Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 September 1869 — Page 4

awake (for tho vision vanished lir about the time I have been telling you the story, aud left me wonderiug)

Mr Powers being asked whether he really believed in the pretentions of modern spiritualists, said: I am not a believer in tho revelations of spirits, as made known through mediums or otherwise, for most corrupt and unworthy communications are oftenjmade, and, with many mediums, there is a great deal of trickery while there are some so-called mediums who are nothing else than charlatans. But I do beiieve in tho fact of spiritual manifestations, animal magnetism, the

SplrllMl Manifestation—Kxprrlrnco of! moring of solid bodies by mean? as Powers, I lie Sciilpter. I yet unexplained by purely scicntific men. I believe we are now at the threshold of a new era of discoveries,

Dr. Bellows contributes to Appleton's Journal a paper entitled ''Sittings "/with Powers, the Sculptor." In the courae of a conversation Mr. Powers relates the following spiritualistic experiences "These spiritualistic phenomenon hare always interested me, although I have never been in the least carried nway ^by them. I rccollcct wo had many 'seances' at my house, and others when Home was here. I certainly saw, under circumstances where fraud oreollisona, or prc-arranpemcnt of ma chinery, was impossible, in my own house, and among friends incapablc of lending themselves to imposture, many very curious things. That hand floating in the air, of which all the the world has heard, I have seen.

There was nothing but moonlight in the room, it is true, and there is every presumption against such phenomenon under aueli circumstances. But what you see, you sec, and must believe, however difficult to account for-it. I rccollcct that Mr. Homo sat

very unlike the past.

011

right hand, and beside him there were six others round one-half of a table, the empty half towards the window and the moonlight. "All our fourteen hands were on the tabic, when a hand, delicate and shadowy, yet defined, appeared, dancing slowly just the other side of the table, and gradually creeping up higher, until, above what would have been the elbow, it terminated in a tnist. This hand slowly came nearer to Mrs. at the right side of the table, and seemed to pat her face. "Could it take fan cried her husband. Three raps responded "Yes," and the lady put a fan near it, which it scemd trying to take. "Give it the handle," said the husband. The wife obeyed, and it commenced fanning her with much grace. "Could it fan the rest of the company?" some one exclaimed, when three raps signified as-cc-ut, and tho hand passing round fanned each of the company and then Blowly was lost to view. "1 felt on another occasion, a little hand—it was pronounccd th.it of a lost child—patting my check and arm. I took bold of it. It was warm and evidently a child's hand. did not loosen my hold, but it seemed to melt out of my clutch. Many other siimilar experiences I have had. It is interesting to know that the cflcct is not to create supernatural terrors and morbid feeling. My children, who knew all about it, and were present, never showed any signs of trepidation, such as ghost stories excite in sensitive and young people. "I Lave always thought that thcro was something yet inexplicable about the nervous organization, which might eventually show us to be living much nearer to spiritual forms than most believe, and that a not impossible opening of our inner senses might even hero enable us to perceive these forms. When we see a man in his QcbIi and blood we sec his outward robes. Il' his nervous system were dolioately separated out from his body it would have the precise form of his body, lor the nerves fill not only each tissue of the body, but extend even to tho enamel of the teeth and the fibres of the hair. There is 110 part of the human frame that is not full of these invisable ramifications. Show us a man's nervous system, and filmy as it might bo in parts, his form would be perfectly retained, even to his eyes. Now this is one great step toward his spiritual body, and it still might have the precise form of the mau. believe it possible for this body to appear and, uuder certain states, to be seen. I do not often mentiou a waking vision I enjoyed more that twenty years ogo, but I will tell it to you. It happened five and twenty years ago: "Iliad retired at the usual hour, and as I blew out the caudle and got iuto bed, I looked upon our infant child, sleeping calmly 011 the other side of its mother, who also was sound asleep. As I lay broad awake thinking on many things, I became suddenly conscious of a strong light in the room, and thought I must have forgotten to blow out the candle. I looked at the stand, but the candle was out. Still the light increased, and I began to fear something was on fire in the room, and I looked over toward my wife's side to sec if it were so. There was no sign of fire, but, as I cast my cyo upward, and as it were to tho back of the bed, I saw a green hillside, on which two bright figures, a young man and a youug woman, their arms across each other's shoulders, were stauding and looking down with countenances full of love and grace, upon our sleeping infant. "A glorious brightness seemed to clothe them and to shino in upon the room. Thinking it possible that I was dreaming, and merely fancying myself

.In Krarthqnako Coming—A California Savant Predicts.1 a Heavy Sliaking-up of Things in September or October.

