The weekly register. [volume], December 12, 1872, Image 1

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LOCAL nATTEKS.
Tlio uew town on Kanawha river, just
above this city, id rapidly building up
Soidc thirteen houses are under roof, and
at least half of this number arc nearly rea
dy for oceupiuey. About four or five
more arc flamed and will bo raised and
enclosed during the next leu days should
the weather remain favorable. Two
thirds <>f the houses are double, and in
tended for two families. In the spring a
larger Dumber is to be built, among which
will be several business houses. Tlim
who ti>ink our ttiwn is not keeping pac
with this progressive age, thou! I cai! am
oee us. We will soon louvo behind u'
Xiallipolis, (if aho does get a railroad,*
Pomtfroy, Huntington and jjll other towu^
The decree lias gone forth that I'oic
Pleasant, wlieh has stood still for near
hundred years,' shall now tako her plae
in tho column that nature intended sli
should occupy?boeome the largest uiani
v?fe/jKipg, m j&.f/s
One fourth ofaculuiuu, li months, 2u 00
One half ofacoluiun, .'I months, 18 00
(Jue hilf of a column, 6 months, 25 00
One half of a column, 12 mouths, 35 00
One column, 3 nio/iths, 25 00
line column, fi months, 35 00
One column, 12 months, GO 00
111 legal advertisements must lie paid for
before tin; I'roof of Publication can lie obtained
Plaintiffs are required by law to pay the cost
gf Orders of Publication before the I'roof of
Publication is issiud.
JOE! ~W035K.
\Tp are prepared lo do Job Work of every
description, in as pgod atylo n? any office in
thin part of the State, and at lower prices.
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iTI:isoh County Directory.
Judge Circuit Oonrf? Hnv. J. W lIOfiE.
Olcrk Circuit Court--0. H. WAOUENEIt
Recorder--ti klMUBl'IiJKO.
Prosecuting ALToriicj*-'-. H.TOMLINSON.
Sheriff?O SHliON.
Deputy Slnriir??I I' 1i. h.SMITH, ?
" JSA AO ECKaRD.
Jailor?J. JKWKIT.
8up"rim?iid.'t of School*--0 T. R.MOORE.
Surveyor of L.iudv-1'. A'.PUI.LIN,
Afcsis.ior Dist. No J ? W. IJ M AI'HLR.
?? No.2-K K. lUKKit. t
Ass't Assessor U. S Kev.?JOHN ilASON
f
Sn'f/:v!i Pot iiT ? Tin- Supreme Court of Ap
mpils of -West Vjrginiii liolils Mwimis ill
Clmrhwloij ou ill*." '' hhI 'I i.ur? lay in Janua
1 V. and at the i'it> of Wheeling on the teroinl
S hursdiy in July., Judyis?Hoii 1{. L. link
niiire, PtiHide:>l; residence Morgantown; Hon.
Edwin Maxwell, resiih lice flatk>l>ur^: Hon f
Charles C. T. Moore, residence Po ni Pleasant. !
Cluk?I'lvanus Hall, residence Fainnount. I
CiicriT Court?Ciicuit Court meets on the '?
2 Uli ol February, 2uih o! Jn.y,aiid lstof Sep
leinbel. ? Hon. Jaiin'a W. Huge, ol Putnam 1.
county, Judge.
jfcrvisiifci'jiifcelB iui Uie first 'I neod^inTnflW
%ry,tliiri(* Monday :;'u May, fir.-l Wednesday in
AUi'Ust, anil the (it'll day alter every election.
11. K llowurd, Clerk.
Masonic?Miutuin Lodge No ID, A F,and
A. M., nii'cln monthly .-on the Might?( the full
'inooli, lite same hung Tuesday, or on the
Tuesday night jamnediaiely preceding. . ,
I. O. O. F.?Tim Point Pleasant Lodge No.
J3.1. O. 0. F.. meets uveiy Ihursday night,
at 1!arc!!.?>' Hall.
