Smyrna times., 1856-05-28
Communications.
Correspondence Of the Smyrna Times.
DR.. Burleigh's Lecture.

" u'e"Ic "eFe' nave no doubt as complete
Iy sold as lwaS and that too at the low price ola
fork shilling. Seeing the Doctors flaming
handbIlls, IN which he promised to smash tables
snow Mormon miracles, expose Spiritualism.
suspend chairs without any visible agency. illus.
'rate mental electricity, aud, in a word, play
the mschletg generally" felt curious (tor have
u little OF that commodity in my composition
ycIePt curiosity to see the wonders of the
new discovery" and being, further, little
under the Influence of the Giues, hoped to
have them, in a measure-f NOT entire'v.-d;s-
pelicd by the fun, as he promised to make
"urave people laugh who never laughed before
anu 'hey VINO laugh, to only laugh the more. "
80 went. paid my shilling. and took nv scat
OP"h entering, found the mirth.provokinp
Professor aud EX-Prcsiden. of Newton IYniver.
sHy' hXIng up several Galyanic batteries, one of
winch was Groves battery, of six Guns. and
"hich, by the way, was one of considerable
power-the others were of the ordinary variety
such as are IN almost universal use. The Dr
advertised to commence at precisely h.lrna.t
seven, but so much time was wasted with finn.
Ding over his batteries, that the Great Lec.
t"FeT DID nCtget started until after eight o'clock
when lac commenced by telling rs. that ,bere
""S such thing as electricity and that gal
Vahism' magnetism, &C., were all the same
thing produced by different means. and ,I,a,
there wee {'co poles to a battery. which con-
feyed Two Kinds of cctrictY-pnsltiye and
negative; that negative electricity attracted
ana positive rePclled he also told US hat DIR
rankin was a great man, aud that n, v.,s
once poor boy; that he discovered that G.,b,.
mug was electricity. After which. he proceed.
Ell 10 snow his experiments. He killed a tror
ana SAID he would bring him 10 life arain. bnt
IN Si'ite OF all the DR.. could do, the fror won!d
stay dead; upon which, the DR.. called his
sIStant, and had the rarnint severalv nnri.t,1
III MS oos'lhhcy' by cutting his head off ius,
dOoVe The hIps the poles of the uaacbioe wore
'heh applied to the neither extremities of Ii.
'FosShlP' and away ae sprang clear off the table
seemingly with the des re to look for hi. he.d
ana body, which he did not find. as Mr. Al,
'a"' "du 'ne"i IN his Pocket--''o or somew here
e'se' TINS jumping of hind quarters filled the
boys so full OF delight that it ran over and
the house was filed with their screams v.lls
&C. The next thing brought on the carpet w.s
intended to so completely reyolu,onize mari
tune warfare That all creation could be blown
OUT ol the water at cost so rrflinr. that h..
had no doubt but many men in our town couIJ
oear the expense without danger of coll, no
TINS, he SAID, was discovery SO recent TINT ,ho
'uSsahs, IN The war jest closed, did no, unIcr. |
S'u"l " anu' 10 prove lis efficiency. he burnt
powder by means of the Groves Battery or
ups before mentioned. This same ernar;.
uneht nave seen ten years since. and have
known men to kill ducks by the same means
many long, rebellious years" AGO. Tber
came the only really new thing ofthe evenin,
ana That is older than were some of his audi.
ehce' which was Kind Of an explanation or,bs
" hre-aIarm and police telegrap h, and so lucid
was his explanation, that I'll venture 10 oss.r,
not single person present knows more abou,
II this moment than he did before
The Old experiment of suspending an iron
roo within helix, or a coil of copper wire. at.
tached to battery, was shown, and all his av- ]
peflInents were Of like character, old and
stale. The only mention made OF the ns,o Kind
or mental electricity, was, that there ,,os s,.,
u '"''s' ana the "SpIrltua!lsts found it OUT. bu,
didn't know it," c
Hi'er the experiments were gone through =
WIN ne invited anybody sick from Neryous
ION PiaInts' to walk up to the platform and pe,
cured without money and without nr,ca " c
N"en up stepped DR.. Rheumatics, who is terri. n
ny aHected with the nerrish, and was =. mt :
hlough course Of sprouts" Then came vour
'e'gnOor Charley, whose abdominal region is p
ut OF gear-he was also treated in the same Of
'"y' out without extracting the greens: then CO
eVeral others, among them was big bur N
eaued fellow, whose principal disease wa. " 4 .,
TICK IN his hat - guess he didn't get eured ia
"od' waist Dolly Days" tincture wo. e,
ooard' This curing the sick, who still st,v p'
cK' consumed the balance OF the evening. and
re were dismissed without seeing single one 70
the advertised wonders. mr.
Now Mr.. Editor. have not one word tn Ga bl
gamst DIR. BIS exhibition of ELECTRICITY and IN
experiments with his ba,teries-It's all r,,,b, ~ q,
nd proper, aud. TO those not familiar with tho adj
'oIecl' very interesting and nstructiye-butI co
think 1t wrong to humbug the people. bv TIE
- a." 1"u captain ne" scientific Ba
ScoVeries' and not even make an attempt TO to
imply Herewith. 1t is fraud upon the pub no
and should be exposed, SO that no more, than wi
'cessary, OF the people should be in the situa-
on OF One OF rHr Gr, oe'
SMYRNA, Nay &c. 1885,? mi
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