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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and rcm.isHEn.
ELK COUNTYTUX klCPUULlCAN PAIITY.
TWO DOLLARS EE ANNUM.
. VOL.1.
1UDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1871.
NO. 5.
THE HAWK' NEST.
ItV BRET II411TE.
We checked onr pace the road sharply round
ing ;
We heard the troubled flow
Of the dark olive depths of pines, rexoumling
A thousand feet below.
Above the tumult of the canyon, lilted,
The gray hawk breathless hung,
Or on the bill a winged shadow drifted
Where furze and thorn-bush clung ;
Or where, half way, the mountain side wan
furrowed
With many n scam and scar,
Or some abandoned tunnel dimly burrowed
- A mole hill seen so far.
We looked In silence down across the distant
L nfathomable reach,
A silence broken by the guide's consistent
And realistic speech :
" Walker of Murphy's Mew a hole through
Peters
For telling him he lied,
Then np and dusted out of South Hornitoa
AcrosR the long Divide.
" We ran him out of Strong's and up through
Eden,
And 'croes the ford below,
And up this mouutaln (Peter's brother lendin'),
And me and Clark and Joe.
" He fou't u game ; somehow, I disremember
lest how the thing kern round ;
Soino say 'twas wadding, some a scattered
ember
Krom fires on the ground.
" But In one minute all the hill below him
Was just oue sheet ot tiame ;
Guardin' tho crest, 8am Clark and I called to
him, ,
And well, the dog was game.
" He made no sign tho llres of hell were
round him,
The pit of hell below.
We sat and waited, but we never found him,
And then we turned to go.
" And then you see that roek that's grown
so bristly
With cbapparel and tan
Sntliin' crept out it might have been a
grizzly,
It might hev been a man.
" Suthin' that howled and gnashed its teeth
and shouted
In smoke and dust and flame ;
Nnthln' that sprang into the depths about it,
Grizzly or man but game !
" That's nil. Well, yes, It does look rather
risky,
And kinder makes one queer
And dizzy looking down. A drop ol whit-key
Ain't a bad thing right here !"
Chicago Art Jierieic for Marih.
TOO BASHFUL.
11V HARLAN' E. WARD.
" Hang it all, what can a poor fellow
doV"
A great, handsome, good-natured,
honest-hearted fellow was Charley Win
ter, but so very bashful, that in the
Eresence of the gentler sex he never could
ave told whether he was standing on
his feet or on his head. Just now his
failing was immensely aggravated by
the fact that he was over head and ears
in love with Clarico Wilmer, the sweet
est, prettiest, most bewildering little
beauty in all the region round about.
O dear, I wish I knew a way to tell
my love, and not be there myself. Deuce
take the girls I they bother you on pur
pose, I believe, and always manage so
your courage oozes out of your fingers'
ends before you are quite ready to ask
the fatal question 1"
" Why don't you write '("
" Write 1 I shouldn't know a word to
say ; and then I'd never dare to look her
in the face again."
" O, what a spoony I Simply say you
love her, and ask her if she will make
you happy. Then face the music like a
man, and meet her next time as if noth
ing had happened unless she answers
yes, and then, of course you'll act as if
something had happened.
Charley groaned despairingly.
" Kasy enough for you to talk," he
muttered, dubiously. " You who have
been married seven years with me the
case is different. I tell you, Tom, you
don't know anything about it."
" Yes I do. Didn't I have to do my
courting just the way you've got to do
yours r Didn't Nell act just as Clarice
does, bewitching me at one moment, and
driving me almost to suicide the next ?
You're a lunatic, you are, and I hope
Clarice will give you the mitten."
' I'm afraid she will."
" ' Faint heart never won fair lady, "
quoted Tom Ridgely, indignantly, as he
arose to take his leave. " Seriously,
however, Charley, I advise you to put
your heart on paper, and forward it to
Clarice by post."
Charley thought about it after he was
gone. The more he thought the better
pleased with it he was.
" It's terrible, but I suppose I must !"
he groaned, seating himself at his writ
ing desk, and clutching wildly at paper,
pens and ink.
An hour of torture. Charley began a
dozen billet-doux and tore them up,
then wrote a dozen more, and tore them
up also.
" It's utterly useless," he moaned, at
laBt ; and then the great booby laid his
head upon the desk and fairly sobbed.
" I'll write and ask her to go to the
opera with me to-morrow night, any
way, and then, perhaps "he dared
to think no further.
" My dear no, that never'll do was
ever a mortal so perlexed as I am P I
wish the girls were all at the bottom of
the ocean, and Eve had never been
created. Well, I'll begin again."