IMSTOmrt! UOUIS.?The Office is
open fr an 7 o'clock u. in. to 8 oclock p in.?
On Sundays trow 7 o'clock r. in'loHa m.
imt MatKBumuaxnaaaMaamsmaMr T<auaft
firi si ? a a s.
C. T. 1 lOOSE, ~ |
l'lll'oietAN' AND SUIWKON,
I'oiXT 1'f.EASAXT, Vi'Ki'f Va.
OFFER:! his professionnl services lo the peo j
pie of Poimj Pleasant and vicinity. All
cuUvimiiiptly a teuiieil io. Office at the Drug j
Store of Moore it Miller.
' siR. L. S<\ CAMPBELL,';
Physician tin J Sn^eon,
l'uinl Pleasant, H'csf I a.
UAV1NO located perinaiicnlly at Point
Pleasant offers his professional services
lo tho citizens of the town and vicinity. Hej
hopes by strict attention to business, to merit |
* continuance of the liberal patronage he has
already received.
He may be found at all times at his office!
when not professionally engaged. i
Nov. 5-1 y,
ANOItEW It. BAUDKK. WM. P. MALI. j
Mrs. Iliirbce & AcaSc, j
Office, ou Main Street, Near Courf House,
POINT PLEASANT, W. V?. j
PROMPT attention given professional calls, j
whether day or night.
iLTDr. liurbee or l>r. Neale, one or the other, I
may at all times be found in their office.
luch 21-3ro.
D it. S, Ct . SHAW,
PHYSICI AN AND SURGEON j
fllENDKRS his professional services to the [
I public. Calls from tho country promptly I
attended to- Office, corner Main and Third i
Streets, in his new building opposite Presbytc-,
fian Church ap5-ly. j
A T 'I' <> it .V fi; V S.~
'? W. KSULISII. B. 8KH0N. I
? i?\4ai8ii Ai.
A-ttorney :i< Law.!
\\I IIjL practice iu the Circbit Court of Mason j
II comity, and in the Court oi Appeals of
West Va.
Office at tho Court Ilfluso, Point Pleasant, j
Mason county, West Va.
G. P. SIMPSON,
attorney at law,
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Va.
j] AVINO moved lo ?nd permanently located j
|J at Point Pleasant, and having procured
"'0 use of II. J. Fisher's Library,! will at
,l" times ho found at his office ready to attend ]
l(> any and all business entrusted to my cars; j
"'"1 will practice hereafler in the counties of
Majon, Putnam, Jackson and Roane.
All persons coming to Point Pleasant by the)
hinawli't or Ohio Rivr Poats, can consult
^'itli mo at any timeof night in time to return
'7 snme boat, by calling at my rcsidcnce.
?pril 1H ly. j
SI. It. HOIV.IKD,
&.iic?ney at Law.
point pleasant, w. va.
(Olfice iu Court House.)
, Prompt attention given to the collection ?f
118 a,lJ legal busiucu tilruMrd lo his
auy. 15-ly.?
W.M.
Attorney and Counselor at law,
l\/T|LI' practice in the Courts of Mason,
i I Oaliell and Liucoln; and in life couuly
f Gallia, Ohio. Alsq in the Court of Appeals
f H'esi Virginia. Prompt attention given to
iic collection of claims.
P
F. A. UllflRIG,
Attorney at Law.
(Office in the Court House,)
POI NT PLEASANT, \\. Vn.
'radices exclusively in ilason County, West
V irginia, and Gallia County Ohio,
IX/ JLL attend promptly to nil business en
" I rusted lo Iiik cure.
ObKI'Ji 8MITU. IIKN'RY C. PLKSUKK. j
SMITH & FLESHER,
Utoriuv* at Law and So
licitors in than eery,
HACT1CE in the counties of Jackson,!
