His believers would have torn the officers piecemeal at the slightest word ot com mand from their "Christ," as they called him, but he went willingly, and was fol lowed 12 miles on foot under a scorching June sun to the trial place, Flemington, by 300 men and women. Fully half of these were armed, many of the women carrying muskets and shotguns. When arraigned before the county magistrate Orth exhibited several dollars, and the charge of vagrancy and being without mean 3of support was dismissed. Another warrant was immediately issued charging him with being a lunatic. The law gave him 10 days before a com mission of lunacy could inquire into his case, On the day set apart the imnoster appeared with a following twice as large as ho had before. Colonel Norwood subjected him to a long and rigid examination. Outside the crowd kept crying a weird chant: — "They have taken our Christ! Buckra man want to kill our Christ, but they can't !" Orth stated that he formerly lived in Ceutreville, Ohio. His familiarity with the Bible astonished court, jury and spectators. "If you are Christ show us a miracle," suggested Mr Norwood. " Get thee behind me, Satan. I will not be tempted by you," was the response. " You are charged with being a lunatic, and unless this jury believes otherwise you will be sent to an asylum. Show us the nailprints in your hands, aud convince the jury that you are the Christ who was crucified," said the lawyer. "Thie is the natural body which you sec, corruptible, perishable. It is uot the body which was fastened to the cross ou Calvary. The spirit, though, which is iu me is the same living spirit which was iu the body that was hung beside Barabbas. My spirit is in everybody." " Was it in George Washington?" " Yes, and in Abraham Lincoln, too," " Was is it iu Jefferson Davis?" "It was." Nothing could induce the self-styled Christ to undertake to perform a miracle. He refused to turn water into wine, on the ground that it would be taken as sanctioning the use of ardent and fermented spirits. "I did that once, and the act has been miscon strued ever since," he observed. "I am about to take a chew of tobacco. 