PROFESSOR SAMUEL S. PARTELLO, writing to one of the Chicago newspapers, declares that he has discovered the veritable Spalding romance from which, it is said, Joseph Smith wrote his “Book of Mormon.” Professor Partello says: “By the favor of the correspondent, now in Honolulu, it is my privilege to say that the long lost and noted document has lately been discovered in the hands of L. L. Rice, a Honolulu resident, who removed from Oberlin, Ohio, about five years ago. Not long ago it occurred to the venerable gentleman to make an examination of a box of old papers, which had accumulated during a period of twenty-five or thirty years of his life as a newspaper editor and publisher in Cleveland, and other places in northeastern Ohio. Among these musty and dust-laden papers there was a small package wrapped in strong buff paper, tied with a piece of stout twine, and plainly marked on the outside in pencil, in Mr. Rice’s own hand: ‘Manuscript Story—Conneaut.’ Mr. Rice was wholly unable to account for how or when this manuscript came into his possession. He says that he has no knowledge of the persons whose names are mentioned. Some forty or fifty years ago Mr. Rice was editor of the Painesville Telegraph, about thirty miles from Conneaut, the residence of the Rev. Solomon Spalding, then dead. He conjectures that it must have been placed in his hands at that period for perusal, and subsequently for publication. He personally knew Samuel Rigdon, one of Smith’s right hand men and later a Mormon apostle, their first settlement being at Kirtland, in the same county in which he lived.” Some quotations are taken from the manuscript to illustrate the style of the author.