This time he was successful. His note
was short enough, and some young ladies
might take umbrage at such an invita
tion, but Clarice knew his bashfulness.
It read as follows, and was not dated at
all:
" Will you be kind enough to honor
me by the acceptance of my escort to
the opera to-morrow eve '
And that was all beside the signature.
" Well, there," said Charley, as he got
it done, "I promised lister Minnie I
would write to her this week, to I will
do it now while my hand is in." ' And
tossing the note one tide, he loon began
bis letter.
" Sister Mine :" (it read) Yours of
the 17th came to hand, and I have meant
to answer it before. The fact is, I am
deep in love with a young lady Clarice
Wilmer, of whom you ve heard me
speak, and am afraid she don't return it.
You know that I am so oonfounded
bashful I daren't speak a word to her
about it, and neither can I write. Some
times I think I've got the necessary
courage, but when I meet her it vanishes
like dew before the sun, and I'm a big
ger fool than ever. I know Bhe thinks
that I'm a fool, but I can't help it I'd
rather face a battery of mitrailleuses, or
any other engine of destruction, than a
pretty woman, any time, and Clarice is
the fairest, sweetest, and most beautiful
young lady I ever saw.''
Here followed three whole pages of
lover's rhapsody, interspersed with wail
ings of despair, and then the letter
wound up thus :
" I've asked her to the opera to-morrow
night, and if she goes, 'tis possible
that I may learn my fate."
" Three o'clock can it be possible r"
cried Charley, glancing at the clock, and
stuffing his letters into two envelopes,
which he backed in awful haste. " The
mail goes out in half an hour. I shall
be late, as sure as fate."
And paying no heed to the rhyme,
and little to the letters, he grasped his
hat and started for the post-office.
Clarice smiled her brightest when
Charley called for her next night, but
he fancied there was mischief in her
eyes, which perhaps was not quite all a
fancy. At the opera she talked and
laughed between the scenes in such a
way that he was quite bewildered. He
did not learn his fate, and after he got
home felt worse than ever.
Next day he got a lettvr from his
sister.
" I am very sorry," wrote she, " but I
could not well come on two hundred
miles, simply to attend an opera. I
suppose, however, the invitation was in
tended for another person, and it "
" O Jove, I am undone !" said Charley,
dropping the missive to the floor, and
breaking out in a cold perspiration. " I
sent the letters wrong, and now I have
done it brown. What will Clarice think
of me?"
Driven to desperation at last, he
plucked up courage and hurried to
Clarice's residence.
" Is Miss Wilmer in?" he asked the
servant who answered the bell.
" Yes ;" and he speedily found himself
in the parlor, anil face to face with his
inamorata.
" I I did you receive a note from
me the other day, Miss Clarice V" he
stammered, wishing the floor would give
way and precipitate him into the cellar.
" Ah ! Yes I ask your pardon, Miss
Wilmer, for the inadvertency. I meant
" Oh, you need not apologize, Mr.
Winter. I rather like it, 1 assure you.
You did not try your fate at the opera,
though. Why didn't you '"
How mischievous her eyes were spark
ling I A faint crimson dyed her cheek,
and, altogether, Charley looking at her
slyly, thought he never saw her look so
pretty.
" But the annoyance "
" It wasn't an annoyance. 1 was
pleased."
Charley's heart thrilled suddenly with
hope. He took one Btep forward.
",You say that it was no annoyance.
Dare I believe you care for me ':"
The faint glow deepened suddenly.
" You may," she said.
If Charley's friend, Tom Ridgely, had
dropped in five minutes later, he would
have thought Charley's bashfulness was
all a sham. It never troubled him again.
Candy For Children.
