Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-22

ed against itself on matters of tariff, fi- nance, and the other practical questions of the day.
 The disappearance of the third party in Iowa and elsewhere indicates another old fashioned fight between the old parties in 1876. Justice for a misgoverned South will be 6 strong cry for our opponents, unless the present congress is wise enough to do at expected towards ridding the people of that unfortunate section of such rulers as Kellogg, Moses, ct al.
 The ''Mlnd Reader
 Those who have paid any attention to the claims of Spiritualism will have mo- ticed that very large proportion of the power claimed by the medium" con- sists in his alleged ability to read the minds of persons in his presence; and that it is by the apparent exercise of such power that most of the converts to that faith are made. We consider it fort unate that this power, if such a power really exists, has been subjected of late to all the tests that the faculty of Yale col lege could devise, and that it is to be brought to further test at public meet ing to be held at the New Haven Music Hall on Thursday evening of this week.
 Mir. J. R. Brown, native of St. Louis, now resident of Iowa, has been of late exhibiting before the faculty of Yale Col lege and other prominent citizens of New Haven the power he claims to possess of reading the prominent thought of the per- son with whom he is placed in connection by the holding of hands, or even by an in- sulated copper wire, as in the case of or dinary electric or galvanic connection. The New Haven Palladium gives an account of an exhibition given by Mir. Brown arLoomis' Hall on the evening of the 10th inst. from which We extract the following sample experiments. Judge E. K. Foster and Messrs T TT Shod-iat ...a il. F. Hubbard were selected by the au- dience as a committee to see that the ex- periments were conducted fairly.
 First Erperin1ent.-Mr Brown was blindfolded and placed in chair with his back to the audience. Mir. Lyman then took small pencil and placed 1t in one of the seats in the gallery, and returned to the stage. Mir. Brown took MT. Lyman's hand, placed it to his forehead for mo- or1 hand in hand, directly to the seat in the gallery, and picked up the pencil.
 Third Erperinlent.-Mr. Brown blind folded. Professor Newton wrote the in- itlals of the name of gentleman in the audience and gave them to Judge Foster. Mr. Brown took Professor Newton hand, walked to the alphabet strung across the back of the stage. touched the letters 4. P. then walked off the stage with Profes- sor Newton, walked up to Mr.. Ariel Par ish and said, ''This is the man." Judge Foster then read the name on the paper. It was Ariel Parish.
 FOurth Erperiment.-Mr Brown blind folded. Took Judge Fosters hand and touched the Judges eye to indicate the location of pain
 The Judge said he was right.
 Ffth Experiment.. Brown blind folded. Took Dr. Ira c. Smiths hand, and Dr. Smith was requested to write the names of two deceased friends on paper and hand them to Judge Foster. Mir. Brown went to the alphabet and spelled out "Ada" and ''Heber." The same names were on the paper in Judge Fosters hand.
 Eighth Experiment. Brown blind folded. Rev. Mir. Frisbie wrote the text of hls sermon for Sunday, which he said was known to none and gave it to Judge Foster. Mir. Brown took Rev. Mir. Fris- bie's hand, spelled out, ''Man became 8 living soul" Judge Foster stated that that was the sentence he held in his hand. On Monday evening the 18th inst, Mr. Brown gave another exhibition at the same place. The committee to whom the arrangements were intrusted were Fl. R. Knotwell, Eli Whitney, and Dr. Rodman. The most wonderful experiment was the transmission of mental impression from Prof. Lyman to Mir. Brown through about thirty feet of insulated copper wire, and the selection of the object thought of by the former. Prof. Lyman stated to the audience that he and others had made such an examination of Mir. Browns DOW CT that he would stake his reputation on the genuineness of the phenomena, and that he hoped to test the force of the cur 1 rent with the galvanometer. The Palla- dium ayers that "during his private ex- periments at the Scientific school he has been able to receive, while in the base ment. the mental impressions of another person in the upper story, by means of q copper wire." @aas s-s.-
 On Monday morning of this week, Mir. Brown gave an exhibition in the lecture room of North Sheffield Hall in the ore. sence of Professors Lyman, Brewer, Yer Till, Honey, and Norton. Tutors Phelps and Skinner, and several ladies. The first experiment was with the galvnometer
 which was not affected Experiments was then made by means of an insulating wire connecting NIT. Brown with the per- son whose thought he was to read. A wire 24O feet long was first ueed with partial success. Prof. Brewer then went into the basement, fixed his mind upon an object in the lecture room, and held one end of 1 an insulated wire 7(io feet lono tha otbe,.