Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-26
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. DELUDED BY HER CREED A Woman Swallows Par
 is Green TO ENTER THE SPIRIT LAND. A Dark Tragedy in Mas
 sachusetts. CLEVELAND AND HIS GARNET. Mcdonald Booked For A
 Place.
TO ENTER THE SPIRIT LAND.
CLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET.
cRAzED BY sP1R1rUAL,sm.

A Woman Goes to Join she Spirits The Dark Tragedy Enacted Among The Hills of Western Massachusetts. WEsTFTELD, Mass, Nov. 25.-On lonely
 road winding around Mont Tekea in the town of Montgomery, six miles north of this busy mart of whips and cigars, stands a weather
 beaten farm house of the type so frequently
 seen by travellers over the western Massa-
 last week tragedy that had it's parallel a
 few years ago at Poeasset in the killing of
 his little daughter by the fanatic Freeman
 There, with no neighbors nearer than mile, have lived for two decades Isaac E. Bronson and his wife. The husband, aged about fifty, and his wife, ten years or more his junior, always dwelt happily to- gether and had a family of seven sons and daughters, the oldest about twenty one, the youngest two weeks Their home has been for long period the favorite re- sort for believers in spiritualisn in the hill towns of Montgomery, Washington, Hunt ington and other farming hamlets round about, and not only were the Bronson family firm in the faith, but the husband and father is an elder and expounder among the sect. Mrs. Bronson was woman of consider able energy, but thoroughly indoctrinated with spiritualistie belief and practices. One evening
 last week after her husband had gone to bed she came into the room and asked if he would feel very bad if her spirit was to go out of it's mortal frame and only be with him on the occasion of her visits from the spirit land. He told her he would not grieve if it was the will of God. Then as calmly as if announcing her intention to sleep the wife told the husband that. desiring to be rid of the burdens and pains of the body she had swallowed two spoonfuls of Paris
 green, and in few hours her spirit would
 depart to return often to him from the spirit world. She asked him to watch by her until
 the spirit had burst it's earthly bonds and all
 the long hours of the night he kept faithful vigil by the bedside of the woman he loved,
 watching the spark of life flicker
 fainter and fainter At times
 her excruciating agony drew tears
 from his eyes, but he called none of the fam
 fly. At nearly daybreak without awakening
 the children he went to the house of his
 nearest neighbors who are spiritualists and
 rousing them up told the woman of the
 house of the condition of his wife and the
 cause and urged her to hasten at once to
 witness ''the departure of the spirit" When
 Bronson's house was reached the visitor
 aroused the children and medical assistance
 was summoned, but before the physician could get to the house Mrs. Bronson was dead
 The husband unhesitatingly told the story of his wife's death to eager questioners with no more signs of sorrow on his expression
 less face or in his calm grey eyes than if the matter had been an every day occurrence. When asked why he did not endeavor to
 save her life his reply was, ttHer spirit was
 her own. She had the right to release it from
 the body" He was indirectly told that peo- pie might hold him responsible for his wife's death, but to such allusions he replied,
 ''Her spirit was her own! Her spirit was her own" Finally it was plainly said to
 him that some might think his hand admin
 istefed the fatal draught and hold him to be murderer. He strengthened his long, gaunt body to it's full height and for an instant flashed across his face a ghastly whiteness
 and into his eyes asudden gleam of interest, then with calm voice and stoical manner he answered, Eff they think that wish they would hang me at once.''
 The authorities of the town of Montgom- cry, within whose boundary the tragedy oc- cured, were notified, but could do nothing save to call upon the medical examiner of the district, Dr. J. H. Waterman, of West field, who after making an examination is
 sued permit for burial. It was a wild weird scene, the funeral on that secluded mountain side the calm-visaged husband and spiritual cider surrounded by his chil- dren and religious followers paying the last sad rites to the body of the devoted wife and mother Tears were few if any, for the chief mourners seemed to feel that no cause was there for sorrow but rather for joy, that another spirit had burst it's bonds and found it's heaven of rest. Not among ignorant foreign element" that is fast taking possession of abandoned farms on the mountain slopes of the western countries
 and turning them into productive homes did \ this tragedy occur, but among those whose ! whole lives have been spent amidst New England civilization and culture. If one would seek atmosphere of narrow < minded fanaticism nowhere better could it I be found than in the secluded farming ham, l lets of western Massachusetts. With few | neighbors and fewer pleasures the minds of ! the soil-tillers become warped and dwarfed ' and all sorts of isms are gladly welcomed by \ some, while others seek relief in opium, \ against which the country doctors have their hardest fights and which they say \ is fast growing evil they can not success l fully combat. Sad, indeed, is the decadence | of the hill-town farming communities caused ! by the drawing away of the progressive ele- 1 ments to the larger towns and cities and by I the lack of social pleasures