Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-15

taneously with the departure OF the Oxford
scholar was the advent of a daring cor
sair on the Mediterranean, who swept the
waves like falcon, plundered ships Of all
nations, and piled up immense wealth in a
small barren island, which he made his
| nest. Here he associated more or less
freely with his followers, leaving them oc-
casionally for the company of a lady
whom he had made the partner of his
wild life When he had fulfilled the OBJ
ject for which he became a sea rover, the
lady having died, the rock was left unten-
anted, the pirates dispersed. Not long
sity, applied himself, as before, to study,
and, entering the church, gradually rose
to its highest honors, and died Archbishop
of York eYs M sf}&sss; 81
About the year 1872, an officer of the
Preventive Service living with his wife
and family at Margate, and known more
or less familiary to the whole town, went
forth, as his duty required to walk along
the cliffs, and watch whatever appearances
might present themselves on the sea 4 The
month was November; the time Of day
about four in the afternoon; the weather
wild and blusterous he was in the heyday
of life-his frame powerful, his health per-
feet, his condition of mind analogous to
that of his body. With double breasted
coat buttoned up to the chin,g and tightly
fitting cap-with spyglass in hand pair OF
pistols in his pocket, and heavy cutlass
! by his side-he moved westwards along
the downs, meeting and conversing with
| several persons as he sauntered along.
| Presently the night set in darksome and
drizzly, with heavy gusts from the south,
which, rollingin the big waves before them,
dashed them in thunder against the cliffs
Out of the darkness Of that terrible night
the officer never emerged all possible
search was made for him or his body, but
without effect; it was suspected, and the
suspicion seemed reasonable, that he had
fallen over the cliffs and been washed out
to sea; his wife and children lamented
him: another officer was put into his place
and by degrees his disappearance ceased
is, in the summer of 1S42-walking with
one of my children along the downs, saw
a farmer blowing at short distance be-
yond the flag staff, and stopped to talk with
him on the subject of seaweed manure.
While we were conversing the man OBJ
served something glitter in the furrow he
| had just made-it was the button of q
naval officer; this led to further examina-
tion-the earth was removed, and, little
more than foot beneath the surface, the
skeleton of a man, with several fragments
! of his dress, was discovered 1t was as
certained that the uniform he had worn
was that of the Preventive officers and it
| seemed probable, from various, circum-
| stances, we had discovered the skeleton of
the man who disappeared in 1872
Here in London, almost every day pre-
! sents us with social phenomena quite as
startling, though somewhat different in
character. Many years ago, a young lady,
about two or three and twenty, through
! no motive that could be disinc.i except
I that of amatory caprice, left her fathers
house so suddenly and secretly that no
| trace of her movements could be discov-
| cred. 1t was not even known whether
she ewent away alone or in the company
| of a lover Advertisements, placards,
| offering a large reward, were had recourse
to. The father, widely known, and as
widely respected, interested an his friends
| in prosecuting inquiries respecting the
lost one, without avail Year after year
passed, and at length the truant might be
almost said to be forgotten. More than
forty years afterwards, brother of the
lady, though not born when she disap-
peared, emigrated to Australia, and, on az
irving at Sidney, had his name inserted in
the journals in the list of passengers
One morning, while sitting in his hotel at
| breakfast, he was informed tnat lady be-
| lowed desired to speak with him. "Show
| her up" said John Bull, rather perplexed
to conjecture who could wish to see him
in that new world. When his visitor en-
| tered, he saw that she was old, though still
| in robust health. Instead of explaining
her business, she abruptly inquired wheth-
Ell or not he was the son of a gentleman
whom she named, together with locality
in which he had resided in England Up
on being answered in the affirmative she
said Then | am your sister," and forth
with entered into full account of her
mysterious disappearance. She had not
left her home alone, but with lover infe-
| rlor to her in rank, who had taken her to
Australia, where he had set up a hotel, and
realized fortune 1t was the affair of the
hotel, however, that had withheld her from
communicating with her family, who
might have regarded it as degradation
to live by industry. Her husband, how
ever, was now dead yet the hotel still sus-
tanned its celebrity under the management
of the lady, who, when she fled from her
home, had not, at all events, fled to pow
erty
| AT LlanellY, in South Wales, man of
property and respectable position though
not gentleman, who had married, and be-
come the father of two children, left his
home suddenly, without being observed by
any of his neighbors and all the inquiries
made by his wife and relatives proved un-
availing The Welsh are an affectionate
| and, upon the whole, romantic people /;
but the deserted wife was not romantic /;
so, after waiting certain number of years
4 in expectation of her husbands return,
| she listened to the wooing of another
man, and married again. There was no
| poetry in her composition, neither was
she, like Tennyson's Mrs. Arden, driven
to take this step by the fear of poverty for
herself or her children. The truth was,
the buxom Welsh woman wanted a hus-
| band, and took one, having waited long
enough as she thought, for her first lord
and master to come back if he meant to
come back at all. But though the wife
thus gave proof of her want Of faith in
the husband of her youth, or else really
believed him to be dead, the lost man had a
sister much younger than himself, who,
instead OF sharing the wife's despair, re-
garded her second marriage as an act of
vice, and always looked forward confident
ly to her brothers return. When he had
been absent about eight years, however. a
circumstance occurred which staggered
/ even her confidence A man in Sailors
garb called upon her, and related that he
had brought a message from her dead
| brother-for that he was dead he made no
doubt at all. The ship in which they had