Roane, Hirt and Mason, also in the th,i
rniU d States District Court at Charleston,!
ud the Supreme Court of Appeal-, (or the
tale. ID*I'itlts to land investigated.
Address:?Jackson C H.,WettVa.
sept. H-ly.
Henry C. Itecc,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Point Pleasant, West Va.
A lit bnsincsB entrusted to his cure will re
i ceivc prompt mid cnri f-.il attention. lie
ill lie.found at iheoffice ofII. J Fisher, fori
ic present. He has located permanently at,
tiiul Pleasant. upr, ]S-iy.
I). PoIkIcv & Son,
A.TTO RUEYS J\. T LAW
I'OKVT PLEASANT, WEST VA.,
yil.L PRACTICE IN THE COURTS i
' ' < I lltli Judicial Circuit. Attention glv i
i to l o collection ol debts.
Agu I !ti71 ?!y
THOS. 11. KLINE,
kttorney ut Law,
Cabell C. H., West Va.
\[I LL practjco in Cabt-I!. Wayne, Lincoln, j
'? Logan, Kanawha m.d Mason Cuuniics;
11 nlso in (Hk Court of Appval* and the Uni
<1 Stall's' Courts. J'romjii aitcnlion given to
ie collection of claim*. [april ti, '?)-y.
JAS B MENAGER,
liforney at Law,
Poiut PJeusajt, W. Va.
Wipes' "eii1'
trustPffio liis cure. Office on Muin ai<d
ill strecls, opposite Court House.
S-pt. iG-ly.
POLSLKY &, ?itOW,
ittoriieys mid t'oiinsi'llors hi Lnw,
117 ILL practice in Ihe Courts of Jackson
) V Itoane, and atljoin intf counties.
All business entrusted to their care will l.e
rouiptly attended to.
Address li. Crow. Jackson C H., W. Va.,
r 1). W Polsley, Point l'lea>anl, West Va.
mch 31, '79-ly.
Iikvakd li. IvMunr. Jams* 11 Couch, Jr.
KNIttHT&COl'CII, j
<\.t torneys at Law,
ILL PRACTICE in the counties of Mason
and i'liinaiii. Address E. H. Knight,
Charleston, West Va., or James II. Couch, Jr.,
,'oint Pleasant. West Va.
Mr. Couch will also pra- ticc in the Counties
f Lincoln on I Cabell. dec. 15-ly.
.502!^' E. TITIiNS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
)ffice in the Court House, first door on the right
Main Entrance.
Point Pleasant, West Va.
WILL practice in the Courts of Roane, Jack
Mm, Mason and Putnam. Collections
olicilcil and remittances promptly made.
w c. wileyT"
ATTORNEY A.T LAW,
HAMLIN, Lincoln County, West Va.
All business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. july 4-1J.
F. W. Slsson,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
POINT PLEASANT, WEST VA.,
Will Practice in the Courts of Mason &
Adjoining Counties, West Virginia,
and Gallia County, Ohio.
Special attention Given lo Ihe Collection of Claim
and Remittances Promptly Made.
Refera bv permission, IoHok. C. P.T. Moons,
Judtje of Ihe Court of Appeals, and Hon.
Jam'ks W. Hods, Judge ol 1 Ith Judicial Cir
Bail, West Virginia. [June I, IMi-ly.
rmr.-arT%rrt> mar jmarwatrc
t A lit ? S.
JUiV
s. Y- WASSON,
Successor to Wasson it Kennedy,
DKALKR IV
BOOKS and GENERAL STATIONERY,
Wall Papers,
Pictures, Cliroraas, Croquet Setts, &c.
gallipolis, onto.
He respectfully solicits a share of the patron
ng" people of Mason county and the Ka
nawha \ ?ll?y'
Aug- ?> 1W'?Ijr. j
RAILWAYS AND CO A I-.
