The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-30

/ hau nOtnlnp purtlCulur 10 uo' saw tue |
stones. 1 did not know what else to do |
with them, and began throwing them Mt
that meeting house. made 1t ring. The
result was that q swarm of deacons poured
out, and / was seized and underwent my
first religious experience ut the hands of
very strong deacon, and l was afterward
confined for the space Of n day in the jail
ut Middebury, for what they called an in
reference with divine worship.
Reporter-That soured you against re-
ligious things?
Mr.. Storcy-Yes, always had to earn
my own living. ] was working as an APP
prentice on a paper at Bennington at one
time. and after my employer had got in debt
to me about $40, he discovered | had no
religion and refused to pay me, since it was
unlawful to have any dealings with lnii-
dels So / joined the Church there, and
then he paid me half, and said he would
give the rest to help the cause.
Reporter-But l understood that you
used to belong to the Episcopal Church
that you had been connected with II ever
since 1868.
Mr.. Storcy-The Episcopal Church is
very respectable Church. A member of
that Church who has money can generally
90 into good society anywhere. That is
| my connection with the Episcopal Church.
/ Reporter-Then you do not really care
about regeneration by baptism. or the Che
ney controversy!
Mr.. Storey-Do you think | am fool?
Bishop Whitehouse is good society. Bishop
Cheney is not.
Rcportcr-W Well, what turned your at
tention to this spiritual business!
Mr. Storey-Well, some of the boys
have declared that they had mediumistic
powers, and that they could converse with
eminent statesmen, writers, and so on; but
| did not see that they did any more work
or that the quality of their writing improved
any, and paid no attention to the subject
until one day a lady
Rcportel-A lady!
Mr.. StOrey-You insolent scoundrcl! Do
you mean to say don't associate with la
! dies?
TESTING THE MATTER.
Rcporter-Oh, beg your pardon, Mr.
Storey, had no such intentions at all.
Mr. Storcy-All right-until lady whom
| know began talking to me about these
phenomena, and wanted that | should go
and attend Il sea CO. We went down to her
nome and into dark room, and went
through lot of what | considered mnmmery
and nonsense, tables which moved around
! anu NlOllnS WHICH IlOulcNi III tut All anu
naly thought | would test the matter,
and-Whcn | was young man down in
York State, there was a fellow by the name
of Amasa Dustin, for whom | did some
work, and who owed me some money. He
put me of from day to day, and | used to
curse Him and bother him; but one day he
died, and left that little debt unsettled. New,
| know that nobody around knew anything
of Amasa Dustin-thc man had been dead
thirty vcars-and | thought | would ques-
ton the medium, and see if could get any
inform ton about this individual. So ]
asked if Amasa Dustin could be commun-
Gated with; and presently they said he
could, and that he had message for me.
said, VERY well; what is it ~ Then the
medium raped out a communication from
Dustin to the effect that lie still had that
debt of So. 80 on his mind, and was still de-
sirous to pay it. He had however, been
unable to obtain profitable work since he
left this earth, AMI was, therefore, in no
condition at present to make good his in
dcbtcdncss, and hoped I would give him a
little longer time. Well this surprised me
a good deal, because the medium named the
exact amout of the debt, and went on to give
some other little circumstances about the
matter which were known to no one but
him and me. Then the medium said Amasa
would shake hands with me. l consented,
and presently l felt hand press mine.
There was a family of these Dustins up in
Rupert in Vermont and they all had six
fingers-that is, the sixth finger was little
lump of flesh growing out beside the little
finger. | took hold of the hand with my
own, and could distinctly feel that sixth
finger.
Rcporter--That is very singular. But
perhaps your Imagination
HORACE GREELEY's Spirit.
Mr. Storey-I have none | tell you
counted those fingers. DO you think am
living? ] felt it. When went to the Office
the next day / sent for Wikie, who had told
me the whole business was humbug, and
said, "Wilkic, you claim this spiritual bu-
siness is all lie?" eyes" said he, "fron1
beginning to end" "Well," said |, 81
want to put you to test" "All right
said he, and he rushed out of the room and
came back with clothes line "What the
devil are you going to do with that?" said |
''rc myself, and then unite myself" said
he. Sad |, 81 don't want any of your in
fcrnal nummery; take your clothes line to
tie up your brains with to keep them from
falling apart Sit down" He sat down.
Now" said !, chow much did Amasa Dus
tin owe me-" 'Who is Amasa Dustin 2
"That is for you to tell. The spirits can
tell" Then went on and told him what
had seen, and | asked him to explain it, and
brought out my old memorandum book
and | showed him the charge l had made
thirty-iive years ago. "Now," said |. 81
suppose you think am id old fool ; but
Just explain TO me how the spirits knew that
man owel'me 50 90" He replied it was
all trick, and marched Off with his clothes
line. A few days later | went down again
to another seance, and after a little routine
business had been gone through with, the
medium said that Horace Greeley was pres.
cnt and would like to have a conversation
with me. | told the medium that guessed
that was liJ hat my relations with Mr.
Greedy were not particularly friendly; that
| had been the means of defeating his cleo
ton to the Presidency of the United States
and that il he had anything to say to me il
was probably in such language rs was &C.
customed to Use myself, hut did not particu.
larly like to hear from others The mcdi.
UNI said that Mr. Greeley appeared to be eX-
coelingly good natnrcd and pleasant, ant
that prob bly, there would be nothing said
or done that would wound my feelings
thought it was very queer that few months
in the spirit land had been able to work sucl
II change in Mr. Greclcys disposition, bu
| told the medium to go ahead. lie sale
that in order to satisfy any doubt | might
have, Mr. Greeley would communicate will
me by letter. Accordingly the medium wen
to work, under the inspiration, as he said
of Mr. Greeley, and wrote the following let.
ter;
MIR, GrEELtYs LETTER.
Mr. Storey here got up and went across
the room and took from a small safe sheet
of paper folded up in an envelope. and
handed it to the reporter.
Now said he, 'read that The re-
porter unfolded the sheet ofpapcr and locke
at it with exceeding bewilderment.
Mr. Storey-Why don't you read it? 1t is
plain enough.
Reporter never was familiar with Mr.