Sheboygan Lake Journal (Newspaper) - November 30, 1855, Sheboygan, Wisconsin VOLUME 5 SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN NOVEMBER 30 1855 NUMBER MV ANGEL LOVE Willis tuns introduces an unpublished poem of the late Mrs Emily 0 Judson in his last letter from Idlewild to the Home Journal of our foster There is a poem written by one of which I am r reminded by this question of to our mortal to reach I am not sure that it has er been published Fanny Forrester wrote it and it has been among ray manuscripts till 1 hare learned its inspired harmonies by heart if it be found elsewhere in print W it will not be unrefreshing to read for a change a bit of the old-fashioned poetry tbat baa in it both meaning and music The owed heart of the gifted her apostle husband just gone before her to exquisitely tells the story of their earthly love and is still lingering hold of I GAZED down life's dim labyrinth A wildering to sec Crossed o'er by many tangled clew And Wild could be And aa I gazed doubt and dread An angel came to me Jt for a heavenly guide 1 knew him even then Though meekly as n child he stood Among tho BODS of By his deep I knew him even then And as I leaned my weary head Upon his proffered breast And scanned tho wild From out my place of rest I wondered il the shining ones Of Eden were more blessed For there was light within my Light on my peaceful way And all-around the blue above The clustering starlight lay And easterly J saw upreared The pearly gates of day So hand in hand we trod the wild jly angel love and His lifted wing all quivering With tokens from the sky Strange my dull thoughts could not divine Twos lifted but to fly Again down life's dim labyrinth I grope my way alone While wildly through the midnight sky Black hurrying clouds are blown A in my tangled path The sharp bare thorns are sown Yet firm my foot for well I know The goal cannot be far And ever through the rifted clouds Shines out ono Fat when my guide went up he The pearly gales SMAUT child of three years of age with a book in its hands is a fearful sight It is too often the death warrant such as the condemned stupidly looks yet beyond his comprehension What should a child three years five or six years old be Strong moats for weak stomachs make no ily strength Let there be nursery pareat talcs and nursery rhymes I would say to every ent especially every mother sing to your dren tell them pleasant stories if in the try bo not careful lest they get a little dirt upon their hands and clothes earth is very much akin to and in children's out of door plays soils them not inwardly There is in it a between iures by it we touch upon the common thy of our first substance and beget a kindness for our poor relations the brutes Let children have free open air sport and fear not though they make acquaintance with the pigs the donkeys and tho may form worse friendship with wiser looking encourage 11 familiarity with all that love to court There is a language among them which the world's language obliterates in the elders It is of that you should make your children loving than that you make them wise Above ill things make them loving and then parents if you become old and poor these will be better than friends that will never neglect you Children brought up lovingly at your knees will never their doors upon you and point where would have you for tember MADAME URSINUS THE OF There aro few objects that present to tlie psychologist more curious trails and more subtle enigmas than lady poisoners The character is so opposed to all our ideas of feminine feeling and that except under circumstances of extreme excitement resentment of slighted attachment far from it nud when hi wards -ing his complaint increased f Dutch officer of She name of Rogay Rogay j of however thong few days after- in fact was the man of her heart She de- of the prisoner who rustled clared her usual candor in on- boiled said he could not eat it and was much struck by observing that she carefully put it away where no one else could get it This ed in his mind strong suspicions that there was something in the food which was mental to health and associated with his condition He resolved secretly to examine that the lot iu silk and of her I tin over the floors of the examinations the magistrate that she with that of other convicts who tor was for domestic as rude dued done in a moment of passion there was no domestic between i bored in heavy chains welded to carts or herself and her departed husband neither with iron hoi iij projecting above brows he uor she pretended any They agreed j sweltered in deep nothing in it uf to consider themselves asa legal couple aud I a severity which warranted an appeal to as friends and no mure As to Captain royal mercy But in her seventieth year I Then thar's tho liberal and the genuine old They don't go whirling around in they aint afraid to speak right out in aint afraid of nor in They carry their Union Hag the bunting all o'er with stars and and victorious because its the banner of the Union They go for