Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1876-07-15

Leave was granted him, and June last
found Him at New Westminster.
There, to his utter surprise, he found
the Same, Anan, lank, bIack-haired,
black-whiskercd Orcngburg Jew,
Abraham Charkoy, who had escaped
from ST.: Petersburg, but now claim
ing to be Abraham Durham. And
there he found also tho very repre-
sentative of Tire fnan described to him.
by the Jew as he ought to look---a
man small III stuture, stout in body,
with fair complexion and blonde
hair, whom, all his neighbors and his.
wife and child said was Abraham
Durham, ~ari-intelligcnt,.' edddated
Englishman, huG who; since hi, par
oxyism of the 22d day Of September,
1874, ut high noon, had seemingly
forgotten all Ibis knowledge q the
English language, and was since
speaking in tongue none could
understand. Addressing, him the
professor Mt once ;asccrtained him to
speak the Jewish German dialect pre-.
valent nj Orenburg, and asking him
who he was the man promptly repli-
ed that his name was Abraham
Charkoy, jewish trader of means,
born and residing At 0rcngburg, in
Russia, where his parents still lived,
giving: their correct names, stating
.Ealso thht he had a wife and three
children there, describing them min
utcly by name and features. There
was at that moment n nonp!usscd pro.
fesson There was evidently 40 fraud
in the matter, because each of the two
fImcn was exceedingly. earnest ia his
assertion that he was not himself, but
the other man. A strange circum-
stance was also that the change III
both occurred precisely OF, the same
day, the ed ofScptember, S74; both
were sick with typhoid, aud both pre-
sumed to be intlc agonies of deatll.s
1.-The -distaRee between @ . lsnharg and.
New w estniinsteTs is' III boNt. nine tffoiiss
and miles, but the two places are. 'di-
rectly opposite each other, direct anti
podcs. Hence Professor Grlcw came
10 tic conclusion that if such 4 thing
us metempsychosis or the trensmigra-
ton of souls from one huma body to
another be within the range Of posi-
bilities, lhe case of the two Abrahams
in Russia and America seems to be nm
evidence Of it, since tho soul.life or
inner consciousness of the one has
bccn completely changed to that of
the other without any outward change
in the appearance Of the men. He
was still more inclined to this belief
from the fact that not only the day;
but the very moment of the change
in the two men agreed. The Russinn
ficrcd his change on the 22d of Sep.
tcinbcr, 1874, Mt precisely midnight;
the Englishman i'll British Columbia
underwent like transform alton on
the same day at noon, and the differ
cncc OF time and longitude is such that
when ii is midnight ut Orenburg it is
noon at New Westminster May not
the cause for these occurrences be
found i'll some as vet undiscovered in
fincncc of terrestrial magnetism, was
one of the thonghts Of the learned pro
fcssor, and he concln,led to make OK
haustive inquiries into the affair. For
this purpose he prevailed upon both
men to accompany him to Russia,
which they did, remaining for some
days in this city, where the professo OF
finished the work for which he was
originally sent to this country by his
government. While there Prof. Or
low told the account to several gentle
men whose acquaintance he had made
and they also spoke TO the two mixed
up Abrahams, coming to the same
conclusion with the professor that
here indeed was a case wholly ine x
plicablo to any known law of nature
Since last n ovcmber Prof. Orlow and
the two wonders of the age have
been Mt St, PETERSBURG. where the