Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1869 — The Man-Beast. [ARTICLE]

The Man-Beast.

A Portland correspondent says: It is not a little strange that so few people in tfic vicinity kqow of the wonderful case of “Jimmy.” The keeper of the Westbrook (Me.) Poor-house will tell you that, twenty years ago, and the day following the arri val of the Sarah Sands in Port land frofe' Liverpool—the first iron stosnwhip that ever camo to this eastern shore from across the water—a strongly destitute and stolid cfeaturc was found in a barn in that town, with his limbs sd terribly frozen that hie feet were almost literally shapeless, and the life nearly gone out of him. ,He was, of <xuirse A taken so the charity faym; and/ there; in the old, vreather-stained buildings, in ali outstanding hovel in summer, and id Warm quarters in winter, he has liyed these twenty years, attracting some mgldsity at first, but, for fifteen yewfs> apparently forgotten. After his removal thither his frat were cut off, one at the ankle, and one straight down across the Jnrtep.

lu in appearance hfl was about 20 years old when found, but every attempt to tnceouthi& history failed,, Not even a guess waA ever made as to -hfeformer station in life, his • habitation, or even race, except that he came over In the Sands as a stowawav, or was cast adrift here to git him out of the way, as has been done by interested barties many* a time before, mayhap, When found on the hay in the barn he was almost totally naked, what clothing he had being torn into shreds, J and Jits whole'person nearing ; tokens half way between lunacy and idiocy. Ner could he speak a word, though every trial Was made to make: him At times he was very fierce, “and 1 is -so still, striking savagely at lha keeper,, who is obliged to watch his mddtlk pretty wwreftilly; but, in no one es his varying moods has he ever articulated a word, and evidently has no power to do io. He p>yq $o attention to .visitors except by an occasional bravado, kpd-igimoUiatelyicrouching away. His hair Is black and very thick and coarse, giving him a wild air. In features menso as would-be supposed,btttalfms habits are of the basest and molt beastly kind. On the cold and (Jay wlpml EFBM 0 - B*® 8 *® hto » he was crouched awAy .inTm immense bunk of.ips hovel; with* twb> Ihrge air spaces immediately over him, and nothing on bfitn but A Altered blue drilling shirt or frock, and this the keeper spid had not been on him,an hour. He had a quilt Which was new two or three months before, which was picked and torn to tatters-, hanging together by a few shreds, libeos tern fleece of wool, or a chafed and broken net. He is thrust dht into the yard occasionally ahd ■ exercised,” but he soon hobbies back to his- filthy abode. When the severe weather Of winter comes, they take him Into a, warmer place, but this is intolerable except in the reign of the frosts. . ~ > He haa little beard except on his upper lip, and this makes a becoming moustache, though never touched for twenty years at what cramped and withered, he is apparently strong and healthy. There may be found, possibly, as Curious cases as .this In soffie of the charity houses in the land, but when it is remembered that no possible hint can be'jHVen of the first half of his strange-life, ft has seemed to me to surpass in Interest any case I have seen— Boston AWw,' JVoromfter 22. _' j , so -f, —Three national camp meetings for 187 U have already been appointed by the Methodists. uOna will be, .at the Chieagp Dittrict grounds, Augu«t one osar jsa&auv* ”