personal latter he found a small parcel with the to ith the most ardent feeling of love I crated fro ominous The next day his attentive him stewed prunes which she recomended This attachment the tho most reasonable of far from re- and approved them He wished his wife to make herself happy and m prison d for the of tho instead or of Ol I II bj U J 1 I III VI I bi j i I 1 1 1 11 t jealousy or revenge of injured honor its i his mistress's room and cabinet and in the gay she made no secret of it that she clung the royal mercy reached her fehe was alar justic to all men and i i i t 1 1 i 1 1 11 it- Vi o i- 1 ir f 1 t-i f I f i 111 Ml t 1 li i lit f II Tilt existence seem haidly possible If we search for motives we find them to be generally of the most selfish and groveling kind They are commonly to put out of the or all of the people around I as to do him good and he accepted them mid- who have money to 1 Other sions come into play but Mammon the basest spirit that fell is generally at the bottom of their career It is amazing the and character that is worn for years to cuver the foul fiend in For long periods these female live in the heart of a family circle wearing the most marks of goodness and kindness of personal and spirit with apparent thankfulness but took enjoy in her own way and th remainder of her life to the city and open instead of Glatz Here she once more played the night self and not part not of a prisoner but of an innocent i for oligarchy and they go in to win for woman and an aristocratic their instrument is tuned with opened a handsome house and gave lin though its mado of bench that none of them should enter his mouth i letter preserved in he criminal records and they were frequented j they play on a harp of a Mow sand strings He communicated liis suspicion to the lady's he himself wrote at to maid in whom he had confidence and she quietly carried off the prunes to her er who was an apprentice to a celebrated apothecary The apprentice ed the prunes and the suspicion to the ter who tested them and found them well seasoned with arsenic the ual gifts caressed feted honored as the very soon very pride of while they are all the time calculating on lives aud purses of those nearest and who should be dearest to them Some of these modern ed the part of the fashionable or the satile or tho aesthetic some of the devoted attendant on the sick and suffering Heaven defend us from such devotion 1 May no such tigresses smooth our pillow or smile blandly The apothecary discovery to the magistrate who hearing the statement of the servant and the lady's maid the great lady People of course now began to look back on the life of this distinguished the beloved oii an occasion when lie had absented r some time urging him strongly to renew his visits and that such was her vanity thai she used every diligence to draw illustrious strangers to her circle An anecdote is related on undoubted an- every string an honest principle in the most love like terms the tenderest of which is characteristic At one From the Philadelphia Argus Hise l man and it was presently that days had paid assiduous attention and whoso wealth had fallen to her had gone which the old man underlined with his own hand But Rogay came removed to another place and there soon after liere was now another subject of Rogay caused said people to keep a- way while she fawned on him she had killed him But here again the testimony of two of the most physicians of her suppers a ndy sitting near her started as she saw some white on a salad which was handed her Mad Ursinus observed it and said Don't be alarmed my dear it is not arsenic Another anecdote is not less Immediately after quitting her prison she invited a large company to An in- to Glatz b the day was unanimous that the cause of y and In the year I pitched my tent at Mineral Point one of the principal es of the early settlement of tho prior to which time West Michigan was but sparsely populated Agriculture occupied very limited attention mining smelling and their mechanical almost exclusively the in- interests of the people of the lead July 4th 1 i on us in our pains which she cannot take once set us n second away and mix with taper fingers the opiate of our repose Amid the must stealthy footed and domestically benign race were the Widow Zwanziger and Mrs Gottfried of Germany They were among the most successful though not the most distinguished in this art of They went on their way slaying all around them for years upon years and yet were too good and agreeable to be suspected though death but another name for their Funerals followed these fatal sisters as certainly as thunder follows lightning ami undertakers were only men who nourished in their paths The Widow was an amiable and nurse Hur soups and coffee had a peculiar strength hur watchful care by the sick bed was in ail hearts she kissed child she meant to kill and pillowed the aching head with such that it ached again Mrs Gottfried was so attractive a person that her ministration was sought by people of much