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Cor ed about the year 18C0 to a respecinble
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ange county, New York.
The Culvwrlons bud lived in tho old
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of tha family estate for many years, with
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riht to it, when suddenly there started up,
from goodness knewa where, an individual
who laid claim to the property, and secm
ed likely to prove hia claim to idl but the
Culvertons themselves.
It was certain, Jabz Hardy was the
nearest relative, and certain that Mrs.
Culer!n was only a grand niece of Hiram
lardy, decaaaed ; but the Culvertons had
ived with tho old man for j-ears, and ho
iad promised," fi mo and again, to leave
them everything. He liadjcven declared
jhat his will was made in their favor, and
that auch a document was actually in
cxistance, Mr. Culverton could not doubt ;
but diligent search had been mad in vain,
and Jabcz Hardy, whom the old man
never saw, was to take the place of people
6 loved so fondly, and who had been his
omfort m ki3 last hours.
-JU ttw3 n name !" caiei every one. "
"A oruel, wicked thing !" 3bbed Mrs.
Culverton.
And Mr. Culverton, wlia had never ex
pected a reverse, was quite crushed as the
pending lawatiit progressed.
A thousand times a day he said :
'How providential it would be if Uncle
Hiram's wili would turn up at this mo
ment."
"I wonder how he can rest, poor man,
with such injustice going on."
But no matter what they said, or how
Ihev mannged, no will was found, aud
Jabez rubbed bis bands in triumph.
It was strange that while matters were
in this condition, one so. deeply interested
in the subject as Mrs. Culverton neces
sarily was, should dream of anything else ;
Vut dream sha did, night after night, of an
entirely dirierent subject.
Inevitably, for a week at least, ehe had
no sooner closed her eyes than sha found
herself in an intelligence office, full of em
ployes of all ages and nation?, and face to
face with a girl of pmall stature, with
white Scotch features, and singular bine
yes wide apart and staring, who desired
the situation of cook.
At first she did not like the girl ; but in
every dream she found her aversion vanish.
After a few moments conversation, and
invariably, it had began to melt when the
girl looked at her and said :
"I'd like to hire with you, ma'am,"
It was always the same otfice -always
the same girl always the same words
were uttered until Mrs. Culverton brj;an
to think theije must be something in the
dream.
"Though it can't come true," said sho,
"for while Johanna remains here I shall
never hire another cook."
Just as she said this there was a scream
in the kitchen, and the little errand girl
ran in frightened out of her senses, to tell
how Johanna, lifting the boiler, had fallen
with ii and scalded herself.
Mrs. Culverton followed the young jiil
iuto the kitchen; and found Johanna in a
wretched condition : an l the doctor being
sent for, she was put to bed and declared
useless for her domestic capacity for at
least a month to come. A temporary
substitute must be had, and Mrs. Culver
ton that verv afternoon went to New Yoik
to find one at the intelligence office.
Strange to say in the bustle she had
quite forgotten her dream, until she sud
dently ttood face to face with the very
girl fhc had wen m it. A small young
woman, with very Singular blue eyes in a
white face, and whoso features betrayed
Scottish origin. She had risen -this girl
from a scat in tho office, aud stood be
fore her, twisting her apron strings and
court sying.
"I'd like to hire with you, niVara," she
said.
The very words f the dream, also..
Mrs. Culverton started, and in her confu
eion could only say :
"Why!"
The girl blushed.'
"I don't know," ehe said, "oary it
seems to me, I'd like to Jive with you.'
It seemed a fatal thing to Mrs. Cnl
verton, but she put th usual questions
and received the most satisfactory answers,
except as to references. 5
'But I can't employ you without re
ference," said Mrs. C, knowing that Fate
had decreed that this girl should take a
place in her kitchen. r
':If you ran't I must out with it," said
the girl. "There's my lady's name ma'am.
She will tell you I'm hpiaist and capable;
but she turnedjna orT fcrjifrighieaing the
family."
"How?" asked Mrs. Culverton
"Seeing ghosts." replied the girl. ' "Ev
eryjday I saw a little child in white paying
about the horufe ; and all said there was
no such child, thouh there had been once,
but he-was dead. Mistriss said I pretend-,
ed to see it' for tha sake of impertinence,
and slni discharged me ; but I knew by
her trembling that she thought I had seen
a ghost.. I went tia doctor, and ho called
it optical delusion, and it would soon pass
away ; and sure enough. I have not eccu
it since I leit the house.".
