The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-10-27
oTTUMWA, IOWA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER ~, 1859

young artists of talent, SO that they could
not interfere with himself In the midst oi
these multiplied and arduous labors, he drop.
ped dead while speaking to "a friend
in the year 1547, being forty-seven years oI
age. %."'" '~'s ''s 0.
Perino is acknowledged to be one of the
most brilliantly endowed and most versatile
of the painters of his time. He excelled in
fresco, oil and tempera, and although he did
not equal Raphael, he followed closely in the
footsteps Of that master. He entirely lost
lbs family appellation, being called De Ceri
when with that artist, and afterward De-
Vaga, from the Forentine who introduced
him at Rome, He thus presents the inter.
esting and encouraging spectacle Of a man
destitute even of that Inheritance which the
poorest ordinarily receive, reaching the high.
est honors in the gift of art by the mere force
TGsiYifssHRe GGsrifif iHe U1as.rS U!1sass. ii sonnamD ria
The Detroit Free Press relates tha. on the
night of the 25th September. Mr.. Israel
Moreton, of this city, was awakened and
called out of his house by man who reques.
ted him to walk across the street and look
at the top of his dwelling. He at first hest.
tated, suspccting foul play; but seeing.a shad.
ow pass along the front of the house oppo.
site, he crossed over, and on looking up, be.
held female pacing slowly along the ridge
pole, in her night dress, her hair hanging in
confusion about her shoulders. Says the
Press.
The spectral form paced slowly to and fro
on the narrow ridge-board which covered the
apex of the roof, approaching in frightful
proximity the abrupt termination at the
ends, and calmly turning about to retrace
the distance. The house was a high one, and
misstep, or a step too far would have
plunged the night walker down to certain
destruction. The walker occasionally raised
her hand to her head, as though engaged in
thought, or troubled with pain. The head
always maintained the same position. A
chimney stood directly in the middle of the
roof, around which she passed with ease,
placingo one hand upon its top, and walking
down the sloping roof to get around. Once
in this spectral walk she paused Mt the edge
of the roof and looked strait ahead. ..
A waiving movement of the right hand ac-
companied the act, when the walk was again
renewed. The same spot was reached again
a few moments after, when the figure again
paused, and again gazed out in the darkness
and then, with a slow motion, stretched out
hand, and with outspread fingers clutchcd
at something which had no existence excent
in the fevered mind of the sleeper. The
other hand was then extended in like man
ner and The body went forward III sucha a wav
that the upper portion hung over the ABYSS.
while the fingers reached out, until there
was no further reaching, and clutching again
with quick, convulsive snatch, and were
withdrawn. The form was motionless mo-
ment, and then commenced its walk ara;n
continuing as far as the middle of the roof
when 1t turned toward the rear of the house
and moving down the slope of the roof was
lost to sight.
Mr.. Morton recognized the features and
form OF his servant girl, about IS, named
Jane Mooney. She decended through sky
light to her own room. fastening in he
aroused his wife, and went with her to the
girls room, and found her sitting on the bed
wide awake, and in state of mind bordering
on distraction. She had no knowledge Of the
occurrence, but had been awakened bv the
noise of her employer entering the house
and found herself standing in the middle of
her own room, in the condition described
The girl had been suffering. from brain
fever from which she was gradually recover
ing. "