It is ever a matter of wonderment
how people seemingly possessed of a fair
amount of judgment and information
will persist, year after year, in commit
ting faults so grave as to be, in fact,
crimen. Parents and guardians who give
doses of strichnia or arsenicum to child
ren, and kill them outright, are some
times brought to tho bar of justice to
answer for the murder. But what can
be done with those criminal adults who
tamper with the health and life of child
ren in buying candies, in any one of the
thousand forms for them to eat, and
which they do eat? Like many other
divices of the devil, (which is a word
signifying with us, evil, only the d be
fore it give it an - emphasis we some
times like), these bon-bons of poison are
deadly dyed to give them an attractive
look to the eyes of the innocent and
ignorant, and delude the steps of the
unwary into the stalls where they are
sold. If children were educated to re
gard confections as poisons just as they
are taught to avoid poisonous plants
and reptiles, do you think they would
ever plead with papa or mamma to buy
them candy ? Now and then one finds
a father and mother intelligent enough
to be intrusted with children who would
hardly sooner give them candies than
the berries of the deadly nightshade,
and yet who are constantly annoyed by
visitors and relations giving candy to
their children, it is hardly necessary
to remark that such proceedings on the
part of friends or Btr angers is a matter
meriting the most vigorous rebuke. If
you cannot give your children all the
good things of this life which you would
wish, you can at least withhold a few evil
ones, in the shape ot abominable con
fections. Ah 1 if we were only a sovereign,
what a dav of emancipation we would
evoke 1 We would emancipate, by issu
ing such laws as never as yet have gird
ed the world like bands of sunlight
freedom laws forcing men to be men, in
acts at least, if not in truth and laws
giving ringing Anglo-Saxon names to
Anglo-Saxon things such as, " Candy
a delectable poison purchased only by
fools and idiots.
To what stultification will not intem
perance lead its victims. A poor devil
at Hartford got an order from the select
men for a cotfin for his little girl, and
then tried to Dawn it to get money to
buy rum with. Meantime the "deceased"
was at play in the street.
THE (LIGHT OF THE EMPRESS Ft'.
UtME.
Hlnlisp nicllvnine'a Account.
The following account of the flight of
the ex-Empress of France from Paris,
when the population rose and threw on
the yoke of her husband, was given
lately by Bishop Mcllvaine, at a meet
ing called by the students of Kenyon
College, in (iambier, Ohio. It resembles
in most particulars nn account which
has already been published, but the in
cidents related are given with such
striking particularity, coming from such
a source the Bishop had received them
from one who aided the flight of Eu
genie that our readers will be inter
ested in its perusal. We copy it from
the Cleveland Jlerala :
"It seems the safety of the Empress'
had been assured to her by General Tro
chu, who had solemnly promised to in
form her ot the approach ot danger. or
some unexplained reasons he failed to do
so, and when en Sunday the mob began
to assemble about the Tuileries, three of
her friends, Prince Matternich, the
Spanish ambassador, and M. Lesseps
formed a plan for her escape and went
to her rescue. M. Lesseps stood outside
and harangued the mob for the purpose
of detaining them, while the wo other
gentlemen went in search of the Em
press. They found her partaking of a
very frugal lunch with one of her ladies,
and her fears could not be aroused.
Seeing it impossible to persuade her,
the two gentlemen used force to remove
her. At this she consented to make a
slight preparation, and without at all
changing her dress (for the mob had al
ready entered the Palace), catching up
a small leathern reticule, she put into it
two pocket-handkerchiefs, and two
books, the New Testament and a prayer
book. On her head she put a riding
hat, and then by that time thoroughly
aroused, she fled through the palace;
through long corridors, down, up flights
of stairs, through chamber and salon, a
long walk before they came down to the
Hue liivoli, on which side ot the 1'alace
the mob had not collected. Here a cab
awaited her. She, with the lady in at
tendance, was put into it. Now,' said
the friends, ' we must leave you ; too
well known, our attendance would but
bring destruction upon you 1 Make good
speed I' Yes, good speed, for she heard
tho cries of the furious mob, and as Bhe
was entering the cab, a little boy ex
claimed, ' There is the Empress,' and she
thought all was lost ; but it proved that
there was no one there to take notice,
and so the two ladies drove off. Soon
they came into the midst of the excited
crowd, and the lady accompanying her
questioned on this side and the other
the meaning of it all, and appeared to
be greatly interested in the proceedings,
while the impress sank back out ot sight
in the carriage. They had a long ride
out beyond the Champs Elysees to the
quieter parts of the city, when they
alighted, dismissed the cab, to avoid
giving any clue m case ot pursuit, and
walked some distance. Where should
she go ? To whom flee ? What friend
trust.-' 1 here was but one to whom she
would venture, and that one an Ameri
can gentleman of some note, who with
his wite had long been a friend ot both
Emperor and Empress. So they took
another cab for the house of this gentle
man (whom we will call Mr. W ), ar
riving there to nnd mm away irom
home, and his wife absent for the sum
mer at a small seaport on the coast.
The servant, under these circumstances,
was extremely ungracious, and quite re
fused to admit these strange ladies, and
when at last, upon their insisting, they
were admitted to the house, she was un
willing to show them into an apartment
suitable for them, and it was not with
out some difficulty that they were al
lowed to wait in the library for the
owner's return. When at last he return
ed and entered the room, judge of his
surprise at the sight of the Empress.
