The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-06-14
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wonders VIII never CehSe III dIl5' "A
discovery which has late y been made OF
an extraordinary individual who pro-
claims to the world as the heir aud sue
cessor Of Jesus Christ, has created the
greatest curiosity among the miracle hun.
Icrs Of our capital, This man is peas.
AM by the name Of Perimond. about FIVE
and forty years of age, of simple and un'
pretending manners and homely speech.
He is. however, manifsstly under some
magnetic influence, Tor he has cured by
his touch alone. many hundreds of per
sons who have been to visit him. He re-
ceives all strangers who seek him with
the greatest simplicity, disclaims any
credit for the wondrous miracles he per
forms, merely repeating the assurances
of his appointment by our Saviour, who
appeared to him in dream, to 60 forth
to the world and testify to the truth of the
Gospel. He is of short stature, and Oi
full expressive counlenance. His hair,
parted on the forehead, desccnds Oh Ell
ther side of tue temple.
There would be nothing remarkable
bout the impression IF the man, were it
not for the circumstances which has given
rise to the wlfh lie or the unhappy delu
sion. which ever it may be, that he open
" advances were it not for the extraor'
dinary aigmates on his hands aud feet
and the deep cicatrizc in his side, whence
during the whole of Passion week there
issued large drops of bloodI Many peo
pie worthy uf belief have told me that
there is no delusion about this. The
hands and feet are pierced through and
through and the wound in his side is a
bout two inches long and very deep; thai
they have seen tho blood ooze from those
wounds slowly aud drop by drop fo'
hours together during the Passion week
and that during all this time Perimond
remained exhausted on his bed, lying as
it were in trance. without food or nour'
iOhmenr, and To all appearance dead. AT
ter sunset he revives, the bleeding ceases
he RECEIVERS his senses, partakes of some
slight refleshment and passes the whole
night in prayer! His dress consists of a
shrrl tunic of white linen reaching to the
knee with hing full trousers of the same
On his head he wears white linen lur'
ban of the Jewish firm. He carries nc
ornament on his person snve a gold clasp
which fastens tho band to which his wais
is confined.
The police have been most active il
causing the slrictest Investigations to be
made jntu The history aud antecedent oI
the mau, but as yet nothing has been dis
covered which can in any way serve as
an excuse for molesllng him. All that is
known is The fact that he has recently ar.
rived from Grenoble, where he had lived
a holy aud religious life, much beloved by
the old peasant woman who had reared
him, and who even to the hour OF her
death. declaring to have found him "ne
morning lying beneath hedge near her
cottage. No trace Of his parentage has
ever been discovered. He never strs
abroad, and discourages all meetings or
assemblies at his house; herefore the au
thorilies of Paris have nought to do in his
case. Several physicians Of emincnce
have already been to visit him, but mono
have as yet been able to solve the mys-
terry Of the long fast and bleeding. Dr.
C-,the grea; anatomist, after remaining
two hours in his room last Friday, left in
despair, declaring with an oath. that the
Ijuggle was too we'll managed Tor discov-
sryl" and therefore tho mystery, like that
Of the eestalic virgins of the Tyrol, re.
mainsa mystery STILL London atlas.