The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-08
UNDER SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE.
The Wonder of Spiritualism mone
Intelligent People

Intelligent People.
NEW YORK, July I'm this iconoclas-
tic and agnostic age it is remarkable that
such large measure of superstition should
still prevail among cultivated and intelli-
gent persons Spiritualism has by no
means been relegated to the limbo of popu-
lar delusions.
Adams express company" is a name
that is known perhaps as widely as any
other i'll the United States. The business
that began with wagon or two and an
energetic driver, who not only drove his
horses but his business as well, is now sec
ond only to the postoffice, perhaps not even
to that, in the bulk and value of tho goods
and money it transports. How many peo-
pie know that "Old Adams" as he came to
be called before he quit the business and
his life together was a firm and ardent be-
lever in spiritualiSm3 How many know
that he transacted his business from the
very beginning under the influeaco of a
spiritual medium"
DR.. Crowell of Clinton avenue, Brooklyn,
is even more remarkable instance of a
person allowing himself to be guided 10y
so-called spirItualistic agencies \ physl
clan of great ability, he went to California
in the days of the gold excitement aud
there realized a large fortune. lie be
came convert to spirituahsm and for
many years has kept professional medium,
DR.. Kenny, to advise him as to investments
and financial enterprises. He claims that
on one occasion he received adviceS from
the spirit world in regard to the mining
market which enabled him to clear $780,
600, where, if he had followed the opinions
of so-called experts, he would have lost an
amount larger tnan the figures given. DR..
Kenny is a trance medium OF the finest
type, according to the authorities in spirit
uulism, and has wholesome contempt for
Observation-Disclosures, rapplng and tab.e-tip-
ping experts and professional mind readers
and olairvoyants The two doctors usual y
indulge in one seance per diem and commit
to writing the many communications which
are given by the mediumlstlc Kenny, it
is said that a largo part Of DR.. Crowelps
celebrated book on spTitualistic science
owed its origin to those written memoir
anda. DR.. Crowell is a handsome, brill
liant and entertaining man of about 56
years, and enjoys the friendship of re-
markably large circle of friends.
MR.. AND MRS. GEORGE EMERSON
of Jorolemon street, Brooklyn, are two
other notable examples of this singular faith.
Mr.. Everson is the secretary of the Citizens
gaslight company of that place. ana is a
man of great wealth and social position.
Mrs. Everson in her youth was a famous
million dollars in her own right, which she
inherited from her parents. For twenty
years they have been leading lights in spir
itualistic society in BROOKLYN and New
York, and have brought forward more
than twenty mediums to popular notice
and favor. One of them was Mrs. Hull,
who is said to be the first "materializer"
who ever produced three re-embodied
spirits at the same time.
Tho ErparSnnC raioino in tho yNOccaeciOY, Of
two mediums, one Friedrich F. Purdey, a life
long friend of the family, and Dr. George
F. Everson, Jr., prominent young physi-
clan. Purdey is one of the best amateur
mediums in the country. He is a capital
mesmerist and has times nugnberless hyp-
Noticed people with the most remarkable
results. On one occasion he threw a poFu-
lar actress into a trance and then told her
that she was wire roy 9 dancer attached to
Barnum's circus. To the horror of all pres
ent in the parlor the young woman dotted
a large amount Of her clothing and leaping
from the floor to the table, executed a pas
SeuL upon the mahogany with grace and
vigor altogether marvellous.
Benjamin Lewis, fire marshal of the
city of Brooklyn and successful insurance
man in Brooklyn and New York, is a con-
frmed enthusiast in sniritualism. He has
allowed himself to be guided by ''supernat-
case the advice was worse than worthless
The Grand opera house in Brooklyn which
he built turned out a fiat failure and bank
rupted him and his associates. In politics
the same advice was of somwhat greater
advantage 1t destroyed his position as a
republican leader, drove him from that
party to the other, and after many ups and
downs is SAID to have given him the posi-
ton he now holds.
Judge Abram II. Daley. a distinguished
local lawyer and formerly surrogate Of
Kings county, is likewise a Thoroughbred
believer. He is the recognized head Of one
spirltualistic congregation or society, and
devotes nearly all his leisure to affairs or
have received unearthly instructions and
suggestions in regard to financial and legal
problems which have carried him over a Il
troubles and have chiefly built I'D his pres
ent high position. He is a free tallIer in
all these matters, and unlike most believers
who from policy or fear preserve uniform
silence upon the subject, takes great pleas
ure in making public his views and in gain
ing converts to his cause.
Mrs Wells of 900 Sixth avenue, New
York, is fervent believer, but is under the
shadow of very dark cloud. In the first
part of her career she WINS q simple be-
lever, but in the past decade claimed high
position as q undertaking medium "
Her manifestations were phen menal but
were rutnlessly 1ispelled las year when a
well-known editor of both brain and Drawn
seized a charming spook who had just
emerged from the cabinet and turning the
lights up disclosed Mrs. Wells and confed-
crate in shocking deshabille surrounded by
masks, wigs and all the other parapher-
MALTA Of fraud. FhLEs-CURTIs