The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-06
How n Young Girl. lying at Deaths
Door, was Persuade to Gct Up and
: Eat..-Her kpa,arent Complete Beco.

Eat-..Her Apparent Sofnptetc fseco.
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correspondence of the Utica HeraIdl
wATpHyILLR, December 80. 1S1S.--NeWs
reached Wateryille this morning of consld-
erable excitement in DeansSile about what
was said to be:,a remarkable cure that bad
just been effected in thatvllage. Ihe case,
rs REPORTED, was so sunaccountable that
many regarded it as little short OF a miracle,
and the circumstances entire were SO pecu-
liar that YOUR correspondent has taken the
Mains TO learn from David W. Barton, the
father OF the sick girl, the story OF the cure.
All the parties concerned are reputable and
well known, and are not Spiritualists. MIR.
Barton saws that his daughter Gertie, aged
about fourteen years, has been sick for sey-
eral mouths with chronic disease or the
stomach, which has bafled the physicians.
La.terly she has been under the care OF Drs.
Munger aud Allen, OF Waterrille. For the
past fortnight she has been running down.
and has not taken any uourishment IN nine
davs. Mrs. G.. II. 'Poolcr, wife OF the eX-
school commissioner, lady who claims to
be Perfectionist in religious matters,
had incidentalIv remarked to her husband
lately that she believed she could cure MISS
Barton. "Why don't you do it?" was the
reply. ''The time has not yet come" SAID
Mrs. Pooler. Yesterday, after the regular
visit Of the physician, Mrs. Pooler started
ip and went to the house OF MIR. Barton.
entering rather unceremoniously, and made
her way into the room where the sick
daughter was in company with her nurse,
Mrs. Hathaway. ,..~.
"Jesus Christ has sent me here to cure
you,r said Mrs. Pooler; "do you want to
be cured?" .- .-...
The somewhat wild appearance OF the
conner startled all parties in the house and
the event, it was feared. would prove 1aial
to the sick girl. Mrs Pooler grasped the
hands of the e'invalid, shook them violently,
and permeated her with what Mr.. Barton
terms mesmcrism" or "magnetism," and,
after the mesmeric hutter, told her to get up
and eat. Though she had not been able TO
take particle OF the most simple nourlsh-
ment for days, she reused, dressed herself,
and has eaten hearty meals since.
Il Miss Gertie is about the house to-day fGr
the first time in months, has to-day eaten I.
hearty dinner, and is comparatively ga well
girl" Her home has been visited by many
to- dav, bat only a few have been allowed to
see the convalescent girl. - = ,
A leading, Spiritualst remarked this after
noon that Mrs. Pooler had effected the cure
..by the essence Of Spiritualism," butthere
is not one of the parties concerned but what
is opposed to Spiritualism, and deny any
association with what are called spiritual
manifestations. The case is at least re-
markab!e one, as the decease OF Miss Gertie
had been expected houriy-indeed the rtl-
NOR of her death had reached WaterVi'le
yesterday. DR.. Munger states that the dis
ease was as above stated, but that the:case
is not more surprising than other cures on
record. He says her pulse: was good Eestcr-
dav. and that he made the remark that all
that was needed for recovery was an ability
to take nouriShment. The story OF her re-
coyery was not, in view of her recent con-
dition. credited in WaterviIle till the testi
mony of Mr.. Barton was secured. The case
is on every ones lips, and Dir. Barton is G
happy man, though at n loss to account fol
the sudden transition. ;