Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-31

FACTORY - The CesnOI0 CgprhOte
Statuettes-A Mania for Floral
Ornaments and EsthetIc Parasols.
New YORK, March 2S.-Anna Dickinson
is struggling against fate at the Fifth Ave
nue. Theatre. On the occasion of her first
night there was brilliant audience present,
drawn to the theatre because of admiration
for the actress as a lecturer and writer.
Jennie June, the President of the Sorosis
Club, sat in box and led the clack-for
there was clacking, despite the melancholy
fact that poor Anna made dismal failure
of her Hamlet. Miss Dickinson was dressed
in purple tights and wore doublet of the
same color. Her figure is not calculated to
shine as the creme de Ia cTens on the ballet
stage, being somewhat CONSTRUCTED and
angular, yet her harshest critics agree that
she might be less symmetrically formed.
Whatever her conception of Hamlet
may be, she did not succeed in
displaying any dramatic art what
ever. Her efforts had only one effect
that of filing the breast of the spectator
with mingled feeling OF compassion and
sense of the ludicrous. When Miss Dick
inson appeared in her own drama ga Crown
of Thorns," she proved that she had no
natural or acquired gifts in the direction of
the stage. Her performance of Hamlet
gave further proof, If more were needed, in
this same direction. She delivered her
speeches In a monotone that approached a
clerical drawl, and when she attempted a
burst of passion her voice became so harsh
hrfI hot afFa mol
column. Then she would drop again into
the plaintive and querulous notes that COM
prise all her elocutionarV endowment.
Many of the spectators left the house before
the play was half over. Nothing daunted
(but scowling and saying hard things about
her critics, am told,) she is playing in GA
Crown Of Thorns" this week at the same
theatre.
The case of Guiteau has been almost
dropped out of sight. But there is one man
here who is devoting much of his time to-
wards proving that the assassin is insane,
and is not responsible for the crime he COM
mitted. This gentleman is DR.. George NJ.
Beard, who has attained distinction, both In
this country and Europe, as neurologist
Speaking of the subject to me the other day,
he said that Guiteau was insane at eighteen,
and has been insane ever since. "The type
of his insanity" he said "is religious mono
mania. While only part of his delusions
were of religious charactet distinctIvely,
yet all can be traced back to a religious
source" DR.. Beard bases his diagnosis on
the conduct Of Guiteau from his youth
to the time he went to Washington
as an office-seeker. The assassin's conduct
while in Washington he throws out alto
gether, and this. of course, excludes the
shooting of the President. He goes so far
as to say that Guiteau went into court with
more abundant and varied record of
insanity than any criminal monomaniac
that has ever been brought to trial in any
country. If he had been properly tried, he
asserts, this fact would have been clearly
brought out. When l asked why It was
that so much doubt as to the sssassin's in
sanity was developed in the trial, DIR. Beard
replied that science and law were dumb in
the presence Of political assassination. A
court of justice is the worst place in the
world to attempt to make clear scientific
facts. To begin with, the Judge knows no
thing Of any science; the lawyers are not
after the truth, but are striving
to gain their case. The jury has still less
comprehension of scientific facts than the
Judge. AS matter of fact. DIR. Beard con-
tinued, there is no disease known to medi-
cal science that could not be disproved be-
fore a court of justice, provided great
were at stake and professional
ambition and passions were aroused. DIR.
Beard has examined Guiteau several times,
but while his condition and conduct con-
frmed his views of the case, yet he says his
rests entirely on the record Of his
life before the commission of the crime. In
the course of his investigations he has dts
covered some new evidence which is In sup
port of the theory that Guitesu is a mono
maniac. DIR. Beard has begun voIuminous
an ho cf1h5 fc
converts. forgot to say that he remarked
that non-expert experts (the expression is
his) are hired as horses are hired, to 90
whittier they are driven.
Mrs. Hall, the materializing medium who
has been creating such a furore among
spiritualists in Brooklyn, has come to grief.
SO great has this womsn's success been in
bringing disembOdied souls from the spirit
land that her seances have been attended by
persons of distinction. Henry Ward
Beecher was present on two evenings, and
confessed that he was unable to explain the
phenomena. The medium is about forty
eight. and has slight form. Her eyes and
hair are dark, but her face is as pale as that
Of ghost-a very good thing for one In her
ine. It has been her custom to recline on
4 lounge, while the spooks issued from be-
hind the curtain to salute and embrace
friends, measure taken to allay any sus-
Dicion lurking in skeptieal minds
rs to the movements of the medium,
There can be no trick" said Mrs. Hall.
But some are ineredulous, and therefore
1raw back the curtains that they may see
'or themselves. The mediums husband has
Usually been present. meek looking man,
who has been OF service in leading the sing
ng. The other evening was G good night
or female spirits. Sisters, cousins and auuts
even one mother-fn-Iaw) were conjured up
me after the other. Some of the more af-
ectionate Of the ladies present were per-
nitted to advance near the curtain and hang
IN the neck of the dear departed (on a ffy-
ng trip to tae earth) for one brief moment.
Then the dim outline faded from view, to
'esppear again with much the same form,
1ut with a different personality. A very
oolish spook, In an evil moment, beekOned
% g young man Of q skeptical turn of mind
% advance, which he did, clasping his
ong arm about the spirits waist.
The spook wriggled and struggled
Ike ten pound bass at the end of line.
As the young man was very sure that he
lad hold OF corset, he Whirled the too
old ghostly visitant into the middle of the
Dom, whereupon the spectators, who were
leaTly all women, shrieked from fright.
rhe lamb-like Mr.. Hall suddenly developed
nto a roaring lion, ana pounced upon the
skeptic and began to pummel him.
When the lights were turned up the spirit
orm was seen to be the medium herself,
)ale, dropping, trembling. What the COM
)any had stared at as Mrs. Hall Ia a trance
vas an ipgeniously stuffed dummy. There
8 nothing so much against naturalization
performances as the grab game It ruined
he famous Katie King. The Brooklyn en-
hantress will now have to change her name
nd seek new teld.
Yhere Is q psychological case IN New
Jersey village, within half hours ride of |
Jew York, that wildly recalls the days of |
Vttchcraft. The experience Of the subject |
8 not laid to the witchery of some withered |
Id beldame, but in other respects the prob /
em is the same. A boy about thirteen
ears old makes the astonishing statement |
hat he has had an issue from his body of /
'ieces Of glass at various times, the bits /
'arying in size from q mere silver to TRAN .
.ular and longitudinal pieces as much as an |
nch and half long and three quarters of |
n inch wide. The increduloGs visitor is /
hown nearly hundred Of these fragments. |
nd is told to see for himself. at the |
BEGINNING Of the phenomena, which |
ivals IN interest the supernatural ap- |
OF the Virgin Mary at Troy, these |
evacuations OF crystalliZed mine
al matter took place from the boys great /
oe, which had been injured by being cut |
" broken beer bottle while the lad was at |
LAY. The boy is intelligent beyond his
ears, has bright, rosy face, which is not |
My devoid Of cunning OF deceit but is re- /
narkably frank and open-a fact that makes
he problem all the harder OF solution. |
'irst, as have said, the issue was from the |
Injured great toe, but It subsequently |
hanged 30 pimple on the forearm Just /
bove the wrist. When there was fresh |
elivery the boy cried out as IL In great
ain. His stocking would be removed and |
piece OF glass would be found sticking to |
}. clean and shining. Withnnk q stain nf l