The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-11-30

detect whether or not any imposition
was practised. Some of these attend
cd day after day, but all were fairly
beaten, and camc awav convinced
that it was physically. intellectually
and rcliSlously genuine case
Rather morc than three months since
She and her parents stated that the
milk ceased to afford her any nonr
ishmcnt, and that, in fact, tiom that
time she left off taking any sustcn
ancc at all, neither food nor drink
passed her lips. Visitors closely
watched her, and we're convinced tha,
she was really living on from week
to week, without partakiny Of any
nourishmcnt. Meanwhile, the tnm.
bier continued to ring more frequent.
~, her thoughts burned with warmer
devotional fire. her prayers seemed to
80 direct from her lips to heaven.
while her angel seemed at her beck
and call to fulfil any manifestation.
and to occasion any influence she dc.
sired. Tie excitement out of doors.
and throughout many parts Of the
country, was HOW at fever heat. =
Medical men, clcrgymen, dissenting
ministers, carriage aris,ocracv, cir.
cart and foot folk alike shared in the
intense desire to gaze on this extra.
ordinary child. and to listen to Che
words which fell from her with as
much weight as if she really had in.
disrutablc credentials that sic was
All oracle from heaven. On hcinu
asked whcr anl how Ills mystic
scene would end, she replied, 'Oh
III my triumphant entrance into glo-
ry.'
Some gcntlcmcn in Ipswich, who
had become dceply V interested in the
case, at length became interested in
the case, at lvn2lh felt that it was
quite NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. effort
should DC made to tcst It 10 Trs I'll fig
lest extent. Thousands Of people had
visited ,y, The clill. ~ ~; g.. was he
proposed to run an omnibus from II 3
wich ana Woodbridge to Shotti$ham.
These gcnllcmen judged that an
eight days trial would settle the mat
ter as to whether or not she par
took Of any nouyishncnt. Accord.
ln2lv, two females of good cha, actcr
we're selected at tie earnest en-.
treaty Of the father Of the yill-who
were instructed to keep watch over
her for eight days aud eight nights,
it being an instruction that the room
should never be left without one Of
them being Wcscnt. Three weeks
since they commenced their task, re-
ceivng their instructions from a
medical man, anil at the end Of eight
days retu cd to ! psMich, decla,in.
that the child had not hail anything
to its lips during the whole term, and
that they were thoroughly convinced
it was genuine case.
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make a written entry Of the events
,I,nt occurred cvcrv ),,ur arl that
he should sim his name TO l. CTh;s
committee will not make their rcpo:,
until the cycuinr Of this dov Th,
facts We snLioin, therefore, arc no,
received direct from un,. oY thri,
number. bnt we think we may ona,
antcc their strict correctness y O,
Saturday week, Aumst 21st, Til.
watch commenced, and went ON with
out the slightest thin. to excite an,
suspicion, cxccp.in. a little restless