Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-20

| went to bed, and slept profoundly till past
| four in the afternoon.
That evening went downsto the factory
| quite early, tori had restlessness upon, me j.,
| and yanted to see George before he left for
| the night. THIS time found the gate boltc d.
| aad | rang tor adI.4ittance-n
Hov early YOU are Ben /" said Steve
| Storr, az he leg me in.
| Mr.. Barnards not gone ," | asked quick
! ", for | saw at the first glance that the gas
was out in the contingencies.
He's not gone" said Steve; because
| he's never been"
| :. Never been ~
No : and whats stranger still,s he's not
| been home either, since dinner Yesterday
s'But he was here last night:"
''Oh, yes, he was here last night, making
/ up the books. John Parker was with him
till past six and you found him here didn't
you, at halfpast nine :"
| shook my head.
4 Veil, he's gone, anyhow. Good night -
Good night -
| took the lantern from his hand, bolted
him out mechanically, and made my way to
. the baking-hOuses like one in a stupor-
( George gone? Gone without word of warn
/ ing to his employer or of farewell to his fell
/ low workmen! | could not understand il. |
could not believe it. / sat down be wildered,
I incredulous, stunned. Then came hot tears,
doubts, terrifying suspicious. | remembered
the wild words ne had spoken few nights
back; the strange calm by which they were
followed my dream of the evening before
had heard of men who had drowned them
selves for love aud the turbid Severn ran
/ close by-so close, that one might pitch a
stone into it from some of the workshop win
. dows.
These thoughts were too horrible dared
not dwell upon them. turned to work, to
! free myself from them, if | could; and began
examining the ovens. The temperature of
( all was much higher than the previous
night-the heat having been gradually in
creased during the past twelve hours. 1t
was now my business to keep ii on the in
crease for twelve more after which it would
4 be allowed, as gradually, TO subside, until the
pottery was cool enough for removal. To
turn the seggars, and add fuel to the two first
] furnaces, was my first work. As before, |
! found number Three in advance of the Others
| and SO left it for half an hour or an hour.
/ then went round the yard, tried the doors, let
/ the dog loose, and brought him back with
me to the baking houses for company After
4 that | set my lantern on shelf beside the
! door, took book from my pocket and began
! 70 read
/ ! remember the title of tie book as well as
! possible. 1t was called Bowker's Art of Ang-
/ ling, and contained little rude cuts of all
kinds of artificial flies, hooks, and other
| tackle. But could not keep my mind to it
! for two minutes together; and at last | gave
/ it up in dspair, covered my face with my
hands, and fell into a long absorbing painful
/ train of thought. a considerable time had
! gone by thus, maybe an hour, when | was
| reused by low whimpering howl from Cap
| tain, who was lying at my feet. | looked up
with a start just as | had started the night
/ before, and with the same vague terror, and
| saw, exactly in the same place and in the
same attitude, with the freight full upon
| him, George Barnard
At this sight, fear heavier than the fear
of death fell upon me, and my tongue seem
| ed paraylzed in my mouth. Then, Just as last
night, he rose, or seemed to rise, and went
/ slowly out into the next room. A power
| stronger than myself appeared to compel me,
! reluctantly, to follow him. | saw him pass
| through the second room, cross the threshold
| of the third room, walk straight up to the
| oven and there pause. He then turned, for
! the first time, with the glare of the freight
| pouring out upon him from the open door of
the furnace, and looked at ne face to face
In the same instant his whole frame and
| counterance seemed to glow and become
| transparent, as if the fire were all within him
and around him; and in that glow he became,
as it were, absorbed into the furnace, and
disappeared!
l uttered wild cry, tried to stagger from
the room, and fell insensible before l reached
| the door.
When | next opened my eyes the gray
dawn was in the sky; the furnace doors
| were all closed as | had left them when last
went round; the dog was quietly sleeping not
lar from my side; and the men were ringing
at the gate, to be let in.
l told my tale from beginning to end and
was laughed at, as matter of course, by all
who heard it. When it was found, however,
that my statements never varied, and, above
all, that George Barnard continued absent
some few began to talk it over seriously,
and, among those few, the master of the
works. He forbade the furnace to be cleared
ont, called in the aid of d celebrated natural
lst and had the ashes submitted TO a scientific
examination. The result was as follows:
The ashes were found to have been largely
saturated with some nd of fatty animal mat
ter. A considerable portion of those ashes
consisted of charred bone. A semi-circular
piece of iron, which evidently had once been
the heel of worknan's heavy boot, was
found, half fused, at one corner of the fur
mace. Near tlay tibia bone, which still re
tanned sufficient of its original form and tex
ture to render identification possible. This
bone, however, was so much charred that it
fell into powder on being handled.
| Alter TINS, not many doubted that George
Barnard had been foully murdered, and that
his body had been thrust into the furnace
Suspicion fell upon Louis Laroche. He was
arrested, a coroner's inquest was held, and
every circumstance connected with the night
of the murder was as thoroughly sifted and
investigated as possible All the sitting in
the world, however, failed either to clear or
condemn Louis Laroc:.e. On the very night
of his release he left the place by the mail
train, and was never seen or heard of there
again. As for Leah, | know not what became
of her | went away myself before many
weeks were over. cud never have set foot
among the Potter.e. from that hour to this,
A GoD OF TAsTE.-it the opening of the
new Free church at Crathie, in Scotland DR..
Gurthrie said 81 highly approve of the res
olution of our friends that led them to build
such house as this; because there is no
greater mistake in the world than to fancy
that while God is God of holiness, God OF
power, and of justice, he is not also God OF
taste, Just much as He is God of any
thing else that is lovely and good. And how
do | prove that? you may ask. prove that
by just asking YOU to go to the sea-shore and
find out for shell that Is not pretty.