You must get me immediately out of
t ranee, this very night, exclaimed the
Empress the moment she eaw him. Out
of France that very night ? He told her
it was impossible. He was expecting a
party of friends to dinner, but would
plead sudden business and excuse him
self, and make preparations as quickly
as possible for her flight ; but, in the
meantime, she must be quiet and rest.
This she was prevailed upon to do, and
supplying herself from Mrs. W 's
wardrobe, retired for the night.
" The dinner party, receiving the ex
cuses of the host, and overcome with a
sense of mystery, soon withdrew, in
spite of the cordial message and wishes
of the gentleman, that they would make
themselves merry in his absence. At
four o'clock in the morning a carriage
stood at the door, into which Mr. W
put the two ladies, and driving himself,
set off on their way out of France, pur
suing quiet streets, then unfrequented
roads and lanes of the country, avoiding
the more publio highways of the king
dom ; and so on, until the horses were
worn out. They were near a little vil
lage, but then came the question how to
get a carriage brought to them, and ex
plain why they could not go to it. Mr,
W went to the inn, and having
found a private carriage, which was
waiting over there, agreed with the ser
vant to come out a mile or so, and carry
his party, Mr. W 's two sisters, one
of whom was very lame indeed, and
could not walk a step, some miles on,
till they should come to a railway. This
done, and the lame lady, with much
difficulty, put into the carriage by her
'brother' and 'sister,' they proceeded
for a distance, until they came to a rail
way, where they left the carriage to
break up the clew, and rode a short dis
tance in the rail car without attracting
attention. Then they took another
carriage, riding in roundabout ways,
until at the end of two days they came
to the little seaport where Mrs. w
was spending the summer. How must
Mr. W conduct the ladies into the
presence of his wife without their being
observed by every one ? After some re
connoitering, this was successfully ac
complished, ana tnrowing her arms
around the neck of Mrs. W , Eugenie
exclaimed: 'You and your husband
are the only friends left to me in the
world.' She, with the lady who ac
companied her, remained in the room of
Mrs. W , lest some one should see
and recognize her. No servant could be
allowed to enter the room. Mrs. W
brought food to the two ladies and
served the Empress in everything, who
expostulated at the inconvenience she
was causing nor mend, and insisted up
on waiting upon herself, her behavior
being of such a sweet character as still
mere to endear her to her friends, who
were risking nearly all they possessed in
her cause.
" Their plan was now to get her across
the Channel to the Isle of Wight, and
thence to England. There, were but
two conveyances in the harbor both
private yachts and only one able to go
out to sea. The owner of that one flatly
refused to take the two ladies over, but
at last, after the identity of the ladies
had been made known and much per
suasion used, he consented, and Mr.
W and the two ladies, with the reti
cule containing two pocket-handker
chiefs, set out the day after their arrival
in the little town on their voyoge to
England.
" This is a journey usually made in a
few hours ; but a terrible storm arising,
it was prolonged to twenty-seven. The
same night and in the same waters The
Captain went down. But although the
gentleman in command lost all control
of himself and ship, they weathered the
storm.
" During this time Eugenie showed
the most remarkable self-possession, and
evidently looked upon deuth as a relief
from her woes. But this was not to be,
and after a passage fraught with the
most imminent danger, she was landed
on the Isle of Wight, to find on English
ground that asylum which had been
sought by so many lugitives before her.
And to add to her reuet, her - son, of
whose whereabouts she knew nothing,
was found to be in Hastings, not far
from her.
" Such is the truo story of Eugenie's
escape from Paris and France. What a
sad, sad tale ot tallen greatness 1 How
much must she have suffered in those
few days ; the fury of a Paris mob in
her ears ; the fear of pursuit at her back ;
how otten did she start and give herselt
up for lost ? What threatening mean
ing did many an accidental phrase as
sume ! No wonder her courage sus
tained the fearful storm ; the thunder
and lightning, the waters, however dark,
and cold, and deep, would be far more
merciful than that dreadful mob that
called out her name, the mob that had
shown no pity to the little child or ten
der woman, and derided with the bit
terest insults the fond Marie Antoinette
at the guillotine. Oh, France ! when
we remember thosa days of terror, can
we wonder at this retribution ?"
Power of Memory.
A singular, though not unprecedented,
instance of the power of memory is that
of Daniel McCartney, a laboring man,
living at Salem, Columbia County, Ohio.
From a long account of him in the St.
