centennial Celebration, so long
| anticipated by the citizens of Norwich was
celebrated the festivities of the occasion pass
procession over a mile in length passed
| through the principal streets in the morning.
| At noon theespesch- making took place in a
large tent erected for the purpose on the Up.
| per Green. Among the company present in
| tent We're ex-President Fillmore, Prof. Silli-
| man, Chancellor Walworth, and other nota-
| bilitics. Governor Buckingham opened the
| exercises with an address of welcome, and
| then introduced the Rev. j. A. Paddock, who
| read selections from copy of what is known
| as the Bishops Bible" printed in old Eng
| lish text in f6h5, and brought to America in
| l63i. The choir then sang an ode written for
| the occasion by Mrs. Sigourney, and Daniel g.
Gilman, Librarian of Yale College, delivered
a very learned aud historical address, alludin 2
| to the various old families of Norwich and
! their descendants. A number Of interesting
relics of the town Were exhibited to the audi
| ence. which numbered nearly six thousand
| In the evening the tent was again crowded,
and after appropriate religious exercises,
| Bishop Lee, of Delaware, delivered a long ad-
dress The houses in the town were illumi-
mated. On Thursday, Donald G.. Mitchell de-
| lirered an able address, and at O'Clock there
was dinner in the tent, of which all the in
| vfted guests present partook. The celebration
concluded IN the evening with bail.
OLIVER SMITHS WILL-MARRIAeE PoR.
| TIoNs FOR THE MILLIoy.-Many wears ago
Oliver Smith, an old bachelor, who resided in
| one of the towns in Hampshire county, Mass,
| left the bulk of his property to be managed by
| trustees until it should amount to 800 otsl
when one-half the income was to be annually
! given to twenty-one boys who should faith.
| fully perform certain conditions OF the will /:
| one-fourth to eighteen girls one-eighth To
| hfty-four young women for marriage por.
| tions, and the renaiaing eighth to the sane
number OF INDECENT and deserving widows
The required sum will be reached in Oato
Der next, and accordingly, about eI0sOu will
hereafter annually be distributed among the
hoys-abont sji5 apiece, making quite prize
for those who are lucky enough to SECURE IL !.
and as this dis trihution is 10 be ~ ,,nuaf