The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-23
MURDER WILL OUT.

NIOblE COONI1, OltlO, Is the
IN toughest In the state. From end
TO end II Is one constant succession Of
hills. There Is nothing In the shape of
wagon roads, as they are understood In
the rest OF the State, known. The hill
side paths, stony, rutted out by the
heavy rains of spring and fall, are al
most impossible TO wagons even In the
best portions of the year. But here are
magnificent views of wildness. From
the tops of many of the hills one may
obtain view of the surrouding country
extending many miles In every dlrec-
tlon. Hon. John A. Bingham, who
used to represent this district In Con-
gress, called 1t the Switzerland of Ohio.
The people are ut least fifty years behind
many other portions of the State. They
still live In the rude log cabins, the sites
for which have been dug out of the hill
sides. The chief employment is tobacco
raising, and has been for half century
past. They produce very poor quality
of the weed, and after n laborious pro-
cess of curing IL Is sold for about SO per
hundred weight and shipped to Balti-
more, where 1t is exported to France
and Germany to be used In manufactur-
ing. On account of the insurmountable
hills the people travel almost exclusive
ly on, horseback, and journey OF
eighteen or twenty miles is considered
days ride.
Some twenty years ago drover and
cattle buyer was known to have gone
down into this country for the purpose
of gathering up drove of horses and
cattle, for the Baltimore market. lie
was known to have had considerable
money upon his person, and was last
seen mt dusk as he left little town call
ed Whigsvlle on his way to another
called Sarahsville, about four miles dis
tant He said TO his host at the former
place that he would ride on and reach
the latter place by bedtime Nothing
more was thought of the matter at
Whigsville for several weeks, until some
friends of the drover came there inqur-
ing for him, and then it was discovered
that he had never reached Sarahsville
at all. 1t is remembered by the good peo-
pie of Whigsville that the night on which
the drover departed from their village
1t became very dark, and they say that
murky clouds overhung the sky in every
part and vivid flashes of lightning, fol-
lowed by terrific peals of thunder, came
in rapid succession. But it was not till
late at night that the threatened rain be-
gan to descend.
The friends of the man who had thus
suddenly disappeared made as careful an
investigation of his disappearance as it
was thought possible to make under the
circumstances. He had no near rela-
tives, having lived a life of celibacy, and
thus the matter died out sooner than it
otherwise might have Idone. But the
people of that section remembered the
mysterious disappearance and related
during all the intervening time curious
legends of the probable manner of his
taking off. Old settlers have departed
from the stage of existence and another
generation has been born, and still on
stormy nights and during certain sea-
sons of the year the story is related by
old wives, and children are made to
shudder and draw closer around the cab
in hearth.
But within the week the mystery has
seemed to have as suporstitious and Won
derful partial solution as it had origin.
A young lady, not yet eighteen years of
age, and who was accordingly born
some two years after the drover's disap-
pearance and could have only heard the
story as tradition, had dream, which
was in short that the droyer had been
murdered and his body concealed in a
certain spot. Hearing the circumstances
of the case, your correspondent called
upon the young lady. She was found at
her parental house, an unpretentious
farm residence situated upon the hill
side. She is of light complexion, rather
retiring in manner, not especially pretty
but possessing remarkable eyes. They
are large, and although bright, still pos
sess an indescribable dreaminess that
can not fail to attract attention. Upon
being presented to stranger she display
ed the diffidence natural to one unused
to the ways of the world. But upon my
remarking that had come to hear her
relate her dream, she seemed to regain
possession of herself, and keeping her
eyes fixed upon the ground, spoke al
most word for word, as follows: