The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-27
Taking soul-Flights.
Reading (Pa.) Eagle.l

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There is at this time considerable
talk in some circles of this city con-
cerning a strange and somewhat re-
markable case that has developed
near the Reading driving park, close
to the Three Mile House. About a
square up the road to the right Of
the hotel stand two modest two-story
houses with high porches. They
are occupied by Mr.. Henry Deeds
and his wife, who are aged people,
and Richard Snader and his wife
Angeline, son-in-law and daughter
of the first named people
Mrs. Snader is the second oldest
daughter of Deeds. and if she lives
till next November she will be AZ
years of age. She is the wife of
Richard Snader, an industrious me-
chanic, employed at the pipe mill
when he has work. Mrs. Snader
eleven days ago was to all appear
ances perfectly healthy. About the
18th of the present month she took
to her bed, and said that her time
was up and that she would die be
fore she rose from her pillow again.
Eleven years ago she told her friends
that in 1877, early in the year, she
would be called upon to enter the
future world. Since March II she
has remained in bed, and grad
ually she is becoming weaker, and
to all appearance she is slowly ebb
ing away her life. Her husband
and her parents called in a physi-
clan, but the woman remarked that
it was no use to do that, that she |
is not sick, that she needs no medi-
cine, and that it is sinful to do any
thing that might in any way inter
fere with her souls progress and |
journey to the bright and beautiful
world in the land of the leal.
The physician therefore has ad |
minIstered no medicine. The wo-
man eatslvery little, and many times
she becomes rigid and pale as death;
her breathing apparently stops en-
tirely and her body has all the ap-
pearances of a corpse. During |
these strange and mysterious inter-
walls, apparently absent of all vi !
tality, she says her soul journeys to
the spirit world; and the stories OF
her fantastic flight to beautiful, |
golden heaven are interesting and |
strangely attractive, because they |
are told in language that seems be- |
yond the power of any person, no
matter how extraordinary his or her
intellectual capacity may be.
During her souls absence from
this body since she has taken to
bed it visits many places. She
gives vivid descriptions of the
beautiful land she sees, with the
angels and archangels. She says
she is ready and all prepared to go. |
She is done with the world here and
does not want to remain. She is on
ly waiting for her time. By and
by her soul will leave her body and
not come back again.
When she is in trance no breath
appears TO enter the nostrils. Night
before last her aged parents thought
she wss dead. Generally her trance
exists about four hours. During
the last fight Of her spirit she Wis
tied her sister in Lancaster county,
She washed the children's faces,
kissed them, and then went into
the clouds. She sees many famil
lar faces in. the spirit-world-people
who have died among her relations
and friends. She speaks with them
all. She says her bed is filed with
pure spirits who are to accompany
her soul when it takes its last fight
from the body to the God who gave
it. Such are the main facts as
stated by the woman's parents. a
number of Reading people visit her,
and the very strange case has