The San Francisco Chrontelf pub-ltc-hes the following prediction, rn-ide by a local philosopher, W. Frank Stewart: "During the pant eighteen months the earth and other planets completed the most remarkable conjunction which has ever occured and on the night of the 14th of last November we again witnessed the grand thirtyfour year star-swarm. Every inteli: gent person is aware that for a period of nearly two years our globe has been subjected to violent pertubation«. such as have uot before occured for many centuries.

These peculations have been generally over the surface of the planet. Storms, typhoons, volcanoes, earthquakes, intense cold and scorching winds have alternately spent their fury upon the denizens of every hemisphere. Uy circful observations, astronomers have found that in a period of about eleven years the sun turns toward us a remarkably spotted disc and it has also been observed that any sudden changes of light and shade upon the sun during this spotted period, instantly affect terrestrial magnets. It is well known that in the autumn of 1859 one of these sunspot perturbations was immediately followed by one of the most brilliant aurora borealis ever witnessed in the northern hemisphere and still more surprising the magnetic effect of the aurora was so great that messages wercfrccly sent over telegraphic lines without connection with the batteries, and by means of auroral current alone.

Many additional facts, showing the connection of celestial with terrcstial magnetism, might be given, but I have neither tho time nor room at present. Suffice it to say, that as the earth's magnetic forces are now and for many months have beeu greatly disturbed by cosmical influences and as we have recently made our annual transit through the nebulous belt and as the sun's surface is at this moment disfigured by an unusual number of spots, and as the moon on the 7th instant paSsed between us and the sun, thereby causing an additional magnetic disturbance upon the earth and as we on the Pacific Coast are now experiencing an unusually protracted dry season, the invariable precursor of temblors in this part of the world, for the foregoing and many other potent reasons, I predict a heavy earthquake to take place early next autumn, as soon as moist clouds float iuto the dry, vaporlcss atmosphere."

Neath of a Modern Samson. Capt. John W. liusscl died in Franklin county Kentucky, last week, aged 75 years. The Louisville Cour-irr-Jmtrmil says: "He was famous among wostern pioneers for his strength and intrepidity lie served in the war of 1

Thf.

SI 2, was a member of

the state senate and an intimate, personal and partisan friend of Henry Clay. He was for many years a Mississippi steamboat captain. The incidents of his force of will aud power of commaud would fill a volume. Ou one occnsion, in New Orleans, he had a personal rencontre with the pirate Lafitte, and, unarmed, whipped him, and ejected him from a ball-room.

On another, while landed at Natchez, a passenger of his boat was robbed by a gang which then infested the portion of the town bordering on the river, and known as 'Natchez under the hill.' Hy surrounding with his crew the house in which the robbers took refuge lie passed a cable around it, and under threat of pulling it, with the inmates into the river, he compelled restitution of the money, and made himself a terror to the thieves and gamblers who then infested the country towns. Of his great strength, persons who knew him only in his latter years, when enfeebled by age, would have had but little conception, though when in his prime it was known from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, that he had lifted a shaft weighing 1, ti!7 pounds, and that lie had carried entirely across the deck of the boat an anchor of 1,242 pounds weight."

radical papers find nothing sig

nificant in the results of the California elections. They arc like the drunken fellow who tumbled dowu stairs: "You jes' le'ine alone," said lie, "I want none 0 yer sloliberin' over tnc.

felt my pulse to see whether I had any fever. My pulse was calm as a cloek, I never was broader awake in my life, and said to mysoif, "Thauk Liod, what I havo been longing for years to enjoy has at length been granted me, a direct look into the spiritual world! I I was so moved by tho reflections excited by this experience, that I could not restrain myself from awaking my wife and telling her what happened. She instantly folded her child to her bosom, weeping and said: 'And is our darling then to bo so. soon taken from us?' I pacified her by telling her there was no evil omen in the vision I had seen that tho countenances of the heavenly visitants expressed only peace and joy, and that there was nothing to dread of harm to our child. And so I found it. I have longed much since to have any similar experience, but I never had it.

alius come down stairs that

way

CAiu.yr.K thinks that Amcrica is going to hell as fast as it can travel, "because of its corruptions." Carlylc is evidently very ignorant, of American political affairs, or lie would have known that, if this were possible, America would have gouc to hell long aco.

LIVERY.