It was a queer story ; but Mrs. Culver
ton believed it, and before she left the of
fice, had hired Jessie to till Johanna's
place, for the space of one month from that
day. . That evening she come and went to
work with a will.
Dinner time passed comfortably and tea
time came. The Culvertons never ate
anything hot a biscuit or cake at this meal,
nnd cups were banded abwiit in the sitting
room. Jtssi-i came in at the appointed
hour with her tray, served every one, md
then stood smiliuig beforo Mrs. Culverton,
aa Ehe said :
"Please, ma'am, let md pass you, the
old gentleman has not been helped. Yres,
sir, in a minute." : ' ' '
"The old gentleman!" cried Mrs.
Culverton.
'Yes, ma'am behind yoa in the cor
ner, there, please."
"There's no gentleman, young or old,
there," said the lady. "I can't imagine
what you took fr one."
The girl made no answer, but turned
quite white and left the room. Mrs. C.
fol'.ewcd. . - . '
At first, she could extort no" explana
tion, but by-and-by the girl declared she
saw an old gentleman sitting in an arm
chair in the corner, who beckoned to her,
and she fancied in hurry for his tea.
"What did hd lookr llkeY' asked Mrs.
Culverton.
"He was thin and tall," said the girl
"his hair was white and very long, and
I noticed that one cf his kness looked
f iitF, aud a thick, gold headed cane beside
him.
"L'r.cle Hiram!" cried Mrs. Culver
ton, "upon my word you've described my
great grand uncle, who has been dead for
twenty years."
Jessie began to cry.
"I shall never keep a place," she said J
"You will turn me away now."
"See as many ghosts as you please,"
she said, "as long as yon don't bring them
b,efore my eyes," and went buck to her
tea without saying a word to any of the
family on the subject, although she was
extremely tnysteried.
Surely if the girl had ever seen her un
cla Hiram which was not likely, con
sidering time she must have seen some
thing in the ghost line, and if, indeed it
were her uncle Hiram's spirit, why should
he not come to aid them in their troubles ?
Mrs. Culverton always had a little su
perstition hidden in her soul, and she
soon began to believe this version of the
case.
The next morning she went into the
kitchen, and shutting the door, said to
Jessie :
"M3' good girl, I do not intend to dis
miss yon, so be quite frank with me. I
do not believe that these forms are optical
illusions. I feel sure that they are actual
spirits. What do you think ?"
"I think as you do," she said. "Our
folks have always seen ghosts, and grand
father had the second sight for ten years
before he died."
'If you should see the old gentleman
you told me of again," said Mrs? Culver
ton, "be sure and tell rne. I'll keep the
story from the young folks, and Mr. Cul
verton would only laugh at it ; but you
described my dear old grand-uncle, and
my belief is you saw him."
The girl 'promised to mention anything
that might happen to her mistress, and
from that day an interchange of glances
between them, and a subsequent confer
ence in the kitchen, was of regular occur
rence. The girl saw her apparition seated on
the sofa in the parlor, at the dinner table, j
and walking in the garden, ana so i:
like was it that she found it impassible to ;
refrain from passing plates, cup;? and sau
cers to it, to the infinite amazement of
people who saw only the empty air in the
same spot.
Uy-nnd-by she invariably spoke of her
ghost as the old gentleman, and was, no
more affected by his presence than by that
of a living person. If it were an optical
illuioa, it was tho most singular on re
cord. liut all this while ghost or no ghost
the figure never spoke, and never did any
thing to help the Culvertons in their di
lemma, and the lawsuit wa3 nearly termi
nated without the shadow of a doubt in
Jabcz Hardy's favor.
In three days nil would be over ; and
the Cnlvertsons, who had earned their
?rty, if ever mortals did, by kindness
Wtention to their aged relatives
whom they truly loved Hnd honored
would probably le homeless.
One morning Mrs. Culverton sat over
her breakfast, after the others had left the
room, thinking if this, when Jessie came
in.
"I've something to tell yoa ma'am,"
she said. "There's a change in the old
gentleman."
"What do vou mean asked Mrs. J
Culei ion. . . 1
"I've seen Iiiai twice at the Foot of my
bed in the night, and though always be
fore he has been kind and pleasant look
ing, now he frowns and looks angry. lie
beckons me to go somewhere, and I don't
dare in the night time-"
"You must," said Mrs. Culverton. "I
know he'll come again ; and I'll sit up
with you all night, and you go- It may
be of great use to us all, Jessie."
"I shan't be afraid, ma'am, if I have
company," said Jessie, in the most mat
ter of fact manner, and carried out the
breakfast things.
