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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-14

Home and Lord Adarc, and a cousin of his
During the sitting Mr.. Home went into trance,
and in that state was carried out of the window
into the room next to where we were, and was
brought in at our window. The distance be-
tween the windows was about seven feet six
inches, and there was not the slightest foothold
between them, nor was there more than a
twelve-inch projection to each window, which
served as a ledge to put flowers on. We heard
the window in the next room lifted up, and al
most Immediately after we saw Home floating in
the air outside our window. The moon was
shining full into the room; my back was to the
light, and l saw the shadow on the wall
of the window-sill, and Homes feet about
six inches above it. He remained in this
position for few seconds, then raised the win
dow and glided into the room feet foremost and
sat down. Lord Adare then went into the next
room to look at the window from which he had
been carried. 1t was raised about eighteen
inches, and he expressed his wonder how Mr.
Home had been taken through so narrow an
aperture. Home said, (still in trance,) 1 VIII
show yOu;' and then, with his back to the win
dow, he leaned back, and was shot out OF the
aperture head first with the body rigid, ana then
returned quite quietly. The window is aDout
seventy feet from the ground: very much
doubt whether any sklltul tight-rope dancer
would like to attempt feat of this description,
where the only means decreasing would be by
perilous leap, OF being borne across in such
manner as have described, placing the question
of the light aside"
This is certainly very curious, and it would be
more so if it were vouched by persons accustom-
ed to observe physical phenomena critically, and
subject them to rigid tests with the purpose of
eliminating every possible source of error. If
Mr.. Home had the powers to which he pretends,
and which his admirers concede, it would be
strange that they should desert him in the pres
ence of trained scientific observers. We believe
that he does not now claim, as he formerly did,
that these performances are the work of spirits,
but attributes them to some mysterious natural
agency akin to electricity or magnetism, whose
nature and laws are as yet uneXplored.
The remains of a mastodon, consisting of an
incomplete skeleton, have been discovered near
Fort Wayne, Ind by men engaged in digging
ditch. Careful search will be made for the miss
ing portions of the skeleton, which is said to
indicate the largest specimen of this extinct
animal yet found in the west.
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JENNY LIND.-I assisted" the other night.
at a rather melancholy entertainment. 1t was
the performance of Otto Goldshmidt's sacred
pastoral Ruth" the principal soprano part in
which was taken by his renowned wife, Jenny
l1hd lhere was brilliant house resolute TO be
pleased. Jenny Lind had a grand recention
the cordially of which was undoubtedly en-.
hanced by the general desire to mark sense of
lndlgnat0n at the wanton and cruel calumnies
which lately assailed herself and her husband
But 1t was a heavy and monrnful business
"Can that be Jenny Lind p some of the vonnger
listeners whispered. That heavy, homely marion
that striving singer with the worn out voice
which struggles so painfully with the hgh notes
and is so hoarse with the lows? Can il be that
twenty years ago Europe and America were
filled with rapturous admiration over the divine
glories Of that voice, the artistic perfection of
that style2 Greater singers than Jenny Lind
there certainly were, but no singer ever bore
the same triumphs and the same renown. What
was the Pccolomini mania, the Patti mania. the
Nilsson mania when compared with the mad
ness for Jenny Lind2 And now what remains /?
Nothing, il seems TO me, except knowledge of
music and high artistic purpose. No fances,
no Nc art could do anything with that wrecked aud
l I voice: Nothing ever limited to me of the
1enhy Lind of fame. The papers here praised
tlie tlornanee, of course, which is pity. 1t
-; eaue, mistake for singer to appear in pub
nc aiter her time. Hardly any object or mr.