higher rank than she was so warm a friend mines matter of grand em- her husband and an mint to whose last I s death was consumption and j of the day All but one individual Oy Wisconsin merged in- The physician attested that lie who had been overlooked in the j tQ a total population in a savage I 1335 of twelve thousand including drug ing more had attended while he was anJ menc out of resentment off suddenly Madame was at suffering under the roof of Privy Councillor j juke wonderful revelations were expected The appetite for the marvellous became ravenous and insatiable Thera appeared almost is wonderful how quickly such things are book by M Fredrick Buchholz entitled the Con- of a Female Poisoner by which was rapidly bought up and devoured as the veritable confessions of rhe Ursinus But for ths hungering and thirsty public Madame Ursinus was not a lady of the confessing Shi was a clever seeing who had laid her grand plans played He bribed the confection some naum-ating that Mad Ursinus the in the bi most unequivocal affection for him that j the midst of the entertainment the whole 1 seven thousand of east of Mississippi river attended on him gave him everything j company were seized simultaneously with with her own hand and that no wife could j inward pain and sickness ave themselves Oneida Stockbridge and -1 dians who enjoy the right of civilization have been more assiduously tender to him up for lost started up in horror and rushed than she was She called herself Lotto in headlong from the house Glatz was her communication with only j with the news which went thru because her name was Charlotte but because i it lika an electric flash that the hnd was an the Werther school and she loved to be the same name as Wer- idol But yet withdrew self and died alone and at a poisoned all he guests Regardless of little accidents the Ursinus lived a life of piety lence and so said the jailor of the fortress and years after the decease of Rogay her female companion Shu sought to died Ursinus himself Old he was i is true j but he was in perfect health The kind her intercourse with her sister Madame von Hauke are again The State under its present limits numbered in over three hundred and five thousand and now il contains over five hundred aud fifty-two thousand inhabitants re- increase indeed in the settlement of a new country This rapid to me is not at all for as nature alloted well and had allowed nu witnesses and j made him a little festival on his birth little Yette and our happy childhood ed no detection True if she had j Jay and in the night he sickened and died stands before me But kept aloof a portion of our favored country as an earthly Paradise Wisconsin with its fertility of soil and salubrity of climate imc qualified in such distinction t hp i r whore the capitol now stands nt time there was not within miles of that point single white inhabitant within tho present limits of county an area of hundred ty square miles excepting Col E the Mounds and those of his hold Contrast the present with the dition of tho nineteen when the Indian and the deer unmolested roamed the forest nud the plain and you behold the country of Dane with in- people land the flourishing citr of of affluence with cities for preeminence as the seat of science and the arts and her Stata Society Stato Agricultural ty History Association Public Libraries various othar local comparing with of similar character in the Eastern States Tho Lake Side Water a pathic instil uli of large dimensions the in the midst of a natural park of fifty acres or morn and in from all the prominences of ilia city is another object of attraction and is fast gaining celebrity among invalids from all parta of our try The buildings of the city both public private of the Quakeress acter though not of brick tho material used is a limestone ly of of tolerably tine sculpture tho quarries beyond the of discoloration of a beautiful buff Color I it to be lower magnesian tum Are there in it of a bearing The lakes around Madison are and of trmisparency abounding in many piscatory varieties of large of mate enjoy the angling pleasures with her husband and her aunt the witness He had taken something that disagreed aud the wounded but patient and forgiving of the poison itself might be forthcoming with what s common at a hut chemical tests for poisons were not then Mad Ursinus sat up with him alone she so well known ns they are now The ies weM disinterred and examined and no trace of poison was found The state of the stomach and intestines were most but tho doctors disagreed as to th cause as doctors will Ursinus was Safe j But there was no getting over the fact j that the prunes intended for he cautious j Benjamin Klein had arsenic in them and Ursinus exclaimed Ah that life and its experience can thus operate on some people called nut a single creature she hoped he by no means making them happier Uod would be better but the man was aged reward us all for the good that we have and weak and he went his way j been found worthy to do and pardon us The