Louis Journal of' Sjxeulatite Philosophy,
for January, 1871, we condense the fol
lowing :
Mr. McCartney was born in estmore-
land County, Pennsylvania, September
11), lHli, and is nearly blind. He can
read tho largest print only by holding it
within two inches ot his eyes. His
memory is exceedingly retentive and
minute, and he claims that he can recol
lect the events of every day since Jan
uary 1, 1827, when he was about nine
years and a half old. He nevor kept
any record of occurrences, and has no
system of mnemonics.
An examination by D. W. Henkle,
Commissioner of Public Schools in Ohio,
showed that McCartney's assertion was
true. Mr. Henkle has a journal with
him which recorded the events of forty
five years past, and found that McCart
ney's answers tallied with the records of
the diary. His questions related to the
day of the week ; the state of the weather,
and occurrences coming under McCart
ney's observation. In reply to an inter
rogatory in regard to October 8, 1828,
McCartney in two seconds said : " w ed-
nesday. It was cloudy, and drizzled
rain. I carried dinner to my father
where he was getting in coal.','
Question: "February 21, 1829?"
Answer in two seconds : " Saturday.
It was cloudy in the morning and clear
the afternoon ; there was a little
snow on the ground. An uncle, who
lived near, sold a horse beast that day
for $35." Question: "October 13, 1861 ?"
Answer, after fifteen seconds : " Monday.
It was kinder pleasant like weather. I
staid all night Sunday night at my
brother's, and next day I went to the
depot in Cardington to saw wood."
Question: "May t, imo t Answer,
in two seconds : " irnuay. it rained
some. The Saturday before I attended
a quarterly meeting in Iberia." (He is
a Methodist) Question: "July lb,
18ti6 ?" Answer, instantly : "Monday
A very hot day. I sawed wood that day,
and the next day went out into the
country to hoe potatoes." The same ao
curacy and laciiity was shown in re
spect to many other dates, some con'
nected with important publio events,
and others having no such association,
McCartney likewise showed wonder
ful quickness in mathematics. Being
asked to multiply 32 by 45, he returned
a correct answer in two seconds, doing
the sum "in his head," multiplying
first by five and then by nine. In the
same way he multiplied 93 by 97 in
twelve seconds, 81 by 53 in eight seconds.
450 by 123 in thirty-five seconds, and
182 by 3,756 in four and a half minutes,
becoming confused, however, in the last
attempt. He displayed a good know
ledge ot geography.
On subsequent occasions Mr. Henkle
again examined him as to dates and in
cube root His accuracy and powers of
computation were as manifest as on
former trials. His spelling was found
to be rather faulty, but he knew some
thing of German by hearing neighbors
speak it ' McCartney is certainly a
curiosity, and deserves the attention of
those learned in psychology and the
collateral sciences utiwmnati Uazetle.
A GHOST AT COLLEGE.
Uproar In a TenneMee Female Kdacatlonal
Inatttnte A gpecnlalive Apparition
Who Owns the Fropertv T Digging for
Evidence What wan Found Coder
round.
From the irempht Aralanehe, March 5th.
South Memphis is in a furore of ex
citement over occurrences of a supernat
ural nature recently made public, and
which concern the Brinkley Female
College and its inmates. The college is
a spacious frame structure, with rather
a sombre and dreary aspect, situated at
or near the intersection of Georgia and
De Soto streets. The school at present
numbers between forty and fifty pupils
of various ages, and of teachers, includ
ing the principal and his wife, there are
eome six or seven. Many of the pupils
come from afar and are boarders at the
institute, but not a few who reside in
the city, and near the college, are but
day attendants. Among the latter is a
Miss Clara Robinson, daughter of Mr.
Eobinson, an attorney residing on De
Soto street, between Vance and Linden
streets. Her age is about 13 years, and
her temperament is of the nervous kind,
while her health is rather what might be
called delicate. Her experiences with
affairs claimed to be supernatural within
the last two weeks are more wonderful
and startling than the " Mysteries of
Udolpho ; or The Horrors of Kenil worth
Castle."
THE SlYSTERY.
