The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1869.

Mr. Home: Yew I recollect that perfectly. In the houses
01 several people I remember constantly toeing lifted. On one
OCC•4011 Ino staying at the Oates. it Madame &Oda. I
was then ha f • foot in he air. The movement no so gentle
that I had not nbeerved lt in the lout. I Dimmed hack bib.
table JO P.M if would oceour when I woe standing. IT did
occur. The room was longer than this, and I wec carried to
the end of the mom. The Count de Beaumont. one of the
senators, we staying there. I had evsning drew. shoat on. He
took hold of the shoes when I \Mlle the sir; they remained
in his hand, and I was csrg...l up. On the nest Sunday even•
hog Lonl Adair was told to mold flowers outside • winds; we
saw the flowen brought into the room where we were. The
/fleeter .4 Lindsay so. prevent, as well an Lord Adair. Instead
.4 tat b sly Icing lifted, the Bowers were taken front one
windoe to moths?.

The Chairmen : Would you toll um eoluethlag about the
dandelions and levltednew
Mr. 11.4uu I Lan tell y• u that they have only occurred ID •
light room never In • darkened room.
A Member: What Is the animal?

Mr. 4h.m.a.ured on the wall waa eight Inches. A
OMR was 4anding holding my feet. lone cam I was laid on
holler. and L on/ Adair had holt! of troy head, an.l tbe bloater
of Lindsay at my feet.
In reply .0 further questions. Mr. Home mid elongations were
not covollnod to his legs. but he seemed to grow very much from
the wa 4. Ile AU men a t lofted In the Mr with eight
men attri logos.l It. when there were only two or three persons in
the too. 01. He AM teen the window open and shut at a distance of
amen or eight teat from them. lie had men curtains drawn
and 1,, nose eases had wen ohMeta tarried 4.cr their
head, In the house of Mr. an I Mix AC. Hall he had men a
%elite go up so high in the air that they could 1144 touch it.
had seen a tenet lifted by a hand to on paper and write —that was
a feet Oh 4 arm printed mine year. ago. as occurring in the
premwe .of the lunperor Napoleon.
A Member : Did be me it? . _ .

11Ir: Home: lie did. We were inn 'afire r.wn, In the Salon
de Loeb. Quat..rre. The Emper, and Emprem were prcient.
inn. now tellind the .tor) as I heard the Emperor tell It. A
table. ; then • hand woo •L'On tO Come. It WY. eery
beautifis l, formed hand. There were pencil. on the table. It
lifted. not the... Ike St it. but one on the far aide. We heard
the eound of writing. and saw It writing on fine note•inper. The
hand lamed before roe and went to the Entpernr. and he kiewel
the hand. It went to the Ensprms, dui withdrew from ita
i 1.11.41. and the haul followe thee, The Emperor Do 110 i
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trietened ; and she hired it too. it dhapieWriv.
raid I would like. to Ida it. The hend emitted to be like person
thinking, and s, if itveer* mying " Why shuuki 1 r It came
bee* to me. It had written the word Napoleon, and it remains
written now.

Mr. Levy : Did you feel It as II It were a phrsical hand
Mr. Home : Yes; It wee as touch a material hand .4:Rainey
5. my hand is now. The writing %MS •titorroph of the
lEnipend Naisde .n 1., who had an exceedingly beautiful hand. •
Mr. Dyte .skeal Mr. 110011 C U he knew of le* Mahon In any
' I inaelf

ble

Ile mid, '' Ye'; in Mr. Gordon, an American.'
Mr. Home then related that a diort time ago. In the home of
Mr. indlantine. • enelling.hottle on the table began to tremble
aa if IMPIOO one with • very shaky hand had taken hold of It,
and then it beg. to spin round 4m the table ;It Open. minute
St least. Th.n: were three tor TIM., who law that. Ile araked
a lady present a she had the amelling-bottle moth her. 11 ho
mid she had not. Mr. Home further stated that he went Into •
trance inunedi.tely sherwards, end told them that a opiat
named Jan...an pre.ent. Ile ow. told afterward. that Mr.
Jame. had • very .haky hand. In further examination he mid
the. the Emperor of Envois. u well ao the Emperor Napoleon,
hod .en hands, and had taken hold of Otero, when they .etneel
to god •way Into thin air. Ile had never wen mater.al
vulidances brmght into • room when the door. and wridi.
were choml. Ile had seen fi worn brought in from • torterre,
hut the virile always asked for the window to he open. When
other sin... were pro .4 they hal ran heads. One Mimea
mood testify to having seat head. In MI lap at night. They
were lemlnato ; be hod seen quite • glow from them.
A Member: On you know of aoy e•.mmunication from the
Demur Napoleon I. to the present Emperor?
11r. flout, That I could on Stoner. lam only tell that
*hick. the Emperor tell. himself. The hand wee like elaboratee.
Ile had mA smo the hand front e box of the Davenport

