THE DEATH OF A BRIDE.
£> [ IT.Oil Til 13 UKOGKU.] A mew days ago a servant who was wading on a young bride at the table upset a kerosene lamp on her dress, and she was burned to death. The universality of the sad Deling which this simple announcement occasions attests the wide-spread and affectionate interest which attends ncwlymarried couples on their start out in life. Most of this sympathy comes from entire strangers ; yet the mere fact that this young lady had just boon married, and that her bridal dross was converted, in the twinkling of an eye, into the shroud, smites the hearts of those to whom even her name was totally unknown. This shows a pervading feeling of good will in trie community towards brides and bridegrooms. The old shoe that is thrown after them is freighted, not merely with the best wishes of the sender, but with a God-bloss yon, as it were, from the public. Death is death, come when it may ; but no one can read of the sudden decease of a newly-made wife without a peculiar emotion of sorrow.
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 187, 24 January 1877, Page 4
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