Voluntary Dumbness For Fifty Years

miles east of Utica, died to-day agec sixty-six years. Although poasessing the faculty of speech, he had not utterec two consecutivo words for fifty years When öixteon yüars old, hearing hi father swear at a member of tho family ho made a vow that he would neve speak agaia. Thia vow was kept for seven years. He then met with sn acci dent which bruised the fingers of his left hand, the pain drawing froux him the exclamation, "Oh!" On but one othe occasion was he heard to speak. Thi time the word "Soe" was cilled forth b; a, snake that crawled over a sleeping child. A column might be filled by the reoital of Hinman's eccentricities. Some of his device to avoid convorsation were crafty iu the extreme. He was a close itudent, and he has left a voluminous iiary during the fifty yeara of silence He leaves a fortune of $ 24,000 to a nephew with the admonition, "Keep your mouth shut." Notwithstanding his silence, he was a great favorite in the neighborhooc