Tho reports of the railroad commission
ers of Massachusetts set forth iu a striking
manner the powerful stimulant given by
railways to the progress ami prosperity of
the people. They are said to regulate to
a great extent the prieo ef food and fuel.
which have so important a bearing ou the
profits of applied industry. 1 ho Massa
chusetts commissioners make, accordingly,
a strong point of the necessity for cheap
food and fuel, and the local fares hot ween
cities aud outlying towns and suburbs ?
They maintain that it would not only he
a wise but a paying policy for any railroad
to hold out the strongest inducements in
facilities for transporting fuel at low rates
to manufacturing companies ou the lino ot
their road, Sookiug to the future for large
ly increased receipts from travel aud for
the carriage of all manufactured articles of
domestic consumption, which are sure to
spring from a populous and busy comrnu
nity. , .
The consumption of coil in Missichu
sctts is put at 11.000,000 tons per annum,
and it is estimated that every town of 30,
000 inhabitants consumes 100,000 tons
annually. Already the cost of coal is af
fecting manufactures there. Fifty yMrs
ago, when manufactures began in Now
Euglatid, the largo towu? of Massachu
setts were on the seaboard. The report
alluded to says "Worcester had hut 3.000
inhabitants and Springfield but 1,000 ?
Lowell and Lawrence were not. thought of.
Then came the use of the water power
towns and the extension of railroads. Now
coal power is found to he as cheap as wa
ter power and more reliable, and there is
a tendency of business to the seaside towns
where eoal is cheap. Coal at the mines is
worth SI.75 per ton. To the consumer
in Massachusetts it is worth ?8, and this
difference of 30 25, or on 3,000,000 tons
of .$18,750,000, represents what the mid
die men and transporters get." For the
success and prosperity of manufacturers
ehcancr eoal is a necessity in New
lur.d', and is the problem to be solved if
they would Ym.-lhllimm American.
The rca-ons above given are applioablc
to and worthy of consideration in West
Virginia. Tho coal fi :lds are at our very
doors. We have; command of iron with
out limit, nnd should have choap food.?
It is the obvious iutcrcst, therefore, of our
railway companies in West \ irginia, to
foster and cultivate oil industrial enterpri
ses. so as to*build up numerous centres of
pr^vu IjltiOli ftttA
-- -? ? ? ' "
AN ANCIENT LANDMARK BONE.
Under this caption the Charleston daily
Courier publishes the following interest
ing account of a building destroyed by the
late fire in that city:
"The house on the corner of Kanawha
and Summers street, burned ou Friday
morning, was one of the oldest in Umrlcs
Ion It was built by John Peter Roman
Bureau, iu 1818 In that year, John
Trudgeon, who recently died iu our city
at an advanced age, came from England;
be was descending the Ohio River with
only ?5 in his pocket, looking for some
place to locate. He met with Mr Bureau
at Oallipolis. and was employed as a carp
enter to do the inside woik on this build
ing His descendants are still here?
Other English families followed; so that
Charlcatou is indebted to thin old house
for many of its most worthy citizens ?
This building was first used by W nliam
Summers and Mr. Bureau for scvera
years as a store, aud this store supplied
the old huuters of our valley with powder,
lead guu flints, coffee and tobacco, wbicb
were about all they had learned to ueei.
Afterwards the buildiug was occupied by
the Hon. George Summers, Major Aud
row l'arks, Dr. I'arkor and others as a
dwelling. Within its walls had been ma
ny a chccrful gathering of the olden times.
There the matchless skill of Brayton Allen
and Isaao Noyes had drawn from their vi
olins
"Music yearning like a GodPaln'
music that gavo life and time to limbs
that now arc duet.
