The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-01
IT WAS PURIFIED BY FIRE.
TIE VILLAGE OF ELLENPILLE NO
LONGER VELED BY SATAN.

women In nm Abandoned Mining Shhnty
on Her nordor-Sundny Might IL Was
Burned-EvIdence OF IucendIarism.
ELLENvILLE Ulster County. June 90.-There
lie no moro beautiful village in the world than
that from which your correspondent now
writos 1t nestles in an extraordinarily fertile
valley. the alvey OF Ellonvic, In tho shadow
Of tho ShawanSunk Mountains, vordure-clad
with donse forests OF oak, hickory, chestnut,
elm. pine, and sugar maple trees. Up AMI
down the valley, north and south Of tho vii
lnGe. lie spread out carefully cultivated and
richly yielding fields OF wheat aud market
produce Through the northern end of the
village winds tho picturesque Rondout Creek.
gathering along its course to the Hudson the
almost innumerable sparkling creeks which
give the soil it's richness and the vegetation Its
unwonted depth oil green.
The village itself is loose cluster OF pretty.
substantial, Immediately kept homes. abun-
dainty shaded by oaks, clms, and sugar naples,
surrounded by ample grounds. and provided
with flower gardens ard fruit orchards. The
streets are wide, thicky lined with overarch-
Ing shade trees. delightfully."- cool, aud rs quiet
and echoess as streets In dreamland. At al
most every corner stands n church, its white
splre ascending out OF tho BOSOM OF the dense
green foliage. so many are these symbols OF
religion In Elenvlle-there is scarcely n sect
unrepresented-that. seen from some distant
perch in the mountains, the town might read
lily be mistaken by stranger for an ecclesas-
tical or conN entual community. On nearly
every corner where no church appears there is
n schoolhOuse
In this favored spot. amid these still idylic
scenes breathing this purest of mountain air.
inhalinG habitually this atmosphere of educa-
ton and religion. dwell the $500 PEOPLE who
ms la n tha SONAR God. tearnV. thrifty
muuity OF Ellenvlle. The men are for the most
part prosperous farmers. few Us n rule
moro prosperous still. are interested in tho
limestone quarries OF the county. A still fewer
number and those the, weaithiest OF all-Rre
men from New FORK. who have found ont tho
q place OF summer residence. have built hand
some villas. and have brought their families
The life OF the place could not easily be
imagined by any one who had not observed 1t.
tensey conservative. old fashioned. and SLOW"
far more SO than is usual even with farmers.
daylight II is solid and substantial in all its
ways Of living but excessively plain. 4 church
Ea' Il s hes as.p Of dy
alton Is attendance mt divine WORSHIP where
the sermons ,aIr very long; but the longer
II Is fond OF literature. but Buffers Analogy"
Taylor's Holy Living and DYING Baxter's
divinity OF the same heavy cast are the typo OF
literatmre to which it is most devoted.
more liberal in their mode Of existence being
for the most part natives OF Ellenville. The
few smmmer residents alone live after the
son tho farmers and the limestone men regard
them with MndisGuised dl.tavor. Their ad-
audacious and unwarrantable intrusion and an
unmitgated misfortune: and the gradual
inSHss Of mingled wrath and despair. Il is said
that tho native element has now taken such
S aon h1 IS no 6r
mer villa nearer than mile and a half OF the
village. The one or two villagers whose thrift
houses for the reception Of summer boarders
are regarded pretty much rs renegades
plinary ordeal closely resembling ostrac!sm.
But these trihulauons wore as nothing com.
pared with another which vcXed the natives OF
Ellenyille. To-day, however. Ell enville broathOI
more freely. She has i'eraliy plncked the
extracton is is yisI6iy Iictured In The counte
nances of MI her people
About eight years ago some startlingIy en-
COPPER and lead ut the base OF tho Shawan-
gMnk Mountains, immediately opposite The
two-story building Of rude construction. about
sixty feet long by forty wide, was erected
This now departure,L in ElenvIle industry was
OF brief Duration The enternrlse which had
miners was dispersed. and nothing ,remEiDed
but the great cavernous opening in the side OF
the mountain and the big, bare, deserted
shanty.
There is no oneler or moro Gruesome srot
in the valley or The mo ot than this mine
drods Of Yards dsant and dense woods "5i n and
moro impenerable aud complete. Above the |
shanty towers the mountain darkly wooded,
ss Nn6odH we
rude. makeshift house, and it remained unten-
a IN a n n n
sadly illuminated condition. there came In rs
.ccupants-where from nobody knOws-a fam |
but $Guattsd thore- T'i fS'Her. mother. and
II WAS some time before the people Of Ellen
vile heard snyth!pg from IN these new neigh
shocked and scandazed beyond oil express
sion, What they heard was. that the queer |
%d sd ys19T syfEy Fiat ri e
OF the morning something Ike pandemonium |
reiGned in ina, That rpInous shenty. 1t was not
were not SANDER, but the exact truth. ,
this INSURED discovery: They were. in fact,
pnraly2ed1so paralyzsl that they were iincunn-
They did nothing except tell their Young sons
aHa tier Of IL he
and engthcn and mako more iervent the petit
tons which wore offered IN prayer meeting for
prayers. however seemed to have no elect
upon the gOinG3-on in the shanty. On the con-
trary. things there went from bad to worse
Tho family character which tho occupants
had horne at first vanished altogether. The
"father," disappearesd. and the regular day in.
and numbered not loss than fifteen. At might
they wero Joined by fifteen or more men from
the boats on the neGhboring Delaware and
Hudson Canal II was supposed, and heir or
gle. Poesm7 les and loss rTestrnnea The
bonrds of tho ioor, OF ribaid songs OF dnboIi.
cal shouts and screeches, pierced the screen Of
tine forest. shook tho yirtuous DEMONS OF FL
lenvllle ont Of their dreams. and mado them
think that the Kingdom OF Satan had come
on earth. 49,
But that Is all over now. The Kingdom OF
Satan has been overthrown. Was 1t the
stnunch Christian people of l;llenyille. reused
nj last from their inactivity. who did it? That
Is the question which yeASs tho, stranger
within the gates Of Ellenville, and when he
asks native smile or AL evasion Is the only
ropy he gets.
At midnight last night tho bells OF all the
big lot Of bells, rang with all their
might and main for fire. Fire Is almost an nm
known quantity In Ellenvile md for that very
reason when one does occur all the neople turn
I'm hA will rpu aiT l.