The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-07
THE REFoRMER BRATrLEBoRo FRIDAY FEBRUARY = 1896

6 ;, Miss Gertrude, daughter of c. b
1Lerkins' and who is studing music il
New York City, sang in Steinway Hal
at mat place Wednesday and carried of
the honors of the evening. Miss Perkins
sang Flor Di Margherita" by Ardith
+ ana has also been chosen to sing in the
: grand conservatory of the University d
, the state of New York at the musical te
be given by the students.
5 The closing reception of the dane
, ing school under the direction of Mrs.
d. z. Howard, of Walpole, who had
such success in bringing out Living
Whlst' in tho armory last winter. will
be held in the town hail. Hinsdae
Friday evening Feb. nth. The feature
OF the occasion will DO the grand march
with Its many new changes and the
exhibition dances in which Mrs. How
ard will dance the solos Leitsinger' g
orchestra furnish music and Miller
will cater.
The late w. W. Walker was the
9th member of Sedgwck Post to die
within year, out of a total member
ship of about $50. Another veteran of
the war for the Union, who was not a
member of the post, has also died dur
ing the year. making 10 in all This
Is rapid thinning of the ranks but it
may be expected to be still more rapid
every year hereafter. Twenty years
hence will see very few of the veterans
still among us, for the the boy of Is
who enlisted in the last year of the
war will have passed his three score
and ten.
There was quite an alarm Tuesday
evening over the disappearance of
j. II. Holden. Mr. Holden, formerly
superintendent at the Estey works. a
large and powerful man, always accus-
toned to a great deal of exercise, and
who had eaten very heartily that day,
was troubled with Indigestion and "A
headache and after leaving the store of
his son +. II. Holden and going home
about 8 O'Clock, went out to take a
walk, which he had omitted to do that
day according to his usual habit. and
made it quite an extended one, out by
Birge, and Canal and South Main
streets His family got somewhat ner-
vous about his absence and speaking
to neighbor. an alarm was given and
Officer Hall summoned, beginning a
search at first with two or three men,
which later increased to six or eight.
Mr.. Holden, coming back towards
home, saw all these men fitting
about the street and thought it was
worth while to watch and see what
they were up to. He kept in the
shade while they passed several times
within few feet of him and this
pursuit and following at cross pur
poses was kept up until 3 O'Clock when
Mr.. Holden heard his sons voice
among them and made himself known,
and explanations and a good laugh |
followed.
Bradley G.. Newell, the jackson
vile healer about whom the papers
are telling so much was here from Sat
urday to Tuesday noon. and treated
probably l25 people. Some he did not
help at all. some were relieved from
their pains for the time being only, and
some, much the larger number. seem
to have derived benefit from his sim
pie laying on of hands. He told them
all, with simple frankness. that some
he could cure and some he could not
but he was willing to try for all.
Among his cases were a number OF
deafness, several of rheumatism, some
of neuralgia, and others of sick head
ache. toothache, &c. Col Hasklns,
Col. Goodhue and other citizens of like
ranks submitted Ito his treatment. in
credulous at first. but both admitting
that he had helped them, the former
of deafness and the latter OF rheuma-
tism. walking without difficulty as he
had net done for long time before {
An old map, 20 years old, had rheu-
matism in one arm, and In less than {
minute he said it was all gone, and II
has not yet returned. a woman was {
suffering from neuralgia, and Newell 8
cured her in two minutes. a man was
suffering from the effects OF a painful !
accident. and he was so much relieved 2
n three minutes that he sald ne mad /
,ot felt SO we'll in years. \ young Y
woman who had a very painful throat O
cit free from all pain after one treat I
nent, although the trouble has returned t
n mitipated form. There were also {
couple of quite remarkable cases OF I
Iiapnosis. locating troubles that were r
uife obscure. On the way to town s
le treated a Halifax man. who was on S
he bed. and his joints were out of h
hape and swollen to nearly twice their s,
ormal size. Although III great pain i,
nd unable to sleep, in 10 minutes at Y
or he had been treated the man was s
talking across the floor. The other is
Ialifay man. Thurber, whose case is
escribed in another column, is now
aid to be logging every DAY MI
Jewell made no charge for his treat
,ent. though some of the people made S
i'm take something. and he expressed ii
real eagerncss. which seemed to be vi
incere, to get away from the lionizers 49,
nG back to his anvil III Jacksonvllle. N
1hen he went for his team "ednes- J.
ay. three men followed him to the X
able insisting on being treated. st
can be said of Newell only as of 49,
that have gone before him W
nd thousands that will doubtless an
,me after. The faith cure''is I'M he
oubtedly a large element, and cases vi
which he succeeds are many of III
lem, and doubtless the larger pro wi
,rtion, cases of nerve disease: but da
ter making every allowance, there Sc
undoubtedly something of real NJ
value. call u magnetism Ne
animal electricity or what you VIII, Sol
,ck of it all. We do not under FL
and its laws yet though some tai
ientific progress has been made in Sa
e allied branch of hypnotism but sci
is something, dealt in by charletans po
RACES which will in the progress OF to
,oWledge be utilized sometime, sys- W;
maticailv and intelligently for the fe
nefit of humanity. fat
Rev. DIR. S. NJ. Crothers formerly AM
the Unitarian church here, now the ovt
,ivnrsitv preacher at Harvard and no
,om Archibald NJ. Howe, the well tor
own Boston lawyer, describes as tie