Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-27

betrayed the only daughter Of . NoFsn-
umbrisn yeoman Of ancient and respect
able family, nearly allied to 4 peer, 20
created IN William the Fourth's reign.
She Vas . woman Of rare beauty and
accomplishments, having received an
education Of superior character in Edin-
burgh. After her betrayal she was de-
serted by her lover, who fled abroad.
The night before he left, however, at her
earnest request, he met her in COM
pany with . friend, with the avow-
ed intention Of promising marriage in
the future, when bis family, as he de-
clared, might be less averse to it.
After events show that this was merely
an empty promise and that he had no
intention Of fulfilling it. A long dis
cussion took place between the girl aud
her betrayer, in the presence Of the fe-
male friend in question, first cousin
of her father. High words, strong
phrases, and sharp upbraidings were
uttered on both sides; until at last the
young man, in cruel and harsh Ian
gusge, turned upon her fiercely,
declared that he would never
marry her at all, and held him
self, as he maintained, perfectly free
to wed whom he should choose. You
will be my certain DEATH she exclaim-
ed, but death would be more welcome
than life.' Die and be damned he
replied. On this the girl, with a wall
Of agony, swooned away. On her re-
coyery she seemed to gather up her
strength TO pronounce a curse upon him
and his. She uttered it with delibera-
ton, yet with wildness and bitterness,
maintaining that she was his wife. and
would haunt him till the day Of his
death; declaring at the same time to
her relative present, and you shall be
the Witness
HER APPARITIoN AT THE WEDDING.
He left the place Of meeting with
out kind word, and, it was believed,
went abroad. In less than five months,
in giving birth to her child, she died,
away from home, and was buried with
it, for the child died in Q few hours. in
. village church-yard near Annbleside.
Neither stone nor memorial marks
her grave. Her father, a widower.
wounded to the quick by the
loss Of his only daughter, pined
away and soon followed her to the
grave. Five years had passed, and the
female cousin had gone to live in Lon
don, when, on a certain morning in the
spring of lS42, she was passing by
church in the West End, where from
the number Of carriages waiting she
saw that marriage was being cele-
brated. She felt mysteriously and in
stinctively drawn to look in. On
doing so, and passing forward to the
altar, she beheld, to her astonish-
ment, the very man, somewhat
altered and weather-worn, who had
caused so much misery to her relative,
being married to the daughter Of
rich city merchant. This affected her
deeply. bringing back the saddest
memories Of the past. But as the
bridal party were passing out Of the
church and she pushed forward to look,
and be quite sure she had made no
mistake, both herself and her BRIDE
groom in one moment saw an appari-
ton Of her relative, the poor girl whom
he had ruined, dressed in white,
with flowing hair and wild look,
holding up with both hands
her little infant. Both seemed per-
fectly natural in appearance and to be
of ordinary flesh and blood. There was
no installing her identity. This oc-
Cured in the full sunshine ofnoOn and
under the church porch in the presence
of crowd. The bridegroom staggered.
turned pale, and fell forward on the
stone steps. 1t seemed incomprehensi-
BILE. The bridegroom, said the church
officials, was in fit. lie was carried
down the steps and taken in the bridal
carriage to his father-in-law's house.
But it was reported he never spoke
again: and this fact is mentioned in the
newspaper account Of his death"
AN AUTHORS GHOST.
In his celebrated Athena Oxonienses,
Anthony a-W God, the learned antigua
~, states that DR.. Jacobs, a well-known
medical man, told him the following
marvellous narration Of an appartion
that visited his house in Canterbury
This very story" records ATWOOD,
"Dr. Jacobs told me himself when he
was physician to my eldest son. whom
he recovered of fever" DR.. Jacobs
also repeated the relation in a letter
which Aubrey, the antiquary, alludes
to in his Mscellanies. The story is
that the learned Henry Jacobs, fellow
Of Merton College, Oxford, died at DR..
Jacobs's house in Canterbury.
About n week after Henry Jacobs's
death. the Doctor being in bed and
awake, and the moon shining bright into
his room, he beheld his deceased cousin
standing by the bedside in his shirt,
with q cap on his head, just as when
he was alive. The Doctor pinched him.
self to be sure he was awake, and
turned to the other side, away from the
apparition. After some time he plucked
up courage to turn to it again, and
Henry Jacobs stood there still. The
Doctor would have spoken to him, bat
could not. for which he has been sorry
ever since. In some little time the appa-
rition disappeared. Not long after this
incident the cook-maid. going out to
the woodpile to fetch some wood,
averred that she saw the apparition of
Mr.. Henry standing on the pile of wood.
| The spectre does not seem to have
troubled the Doctor any more; but it
is stated that when dying Henry would
fain have told his cousin something, but
was not able. 1t is believed, says
Aubrey, that he would have informed
DR.. Jacobs with what person he had
deposited the manuscripts Of his own
writings, which were all the riches he
had, and which, it was strongly suspect
ed, fell into the hands Of man who
printed them under his own name. If
anything could bring an authors spirit
back to this world, certainly such an
outrage on his memory would"
DREAM OF DEATH