Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-19
PErTlCOAT PHEEOHESOS.
Extraordinary Powers OF Memphis
HeiIou-sshe Makes n Sensation I'm
Chicago.


Miller. "A young married woman who
for some months occupied with her
husband apartments In the Gayoso
honse We related the story of her
advent into spiritualisIn, and recited
her progress under the advice and man
ipulati0n. AS she and her husband
claims, of the spirits. and of the sin
gular manifestations, explaina5le,
upon any scientific hypothesis which
we witnessed and vouched for as plainly
visible to us.
/ 4 few weeks since, much to the dis
appointment of the Spiritualists of
Memphis, who are large and infuen-
tial 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 sojourning in Chicago,
where she has at once taken high rank
as the ablest and best of all the phys
ical mediums of the country. The
Times, most impartial authority, tells
the story Of her progress and triumphs
in that city in this way:
fAfter Chicago had sucked the mind
reading lemon dry, more than a year
ago, and given accounts of the phenom-
enon TO the world through the Times,
New York has Just captured the young
man Brown, and is making a great ado
over him. Columns are printed in the
papers, learned sayans report ON his
| wonderful abnormal Development, and
the wiseacres generally shake their du-
bious heads. Chicago is ready to con-
less that Brown is quite a curiosity.
Having discovered him, so to speak, it
would hardly be fair to 60 back on him,
but he is no longer a marvel in the
/ light of later discoveries. He may still
| be the eighth wonder of the world for
SLOW going Gotham, but Chicago is pre-
pared to do better-in fact, discount
him. For several weeks past people of
all sorts, including sceptics physicians,
scientists, professional and business
men have been astOnished, not to say
edited, by the mediumistic exhibition
given through the organism of a young
married lady, Mrs. Miller, of Memphis,
Tenn, now holding seances at the
rooms of the Religio-Philisophieal
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
gentlewoman In department, and so
far as certain phases of the phenomen-
on 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 the hand of the party having |
secreted 1t, placing 1t 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 oper-
alton. 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 9TH
er for 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 him
to his cane in a trice, and the gentle
man, explaining his question and the
objects he had taken in mind, confirm
ed that he had a brother living IN this
city. In the course of an evening
scores of such experiments are made,
and so far as the writer's observations
go, they never fail.
So much for Mrs. Miller's mental ex-
periments. Her physical experiments
are even more wonderful, and Just as
much above suspicion. Having imagine
tized a small table by passing her hands
over the top and along the legs, she
turns it on its face, and then requests
any gentleman present to turn 1t back,
to stand it upon its legs, simply allow
ing her to placeth tipOf her finger upon
any part Of Ii. Scores of stalwart men
have pitted their full strength against
the little finger of this little woman,
but have ANONYMOUSLY failed. Even
four men, when the power has been
strong, have combined their strength,
and failed as well, though generally
the table is broken in the effort. 1t is
10
the stalwart man Is trying to set 1t on
its legs, the table will absolutely float
all over the room-that is to say, 1t is
continually trying to get away from the
lady's antagonist, and viii carry HIM
about, now here and now there, and
will generally sustain a position over
his head. The moment the sensitive re-
moves her hands the table becomes do
Gle, and allows itself to be set properly
on its feet, the same as any other well
regulated piece of family furniture.
Another phase of Mrs. Miller's me-
diumship is slate-writing. The visitor
is allowed to bring his own slate-a
double-locked slate if he GhoOses-and
when the medium has held it under
table. intelligent answers to questions
or Otner tests are llNdTldDll IOuuu |
written on the inside of the locked
slate. But her piece de resistance is
her Undertaking. phase. For scientific
and text experiments this lady is the
best medium that has ever been seen in
Chicago. When her hands are securely
tied, sewed and sealed together, iron
rings, chairs, coats and vests are put
on her person so quickly that absolute
ly 10 time is consumed. COnceding
that she was not tied at all, but was
free to do with her hands as she chose,
she could not manipulate three large
chairs as they are manipulated in her
presence. Take all for all, Mrs. Miller
in the variety of her phases, stand,
probably at the head Of the physical
mediums of the country, the more so
as she imposes almost no conditions.
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