The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-11
MRS. HOLLIS AND xxx.

"NXA,"a correspondent whose card
we publish this morning, says that she
was present at our interview with Mrs.
Hollis on the afternoon of Saturday
October 3lst 1874, and heard that
lady tell us that the so-called en-
posture OF her tricks had made her so
nervous she had been unable to have any
satisfactory manifestations; but, adds
our correspondent, ''when you say that
that same evening. n few hours after you
had spent the afternoon with her, and
she had told you she could do nothing.
she went to Mound City and gave great
satisfaction to the believers there. YOU
are wrong. She did not 90 to Mound
City till the evening Of November lst,
twenty-four hours after your interview
with her; and before she did go she gave
written communications in presence of
Zen rational, sensible persons" This
correspondent is lady, and we were not
therefore surprised to find postscript to
her communication, marked ''rr,vatc,''
in which was the following: "What did
you tell such whopper for? You must
have the poorest memory
Let us test the question of memory.
On Friday Oct. Both, we called on Mrs.
Hollis at the residence of Mr.. Woodward.
she having agreed to give us q "writing
test" We remained nearly all afternoon.
during which time she held slate under
table with persistent industry. She
got nothing, and told us the abuse she
had received was the cause but, she adj
ded, Tomorrow evening am going TO
Mound City on the Fisk. Mr.. Shipper
of that place will call for me at the resi-
dence of -. if you will call there
in the afternoon at l or o'clock. | will
try to get You something before | leave
Cairo"
On Saturday afternoon, October 3lst.
we called at the residence of -. and
were received by Mrs. H., who again III
dustriou,ly held slate under a table fo,
: several hours with no result. During ON
, call upon Mrs. H., the Spiritual lecturers
Chase and Taylor, and Mr.. Shipper, call
ed, the lecturers to pay their respects an,
Mr.. Shipper to accompany the lady /,
r MoundCity. That evening she went will
i MIR. 5. to Mound City on the steamc
is Fisk, within an hour or so after we lief
., her at the residence of -.
a. We have clear evidence of this: III,
L mill
r right, II she WIN only reflect for m,
N ment. Mrs. s.. did not go to Mound CIT
N by the wagon road. She went either n
rd | river or railroad. We were with her a
H. the 3lst ofOctobcr. This xxx admit
yo The 3lst was Saturday. II she remain,
at In Cairo twenty-iour hours after our
lac terview with her, she remained until s.,
day evening, Nov. LIST. On Sunday eve
ing, Nov. LIST, she could not have gone
Mound City by the Fisk, because |
'es FISK makes no trip Oh that day. S
'iu could not have gone by the c. Il V. II.
10 because no train is run
% Mound City on that road Sund
81 afternoon. The truth il she went
ger Mound City on Saturday evening, q sh
he time after telling us her mind was so Il
~ up by abuse the spirits could not be
le' duced to communicate through h
TX That same night. few hours after
De- mind-torn excuse was offered to us,
OF showed to believers materialzcd spin
He and got all the writing she wanted. G
eu correspondents circle, attended by
sensible persons, at which Masonic IL
" obtained from a Morgan book were Civ
Is must have been held at another tin
.. But maybe her memory is poor,