Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — The Fox Sisters. [ARTICLE]

The Fox Sisters.

A reporter has seen and talked with Mrs. Marfiaret Fox-Kane, whose history is an eventful one. One of the Fox sisters, who developed the Rochester knocklngs thirty years ago and who afterward married Elisha Ken Kane, the Aretic explorer, now lives in retired Still pursuing her spiritism for her own and the benefit of her immediate friends. The reporter, who met her at a private house of a friends in Brooklyn, says she has a slight figure, dressed in black, good looking, withhandsome eyes and pretty hair. But her face has a tired look, and its expression 1? not a happy one. She drew her chair up beside ner guests, and instantly there were rape heard on the floor and under the chair on which she sat The several questions put as to the personality of spirits were replied to intelligently, and in a few moments she was the medium of a written communication from Charlotte Bronte. The reporter says Mrs. Fox-kane impressed him as a lonely, soul-sick woman, wishing with all her heart that she had never known the power which has not made her any the happier for its possession and which does not yield her any adequate return for all the sorrows she has borne in her strange life.

A family of young ladies who reside in this city so often entertain their company on the the front stoop that they have gained the title of step-sis-ters.