Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-12-24

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lave just heard one q ihe n'ss heart
rending AID 50. unavoid able Affairs which
il has ever been my lot - v"cari. 1t IS
nothing more nor less th.n the friEhtful
reality Of being buried alive A MOS; cs-
tinable lady Mrs, Crane. whose husband
is book keeping IN Flemming 4 COS
drug store. III this city. died sudlc&ly
last July, Of what was pronounced SUI
stroke. Shy was school teacher ia onc
Of our most popular schoNls In tho at
ternoon, after sckooi Vas ont. she wen.
TO visit neighbor on Felicity street, and
Us: as she entered her friends house she
fell insensible and expired, 10 ali appear
ancc. in about two minutes, the doctor
pyonouncing it suu.trokc. Her holy was
Inferred the next day ~ 10 O'Clock, and
her mother, an old lady ab Ut - years of
aye. and her husband AMI one llttlc son.
went home almost brok, n hearted. ant
have since been nearly distracted, being
at times unable to sleep. aAd, IN Tact,
leading most miserable and discon>oia;e
life sni Il they might. as the sequel
will show. hal they known what they had
done. Well, one night last week the
mother, after passing mos: distressing
dav. fell asleep late a; night an dreamed
that her daus tcr had been buried alive
She jumped up in frantic state and rus
hc.i toShev son-in Law s chtmhcr, crying.
INV daughter is buried alive Oh :.
nv daughter is buried alive. WHAT shall
l. DO - To sleep any more that night was
ont Of the question !; she still crying that
her daughter va. buried alive. whenever
her son -in-law would try to quiet her
At length tbs proposition WIS made to
have the body disintcrred, just to satisfy
her. 50 early the next morning the grayr
was opened and the coffin raised. Oh,
what a horrihlc sigh; met their view -
pm y po"tf!es, IL ,,ertray the scene
xAilch fel4lee~..-+t body. which had
been placed in a metallic GOTTA, WAS turn
cd over the glass covering the face was
broken TO atoms the ends of her I'M
ger. 1cfus5 bbeisa-]ls1 battered all TO PIE
&C. her hair torn out in hanltuils, aud
her shroud torn IN many picocs-all pre-
senting the appearance, OF the most dcs-
perase struggle to free herself from her
torriblc III stortune.
If any of your readers could have seen
TIE relatives OF this unfortunate lady,
when this CONDITION of what they suppos
ed was the porpetually SILENT tomb hal
/ h, ~ vNri,l l,n- for
ccd tear from the most stolid and ada
uantine heart It was one Of the most
dis rcssiu. affairs ever rec ,ri-d in this
State, aud [ sincerely trus. 1t will be the
last | AN ever called upon to record,
An ESoLIsu L,vt>pEs FIELD There
is one sight III OLD Eng,aui that Il pleas
ant beyond measure, aaL that IL laven-
der field it picas.s from its intrIDslc
beauty. The lovely color Of IT. flowers
all the silk dyer. arr trying to ''ma,c",
but can't exactly Int on the shade. Then
irs fragrance how inimitablc. AZ the
SPRAYS wave with the brecz.. Ia this
li;tle Island no less t'lln about 21o acrcs
of il. precious land is devoted to Lavender
farming Each acre Yields say 5000
pounds Of towers Every hundred pounds
Of flower. give up. by distlllation, about
Que pound Of the otto of lavender aud
thus we lear1 that there IL an average
production of l. 600 pounds Of lavender
otto annually 1t requires six ounces OF
this to make a gallon of lavender water.
80 that Britannia aud her children and
customers use IS 900 gallons OF this IA
yorite spirit. The lavender farms of
En- gland are situated At Miccham IN Sur
rey, and at Kitchen III Hcrt!ordshre. =
The lavender, when in blossom, Is Resort
ii . hy ~ the bees lor mile, around -
The sound o: their hum in such vast num-
btrs IL qu te enchanting nor do the but
terfitcs neglect visiting ~ luA"rtcur
feast. = taste OF watch appears TO 1e par
ticuiiriy grateful TO them. Tue Dc.s'
love - !1F5n .er i. SC excessive that. at
tue harvest time, Is the sprays fail be-
lore the sickle anu are tieo up IL shcave..
they will follow 1t even at tIe sacrifice O,
.ifc, mo the boxing s'il.
PsIST LooKocr K The latest in
formation We have from the Commission
engaged in making the surrey Of the
Point Lookout H. H. is contained in .
paragraph taken from the Washington
Correspondent Of the Ba.tin!or- Sun. un-
der date of the 10th Of December, in-
tint:
TIE survey for the extension Of the
Point Lookout railroad into this city has
b u completed, and it proposed to cross
the Eastern Branch at what is. known a<
tue OLD burnt britg., The roai will run
through Virginia avenue 10 MARYLAND y
enue. where the depot viii De establish
ed Work viii commence early in the
spring provided Mayor Rowen can he
convinced beforehand that the grade. Of
i. ~: - 80 e ;at:Efcrci -:'e."