19 1 i A friend Ty city | bat who ison a visit to Owosso, | Michigan, informs us of a very singular and unaccountable af-| fair, that is now transpiting in| Bush Township, five miles north | of Owosso. | A farmer named Stearns, vesi- | ding in thot town, has an adopted | Jaughter by the name of Free- wan, who is ten years old, While this tittle girl was sweeping the sitting-reom, about a week since, che discovered the carpet to be on fire, and the inmates having put out the fire, undertook to learn its origin, There had been no fire built in the room that morning; no light had Leen car- red into the room, nor could the family in any way account for the five: In less than an hour flatnes wetfe scen issuing from the same rags in another room. The same day the girl's clothes caught five, and the next morn- ing a damp towel that Mrs. Stearns had used in wiping her lice, upon being hung upon 2 nail commenced burning. This last occurrence took place in the presence o some twelve persons, some of whom are among the most respec able citi- zens of this place. Next, a straw stack near Mr. Stearns’s house was consumed. At one time, when a number of persons were in the house, the falling of some heavy substance was heard in the chamber directly over their heads Upon going up stars it proved to be a bag filled with books and rags, and suspended by a cord to a bein. Tle bag was on fire, and the string was also burning when the parties entered the Joon. Mr. 8S. and family became so much alarmed by these move- ments that they left thelr home. When the furpiture was being removed, a trunk, said not to Live been opened for nore than a year, was discovered to ke on tire, and when opencd the flames bust forth, consuming all its contents. The family are now living in a house some three miles distant from their fem, but the mysteri- ous torment, termed by the doubting a humbug.” by the spiritualists, « the manifestations of the spirit,” by the Milizrites, «the per'od of fire and Dbrim- stone,” and by Dr: Tappan, “the works of the Devil,” is bound to atick to them like a brother. No sooner had the girl entered her new home than her clothes tok fivein three different places. 4nd now one other family, where she has visited, are as badly tor- mented as is the family of Stearys. In Owosso, as well as in the adjoining village of Caruna, the excitement is most intense. Peo- ple are flocking from every direc- tion to witness this truly wonder- ful mystery. Some of the most profound scholars of the State, among whom are dr. Tappan, Chancellor of the University ol Misliean, President Fairchild of Hillsdale College, and others, Lave been to “see the sights,” and all agree that there eve hid dn mysteries eyed the depth of the closest observers .—Clevr- land Herald. Warerers. A man without a mind of his own is the most helpless and shiftless of social beings. His hrain is a mere receptacle for