Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06

his grave, as its outer sign. A friend
assures me that she herself recently
saw the grave,a and, in spite of all efforts
to it., the grave remains bare.
Again, a lady died protesting against
the resurrection. meaning, probably,
that Of the body. She ordered the stone
above her vault to be an extra THICK
ness, and said that if there were such a
thing then trees would grow up through
has seen them herself, and she bases
thereon her belief in.the full and per-
feet resurrection of the flesh.
/ should be gratifed for any light
thrown on these and similar expert
enceS.
The Haunted Houses of To-day.
A house in Tolono, ILL.,, which had the
reputation of being haunted because I'M
canny sounds were heard in it, and was,
therefore, frequently for rent, was fin
ally tenanted by its owner, who resolved
to "take the bull by the horns" and
solve the mystery. After a careful in
vestigation one night he discovered that
some mischievous persons stationed in
an unused parsonage opposite had at
tached a brickbat to n end of a string
which was dropped through O hole in
the porch roof OF the 'haunted" house,
SO that when the GHOSTS" pulled the
other end of the line the brick would
rise and fall, striking the porch ceiling.
The angry owner besieged the parson-
age with revolver in hand, but the fugi-
tives escaped from the building.
Spirits by the Score.
Mrs. M. f. Williams, the materializ-
ing medium of Forty-sixth street, in
vaded Brooklyn with her band OF spirits
last Wednesday evening, says the New
Nork Mercury, and received a very flat
tering welcome. 1t was the first public
seance that had ever been given In the
sister city beyond the big bridge, and
the coy theater of the Co
lumbia conservatory of music, at Bed
ord and Fulton avenues, was packed
with a very intelligent, refined and
we'll dressed audience. Mrs. Williams
seemed in excellent spirits herself, and
so far as the building up and turning
out Of spirits from the laboratory of
Spirit Chemist Arthur Mortimer went,
the experiment was a success. Prof.
Jeaneret acted as master of ceremonies.
Mrs. Williams was dressed in black silk
and had a bunch Of big nodding red
roses pinned on her bosom. She made
a short speech, giving the benighted
Brooklynites an idea of the philosophy
of spiritualism and spirit phenomena
ana manifestation.
The spirits that generally attend
Mrs. Williams cabinet were all there,
including DIR. Holland, the joyous little
Bright Eyes, Frank Cushman, Lucille
the Beautiful, Chemist Mortimer, T.. V.
Wilson, Lucille Western, Alice Cary,
etc. The seance wal marked by a large
number of spirits who took on tan
gible form and came out to perform the
social politeness of making calls on
their friends still detained in the cum
bersome flesh. 1t was a most sociable,
harmonious, lively and agreeable re-
ception, or levee and Conversations be-
tween the mortal and immortal. The
largeness of the audience was surpris-
ing. When every seat on the
floor was filed the late-conlers had
TO seek the galleries. Two and three
spirits came out at a time, and quite a
number of them no only dematerialized
out ON tho open stage, but rematerial-
ICED, as il coming up through the floor,
in open view of the audience. Among
the spirits who came out to friends we're
Montague Berg Thomas Combs, Amanda
Bowman, Lille Reed, George Hark-
ness, Carrie Miller, Annie Mcguire,
Tile Roberts, Charles Cunningham,
Miss Floyd, DIR. Slocum, MIR. Nichols,
Fannie Hazard and a friend, Mrs.
Charles Fox, Mr.. 0strander, and several
young ladies with their escorts or COM