All 'day. they never spoke on the sub
ject, but on retiring Jessie found her mis
tress in her bed-room wrapped in a shawl.
"I'm ready, you see," she .id. And
Jessie meraly loosened some buttons and
hooks, and lay down dressed.
Ten o'clock passed eleven twelve.
Mrs. Culverton began to doubt, when sud
denly she saw Jessie's eyes dilate in u most
peculiar manner.
"Why, here he i., ma'am."
"There's no one here," said Mrs. Cul
verton. "Oh, yes. ma'am, T see him," said the
girl. "He's in great excitement, ma'am ;
hers taking out his watch to look at, and
the chain is made of such bright yellow
hair, I thought at first it was gold."
"Hia wile's hair," said Mrs. Culverton.
"It was buried with Hm. You see dct:r
old Uncle Hiram. Does he look at mc!"
"Yes. ma'am," said Jessie.
"Uncle," aid Mrs. C-, "do you know
me after all these years 1"
'lis nods," said the girl.
"Have you come to help us, dear un
cle V said the lady. -
Uncle Iliram was described as nodding
very kindly, and beckoning.
"He wants us to follow him," said the
girl,-taking . up the light. The moment
she opened the door Jertie saw the figure
pass through it. Mrs. Culverton still
could see nothing.
Obedient to the girl's movement. Mrs.
C. descended the stairs and stood in the
library.
The ghost paused before a book case.
"lie wants me to open it," said Jessie.
"Do so," said the lady.
"I I a signs to take down the books,"
said the gill.
And Mrs. Culverfon's own hands went
to work. . Book after book was taken
novels and romances, poems nd plays.
A pile of volumes lay upon the library
carpet, and still the ghost pointed to the
rest, till they were all dotn.
"fie looks troubled, ma'am. lie seems
trying to think," said the girl. "Oh,
ma'am, he's gone to the other case !"'
And so, to cut a long story short, the
four great book-cases were emptied with
out apparent result.
Suddenly Jessie screamed :
"He's in the chair. IIe risen, ma'am,
to the top or the case. Ho wants me to
climb up."
'Get the steps, Jessie," said her mis
tress and Jessie obej'ed.
Cm the very top ot one ot tne cases,
covered by cobwebs, she found an old Ger
man book and brought it down.
"This was there," she said. Mrs. Cul
verton took it out of her hand ; from be
tween the leaves dropped a folded pajer,
fastened with red tape and sealed.
The lady picked it up and read on the
outside these word :
ti2Vie last will and testament of Hiram
Hardy:-
For u little while fche could only weep
and tremble ; soon she found words :
"Unch ," she said, "ia the name of my
husband, and my dear children, I thank
you from my soul. Does he hear me,
Jessie ?"
"Yes ; he nods and smiles," said the
girl.
"Will you let me see you, uncle ?" saiel
Mrs. Culverton.
"He has gone," said the girl. "He has
kissed his hand and gone."
And so he had for good ; for from
that moment he was never seen again by
mortal e-es.
Nobody believed the story of his ap
pearance ; but the will had been discov
creJ without doubt, and the Culvertons
were no longer in danger from expulsion
from their old homo. There they lived
and died, and Jessie remained until the
married, and all her life received every
kindness from the family, who were ins
debted to her singular peculiarity for their
comfort and happiness.
'"'Whether uncle Hiram's spirit really
came back to earth or not is a question ;
but Mrs. Culverton always asserts that it
did, and quarrels with every one who
ventures to doubt the assertion.
Sand mixed with a solution of silcate
of soda is reported to make a stone of un
qualed hardness. It can be cast into any
form, and of any tint, while soft, and if
laid in cement of the same, may be said
to produce an almost imperishable struct
ture of solid rock.
THE DEAD RETURNED TO LIFE.
The Cleveland Plaindealtr has been
shown a private letter detailing events that
recently occurred in a southwestern Ohio
town, that give peculiar force to the old
adage that "truth is stranger than fiction."
Mr. Deloa W. is a wealthy and influential
man. residing near the village of R. On
the Thursday preceding the prize fight be
tween Gallagher and Davis, the old gen
tleman was thrown into a high state of
excitement at learning that his only son,
John, had gone to Cleveland with the
avowed purpose of attending the fight,
and his excitement was intensified by still
further discovering that John bad helped
himself to hi (the father's) pocket-book,
containing 5300. Mr. W. fumed and
fretted over the conduct of his son, and
went to bed on Thursday night with a ra
ging headache and marked symptoms of
fever. He was about the place in a more
composed state of mind on Friday, but
the interview with John on Monday after
noon, immediately after the son's return,
threw the old gentleman into a paroxysm
of rage and grief, which was rendered
doubly ses'ere by John's insolence and nis
acknowledgment that he had lost Si 50 of
the money in a bet on Gallagher. Mr.
