Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Buried Alive.

In the year 14O0, Ginevra de Amiera, a Florentine beauty, married, under pa ternal pressure, a man who had failed to win her heart, that she had given to Antonio Rondinelli. Soon afterward the plague broke out in Florence; Gi- nevra fell i'll, apparently succumbed to the malady, and being pronounced dead, was the same day oonslgned to the family tomb.
 Some one, however, had blundered in the matter, for in the middle of the night, the entombed bride woke out of her trance, and badly as her living rela- tives had behaved, found her dead ones still less to her liking, and lost no time in quitting the silent company upon whose quietude she had unwillingly in- truded. Speeding through the sleep wrapped streets as swiftly as her clinging cerements allowed, Ginevra sought the home from which she had so lately been borne.
 Reused from his slumbers by Q knocking at the door, the disconsolate widower of day cautiously opened an upper window, and seeing a shrouded figure waiting below, in whose upturn- ed face he recognized the 1ineaments of the dear departed, he cried, "Go in peace, blessed spirit" and shut the window precipitately. With sinking heart and slackened step, the repulsed wife made her way to her fathers door, to receive the like benison from her dismayed parent.
 Then she crawled on to an uncle's, whers the door was indeed opened, but only to be slammed in her face by the frightened man, who, in his hurry, for got even to bless his ghostly caller. The cool night air penetrating the un- dress of the hapless wanderer, made her tremble and shiver, as she thought she had walked to life only to die again in the cruel streets. "Ah p she sighed, "Antonio would not have proved so unkind."
 This thought naturally suggested it was her duty to test his love and cour- age; it would be time enough to die if he proved like the rest. The way was long, but hope renewed her limbs, and soon Ginevra was knocking timidly at Rondiuelli's door. He opened it him. self, and although startled by the ghast- ly vision, calmly inquired what the spirit wanted with him.
 Throwing her shroud away from her face, Ginevra exclaimed: 1T am no spirit, Antonio; I am that Ginevra you once loved, who was buried yesterday buried alive P and fell senseless into the welcome arms of her astonished, de- lighted lover, whose cries for help soon brought down his sympathizing family to hear the wondrous story, and bear it's heroine to bed, to be tenderly tend ed until she had recovered from the shock, and was as beautiful as ever again.
 Then came the, difficulty. Was Gi- nevra to return to the man who had ] buried her, and shut his doors against her, or give herself to the man who had saved her from Q second death With such powerful special pleaders as love and gratitude on his side, of course, Rondineili won the day, and private marriage made the lovers amends for previous disappointment.
 They, however, had no intention of keeping in hiding, but the very first Sunday after they became man and wife, appeared in public together at the Cathedral, to the confusion and wonder of Ginevra's friends. An explanation ensued, which satisfied everybody ex. cept the lady's first husband, who in. sisted that nothing but her dying in genuine earnest could dissolve the orig inal matrimonial bond.
 The case was referred to the bishop who, having no precedent to curb his decision, rose superior to technicalities and declared that the first husband had forfeited all right to Ginevra, and must pay over to Rondineili the dowry he had l roonivo6 with bor-o Sooroo of xubi nh o1 true lovers in Florence heartily rejoic