pose, think, excuses sncb an aSror sndh a
sacriiege. There is a touching story Somewhere
ABOUT gray and withered old woman who
stands IN melancholy Contemplation before the
eS Venps ia aTd Snd glowing Of picture
now be brought to believe thar She a,a,' JouIu
faded and unloyely, was once the living Tno
from which the artist drew Well his IN l,o W
parsonage had luckily for herself no r;end V ~
persuade her that she still looked just as yonn ~
aud handsome as ever, and induce her to pro,
herself n fnr
again. Had she been singer she would have
fou5d plenty Of friends TO tell her that time was
nothing in her case, and she would probably
have believed them.-Justia McCarfhv,
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A FISH SToRY.-The editor of the Council
Bluffs Times has been fishing, and gives this
account of the water and its inhabitants:
"Last evening we got an invitation to a cheap
ride on Spoon lake-on the confines of the city
limits, and went. Spoon lake is appropriately
named from its resemblance to a spoon The
bowl is nearly circular, and about seventy-fye
yards in diameter. The handle is nearly half
mile long, and crossed by the C. & X. l. rail-
road bridge near the neck The water along
the handle is very deep; and below the surface
water, as cold as ice. The bowl seems to be
unfathomable, for FIVE thousand feet line with
plummet failed to touch bottom. remark
able fact in regard to the lake now is, that it ia
literally packed with fish, while heretofore there
was not more than enough to crafty the snort.
ing practice of our anglers,
The hsh coTe toward the shore in shoals
gasping for air, and, dying in myriads, are cast
on the banks to decay. The water of the lake,
heretofore SO limpid, has assumed dark brown
walnut color. An eddy in the middle of the
bowl ebbing and flowing with tidal REGULAR.
ty, indicates that Spoon lake is in direct subter-
ranean communication with some vast body of
water, and Is subject to its influence. The
water sometimes bulges up in the middle of the
'bowr twelve or eighteen inches above the
height of the rim or margin; aud, again Is
seen to form miniature cup or whirlpool, as if
the water were all leaking out through hole
in the centre, This circumstance leaves little or
no doubt OF suhterraDean channel Another
strange fact is that, like the Caspian sea. it is
fed by several small streams and, as there is
no visible outlet, and the water retains its
freshness, there must be an underground com
munication.
twas ebbing when we visited the lake; and
we were filled with curiosity to see the little
maelstrom atlwOrk; so, procuring bottle we
enclosed scrap of paper inscribed with the
date, location and circumstance corked tied and
sealed the bottle, and cast II into the eddy, when
it instantaneousy disappeared-wa swallowed
up by the whirlpool. There is no getting over the
fact that in the flow of the lake large quantities
OF fish have been introduced to its waters by
this underground passage until the lake has be-
come overstocked. The native fish, no
doubt jealous of their piscatorial visitors,
made war on them with the evident
intention of repelling the invasion.
But the invading armies seem to have been
more powerful, to judge from the dead and
dying strewn along the margin, for the great
bulk of those found were buffalo fish, catfish.
perch and pike, but with a difference of color
showing at least different species. We D cked
up some of the dying fish and examined them,
Some were bitten on the under part of the body
below the gllls, and Others battered along the
sides as if receiving chastisement from an op-
ponents TAIL"
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PROTECTION PROM INDIANs.-Hon. J. W.
Flanagan, United States senator from Texas,
while in Washington City, just prior to the adj
jOurnment of the last session of congress, re-
ceived from Mr.. G. W. Kingsbury, prominent
merchant of San Antonio, an arrow taken from
the body of white man killed by the Indians
within eighteen miles of San Antonio. Senator
Flanagan handed the arrow TO President Grant,
with statement from Mr.. Kingsbury as TO the
alarming depredations of the Indians along the
frontier of Texas, and few days afterward he
received the following letter from the president
in his own handwriting, which letter is now in
the possession Of the editor of this paper:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May %, 1871.
Hon. j. W. Flanagan, U. S. s.:
DEAR SIR: | am in receipt of the arrow
which you send me as the one that was fatally
used against white man by an Indian, within
eighteen miles of San Antonio, together with
the statement of G. w. Kingsbury as to the
great number Of outrages that are being perpe-
trated by the Indians upon the people of north
western Texas. 1t is my desire and expectation
TO get all the wild Indians upon reservations
where they can be cared for and kept from the
white settlements. But, under any circum-
stances, the citizens must be protected, and |
will see that the commanding officer in Texas
receives the proper orders to secure that end.
With great respect your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT.
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The Army and the indians.

Gen. Sherman has received letter from Gov.
