Year: 1877

Do SPIRITS CoMMUNIoArE?- ?-1f the
skertically disposed are prone to question
the following story of ghostly communication,
we refer them to the editor of tho Oswego
Times: In village in Oswego county, says
that journal, there resides an Intelligent
widow whose husband was Methodist cler.
gyman. A few years ago she lost much
beloved daus hter, a young lady at the time,
whose remains were deposited in the village
churchyard. The mother was fora long time
lnconsolable, and against the remonstrances
OF friends, was in the daily practice of visit
ing aad weeping over the grave of her
daughter. This she would do no matter
how inclement tho wea,h and har .v,,
hn"''h wos snriNa0ly imrarilad ny tb;s oen-sa
One day, after she was. apparcled for her
daily visit to the graveyard, all at once her
daughter, Just as she appeared when in full
health, stood beside her, and looking into
her mothers face said swcetly and as natu-
rally as she had ever spoken, Mother why
do you risk your health by these unseason-
able visits to the graveyard? I am not
there. 1t is only the dust Of the human
form that meulders there. The spirit which
you loved IS in a far happier state Of exist
ence than when held and fettered by that
dust over which you shed unavail:ns tealsl
Your duty, dear mother, is to tho living, not
to your dead daughter, who has been made
far happier by this great change which soon
all must meet And after few consola-
tory remarks the daughter vanished from
sight as suddenly as she came. Now con-
cludss the Times, this lady reports this as
having positively occurred. She was not
dreaming, because she,was not sleeping, but
attired for her daily visit to her daughters
grave, and in moment moro would have
been on her way to the cemetery





BUTLER "GoING WEsT."- "-Washington
May 26.-Genegal Butler always has sur.
prise of some kind in store for the public,
and now he is "going West" 1t is said
to>n!sht that he intends emigrating to Col
orado, turn sheep farmer and come to Con-
gress as Senator Of the Centennial State
1t will be remembered that the Supreme
Court recently awarded to Colonel Craig,
the patent or title of an extensive tract of
land in Colorado, which mad long been in
dispute. The story runs that General But
Ter has purchased from Colonel Craig "a, 900
acres OF this estate, aud that as soon as he
can arrange some of his private business he
intends to settle upon it and engage in cat
tie raising.


Forney's Chronicle explains his motives
in the following editorial "The fact is New
England spolitically worn out, or rather the
appreciation of its people, and in conse-
quence her limits are getting very narrow
and contracted. What Butler wants is room
and fresh air, and Colorado is just the place
to find these two essentials to human hap
piness. The chances of politics are seven
ty-tive per cent better there than in Mas
sachusetts, anu this is weighty considera-
ton to man who hates criticism and news
paper men as the devil does Christianity
The healthy recreation of cattle raising is
another inducement, and will 60 great way
toward tempering the humor of the old man
for the new honors that are sure to welcome
such as he. Two years residence in Cola
RADIO destroys all the identity of carpet
Dagger, and entities man 10 all the privi-
leges and rights of those to the manor born


General Butler is yet young man, and
thrown into new country with money
enough to become large land downer, coup
led with his extraordinary ability and per-
severance, there is no telling tho effect of
the transformation his presence will produce
both in the substantial wealth and politics
of the State. The people would soon sec
this, and be quick to recognize it by confer
ring upon him the highest honors in their
gift. We, therefore, predict that General
Butler will be one of the next new United
States Senators from Colorado, and the mo-
ment he is the State will become one of the
most prominent in the Union"