One week ago last Tuesday while Miss
Clara was alone in one of the rooms of
the institute practising her music lesson,
an apparition suddenly appeared before
her in the shape of a girl of about eight
years of age, with sunken, lustreless eyes
and strikingly emaciated form and fea
tures. The object was virtually a skele
ton in appearance, clad in a dingy and
tattered dress of faded pink, which was
partly covered with a greenish and
slimy fold. It seemed also to be trans
parent. A Bad expression rested upon
the features of the strange visitor. Nat
urally frightened, Clara ran into an ad
joining room and sprang into bed with
a sick girl, at the same time motioning
with her hand to
THE UNSIGHTLY OBJECT
to begone. The apparition advanced,
however, with slow and noiseless steps to
the bedside, and laid an emaciated hand
on the pillow, while Clara, aghast and
speechless with terror, was never thrown
into spasms, but all the time motioned
away the object, which finally disappear
ed through a side door, as noiselessly as
it had entered. The apparition not ap
pearing next day, Clara's tranquility of
mind was about restored. Un Thursday,
however, while again practising at the
piano in the music room, two other
young ladies being present, she was
Btartled by an unusual noise, as if by
some water being dashed over the floor,
and on turning her head in the direc
tion of the sound, was dismayed at the
appearance of the same spectral-looking
visitor ot two days before. It was seen
by all three, more distinctly by Clara
than the others, and the trio fled in ter
ror from the presence of the fearful ap'
parition, ghost, goblin, or whatever it
might be. The story was again told.
and was ridiculed as nonsensical, as in the
hrst instance, notwithstanding the tes'
timony of the two young ladies who
were in the room with Miss Clara, to
whom, however, the figure appeared
rather shadowy, though to their friend
it was well dehned and distinct
APPARITION THE THIRD.
Last Tuesday the ghost appeared at
the same place and under like circum
stances. Miss Clara ran down stairs in
great affright, and, trembling like an
aspen, related the occurrence to Miss
Jockey Boone, one of the teachers, who
induced the girl to return with her to
the music room. As they opened the
door the figure stood plainly in view to
Clara, but only lmperteotly in the eyes
of Miss Boone. Induced to address her
strange visitor, Clara asked what it was
doing there and what it wanted. Point'
ing a thin, ghastly-looking finger in I
southerly direction,
THE GHOST REPLIED
that under a stump, some fifty yards
trom the house, were secreted some vat
uables which she would have Miss Clara
take possession of, and UBe to her ad
vantage. Miss Boone heard a rumbling
noise, but could not distinguish any
words, but a pupil present at the time
relates that words similar to those beard
by Miss Clara were distinct to her ears
also. Having spoken as above, the ob
ject vanished through the garret door as
on tormer occasions. Dismay now pre
vailed throughout the institute, and
there were none to ridicule or to ques
tion. Clara Kobinson related the full
particulars to her father when she went
home on Tuesday night, who next day
visited the college and had a consulta
tion with Mr. and Mrs. Meredith about
the matter. It was agreed that the af
fair should undergo a rigid investiga
tion, as it was doing no good to the rep
utation of the college, while little Clara
was much troubled and disturbed in
mind.
THE FOURTH VISITATION.
Mr. and Mrs. Meredith believing they
were being duped by some practical
joker, undertook to investigate the mat
ter. With this object in view, they on
Thursday last had every pupil of the
college assembled in one of the halls.
Miss Clara was sent into the yard while
the remaining scholars were being ques
tioned and examined. She walked qui
etly around the house, and while en
gaged pointing a pencil some fifty yards
from the building, the apparition sud
denly appeared before her, not more
than half a dozen feet away. She at
tempted to scream, but the vision spoke
quickly, in a mild, pleasant tone, and
said : "Don't be alarmed, Clara,
MY NAME 18 LIZZIE.
I will not hurt you." Clara stood trans
fixed with terror.. The vision spoke
again, and in a distinct tone related that
the Brinkley College property was hers
by right, title, and deed ; that its pres
ent pretended owners held it illegally,
having no shadow of a claim to it what
ever ; that there was no one else to claim
it, as her people were all dead, and she
herself was the last one that bad died.
She desired Clara to obtain the papers
which she had previously mentioned to
her, and with them in her possession,
claim and retain tho property iu her
own name and right. Unless she did
so she nevor would do good to or for any
one. Of course all this soon spread
among the usually quiet people of South
Memphis, several young ladies wont
home frightened out of their wits, and
several others were affected with illness,
some it was feared seriously. Clara was
naturally more excited over the singular
event than others, and remained at home
last Friday to compose her mind, but
she was told by her father that on Mon
day (to-morrow sho must be prepared to
return to school. She replied that she
WOULD RATHER DIE
than go there again. Of course her
father was interested in these strange
and to him unaccountable fancips of his
daughter. Having some legal business
at his office with an old lady who was
reported to be a spiritual medium, he
related the story to her. She replied that
she would, if permitted, visit the child
and see if anything could be made out
of it Last evening, when Mr. Eobin
son went home from his business office,
the spiritual medium accompanied him.
shortly atter she entered tho room where
Clara was, a table was placed before her.
