The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-04-12

"A StiaHSeI case OI r0CUSultlOu CSll HNru'
ly be found even within the pages o.
fiction. They did not meet In the
thronge,d city; they did not catcA ;pees'
ing glimpse IN some railway train, bd,
they stooa {ace to face IN q little hamlet,
guided, NE must believe, by an unseen
hand, until, occanants of the same dwell
ling, coMpanipnSxt the table, the victim,
looked, a. he ebolieyrd, upon the slayer,
and laid liis hand upon Ms hFeast and
said, "Thou art the nalE 'tn , Il Ranquo's
ghost WAS the, creation Of o heated imas
ination, this was noappaxition " flesh
and blood. IT NHs paipablc ; no sta.is
could shine dinaly throu9k It. One OF
the mrrrdiered ri AZ sttfSai tS ,fsrth Ss'ai's.
from the heaps ri unburied' dead, and
Summoned him to Judgment. How il
may result we cannot tell, but there Is a
terrible dircctness s ,particdhtity about
young Thurber's evidenee,r that seem
more like = supernatural uoice than the
doubtful testimony Of y fallible witness.
- ~ nA,Qhost That. III, Do. ,.,,.,
We ara not partial to ghosts. They
are doubtless very we'll m tllcir place,
but We don't consider this world their
place. o Byron's suggestion that body
and soul together are ahead of 4 solss,
may be somewhat sophisticated but we
certainly prefer ,cascd souls to uncased as
companions and visitants Oh this "visi-
bic diurhal spere." In the world to
come, we may weil indulge an opposite
preferences. holding ever to the sound
principle of like tolike. 80 Ig,rap Laa
But they 'have a giiest out hi Indiana
that we relish, and recogifize as s,lita-
BILE .visitAiit to souls still taternacled In
flesh. He was once tsuch Is the aver
ment) Mr.. Orrin Elder, who in 1858
,went to California, leaving . wife and
two daughters, behind him, and was
killed there in 1850. His wife has lived
in poverty since he Left her, trying to
subsist by washing, etc. Two weeks
SINCE, her younger daughter, died, and
five adult relatives and friends were
watching besides. the corpse, when, at 10
in the evening, the dead father glitied in
nodo~r nor window was open,
and while all sat transfixcd with amaze
ment, walked up to the cotlin placed on
it a bag containing sixty-scven SO gold
pieces none Of your illegal tender and
bit of paper on which was written
Restitution for Mary and instantly
vanished, not taking away the mint
drops, which the First National Bank Of
Indiana WINS very willing t6rrtake Ind
credit to Mrs. Elder, allowing iaer.the
current premium. r.n~~ .
, Ne have not the least wish TO cross
examine Mr.. WILDER c. McIntire, who
says he witnessed the arpadtion, and
saw the ghost and his sinners. All we
have to suggest is, that he be invited to
come often, bringing with him troops of
frlends-not' forgetting the castings.-
~. y. Tribune. 'S'Tsa""' 40
=. .BEAvERs.-An English writer demol-
ishes the old idea that the tail of the bea-
vcr is his trowel.. He observed the bca-
vers building the dam and houses in the
geological Gardens in London. The
commencement of the first lodge, Or hut
building operation was inaugurated by
NJ. Bartlett, the superintendent of the
garden, who placed in the paddock All
DID box, mouth downward, with The end
knocked out. The beavers at once took
tns this shelter, and commenced piling
upon it and around it the puddled clay
with which they had been supplied in
ONE corner Of the enclosure, OF course
the reader expects to be told about the
,W2ndrous deNterity with which athey
'blastered the, work with their. tailsl in
truth, they. did nothing of the kind, and
all the stories about the animal using
his tail as a'tiowel are pure myths, cutis-
,et doubtless, by the apparent, .applic,.-
plGty of that appendage 70 such a pur-
pose. 1t is q rudder, and nothing more,
to assist the animal in directing It's course
N the water, and is perfectly useless at
plasterer's work. The clay, lnolacned
yath the little running stream close at
nand' was carried BY his forefpaws and
dabbed on the roof he was making over
the box. This process of daubinr and
pdddling was alternated by carefully
placing branches across and athwart the
,mud-work,, interlacing the fermer, and
then filling up the interstices with pud-
died clay. Rs .-'f. fe,e
81 A MAN OF Talking about
contracts, " said Sumner, with whom We
We're conversing on the street yesterday
"that was a rich incident that lawyer
b relates as coming under his ebser.
vation, while travelling in an adjoining
county, short time since. - b. had
occasion to make out a contract, between
a planter-one of fhe ascions Of clliyalry,
you know, landed proprietor ; &c:-and
acolored laborer. Having Commenced
with, 'knoWsall men, and gone tlrrougll