New York Tribune

They made few acquaintances; they seemed to court seclusion; they wandered up and down the grassy hills; occasionally they were seen sitting under a tall pine—upon the man carried a pick-axe on his shoulder and had the air of a miner who was hunting for a pocket vein; they were eccentric and mysterious. On June 30 they disappeared, and after their fellow-boarders had gossiped about them for a day or two search was made for them. The queer couple were found on the top of Bald Mountain not far from the town. They had been out-doors about ninety hours; they had not lost their way; they had gone out into the woods with the deliberate purpose of starving to death; they had eaten nothing: they had a four-ounce bottle filled with water, with which they had moistened their parched lips; they were dying by inches. The neighbors carried them to a cabin, and induced them to eat something. The man is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Medical College and owns a homestead in New-Jersey. Once he was very wealthy, but he lost everything in stock speculations in San Francisco. He had been waiting for remittances from that city: his last penny had gone, he was in debt to the hotel proprietor; he resolved to go up the mountain and starve, and his wife went with him. The Alta is unable to determine whether these people are lunatics or spiritualists.