Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-24
The Pitasfield seeress.

Miss Georgiana Williams, OF PlttSIleld,
Mass, young lady who was dwarfed by
an accident in her childhood, but who fol-
several years has been gaining her proper
stature by the most extraordinary fits OF
stretching. She has now appeared in q
new character, and is healing the sick.--
Without Any knowledge of medicine she
is performing wonderful cures, and has
many patients. She calls her interviews
with her patients seeing for them" IL
short, she goes into condition i'll which
she sees the location of the aiiment, knows
what the complaint is, accurately describes
the symptoms and sensations, and has re-
vealed to her the means OF. cure, which is
always some native herb OF root, and she,
moreover, tells you just where needed med
icine grows. Some instances, showing her
power to direct where the material for the
healing steWs could be gathered, are in
teresting. AT birmingham, where she had
seven of the Shaker family under her care,
she prescribed white willow as an ingre-
dent for some medicine. A search was
made and various sorts of willow brought
to her, but she rejected them as not OF the
right sort. Another search was made,
with like results, and then she went into
one of her ''seeing fits" and told the
| parties to go across a certain meadow,
over bridge that spanned the stream
there, then along the brookside I'M
| til they came to q fence, and there
| they would find the article wanted. Her
! directions were followed, and the right
| kind OF willow obtained, those bringing it
seeing at once the difference between that
and the variety previously taken to her,
The tree grew where she had never been,
and she could not have known either Of the
bridge OF fence. Another: In LenoX.
where her prescriptions are said to have
cured q case Of st. Vitus' dance, which
| had been treated without success by Varl-
Gus physicians, she selected as one Of the
| constituents of the revealed remedy GER
/ tain kind of moss, which she said could be
| found upon q fallen tree, lying far away in
| the woods. She directed what road
| should be taken, and upon a fine day a
wagon load Of people, she accompanying
them. started in quest of the healing herb.
| They went along an unfrequeMted way
/ driving number of mules, where neither
! she OF any Of the party had ever been. 1t
/ was hard test Of her seeing power" and
| after a time they were nearly ready to
turn back They stopped at last, to make
{ a picnic lunch, and while they refreshed
| themselves she had another vision, reveal
| ing the further course plainly, and on they
| went, coming at last to the log lying just
as she had described it, with the surround
| ings just as she declared they would be,
| and the identical moss in pr0fuSion upon it,
which was also precisely like her descrip-
| tion of it i'll appearance.
| DEATH OF THE CHIMPANzEE.-"Jo Joe, :"
| the chimpanzee, which for three years has
/ had the honor of separate apartment i'll
/ the Monkey house at London Geological
| Gardens, recently died after about two
months illness. Of all the members of the
ape tribe the chimpanZee is probably the
most tractable, and Of all chimpanZees Joe
was perhaps the best tempered fellow that
| ever existed. The readiness he always ex-
hibited to learn any new trick the inge-
nuity of his keeper could devise, was re-
marlable; and the good temper he always
displayed when asked to perform them for
| the benefit Of visitors was not less surpri-
sing. He emulated the achievements of
Blondin and Leotard with equal success,
and seemed especially proud OF himself
when he was ordered to go through the Sc
ries of gymnastic exercises which embraced
the feats that have made the names of
those men known all over the world
If nut were presented to him he would
not crack it in the usual way, but would
place it under the donors foot, and assist
the process by administering sharp blow
with his fist on the toes Of his unsuspect-
ing visitor. He always seemed devotedly
attached to his keeper, and when shut up
close in his room would summon him by
repeated knocks at the door. In the even
| ing, when the time for bidding him good
night'' approached he used frequently to go
into quite a frenzy OF grief, tearing his
hair, rolling on the floor, and screaming
out like a bad tempered, spoiled baby with
extra strong lungs.
Nevertheless, he was really good tenn
pered, and was never known to malieiously
attempt to hurt any one. He would show
his visitors to the door with the utmost
politeness, turning the handle and opening
the door without assistance, and shaking
hands with his departing guests. Joe had
one fault He might have taught pick
pockets a lesson in the differing line of
business, which would have borne danger
GUS fruit in London crowd.
AN OLD USE FOR HAMMERs.-"I re-
MEMBER says q correspondent of the
Medical and Surgical Journal, shat when
[ was very young they used to raise bis
| te1s with boiled hammers. Old DR.. Twitch-
ell, of Keene, (peace to his ashes y once
wanted to blister some one in a farm
hOusn far from home He had nothing