Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-12


 elusive faculty of MT. J. R. Brown. Seve- ral gentlemen in Bridgeport have develop ed that power, and the Hartford cores pondent of the Sprinfeld Republican re- ports, the following case in that city: It may throw further light on his pow CTS for me to record here that Mir. Arthur Dyer of the Hartford Evening Post has discovered that he, too, possesses it. Ex- perimenting upon some of his associates, he found that he could discover hidden articles, and within twenty-four hours he has succeeded Tn two experiments of thls nature upon the writer hereof with wit nesses to the proceeding. Mr. Dyer makes no pretensions whatever to any special gift, and has made no experiments of an elaborate nature, but having always succeeded tolerably we'll in writing with planchette, in table-moving. etc., was tempted to try this, for the ''fun of the thing" as he thinks SpiritrnaisnA and ft.-n that stuff nonsense His success con- firms me in the belief that Browns gift consists simply in marked development of the faculty that many possess to a greater or less extent, e., that of read ing the thoughts of those with whom they are thrown, when brought into close coH- nectiOn with them-by that simple, yet mysterious animal magnetism that we all admit yet fail to analyze.
 Brown has been exhibiting with hls us- nal success ill Hartford and Springfield. Plagiarism Is a crime that IS often charged and occasionally proved, but we do not believe any first class writer ever made or increased a reputation in any such way. An English paper imagined, recently, it had caught MT. Whittier. 4 poem appeared in a volume of his that came out in 1867 that had been before published in 1860 in history of the elec- tric telegraph. This looked tolerably conclusive, till it was shown that NIT. Whittier had published the poem in ques- ton in the Atlantic Monthly in 1858, and that i'll the work of 1860 1t was credited to him in foot note the critic had overlook ed!
 One of the notable journalistic events of this season is the change of politics of the Chicago Tribune from Liberal to Re publican The former proprietor sup ported Greeley, but, we judge, found the change of base financial, if not a politi- cal mistake, and has sold out to Hon. Jo- seph Medill. former Mayor of Chicago. whose salutatory was published, Monday, and who makes straight Republican pa- per of it. This change iL paper that is re- ally the leading journal of the Westis indi- cative of the tendency of the politics of the day to slide back into the old political grooves. Independent or Liberal opin- ions may be entitled to great moral weight. but their voting weight is slight; and they do not bring newspapers large subscrip- tion lists it seems
 The phenomena of spiritualism seem to be attracting unusual interest, just now. The performances of Brown the "mind reader" and of the Eddy Brothers in Vermont. have aroused considerable inte- rest. The latter give exhibitions of In- dian spirits ''materialized, who play on musical instruments ill way that speaks very ill for the musical culture of the spirit world, and who otherwise demon strate their materialized condition. Dr. Beard has visited these people and gives explanations of their performances which he attributes to mere trickery. One thing tells to our mind conclusiyely against the Eddy brothers. They never allow any thorough investigation of their alleged powers, and till they do allow such inves- tigation they must be set down as mere coniurors. MT. Brown, on the contrary, does admit and even invite investigation and is, therefore. entitled to very differ ent treatment.
 1 On Thursday morning last, the body of George E. Lockwood, of Greenwich, was found on the beach, half mile from the Tweed club house, with wound in the head that had evidanklv cauaed his death