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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. } VOLUME 10. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 15, L8T6. NUMBER 22 SWAPPING SOULS. A MAR YELLO US STOR K The Immortaj, Bowes of Two Men, dying at .oltosite portions of the Globe, Seek Different Earthly Habitations. Members of tho Medico-Legal Society of New York arc astounded at tho present time hy tho following remarkable events, the intelligence of which has just reached them : By the direction of the Emperor of Russia, a scientific investigation is now going oh into the most astound ing case of metempsychosis, or wandering of the human soul from -one body into another, that has ever b"een known to the world. The inst ance referred to is vouched for by the Medical Weekly Journal of St. Peters ?burg, by a newspaper printed at New .Westminster, British Columbia, by ?the imperial governor of Orenburg, 'by Professor Orlow, of St. Petersburg, 4ind by aovcral gentlemen of New "Yoik, to whom Orlow told the strange story about nine months ago, and who 'themselves had an opportuuity to see :aUd converse with the two meu whose souls are alleged to have been so 'miraculously interchanged. Hn September, 1874, in Orenburg. Russia, ihere lay sick with typhoid fever a wealtlhy-Jew by the-name of Abraham Clbttrkoy, a native of the place, known to everybody, married, ?nd father of several children, On the 22d day of that month he seemed io be dying. At midnight he suffered greatly, aud the physician pronoun tied him in the agonies of death. A number of Jews were called in, ?s is cuatoinary, prayer* were said Vax candles lit, the wife and children ?_, ^vcro sorrnw&l 1 ly\_3\ee,p.:n^-wver{thqi\/L ?iiereavcment, when .unhleniy the sick :3imn gave u tremendous jerk, heaved hi deep sigh, began to Ivreathe freely, 'opened 'his eyes and looked with 'amazement at the doings *of the people ?unnnfd liiWr, *Aid then fell asleep. 'The ijflvysk^nHnttofcnccd that now all ?/raWgtfr \VAM?o\?cf% lip >KspVthrough 'the night, but what happened in the ?norning w?S nvostWxiftdefl'ul. When 5ie awoke he defused to recognize either his Wife or children, And push Hid them away in anger when they ?came near him. Besides, he spoke a language noire could understand. Previously he had known only a cor rupted mixture of German and Ho* *>rew, and some little Russian,but how when addressed he scqmed not to Understand a word. In a week he was Well enough to leave the bed, but ?utterly refused to wear hi.s customary clothes. The physicians unanimously pronounced him insane. In appear ance he had not changed. He was the same tall, lean man, with dark, I ?curling locks of hair, lon;j black heard, | <ind a dark, furrowed line across his forehead. Yet he spoke an unintelli gible language, refused to know his family, and even his father and mother appeared a.s perfect strangers to him, By chance one dny he be held himself in a mirror, and a fear ful shriek escaped his lips. lie touch ed and pulled at his long, Oriental nose, he felt his long, black curls, his flowing black beard, and with a scream he fell to the floor as in a swoon. The case caused great excite ment, and a Aill report was made to the medical section of the Ministry of the Intel ior of St. Petersburg. Tho order went out to Orenburg to send the Jew and his family, Iiis parents und the other witnesses at once to St. Petersburg, to bo examined hy the medical faculty. Tho examination was conducted by Professor Orlow, one of the most learned men of Russia. The astonishment of the professor may be imagined, when ho found that his ii liter at 3 jew from Orenburg spoke pure, idiomatic English with fluency and even with some elegance, that lie wrote it gramatically and orthogra phically correct, while Iiis family and parents insisted vehemently that Abraham never in his life spoke any thing else but a German-Jewish jar gon and some Russian, aud could ? i ?i ? . ?. -I . . ? -~: never write otherwise than in Jewish characters. Still more cause for tho professor's wondermont Was the state ment of the JeW himself in English that ho was not Abraham Charkoy nt nil, that tlioso who pretended to be his wife and children and his parents wero total strangers to him, that he was not a native of Orenburg, never lived there, did not know how he got J thctv, that be was not even a Russian, but an Englishman named Abraliam Durham, born in the town of New Westminster, in British Columbia, where he resided as a fur dealer, and where ho had a wife and one child living; that from somo inexplicable cause he found himself changed-in appearance, that he is.naturally small in stature, stout in body, with lair complexion, and . blonde hair and whiskers. Tho professor nud his associated doctors did not know what to make of him, siuco he appeared to them a very intelligent ad educated English man,* while the woman, her children, and the other witnesses claimed him as the illiterate Russo Jew, Abraham Charkoy. But while the matter was being further investi gated, and the eutirc family kept In close confinement in St. Petersburg, Abraham was niissiug oue morning, having