Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25

and at the same time scuttle the vessel
! Three men only were engaged in it
| and they buried the gold at well
marked spot. Here they separated
| and, being afraid to come for it, soon
! it transpired that they were all three
killed or died, and the gold was lef,
| undisturbed 10 its hiding place, and
there it still rests in its bed. why
| don't you go and get it2 Would you
know the spot?" "Yes, / can go there
| and put my hand on the box, but it is
| ill gotten gold. 1t is blood money,
and it will carry curse with it." And
no argument would alter his determin-
alton or make him reveal its hiding
place to any one.
He had daughter attending school
at DIR. Wards in this city. On the
night of the commencement. he was in
a trance-we know not what else to
call them-at his far away home in
Alabama. All at once. he sprang for
ward and exclaimed excitedly, There,
we are in the dark" His wife said to
him he was mistaken, the light was
burning. "0h /! | mean at Wards. |
was attending the examination and
now it's all dark" When his daugh-
ter returned she told them of the ac-
cident of the gas going cut while the
commencement exercises were in pro-
gress, leaving them all in darkness.
He has other aud diverse powers.
| One day be carried Miss Walton s
mail from the Office. Handing her
letter, he says. This is from Brother
Med" mo, this is from his wife,"
He only backs her letters for her. ''No,
this is from him and he writes to you
about so and so''-and he repeated to
her its contents. At another time he
said to his wife: A letter directed to
me from Nashville, passed on to-day
by mistake, and it contained so and so, "
and be repeated the contents of the
letter, as was seen on its return from
the other direction. 1t is said among
his neighbors he can read any letter
through its envelope. The whole
neighborhood apply to him when any
thing is lost, and be can always, flask
ed while in a trance, answer correctly.
Even the rogues have become fearful
of his power.
But the most singular of all his per-
fOrmances and equal to the pretensions
of the best Spiritualists, is the last
circumstance we will relate. There
are thousands of others, but we deem
it only necessary 70 give representa-
tive case in each branch of his powers.
The Methodist Conference year had
closed and the new minister of Moores-
vile had come. On Saturday Mr..
- frequently spoke of his curiosity
to hear the rev preacher. He was
sick all Saturday night, so much so
that he could not sleep. After break
fast Sunday morning, he told his wife
he would take nap and then go to
church. He was sleeping so sweetly
at the regular church time that his
wife would not awake him. Just as
the congregation began to pour out he
raised up, and his wife said: You
were sleeping so soundly did not dis
turb you to go to the Methodist Church,
and so you missed hearing the new
preacher" l4 ati o@
mo, / heard him. sdI ~ sd
How could you hear him, and /
know you have been asleep all the
time"
Nevertheless / heard him, and to
prove it, | will show you"
And he wrote down at once text |
divided into various heads and made
synopsis of the sermon, giving the lead |
ing arguments. This was shown that !
evening to the Methodist minister and |
others, and they all recognized itas al
most the literal sermon.
He once heard DIR. Baird, and in |
some respects differed with the Doctor. |
On going home, he went to sleep and
answered the Doctor, much to his great
amusement-for he was present. Itwas
said to have been mastery criticism,
abounding in figures of rhetoric and
very sarcastic in tone. sisai
1t is unnecessary to repeat all the !
wonderful things he does. 1t is said |
that if asked where any missing article !
or property is while in his trance, he
at once sees it and is able to tell its
precise location. A boy stole his wife's
breast-pin, and on being informed of
its loss, Mr.. - without any hesita-
ton named the party who had it and it
was recovered.
How can these things be? That
they are so is unquestionable. as Drs.
Provine, Baird and Blake will testify,
but how they are so puzzles the seien-
tific mind. Mr.. - scouts the idea
of spirits aiding him, and will not,
under any circumstances, receive
money for any information, nor will
he give the information, if asked for it,
at any other time except while under
the influence of his epiliptic or cat
aleptic exacerbatiOn. There is some
cerebral disturbance, a superexcitation
or rather hyperesthesia of the sem
sorium that pushes his mind or soul
free and untramelled into space, and
thus, uninfuenced by surrounding OBJ
jects, it sees clearly all things happen
ing around. We see often the same
thing to limited extent in the case of
somnambulists. They, with closed
eyes, will walk over houses, near pre-
cipices and with lmpunity. Why +?
Because from peculiar nervous ex-
altatlon the optic expansion ceases to
be the only mode of conveyance to the
brain of objects, and every nervous
BECOMES pro tempora retina.
THIS is temporary eatalepsy, and an
UNUSUAL or Overpowering amount of
sia wouli produce like
great results,