Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-24
A IS SpitituaI'' Farce,

There happend, one day last week, at Bur.
lington, Vermont, little affair which. al.
though it Commenced with tragic prelnde
finally ended in broad farce. 1t seems that
man named Thomas Carr, a respectable
farmer in that neighborhood, while working
one day in hay field, suddenly disappeared
and was not heard of again for nine davs =
After awaiting his retlrn for two or three
days his friends became alarmed, and natu-
rally concluded that some disaster had han
pened to him. search was therefore insti
tuted, which, however, proved fruitless; and
resource was then had to spiritual aid. Mr..
Car having been himself spiritualist. A
medium was therefore consulted, and this me-
dunn revealed to the mourning friends of the
missing man, that indeed they had previous
~ respected, that he had drowned himself in
Berlin Pond. The medium even pointed out
the place where he had sprang into the water
and the very spot where he sank for the "last
time" Having full faith in this revelation.
and the more especially because it coincided
so exactly with their own suspicious, the
friends of MIR. Carr commenced dragging the
pond in the hope of fishing up his body
Day after day, they worked diligently at
their melancholy task, without ever getting
bite, until the nidth had reached its meri,
dian, when mttters took new turn.
stranger in the village was standing on
the banks oil the pond, witnessing the opera
tions of the fishermen, when Mr.. Carr him
self pale and haggard, suddenly confronted
him, and asked the meaning of the commo.
ton on the pond He was answered that n
man had been drowned there, and his friends
were looking for his body. Now. hunting
for dead men was precisely the kind of
amusement which suited Mr. Carr's peculiar
temperament the best, and so but few min.
utes elapsed before he was himself plavino n
small skiff about the pond, and searching dil.
igently for his own body. OF course Mr.
could not paddle around in that pond great
while without coming in contact with some
OF his friends, and it so happend that the very
first craft he hove along side of contained his
two nearest neighbors. You may imagine
the CONSERVATION of those neighbors. when
they saw the object of their search standing
bolt-upright in the stern of that little skiff
pale as ghost, thin as a winding-sheet-th
very picture of death in life :" and YOU NAV
imagine, also, the chagrin of Carr himself
when he learned that he had been all that
while engaged in so Improbable a specula-
tion as hunting for himself.
The explanation which followed revealed
the fact that Carr had gone off in a sudden fit
of spiritual insanity, and that during the
whole of those nine days he had been wan
dering in the fields and woods, and subsist
ing on berries and milk. The former article
OF food he gathered from the bushes, which
are very plenteous in that region; but the
latter. as he himself acknowledged, he Oh
tanned in an underhanded way, without say.
ing so much as "buy your leave" from COW
hall V.rrsK, -. r 1
pastured near the skirts of the wood. to the
great puzzlement by the way, of Betty,
the milkmaid, who "could not for the life of
her" fathomIthe mystery which sent Brindle
home every night with but half cargo
You will find in the papers two or three diff
terent versions of the foregoing incident, but
they are none of them reliable in all these
Particulars,-New York Correspondent of tile
Bulletin.