The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-03-20
: From the Rochester Union.
Spiritualism in a. New Ferm-
) Manifestations IN the Flesh.

7 &AAe@ O6OssSAO1AO AAA OAAO AGScAAS
1 For .some time, past it has beer
/ known here and elsewhere that there
were remarkable spiritual manifesta.
tions in ihe .yillsge OF, Alton, Wayne
county, whereby . lady acting as q
medium, persons who were dead had
appeared in bodily substance to living
| friends aud held communication with
them, even to conversation and grasp
ing of hands, aud this in presence of a
number of persons. "A number Of
citizens, of Rochester have been Ito
Alton and witnessed these exhibitions
including soIne who knew nothing
of ."spiritualism" and who have been
greatly surprised and ,ayowed them
selves wholly unable to account, for
what they saw and heard. Nothing
transpiring in relation to that is calf
ed Spiritualism, since the Fox family
made its appearance here manyoyears
ago, has cansed so much sensation as
these Developments at Alton. ~. -,
The Oswego Palladium has the fol-
lowing in relation to these manifesta-
tions.
"AIton is pleasant and modest lit
tile village on the line of the Lake On-
tario Shore, Railroad, now building
westward from this city to the Niags-.
"a River, and with which, by means
Uf this new road we are brought into
ueighboring relations. ni 81 i54s ~
From this fresh and breezy country
retreat comes most remarkable sto-,
ry of spiritual maEifestations-as story
as marvellous as startling. Alton has
a medium, lady of eminent social
standing and the most respectable
family connections, who displays the
unheard OF power to conjure the
fleshly .reappearance of the dsadl She
holds seances at the house of q resi-
dent of Alton, though she herself,
we understand, lives in Sodus. Eve
rything that transpires is done in a
room wherein the lights are not. dim
med, but are allowed to burn in the
ordinary way while the seance pro-,
ceeds. The medium alone occupies q
cabinet of the ordinary size and design
having an aperture about the size of a
common looking-glass, at which ap
pears the rehsbilitated. spirit of the
deceased person, and through which
friends even shake hands, aud con-
verse with those, whom they have
looked upon as forever lost, SO far as
concerns the earthly form. .1'''
"A gentleman of this, city, whose ye:-
acity is above dispufe,was lately pres
ent at one of these seances. He says |
after time there appeared to him the
form of brother who died in dis
tant State, and who was not and could [
not have been known TO the MEDIUM
or any other person in the room. The
was SO vivid and life-like /
that he involuntariiy started up to
proceed towards it. but was re-,
pressed by some one present. It dis,
appeared, but in moment came forth
again, this time stretching forth its
hand in. salptation. He then rushed
grasped the hand and shook
it-a flesh and blood hand-pressed it
his two palms and kissed it,
and they then held q conversation to-
gether. He relates that at the same
seance there appeared to him the form
Of a deceased lady. of this city, with.
whom he conversed, and who sent by /
him a amesssge TO her husband.
An instance is related where wife
and daughter, the, latter long dead,
to the husband and father.
The child first appeared in the child,
Ike form it bore at the time of its1
ledtL, duu euU5OAuCutly 11r tuC sAOt LII
Of it's present existence-the matur tyi5
pf womanhood., Other equally mar
velous circumstaces are related.
The medium is q woman of infirm
health and ON that account she holds
but one sesnce q week, each of which
8 crowded. The matter creates great
excitement iii The vicinity, and the
'tory has already spread far and wide.
a ~ sa- !
ant places have visited and are week
y visiting Alton to see the manifesto
IONS" s., ~
The above is confirmed by the
of q lady friend of ours
living ct Rochester, who attended one
If the seaDces sometime since, and
incerely avows that she saw and con-
,ersed with her deceased father, re-
hin promptly and unmis-
akabty, as in life,. - a.