Several neighbors dropped in to witness
the expected developments. All seated
themselves about the table, placing their
hands on its surface. Mr. Eobinson,
always sceptical and doubting the truth
of the story, watched with the eyes of a
hawk to detect Iraud or collusion His
doubting mind with that of several
others, who had during their natural
existence ridiculed ghosts and spirits,
was soon awe and wonder struck at the
strange actions that followed. The lit
tle girl, in all appearances, swooned,
falling back in her chair apparently
lifeless, and certainly insensible. Her
eyes stood wide open, fixed on vacancy.
Her bands began to move. Soon they
moved faster, and in a short time their
violent action frightened the parent,
who caught hold of his child's arm to
prevent her doing herself harm. Those
present (some dozen or more) were
amazed at the child's behavior and ap
pearance. In due time they became
tranquil, as did also the hands of Miss
Clara, though not in the latter case un
til all the skin had been barked from the
knuckles of her hands. She never spoke
a word, but when the medium placed a
pencil in her band and paper on the
table beneath it,
SnE BEGAN TO WRITE
with astonishing velocity. At first the
characters were strange, indistinct, and
unreadable. Gradually the scratches
assumed shape and form, and finally be
came readable. Sentences were read
from the several sheets the girl wrote
upon which corroborated all she had
previously related. Questions were ask'
ed by persons present and replies were
instantly written on the paper, the
writer never uttering a word, and all
the time totally insensible. The same
as has been previously told was all writ
ten in words clear and distinct. The ques
tion was asked, under which stump the
valuables were buried r The reply was,
five feet under the one upon which the
vision had stood. The question was
asked, why it was desired that Clara
should become the possessor of the pro
perty? The reply was: "Because by
recognizing and speaking to the vision,
sho had become relieved ot a trouble that
had long weighed upon her.
HER SPIRIT WAS NOW FREE,
and as all parties were then searching
diligently for the secreted papers, unless
they were resurrected without delay
they would fall into improper hands,
and become worthless to all except the
illegal holders of the place." The ques'
tion was asked, " suppose those now in
possession refuse to release their hold :
The answer was written,
"I WILL SEE THAT IT SHALL DO THEM
NO GOOD IF YOU ONLY RECOVER THE
PAPERS."
Other sentences were written which we
think it imprudent to publish, but hav
ing the paper upon which the girl wrote
in our possession, in the editorial rooms
of the Advance, they can be prodnced as
ocular proof of the correctness of that
part ot the storv to which thev relate.
The medium wrote that the name of the
spirit was Lizzie Davison, and closed by
malting the sentence,
"GOOD NIGHT; KISS CLARA,
for I love her." Thereupon the female
medium bestowed the kiss as requested.
Miss Clara immediately raised up,
rubbed her eyes, said she had been
asleep and dreaming, and was utterly
unconscious of the strange proceedings
that bad been enacted, or that she had
so completely dumbfounded, bewildered,
and astonished the persons present. The
result of tho affair, as far as we have
beard, was, that about 9 o clock last
night a party of four or five gentlemen
repaired to the college grounds, where
they found every inniate a firm believer
in the story of the vision. The gentle
men, atter consultation, determined to
excavate the stump, to see if the prom
ised secret valuables could be found. As
we go td press news come up from the
lower end of De Soto street, that the
burrowers are working like Trojans,
with shovel, pick, and spade. They have
got the stump up, root and all and have
descended some four feet or more be
neath the surface. The work goes brave
ly on, ana we expect to nave a message
before this meets the eyes of the reader, to
the ettect that untold beapa of valuable
treasure that will fall into effectual noth
ingness as the wonders of Aladdin or
the uncountable riches of the celebrated
island where the Count of Monte Cristo
kept his store to purchase corporations,
cities, ana nations.
LATER.
At 2 o'clock this morning the diggers
had struck a brick arch-work near tne
stump, and excitement ran high.
The cottage of Anna Hathawav.
where Shakespeare wooed and won her,
u uuereu tur hub.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
One of the papers contains an adver
tisement : " Lost a large black silk um
brella, belong to a gentleman with a
curiously carved head."
" Have you ever broken a horse ?" in
quired a horse jockey. " No, not ex
actly," replied Simons, "but I have
broken three or four wagons.
A New York wife writes to a New
York paper that the men of New York
make poor husbands.
There is a hotel at Espyville Station,
on the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad,
called the " 8x9" House.
A Boston woman declares herself
happy and contented, because she has
thirteen cats, and loves them all.
