The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-31
A PErIIrOAT PHENoMENON.
Extraordinary Powers of a BIemphi
1edtum-She Makes a Sensation in
CHICAGO.

some months occurred with her hus-
band apartments In the Gayoso house.
We related the story of her advent |
into spiritualism, and recibed her pro- |
gress under the advice and Hanipula- |
ton, as she and her husband claims, OF
the spirits, and of the singular mani
festations, unexPlaInable, upon any
scientific hypothesis which we wit
messed and voUched for as plainly v1s1-
BILE to u.s.
a 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 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 Times,
most impartial authority, tells the story
of her progress and triumphs in that
city In this way
'After Chicago had sucked the
undertaking 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 deve1-
/ opment, and the wiseacres genera ly
shake their dubious heads. Chicago
/ is ready to confess that Brown is quite
curiosity. Having discovered him,
1 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, scien-
lists, professional and business men
have been astonished, not to say edited,
by the mediUmistic exhibition given
through the organism of a young mar
ried lady, Mrs. Miller, of Memphis,
Tenn, now holding seances at the
rooms of the ReligiO Philosophical
Journal, corner of Adams street and
Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Miller is a lady about twenty
years old, of slight form, with express
sive, winsOme features, is perfect gen
tIewoman 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 the 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
D them, may dismiss them agaln-and
she will find them, and at the same time
give a 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 tie other fol
yes Taking the visitors hand she
will proceed to one of these objects,
never failing to give the test. 70 illus
trate A gentleman thought of the
head of his cane for yes a distant OBJ
= ject in the room for mo- and asked the
living in Chicago? The lady took him
to his cane in trice, and the gentle
man, explaining his question and the
objects he had taken in mind, confirmed
that he had 81 brother living in this city,
In the course of an evening scores o.
such experiments are made, and so fal
as the writer's observations go, they
never fail.
So much for Mrs. Miller's mental ex
d. periments. He physical experiments
are even more wonderful and just az
much above suspicion. Having magnet
\ lied small table by passing hel
hands over the top and along the legs
} she turns it on its face, and then re
; quests any gentleman present to tnrn i
= back, to stand it upon its legs, simply
i allowing her to place the tip of her fin
: ger upon any part of it. Scores of stal
l wart men have pitted their full strength
: against the little finger of this little
! woman, but have ANONYMOUSLY failed
i Even four men, when the "pOwer" hai
> been strong, have combined thei
strength, and failed as we'll, though
; generally the table is broken in the eff
Q fort. It is a very interesting expert
ment While the stalwart man is try
: ing to set it on its legs, the table vii
, absolutely float all over the rOOm-tha
is to say, it is continually trying to ge
: away from the lady's antagonist, ant
! will carry him about, now here and nov
l there, and will generally sustain posi-
ton over his head. The moment thu
= sensitive removes her hands the tabi
> becomes dociIe, and allows itself to b
I, set properly on its feet, the same as an.
: other well regulated piece of famil.
furniture.
. Another phrase of Mrs. Miller's me
; diumship is slate writing. The visito
! is allowed to bring his own slate
d dOuble-locked slate if he chooses-an,
u when the medium has held it under
table, Intelligent answers tOquestiOns o
u other tests are invariably foun9 Wi tel
. I on the inside of the locked slate. But he
a piece de resistance is her materializini
: phase. For scientific and text expert
Z ments this lady is the best medium tina
u las ever been seen in Chicago. Whel
y hands were securely tied, sewe'
= and sealed together, iron rings
chairs, coats and vests are put on he
3 person so quickly that absolutely u
:, time Is consumed. COnceding that sh
: was not tied at all, but was free to d
= with her hands as she chose, she coul
, not manipulate three large chairs a
20 they are Manipulated in her pre- ence
Take all for all, Mrs. Miller in the va
riety of her phases, stands, probably q
: the head of the physical mediums c
q the country, the more so as she impose
81 almost no conditions Memphis IN
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