Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-02
the GRAVES OF NEWPORT.

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An Italian in looking for a home in
| America went into the cemeteries OF
various cities TO see upon the tomb
stones the age of the -leepers, saying
within himself that where the greatest
number of years we're given there he
would stay. The records on Newport
marble seemed TO indicate that every
body had died of old ~ge, and there
the life loving MilaneSe was cOnteDi
to abide. He found the climate so
healthiul, the air so invigoratiDg the
surf SO healing In its touch that be
survived his niOety fourth year
The burial grounds are on Farwell
stTeet, one cemetery opening into an
other in strange fashion till one is ale
most lost IN the labyrinth of death
First are the slaves burial p aces,
Their graves are marked by short,
dark stones, some of them hearing
peculiar names: Here lies Rhode
Island, faithful servant Of. Newport,
Aged. On two l read,
MY faithful Dick"
A white marble headstone bears a
record of Violet, wife Of Z,UgO
Stevens" Why should not Violet aud
/ Z,ngo. Dick and Phillis sleep under
'Whire st0ntP When the cannon thun-
dered along the Potomac. breaking the
shackles of the slave, did not these dry
| bones rattle in their c0ffins Did not
the dull ear listen When Wake Nicu-
demus' sounded like a trumpet from
| the homes OF the North ?
Where the Post Office now stands,
corner Of Thames and Franklin streets,
was once a mart for the sale OF human
souls.
The various island cemeteries sue
| ceed this first most in erestiBg spot,
1 Gods acre, we may we'll call it, One
tomb there Is on an emiHence sp-
preached by worn foot paths, but i'm
1Tisoned within bolts of iron that BO
vandal may desecrate the cheriS he'd
| enclosure-that of Cnmmndnre o Fl.
| Perry the hero of Lake Erie's battle,
| horn iu Newport aud d. ad at Trafalgar.
! The beautiful statue in the Cleveland
park shows that the Lake shore people
are Dot unmindful Of the memory OF
one of the greatest warriors of modern
! times.
Msny dead sleep in church yards.
Chevalier de Tournsy, De Ruy, the
Malbones, Bp. Berkle,'s s daughter
Pastor Honyman and lamlly lie close
to old Trinity. But the graves which
attracted me most were two solitary
ones near Bateman's Point, just 90 the
shore of the ocean. II is supposed thar
long years ago two bodies we're washed
ashore from a fatefnl wreck, and a
kind hand shielded them with burial
setting up rude stone. Some mother
has wept her lite away for the son WhU
| never came again som cone heart bro
ken with grief has watched in vain for
tldings that the spray washed turf
never sent back. Ii may be that away
IN the distance some Evangeline has
that perhaps iu it. boom,
He was already at rest and she longed
to slumber beside him."
All d. tlightful rambles have an end /.
We close one six week 5 sujnurn att .thi-
resort so celebrated IN history, so fit
ted by nature for a summer rest, aud a
lew hours travel brings US among the
HIGHLANDS OF THE HUDSON.
Leaving the places en<hriued in
american hesrts with tWO-fold saered-
ness by tho skill of the artists, Stuart.
aliston and King and the genius of
manning and Berk!ey, for it was il
Newport that the latter wrote his f.
nous work the Minute PbiIosoDbar !"
We came before the Palisades and Tie
kaatskIlls-WhOse beauty exceeds thai
of the vine clad hills along the Rhine
-oD our own wonderful river on whose
hanks the good Father sent Irving and
Willis to live that In prose and poetry
we might know that 10 older lands rhe
sun shines on no more exquisite scenery
than this. Here too be placed OOlt
hat from the winding Rluries of tbi-
river he might picture the Voyage OF
Liie, gem of art so suggestive in it,
delIcacy OF the celestial which dwell
n the aiti>Fs pure soula ray of bright
ness sent to " from the uuduenchable
light of the Throne.
INTO all this majesty crept the ridi.
euIous, We had just emerged fir, m