A Quaker Indian agent has made the
discovery that female Indian can be
elevated and got into hoop-skirts.
The cost of leeches sold in Europe ex
ceeds $10,000 per annum. The finest
are said to come from the Murray Eiver,
Australia.
Mr. Thillman has brought a suit for
$10,000 against the Woman's Medical
College, of Cleveland, for dissecting the
body of his wife.
The London Times for Dec. 1, 1870.
had for its leader au article ten columns
in length, containing 13,000 words.
An anti-kissing society has been
foimed by the Galena, 111., girls. "No
kissing before marriago is their motto.
A young Boston woman, wife of an
army othcer, became romantically in
terested in a noble red man on the fron
tier. He stole her jewelry and pawned
it for fire-water, thus driving the ro
mance out of her soul.
The court house and jail, at Sepere,
Wis , were burned on the 12th instant,
and two young men, named Howard
and Buckly, who had been locked up
the night before for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct, perished in the
flames. It is supposed the jail was set
on fire by Buckly, one of the prisoners.
The chaplain, on opening a session of
the New York Legislature, at Albany,
recently, very appropriately prayed that
" the men who are in the habit ot loiter
ing about the halls of the Legislature
with bribery in their hands might be in
duced to see the error of their ways, and
that their wicked designs, if they had
any, might be thwarted."
At a recent meeting at Danbury, Ct.,
where a contribution was taken up, a
wealthy member of the congregation
dropped twenty-five cents in the con
tribution box. The amount realized be
ing a little more than that required, the
wealthy member quietly suggested to
the deacon who passed the box, that
his little amount might be returned.
And it was.
This remarkablo advertisement lately
appeared in tho New Bedford Mercury :
" Instruction in Cooking. Ruth Russell
is ready to receive scholars for instruc
tion in cooking. Special attention to be
given to bread-making and pure, good
yeast. N. B. Persons at service can re
ceive instructions in one or all the vari
ous branches of cooking on favorable
terms."
Rochester is distracted, through the
columns of its papers, over arithumeti
cal problems. Here is the one pro
pounded by the latest idiot: If one
hundred yards of cord be wound in a
single coil upon an upright post an inch
in diameter, what time will it take a
man to unwind it, he holding one end
in his hand and travelling in a circle
whose radius is the unwound cord, sup
posing he walks four miles an hour ; and
what is the length ot ground walked
over ?
A Miami county (Ohio) settler objects
to a proposed railroad in that region in
these words : " The people is gone wild
on this 'ere railroad queschine. Hosses
that is now wuth f 40 wont be wuth f 5
hed. Waggin makers will starve to
dcth. Oats wont be wuth nuthin, and
we'll have to quit raisin on 'em. Coon
skinB wont be wuth a cent, and the bei-
lerin steam waggins will skeer all
game out of the country. I'll sell my
forty and git for Arkansaw if you don't
stop this 'ere railroad."
In a recent lecture upon " The Rights
and Wrongs of Children," Mrs. George
Yandenhoff claims the right of a child
to a good physical training, a good happy
home, and kind, courteous, truthtul
treatment in that home. While she did
not believe children could always be
governed without punishment, she de
nounced whipping, and looked for the
time when some of the savans en
gaged in new translations of the Scrip
tures would find out that Solomon, so
often quoted in favor of the " rod,"
would prove to have meant " Spare the
rod, and save the child."
Among the dreaded results of the late
European war, one of the most terrible
has already appeared. The poison taken
up by the atmosphere from the multi
tudes of the battle-fields where the
thousands of dead, either unburied or
very insufficiently so, has commenced to
reach the air of the cities and villages of
the blood-stained country. Recent tele
grams announce that in many parts of
France and Prussia typhoid fever, and
even more teartul types of disease, nave
appeared in very aggravated forms ; and
there is much cause tor the apprehension
that, unless most vigorous measures are
employed, the blast of pestilence will
sweep the face of the continent.
Mrs. Van Cott lectured in Chicago as
t revivalist Pausing in the middle of
her discourse she turned abruptly to the
reporters' table, and said she hoped these
gentlemen would desist from taking
notes. It always made her feel nervous.
She knew her speeches would look funny
if printed. She did not wish to say
anything, however, against the repor
ters, God bless them. " So go along
gentlemen, with your notes. 1 don't
care. God bless the reporters." Several
clergymen responded with a load em
phatio " Amen," whereupon the audience
tooK up uie uuraen, ana there was
good deal of applause, the only expree-
I sion of the kind indulged in during the
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