The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-03
MYSTERY.

The Weeping Tree of BrownSvllle-A Nut
for Scientists to Crack.
ritsbWr0h Chronicle. Telegraph
On Walnut street, Brownsville, over.
looking tho Monongahela river and di.
rectly opposite the house where james
&. Blaine was born, dwell Mr.. and
Mrs. Goe. Behind their house is a
garden on the hillside, in which grow
several peach and cherry trees, about
which there never appeared to be any
thing remarkable until n month ago.
1t was noon on a day in the end OF
September that Mrs. Goo had occasion
to go outside to hangup ono clothes to
dry in the sun. Passing near one otthe
peach trees she was astonished to feel u
line rain falling. Overhead the sky was
intensely blue, and not n cloud in sight,
yet the drops were OH her face. Under
foot the grass was whitening in the
drought and the earth was caked, and
yet she heard the patter Of tho rain
drops among the leaves. At dinner
time che toldhor husband, who laughed
at her, and so the story dropped. Dur.
ing the afternoon, however, several
neighbors were informed. They visited
the tree, only to find that the ram could
| be seer from the roadway. II seemed
10 fall from some height above tho tree,
| and covered an area OF about fourteen
feet square.
In the evening Mr.. Goo was again at.
tackled on the subject, visited the tree,
saw the rain and believed. The news
spread and crowds came to view the
raining tree. Some people thought
that tho drops resembled tears moro
than rain, as tho shower was never
very heavy. In tho evening, as tho
darkness grow, people sat around and
heard the slow drip, drip, until it was
as generally called the weeping" US
the training tree" Toward morning
It ceased. II appeared always to be
heaviest during the hottest part OF tho
day. 1t never dampened tho ground
on which 1t foil. The leaves were
unduly moist, and yet the patter OF the
drops could DO heard, and the falling
shower shonc in tho sunlight, although
there was mover a cloud in sight.
Then one day II happened that O
granger, who had come to sec tho
famous tree, took up O certain p~osltionN
that throw tho sunshine on tho rain SO
that the prismatic Colors were
Instantly tho nows went round that
Mrs. Goo has n private rainbow In her
garden" and the crowds who visited
tho place became moro donso. AS sto.
rius will grow, a sun, moon and three
stars woro added by popular rumor to
tho list Of curiosities in Mrs. Coos
garden, but the rainbow and tho weep.
Inr tree woro tho only phenomena on
view, Many wore tho conicCtures made
ns TO tho reason OF tho falling moisture,
md In tho month during which II
continued enough folk lore, superstition
md tradition sometimes bearing an the
subject and sometimes wholly irrolo.
vnnt were poured into Mrs, Goes Uar.
People advised her to dig beneath tho
treO because there must DO treasure
LhOru. Others Hald: "No, some ono
has hocn murdered here long ago"
Tho old colorOd gentleman, who Is well
known In tho vicinity, said that thOrg
was only ono reason for tho rain and
n uso for tho tree. Bits Of II, he as.
serted, would provo invaluable az
d~ivining rods for finding water, aud he
based his assertion oil tho iact THAT do
rain want dnrO fur muffin"
Hut although curious crowds camo
and tho tree was Il forty days wonder,
Mr., Goo never touched Il, aud tho
myalcry II covers Ia still unOolvod.
Four days ago tho tain stopped 40