Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-07-16

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understoo,. /" years since. We extract
it frou! Peer Richards Almanac" for
1740-a Time Annual then published
ly Benz. Franklin under the assumed
name Of ",.ic.rrl saunders" We may
Y other articles from the same source
a. 81" -LLw. CuEoNl
Ootyi,r :, 1889.
r7r.oJs READER,
fou may remember tha: in my first
A':a.~ack, published for the year 1333,
l -.ctcd the death Of my dear friend
.aa Leeds, lhilomat, to happen that
,,ir on the Eth day of October, 3 h. 90
II. p NJ The good man, it seems, died
ac.erlingIy. Bat W. Il. aud A B. have
continued to publish Ainanacks in his
name cver since asserting fer some years
that he was still living; At length when
the truth could no longer be concealed
from the world, they confess his death in
lH'li -h!HdHd'h i'i ''o', but iitttEI iHat
he died not till last year, and that before
his departure he had furnished them witt!
calculations for years TO cone.-Ah, Dy
jnmds, these are poor shifts and thin dis
guises; of which indeed | should have
taken little or no notic~, If YOU had not
at the same time accused me as a falls"
lrodictnr; an asperSiou that the more af
iects me, as MY whole livelihood depends
on contrary character.
But to Put this MATTE, beyond dispute,
shall acquaint the world Will, fact, as
strange and surprising rs it is true being
IS follows, viz
On the ith instant, towards midnight
us | sat in my li:le study writing this
Preface, fill fist asleep; and continued
IN that condition for some time, without
dreaming ANYTHING, to my knowledge. On
awaking, | found lying before me the fol
lowing letter, viz
Dear Friend SAUNDERS,
Ny Respect for you continues even in
this separate state, and | am grieY'd
10 see the aSPcl-ions thrown on You by the
maie' o.cncc of ayaricious publishers of
Amanacbs, who envy your successfully
say Your prediction OF my death in 1888
was false, and they pretend that remained
alive many years after. But | do hereby
certify, that did actually die at that time,
precisely al the hour You mention'd, with
variation only of min. 53 sec which
must be allow'd to be no great matter in
such cases-And do further declare that
| furnisl'd them with no calculations of
the planets motions, &c. seven years after
my death, as they arc pleased to give out
50 that the stuff they publish as an Alma
mack in my name Is no more mine than
It's yours.
You will wonder perhaps, how this pa
per comes written on your table. You
must know that no separate spirits are
under any confinement till after the final
settlement of all accounts. In the mean
time We wander where we please, visit our
old friends, observe their actions, enter
sometimes into their imaginaticns, and
give them hints waking or sleeping that
may be of advantage 10 them. Find
ing you asleep, | enter'd your left nostril
ascended into your brain, found ont where
the ends of those nerves were fastened
that move your right hand and fingers, b,
the help of which am now writing un
Known to YOU; but when You open YOU
eyes, you will find that the hand writer
Is mine, tho wrote with yours.
The people Of this infdel age, perhaps
viii hardly believe this story. But yo,
IN give them these three signs bv rhicl
taey shall be convinced Of the truth of il
About the middle of June next J
J-.--n, Philomat shall be openly recon
eiled to the Church of Rome, aud give a.
his goods and chattels TO the Chapel, l.,
ps perverted by certain country scLco