Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-13
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'Ohio has its silvel's tide
From Allegheny rocky side,
Thence gliding in its beauty on,
Meandering to the setting sun.
Surely it is as fair stream
As ever show waters in poets dream,
SO smooth and clear its Keep,
Looking like innocence asleep.
Bearing upon its ample breast
The richest commerce of the West,
Peerless and bright till time is done.
Fed by the many streams and rills
Whose fountains rise alnongst the hills,
It's channel never can be dry
While centuries are passing by.
Its beauty equals if no more
All we admire on Hudsons shere
The far famed views along the Rhine
May yet show nothing more divine.
For all along on either side
The God of nation has supplied,
thousand scenes to cheer the sight
And minister to our delight
While reading the last lines of this |
poem, the sudden explosion of boiler |
throws all aboard into consternation.-l
A shipwreck at midnight, an earth
quake in a crowded city, could pro-
duce no more sudden alarm and con-
fusion than was occasioned by this
dire causalty. The heated vapor hav-
ing subsidized, all on the boat but two
were found to be safe. Our young
graduate is found lifeIess and his per-
son horribly mangled.LAn other man,
too, has paid the debt of nature
While the boat was under repairs, the
remains of the unfortunate graduate
were buried on the island mentioned
above. The news of the death of this
young man did not reach his friends
for some time. The interval gave
them weeks of painful anxiety in which
they were like the mother Of Sis era
looking out of the window and crying
through the lattice. "Why is his char
lot so long in coming? Why tarry
the wheels of his chariot?'
At length the sad news of his death
threw them into deep distress, com
pared to which their former disap-
pointment and anxiety seemed but a
trifle. The steamer was soon in run
ming order performing its accustomed
trips up and down the river. The
trunk of the young gentleman was in
the keeping of the officers of the boat
Not knowing the name or destination
of the deceased, a considerable time
elapsed before they bethought them
selves of their neglect and opened it,
that they might know where to send
il. On doing so, and examing the
| Dor,orz 4bo1- fo1o1 4J,o4 L. I,o1 1,oo-,
a student Of A. College, to which
place they sent it the first opportuni-
ty, in care of the Professors. On
coming into their hands, they looked
into it with the design Of sending any
thing of value it might contain to his
distant friends. In the examination.
the valuable bank note, that the Jani-
tor had been accused of stealing, was
found. The Professor from whom il
had been taken, claimed it as his own
at sight, as it had some mark by which
he could distinguish it, and was ready
to be qualified that he was the proper
owner. The Janitor, in passing that
locality at the time, was informed Of
the discovery. The mystery solved
the clouds dispersed, he nastens home
with light and grateful heart to give
the glad news to his sorrowlng family
His character restored in the commu
nifty, he is invited back to his former
station in the College.
AS he had sank below himself by
false accusations, the clearing up O.
the matter seemed to raise. him above
his former self in public estimation.
The bloom of health returns grad
, ually to mother and daughter. Thr
mother becoming cheerful lays aside
!, her nervine and anti-spasmodics. A
little party is soon gotten up in thu
: young circle of the daughters friends
at which she is the most interesting
, parsonage.
"The Observed of all observers,
} where valuable tokens of regard wer,
! literally showered upon her
We leave the Janitor with his famil,
! in higher standing than we found them
! with frmer belief in the justice 0
God. A little longer and the. youn!
| graduate would have been ION Ian,
with his il1gotten gain, beyond tn
! reach of detection. And had his nam
and destination been known to th
officers of the boat, they would hav
0 forwarded his trunk to his father, and
I in either case, the perpetrator Of tb
theft might never have been known
: while the Janitor would have suffere
e through life. under the calling oppro
; brium Of false accusation. But til
s great Being who presides with watch
: full care over all, ''who turns the seas
t ons round and leads each plannet i
l its heavenly way,' arrested the guilt
5 youth, returning the trunk to it's star
!. ing place, that the injured Janito
,, mis- sht be vindicated and rise triumph
ant from his degradation, arrayed j
y the beauty of innocence and the armo
of truth. Z&3s8
d Whether the unfortunate youn
n mans friends ever learned of IL
# guilty stain or his character W
- know not; the Strong probability
that they remained in happy ignoranc
u of his crime. They were at q gre;