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Show A JUk i:Tiril A JlOltll. HaVKiui. leading mlnltlert of New Voik have lawn commenting u-on what they tuppofd to be a letter from the old Puritan fanatic, Cotton Mather, I rotlng a scheme to ct ture WJIIIam Peun and hit crew and tell them at lave. Thelttttr hat been ibllshcd lu the Halt lake papers. Ilelng actept d a gtnutn In Ih liait ll Iwcain lb text of several elwiient pulpit oratoi. It Is said that 111 lUv, lleber Ntartoii 1-l.V Willi rtlcuUr fervor on thl sutjert. Th New Yolk San waa not satisfied with Ih showing against Mathtr, and hul-ren digging up the antecedent! of the sutplclou document. According lo It rert the ellalr liwttad of being Ihe ancient creation It jrrted lo br, wa th work of a rlever editor who wa no other than I". II. Hhunk, Ih tou'ln-law of Judg Jrremlah H. lllatk. The hoax watpubllthnl twenty twen-ty year ago In Mr. Hhunk' paper, Iho l.ttton .Irjrui. It caught a good many j)c, tayt th Sun, but wa tpeedlly nailed by Ih literary antiquarians of Mttwrhuselts and eted a a fraud. Mr. Hhunk, unforluuaUly, It dead and therefor losing th rofll of lilt cU The letter wa an exceedingly clvtrlecof work, aud but fur the fact that It had been once before advertised adver-tised aud eioted, Ihe great ministers who have been drawing upuu It for I ul It material might have had ample exuita fur their error. Whllo Ihe ludicrous outcome of thl I radical Joke on tho part of a talented buffoon make It Very laughable, there la ytt suggestion In Iho occurrence that glvt II a rather grim atcl. The narrow map It ha had from going lutoth record a a fact make one wonder how much of authentlo history It made up of Ihe tame bateleM flcllou. |