escaped, on hoard of an Eng lish ship bound for Hull. Tho case was quietly dropped after his flight; but subsequent events were still more wonderful. Iu 1875, Professor Orlow, was sent to America by the'Russian' Government, to make inquiries coti-: . ccrning the International Exhibition.' While in this city he found in a Now York paper, copied from the Now Westminster Press of British Colum bia, the following startling account: "In New Westminster an occur rence recently took pl?tte, Which caus ed jgveft't sensation throughout-- tjm whohv territory 01 On tho t'ld day of September, 1874. a fur-dealer of said city was in n dying condition) suffering from typhoid feVer?, und no one, not even his physi cian; seemed to entertain any hope as I to tfte possibility of his recovery. Nevertheless the patient rallied ami hilly recovered, But wonderful to rulntxji, the patient, who was an intclli j gent English man, had forgotten his mother tongue and speaks a language which is understood by no oue around him, but which at last is recognized by au inhabitant of the city to boa jargon of bad Jewish-German. The patient before his sickness a short, stout fellow and a blonde, is now thin and lean likn a stick, refuses 4.o recog nize his wife, and child, but insists that he has a wife aud several child ren .somewhere else; the man is believ ed to be insane. All at once ;t Euro petiti traveller artives, marked with a genuine Hebrew face, and claims to be the husband of the wife of the fur dealer. He speaks to the noman in the same language her husband was wont to speak to her; he gives her and even his parents, who live in said city, but who, of course, do not recog nize him as their son, the most detail ed and minutest description ol bygono events, ami insists upon being the wo man's husband and the parents'son. The poor woman is almost in peril of her reason, the effect of the trying ordeal.. She incessantly asks: "Who is this fellow ? How docs he cohio to claim to be my husband ?" When she hears him speak and does not look at his figure, she is ready to think that he is her husband, but as soon as she looks nt him, the spoil is broken; for surely, this stranger with the Jewish face can not be her hus band, whom she just nursed in his sickness. But the man continues to press his claim, and tells her the most delicate and secret facts, evidently known only to husband and wife." Professor Orlow read and re-read this account, and tho thought struck him that this seemingly impossiblo occurrence may havo some connection with tho strikingly similar case of tho Orenburg Jew, Abraham Charkoy, tho investigation of which had so puzzled him at St. Petersburg. He sent a brief extract of it to the home minister of Russia, and asked per mission to go to British Columbia and continue his oXnmiontun (here. Leave was granted him, and June last found : htm at New Westminster. There, to his utter surprise,he found the same man, lank, Mack-haired, black-whiskered Orcilgburg Jow, Abraham Charkoy, who had escaped from St. Petersburg, but now claim ing to be Abraham Durham. And there he found also tho very repre sentative of lire man described to him. by the Jew as he ought to look?a man Email in stature,.stout in body, with a fair complexion and blonde hair, whom,all his neighbors and his wife and child said Was Abraham Durham, ?anv-intcUigeut,'' ediHated Englishman, hue who/since hvi par oxyism of the 22d flay of September, 1874, at. high :noou, had seemingly forgotten all his knowledge (f tho English '.'language, and was since speaking in a tongue none could understand. Addressing, him the professor nt' once ascertained him to speak the Jewish-German dialect pre valent at Orenburg, and asking him who he. was tho man promptly repli ed that his name was Abraham Charkoy, a Jewish trader of means, : born and residing At Orcngburg, in Russia, where his parents still lived, giving their correct names, stating also that bo had A wife and three children there, describing them- min utely by name and features. There was at that moment a nonplussed pro fcisoi\ There was evidently no fraud in tho matter, because each of the two meu was exceedingly earnest in his assertion that he was not himself, hut the other man. A strange cifciiin stance was also that the change in both occurred precisely on the same day, tho22d of September, l874;both were sick with typhoid, and both pre sumed to be in the agonies of death. ?T/h o ?