vear after followed as suddenly her i our many errors mere nibbles Mineral Point in the mineral region i numbers about thousand inhabitants eminently County the United States Land office from Milwaukee to the Mississippi aad to the place a business aspect new town is laid out with spacious and improved with upon 11 transverse line from Janesville to Green Bay and from the latter point to the Falls of St Anthony in Minnesota from the eminences of the along that she was a friend unto death and one attached soul after another breathed their last in her anus Husband after husband departed find still her hand was sought ami still it practiced its cunning At length in j thu Ursinus was too shrewed to attempt to bur four and fiftieth year she was detected j deny it Iu this point she did confess I and arrested In prison she walked amid promptly frankly and fully the of all her victims wept tears j of tenderness over their memory I ed by desiring that her life might be written that having lost everything might yet ho fume All women of this class have had an ex- degree of what is more they have had a perfect passion fur their art The Marchioness de I was an enthusiast in the composition of thu love had died and she was rarest poisons of which her accomplice disgusted with life The gaiety and thu wealthy Miss Witte She died in her seventy-seventh and so far Madame I evening her doctor left quite well and i and her declared that she could in the nicht she sickened and died The not enough admire the resignation with Ursinus was quite alone with her called no single domestic but let the nood lie in her arms Bolh the bodies of the band and aunt now that affair took place were disinterred and examined which she endured her the aid of her She loft property to her nephews and partly to har institutions A year be- fore her death she ordered her own and left instructions that she should lie in the Father of southward an ob- serving tourist will find that the State j throughout its whole extent assumes one I general horizontal appearance no j tains or hills are here to mar the beauties of the enchanting scene or disturb the harmony of its undulated surface save a few isolated j thu largest of which are the I and or con- natural neither of which U than two hundred acres are of of an irregular pyramidal or conical form and aid in establishing the wise natural attractiveness of the streets mansions and large gardens with thrifty of spontaneous contrasting materially with miners huts and sod cabins of the old promptly frankly and fully But then i was no poison the were i she meant no harm at least against found dried together as if baked or as if state with white gloves on her hands a ring as for the roving Abo She had no intention of the I they were mummies of a thousand years on her finger containing the hair of her late man What food could that do her he 1 old The skin of the abdomen was so tough j husband and his portrait on her had nu leave No her motive that it resisted the surgeon's knife and the i Five carriages filled with friends and i igines the red man and the warrior They still as for led n few hundred feet luge of Shake Rag under the increase of population and the of numerous Church edifices spires has to a remarkable degree changed manners and customs of the The village is now classed the most healthy respectable in the upon the completion of Railroad with tho East bids fair to quite an important business place So it be is the prayer of one its early Prairie du Chien on tin Mississippi ut its confluence with the Wisconsin river con tains about two thousand inhabitants tho and inflammation which had reduced j poor girls whom the Ursinus had cared for them to an insuperable mass Yet the i in her life-time stepped forward and sane is indescribably gram After an absence of over A OF GOLD A Everett during his speech at the National Agricultural Show at Boston in ing difference in a grain of California gold and as ho termed it a Atlantic seed used the following Drop a grain of California gold into the ground and there it will lie unchanged to the end of clods on which it not b th more cold and lifeless Drop a grain of our blessed gold into the ground and a mystery In a few days it shoots is a living thing It is yd tow it- but it sends up an green through the expands to a vigorous in tho arrays itself inore glorious than Solomon in its broad fluttering leafy robes sound as the west wind whispers through thorn falls on tLe branded in public opinio car as the nf garment still towers skeins of vegetable floss surcharged with last ripens into two or throe j penitence she strove in h like this an ear of Indian each of which with hundreds of grains of gold one possessing the same wonderful as tho parent one instinct the some productive powers but the pri and yet it remained for Madame Ursinus to give additional touches of perfection to this peculiar character She was at once a lady of fashion a poetess a tracts a poetess and a poisoner Through all the i She had given him the very j Here she