The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-27
She goes and comes at their behest.

She goes and ONE at their behest.
Her enterprises are not the coinage of
her own brain, but of their divine in
vention. = = 1t has
been so from her childhood. So that
her school studies were, literally, a
daily miracle. She would glance at a
page, and know it by heart. The
tough little mysteries which bother
the bewildered brains of country
school billiards were always to her as
vivid as the sunshine. And when
SEN on long and weary errands, she
believes that she has been lifted over
ground by her angelic helpers-"lest
she should dash her feet against a
stone." When she had too heavy a
basket to carry, an unseen hand would
sometimes carry it for her. Digging
in the garden as if her back would
break, occasionally a strange restful-
ness would refresh her, and she knew
that the spirits were toiling in her
stead. All this may seem an illusion
to everybody else, but will never be
other han a reality to her.
The chief of her spiritual visitants
she believes to be the shade of De
mosthenes, under whose inspirations
many of her speeches and articles
have been delivered. Mr.. Tilton
describes the interviews between
the Greek orator and the lady and
places the fullest confidence in the
story.
Mrs. Woodruff was married in
her 14th year, and led an unhappy
life, her misfortunes being charged
to her husbands ~wickedness and in
difference. If Mr.. Tilton represents
him Alright he was a horrible brute
for a woman to be tied to. The
Doctor and his wife went to Cali
fornia where Mrs. Woodruff for a
time made a living for the two by
her industry, appearing for a time
ON the stage as an actress. Sudden
ly, we are assured, she was called
East by a spiritual visitation, and
was in like manner instructed how
to make her ~clairvoyant faculties of
practical use in the cure of disease.
She was successful money flow
ing in a stream toher.' Her income
reached nearly 500, 900, in a single
year. receiving in one day as high as
5000 for cures. She was finally
directed by the spirits to discoE-
tinue."
Her subsequent marriage is thus
described:
Col. James II. Blood, commander of
the Sixth Missouri Regiment, who at
the close of the war was elected City
Auditor of St. Louis, who became
President of the Society of Spiritual
lists in that place, and who had himself
been, like Victoria, the legal partner
of a morally sundered marriage. called
one dav on Mrs. Woodruff to consult
her as a spiritualistic physician thav-
ing never met her before, II was
startled to see her pass into a trance,
during which she announced, uncon'
sciously tt herself, that his future des-
tiny was to be linked with hers III
MARRIAGE. IuuS, " iueIi ii''tuo
amazement, but to their subsequent
happiness, they were betrothed on the
spot by "the powers OF the air. The
legal tie by which at first they bound
themselves to each other, was after,
ward by mutual consent annulled-
] the necessary form of Illinois law be-
ing complied with to this effect. But
the marriage stands on its merits. and
is to all who witness its harmony
known to be a sweet and accordani
union of congenial souls.
We have no space for further ex-
tracts from this singular compound
of semi-insane ~vagaries. They de-
serve remark chiefly because of theil
source. Theodore Tilton has WELD
ed a great influence on the public
mind, though yet a young man
Perhaps he may continue to do Sc
hereafter. This work affords some
insight into his mental traits as vel
as of those of the subject of his lates
Iadoration--Mrs. Woodruff.
An attempt was made the other day
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