Brot,crs. Colkt not my how theer hands were formed. That
wa. theory ;thy had come there for lei.
Mr. Jadray m.k• d if Mr. Home con d vve any information an
to the etate and conditnin of departed human beings.
Mr. Horne sail that his iidormaton led him to the opinion
that precisely as we go to sleep hare eu we awake in the other
world—Wen spans were Waileyana Swedenborgians were
B.llll•llle,riparev Mahon:ratans were Malainatans.
Mr. Hy. Ants, fatties reeatlivand punishments?
Mr. Ilonse oil th t b.d •pirism ses the eon in.°, resultn of
the wrong they have done. and in Rome instance. have
en 1e tvOured to repair It by dociarins
.where con-
cealed papers were. He believed that spirits retained
their perwmal identity, and that • person with cropped
hair would appear cropped, though he never saw • gaol
bird. Ile believed they enteind on a higher elate after that.
Had seen them in foll bodily form, hut had never semi the
spirit' of being immune. Asked by Mr. Levy if he toe,
the splint of • dor or any of the lower animal., he said he had
neen certain thing • eonne Led woh snimal life, but he could
'lot tell whetiar It as. a spirit or the picture ,4 the 'marine-
' lion. Hal on biraln, but not &hes. fled seen the spirit of
• Sower. 1144 aeon • bottle d.rappear.
The Chairman : Wan It a brandy h trio ?—(laughter.)
Mr. Home (warmly): I object to mwer .y quesdon which
may be put In • ridietroua intoner In the neernpapers to.
lam a [ewe man, getting m li.i.g he reading. I
c••tne here before sensi.de 0, and women who are investigat-
ing a subject the greatest iniis.rtance to mankind. It in
either • gigantic Imposture or worthj of the dewiest inquiry.—
(cheers).
The vhairman : I want b, know what kind of • bottle It wan
Mr. Ho ~e : We understand that, but people outside du not.
The Chairman sit. if lhat were le ~ he hpol th gentlemen
of the prom would not take loan the question. Want% • water
or • brandy Lott e!
Mr. Home The bottle had an identity end form. I hale,
11w.. • water Is..tle Toe flo•er, Kr. Home said, Ir. .1 an
order ehich an, n..t known. At hi. suggestion, Mrs. OM. of
Jeratyll-vtrrel, era.. he aid tad known him 14 years, gave
evidenee This lady sai i she had seen Mr. Home gradoaily
rise In the tie, and with a pencil. make a crows on the ceiling.
She ha Ife t the spirit form of her baby, and had ..nee • too
an thee h.rno, but could Ted desLribe it. She wan cured of an
avid:. pain 11. the side by the touch of • npirit and the
application of a decoal n of hope.
- The Counte.. tie Pomare •al I she hod seen *lady while in •
Vans:eta.. • live rod in her band without Non' burnt.
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Mr. Vanira.n, 11l the enure ol a long examination. ccid he
wad not, MO dem. but he het been in the {essence of a huudnsi
ate Mass, at tyro hundred rdeleX , end had in his library b 0
t dueler on Spirit subsea Prom the information thus acquired.
h. rave it.- hi' "'pinion that there are marriages in the spiritual
te.gld hetstien oppoite sese• lent n. r spiritual childrer. There In
eje ritual fruit—nourishment in the atastephere. eptritual boys
g •tee school, and continue burrow mita ; old men return to
the- age ; painters paint rill spiritual iddaseet. ; atellt.n"
make spiritual tables. lied known spirits 101 l he.. hut utter
I .unil a medium to Ire an impostor.
Mr. GloWcf, followe I. desisted hie arm belief that. Inas.
mush as spiritc•leny the Divinity of Chrint, the npaitifeltain .
an: mink by. end appearances stimulated by, the d.. 11 for his
own sick'. • ptirpu-4011.
Mr. Moine, in erpsising, said he eras consincel that the mani-
festations lonwittolid throu,h Phis medium Inn from his can
gad were not external manifestations.
This cvneluded the ries:Wings.

'0 es Home mean lb.& he law UM ••Rh ) Atal ha..l" of •
man who il tel Mty-eizht 'ears ago or does to me in that the
antoirraph. of the Emperor wai in • beautiful had'? An
exceedingly beautiful hand I Why. every collector and mudent
of autograph • knows that the It'd Nap. eon". handwriting was
• orielo,llon.ean nil In he wet-nigh illegible— that it anon
more fright/ ui .• BM. than that of the late Lord Brougham--
that it on. wone than that id the harried Jody., of when It
mi.l that he wrote three hand. --OM which he could read
homed, another which hi. clerk on,y e... 14 read, and • third
ebb h neither he, or hi• ciork. nor the Bevil hinuelf count
read. It hail been more than once eurmiael LAM Napoleon
ere. fatly of mat re aforethought, In order to vowed hi...hay
ordwarraimy of the French language ; led • comparhon id hi.
eon,vaph. eiow. that he write o badly 179e1, se he
did at nt.. Helena, in 1615 ; and when In exile at Longwood, it
-old n t much natter to him whet as world might think of
hl.

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Tan Turkish gotierninent hos granted • rum of 2100
towards the re-t ration of the chi:indite in Crete which
were injured durum the rebellion.
ATTUIPTSD SUICIDe /Run LOPL —A man named
Thorne. Letirt ci Sh.S.ild attempted to bleed himetlf
to tie it on Tuesday becomes • girl, with whom be bad
"kept °entropy." diso•rd-d him. He cot the principal
orteriis in hie left arm 1/10 • rigor, Lod when he was
tikes to the hoepital nothing riould be learned from
Lint recent this "Jane" had done it. When he got •
litille bi,it-r he o•lted that Jaffe 111.•hilm sent for. The
'wing woman was accordingly ant for by the doctors,
and she stayed truth him through • greet part of the
,d,cht. Ills doubtful whether the foolish fallow will
MOW.