The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-23

| Blake, OF our city, has little daughte
whom her grandmother had presented
golden eagle and requested hsr to have
ring made o: it and wear for her memory
which the doctor had attended to; but th
ring being too large, it was worn tempe
rarily by her mother. On one occasion IL
assisting her cook, she laid the ring dowT
in the kitchen, and on returning for IL eI
hour or so afterwsrd, it was gone. OF cOurs,
all were distressed, and diligent search was
, made for it at every possible place, but NJ
ring could be found. A few days afterwards
while the family were assembled at break
fast, and the cook, who, by the way, all sus
pected, was in waiting, DR.. B., knowing the
great superstition of negroes, said to bis wife
he intended TO write to MIR. --, of Ala
bama, who had the power of finding stolen
things, and related several very striking in
cidents. The negro listened intently, and
at last, seeming TO be impressed with new
idea, she turned to her little SOB, and told
him to look under the window where Mrs.
| B. was in the habit OF sitting. The boy went
away and soon came back WITH the ring. A
day or so after DR.. B. visited Alabama on
business, and at a depot he met with Mr..
-. After greeting, Mr.. b. said: Brother
-, made use OF your name to some good
purpose the other day." tYes" says Mr.
-, "I heard you" And then he related to
the sstonished DIR. Blake the whole circum-
stance, who gave the ring. who made it, the
covery, even to the complete conversation at
the table. He also told DR.. Blake the whole
transaction was on paper, and had been
written by MIN wilhelm a francs. DR.. Blake
having never spoken of the circumstances
20 ang one, was OF course
WONDERFULLY AsroNIsHED.
This looks like c!airvoysnce, only the mind
OF the clsirvoyant usually does no more than
interpret the thoughts of those present, and
this might have been accounted for here, but
that it was written out. He visited Dr.
Thacb, of Mooresville, good deal, who viii
corroborate all these statements and give
more. One dark, drizzly night, DR.. Thach
noticed him while asleep put his hand to his
eye, maxim 3 telescope of II, and appear
To look thru i "a it at some far distant object.
doctor. 'I see a ring" "Where?" sin.
front of the hotel, in the mud" The hotel
was two hundred yards away. "Well, get
up and let's go to it" says the doctor. Mr..
- at once arose, walked out the door into
the darkness, and DIR. Thach following him,
he took the center OF the very muddy
street, and went unhesitatingly 10 the front
OF the hotel, stopped down and picked
up a gold ring, and handed IL to his
companion. 1t was down in the mud. AT
another time, with the same companion, he
saw some money, and being bid to go after
BILE lot and picked up two dollar bill. Doc
tor Thsch saw the money as soon as the
other this time, it being light. He told a
friend In one of his visions he saw, as If q
long while ago, vessel with large guam
tity of gold on board and sailing for this
country. de saw mutiny on board, and
the men and officers murdered. He saw the
schooner run into the mouth of certain
creek on the sea shore, and at sscertain spot,
washed in certain way, he saw them re-
move the gold to the shore 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 il |
transpired that they were all
THREE KILLED OR DIED,
and the gold was left undisturbed in its |
hiding place, and there it still rests in its |
bed. "Why don't you 60 and get it? Would |
you know the spot9', eyes, can go there |
and put my hand on the box, but it is ILL., |
gotten gold. 1t is blood money, and it will |
carry a curse with it," And no argument |
would alter his determination or make him
reveal its hiding place to any one. He had |
daughter attending school at DR.. Wards in |
this city. On the night of the commence
ment he was in a trance-we know not what
else to call them-at his tar away home in
Alabama. All at once he sprang forward |
and exclaimed excitedly, "Tnere we are In
The darkp' His wife said to him he was
the light was burning. "Ohi /
mean at Wards. was attending the ex-
and now it's all dark" When /
MS daughter returned she told him of
he accident of the gas going cut
while the commencement exercises were in
progress, leSTing them all in darkness. He
has other and diverse powers. One day he
carried Miss Walton's mail from the office.
Handing her a letter, he says, "This is from [
Brother McD." "No, this is from his wife" |
he only backs her letters for her. mo, Is
his is from him, and he writes to you about |
10 and so"-and he repeated to her Its con-
ents. at another time he said to his wife:
"A letter directed to me from Nashville, .
passed on to-day by mistake, and it con- |
aimed so and So" and he repeated the con- q
ents of the letter, as was seen on its return !
rom the other direction. 1t is said among :
lis ueighbors he can read any letter through {
IS envelope. The whole neighborhood APP {
'ly to him when anything is lost, and be s
an always, If asked while In q trance. c
nswer correctly. Even the rogues have be- c
ONE fearful of his powers. But t
THE MOST SINGULAR OF ALL
is performances and equal to the preten- : :
ions of the best Spiritualists, Is the last cir L
we will relate. There are thou g
ands of others, but we deem it only neces- I
,ry to give representative case in each +
ranch OF his powers. The Methodist Con- v
rence year had closed. and the new minis a
,r OF Mooresville had come. On Saturday :,
lr. -- frequently spoke of his curiosity =
, hear the new prescher. He was sick all y
aturday night, so much so that he could
OF sleep. After breakfast Sunday morn L
lg, he told his wife he would take a nap
nd then 90 to church. He was sleeping so o.
veetly at the regular church time that his y
life would not wake him. Just as the con- =,
regation began to pour out he raised ~
o, and his wife said: You were sleep Is
e so soundly I did not disturb you 81
go to the Methodist Church, and so :;
ou missed hearing the new preacher h
No, heard him." "How could you hear -
IN, and know you have been asleep all Il