New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-31
tn. email town Of Mount EbaI, in Indiana, IS

The small town Of Mount Ebai, IN lnofans, u
suffering from remarkable epidemic lnree
strange women. credited with hypnotic powers.
are said to have placed the whole community
under control. For several weeks tnc village
church has been the scene Of wild, dervisn-hKe
dances, from which the victims pass INTO oeep
frances of many hours duration. An au'nen"o
account describes these frances as resembling
death with the motion of the heart SO faint as 10
be almost imperceptible. The strangers, ageo re-
spectively sixty, twenty-five and eighteen are tne
possessors of undoubted hypnotic powers. The
trance phenomena, with the accompanying arresc
Of circulation and respiration, are the common
characteristics Of catalepsy. The methods OF the
hvpnotizers include the singing Of hymns ana re-
lipious exhortation, and the country-folk regard
their tricks as miracles The spread OF the craze
is said TO be alarming and distinct injury has been
wrought to the mind and body of susceptible sub
iects. This case would come under the head Oh
the "pernicious demonstrations punlsnape IN
countries like Belgium with heavy penalties. III
would be curious II the Mount Ebal case should
lead to an agitation In Indiana against promiscuous
mesmerizing
II appears that the New-York girls are not so
strongly in favor of the golden rod In the conoeso
for supremacy between that flower and the rose as
are the boys of the public schools. Probably the
delicate beauty of the rose appealed more to the
aesthetic taste Of the maidens, while the boys
were moved more by the feeling that the golden
rod is distinctively an American product. Thus
far the reports would indicate that the golden rod
is ahead. but large proportion Of the State is
still to be heard from.
Az this writing twenty-one Of the ffty-two Prot
estant Episcopal dioceses have gwen their con-
sent to the election of Phillips Brooks as Bishop
NJ Massachusetts, They are New-York, Albany,
Rhode Island, North Carolina, Pennsylvania; West
Missouri. Southern Ohio, Nebraska, Tennessee. In
DIANA Missouri; West Virginia, Central Pennsy[
vania, New-Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, Connectl-
cut, Maryland, Long Island, Ohio and Kentucky.
Seven dioceses have either refused to give their
consent or have failed to take any ac-
ton which amounts to the same thing
They are Newark Iowa, Milwaukee. Western New
York. Chicago, Maine and Mississippi. This leaves
twenty-four diooeses yet to be heard from, OF
which DR.. Brooks needs only seven to insure his
confirmation, and judging by the way the vote
has already gone; there is little doubt that he
will get the consent Of much more than majority
Of all the dioceses The bishops must then act
on his election, the assent Of majority being
required Some doubts have been expressed as to
how the bishops will vote. But it is not likely
that enough will oppose the election to defeat it.
They will hesitate to put themselves on record as
opposing the expressed will of majority Of do
ceses, merely because they do not agree with some
thinqs that DR. Brooks has said and done Were
they 20 do 60 it is not too much to say that they
would discredit themselves in the estimation of a
vast majority of plain everyday Epscopalians, who
do not look at the case through partisan theologi
cal glasses