Potts of Montana, giving details Of the recent
incursion of the Crow Indians into the Galatin
valley, in that territory. The marauding party,
it appears, killed two white men and drove off
sixty head of cattle. The governor asks for the
establishment Of new military post at the
pass through which the Indians entered the
valley, and, if this is done, he thinks there will
be no further inCursions from that quarter He
says that there are already 800 farmers settled in
the valley, and he deems it of Importance that
they should be more fully protected by troops.
Gen. Sherman, speaking of this and many other
calls for additional protection to settlers in the
far west, says that the reduction of the army
makes it impossible for him to place as many
troops in the Indian country as he thinks are
needed. The army is nominally $4,000 strong,
but every one familiar with military affairs
knows that, of the number of men borne on the
rolls, not more than two-thirds can be relied on
as the average effective force, so that 10000
men represent the actual force now available
for duty. So large a portion of this force is
stationed in the southern states that but a
scanty number remain to garrison the vast In
dian frontier, from Texas to the British posses
sons. The general found, in his tour this sum-
mer, that the settlers on the frontier do not see
the wisdom of taking the troops needed in
that frontier and sending them to the southern
and that they charge that the government is
unmindful OF their safety in thus exposing them
to Indian forays.
General Sherman does not think the need for
troops in the west will diminish within the next
few years. On the contrary, he believes it will
increase, owing to the necessity of guarding the
construction and surveying parties on the
Northern and Southern Pacific railroads. The
Northern road, from the point where it crosses
the Red river Of the north to the settlements in
Montana, traverses region inhabited, he says,
by hostile Indians, chiefly the warlike Sioux,
who will have to be fought off the line
of the road at almost every mile of
its progress. The Southern road, when
it gets into the Apache country, will meet
with the same difficulty, the Apaches being the
worst Indians to deal with there are in the coun-
try. Both these roads will eventually be great
peace-makers, as the Union Pacific has been !;
but, while they are building, the General believes
that large force OF troops will be required to
| guard the laborers and protect the track and
| 10
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lRLsTAD0ROs HAR pRESERYl



These two complaints more general at this season
OIL the year than at almost any other They are closely
akin; for hiiousness always involves an impaired
Digestion and Indigestion is necessarily an aeeompan
ment of disordered torpid liver Happy the man or
woman who can boast of stomach that has never felt
the horrors of dyspepsia, and to whom that great
secretlVe agent, tho liver, has never given pain or
trouble Not one in thousand lay claim TO entire
Immunity from irregularity in these organs. How,
them shall they be regulated? Not by powerful cathar
tics, alternated with ordinary stimulants, but by a
medicinal nYigorant like Hostetters Stomach Bitters
which combine In due proportion the tonic and the
Alternative principle. Wherever there is a church. a
school house and general store, this famous medicine
may be procured No village merchant finds 1t prudent
to be without it, for is inquired for every day by every
class The workngman buys because 1t his
capacity for toll and is followed by no reaction The
effect of the sauhrious roots herbs etc. of whichit
composed, diffOsed through his system by the pure
smuaht which forms the basis of the btters is most
healthfu and nygorating The scholar. the merchant
and, in TACT all men whose minds or hodies or both are
In constant exercise will derive benefit from It's use To
persons of sedentey habits 1t supplies some measure
that activity In the circulation which is obtained by
physical exertion, and is the best known remedy for
constipation.
Ask for Hosteters Stomach Bitters, and do not be
coaxed into purchasing any of the limitations and frauds
sometimes offered in It's stead.
aul0 d&wlw
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Liberia.

The people of America will always be inter-
ested in the welfare Of the African republic. Its
establishment under the protection of the
United States was an experiment to test the
American system of government among peo-
pie of African descent, with some admixture of
American blood and with American training.
