The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-03
Time Table j.. r.. v. & G. R. r..
HAWKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT.
L. L. POATS, EDITOR.
RoGERsvILLE. OCT. 3. 1877.

Professor Baldwin, who has acquired
considerable fame as lecturer on spir
itualism and who processes to expose
the tests relied on by spiritualists to jus
tify their claims to hold intercourse with
deceased friends, was Knoxville's sen
sation last week. OF his first seance
Col. Fleming, an invited spectator and
participation, thus speaks
He proposed to supply US
with answers to any questions we
might PROFOUND to persons known to be
dead, without knowing the nature of the
question or the name of the deceased
person Intercepted, or the century in
which he or she lived. The name Of
the person, the question and our own
names were written on slips of paper
prepared by ourselves and with our own
pencils. These slips, five time folded,
the Professor had no opportunity of ex-
aiming, and so far as our watchful
eyes could detect, he made no effort to
examine them. AS specimens of the
exhibition we quote few of our ques-
lions and the answers received. We
first Intercepted Horace Greedy as fol-
lows: "What caused your death?" And
holding the folded paper in our clinched
hand, we received from the Professor
sitting on the opposite side of the table,
this characteristic answer:
DEAR SIR am glad to have you
write to me, for have always wanted
to tell the people what really caused my
death. 1t was disappointment; not be-
cause was not President; but because
the American people could not under
stand my motives and ideas. Now, IN
this later day. Hayes is applauded by
the Republicans for doing what | sought
to do years ago. e., to produce an era
of reconciliation and good will among
the American people.
81 will give you a peculiar physical |
test. Will write for you in the paper.
''H. GREELEY"
The paper" referred to was the fold
ed slip, we still held in our closed hand.
On opening it we found, traced in pen
Gil: ssappointment-H. Greely"-
the signature being a striking fac slnaaze of
Horace Greeley's well known autograph.
Our next inquiry was pronounced
thus IN. Theirs: What do you think
of MacMahon?n To this came the fol-
lowing:
'fM0nsseur: V1oe la Repub1iquel The
'Irishman' is afflicted with longings to
be Emperor, bat I although anxious to
see the Republic one of the nations of
the earth, would still prefer lie Prince
Imperial to the odd man Grim as the
chifoniers call him. ''THIERs.
FIRST President La Belle Repu51iqlte"
We next awakened the old Greek phil
osopher's memories of Xantippe thus:
Socrates: How would you like a Sc
cond wife?" With shocking prompt
ness came the following:
sIR-I would prefer the glass of hem
lock poison swallowed by Demosthenes
10 the more terrible fate on which you
ask my judgement. SOCRATES.
Various other questions called for re- /
sponsive remarks, in several instances
reciting facts that could not have been
previously known to the Professor. AS
before stated, there is no pretense that
these are communications from spirits
If there was Straightforward in the per
Torrance it was altogether too adroit
for our eyes or those of our expert pro-
companion. This is the one
hing the Professor himself does not
attempt to satisfactorily explain, further
than to affirm that there is no trickery
in the exhibition. He claims that the
power grows out of his peculiarly sensi-
i've nervous and cerebral organism