*. is t a hco betweon Q i en h w rjg and - . New Westminister ?I aboti t id tie tlioU3^' und miles, but the two places arc di rectly opposite each other-, direct anti podes. Hcucc Professor Orlow came lo the conclusion that if such ft thing as met cm psychosis or the transmigra tion of souls from one human body to another he within the range of possi bilities, ihe case of the two Abrahams in Russia and America seems to he an evidence of it, since tho soul-life or inner consciousness of the one has been Completely changed to that of the other without any outward change in the njmcarancc of the men. lie was still more inclined to this belief troth the fact that not only the day, but the very moment of the change in the two men agreed. The Russian Buffered his change'on the 22d of Sep tember, 187-1, at precisely midnight; the Englishman in British Columbia underwent a like transformation on the same day at noon, and the differ ence ol time and longitude i3 such that when it is midnight at Orenburg it is noon at New Westminster. May not the cause for these occurrences be found in some as yet undiscovered in fluence of terrestrial magnetism, was one of the thoughts of the learned pro fessor, and he concluded to make ex haustive inquiries into the affair. For this purpose he prevailed upon both men to accompany him to Russia, which they did, remaining for some days in this city, where the professor finished the work for which he was originally sent to this country by his government. While there Prof. Or low told the account to several gentle men whose acquaintance he had made, and they also spoke lo tho two mixed up Abrahams, coming to the same conclusion with tho professor that hero indeed was a case wholly ine x plicablo to any known law of nature. Since last November Prof, Orlow and* j the two wonders of the age have been at St. Petersburg, where tho inquiry is progressing slowly. Edward Dohm, a conductor on tho Michigan Central railroad, has gono mad with joy on discovering that his wife had unexpectedly inherited a fortune of $250,000. A resident of Gloucester, Mass., is preparing to cross tho Atlantic nlonc in a sloop-rigged boat fiftcon lang, five and a half feet wido aud a half feet deep. Thoughts for tho month. During tho last ten years there lias been a decided disposition to lay by crops too early. Sambo wants to give them tho least ams?ri t of labor possible, and landlords are anxious to curtailexpenses as much as they can. Whatever the motive, the policy is a bad oue. Crops should have undis puted possession of the laud until they vix& fully matured, and whatever work is necessary to fcecure this,, should bo given them. So far as ploughing goes, a corn crop is all the. better vofl*for an early "laying by," Lf clean ,aud well worked up to time of "bunching"?for a little hoe work will keep it clean after that, but cot ton should be worked just as long as a plough can pass through it without breaking off the limbs. All upland crops should be "laid by" with the surface of the ground us flat and free from ridges as practic able. Now, that manuring and en riching our lands is the order of tho day, it is worse thau folly to let them wash away. If corn was planted in ;water furrow, enough dirt will have been thrown to it in previous work ings, and no necessity for hilling will exiqt. Cotton beds, if the crop has bech cultivated, after tho first or second ploughing, with sweep, wi'l pretty,.well disappear by August, and, though the surfuce be clean and loose ?cpnditious favorable to washing? very little will lake place. Moreover, this cleau, flat surface will be admir ably adapted to receive a seeding down of oats in September. To this Intter point we beg to call the reader's attention note, that he may think about and prepare for it. We have just harvested as fine a crop of oats as wc ever grew, made by sowing the jjte^^i?^vcottou field iu September, 1m<T^R??ng ? 3ne -furrow of a three foot hUrnow in each middle. Just think of the small amount of labor such a crop involves?a hand can sow down and cover some five acres in a day! We will recur to this again, however, next mouth. Peas should always be sown broad cast when laying by corn, if not pre viously planted iu the corn. They may take a little food away from the corn, but uotbiug like what jyras* would, and for any loss thus produced they return a four-fold equivalent in the food they yield and enrichment of the land. No opportunity should ever be lost on a farm to get in one of these nitrogen gathering crops, like peas. Remember a good suppy of available nitrogen is tho foundation of of a good grain crop. Go carefully over the cotton fields now and kill all grass; tho bunches are large enough now to be easily seen, and later, when the cotton is larger, it will be more difficult to hoe among it. Kvery year's experience and observation confirms the opinion heretofore expressed, that by proper care crab-grit** can be banished from fields where its presence is not desir ed. If a cotton field is laid by per fectly clean and grass not allowed to sf.cd i? it, little or no grass will appear in it the next year, and in a short time any original stock of grass seed which may have been in the soil will become exhausted. Just think of the diminished labor of making a cotton crop, if crab-grass was out of the way ! Is ii not worth an effort to do this??will not a little additional hoe ing now save manifold in the matter of hoeing another year ? As cotton has now commenced to fruit freely, tho working given it should be at longer iuterva's, as it is now desirable to check gently the growth of icced and turn tho forces of the plant into fruit making. Rapid growth and fruiting seldom go to gether. Rapid growth from timo of coming up to tho time of blooming? then slowly decreasing growth, finally ceasing about tho first of September, are the