Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-06-05

| ficials. after they had exone rated
them from corrupt motives. They
set out with the assumption that ex-
ira facilities had been given Sanborn
with view to enable him to make
money improperly, and that he got
the money solely by those extra facil-
tiles. Now if they had no corrupt
motive, their only other motive must
have been to make the law effective,
and this they did, because Sanborn
was the only man out Of many in
many years who ever made contract
work. But now the Committee turn
round say that Sawyer and Richard
son were negligent, and all the troub-
lie comes in that way. When they
were deemed corrupt, they accounted
for their energy on the score OF their
interest, and when they find them not
corrupt, they propose to apply the
bastinado for lack of interest, and
negligence. Surely a committee
couldn't get into more illogical and
ridiculous position than this. When
they found them innocent in motive,
and Mr.. Beck affirmed this, the grava-
men of the charge fell, and even a
ways and means that are dark cannot
change activity that was great enough
to excite suspicion Of guilt, into neg
ligence that is almnst as damnable as
corruption itself. That wont do.
But the committee must find some
thing. They were under compulsion
as much as the boy who was out for
a woodchuck OH Sunday, and met the
minister, who told him he couldn't
find one on a Sunday-'fnd one!
thunderation and Moses! must find
one, for the Parson is coming to din
ner, and we haven't got no meat"
MIRACLE WORKING.
This is an age of wonders-of
great discoveries. The scientific
world is overlooking with them. But
greater than them all are the constant
developments Of so-called spiritual
phenomena. Scientists have, from
the first, ignored investigation into
this philosophy, until it has come to
be considered quite the thing to con-
denim, without examination. This
practice rs changing, and occasionally
we find scientist, like Prot. Crook
OF London, seriously conscientiously
and earnestly bringing the facts. of
science to bear upon well established
results, in order to discover, if posi-
BILE, the hidden law, through which
such result are obtained.
Among the most wonderful pheno-
mena ascribed to direct spiritual in
terventiou, is that power, possessed by
certain persons, to cure disease by the
laying on ofhands.
There is now in this city one of the
most remarkable examples oil this
character the world has ever seen-
Mrs. Eliza Foster Stillman, who has
wrought some Of the most wonderful
cures on record by magnetic power
through the laying on ofhands.
The Washington Capitol, a paper,
certainly, not open to the charge of
superstition, in speaking of this re-
markable woman, says editorially.
"She administers no drug, pays lit
tie attention to diet, and scarcely
makes. any change in ones habits.
Her entire practice and process is so
simple that it seems ridiculous until
one notes the result. Nor are her
patients ignorant, superstitious peo-
pie. One meets at her rooms many
of the more noted men and women
in our midst, and all bear the same
testimony to her singular success.
Our Vice President, for example,
finds, for the first time since his sad
attack, any relief, and we could, if we
were at liberty to use their names
present quite list of educated men,
well known to the public at large,
who are patients and have received
marked benefit"
Having heard much of her power,
l, like doubling Thomas called at
her rooms, to see for myself ifi,e-.San-
ders said to be wrought under her
hands. l became convinced, while
conversing with some of her patients,
that the days of miracles had return
ed.
I found Mrs. Stillman lady of
commanding presence, fine personal
appearance, and extremely engaging
in her manners. l also discovered,
in conversation with her, that, in add
dition to this unknown healing pow
er which comes through her hands,
she has acquired scientific knowl-
edge of medicine in the regular
schools, and could talk as learncdly
of diseases and their remidies, as any
of the accepted professors of medical
science.
met, at her rooms, gentleman
seventy-seven years of age, u regular
physician of the old school, who, af.
ter exhausting the knowledge Of the
learned professional aurists, had re-
ceivcd through the magic of this wo-
mans hands his hearing, the loss of
which h had mourncd for many years.
And this was accomplished with
one tire. tment.
In striking contrast to this case,
was that of a young girl, who had al
SO been cured of deafness, by the