Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-10-30
An Italian Evangeline.


hawk Reporter Rslates.
from the Amsterdam Recorder.l
A gang OF italian laborers have for months
past been employed on the West Shore rail
road few miles below Amsterdam. They
are very quiet, industrious and we'll behaved,
and seem to be above the average of Italian
laborers. Among them was one whose form
was slender and symmetrical, complexion fair
with slight olive tint, eyes dark and lus
trous and hair long, dsrk-hued and wavy
An Eveaiog Recorder reporter who visited
the spot couple of days ago CLEANED from
persons we'll acquainted with the facts the
following romantic story
The fair parsonage was woman. Her
name was ANGELA Lourino. Her lover,
Frankie Patriclo, came to America like many
of his countrymen to better his fortune.
The fair ANGELA pinned in his absence,
and finally determined to join him in the far
off America. To carry out her plan she dis
| guised herself in mems attire, and having no
money to pay her passage she slowed
herself away upon ocean steamer bound
for the United States. After the steamer
| sailed she was discovered and willingly did a
sailors hard duty to work her passage across
the broad Atlantic. At length she arrived IN
New York city, only to learn after patient in,
vestigation that her lover had Joined the
army of Italian laborers upon the West Shore
railroad.
Nothing daunted, she, too, became rail
road worker, and labored for her daily bread
| at various points along the West Shore rail
road, ever keeping the object of her life-to
| find her long lost Iover-in view. ID uring
| her wanderings she came near meeting him
| Once she caught sight of his form on the
deck of canal boat which passed near the
l spot where she was at work, but the overseer
| kept her at her task, anu the boat won't on
| ward. At another time she caught a glimpse
of him as he was rapidly whirled by the
| Amsterdam railroad station on an express
train. In the course of her wanderings and
l changes she finally located with gang
/ of Italian Iaborers few miles below this
| village. Her constitution, naturally delicate
| was unable to endure the exposure and hard
| work, and she fell victim to typhoid fever
The fatal disease made rapid work. and the
| poor girl, who, until her sickness, lad strict
ly kept to herself the secret of her sex, rap
| idly suc6umbed to its ravages. AS the enc
approached ANGELA awoke to consciousness
| from her feverish delirium and saw her lover
| bending over her. He had been detailed tt
| work at this spot and arrived only in time t'
see her die. She fixed her eyes on the fac'
of her 10 yer with look of love, and faintl,
murmured, in the language of her native
land CAT last we meet, only to part for
ever. FAREWELL my dearest" With thes
| words she died.
The remains of ANGELA were laid upon
platform, covered with cloth and stone
| placed beneath her head. For four days ant
nights the body was kept in this position
while the lover kept ceaseless vigil besid
it. At the expiration of this time the bod
was wrapped in a winding sheet and burie
! in the dump" of the road bed, the remain
being covered with earth from the dumpin
| carts,