The New York herald., 1878-10-14

we're 10 i've concert she same evening. There met
| Professor Donovan. mentioned my project to him.
was astonshed and pleased by my success that
the course Of the evening performance BY the Ten
| neseeans he spoke oi IL snthusiasticaily giving
nrst advertisement Of entertainment tho
nighIn In spite Of severe thunderstorm some Of
Gross at that time State senator spoke oi the per-
tormauce as wonderful. subsequently, gave reoep-
occasion at the invitation OF prominent citizens.
Some oi these receptions for the boneht OF The
granssrs. am thought to BE- = pretty ,O good sloca-
tainment by limitations and rectatons. could I'M
itas Voorhees, and other well known SPEAKERS TO per-
fectIop But was better satisfied to recte pathetic
pieces. Being OF highly emotional temperament
can affect good people IN ths~ay very profoundly
have great many admirers In Southern Indiana on
TINS account alone. All TINS, though, ana not bring
| me IN any money" tAR at @f& sAt ~
Why d,a y 10, occur g you to put this faculty Of
"lt did iasi, but BY tue mersst accident II you
care to boar II the story is rather interestlngD
| "Go on with IL. then, please"
SUSPICION or MURDKR
Bloominsou i from Louisss ks nssi With larso bum
do OF money He was SsnteeI,y dressed, aad claimed
alter mis- arrival he was dragged out o saloon on
College avenue in dying eondisien--if Indeed, he
that he had been assaulted by one Cor
nelius A. Msrsnon at eight O'Clock In the
| Moore down In the saloon and then stab him. he
disappeared, whether dead or alive exactly
mis- body consumed that night the nre uox OF a
locomotive on she very railroad you came own
1t important 10 the pubic that his tate should
| be known, day some Of my friends bantered
some OF Mershon's friends TO let me put Mershon
mind reading test IN connection with the matter My
friends believed that through AerehoD who was sus-
pected, but not yet proven to be murderer, could
nnd out whether he was guilty or not, ana also hnd
| out tue hiding place disposition OF Moore's re-
| mains. Az hrst the proposition was accepted,
Msrshon's attorneys consenihg 70 The lest order,
| suppose to ward OIL suspicion. But IRON tho mo-
| ment when the consent was given It was evident
that they regretted It. Some OF Aersnon's.
| one oil them, his brother james, armed
| himself and snadowed me Tor a week more.
| They were dreaduly afraid would discover some-
thing ana didn't Know whom, or now, wnere. One
| night me, this James Mershon, and. as was up-
| armed, i bazarded q good deai with MIN. IL was
about eleven O'Clock when encountered MN alone,
! on bridge between the railroad depot ana
Madison street He came up to me and said -
test mind reading, right here. You stand on this
bridge, IN kcep you between me and the moon, SO
| around. I'm gong 70 hide something between hera
and the railroad and IN stop often. So that you can't
around, damn you, II you know what's good Tor
| you.
do to seem afraid He started of, sham bling and
fro and pretending to hide something and tnere
be thought ned fixed thingsso tnat couldn't pos
| sibIy succeed with him. But teoK him by the hand
a. once and Without any hesitation lea him 70 spot
| There stepped OF the walk, pulling HIM after me-
Then let go his hand, and feeling under the planks
| Of the walk found button which he had hidden ON
| a stringer He looked at me IN perfect smazsment
and EXCLAIMED. my God = Without another word he
| started away. subsequently, acting on his advice
Cornelius Aershon and his lawyers declined the test
| 1 was anxious TO apply 10 hm. Since then pubic
opinion mas driven entire Acrshon family out OF
the county and the State although tney valu-
| bic properly here" MH flnEE1f ltrNN Nri
$50 that would been an effort in the direction
| OF finding out . criminal. What your next
| essayW a0nt 3hls l44tl Jantts.sN tf fb
/ att m 4 mi a,Sus 0nna fi0u rtth h
the Harmon robbery, aud that has been very
| fulD f sAd nf
"Pray give me the iull particulars" f,..,1 n Ia
| al will give you all | can without violating any
trust attorney; Tor, this document will snow.
am now formally engaged BY tho Harmons as their
| COUNSEL"
Mr. spencer here handed me the following paper -
o. COUNTY q wv Poly
on S sh
:e s:s
for aus Us and sSsh enc Of US % appear as 'uch
any Of the state u Kentucky
a ~ %a n's either s a n
snail be hereafter parties hereby rauiyng
saa attorney tor ana n our
ay saa s
S s s' c ss
be rs.son..iy worsn; h.,.rn.o .,h.c-n. ou.
this osn oAy 0' Seeemoot' 100 wt h.r ia"i .ssN
aes tas ,s43s POLLY x HARMON
,as ;SHS SnJSr IL AxESSs. AIESS
| Attest:-A. McGINSIs, ELI X. MILLkN
| ssTnere's much In the harmon oass than peo.
pie suppose, continued Mr. Spencer after few msdt
tative pus al cigar, land I you now sone-
thihg lhatI have never told any one else and some
thing that newspaper has hithcrte bcen informed
| OIL To begin at the beginning, the Harmon family
VINO OLD fashioned people, iivssabout nine miles
from Bloomngton In Van Buren township, near the
little village oi stamford. q The family Consisted at
ho m o q ID. n old
man oil eightytnrcc, his vile Polly, who dcd week
ago last Friday evening, four unmarried daughters
the youngest OF whom Is iorty years old, and
son. Jonn aged thirty-three or thIrty-onr. Tue old
mal's mind Is sniesblsa, and wIh him thorsiore
have transacted no business Whatever Some timo
last April The ismiiy announced through the county
press and tner negnbers round about that they had
tried 10 the county justice to have NIL tho houses
in the neighoornood searched by legal process. but
The justice very properly refused the request
RELATIVES SUSPECTED
ssrheir suspicious were finally directed at William
ton. In another part OF the county and Andrew Cook,
who Postmaster during poftion oil Grants last
term Al little town IN Spencer county, Ky. Both
| Paul ana Cook Cousins OF the Harmons, ana 1t
seemed odd at lrst tuat either oi them should be
/ thought guilty Of such crime Paul Is finishing a
nns dwelling on hts farm, ana u happened that Was
recently employed there Us painter. Ny father was
u noussp ter before and iaught his trade, so,
US Paul was friend OF mine. engaged to 40 some
grainIng Tor h,m.
E- AN INDIAN TRADITION z nHsi
"There recolected y TRADITION 10 regard to old
treasure. Some years before couple Of Monroe
county mcn-Caleb Vernoy aud Bill Juvenal-rs-
turned from Oregon, having as they said, beon IN
formed by an old Indian chei there that an Indian
tribe had once deposited articles eI great value
a. the foot Of tree In this precise neigh
marked With hieroslyph,cs. vernoy and Javenai
sought for II In vain Wthin the last year, though
Paul had discovered u, and now remembered his
coming into Bloomington one day and showing
NUMBER oil the characters on piece which he hau
cut of from II, and asking me wnat they meant. His
idea was that inasmucn As Was short hand re-
porter would be abio TO dccipher any kind OF out
landsb marka or course failed. Paul, having
found the tree, kept his secret He told nobody Of
It's Whereabouts aud seldom ALLUDED 10 IL SO one
day at noon, while was resting IRON my work az
grainer turned TO hm anu asked, more Tor fun than
any thing else, whesher would lot take his
and lead him TO that trco he was keeping dark
abocL Ho consented at once, not dreaming that
In earnest The result WIS that seizod his hand
anu led MIN TO stump ana said -
!" 'There that's Tho stump OF your Indian treei'
al never saw man more CON pletely dumbiounded