ideal conditions of a large cotton crop. Of courso the seasons have much to do with it, but tho far mer can control the mutter somewhat by the manner of working lhc crop. SWEET POTATO KS. Keep these clear of grass, aud see that the vines do not toko roos in the middles. When this occurs numer ous, small tubers arc formed frf the expense of the mxiu crop-. If the ground is wet a fair crop may h&] made by throwing up a bed, ojaosuug a furrow on top of it and laying vines in it, say 3 or 4 side by side, and covering them at intervals, leavin? spaces some 6 inches wide uncovered ?18 inches apart. This may be done, with the early varieties, as late as the 20th of the mouth?with ordi nary varieties, not latter than the first week of July. tu un i p.S. Have land ready to sow rutabagas towards the latter part of this month. Remember that very fine tilth is essen tial to a turnip crop. The rutabaga is greatly preferable to all other turnips as stock feed ?being hardier and more nutritious than other varieties. In this con nection we would suggest a trial of the old fashioned ? long collard* asa crop for stock feed?especially milk cows. Plants may be set out as late as first of August, and, on good land, will mako an immense amount of nutritious food. A similar plant, called eme cabbage, is largely raised as cattle food in the Jersey Islands and in Portugal. Buttoned shoes without heels are seen on the most stylish children. Dress suits for girls just in their teens arc shown in colored grenadines buinmer silks, and in whito lawn em broidered. Instead of sailor waists, the long waisted blouse is now laid in side plait", and finished with a belt or else worn with a sash. Many mothers arc rcturniug to white stockings, and cream colored or unbleached Balbriggaus are cho* sen in preference to all others. Dark solid colored stockings are preferred to striped ones. Dark blue, clocked or embroidered with white or with red up each side,are shown in lisle thread and in raw silk. Among newly imported garmeuts arc sack aprons, such as French chil dren have always worn. They arc cut in sack shape, half high and square in the neck, and are without sleeves. Girls polonaises are all buttoned I behind. These are made in very' straight and plain designs, and show j a return to the simplicity that used j to belong to the clothing of young j girls and children. Boye still iu short clothes wear lang waisted plaited blouse and kilt shirts. Bjft light summer clothes of gray, brown, or blue, also shepherd's j check of black aud white twill, are 1 the woolen materials used for these suits. The boy's hat is a sailor shape, and the hair is worn in page style, with the front drooping over the forehead. Swiss straw lmts lor boys come iu the sailor shape, also in Derby shapes, with round high crown and stiff* curl ed brim. Inlauts' long robes are from a yard to a yard and a quarter long, nnd the preference is given to those trimmed around the bottom iu rows of tucks, insertion, and lace rather than those with "robed" fronts trimmed from top to bottom. Beautiful aud fiuc yoke slips of whito muslin, uecdlc-wovked, are im ported for children just putting on short clothes. The small sized have clusters of fine tucks and embroidery above the hem, while th*e yoke is made of lengthwise tucks and rows of needlework. The Ceutounial sash of rod, white, and blue ribbon six or aovon inches wide is one of the patriotic fancies of the year. It costs $1.72 n. yard, aud is worn tied low down around the hips, with two dcop loops aud onds hanging behind iustend of a stiff bow. 'Now, waitor, what's to pay?' ?What havo you had, sir !' 'Threi fish.' 'Only brought up two, sir.' 'J hod three?two t?out, and one smelt. In what key would a lover write a ? proposal of raarriage-r=Be mine, ah ! A Buffalo lawyer sued the Express for $5,000 for calling him a 'shyster/ and a. jury awarded. kirn. ?^5. New York eity directory* t>r 1876, contaius 250,000 names, against 850 iu the directory ninety years ago. 'Will the coming man steal?" asks the Chicago Times. Probably not. There won't be anything for the poor fellow to take. Girls over twelve years wear their dress skirts to reach to their ankles. Those below twelve years wear short er skirts, falliug well over the knee, and showing two or threo inches of the stocking above the boots. The drawers are not seen below the skirts, uo matter what's the child's ago. Grain Cradles. Western Corn. Six finger grain cradles just received Another car load of PRIME CORN, which is offered at low prices for Cash. AUGUSTA EAMILY FLOUR. FRESH BEAT RICE, &c., for sat.e by JOHN A. HAMILTON, JOHN O Gr HE N successor op ROBERT JENNY. Importer a?itl Manufacturer OF HARNESS & SADDLES. Has the pleasure to inform the Public . that he has Received a heavy Stock from the North of every description what belongs to a first, da?? Saddlery Establishment. Also wish- to draw particular attention to his Stock of ?i~?LADLES RID1?G SADDLES and his assortment of SHOES. Prices lower then ever. Good Saddles at $3.50. Good Shoes at $1.75 The Cordial Balm of Syrieona nml Tonic Pills. 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