assumed a new character Her dangers of those various careers she lived quantity so as to lie safe and part of the interesting woman of fashion i wanted tu know how much would be cient for its object and therefore she lino done as doctors are said to do falling head were exchanged for perpetual and the handsome wealthy widow of forty was sent to spend the re- a few experiments on her mainder of her days in the fortress of Glatz to the good old age of seventy died had cautiously increased tho successive i was played out she had become Zwanziger and not with the least intention to do him ing beyond her wish and fate had now j Gottfried confessed that they any harm but to ascertain the effectual to defend her life and Of thousand And thus poisoner passed away like a saint the Boston Tost A Short My I will take for my text which was preached onto by my at Brandon Mississippi of which have doubtless heerd he way The sweetest the most clinging tion is often shaken by the slightest breath of unkindness as the delicate tendrils of the vine are agitated by the faintest air that breathes in summer An unkind word from one beloved often draws the blood from many a gallant heart that would defy the battle axe of or the keenest edge ol vindictive satire Nay the shade the gloom of the face familiar and dear awakens grief and pain These are the little t uor nB which though men of rougher and leas sensitive make their way through them without feeling extremely incommode persons of a more amiable and refined in their through life and tend to render their sojourn hero irksome and unpleasant is disposition observ able in some to view unfavorably everything that falls under their notice They seek to gain confidence by always differing from others in judgment and to deprecate what they allow to be worthy in itself by hinting at some take or imperfection iu the performance You too lolty or too low in your manners you are too frugal or too profuse in your tures you are too taciturn or too free in your and so of the rest Now guard against this tendency Nothing will more conduce to arid with no trifling success to achieve the title of a suint Surely it is worth while to brush up from the of sian criminal court a few fragments of ths history of such a woman The widow of Ursinus lived honored and courted in the highest circles of Berlin Her and reputation of her husband whom she had lost but few years her handsome noble figure and impressive features together with her spirit and accomplishments made her a centre of attraction in the society of the time She lived in a splendid house and liar establishment in all ments was perfect We can imagine the sensation created by the news of her arrest Madame Ursinus was seated in the midst of a brilliant company on the evening of the 5th of March 1803 at the card table when a servant with all the signs of terror to the charge of having administered on to her nearest connections she treated the calumny with utmost indignation The judges were the Ursinus was in the protestations of her innocence and the public were a disagreeable nonplus And what had really been tho life and character of the Sophia Charlotte continued a prisoner No sooner had she entered on her ought to keep he ih en s out the music of thu union to which evary true ters in the prison of Glatz than she set about writing an elaborate defence of self In her room was the best j tress afforded to its captives and which she 1 was allowed to furnish according to her pleasure she placed a little table under the on a of a thousand of just men made Fust thar's the know His name expresses the amount of his tion but it don't convey an idee of his re- lie's the most extraordinary was the daughter of j window in the massy wall and ar- js fur and a upon it everything that was of topics he's temperance and he I- i 1 i t T r 1 I a so-called who as ranged upon it d of legation In had under literary labo sue 1760 While residing in fur the Maine Law so i ed he can violate fur and i Her but for laborious research ana in- i and he ain't an i In defence at which she here and he's i her teens with a bored for she was by no means satisfied he's will ba no whare in charge of treason crossed to Prussia ed by books not only for refresh of j ed he can violate t 1 i n i 1 i i i and assumed the name ot Weingarten 04 Von Weiss born in with that of her paid advocates discovered the uncommon which she was endowed If any one sister wife of the Councillor of State at Spandau occurred that genuine love affair which her parents so summarily trampled upon She was called ever home to Stendal and in her nineteenth year j reasoning and c married the j of her foresight and and business capacity her streets are spacious well graded and her lic ami business houses and private mansions are constructed upon magnificent scales and of tasty the brick used for building are of a beautiful bull color and of texture which gives to the city the pleasing aspect as 1 fancy it of a tall prime Quakeress clothed in plain buJT Colored j Madison the in in