When we traveled throngh the moun
tains of Kanawha and met with old men
that bad not been to Charleston for twenty
or thirty years, aud undertook to make
them understand where the Capitol, 1 ublic
School, Wharf, Depot aud other improve
ments were, we had to fix the geography
in their minds by the Court House. Hilly
Wbitteker's house (gone.) and Bureau s
storo. This building was thc_ only land_
mark which showed the original line of
Kanawha and Summers streets as they
were located for George Ucndcuen by
?Mexander Welch, Surveyor of Greenbrier
county, in 1788. Aud tbU building like
tbc oldest inhabitant, took more than Us
share of the sidewalk, but the cHiz.us re
spected it aud walked around it. Hut the
vandal flame that regarded not age, nor
Jerusalem, nor Rome, nor Richmond, nor
Atlanta, nor Chicago, nor Bcecher s ser
mon, nor its own fricud, the incendiaij
Boston, that for years helped it kindle in
l(f strength to devour Richmond and At
lanta, licked it up. With the destruction
0f this old building a legion of mom0rl"'
pleasant or sad. as the early history of this
locality wavers from the sunny to the dark
side of hope for the future are awakened
in tho mind of the old settler, and in but
a short time will rcl-pao into obscurity for
>)
ever.
No man will over succeed in business,
who docs uso priulcr'a ink.
V PREACH Kit's FHiHT WITH A
UIIIIGLAK.
Tho Now York Timet says, Rev. li.
0. Thompson, of this place, had a fearful
encounter with a burglar in his study ou
Friday night. It seems that a number of
his friends were visiting him, and ouo of
them desired to go up stairs to his study.
Ho weut up and the door whs loeked ou
the inside, and returned and informed Mr
Thompson of the singular fact. The lat
' ter explained the matter to the satisfaction
of his guests, as he did uot wish to alarm
them, but ho was uneasy in his own tniud,
aud when they had departed, he resolved
to investigate the unusual occurrence He
' approached the door of tho study aud de
manded to bo let iu, otherwise threatening
to break in. The door, after a short in
I terval, was opened, and before Mr Thomp
son coutd recogniin who tho intruder was,
ho was seized about tho arms iu a power
ful grasp aud thrown to tho iloor. lie
succeeded in freeing his arms, and then a
terrible struggle commenced, tho burglar
putting forth every nerve to draft Mr.
Thompson to tho stairs and throw him ov
er the banisters, and Mr lliompson en
deavoring to get away and call assistance,
lie gavo and received several blows, but
tho intruder wai too muscular for him,
and gradually drow him toward the stairs.
Mr. Thompsou hold on fiamly, howovor,
as he determined to take his assailant over
with him if he was thrown down himself.
| The light which lie hud brought up with him
i was extinguished iu tho first of the ooutest
land tlio two were struggling entirely in
tho dark. The slruggjo continued over
ten minutes, when Mr Thompson began
to fail in strength, and from loss of blood,
aud tho burglar succeeded in getting him
to the top of the stairs, and throw him ov- i
cr. Mr Thompson bold to him with the)
teracity of a bull-dog, and pulled his as
sailant with him, and the two went rolling '
! to tho bottom together. Mr. 'lliompson
was only slightly stunned by the fall, mid
tlie burglar apparently uninjured, attemp
ted to escape by tho hull door, lie was I
; held still by the half unconscious preacher
i and only released himself by a powerful
| blow, and escaped. \\ ho tho burglar was
is uot kuown.
A petrified baby has been exhumed from
a Chicago cemetery. The Times reporter
says:
"All save the mother of tho little infant
stood mutely looking upon it, aud she bo
canie nearly frantic with&xcitoraont from
4hc first moment that tho body was expo-J
i aw.'M'N'fli'OT' ?*' trinnr
! oat of tho coffin, crying bitterly, aud wild
; ly insisting upon taking it with her to her
homo. Her husband held In r back aud
would not allow her to remove it.
The mother seemed nearly distracted
with grief at the thought of its being re
interred. It looked so natural and beau
tiful, so like tho baby she hail placed in
the grave ten years before, that it brought
up her sorrow afresh, as if sho were now
laying the beloved darling in earth. The
' body was removed, with others which tho
I family had como there to cxhuuio, to
; Graoeland, and reburicd. The family are
' Swedes, and, it was learned, reside a short
1 distance out of the city. Tim child so ro
inarkably preserved has been buried more
i than ten years.