The experiment has been, on the whole, reason
bly, successful. OF late, however, there have
been reports that Liberia was not prosperous;
that constitutional question had arisen which
was creating serious discord and that revolu-
ton was threatened. Mr.. Orcutt the secretary
of the colonization society, writes to the New
York Tribune to correct some unfounded state
ments that have gained currency and to
give the facts in relation to the con-
stitutiOnal difficulty. His statement, obtained,
as he says, from trustworthy sources, is in sub
stance as follows: The term of Office of the pres
ident, by the constitution of Liberia, has always
been two years. At the regular biennial cleo
ton in 1869, a constitutional amendment to ex-
tend the presidential term to four years, was
submitted to the vote of the people. The vote
was very light, and the result was doubtful;
some claimed that there was a tie. AT the next
regular session of the legislature, in the follow
ing winter, an act was passed that, nasmuch as
the vote on the amendment was light and doubt
full, the question should be again submitted to
the people in October, 1870
This time the amendment was rejected by a
decided majority; but the president, Roye, on
account Of some technical defect in the returns
from certain counties, assumed to reject their
vote and issued proclamation declaring the
amendment carried. AT the next session Of the
legislature, last December, it was decided by a
joint resolution that the returns clearly showed
that the people had voted to reject the amend
nent, and the regular election of president
and other officers for the constitutional term of
two years, was ordered to take place in May as
usual Before the time of this election the
president, Roye, issued another proclamation
reiterating his announcement that the amend
ment was adopted and forbidding the proposed
election. The people, however, proceeded with the
election and by a unanimous vote chose Mr..
d. ). Roberts, who has held the office previ-
ousiy, to be their president. Mr.. Reyes term
expires on the first Monday in January, 1872
The authority to which we refer expresses no
apprehension that he will attempt forcibly to
resist Mr.. Roberts Inauguration. The latter IL
is said, SO far from insisting upon being presi-
dent, as previous reports have stated, has not
sought the Office and does not wish for it. The
only fear for the future is that he will refuse IN
accept it, Roye is pnre negro, while Roberts
has a considerable admixture of Caucasian
blood, but the question Of color seems to have
had no influence in the canvass. The general
condition of the country is said to be prosperous
and intelligent citizens regard its future al
hopeful.
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BELLS IN THE OLD CoUNTRIEs.-The num-
berless bells OF Moscow are kept constantly
ringing during the whole of Easter week, tink-
ling and tolling without order or regularity
The large bell near the cathedral is only used on
important occasions, and when it sounds deep,
hollow murmur Vibrates all through Moscow,
like the fullest tones of q vast organ. This bell
is suspended in tower called the belfry of st.
Ivan, and beneath it are others less in SIZE but
yet enormous. 1t is forty feet nine inches in
circumference, sixteen and one-half inches
thick, and weighs more than fifty-seven tons
The great bell of Moscow, known to be the
largest ever founded, laid for many years in q
deep pit in the midst of the Kremkin, and is
truly mountain of metal. The natives regard
it with religious veneration, and would not
allow grain of it to be fled off; but the Gar
Nicholas caused it to be removed and placed
upon a granite pedestal 1t has been conse-
Grated as a chamber. The size of the room is
twenty-eight feet in diameter and twenty-five
feet one inch in height
The bells in China rank next in size to those
of Russia. In Pekin, it is stated by Father LIE
Compile, there are seven bells, each weighing
1900 pounds. Excepting the bells cast for
the new houses of parliament, the largest of
which weighs fourteen tons, there is only one
bell in England which weighs $1,000 pounds.
1t was cast in YOrkminster, and is only feet 7
inches in diameter. The great Tom of Oxford
weighs II 900 pounds, and the great Tom of Lin
coin $4,000 pounds. The bell of St. Pauls in
London is nine feet in diameter, and weighs II, :
500 pounds. One placed in the cathedral Of
Paris, in 1868, weighs $1,000 pounds. Another
in Vienna, cast1711, in weighs 40. 900 pounds The
famous bell called Susanne of Erfurt is consid-
cred to be of the finest bell metal, containing
the largest proportion OF silver; its weight is
10000 pounds, and it was cast in 1897.
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.

