Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-09-02
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the course ,uf my wanderlngs, found mySelf
| in the cemetery set apart there for the
burial of strangers, Protestants, and the
| like. who ere not members of the RoInish
communion. 1t was o. bare and bleak spot
enough situated on very high ground, and
there was not much in the surrounding de.
tails and picture queness Of the graves, as
sometimes is the case 10 foreign burial.
1 places, to Interest a sight seer, with one
exception. In. the extreme eastern corner.
and on the most elevated ground, stood
simple white cross Of marble with the ini.
tials IN L." on it, and the date of the
persons death) wreath of flowers eucr,
cied the stone, and the grave was evidently
very carefuiv tended and watched, pre-
sen,ug thereby a considerable contrast TO
those Of the other strangers Who bad found
their last resting gplace on that bleak rock
So struck was with the ueatness Of this
iudividual grave, that seeing an old man
working hard by 1 asked him il there was
any particular history attached to il, and if
he knew who the person was that was
buried there. His answer did not give the
much information, beyond the fact Of its
heug tho gave of an English lady who
had died there some years before, and
whose husband paid him the oldcman) u
small sum yearly for keeping that spe; in
order, aud supplying the cross constantly
with flowers. .7yuuaJsdl 9H B. 80 81
j This little Incident had quite passed out
OF my mind as O. matter tco trivial 10 be
worth remembering, till / was reminded Of
1t in rather startling manner short time
ago. Iiadl Oisi tC1c7 Ji'G"-f51 aTf aFt~
| / was staying at q country honse in
| Yorkshire, the host and hostess being both
| of them old and dear friends OF mine when
late one evening the conversation happened
| to Ia n upon subject sufficiently exciting
to rouse the most sleepily inclined of The
guests into wakefulness. 1t was debated
whe, her instances had ever really occurred
of people having b. en- buried nlve-that
Lis, whether auy GU 'henticated case could
lbe stated of man who had fallen into q
trsnce, bad been in that condition buried,
had afterwards come 10 life for brief in.
terval, and then had been ssfocated in his
coffin. Opinions were pretty equally d.
vided on the subject the one party . firm
ing that it was impossible, in the p' eseut
state of medical science, fer any body TO
meet with sneh horrible fa'e, and the
other, though apparently unable to cite
any examples declaring that they were
sure that such thing might hippen, though
they admitted at the same time that cases
Of that ma ture would be less likely to occhr
in England, where a reasonable time
elapsed before burial, than on the Cont
nent, where the laws enforced the iD'ernen'
Of the body so soon after death, In 1be
| ,c h. : ttn laAu nft ha
house, who had seemed to take but little
interest in it one way or the other, sudden.
| ly surprised Us all by saying that If We
would give her our attention for short
time, she would tell US story on that very
subject, and relate what bad ,ruly occurred
to near relative Of her own, many years
before.ce isSo1a m aua sYfs ais.-7t,a7
''You may have often heard me men.
Etion," she said, @ turning to me, my two
cousins, Charles and Frank Livingston,
thongh don't mnch think you have ever
had personal acquaintance with either of
them 1t is just twenty years ago now
that they elliin love with two of the pref,
iiest girls in Y orkSltire sisters and heiresses,
whose names we're Mary and Florence Ar.
den. AS the progress Of their love afflirs
has not much 10 do with the gist of my
story, it is eneogb for me 20 say that every
thing went on very satisfactorily and ,hn
in doe course, and on the same day, Mary
and Florence became the wives Of my wo
cnasins, Charles and Frank respec lively
Mary was the eldest sister, though at The
time of their marrages she was barely nine
teen, and TO my mind the most taking ant
loyeable of me, two. OF course Frapl
ibopghl differently, and, perhaps twas a.
well he did SO. I'd s,,-a7oO ls.es q tl.
( |, Il need scarcely tell you that the happy
, couples passed 5heirs .hpneImoops vel,
7 pleasantly in visitipg yarions spots il Eng
land aud Scotland. and afterwards settled
down few miles from each Other in close
proximity to the city of York itself y-.,rr
"The marriages happened in the spring
of. the year, and in the following apiuml.
much. 10 the, delight OF the two brides, il
was, determined that % yacht should be
chartered for few months, and lbe winter
spent 10 cruising about from place to place
| Their ideas chiefly pointed TO The Mediler.
ranean, as they one and all had greal
desire to visit. Malta and Gibraltar, and
moreover, if possible, to land 10 Africa
he latter believe merely that they might
have the satisfaction of saying that they
had once been there. Gibrsltar was, TO bs
the first place on the list, and accordingly
after experIenciug a rather rough voyage,
which tested their capabilities as sailors L
a considerable extent. they found then
Selves anchored off that huge rock. sTheJ
saw all lbal was TO be seen yip the shape. Q
the fortitcationS, &C., and among o'he
/ places that they were taken to visit wa
! be ,buryiug;gtolnd set apart for stranger
WHO were not Roman Catholics Mar.
Livingston. who had BEEN, SO they after
wards recollected, silent and sppareul,
lpre occupied all that day. whom she frs
canght sight Of the cemetery started, au,
= seemed surprised After they had Locke
about them, aud lamentsd the general nu
tidness that prevailed. she suddenly aston
ished them all by walking 10 one corner q
the ground more elevated than the resi-
wbee she stopped, aud planting her foo
upon q, certain spot said that she was goip
10 relates curious dream she had had lh
; previous night, $50
: = "She dteampt. she said. frst that sh
: was lying 10 the cabin Of The yacht sic
almost unto death. that her husband, an
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