LI VERY, SALE & FEED ST A RLE Xorth sUt Market Street, CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

Constantly on hand the best of

9iglr «r Doublr Trams, (toddle Ucftm.

Anew stock of

A I A E S A N

ALSO AS

O N I S

Running to all train*.

All orders left at luy Office promptly filled. .May 29.1SG9. J. ft. INSLK V.

PAINTING.

T. II. WIXTOX,

House, Sign, Ornamental Painter, ami Engraver.

MK.

WINTOXis ap»in able to attend to his profession. Painting in all its branches done with neatness and dispatch, on reasonable terms.

tln5Tav,iPS\—'

prepared to furnish

ood Outsfor duplay posters, store bills,

Jtc..

in rood style aud on reasonable terms. Shop on Green Street, Commercial ltow. 2d floor.

Feb .87.1*8 T. II. WINTON.

EVER\

B0U1 should go to Gregg's to see tho immense sUmjV of New Goods just received and daily arriving. Come everybody. may23 1S69 July 31 m!

GRAIN DRILLS.

Hoosier Drills!

Farmers now is tho lime to look after Drills for fall seeding.

Don't buy till you have called on

(MWt I BARTER

To see the great improvements

made 011 these Machines by the

Hoosier Drill Co.

These Drills will be found un

surpassed in all the following

points, to-wit:

FIRST—It will sow regularly in any and all kinds of grain, sowing equally well in wheat, oats or barley.

SECOND—When aet to sow any given quantity, it will sow that quantity, whether your grain be large or small, or your team walks fast or slow.

THIRD—It is so arranged that the driver can see the Drill feeding from all the openings when riding on the Drill as well as when walking. In no othor Drill can the driver see it feeding when riding on it.

FOURTH—It never chokes or clogs. It is a forced feed, distributing the grain surely and evenly, as well when the last grain is going out as when the hopper is full.

FIFTH—It measures the ground over which it passes. SIXTH—It sows grass seed broadcast, either before or behind the hoes, at the pleasure of the operator, and can bo changed from one to the other in an instant.

SEVENTH—By a very simple arrangement the operator can effect fifty-four changes of feed from the smallest to the largest quantity of any kind of grain or seod. There is no Drill made except the "HOOSIER" that has this advantage.

We are also agents for the vari

ous kinds ol' one-horse Drill, for

seeding in corn among others the

celebrated Ll'TZ PATENT which

gave such universal satisfaction heretofore.

Call and see them at

No. 7 Ar S COMMERCIAL ROW,

It A WFORDS VILLE, INDIANA.

CAMPBELL & HARTER.

WEEKLY REVIEW—CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 18C9.

IMPROVED

I PWTASCOPIC SPECTACLES,

THE BEST IN USE CM)MB1XIX»

advantage?, mechanical and

philosophical, to he found in no other? offered in the West. These celebrated .Spectacles now

HAIR RENEWER.

ALL'S

Vegetable Sicilian

O N E N S

Headstones, &c., &c.

ean say to tho citizens of .Montgomery and adjoining Counties that bein? so extensively engaged 111 the trade, and purchasing such Ian quantities of Marble, I get it at

Wrcaly Rcdiiccd Prices,

therefore it enables mo to sell you work at.much

Lower Prices than you can purchase the same quantity at any other shop in this ^?part of tho State.

I keep the very best quality of •,

American fc Italian Marble

(notwithstanding you have been told different by some of our competitors.)

ft DEFY Competition

on line qualities of Marble, and as regards style of work. I will not be excelled.

To satisfy yourselves call in at the shop .. located on

aRi:il.Y STREET,

Opposite the Elston Bank

Where you will find

some of the Finest Specimen of Marble, and work, ever exhibited in Crawfords ville. All work delivered, set up and warranted to give satisfact ion according to contract.

SSh Orders Solici/' and Promptly Attended to.-^t

IfV/f

.Vof

SPECTACLES. INDIANAPOLIS.

generally

u«ed and approved, are the most perfect assistance to defective vi ion now before the public. The Lenses are ground in accordance with the philosophy of nature. Their Ipcrfectly polished surfaces, purity and transparency of material, and exact spherical figure, admirably adapt them to tbsorgan of sight, rendering them perfectly natural to the eye.and producing a clear and distict image of the object as in the natural healthy sight, avoiding the glimmering, waverisn dizziness of the head, and other unpleasant sen1 nations often experienced in the use of ordinary glasses, and enabling tho wearer to prosecute I minute and critical eye-labor, either by day or candlelight, with ease,comfort,andsatisfactnon maySJ.IeG'Jtf CHEAP JOHN. Agent.

