The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-24
Che 8utland daily Globe
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER "a, 1874.
Correspondence N. Y. SUM-
MORE SPIRITUAL WONDERS.
shakespeare and Hacon and spirit
PhrenOlogv.

EDDY HOMESTEAD, RUTLAND Co., W.T.
October 10, 1874.
The seance began, as usual, with Honto.
The only novel thing she did was to smoke
a pipe which was given her by MIR. Olcott
for the occasion, Mr.. Horatio Eddy lit ii
and passed it over to her. She smoked it
for about minute, the light from the bowl
making her dark skin distinctly visible.
Then like true Indian, she desired that all
the spectators should smoke the same pipe,
handing it to Madame Blowskey, who was
standing near her. The Madame is fond of
smoking and kept the pipe, at which the
girl showed signs of displeasure and was
about to retire to the cabinet, when some
one suggested that she wanted the pipe
passed around. Then she smiled and bowed
Tue pipe went round
A few minutes after Honto retired Mrs.
Eaton, the leading female spirit, requested
Mr.. Pritchard, who occupied his chair on
the STAGE to change his seat, with his back
to the cvbinet. and have another chair
placed by his side, which meant of course
that nobody would sit in it. At the same
time she said, ats shade too light The
lamp was turned down little lower. Mr.,
Prtchard's mother then came out, looking
life-like. She took seat beside her son,
and conversed with him for several minutes
BY request, Mr.. Pritchard then introduced
mother to the audience, both standing up
by the railing. He said, "Ladies and gen.
tlemen, this is my mother, who passed
away about fourteen years ago. You can
see the difference in our height. | am five
feet five, while she is about five feet Mrs.
Pritchard bowed and smiled when intro
duced, but said nothing, although she is
able to talk distinctly. She very much re-
semblcs her daughter now living in AL
bany.
Mrs. Pritchard was followed by Mrs
Phillips, the mother of Mr.. II. A. Phillips
then came Mr.. Browns mother, followed
by the German and his niece, Mrs. LEM
| bergs brother and daughter who speak
| German.
Mr.. Brown, the leading spirit, here ap-
peared at the threshold of the cabinet and
again evinced his dispeasure. He made
some reference to ''money making The
seance then closed, Mrs. Eaton saying,
'sMr. Brown will have his way, and as he
is generally right don't see why he should
not have it. l wish you all very good
night" The courtesy was returned, as is
the case every night seance is held.
NEW PHASE OF sPIRITUALIsM.
Prof. Alanson Hobbs of Ararat, Pa, has
been here for several days. He is spirit
ual phrenologist, being able, he says, &c
4 give chart of. the living and the dead.
| The gentleman is not an educated man.
| He claims to have a learned spiritual guide
who furnishes charts of the inhabitants of
| the spirit land. He rarely touches the
head of an individual while making out the
chart, spirit giving him the impression. u
He says that in earth life men do not ex-
coed 49, degrees, but in spirit lite they can
reach 49, the spirits learning by experience
just as people learn on earth. He SAYS
that there are spirits from other planets
that far exceed those from our own, almost
doubling them in degrees. Prof. Hobbs
has raised large family and never lost a
child, always doctoring them by spirit i'm
preston.
To test his powers | requested him to
give. me chart or Bacon ana Shakespeare
| and at the same time to find out which of
them was the author of the great plays
He already had chart of Shakespeare,
with range of % degrees. To my sur.
prise found that he had never heard of
Lord Bacon, and consequently knew moth
ing about the contention as to the author
ship of the plays. He told me, however,
that he could ascertain about Bacon, but
that it would take little time. He came
| to me in a few hours and said that he could
give me the figures, saying, "My. the man
stands 90 degrees" He says that while
Bacon stands higher in intellect than
Shakespeare, Shakespeare is the author of
the plays, in writing which he was assisted
and directed by spirit power.
He gave me, in addition to Bacon and
Shakespeare, the charts of Maynower, the
Italian girl, who has been in the spirit land
1O4 years; George Dix, who has been there
about forty years and Miss Eddy (mother
of the Eddys), who has been dead about
two years. Bacon and Shakespeare having
been contemporaries, are nearly on an
equal footing so far AS progress in the spirit
land is concerned. The other three vary.
The following table gives the figures in
| THE SPIRITUAL CHARTS