Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-06-03
The EGects Of a Curse.

In the western part of the country q
young man named Comyn quarelled with
4 lady TO whom be was engaged, and to
spite her he paid some attention to another.
The lady whom he parted from sent him
the 100 Psalm, with the following passages
marked:
"Let his days be few; and let another
do bis Office"
LET his children be fatherless and his
wife o widow"
"Let his children be vagabonds, and beg
their bread"
LET them seek it IN desolate Ilaces."
LET the extortioner consume all that
he hath, and let the stranger spoil his Ia
bors."
LET there be no man 10 pity him. nor
Rave compassion upon his fstkerless chill
dren."
"Let his pcsierity he destroyed and in
the next generation let his name be clean
put out"
While reading tbis terrible mal'd'ctinr
word was brought of thc discovery ~ the
ledy's bcdy and If the manner of her death
Comyn rushed from the house. saying he
WAS ruined for ever and ever, and four
DAYS and nights be wandered sb"ut the
neiehborhood half crazed with remorse and
fear.
Years passed away, but brought no allie
Walton of his mental torture. iIe was
afraid 10 entera church lest he should hear
the dreadful words read. The sight Of a
Bible or prayer book would dive HIM from
the house. Disasters and mislortunes Of
various kinds belel him. His nights were
disturbed BY frightlul dreams. The dear
girl appeared to him in his sleep with her
features distorted by stanGulation, and her
fingers pointing to prayer book, open at
the terrible curse.
His friends pursuaded him to marry,
hoping thus to break the spell that weighed
him down. At length he assented, and Of
fered his hand to young girl. She turned
from him with horror, asking if he wished
to bring down the curses of the dear girl
on her head. The others were refused in
the same manner, but at length the chance
of q good settlement outweighed supersti-
tious fears, and a woman was found to
accept the Offer.
Thew were married in the church, ard
the way to it lay across an open track
When about midway a sudden and violent
storm sprung 10. Crashing thuuders, in
cessaut flashes Of sheet lightning, and
bowling winds daurting even the least SUI
petstitious with their i'll omens. COmyn
threH himself to the ground on his face,
and grovelled in convulsive agony, Shrek
ing to be protected from the dead girl. who,
he said had como with thunder and light
ming to destroy him. lie was led helpless
to the church, and passed through the
marriage ceremony in stunned and be-
wildered manner.
For two Yeas after the marriage CJmyn
dragged out miserable existence, body
and mind wearing rapidly away together.
Ho became the father of two children, both
Of whom died shortly after birth. At
length he died, his end being embittered ~
terrible visions, the horror Of which threw
him into violent convulsiOns. To the last
the vision of the prayer book, open at the
Tooth Psalm, seemed to scar his eyeballs
aud he died shrieking for his attendants &c
"make her shut that book "
The singular condolences that had terri
fed him during life did not cease q. his
death. He wss buried on a Sunday after
noon, and ace riding to a custom in thGt
neighborhOod, the coffin was placed in the
aisle during the regular afternoon service
1t was the ODD day cf the month and tbs
l09th Psalm formed one of the regularly
appointed for that afternoon. AS the viii
layers looked at each other in astonisb mem
OF this coincidence. the village click struck
four-the hour at which Elizabeth Lamper
bad gone out to destroy herself