The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-06-06
A STRANGE WOMAN.

A STRANGE WOMAN.
Wonderful Feats of Strength Performe
Without Help.
(From the Chicago Herald.)
Among the supernatural manifesto
tions now exciting attention among tn
curious, the so-cslled electric women o
Georgia are not the least wonderful
For several days past one of these ladies'
Miss Dixie Haygood, hiss been in Mem
phis giving exhibitions of her power.
reporter of the Avalanche, by Invitation
of the little lady, assembled with severa
other gentlemen at the parlor Of thu
Clarendon Hotel to test these remarks
BILE manifestations, and discover, if pos
sible, their source and secret. Among
the gentlemen present were Lawrence
Lamb, Zeno Harris, Henry Walsh ano
several others. It is needless to say
that it was the discrimination Of the gen
tlemen present to detect, if possible, any
trickery or legerdemain that might be
attempted.
Miss Hsygood is of small stature,
compact mold, and apparently musculs,
beyond most women, and weighs about
1O4 pounds. She has brown hair, blue
or violet eyes, and pleasant expression
of countenance, but an air also OF firm
ness and decision of character. The first
two tests, VIZ, drawing gentleman easily
around the room by applying her hand
to chair or an umbrella held by him,
Or the third test of holding billiard
cue in her open palms at an angle Of
about forty-fve degrees with such firm
ness that 8 strong man, or even TWO
strong men, could not force the point to
the floor, were certainly remarkable In a
woman so small, but might have been
accomplished by woman OF very great
physical strength. Therefore the re-
porter felt disappointed to some extent,
and argued with his companions that it
was either matter OF sleight Of hand or
else q remarkable development Of mus
cular power.
But the next tests were different. One
of the gentlemen present was requested
to lift the lady by her elbows, held taut
st the waist. This he did, but when
told to try it again utterly failed to raise
her an inch. Two strong men then
raised her by holding her elbows on
each side with the greatest ease, but on
attempting it again they could not raise
her weight 8 particle from the floor.
This was poser and was tried several
times, the party offering many explana-
tions, but none at all satisfactory. The
fact remained unexplained that she could
at Will allow herself to be lifted as other
people and Immediately thereafter bring
into play such a force, without apparent
effort, that two strong men could not
move her 100 pounds of weight, try they
ever SO hard.
The next test was still more inexplica-
bic. A chair was brought-an ordinary
dining-room chair-and 8 gentleman
weighing about $50 pounds was placed
in It. Ast1ide Of his knees another gen.
tleman of about 145 pounds weight was
placed, and between the two third gen.
tlsmsn OF at least $50 pounds wss seated.
All raised their feet from the floor as the
chair was tilted back and held balanced.
The little Lady then approached the back
of the chair and placed her open palms
along the arms or stats supporting the
chairs back.
Observing the reporter narrowly
watching her, she requested him to place
his hand between her hand and the
chair to prove that no pressure was ex-
erted. This was done, and only the
Iady's thumbs touched the back of the
chair. Then, without an effort or the
contraction of q muscle, or the slightest
pressure on the reporters hand, the
chair and its living freight was raised
about fourteen inches from the floor.
The weight, including the chair, was st
least 450 pounds, and John L. Sullivan
could not have performed the feat so
easily accomplished by the little woman.
This test wss convincing, but the next
was no less SO. Miss Haygood stood on
one foot, and holding billiard cue
horizontally before her st half-arm's
length, three strong men essayed IN vain
to push her, by throwing their COM
bined weight against the cue, from her
balance on one foot or press her arms
back to her chest. The shspely, wo-
manly hands lifted the three great
strapping fellows from the floor by sim
ply touching with open palms his own
hands placed upon the chair back, and
le saw the dainty No. q boot standing
unmoved on the floor with the combined
weight of the same three Memphis gen.
tlemen thrown powerfully and persist
emily against the small figure Of its
owner. Explain it who can.
But in one respect, ct least, the
modest little lady is like other mortals.
she has woman's heart, and last night
at 7.3O o'clock, in the parlor of the
: Clarendon, gave her hand confdingly to
the man OF her choice, Thomas L.
Embry, of Cincinnati. The pair were
ouietly married by Squire j. j. Barry,
without previous notice even to the
hotel clerk, and few minutes later went
TO the theatre to give the regular per-
formance. The bride was richly dressed
in velvet costume, and wore an exquisite
corssge bouquet of white flowers with
out other ornament. The young hus-
band has certainly deal of temerity to
place himself in the hands of one 50
capable of enforcing conjugal obedience,
but seemed to be very happy man.
Edmunds on his Dignity.
4 Washington dispatch saws: It was