Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-20

restore MIN. ne ielt mucn anxiety IN
regard to this unusual case, and ques-
toned members Of his family closely as
to whether there was any convulsions or
frothing of the mouth, but there were
no indications Of anything more than an
ordinary fainting spell. Some weeks
since he detected slight identity OF
epilepsy, but not very serious.
While at the farther end of his field
one day he heard the FIRE bells ringing,
and was warned that there was FIRE
which would do him some injury, and on
coming to his house found the kitchen
in blaze.
One day he was made aware Of an
abortion being committed by the agency
of this sympathy, and told persons near
him that some rascality was being COM
mitted. He felt the keen passes of the
knife as 1t penetrated, and suffered
agony as intense as if the operation were
really being performed upon him. This
was also verified by the arrest of parties
in the neighborhood few days after for
abortion. 1t was learned that the deed
was committed on the same day and at
the same hour that he suffered the pain.
One evening about sunset he felt q
bullet strike him in the forehead, and
though he was not shocked or knocked
down, suffered as much pain. In Eve
minutes after hia little nephew came
running to the house with the news that
a man had been shot short distance
from his house.
Very often be feels glass of whisky at
his lips, and can even smell it though
there is nothing of the kind near. This,
he says, results from the sympathetic in
huence existing between him and the
person at the time. Col. Lee here in
quired if it smelt and tasted the same as
if it were really so, when Mr.. Sadler
jocularly remarked that anyway he
would rather be the principal"
These, he said, we're only few of the
many incidents of the kind that occurred
to him during his life, and said he did
not expect that those who we're not sub
ject to this influence would credit such
stories, but they were as true and mani
fest to him as common day doings are to
ordinary people.
When questioned as to reports that he
would get up in the night aud scream
and wake the inmates of the house, he
said that often the pain occssioned by
the hurting of some one with whom he
was connected was so great that it was
impossible for him to avoid giving vent
to his agony in screams, just as any one
else would. He felt the pain equally as
severe as the principsl-that is, the one
who is actually hurt. In reply to ques-
ton, he said he had no way of finding
out whether distance destroys the effect
of the sympathy or not, as he could not
tell how far away from him the principal
was at the time of the sensation
After lengthy and pleasant CONVEX
sation with Col. Lee and the jury, in
which he argued his views so well that
he destroyed in the minds of his hearers
the creduiity that would exist with the
reader. He talked so nationally and
was SO confident in his assertions that
for the time all within his hearing
seemed converts to his strange theory.
He seemed indignant at being taken
from the bosom of his family and
dragged here before a criminal tribunal
on such charge for entertaining opin-
ions no more in advance of the age, and
no more monstrous than
those of Socrates, who was prosecuted
by the ignorant, but whom the progress
of enlightenment and knowledge proved
to be correct. He had lived in Ken
lucky thirty years; had with his own
hands cleared and cultivated his farm,
and now when he has settled himself
down to spend the few remainder of his
days in the enjoyment of the little for
tune which he has by hard labor accumu-
lated, it is hard that he is not allowed to
DO so in this country of a boasted free
speech and free press.
The jury retired, and, after being out |
about an hour, returned aud reported
hat they could not agree, when they |
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