The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-01-08
from. The Indianapolis Herald, Dec: Al
Remarkable Developments
The Travels Of a Girl in a
Trance

1rauCOs
The people living'in the vicinity
:. Of Whiteland,S johnson. county,
have recently been very much ex-
= cited oversa matter. which, to
say the least, is very strange.
+Seyeral weeks since MissVan -Ars-
dale; a young woman about seven
teen years old, living at, the house
of family near Whiteland in the
capacity Of servant, was taken
sssick3with something like Mysteries.
She had been confined to her bed
aittle over a: week when to all
appearances she died. The body,
however, did not entirely lose it's
warmth and "a very slight pulse
remained The people with whom
she was living supposed that she
was dead, and were making prepa=
:,eations to bury her, when the
< physician interfered, forbidding
any, such step. After remaining
Ia this state twelve hours, con-
sciousness returned and tho girl
pronounced herself much better.
She then went on to describe her
. sensations and experiences during
= the trance. .averring that she had
visited heaven and hell and had
eonversed with the Saviour, and
many persons whom she had
~sknown sen earth She spoke of
@%seefng persens in both places who
had recently died; in. heaven, a
yoaag man named Quinn, who
although at one time a professor
ofreEgion, had in the last year Or
two fhis life led a. bad life; in
he'll the two men, :HatcheH and
Patterson, who were lynched at
Franklin on the, night of October
s31st, for the7murder Of Lyons, at
Greenwood: - Miss Van. sArsaale
sent for a number of persons in
the neighborhood, and not only
.Sfmparted to- them news Of lost
!afriends, but told of sins committed
gby them, supposed to be unknown
Sby any one. Among others was
q man who had participated in
the execution of the men named
>sahove; she told him that he had
been there that night. (Which he
acknowledged9, and had in the
eight of God committed murder.
<sBseyiousto this the names of the
band had been kept a profound
secrvt,r1a ID 81 6t1is r1ssn bad net even
gbeen suspected. She narrated a
.:goedsmany tragic things, relating
mainly to individuals both IN this.
-Ssmorld and the other, many Of
which, would have been almost
.s..asiimpessible for her to-haVe invent
But the strangest part of the
stery is yet to come. A few hours
after the expiration of the first.
trance she predicted that she
wouid have another, and told to a
minute the time at which it would
commence and at which it would
= end Everything, turned out as,
she had said at: the exact time
she fellintos the same state. In
an ordinary trance, Or eataleptie
state, respiration is not suspended,
=, but IN this case breathing could
,.notsbe observed, She was to all
: appearance dead = but the. pulse
beat family and the body was not
cold. An sensation was gone
The physician made numerous ex=
xperimentss .pricking the body,
*opening veins and so forth, to dis
cover if there was any deception
: Ia the. end he was. perfectly con-
vineed that there was none. At
:ss.the, expiration of,the time set by
herself she came to, and in few
hours was we'll enough to leave
sherbed and 60 about the house.
The story Of her experience, in
the second trance, was similar to
.stthe:frst one, and was confined al
most wholly to individuals. She
seemed unable to describe the
:, places she had been in, but gave
histories of events and persons
with remarkable minuteness. She