The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-06
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ExfEaorJlinary Powers OF MemplaAi
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Chicago

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Chicago.
It viii be remembered by the readers
Of the Appeal that we, some time ago,
published q full account of the Won
derful development and powers OF Mrs.
Miller. g youoo married woman who for
some months occupied with her hus-
band apartments In the GayOsO house.
We related the story Of her advent
into spiritualisn. and reclted her pro-
gress under the advice and manlpula-
ton, as she and her husband claims, OF |
the spirits, and of the singular mani
festations, unexPlalnables upon any l
scientific hypothesis which We wit
messed and vouched for as plainly vlsl-
BILE to us.
A few weeks since, much to the dis /
appointments of the Spiritualists of |
Memphis, who are q large and lnhuen- |
tiaI class, many Of them notable for |
their culture. intelligence and high |
standing in the community, Mrs. Mil !
Ter left Memphis for the north, and IS
at present soiourning in Chicago, where
she has at once taken high rank as the
ablest and best of all the physical me-
diums of the country. The IImess
most impartial authority, tells the story
of her progress and triumphs in that
city in this way
s'After Chicago had sucked the
mind-reading' lemon dry, more than a
year ago, and given accounts OF the
phenomenon to the world through the
Times, New York has just captured the
young man Brown, and is making
grOat ado over him. Columns are
printed In the papers, learned Swans
report on his wonderful abnormal deyel-
opment, and the wiseacres generally
shake their dubious heads. Chicago
is Ieady to confess that Brown is quite
a curiosity. Having discovered him.
so to speak. it would hardly be fair TO
go back on him, but he is no longer
marvel in the light of later discoveries.
He may still be the eighth wonder of
the world for slow-going Gotham, but
Chicago is prepared to do better
in fact, discount him. For several
weeks past people of all sorts, in
Guiding skeptics, physicians, sclen-
fists, professional and business men
have been astonished, not to say edited,
by the mediumistic exhibition given
through the organism, of Young mar
ried lady, Mrs. Miller, of Memphis,
Tenn, now holding seances at the
rooms of the HeLigio-F Philosophical
| Journal, corner of Adams street and
Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Miller is lady about twenty
years old, of slight form, with express
sive, winsome features, is a perfect gem
tlewOman IN department, and so far as
certain phases of the phenomenon are
| concerned, that are exhibited in her
presence, fraud is simply out of the
/ question, for the whole experiment is,
SO to speak, locked IN the visitors own
mind. In the case of the young man
Brown, hidden objects were discovered
by taking tine hand of the party having
secreted it, placing it over his eyes,
previously blindfolded, and then lead
ing the party to the object. But IN his
case it was necessary that the person
with whom he was thus placed en- rap
port should place his mind intently and
undeviatingly on the object or the ex-
pertinent did not succeed. In the case
of Mrs. Miller this prerequisite is not
| called for. On the contrary, she allows
the visitor to think of two objects at the
same time-or, rather, take two objects
in the mind, and, having decided on
them, may dismiss them again-and
she will find them, and at the same time
give test through this very operation.
Thus the visitor is requested to ask a
mental question-one Involving test
and take in his mind two objects, the
one to stand for mo- and the other fol-
yes Taking the visitors hand she
will proceed to one of these objects,
never failing to give the test. To illus
trate A gentleman thought of the
head of his cane 'for yes distant OBJ
ject in the room for mo, and asked the
mental question Have I a brother
living in Chicago? The lady took hin
to his cane in trice, and the gentle
man, explaining his quo stion and the
objects he had taken In mind, confirmed
that he had u brother living IN this city,
In the course of an evening scores o.
such experiments are made, and so fal
J as the writer's observations go, they
never fail.
So much for Mrs. Miller's mental ex
, periments. He physical experiment.
are even more wonderful and Just a
much above suspicion. Having magnet
, lied q small table by passing he
, hands over the top and along the legs
) she turns it on its face, and then re
quests any gentleman present to turn i
back, to stand it upon its legs, simply
! allowing her to place the tip of her I'm
) ger npon any part of it. Scores of stall
J wart men have pitted their full strength
, against the little finger of this littlt
woman, but have ANONYMOUSLY failed
I Even four men, when the "power" ha
: been strong, have combined thei
) strength, and failed as well, though
generally the table is broken in the eff
! fort. 1t is a very interesting expert
ment. While the stalwart man is try
3 ing to set it on its legs, the table vii
absolutely float all over the room-tha
2 is to say, it is continually trying to ge
away from the lady's antagonist, anC
r will carry him about, now here and nov
= there, and will generally sustain a posi-
| ton over his head. The moment tn
p sensitive removes her hands the tabi
3 becomes docile, and allows itself to b
Z set properly on its feet, the same as an,
I other we'll regulated piece OF family
f furniture.
Another phrase of Mrs. Miller's me
. diumship is slate writing. The visito
Z is allowed to bring his own slate
! donble-locked slate if he chooses-an,
5 when the medium has held it uader
table, Intelligent answers to questions o
I other tests are invariably found writer
on the inside of the locked slate. But he
f piece de resistance is her materializinj
g phase. For scientific and text expert
I ments this lady is the best medium tina
{ aas ever been seen in Chicago. Whel
f hands were securely tied, sewe,
!. and sealed together, iron rings
:, chairs, coats and vests are put on he
e person so quickly that absolutely n
s time is consumed. Conceding that sh
! was not tied at all, but was free to d.
r with her hands as she chose, she coul,
e not manipulate three large chairs a
o they are Manipulated in her pre- ence
=, Take all for all, Mrs. Miller in the va
n riety of her phases, stands, probably Il
= the head of the physical mediums .
; the country, the more so as she impose
: almost no conditions. Memphis -Ap
e peal.
+ The Child kidnapped in philadelphia
1t Is known everywhere that a littl
four-year-old boy, the son of Mr.. q. K
Ross, of Germantown, has bcvn " kid
mapped" That occurred on last Wed
: nesday two weeks ago. DULY j. Tn
little fellow was playing with brothe
(. year or two older, on Washington
: lane, Germantown, when two men, VIII,
were driving in a wagon along the lane
=