Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-02-19
ESTABLISHING THE SCIENCE.

De Bonneville had been electrifying Detroit
by his more than gaIcanic effects upon the
muscles of scores of his inrfe3ibicS, when an
enormous sized Wolverine ''try ing the thing"
himself, found that he was quite equal to the
professor in setting folks TO sleep and ''lnakin'
on 'em cut afterwards, and, accordingly in
the Juror of his discovery, off he went into the
country to lecture and diiiuse the new light
which had been dispensed to him. His sue
cess was tremendous town and village sad
there was ''soRething in IT, until his reputa-
ton, rs IN other cases, begat him enemies
The Wolverine Mesmeriser, after astonishing
''Half full, one evening, at some very pro
missing town" or other. and which babe fair,
shortly 10 be quite "a place." returned 10 the
,ern. to be arrested in the bar-room BY a
score OF '.frst citizens" who had then and there
congregated '.just testthe humbug" any how.
Good evening, Professor" said one
"N on't you take little Of the fludl' said
another and this being an evident hit in the way
Of joke, the anti-humbugs proceeded TO more
serious business.
professor" said the principal speaker, a e-
ant OF a fellow, before whose proportions, even
the huge Magnetism looked small, professor
said he, biting off the end Of a plug and tur-
ning it over in his jaws very lesurely, " few
on us, here, hey Jest concluded TO hev you try
an experiment, appnln' ourselves a reg'ler
constituted committee 10 reporl'
The Professor begged to appoint more pro
per place and hour, Sc, or. according TO the
apprehenslons Of ''the crowd. eyinced the ex-
pected desire to make a clean back-out
Professor" resumed the 'big dog, "''if we
ondustand right, you call your AlesmeriSm a
're-meejil agent which means, ls'pose. that
| il cures things %
The disciple Of science referred TO divers cases
about town in which he had been successful, 10
say nothing of the .'pulhng teeth" operation
! which he had just concluded his lecture with.
YES said the challenger. "you're death on
| teeth, we know, but ken Mesnerism come the
renee jill over rheumatic ?"
'1nfammatory or chronic ?" demanded the
| professor.
"Wall stranger, we amt much give to doc
tors bottle names, but we reckon it's about the
wust kind"
| The Mesmerist was about to define the DIFF
| ference between innammatory attacks and 10
cal affections. when he was interrupted by the
inquisitor. who rather allowed that as far As the
/ location of the disorder went, ii had pre- emp
ton rightto the hull crittur; and, thai further
more, it was Jest expected of hun that he
should forthwith visit the case, and bid HIM
take up his bed and walk, or he himself would
| be escorted out Of town, aStride OF a rail, and
dumped down outside the 54th degree of Ore
gon and no mistake"
This was dilemma, either horn Of which
promised a toss to his reputation, but the crowd
were solemny IN earnest; already trlumphlng
in his detection, they began to look wooltish at
him and wise at each other, so that the Wolver-
/ inc had nothingleit for il but to demand, bold
! /. IA AZ buI batter .rixr
the rest of the story as it was related to a hui
morous friend of ours, by the disciple Of Mes
mer himself
'Up stairs went wild 'em mad as thunder,
tell you, first, at being thought a humbug,
and next. that my individual share of the
American eagle should be compelled into a
measure, by thunder! I'd gin 'em a fight, il
/ ii hadn't been for the science, which would a
suffered any how, so Jest said TO myself, LEI
EN- bring on their rheumatic! felt as if |
could MeSmerized horse and determined
whatever the case might be, I'd make il squeal
! by thunder
"Here he is" said they, and in we all bund-
led in room, gathered round a bed, with me
shut in among 'em and the cussed big omen
! lightened heather, that did the talking, draw
ing out an almighty bowie knife at the same
time. '.That's your man ~ said he Wen,
there lay miserable looking criIter. with his
eyes sot and his mouth open--and his jaws
got wider and wider, as he saw the crowd and
the bowie knife, Itch you THAT'S the ideal"
said the old big lngin.
Rise up in that bed |" said |, and tell you
what, must looked at him dreadful, for up
he jumped on eend, as if he'd jest got streak
of galvanies.
.sGit out on this foor,n said /, with wuss
look and hopeI may be shot II he didn't
come. lookin' wild tell you2
''.No,c cut dirt, d-n you screamed |, and
Jehu Gineral Jackson! If he didn't make
straight shirt-tail for the door, may | never
make another pass. After him went, and
after me they came, and perhaps there wasn't
the orfullest stempede down three pair OF stairs
that ever occurred in Michigan Down cut
old rhumatiz through the bar-room; out | cut
arter him over went the stoves in the rush ar
ter both on us chased him round two squares
lin the snow at that, then headed him off and !
chased him back to the hotel, again, where he
landed in a fine sweat, begged for his liie.
and said, he'd giyed up the property! Well, |
wish may be shot if he wasn't the Teller /
they were offerin' a reward for in Buffalo
made him dress himself, cured Of his rheu-
matiz, run it right out Of him delivered him 4
up. pockefed the reward and established the I