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

Leave WIS granted nln, ana June last
found him at New Westminster.
There, to his utter surprise, he found
the same man, lunk, black haired,
black-whiskcrcd Orengburg Jew,
Abraham Charkoy, who had escaped
from ST., Petersburg. but now claim
ing to be Abraham Durham. And
there he found also the very repre-
sentative of the man described to him.
by the Jew as he ought to look--a
man small iii stature,.stout i'll body,
with fair complexion and blonde
hair, whom, all his ncighbors and his
wife and child said was Abraham
Durham, "ani-intelligcnt,"' educated
Englishman, huL who, since his par
oxyism Of the 22d day Of September,
1874, at high noon, had seemingly
forgotten all his knowledge ef the
English language, and was since
speaking in tongue none could
understand. Addressing, him the
professor ut; once asccrtained him to
speak the Jewish German dialect pre-.
valent at Orenburg, and asking him
who he wns the man promptly repli-
ed that lis name was Abraham
Charkoy, jewish trader of means,
born and residing At Orcngburg, i'll
Russia, where his parents still lived,
giving their correct names, stating
also that he had q wife and three
children there, describing them min
utely by name and features. There
was ut that moment nonp!usscd pro-
fessor There was evidently no fraud
in the matter, because each of the two
iimen was exceedingly. earnest in his
assertion that he was not himself, but
the other man. A strange circum-
stance was also that the change in
both occurred precisely o,s the same
day, the ed ofScptelnbcr. 1874; both
were sick with typhoid, aud both pre-
sumed tolsbe inthc agonies of Death.
The -.aiistanees between O. snharg and.
f2NeW estnifnstcrs Is About tSnina tif6iisss
and miles, but the two places arc 'di.
rectly opposite each other, direct anti
podcs. Hence Professor Grlow came
10 tile conclusion that if such r. thing
as metcmpsychosis or the transMigra-
ton Of souls from one humu body to
another be within the range Of posi-
bilities, The case of the two Abrahams
i'll Russia and America seems to be mn
| evidence of it, since tho soullife or
inner consciousness of the one has
bccn completely changed to that of
the otler without any outward change
in the appearance of the men. Hc
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 Russian
suffered his change on the 22d of Sep
tcmbcr, 1874, ut precisely midnight;
the Englishman III British Columbia
underwent like transform alton on
the same day at noon, and the differ
cncc OF time and longitude is such that
when it is midnight at Orcnburg it is
noon at New Westminster. May not
the cause for these occurrences be
found i'll some rs vet undiscovered in
hHcicc Of terrestrial magnetism, was
one Of the thoughts Of the learned pro
fcssor, and he concluded to make OK
haustivc inquiries into the affair. For
this purpose lie prevailed upon both
men to accompany him to Russia,
which they did, remaining for some
days in this city, where the professor
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 10 the two mixed
up Abrahams, coming to the same
conclusion with the professor that
here indeed was case wholly ine <
plicable to any known law Of nature
Since last November Prof. Orlow and
the two wonders Of the age have
been at St. Petersburg, where the