CHICAGO, Aug. l2.-FlOur unchanged Wheat in good
demand; No spring SlO7A q lOsA. Corn higher; No
mixed 46Sc Oats ST. onger; No 2, 30Hc. Rye higher;
No 2, 57e Barley easier at 60c. High wines in demand
at $50. Pork $l25O a l2,61&. Lard, sh a SIC Dry
sailed meats-4A q Sc. Bacon-shOr rib mddles 81 90
&C. Live hogs dull at 1855. Cattle steady. Receipts
4UOO b6s flour, 5000 bush wheat. 10000 bush corn
hogs; shipments-sO0O bbls flour, $4,000 bush wheat,
bush barley, 1000 hogs.
CINCINNATI. Aug. l2-Provsions withdrawn, antici
pating higher prices. Pork at $780, Lard quiet at
sac Bulk measshoulders Sc; clear rib sides "a SIC;
clear sides SIC. Bacon sold at SIC for shoulders ne
for clear rib sides and 7Hc for sides Live hogs in
good demand at $3.50 q 4,sO Cattle scarce for better
grades; sales at S425 a $50. Whskey lower at SIC.
l6kc.
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A BELLIGERENT PASSENGER IN A HoosAo
MoUNTAIN CoACH.-A man named Toland
VINO came up from Boston to the east of the
tunnel, Tuesday night, on his way to North
Adams, was found to be intoxicated upon tax.
ing seat in the coach to 90 over the mountain.
AS the coach was chiefly filled with ladies, Mr.
Stevens requested the man to take passage in
one OF the other coaches, which he refused 10
do showing his ticket and claiming his right TO
a hrst-class passage; and Mr. Stevens allowed
him TO remain, rather than have q "scene" with
him in the presence of the ladies, After the
coaches had started, the man drew a revolver
from his pocket, and said he should have re-
venge for the injury done him. One of the
ladies tainted at sight of the pistol, when the
driver, AL. Richardson, stopped the coach, and
the man got out, saying he would not ride with
women who would faint. Richardson asked
him if he had pistol and he replied that
he had not The driver told him that
he must take passage for the remainder of the
trip upon the outside with him, which he re-.
fused to do, and took out his pistol. Mr., Hurd
Of North Adams, also passenger, then stepped
out of the coach. and told Richardson that the
man must be relieved of the pistol. Toand
thereup0n fired three shots in the direction of
Richardson, telling him at the same time not TO
leave the horses, which he was engaged in water
ing. AS the man approached the place where
the driver was standing, Hurd seized him by
the throat and held him while Richardson came,
when his pistol was taken from him, and he
was ielt III the road When Mr.. Stevens came
up ne engaged q farmer living near to carry the
man TO North Adams, where, on his arrival. he
| found an officer in waiting to receive him. and
was locked up TO await examination. The pas.
| sengers describe the scene as very exciting. two
more OF tue ladies' fainting. -Springfeld ReDttb-
| hca1,
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Inc last stronghold of the Hair Poisones surrender
CRISTADoRo's Tag, bearing on its folds the magic
words,
CristadOrO'S Excelsior Hair Dye,
hoats triumphant over all the deleterious trash with
which the market was not long ago flooded Lead enough
to make bullets for army lies the shelves of dealers
who have specuated in of the metallic hair color
ing Preparations Well they should have confined their
purchases to CRISTADoRo's safe and perfect prspara-
ton So much for running after strange gods In the
meantime, this famous dye has received a tremendous
impetus in the Market and scarcely manufactured
fast enough to meet the enormous demand
CRLSTADORO'S HAIR PRESERYATJYE
is the best dressing that be used after dyemg.
aul deOp&weOwlm
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Mr.. Home, in spite Of the iDcredulity with
which his pretensions are viewed in many quar-
tiers, still has firm believer in Lord LINDSAY.
To the average middle class Briton the testi-
mony Of lord in such a matter, is worth more
than that of Tyndall or Huxley, and Mr. Home
is no doubt proportionately grateful to his lord
ship for the statement the latter has made in the
Spiritnalist Mr. Home, he says, can see a light
emanating from magnet in a dark room. A
few other persons have been believed to possess
this power, though all will agree that it is rare
but some other ieas attributed to Mr. Home are
quite unique. Lord LINDSAY says:
"0n another occasion was sitting with Mr..
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Victims OF rheumatism and victims of quackery
and impositions read Professor Macs advertisement
In advertising columns, and preserve his pamphlet