HOW INDIANS CATC1I EAGI.ES.
i The camp of Indians which we visited
, were chiefly engaged in catching war ea
I gles, to mako head-dresses. The eagles
are brought alive into the camp, and, aftor
some ceremony, tbo tails are pulled out,
and they are let go to grow another tail
for the next year. The traps consist of a
hole iu tho ground covered with sticks
and grass. A dc-ad rabbit, fox or prairie
chicken is tied to the top; the eagle swoops
down and fastens bis claws into it and tries
to fly away with it, but the Indian (who is
I concealed in the hole) puts out his hand,
catches the eagle by both legs, bauls him
into the hole and ties him. He then fixes
1 tha top and waits for another eagle. Wo
j saw one man who had caught six eagles
in one day in this way. They say if they
do not hold fast and do their medicine
i properly the eaglo will getoue of hisclaws
; loose and tear tbeir hands. Some havo
! had their Iiand9 ruined forever in this way
If a hunter docs not catch an eagle during
i the day ho is obliged to moan aud cry all
I uight; we could hardly sleep with the
! no ae made at night by the unsuccessful
1 hunters.?fort liuford IfIter.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY.
i Let tho business of everybody clso,
: alone, and attend to your own. Don't buy
what you don't want. Use every hour to
advantage, and study to make even leisure
hours useful. Think twice before you
throw away a dollar-remember that you
! have another to make for it. Hud re
creation in looking over your busiuess.?
liuy low, sell fair, aud take caro of the
profits. Look ov?r your books regularly
and if you find au error, traco it out.?
Should a stroke of misfortune come upon
| you in trade, retrench, work harder, but
never give up; confront difficulties wi h
unfliucbiug porsevcrauce. aud they will
i disappear at last. Though you should fall
| in the struggle, you will bo honored; but
: shrink from the task and you will bo do
Jspisod.
A (.'MOST AS IN A WIONI'.
[Kroro tlie St, l'aul Pioneer,J
Our readers will all re mo tuber the torri
blu acciJont which took plaoo in ? blind
ing snow itorm at lUndnll Slaliou, on the
I main lino of the Si i'aul and Pacifio road
iu March last, which caused tho death of
several persons. Among the victims of
that terriblo aecideut was a section fore
man named Conuelly. This man was ve
ry much attached to his division, and took j
grout pride in keeping everything right!
and tidy, as far as his supervision exteud-J
ed. Although his suction was located at,
tint time in a sparsely sottlod Motion of j
the oouutry?on a treeless waste, so to [
.??poak, where especially thero was nothing:
to break the force of tho wind which it!
limes swept over tho bleak prairies iritli I
the force of a hurricane, yet so great was
Connolly's attachment to his suction that
ho refused several more lucrative positions
whioli wero offered him. Upon his death
by tho accidout abovo referred to, the Kan
dall station wus given to another man
wh'iso name is also Connelly. Tho latter
has boon employed on tho road for a long
time, and is kuowu to bo a sober, indust
rious and intelligent man, ouo iu whose fi
delity the company has tho most implicit
conlidenoo, and tho last man almost that
any one who kuows him would suspect cf
being tinoiurod iu tho slightest degrco with
superstitious notions. For some time af
ter assuming chargo of tho division every
thing went along satisfactory. This statu
of things was not to last howovor. For
sometime past Mr. Connelly lias complai
ned that he could not sleep at nights. Ik
avers that lie is visited at nil hours of the
night by the apparition of his dead prede
cessor. Tho ghostly form appears at his
bedside and vainly endeavors to tell his
talu by unearthly motions at times appa
rently entreating, and anon with every ap
pearance of auger and rovengo. Several
times Mr. Connelly has been thrown from
his bed with great violence, and his arms
and other portions of his body show the
marks i>f rough hum)ling. Tho imprint
of hands and fingernails aro plainly visi
ble, which lie ussurts have been left there
by liis ghostly visitor. To such an extent
has this most mysterious visitation been
carried that Mr. Connelly has petitioned
to be removed to another section, or grant
ed permission to erect another house on a
different portion of the section. Ilo says
it is not only tlieso visitations whijli dis
turb him, hut the spirit of the dead tunti
prevents hiui from performing his duties
both day and night, ilo has seon tho atv
1*1 ?ne?Uolw iu tlx d?y-tiiMwbilo at b#
labors, and tho shadowy form has, by un
mistakable motions, ordered bim away.?
