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Show POISON IX POSTAGE STAMPS. A few days since Dr. L. Chesley of Not unchain, a well-known and prominent prom-inent physician in Rockingham county, received a letter from an unknown source containing two postage stamps, with an urgent request that he should send by return mail a letter to a given address in New York city. The doctor doc-tor complied with the request, u?irig one of the stamps just received in mailing mail-ing the return letter, wetting the stamp by laying it upon his tongue. He was instantly seized with a mysterious fainting sensation, accompanied with severe convulsive action of the heart, difficulty of breathing, and a priekiine numbness of the whole sy.-tcm. lie said to bis wife, standing by, "I am poisoned by the stamp." She says, "It cannot be;" and taking the remaining re-maining stamp applied a small portion of it to her tongue, when she was seized with precisely the same, though much more severe symptoms, which has prostrated her for several days. Not more than one twelfth part oi' the adhesive side of the stamp was applied to Mrs. Cher ley's tongue. At (he . time of using the stamp Dr. Chesley had in his mouth a fjuid of tobacco, which he thinks was an antidote to the poison the stamp no doubt contained. Your informant has the above directly from the doctor, who is a very intelligent, intelli-gent, straightforward man, who has his own theory for accounting for litis design upon his litt', as he thinks it evidently was. ile has had sonic experience ex-perience in the South in past years, and speaks of the Ku-Klux in connection connec-tion with this mystery. The remaining remain-ing postage stamp has been sent to Boston for analysis, and the doctor is determined to know more of a case of which he knows so little. Jrashwif iV. ., Telegraph. |