New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-23
OBITUARY.
DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME.
LONDON, June 22.-Daniel Dunglas Home, the
,plritualIst IA dead

Mr. Home the most widely known OF all the Spirit
uslistic MEDIUMS was born Edinburgh on March
20. 1888 He was adopted by an aunt, with HON be
came this country in $40 and for thirty years
he figured in this country and Europe as medium.
The story of his remarkable during that period
would fill many volumes and, indeed, his own record
of his experiences has been published in two or three
| volumes. Whom seventeen years old he became pub.
cly kno medium. though against the wishes OF
his family and from that time until about ten years
ago he gave thousands Of seances throughout this
country and Europe, appearing before nearly all the
crowned heads of the Old World. In 1885 he went to
ROME where he joined the Roman Catholic Church,
from which he expelled later for spirtualistc
practices In 1858 he married the daugtt ter of Rus
sian nobleman She died in 1862 leaving who
inherited his fathers powers. In 1868 be again went
to Rome to study art About three years later he went
| to London, where wealthy lady. Mrs Jane Lyons,
a reward tor his services medium In her
behalf placed in the hands of trustees f27 900 tor the
benefit of Mr. Home. Tho latter then added Ly Ons to
his name and few years later Mrs. Lyons added
$4,000 more to her gift Later she lost her fancy tor
him and demanded the return of the money. lie
refused to give it up and arrested After trial
the case was decided against him. In 1868 an
attempt made to assAssinate him. but he was
wounded only slightly in the arm and hand by
stiletto In 1871 Mr. Home married again. his second
wife being Russian lady of rank and fortune. For
several years little has been heard of Mr. Home and
for some time past he bad been harmlsply insane.
Unlike Foster who died in insane asylum recently,
Homes reputation for purity and genteness was I'M
chaen ged. He always OF most delicate organi-
cation and very sckly at times, his life hanging by
thread
During his long public career he counted among his
friends Mary Hewitt Mrs. s. C. Hail, the father of
the present Earl of Dunraven, Mrs Browning. and
many other people well known in both hemspheres
ana in his personal relations he highly esteemed
by his friends 1t has been again and again affirmed
of Mr.. Home by Witnesses of unimpeached character
that they have him plunge his hands with impun
ity into blazing coal fire and take up the glowing
embers like many straw berries. seat himself upon
heavy mahogany dining tables and rise with them
several feet into the air and after floating horizontally
head foremost out of window at a height many yards
from the ground sail TRANQUILITY around a castle tower
and come in again unframed at the other side the
late Earl OF Dunrayen among others, recorded Tests
like these as having been accomplished by Nc. llore in
his presence i'll broad daylight The manifestations
said to ave attended Mr. Home throughout bis career
included-besides those mentioned and the ordinary
tapping table-tippng. writing and the PLAYING upon
musical instruments visions seen by himself. appear
ances of hands, arms and spirit forms seen by other
persons and the elongaon shortening OF his
body He claimed to have performed remarkable
cures and to have been protected often from sudden
danger by spirits.