For a long time Mr. Connelly refrained
from mentioning anything about these
mysterious appearances, knowing that he
would not be believed, and iu nil proba
bility would bo laughed at, and it is prob
able be never would bavo mentioned it
but for au occurrence which took place a
short time ago.
One evening after the labors of the day
had closed, and as Mr. Connelly and the
men under his chargo wcro sealed ut the
table eating their supper, the door of the i
house opened noiselessly, and in the door
way, in the full gaze of all who wcro pres
ent, stood the awful apparition of the dead
man. Tho shadow remained long enough
to malic a number of demonstrations of a
revengeful character, and then disappear
ed, apparently melting into space Ad
awful fooling of terror fell upou that small
party of men, and for a time thoy were
speechless, gazing into each other's faces,
with eyes distended with horror. They
were men not easily frightened, and some
of them had looked death iu the face with
out flinching. Uut this unearthly super
natural visitation, which was it once re
cognized by them nil as spirit of the mau
they hail all well known while living, was j
more than tho could stand. When their
momentary terror had subsided, they com
menced in awe-stricken tones to toll each
; other what they had seen. It was then
that Mr, Counelly related his experience,
and it is needless to say ho was not laugh
ed at or disbelieved. The sight had been
too real, and too palpable to all to admit of
| dispute. They bad seen tho veritable
ghost of their fomer fellow-workman.
Since that time there have been many
! mysterious occurrences taking place at that
lonely station on the prairio. Several
tools, which are koown to have been put
away, uro missing, and various other
things linve takeu place to hiuder Mr.
Connelly and his men from pciforming
their work. j
Nor is this all. The engineer on one
of the freight trains avers tint several times
he has seen the apparition in tho night en
gaged at work upou the track, the same as
when the dead man was living. At one
j time it will be engaged with a crowbar
{raising the rails, and making motions as
| though giving direction to a gang of men.
| Again lie has seen it standing up'm the
track in advance of his engine, with both
: arms stretched out os if to give warning of
! danger ahead?and the engineers says at
i such times his engine acts as if plowing its
way through drilling snow,?and although
lie pulls his cngino "wide openthe speed
of the train is 6eosibly decreased until il
j reaches u certain point, when it will plunge
ahead as though just relieved from some
obstruction.
Wo understand that theso most myster
ious doings have been reported to tho ofli
einls, but they of course aro inclined to
j doubt the truth of tho statement; but so
! serious has the matter becomo that steps
| have been takon to have somo of tho cm
i ployca of the road stay at tho station bciu-c
a numbor of oighta and h?vo tho matter
thoroughly investigated.
The nbiivo itaatatonwut of foots, whtoft
come in us well authenticated, and we g'v0
theni as oue of tho most singular atone*
wo ever rmtmber of hoariug. i>hmi'a
nny more facts be dovclopod after through
investigation of tho matter, we shall baateu
to lay them before our readers.
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A Talking Machine.
