American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-22
Fortbs Lancaster Gazette.
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ANihb ba'S N Soh wv hagF PNHShhy
and diligently to the examination Of Pbs-
nomens, which claims to be the efforts OF
disembOdied immortal spirits 10 make their
existence known to mort4ls; believed
then. as | do now. that my senses OF par
ceplion and all my msntal facul les. were
as healthy as they ever are. and will pro-
csed to state substantially, what | saw,
felt and heard, promising merely. that in
that city, there are great number OF the
most popular Mediums" and. therefore,
il affords the best 69Id for Investigation.
first visited the room OF Mr.. Conklin
an from there to the room Of DR.. Red
man. At both places was as much
stranger as would be to-day were | sud-
denly TO appear 10 the streets Of Paris or
London; entered and left without the
slightest possible sllusion to my name, res.
idence Or previous history. and they do
not now know where belong. or my
name. and yet. there were communications
writ, through the Mediums addressed
to me and signed by the names Of friends
that once knew in the flesh, but who
have long since been laid in mother earth.
Somt times the Christian name aud some
times the full name; my own name was
given, my present wifs's and the number
of my children. The writing is from
right to left. is performed with great ra-
pidity AMI cannot be read ex'ept by holl-
ing it up TO the light ard reading through
the paper; have in my possession large
number Of these communications.
On the following day, ] went TO the
rooms of Mrs. Brown, formerly Miss Fox
of arcadia, uear Rochester, New York,
where the rapping first commenced') four
Of US were seated in the parlor, Mrs. Brown
a gentleman from Boston, one from Alba
ny and myself; the table was Of walnut, a
bou! feet in length by in breadth; i
was solid. having no fall leaves and was
set upon casters, it had no drawer, we ex-
amined it carefully. there. was nothing
movable about it, I'm nediately after being
seated distinct raps were hearl. which
grew louder aud more frequent, three or
four kinds of raps being heard at the same
time. On placing the hand upon the table
the rsps gave as much Of jar as if some
one was striking it sharply with ham.
mer. Mrs. Brown was not in contact with
I he table, she sat apart from it, one to two
feet aud conversel freely all the time; the
raps were sometimes in the hall, sometimes
in the door, sometimes in different parts o
the flcor aud sometimes in different end
Of the table; the Medium was dressed or
dinarily and the raps were the same wheth
er she walked about the room or sat.
Alter being informed that lhad spiri
friends present who wished to communi
cate with me, the calling ofthe alphabe
was commenced, when at each letter Ie
s signed to be used by The communicating
Q intelligence, one rap was given returning I
: A every time. Three persons recorde
the letters as they were raped. withou
8 the least clue to what was to be spelled
It out, when it was ended it read as follows
y IL love to hear your voice through th
Q strong forces Of this battery. will touc'
you to prove that am perfect in form!
am MARY"
Z, This was the name Of dear daughter
- now absent from us near ten y,ars. l fe
"a upon reading it sensible touch on m
4 right knee. it was peculiar not like the cor
o tact Of any part Of the. form Of flesh an
blood, as thought at the time and sti
~ thiak, felt thrill which was not like G
"a lectricity or any sensation that / am fl
a milar with; in answer to my question
Mrs. Brown said that she did not touc
me, (sbe was not in touching distance {
me. but that spirits often touch the
:. friends to prove their presence and ider
70 tity and that perhaps my friend waul
"A touch me again il felt doubt. She the
10 desired me - place my feet on hers an
4. oonfne them to the floor, which diC
while her hands rested on the tablet the
was no movement everything was pla
=. before my eyes it was at meridian da.
Sd with bright sun aud felt the sane CO.
tact on my left knee.
~ The table also moved frequently fro
~ an inch or two to foot, when not even
silk dress was in contact with it.
w Now, sir, can you give US any key
a these strange things or howtshall we a
or count for them? if we seek the solution
To- referring Il em to Clairvoyance by which
believe we are to understand that the Ca
rs voyant perceives what is known to the o
a.. with whom he is for the time in rappo
~ we mset difficulty hsre; we have II
paragraph purporting to have been dictat
by the intelligence of my daughter. viii;
SUI as whole, never did and never could Z
* ist in my mind. had l constructed an a
ION dress for my spirit diughter to speak
WIS me, it would have been something au