Litchfield enquirer., 1834-11-27

by other gentIemenS Vlsbe0 WOOOOriuEe O" Thursday, for the purpose of ascertaining further circumstances regarding the extraOr- dinary girl in the family of MT. Barron.
 "On being introduced to the family" says the editor, ss we were assured that the noise had sume hours before ceased fO- the day, and probably would not return until the next morning, the girl was requested to run up and down stairs, and exercise which 1t had been aIledged usually aggravated the parOxysms, and even sometimes produced them. Very contrary tO all expectation, after the assur- ance given, soon after the girl had left the room the thuncping commenced, as if for our special accommodation As has been Ob- served by others, the noise evidently accOn- panied her through the house, and was at times loud enough to create a question wheth' CT little girl of IA could have produced it by stamping with slipper. After this exhibition she was confined tO a small room, and re- quested to keep moving on line between the door and window. On every approach to it., the door was violently shaken, as if with the full force of man, though the blow itself could not be distinguished. The window, however, marvellously escaped this time. not withstanding that in the history of the case, windows appear to have been specially ex' posed to the mystic principle. Failing in IHeSG eUOFIS IO OUeVbOUStTdtG tuC kUb 06CuSyi SthOOgh the fact that the presence of an eye was sufficient to stop the noise in a moment. might seem sufficient to dispeI any faith not strong enough to remove mountains, we pro- ceeded through various other trials. At length she was requested, being called to take charge of an infant in the nursery, to sit in given position before the door, which of course w as closed. In few minutes the humping re- turned, frequent and loud as ever. But "n- fortunately for the illusion, wide crevice at the bottom ofthe door, fully exposed to us all, the agency of her feet in producing it. We watched her from this position without In- convenience, through nearly half an hour, un- til assurance was rendered dOubly sure. One of our number opened the door suddenly, when the humping as suddenly ceased.- COrnelia, however, stoutIy resisted the lmpu- tatiOn of having any voluntary agency iD it..
 "There being DO longer the slightest doubt in our minds on the subject, the only problem remaining to be solved was, how she had con trived to deceive the family, the physicians. and others who have repeatedly witnessed. as we'll as listened t0 the performance, and the motive which prompted it. Every effort, howe, er, to procure this, has utterly failed, and all efforts to obtain it must while the family cling to the conviction that the girl is innocent"
 Hard Labor conductive to Health and LOng Li6.-A late foreign Journal mentions the following remarkable case of longevity :-' A young ma at the age of l8 years, in l724. was condemned to the gales, in France, on account of high crime. for the long period Of one hundred years, which was probably in- tended by the judge to confne him for life. Remarkable as 1t may appear. in 1924, the man being in perfect health, after an unremit- ting series of hardships of one entire century, was discharged. being exactly 118 years old On visiting Lyons, he laid claim to an estate which belonged to his family. M. Bertholm, the possessOr. who considered his title un- doubted, by the advice of his own lawyer, paid the old heir 4,5OOl. to settle the business, and free the property from embarrassment
 MT. Elliot's second Ascension from Charles ton was attended with many curious adven- lures. He was in the air 45 minutes-trav- elied distance of20 miles. his greatest alti- tude being 1-2 miles, and descended at the plantation of Hugh Wilson. Esq. with consid- erable difficulty. The following extracts from his narrative will amuse the reader :-
 The greatest alarm and commOtion wa, produced among the negroes, at the differen settlements on the rout, at the passage of the Balloon and its living navigator. through the Heavens-wherever 1t approached they seam pered away in great cOnstevDatiOn-sOme o them crying out that it was bird, (rGr0 avis, others that it was an angel, and at one planta ton where negro had just died, they insist ed that it was his Satanic majesty himsel come to fly away with the deceased. While passing one plantation, he lowered core within a few feet of negro, and called or him to icy hold oft. but the fellow after gag ing awhile, irresolute, took to his heels witt great rapidty.
 As he passed over Mr.. Wilson's house spoke the inmates, and found the whites req. dy to assist him. but the negroes too much frightened to indicate any such disposition. When he was about to land. MT. Chaplin came to his assistance on horseback, follow. ed by about 40 negroes. The negroes, how. ever, were very 10th to approach, and stood peeping at him from behind the pine trees and it was not until repeatedly ordered by MT Chaplin, that they could be induced to lend | helping hand, andlhen they did % with fea
 and trembling-their eyes fixed on the Ero naut, in terrified amazcment-sOme asking it was true that it was living ma0. and al regarding him as supernatural monster.
 DroN Enough.-The gentlemen composin the Board Of Canvassers, we learn. had yer
 long discussion in relation to publishing th official Returns, and argued the question a length, as to which of tho Journals it shonl appear in. It has been customary heretofOr 1 AL < n .AoA l. NSNgns