There is now in tho city a vory ourious
piece of mechanism which intimates no'
only the various aouQilti of the huuian wico,
but combines thorn into words anil sen
tences It bas been oxhibited to membors
of tho press by tho inventor. Professor
Filters Erben, nt his rooms in llaruum's
Hotel, who explained tho workings of tho
conlrivauco. Talking tnaohincs have been
iuvented at various times, but this is tho
only otic that has combined suoh groat
range of utterance with such porfoot artio-.
ulatiou. Tho machine i< a oomplete system
of lubes, levors, and modifyng applianoes,
being adjusted so as to produco tho offoct
of (ho diflereut muscles used iu articula
tion .
The largest portim of tho apparatus is t
bolloWH, which performs the flituo funo
lions us tho lungs in tho hutnnn body.
This feeds a variety of tuboB through which
tho sound escapes which aro managed by
fourteen levers each representing ft vowel
or consonant, and extending out to ft sort
of a key board, by the manipulation of
which tho various combinations of sound
aro produced. Hero sits tho performer,
tho Professor's wifo who manages the
maohiuo with great dosterity. Tho BonsU
livelies t of her eur is remarkable, inasmuch
as sho mikes tho machlno speak in Ian
guage foreign to her, when sho uoeessarily
must imitate each word from recollection of
tho souud. Tho many combinations somo
tiiues necessary to express a singlo word
demands skill and rapidity on her part.^
Loading from tho bellows is i windpipe
for tho conduction of tho air, and an India
rubber laryux, with vooal cords, modeled
after those of a liutnau being, opening and
cloning in tho sumo manuor. 'The aouod'
escapes from an imitation of tho human
Mimili; >ti? ?fp? )tw Itrfrf ?"
a lip of leather, and the lower jaw o(,Iodia
rubbor and a touguo of flexible rubber.?'
There is also a passage for tho cacai>o of
tho air when tho month ia closed, in imita
tion of tho vent which in tho human or
ganism in afforded by the nostrils. i
Fourteen sounds are all that aro used by
tho machine for the production of apeoch.
All the otbors sounds are produoed out of
those fourteen by combination or by modi
fying their action either by separating the
rocal chords or bringing them together.
The Professor yesterday mado the ma
chine utter sibilant, guttural, laughing
and other inartioulate Bouuds. It then ut
tered many differnent names and shorts
sentences. Its articulation is somewhat
slew, but is very distinct and audible.,. It
speaks German excellently, tho barah, gut
terul snund being imitated exactly; its En
glish haa a Gorman accent now and then,
showing the nativity of tho inventor.?
When it speaks French a mask is attaohed,
having apparatus by which means tho nasal
sound of tho French tong'io is imitated.?
This maisk is a rather ghslly simulacrum
of a human face. Tho eyes move and the
mouth works, and the words pour out, but
tho immovability of tho features and tho
absence of expression oreatea a woird and
uncanny feeling in the spectator.
The Professor says that tho machioo can
sing as well as talk, its voioo having oom
passoftwo octaves, but astbo arrangement
was not in order ho was unablo to giyo an
example of its pcrformanco. Tho Profos
sor has many testimonials from scientific
men in every civilised country, and from
many European courts.?Baltimore Ga
IrttC.
A young woman latoly committed suicide
in Vienna who is ontirely justified in that
proceeding. The message sho left was this:
"My last cigar draws badly, therefore I am
tired of life. Good night!" The most
sensible thing that women could do was to
get out of a world where suoh afflictions are
found, but tin wonder is that she should
have reached so just an estimate of tho val
ue of her life.
An Iowa man, fund of sport wont out
hunting last weok, nud shot ono "kildccr"
and tho top of his horse's head off. Ilia
little son laughed boisterously when he saw
the "governor" coming home at night,
drawing the wagon, which contained a set
of harness, after him, but the parent fan.
tied bis offspring with ono end of a tug, and
i ([uiot was rcstorod. _
i A man has arived at Dcnvor, from Ar?
' izona, with n ruby which bo olainis to be
| worth ?-&,000, ft 313,000 diamond.