News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-13
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ALL ABOUT US.
A Sane Woman Locked Up For Five Years
The Indian Sisnals-The Dog and the
Horse-FOund in an Old Desk-Charnis i'm
Belgium-A Kentucky Hen, &c, SC:

sane Woman Locked Up For Five Year
The Indian Sisnals-Ths Dog and th
Horse-FOund in an Old Desk-Charnis fl
Beigium-A Kentucky Hen, &C., sc:
A FARMER of Pellettown, SUSSEX
county; N. j., has adopted method d
catching ground hogs which will prob
ably draw the attention of the Societ,
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails to his case. He catches a lane
turtle, which are numerous in tha
locality. Through its shell at the tai
end he bores small hole. Taking {
ball of candle wick, he unwinds foo
or so of the wick and then fastens it sc
no more will unwind. Tying the enc
through the hole in the turtles shell; b,
saturates the bali with kerosene. TAX
ing the turtle to the mouth Gf d grouhc
hogs hole, he puts it in and touches {
match to the saturated candle wick
The heat from the burning ball star
the turtle INTO the hole in hurry, anc
keeps it going. The fiery procession
alarms the ground hog, and in yer.
few seconds he comes tear ing from thu
hole, and falls an easy victim to th'
hunter When the turtle reaches the
limit of the hole, being still prompted
onward by the fire in the rear, he turns
and marches back again; and when be
energies from the hole the burning bal
is removed, and he is given rest until
wanted for the chase another day. Thi.
system of hunting grounu hogs is said to
have revolutionized the sport in that
part of Jersey, all the famous ground.
hog slayers having adopted it.
PROCEEDINGS were instituted in Mon
treal on behalf of a woman at present
confined in Tongue Pointe Asylum,
which inlay prove to be as startling and
interesting as the Rose LYMAN case:
Her name is Mary Power, and she came
to Montreal a few years ago, from
Youghall, Ireland, having thirty thou
sand dollars. Five years ago she was
confined, on application of her son and
curator of her estate, who together are
now handling he property. Her sister
in Ireland, hearil of the fact of her in
generation at once came over, arriving
a week ago. She, proceeded to the asy-
lufh where her slfS;sr was confined, the
latter exclaimed ''Oh; Helen; how
thankful am you have come. Get me
out of this place. l am not insane. "
The sister summoned several of the most
prominent physiciaE<iin the city, who,
in company with the asylum physicians,
both resident and visiting, unanimously
declared the woman to be perfectly
sane. The petition TX her release was
presented, and the wfN>,yas ordered to
issue Immediately. Thg unfortunate
woman has been kept in close confine-
ment for the past five years, and treated
as ravipg maniac and allowed no inter
course with the outside werld. She has
many relatives of the same name in New
York city and Boston, who have believed
her dead until this time.
CURES, charms, and all kinds of good
luck are believed by peasants in Franco
and Belgium to lie concealed In the
strans of a rope that has hanged man.
Some little time ago woodchopper in a
forest near Gand, in Belgium, found the
body of a suicide who had shot himself.
5g 56 gDbbddi4teIY f8bd tle wept h9ns ne pros. Pg9auEed red.
neck, and made it fast to limb of a
tree, suspending the body. Then he
called all his neighbors to the spot, cut
down the body, and proceeded to auc-
ton the rope. The affair was a great
success, and the woodchopper pocketed
the price of several sprees. The official
into the affair, however,
put him in, fix. He was obliged to
confess, and now, on the ground that
the rope is worthless, because it did not
suspend the man before he died, some
of his neighbors are suing him to re-
cover their money. His defense is that
it is simply from the Suspension of the
dead body that the supernatural powers
of the rope are derived that the hemp
is perfectly good and full of the desired
charms, and that consequently he gave
full value for the money.
THE Apachas have smoke signals by
day and fire beacons at night, and sys-
TENS of telegraphy understood only by
themselves. The displacement and over
turning Of o few stones on a trail, or q
bent or broken twig, is note of warning
like the bugle call to disciplined troops.
The many crosses dotting the roadsides
of Arizona and New Mexico mark the
graves of murdered men. '"The country
seems one vast graveyard" writes Susan
E. Wallace, ''if we may judge by the
frequency of these rude memorials. "
Trained by their mothers to theft and
murder from childhood, they are Injured
to all extremes of heat and cold, hunger
and thirst: They are cunning as the red
fox, insatiate as tigers, and so ingenioiis
in preparing for surprises that they will
envelop themselves in gray blanket
and sprinkle it carefully with earth, SO
as to resemble a granite boulder, to be
passed within a few feet without sus-
picion. Again, they will cover them
selves with fresh grass, and, lying mo-
tionless, appear as natural portion OF
the field:
A HORSE which once attracted great
attention in the streets of New York fell
lame, and was sent to the country, Sc
Turf, Field, and Farm tells us. There
he formed the acquaintance of dog-a
cross between the St. Bernard and New
foundland-and the two soon became
very fond of each other. When the
horse died straw was spread over his
body until pit could be dug. The dog
sc emed to be diseonsolate. He ran oil
to neighbor's house where his brother
had home, and an hour later the two
dogs were seen to approach the carcass.
They carefully removed the straw from
the body, squatted down, one at the
head and the other at the tail, and how1ed
mournfully, then recovered the remains,
and crept silently away. The workmen
who witnessed the scene were strangely
moved by it, and they insist that it was
one of the saddest and most touching OF
ceremonies. The dead was placed out
of sight, but the dog often paid visit to
the grave.
TWENTY years ago prominent citi-
zen of Raleigh, N. c., purchased an old
desk. He, after u while ceased to use
it, and broke it up. To his surprise he
discovered secret drawer. Out of this
fell piles of money. Some OF the bills
were moth-eaten and dingy, while Others
were fresh and clear. There were thou
sands of dollars of the currency. 1t was
in many cases issued under the authority
of Congress, in session at Halifax, N. q.
The denominations of the bills were
from So to $50. In some the value was
expressed in pounds, shillings and
pence. 1t was all what was known as
q Continental currency" and must have
been placed in the secret repository dur,
ing or Just after the Revolutionary war
A reporter was shown quantities of the
money.
THE Imperial Government gave the
city of Toronto three hundred acres Of
the garrison reserve for public park
on the sole condition that it should bt
fenced in; the condition was not OBJ
served by the city, and when the Cana
dian Government took possession of the
garrison property, it revoked the grant
for the on-fulfillment of the contract