W.'s frenzied feelings finally got the better
of him, and he felled his son to the floor
with a blow of bis fist, and immediately
thereafter fell down himself in a senseless
condition. Great excitement in the fam
ily ensued. The mother run screaming
for assistance, which was soon forthcom
ing in the persons of several of the neigh
bors, Mr. W. was found in an appa
rently lifeless condition, with blood flow
ing from his mouth and nose. A subse
quent examination by a physician led to
the announcement by him that Mr. W.
had died from th bursting of a blood ves
sel. S- evidently had the vital spark fled
that, no efforts at resuscitation were made ;
and the "remains" were'prepared forjbuiial
as promptly as possible.
The funeral of the "deceased" took
place the following Wednesday Mr. W.'s
body had only been cofiined the previous
day up to which time it had been draped
in its shroud in the parlor. Notwith
standing the wonderful life-like look of
the skin, and the color in the face, it oc
curred to no one to suggest the postpone
ment of the burial until death was abso
lutely certain. The funeral was very
largely attended, and everybody remarked
the life-like appearance of (ha "deceased."
i'Wi "remains" were temporarily placed
in ones of the vaults of the cemetery, owing
to the fact that a brick tomb, commenced
for their reception, had not been comple
ted. At ten o'clock on Thursday niuht the
village was thrown into great excitement
by the report that a ghost had been seen
in tho cemetery h short tiuao belore, and
that the old lady who had first seen ii had
been frightened into a fit from which it
was doubtful whether she would recover.
Thinking that probably the ghost was per
sonated by some scoundrel, who had play
ed the same trick several times before, a
number of persons armed themselves with
shot guns, proceeded to th cemetery, and
commenced a cautious inspection their
hearts keeping up an anxious thumping in
their bosoms, in spite of their assumed
bravado. They had not long to wait, for
there, flitting among the tombs, was a
white object, plainly to be seen. With
trembling bands the guns were raised and
tired, when strange fact for a ghost
they taw the white creature fall between
a couple of graves. Plucking up courage
they cautiously approached the object and
turned a dark lantern upon it. Their feel
ings can be better imagined than described
when they found that the ghost was the
lately "deceased" Mr. Delas XV. !
Whilst a portion of the party picked up
the bleeding and senseless body of the old
gentleman, and started homeward with it,
the remainder hastened to the vault.
There they found Mr. W.'s coffin broken
open and lying upon the floor, and the
collin of a deceased lady, that had been
placed upon it, likewise thrown down from
the shelf and standing ou end, partially
broken open, displaying its ghastly inmate.
The vault door, which was rather a weak
affair, had been forced open by the res
urrected XV.
The party then went to Mr. W.'s house,
where they found that his wound was not
serious, and that he had recovered bis
senses. Ilis story was briefly told : He
had been carried to the cemetery in a
trance. Karly on Thursday evening con
sciousness returned to him, and the horrid
truth flashed upon his mind that he was
cofiined alive. This gave additional vigor
to bis struggles to get free, and he finally
succeeded in bursting the collin. Mr. XV.
is now fast recovering, and 6cei3 good for
a long le:se of life yet.
Natural Comuass. It is a well known
fact in the vast prairies of Texas a little
plant is always to be found, which, under
every circumstance of climate, change of
weather, rain, frost or sunshine, invaria
bly turns its leaves and flowers to the
north. If a solitary traveler were making
his way across these trackless and desolate
wilds, without a star to guide him or
compass to direct him, he fiuds an uner
ring monitor in an humble plant, and he
follows its guidance, certain that it cannot
mislead him.
An Indian in Detroit ran a quarter of
a mile in a minute and a quarter.
I A Dream as a
Detective.
Our readers are all doubtless familiar
with the circumstances attending the losa
of $12,931 in December, 1864, by James
S. Breckinridge, a stock dealer. The cir
cumstances are briefly these : Mr. Breck
enridge left Indianapolis, with the money
in a valise, on the half-past twelve P. M.
train. Ou arriving at Thorntown lie saw
his brother in a crowd and got out to
speak to him, leaving the valise in the car.
