Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-28
MORNING APPEAL.
MINOR EDITORIALS.

For the benefit of those who are interested
in what Ne known spiritual manifestations,
we reproduce the following from the Reno
Journal of yesterday:
Mrs Bowers, the Washoe seeress, called on
Gen. Bob Clark the other day and said to
him: General, Rover was innocent Chow
tlo you know SAID he. She answered: 81
was eating dinner, when some one tapped me
IN the shoulder and / heard a voice say, 4
am J. W. Rover, and have just been hanged
mt Reno, but / am innocent" Until this visit
Mrs Bowers declares that she did not know
that Rover had been hanged. Since this oc
curence the Carson spiritualists have held
three or four seances; Rover is called for. APP
pears, and tells the same old story, SO oft rec
peated.
There are some strong impulses to take the
necessary steps to put the public in possession
of the yet unpresented facts, which, placed in
the strongest lsht to which they are suscepti-
BILE of being subjected, intensity the doubt of
Royer's guilt in a most startling manner.
Perhaps these impulses may so strenuously
assert themselves as that they must perforce
find relief in the manner indicated Mean
time, if we had helped hang Rover, and were
q spiritualist (Which we do not think we are),
We think we should fall back upon that con
vcnient assumption of the modiumistic frater-
nifty, that this is one of the mendacious spirits,
and that this persistent post mortem declara-
ton of innocence is nothing but lie well
stuck 20 on the other side of Jordan. Every
other independent sect has such-lilie convent
emit scape-holes as tuis; and there are not
wanting stout, undancing, card-hOrrihed Cal
vinists who have lately whistled up their cour
age high enough to declare their belief that
he'll itself were not such hot torture after all.
Indeed, birthstone seems to be at discount;
and the burning lake has cooled off percepti-
bly, in orthodox quarters these few years past.
As to the condition in which the more strenu-
Gus of Rover's prosecutors find themselves we
may be pardoned the seeming leYity, but still
pertinent significance of the remark. that
when some folks troubles have ceased, they
are said to have ended; but in the case of
those who pursued this poor wretch to the
galows it may be said that their troubles are
Rover. But again, taking the side of the de-
parted defendant and accepting his ghostly
pleading of 'Not Guilty" as true, or, at all
events as being corroborative of his pre-exist-
ent averments, those spiritualists who believe
in Rovers innocence and who do not believe
that falsehood finds voice from out among
the mysteries Of the Great Beyond, would
seem to have had their belief justifed-from
the spiritual standpoint. Even the wierd sis
ters Of "The Blasted Heath" told the truth
to the Thane of Fife and Cawdor, albeit they
deceived him with their prophetic rigmarole
about the fatal alternative of Birnam Wood
coming to Dunsnane. Led to the madness
of bloody murder and thence to the frenzy of
that despair which seems cruelty reserved for
the most sensitive minds, Macbeth exclaims:
Stones have been known to and trees to speak;
Augurs and understood relations have
y nlagg0t pies and chOughs and rocks brought forth,
The secretst blood of