The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-11-02

II was AL 4 could do tokecp from laugh
! ing III Brccht' face. However, / obcycd
orders. After i while, the body III TIC
main vault was moved into Il. There are
| still two vacancies III II. But Bfcclst Ii
married again, and was 80 ID ten months
after bis darling was taken from him.
\ THE DIscoNsoLATE WIPE.
One DAY, there was grand funcral. II
was that of an old gentleman. Among the
moulners was his Young wife. She was
inconsolablc. sneh a picture Of woe / ne
yer saw. They would not lct her descend
| from the carriage while the coffin was being
lowered into the grave. When the body
was down, and a shovel full Of dirt was
/ thrown III, she uttered i piercing shrek,
thrust her arms and bcay through the wins
dow Of the carriage, and cried % let me
60. Lot ME 60! Let me 10 down in bis
grave and be buried with him
Those within pulled her back, or she
would have sprang ont and thrown herself
into the open grave. Then they drove a.
way. while the air rang with her shrieks.
Her husband was a gentleman Of about
sixty, and she was not more than twenty
three or four. Two Or three years before,
4, lc had been travelling in Europe. lie stop
ped for a long time al Berlin, aud boarded
With private family. II was daughter
Of this family that he married. Soon after.
they came 10 America, and commenced
housekeeping ia Chicago They lived in
magnificent style, for be had fo.tune II
not less than . quarter Of . million.
The second day after the funeral went
10 her house. had an interestin ainonu-
mental establishment, and from her wealth
they had no children--hnI her Oyerrow-
ering grief aud affection / calculated on 4
haadsomc order. ! sent up my card, and
was s oD after introduced into the parlyr.
I Ina little while sue came down; but You
us,er saw anytiiing 50 touching. She was
I ia black, froln hair 70 slipper. She was 50
weak that she came IN leaning heavily on a
servant, and walking liko an old woman.
Ever, thing ii the nom was covered with
GRAPE aud such scene Of mourning and
sorrow was never before iecn. felt nov
e.l. ii spite of lny familiarity with things Of
| This sgft. As foF herself. words Just fail to
Give any idea Of how she looked. She was
grief itself, viii, NiObc and half dozen
others 81 The sanc kind thrown IN.
br0achod tho idea Of monument which
should llttingly represent. 80 Ear as marble
could. the virtues and goodness VI her Ia
lnentcd husband. r p
i wish the icst. tshe said. that art can
produce. No expense must bc spared. lie
left an aiiillc fortune. 1t shall all 10 Il
erect something 10 commemorate my pre-
cious darling. ] doIft wish 10 keep cent
Of Il. Lot i all be speat 70 decorate biz
grave.
Aud Is she wcnt on. mingling her tall
with passionate q laoSious OF love aud ia.
coherent ulIerances of grics.
Three days later, Icallcd with plan d
4 easily monument, She examined il, aud
amidst frcsll bursts Of grief. denounced ii
poverty. Il Was not bali nor ' Ten thous
andtl Part what Il should be 70 litly repre-
sent such iuan IS was her husband
.That. sllc sid, with vehement scorA
AZ she pointed 10 tic drawing. might 4,
f,r common men; but il ID nothing in ii
attempt 10 10 worthy Of my darling hus
bandr
went out. I employed anothe
ilnuuhtsmaa, aud ordered him to spare u,
effort TO plan The costlicst and LandsOmcs
monument In the world
In week it was finished. twas igor
! geous thing. I,s cost was an immense for
tune. Itook il around 10 her house.
: Some u the Grape bad been taken fron
some u the furniture. She eame IL With
/, ont assistance. aud seemed less rrostratc'
than usual.
lplaecd tho plan against The wull. Sh
examined Il critically. Itsuited her gene
. rally. Vuly there was rather too much d i
She suggested striking OF one Or two thing.
wheicby thcornau,cntaiiun Of the thing wa
I. somewhat reduced, and, incidentally i
cosl.
! | had The plan reconstructed, and the
went around again. Il twastho same AZ be
fDrc. There was GOO much of it Sh
val ,cl this and That struck out. Or somC
thing triElc cheaper introduced. Aud !
the thing won't.
For three months kept running aroun
with tie informal plan, aud each time 81
loppcd oiE something, till toward lhc last
= got raced 10 onc.hoFse monument Of u
!. cheapest kind. About that time. theI
: cainc along an Old flame of hers from Be
liz and just about i've months after The ol
: man had died she married the other OF
= pulled up stakes, and slid fof Germany
Aud nov. do you believe l.. che onl
thing IN Gods world over the old man
!. grave Is little, nasty Cat stone, with b
namo and nec On itl That's all, not
cusscd thing else, but briars aud weeds.
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: Tho New York Tribuncof tho 2lst ssyi
!" Tho shvcks og earthquake felt IN this ei
!, on yesterday. though not thc frzs, were
= far the scserest ever known ID this lstltud
/, They we're distinct enough, and 40 sorio
y a. 10 cause families % abandon their hou