The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07

lately been under the Magic of a Spirit
udE communication. Neither IS it
S strange that he should SO wildly, Truth
: fully and naturally delineate that "phau
, tasmagoria Of horrid and strange FORMS
} ETC." because it had been before the eyes
t of others when they have had too large
: horn" from that Secret Spring." clark
: and gloomy fogs rising from stsgnant
pools and sluggish streams" No WON
der when a fellow has a Brick IN his
r Hat. Whose ferry man was boatman
pale" getting rdmpGgeouS! The tuues
, roam set free from cells and discord mad
dens and rebels" Snakes in the bo0tsi
Councillors of Death sit plotting and
playing their high chess games, etc.
Worse and worsel see little devils climb
ing the bed post, running races over and
around him, rolling their flaming eyes,
chattering their devilish gibberish, point
ing their long fingers at him, laughing
and grinning at his ''perpIerjty" Take
care, dreamy drummer, or you may need
on your next trip one of those "lOng-face |
| Doctors" with superabundance of !
| Choral and other remedies to counter |
| act the magic" influences of spiritual |
| communication. why should 1 go to
| sleep just at that timer Easily answer
cred; it was just about the time your
exert its ''soporiic' influence. "Were
there any sOporifc effects in the 'Culleoka
items?" Why certainly not your eye
happened to fall upon the "Culleoka
Items" just at the time you were passing
into the full effect of the "soporifc' IN
fuence of the spiritual communication,
just like fellow when he is little tight,
thinks he is the only sober fellow in the
crowd
"Why should l have that horrid
dreamY Why, cid fel, that was very
natural; it is one of the stages. did |
reading the Culeoka items have any con-
nection with that" Why there again, you
are mistaken for it was before you got
through the reading that the stage came
on--you went right off into the coma of
dreamland where the COWS" low for their y
calves, and the sheep bleat for their 5
lambs 1t could not possibly have been ,
the "Culleoka Items, for you say they j
were blown through the little end No !
Stree! if they had been blowing through
the other end, you certainly could not J
have existed or resisted the blast of that :
hurricane Mr.. Wilkes says he called s
my attention to two mistakes; that | ad- q
mitted the probability of one. True, and e
would have admitted the other had it :
existed. In the item regarding the num- ~
Der of cases of munps, and to which he q
called my attention, said there were 81
several; he says there were only two. At Ii
The time | wrote there Cere more than tCo, 81
and | was justified in saying there were In
several, and had Mr.. Wilkes been as anX \
Gus to state facts correctly himself as he -
vas to induce the public to believe ! had -,
them, he would have as
these facts. He says, Let
here be no lodging" If he intends by 81
his to challenge me to public contro US
'ersy with him, ! will dodge, as that is tn
lot in my line of business, and this shall bu
,e the last notice shall take Of him and ol
as through the press But to dodge is II
orcign to my nature, and have already GO
investigated and find that | was not ~
but that Mr.. Wilkes has either ",
made statement without having investi- 50
ated the facts, or knowingly stated them WI
incorrectly. If he wants to call on me, ! Pi
an be found in my Office. do
GEo. C. TAYLOR. Er
p. S. trust Mr.. Chappell and Mr. ii,
iCo. Beal will not hare their future pit
respects marrcd by the unfortunate at iiEi y,
lck of mumps. G. c. L, fan