HairRenewer

lltu t'U i/r.ti- increases the popularity of t/i ratliable Hair Preparation, u-Itir.ii is due to merit alone. h'e van assure our old patrons that it in kept fully up to its It it/Ji !titilartf, and to those who hare irrer axed it we can conjirtenily sat/, that it is the only reliable and "perfected preparation to restore tilt .-1Y OU FADED II.4IH to its youthful color, making it so/t, lustrous, and silken the scalp. by its use, becomes white and clean it removes all eruptions and dandruff, and by its tonic properties prevents the hair from falling out, as it stimulates and nourishes the hair glands, lit/ its use the hair grows thicker and stronger. In baldness it, restores the capillary glands to their normal vigor, and will create a new growth except in extreme old age. It is the most economical IIAIR DKESSIING ever used, as it requires fewer applications, and give: the• hair that splendid glossy appearance so much admired by all. A. A. llayes, M.D.. State Assayer of Mass., says, "the constituents are pure and carefully selected for excellent quality, and I consider it the ItS:*T PltHl'AHATIOTV for •its intended purposes." tVepublish, a trealise on the hair, which we send free by mail upon application, which contains commendatory notices from clergymen, physicians, the press, and others. We have made the study of the hair and its diseases a specialty for years, and know that tve make the most effect ire preparation for the restoration and the preservation of the hair, extant, and so acknowledged, by the best

August 21. i?C9in3

Medi

cal iiiitl Atilliority.

Sit'tl htf nil Drufjijhts and Dialers in Malkine• I'l'irt' on*- SloUur IVr IS utile. R. P. HALL & CO., Proprietors.

LABORATORY, NASHUA. N. H.

Dec. 12, 1PG8. lv

MARBLE WORKS.

CREAT WESTERN

MARBLE WORKS!

Crawfordsville, Indiana.

qnilUabovo montioncd establishment..* are doI. in? an extensive and stieees.-fiil lui.sine.s* in manufacturing

iiugii-stss, i?i ntf.

#1.

Cloths, Hosiery, Flannels,

its

W/NKS,

he Undersold.

€. J. Brumlage.

1'. S.—I do an extensive business for small proffits. I have put up MORE and some of the LARGEST and FIXfeST jobs of work of any other establishment in this county, in the same length of time 1 travel through the country uoliciting orders, and can say to the public, 1 will sell you your work at the same price [that I will at the shop, and furthere more if there is any shop thatciin sell work from 15 to 90 per cent cheaper than I do WHY DON'T TOEY DOIT. I dbpt compeiition in prices, and'if I don't furnish snoh Marble as 1 agree to, yon need not receive the work.

June. 57.1867. C. I. BRUN'DAOE.

A A I N S

THE NEW YORK STORE,

INDIANAPOLIS.

Wc are now Jaily receiving our purchases of

PALL DRY OODS,

And have just opened

SPLENDID JBATiaA.IISrS

Prints, Bleeched Muslins, Flannels, and

Brown Muslins, Table Linens, Alpacas.

We invite a careful examination of our wliota stock. Our purchases being made previous to the late advance in prices.

Country Merchants Supplied on Liberal Terms.

PETTIS, DICKSON Sc CO.

JfEW YORK STORE,

DRY GOODS.

C. M. CRAWFORD,

"STONE FRONT"

Offers you extra inducements in all kinds of

DRY GOODS.

Call and examine liis stock and prices.

Main st., East of Court House

DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, &c.

W'asstttt. t:.

No. 3 COMMERCIAL BLOCK,

ORAWFOBDSYILLB, ZirSTXDI^ISr^..

Cassimeres, Gloves, White Goods.

lloo|» siiul ISalniorsil Skirt*.

Also, a well assorted stock of

I O E S I S

Al?o. a full lino of

Hoots, Slioes, Hats, Cups,

Nov. 9 1*07

SALOON.

SALOON

E A A N

FLORENCE RICHTER,

^^NNOUNCES to the citizen? _. of t'rnwford- I sville and' vicinity that he has opened :i Firal-Clnw Mnloou find KcataurniK, at

No. 2, Commercial Kow, Green St.,

Where he] will keep constantly on hand the purest brands of

ALKS, L/QHOIIS. AND

CYO AltS.