tho numbers upwards and six hundred inhabitants The city is on an Isthmus or move properly upon a pe i Menona I three-fourths of a mile in width al its narrowest point has an irregular lating hough of easy nud ble grades in all directions Thu centre j Park or that one in which wands is an almost level plateau seventy feet lakes and contains about acies has it with thrifty tastefully gravelled and gas lamps The grounds without the gradually descend and again ascents from j numerous varying in from thirty to one hundred and affording many desirable nf villas Paik acres is of am The was a man on his face entered and informed her that character and the hall and was occupied by lice who insisted on seeing her Madame Ursinus betrayed no surprise or She put down her cards begged the com- pany with whom she was engaged ac play of penetration that donl to the interruption that it was some mistake and that she would be back in a moment She went but did not return After wating some time her partners inquired your than living in the neighborhood of aud being familiar with discontent The disposition grows with indulgence and is low and base in itself and if any be ready to pride themselves on skill and in the science let them re- member that the acquisition is cheap and easy i after her and learned to their a child can deface and destroy dullness and j that see was arrested and carried which seldom lack or ou on a of means cen cavil and find fault and everything can furnish ignorance and envy vith handle of Wm Jay most dispelled in the most convincing manner T so versed in tick her ad- cates now i he played on a harp of a abilities with 1 of just men fany one had her ot Then that's the goin un- ation of the clearness j a bay Jackass higher point and from many other in reservation a spat 1 the acuteness of her where he may somebody i and public and private i bestowed upon tl ubt was heie at once of luo j view of the city its aiLI Thuy n from the college buildings situate at life but unluckily all these gifts and j Shelved herself so pro aro often conferred upon or acquired law that she now btr by men who do not possess the other visers with astonishment as she had done i every boddy and agin i i J t li -i T 1 K IT t r 1 u 1 1 11 ll i r i i 11 I r 1 J more changeable then the Camelia lts numerous He is a and ln t entitling to the -i those of our id ot that young ladies of nineteen the judge on her tri The worthy councilor was old sickly deaf and passionless In fact he was dull com- diligent unimaginative horse and official in bis motives and great in his IV arru i f lab j r t m iti like Rip Van Winkle has reposed many years A railroad in from Milwaukee herey and tho near approach of the iron with its whistle seems to hava ed her citizens from their lethargy Tho a handsome river ing nu area of ten or twelve square milca on the east by the picturesque bluffs which adorn tin scenery of the Mississippi as far as the Falls of St ny The superior steamboat landing and her agricultural and other advantages rants for this ancient frontier trading post at no distant day an eminent position as a populous commercial city Between Prairie tlu Chien and Falls of St Anthony prior to 1839 contained few inhabitants other semi- Indians occupied as villages many of the prominent locations which now flourish as pinions miniature cities most important which Landing in Iowa Prairie La Cross and son in Wisconsin and Winona Red Wing St Paul nnd thony with by H bridge from an island the These arc all eligible points in yet j 1.1 capitalists urs 1 throw would it not to results in of cities to reduce thu to a grade at leapt ns low as f New York or Philadelphia J To most interesting ture in his region id that of its earthwork embossments Tba during 1843 devoted much labor iis record of tho existence of the tumuli was sorely perplexed in liin recent in that State al the nf of the mounds Why i these relics of i he Juis levelled with thu earth I by the ve 1 Truly the agriculturist should at least of them by remained by the savage for arc- now in tho Press of the of the protection of j that of Aram is a more striking specimen oV talent and of well assumed 1 thar's the straight out re- the ravines the givves the meadows and vision encompassed luxuriance of the bandman are sublime beyond In truth the grandure of he scenery the Lake Country is equalled j i of tho fondness for low company and pleasures is most generally the of ignorance and want of taste A servant had complained io tho preceding February of indisposition She gave him a basin of and some days after- wards some medicine iu raisins This so i warm friendship for ment of public business bat just the last a handsome young treat their for her liberation of an ancient nat palladium fail in to in their pristine I warn habitant to desist in the demolition of the mounds lest the spirits of thoso who revero them most should in nn moment visit their with such profanity Nov Like dogs in a wheel in or squirrels in a climb and climb with grent labor and but never tlm top
