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Show HOW A WltULK FAM 1LY HKCAMK IIM.VDi Tliciu lives a family in Dorchester county, every dark eyed male member of which for tlio past fifty years has gone blind at the ago of twenty to twenty-live yours. Those with blue eyes escaped tlio terrible circumstance, which wo lay before our readers as we heard it : Some sixty years since so goes the story a beautiful black-eyed girl of twenty, for some cause or other lost her eyesight, ller misfortune brought penury and want wilh it. Being reduced re-duced to beggary, she was wont to go abroad asking alms. During one of her journeys she visited the neighborhood neighbor-hood in which resided the ancestors of those who are now sightless. Instead of her helpless condition exciting, as it should have done, a feeling of sympathy, sym-pathy, she was treated with ridicule by some nf the younger members of the house her evil star had led her into. Two of the boys as a matter of mere deviltry, took her out, promising to conduct her to a place where plenty awaited. Instead of giving her a safe conduct, they carried her into a swamp and left her. It is said that she cried out beseeching them to put her on the public road, but they heeded not her lamentations. Finding herself about to be deserted among the tangled brushwood, she turned her prayer to a curse, asking her Maker, in her revengeful re-vengeful anger, to punish her betrayers betray-ers by making their offspring for several sev-eral generations as helpless as she was. It is taid that she was found dead in the swamp having perished from hunger hun-ger and cold. This may appear somewhat some-what romantic, but whether the traditionary tra-ditionary part of it be false or true, it is assuredly a fact that the male offspring off-spring of the family referred to lose their sight as indicated. Hundreds of persons in Dorchester county will verily veri-ly it. Cambridge, JIass., Herald. |
