The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-01-18
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A Young Wife Dies Broken
Hearted.

In the obituary department of the
Journal, published at Palmer, Mass,
we find the following announcement
"DIED-Mary, aged 20, wife of De
Witt Clinton Packard, of Providence.
r. T."
In the editorial column there is a
sad and touching story, relating to the
announcement which we annex below.
1t is lesson from the tomb, to the
young and thoughtless, and told so
eloqaently that it cannot fail to make
an impression for good on our readers
of every age. 1t says:
En- another colnrnn we record the
death Of young lady who died of
broken heart. We do not like to tres
pass upon the saeredness of domestic
grief, to unfold the details of her sad
story but, when the privacy of an
action becomes public feeling, it is not
improper for the Press to place the
events on record. It is not necessary
to repeat names or relate minute par
ticulars. 1t is enough that we draw
the outlines of a picture for the reader
to paint with appropriate colors. Many
months ago, in the neighboring town
o. Belchertown, a young man sought
and received the promise of the hand
of young lady, whose home was in
the lap of luxury, whose mental and
personal attractions made all pleasant
around her. Like too many confding
ones of her sex, she trusted mans I'M
balloWed promise and yielded all to
him. From that hour he estranged
himself from her, and removed to a
distant State When it became evil
dent that he had exposed himself to
the penalty of the law, at the request
of her friend he returned to her to full
fill the vows he had long before made.
They were married in one of those hasty
nnceremonious 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 short time.
But that promise was never fulfilled.
She wrote to him and received encour-
agement that he would soon provide a,
home for her, but delay followed delay,
till her letters and entreaties were un-
needed and unanswered. At length d
pledge of woman's love for her bus
band came into the world to open new
fountains of affection to the young
wife. Still the husband and father
came not.
The mother recovered from confne-
ment; but after repeated letters to her
husband found no answer, the idea
that she was deserted by him forced it.
self upon her, and she gave way to
dependency and despair. The child,
partaking of its mothers grief, soon
died There was nothing she could
live for now, and 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 meet his expir-
ing 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 Swallowed the earth the hus-
band came. As he approached the
bedside of his injured wife he was rec
oglized, and the words, He's come"
burst from her lips. Already had the
wing of the death angel cast its shadow
over that dwelling, and she was enter
ing 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 husband 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 sinking behind the western hills,
four young ladies of her acquaintance,
clad In garments of white, bore her to
a grave in the garden, where the green
turf was laid gently over her. Such is
the story of one who died broken heart
ed. 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 viii
leave the reader to apply it it is full
Of warning, and we leave the young to
heed it.
Worldly pleasures, worldly profits,
and worldly splendor captirate the
minds of youth. because ehey see