The Opelousas courier., 1859-10-08
No. a..
A SAD DOMESTIC STORY.

In the Palmer Nass.) Journal Of the 81
following announcement Died--26, Ma,
10th, wife of De viii Clinton Packard, q
Providence, q. I)' We also ffud the 10!
lowing editorial paragraphs, which. it wouId
seem, have relation to that announcement
Buffalo Paper
In another column we record the death OF
ayonng lady who died of broken heart We
90 not Like to trespass upon the sacrednes.
Of domestic grief to unfold the details of her
sad story, but when he privacy Of afiictior
becomes public feeling, it is NIT improper for
the press to place the event on record It is
not necessary to repeal names or relate mi
.use particulars. 1t is enough that We draw
the outlines of picture for the reader to
paint with appropriate eolors.
Many mouths ago, in the neighhoring towr
OF Balcnertown, young man sought and ra
ceivod the promise of the hand cf a young
'sdg, whose home was in the lap Of luxury
whose mental and personal attractions made
! all pleasant around her, Like too many con-
| tidlsg ones OF her seq, she trusted mans un-
hallowed promise, aud trusted all to him
From hat hour he estranged himself from
her, and soon removed to distant State
when it became evident that he had sxpose,t
himself to the penalty Of the law. At the rs-
quest Of her friends he visited her to fulfil
the vows he had long befores made. They
were married in one of those hasty, uneere.
nonlous ways which occupy but little time
or attention. Late in the evening they
returned to her fathers house, where he left
her in the street, promising to return in 8
short time. But that promise was never full.
filed She wrote to him and received encour.
agement that be would soon provide home
for her, but delay followed delay, till her les
ters and ensreaties were unheeded and unan.
swered, AT lepgth pledge Of man'a5love
to her husband came into the world, to open
new fountains oi affection to the young wife.
Still the husband and father came not.
The mother recovered from confinement,
hut. after repeated latters to her husband
found no answer, the idea that she was deser-
ted by him forced itself upon her and she
gave way to despondeaey and despair. The
ehl'd, partaking of its mothers grief, soon
died. There was nothing more that she could
live for aud though suffering from no disease
she sank upon dying bed Then the swift
wing of lightning bore to the distant husband
the intelligence that she was dying He still
hesitated, but at length set out to u.eet his
expiring wife. Conscious that hers hours
werefew. 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, thatI died for him
When evening shadowed the earth the hus.
band came. A he approached the bedside
of his injured wife he was recognized, and the
words He's come, burst from her lirs Al
ready had the wing of the death angel cast
his shadow over that dwelling, and sheswas
entering the dimness of the dark yaileg.
Next morning in that room lay thecorpse Of
a beautiful young wife, on which the husband
had looked for the last time and departed.
Last Sabbath afternoon the funeral dgsthe
young wife took place under her father ssroef.
Her neighbors aas ffiiends to the number Of
five hundred were present, but the husband.
who had left herto die for him, was not there.
A deeply affecting address was made by her
former pastor, and just as the sun was sink
king the western hills four young ladis Of her
clad ia garments of white, bore
her to- grave in the garden. where the green
turf was laid gently over her. Such Ia The
story of one who died of broken heart.
The grave is quiet place the injured wife.
but whare In all the world can there he peace
for him who would thus bring sorrqv and
death upon her ? The story has It's moral, but
we will leave the reader to supply it.; tits full
ofHarning. and ne leave the young to heed it.