Sole Agent for brated bottled family use.

tlie eeleAle. for

Imported and native Wines for Medicinal Sacramental purposes.

THEBATIN« DEPART.llENT

unrivaled. All the luxuries and substantial* of the season served up at short notice.

Also, agent for the celebrated

Saddle Rock Oysters.

FREE

Everyday at 10 o'clock A.M.

nov21 'tiSyaugl

jy)UBLE SboTel Plow? for the miHionSj

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

If*.

WASSON &ELLMORE!

Eltmore.

O O S

Dress Goods, Notions, Shawls,

lass «& Queens ware

the lowest, market price.

WASSON Sc. KIjIjMOUK.

GROCERIES.

BECK & JOHNSON

PKALEIC3 IK

Groceries & Provisions

Corner of Green find Market Streets, v.

Craiviurdsvillc. Indiana.

T1I1C

new firm would respectfully inform tho fcitizens of Montgomery county that they havo .purchased tho Grocery establishment as the knownliynn it Son Grocery, whercwill be found a large assortment of

('••nsistinK of

Coffee, Tea, Sugar,

Fish, iflolasses, Spices,

Wooden Vfare, Crockery, Tobacco,

4V.,

A c.

We have retained the services of .Mr. Henry Sloan, the popular salesman, so well known to the public, and shall be pleased to receive calls from all the old friends of the former firm.

We shall pay the highest ^market price at ali times f..r

O E

O E I E S

At the lowest figures.

Dec'tflf«i-a

BUCK Jk JOHNSON.

REDUCTION OP GOODS.

GREAT REDUCTION!

THE PRICE

Ok-

_A.11 Kinds

-OK-

Dry Groocis

A I E S

A S

on nets

O S A N S

McCLURE, FRY & Co.'s

Jnuo 6, litSS.

COHBEBf BOOK 8TOBB.

TKEOLD

BOOK STORB

The fire or December 33 has caused 4

E O A

Of the old corner

BOOK STORE

To the South room,

Natioual.Block, Washington Street,

Where may be found a

FULL STOCK

Blank Books, including a choice lot or

Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books.

'ote,

Letter. Cap, Bill and Wrappini PA"J,1' "hito Enveloves. Slatoi,

Ink. Mucilage. JCrayon. Pencils, and all that i* nece*»ary to make a fuli stock of

STATIONERS' GOODS.

A full and nice lino of

Pocket Cutlery & Pocket Books.

Having lost our entire stock of Wall and Window

A E S

)ueJ i*ve

rec.e'v?d

since "an entire newlitoek in

that line, and ask your attention tho best, protticst andcheapest assortment ever offered iu this city.

A NICK ASSORTMENT

of t'urtains, (ioods and Fixtures.

PICTURE FIUMES& MOLDINUN

W had also talayina new stock of Frame*!ami Molding*, which,arc

CHEAPER THAN EVER

I'articuliar attention paid to Framing Picture?, and no extra chargcfor work. Cords and Taaflvl and Picture Nails.

TOYS NOTIONS by the Million.

Werccei'vo all tho leading

IHagaziiieNmid Newspaper*,'

Having over fifty different kinds, and any not 011 our list prompty supplied.

DAILY PAPERS,

'n'?. InJianapolisMOURNAI, and SKNT1NKI. undltho Lafayotto,10UUNA are roccivodfevery jnorninsr,|andfdelivered to'fiibscribers at pubInner*' rnto*.

Wo cannot begin to enumerate all that w« navotoselllbiitask you to hunt up the oldlestablishmont, and see what we| have. And wnile wo would thank tho publio for their former liberal patronago* we would ask a oontintianoo of the same, and shall try and doservojit by our uttention to tho wants of tho community, and selling at .such pricos a.s will suit all reasonable people.

L. A. FOOTE

feb. i, Ifiiit.

Co.

NEW GOODS.

SPKINU STOCKS ARRIVING

N E W O O O S

I I O N S

Arm inv at tho

Graham Establishment

Wanted in llxclmii^e for Goods,

LUMBER, SHINGLES, FEATHERS,

BUTTER, HORSES, OATTLE,

HOGS, SHEEP.

1,000,000 I'oimils'of Wool Wanted

In cxchanve for

GOODS OR CASH I

Unce stook of

Western Jeans, Cassinets,

*4$

Flannels, Yarns, Blankets,

Cassimers

TO EXCHANGE for GOODS

ill pny trie hiuheit prk'«3 fur Wool at the

Oralaain House.

Marsh 80. litW.