Before he could get on the train ugain it
staitcd. He at once telegraphed to La
fayette the wires not working to Stock
well to Mr. J. M. Kerper, assistant su
perintendent'of the Lafayette and Indiamv
pli Koad, to be at the depot, get thd
money and send it down on the uext train.
The valise was found to be all right and
the money safe. Upon Mr. Breckenridga
receiving tho valise at Clark's II ill, where
it had been Bent, he found the money gone.
Mr. Leonidas Loveless, who was connect
ed with the railroad office at that place,
was arrested, tried and convicted upon the
charge, of stealing it There the matter
dropped remained a mystery and, had
the guilty party been an expert thief, might
have continued so. But one of the per
sons who was present at the opening of
the valise, soon after its arrival at this
place, di earned a few nights ago a dream
in which he saw a person standing behind
him on that occasion, whom he had never
been able to recollect before. He at onca
communicated the fact to interested par
ties, anl detectives were put upon tha
track of the newly suspected person. It
wps found that he had not only loaned
Messrs. Earl and Hatcher, of this city,
3,000, bat had, through another member
j of his famihy, deposited i?9,000 in govern-
nieni uonus ior saia Keeping in tna Aa
ticnal State Bank. This so fastened his
guilt that he was confronted in the mat
ter, and made a full confession. At the
time of tha.di5covtry he was attending a
school in a neighboring town. Mr. Breck-
enridge has recovered all his money with
the exception of SC31. "With this the
yoimg man had purchased a house and
lot iu this city, wdiich are good for the re
maining portion. llo also gave his notes,
payable in five and ten years, for the in
terest. This was all done under the im
pression that he was not to be prosecuted ;
but it seems that Mr. Loveless and his
brother, who suffered all the exnense and
mortification of a trial for hLj ofTenc, .
vn-ne not wilting uc should go unpunished.
He was, therefore, arrested yesterday af
ternoon, and is now in the county jail
LLafajtte (Ind.) Journal, Nov. 18.
A Westers Wonder. A Western
correspondent, who writes from Topeka,
describes the great Salt Plains on the route
of a proposed railroad from that place, as
lollows : "On a direct line southwost from,
Topeka, about 219 miles, you strike the
great wonder cf the W est, the Salt Plains.
Ihcse plains are 100 miles in length by
40 miles in breadth, and are one of tha
curiosities of the age. Traversing them
voa will occupy at least twelve hours or
dinary riding over a level plain complete
ly covered with salt in the form of a crust,
varying from one to two inches thick, as
white as this sheet of paper before touched
with ink, and of sufficient strength to bear
up, without breaking or crurablius, an or
dinary wagon load. Underneath this
cinst. a little below the surface,, there is a
stratum of solid rock salt, only accessible
by quarrying, producing tho finest specie
mens of crystalized salt I ever saw. Tho
supply is perfectly inexhaustible. The
Atkinson, Topeka and Sante Fe Railroad
will cross these salt fields very nearly thro
their centre, and thus give the road every
alternate section in a distance of upwards
of 40 miles. The Indians here get thfaic
supply of salt, and the government has
frequently sent trains there to get salt sup
plies". A railroad over them could supply
the world with an article of salt not sur
passed in quality bv any the world ever
produced, and I need not say to what ex
tent it would afford business for a railroad,
fer of that any reasonable man can judga
sufficiently."
A Suamf.ixss Wretch. A corre- '
pondent of the Portland Argus nxrral;
the following as having transpired in tho
town of Sweden, Maine. A man livin
in this town has just committed an act
that deserves the censure of the oublic, "J
it has already received that of his neigh- t"
burs. He h.is formally contracted with
his brother to take out of his way Lis asred
and invalid wife, and support, clothe ami .
bury her for one thousand dollars. Nha
has been a hardworking and faithful wif
and bus raised a large family of children, J l.
wh have ner felt what il was to lie His- i.
graced until now. Oacof them, a man N
of twenty years and upward, cried like h "i
child wdien he heard of tho affair. Hi "i
had offered to support her himself if tha '
old man would give him the farm to do it V
with, which he refused. And now this j .
man senis his wife from home, where she
has outlived hsr usefulness, to die with
others! Ho has not even tho excuw f
poverty to plead, for he is accounted lhv! i
richest man in the town.
Potato Cheese Cake?. One pouao?
of mashed potatoes, quarter of a pound oP
currants, quarter oa poundof sugar and
better, and four eggs to rcixeTifeTu H
gether. Bake them in patty-pans, bavin.- r
first lined them with pulT naste a ;
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