Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-11-04
An Italian EvamgeIine.
IRON dc Am.LeLdam ReeoTdar.

From tue Amsterdam Recorder
A gang of Italian laborers have for
months past been employed on the
West Shore Railroad, q few miles
below Amsterdam. They are very
quiet, Industrious and well behaved,
and seem to be above the average of
Italian laborers. Among them was
one whose form was slender and sym
netrical; complexion fair, with q
slight olive tint eyes dark and lus-
Jrous, and hair long, dark-hued and
wavy. An EUening Recorder repor-
Ter who visited the spot couple of
days ago, CLEANED from persons well
acquainted with the facts, the fol-
lowing romantic story
The fair parsonage was a woman.
Her name was Angelic Lourino.
Her lover, Frankie Patriotic, came to
America, like many of his country
men, to better his fortune. The fair
Angelic pined in his absence, and
dnally determined to join him in the
far off America. To carry out her
plan she disguised herself in mems
attire, and having no money with
which to pay her passage, she slowed
herself away upon an ocean steamer
bound for the United States. After
the steamer sailed she was discover
cd, and willingly did a sailors hard
duty to work her passage across the
broad Atlantic At length she ar
riyed in New York city, only TO
learn, after patient investigation,
that her lover had joined the army Of
italian lab0rers upon the West Shore
Railroad.
Nothing dauuted, she, too, became
railroad worker, and lab0red for
her daily bread at various points
along the West Shore Railroad, ever
keeping the object Of her life-to
find her long lost loyer-in view.
During her Wauderings she came
near meeting him. Once she caught
sight Of his form on the deck OF Il
canal boat which passed near the
spot where she was ut work, but the
Overseer kept her at her task, and
the boat went onward At another
time she caught "a glimpse Of him as
he was rapidly Whirled by the Am
sterdam Railroad Station on an eX-
press train. In the course of her
wanderings and changes she was
finally located with a gang Of Ital-
ian lab0rers a few miles below this
village. Her constitution. naturally
delicate, was unable to endure the
exposure and hard work, and she
IelL victim to typhoid fever The
fatal disease made rapid work, and
the poor girl, who, until her sickness,
had strictly kept to herself the secret
Of her sex, rapidly succumbed to its
Tavages. AS the end approached,
Angelic awOke to consciousness from
her feverish delirium, and saw her
lover bending over her. He had been
detailed to work at this spot, and ar,
rived only in time to see her die
She fixed her eyes on the face of her
lover with q look OF love, and family
murmured, in the language of her
native land: AT last we meet, on
ly to part forever Farewell, my
dearest ~ With these words she
died.
The remains of Angelic were laid
upon platform, covered with Il
cloth, and stones placed beneath her
head For four days and nights the
body was kept in this position, while
the lover kept a ceaseless vigil be-
side it. At the expiration of this
Oime the body was wrapped in a
winding sheet and buried in the
dump" of theToad- bed, the remains
being covered with earth from the
dumping carts.