Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-07-17

TO the-ssvil1aeevsasxxe- 4AeuT ~woAe~.h ;s
friends and neighbors, and, still laboring
under the effect @ us fiHht, related to
them allshat &cnrred. q But q peace,
! full. still, and monotonous was the usual
course of events in the community, that
an alarm Of quite different nature
seized on them. They believed their
respected pastor had lost his senses,
and it was not without some trouble
that he at last persuaded some of them
to accompany him with pickaxes and
shovels, and follow him to the church.
In the mean time the night had
passed away and the sun had appeared;
and as the pastor and his companions
assembled the hill on which the church
stood. they saw a ship in full sail leave
the shore and steer in northerly d.
rection. Such an unusual sight in
such a solitary neighborhood made
them little more inclined to credit the
old mans story, and it was fully con-
tirmed when they found the church
door had been forcibly broken open.
Full ofcuriosity, theyentered the church,
and the pastor pointed out to them the
grave which he had seen open during
night. 1t was easily perceived that the
stone had lately been displaced, and the
tools they had brought with them soon
enabled them again to remove it, and
IN the open grave was found new and
richly decorated coffin. With almost
youthful impotence the old man de-
scended into the grave-others follow
ed Finland the pastor soon found his
horrible forebodings confirmed. In the
coffin lay the form of the murdered
bride. The magnificent diadem was
gone, and pistol bullet had apparently
been discharged through her heart. The
traces of grief and horror were vanished
from her features, which now wore a
placid smile of almost heavenly ex-
preston, and she lay there like an
angel. The old man threw himself
down weeping beside the coffin, and
deep wonder, horror, and establishment
seized all the beholders.
The pastor found himself in duty
compelled to report this strange occur
renee to the Bishop of Zealand, and be-
fore he went for the purpose to Copen-
hagen, he requested his parishioners
on no account to mention what had oc-
CURED. The grave was again covered
up, and no one ventured again to speak
of the matter. In short time after
ward man of high rank arrived at the
village from the seat of government,
desired them to show him the grave,
and commended the pastors prudence
in preserving silence about the matter;
he ordered the whole affair to be kept
as silent as possible, and threatened
anyone who had dared to speak on the
subject with the highest displeasure of
the authorities.
After the death of the pastor, among
his papers was found detailed account
Of the transaction attached to the
church records. Some believed that it
was in some way connected with events
which occurred in Russia in the period
between the death of Peter the Great
and that of the Empress Catharine. 1t
is hard, and, indeed, impossible to sat
isfactorily explain this dark and mys-
FERROUS occurrence; but the manner of
the Russian nobility of the highest rank,
and even of the Imperial family of that
period, render it improbable that some
Of them were concerned in this tragedy,
of which the victim is supposed to have
been Princess Of Courland, and the
principal actor grandson of Peter the
Great.