[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Distingi;ishki> Residents ok the Town. — One of the most celebrated personages who ever resided within the limits of our little town was Robert Mat-thews, better known as the religious fanatic and im-postor Matthia*. The scene of his extraordinary proceedings was at Sparta, where Mr. and Mrs. Benja-min H. Kolger lived, and where Mr. Elijah Pierson died, Matthias resided there in the years 1888 and 1884, which was the time that made "Zion Hill" famous, or, more correctly speaking, infamous, ' /.ion CORTLANDT. Hill," as Matthias called his headquarters, is now the residence of Mr. Charles T. Titus, better known as the Rempsen place. The whole of this strange story is related in detail in a little volume of three hun-dred and forty-seven pages, written by William L. Stone, and published by Harper & Brothers, in 1835. Not less than three editions were issued in that year, being mere reprints of the first, without addition or alteration. The title of the book is " Matthias and his Impostures; or, the Progress of Fanaticism.