Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

mia, being hastily notified OF this neceS.
sity and its tragic cause by letter, as
hastily decided to leave her kind
protectors in Taunozen and accom-
pany the two friends to the New
World.
The three met at a German seaport,
as appointed, and thus started upon q
voyage destined to begin the last act
OF the romantic drama Of their lives.
With w0manly tenderness for domes.
tic ties, the sister had contracted an
ardent affection for the brother whom
she had not seen before since their
childhood, and the brother was as de.
voted to his staunch young kinsman,
Carl. Soon after the journey by sea
began he encouraged that friend to
pay every attention to his sister, and
did not disguise from the latter his
wish for an ultimate marriage between
them. Antonio did not at first res.
pond submissively to the fraternal de-
sire. Indeed, her heart was already in
pledge to a son of the good trader of
Taunozen, with whom she had even
exchanged love.tokens. But when. in
a storm, Frederick was washed nearly
overheard from the steamer, and Carl
heroically rescued him, at the peril Of
his own life, the simple girls love for
her brother invested the latter's wish
with something of the peremptory die.
tate of duty, and she was hesitatingly
persuaded to promise her hand to her
seeOnd.cOusin.
Arriving in America, the brother
and sister resided for time in New
York, Josephson taking leave of them
to 20 to San Francisco. where he had
emigrant friends likely to assist him
into some means of livelihood. 1t was
understood that the af1ianced bride
should follow to the Golden State, and
become wife as soon as summoned
thither. The story Of the sisters life
in the metropolis is not told by our
authorities; but when, about month
ago, Carl wrote from California that
he awaited her coming, she delayed
not to bid a fearful farewell to her
brother and start for the wedding,
which he had 80 earnestly desired. 1t
is thought. that before her departure,
she was the recipient of letter from
the lover in Taunozen. At any rate,
she mailed a letter from herself to
him before undertaking the journey to
to the Pacific, and seemed greatly ag-
tied and distraught upon leaving New
York. In San Francisco she was re-.
ceived into the home of friends of the
expectant bridegroom, who shared his
wonder at the statue.like gravity of
her demeanor and her cold taciturnity.
1t is not known that JOsephs0n was
aware of her Russian affair Of the
heart, nor does it appear that he had
pressed his suit in any spirit Of au.
thority. Be that as it may have been,
however, the preparations for the
marriage were fastened forward, and
the ceremony was performed in due
season
Next and last in this strange 70.
nance of real life comes the denoue-
ment assimilating it with Scott novel
of the ''Bride of Lammermoor."
Scarcely had the newly.wedded pair
been left together in the bridal-cham-
Der, when sharp report rang through
the house, followed by wild shrieks
and shrill CALCULATIONS. The other
startled occupants of the building had
scarcely reached the hall leading to
the fatal room, when a screaming fig
ure in white array, gesticulating unin.
telligibly and with hands dropping
blood, fled through and past them with
the speed of frenzy, and was out in the
midnight street before one of the af-
frightened observers could do aught
to arrest it. The door of the chamber
stood wide open, and within, prone
upon the floor, lay Carl Josephson, yet
in his wedding garments, shot through
the heart.
On the head appeared a small pistol,
not yet cold on Il table were phials
of laudanum, chloroform and phospho-
rus and only these gave clue to the
dreadful deed that had been wrought.
These only, and the dead man, told
the Mortified spect ators that the miss
ing bride and no accident had worked
the awful murder of the night. A
maniac, as she had undoubtedly been
Tor weeks before; that bride, with her
veins full of the several p0isons she
had herself taken and vein opened
at either wrist, ran shrieking through
the street to the waters of the bay,
and there plunged in. A policeman,
who had followed, bravely drew her
out of the tide, only to have her wrest
herself from his grasp. with the
strength of insanity, and fly again up
the dark street with speed mocking
pursuit. Darling for a moment into
the house of one of the friends of the
Inflated Josephson. and as rapidly dis.
appearing again before the appalled,
family could speak to her. the miser.
able fugitive finally crawled, like some
wild animal under residence on Leav.
enworth street, near Pine, and there
remained in despairing covert
through two whole days and nights.
When discovered there at last, by a
servant, her CHASTITY face and faint
cries at first excited fear which might
have left her to death, had not pity
quickly inspired kind hands to draw
her forth and summon such aid a
could be given to the pitiable wreck OF
WOmanho0d.
Living yet, after so many combined
efforts of self-destrection, the once
beautiful Antonio Won Apponig is {
maniac in the hands of California jus
tice, doomed, probably, to end in :
madhouse a tragedy to which that o,
romancer or dramatist is a less strang.
imitation. The solution to be conjec
tured is that the contest between nat
ural woman.love and an exaggerated
sense of sisterly duty wrought the per
version of insanity in the girls un
schooled nature adding another in
stance to that already long list of thu
sinister romances of real life, from
which the novelist can seldom borrow
literally without danger of flippan
discredit to the probability of his mar
rative.
Revaccinati0n.
| FL ON the London Lancet.
There is no evidence to show tina
revaccinati0n, once efficiently per
formed at or after puberty, need eve
be repeated. On the other hand, tn,
frequent repetition of revaccination
which has become common during
alarms of smallpox, is distinctly to b
deprecated. Such repetitions are, as
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