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The Knoxville JournaL
T. 0. BABXZ8, FablUhw.
rWOXVILLE, IOWA.
General News Summary.
WaihlDgtoa Mews.
Pfctittoan from the National Temperance
Bodetj and other temperance organizations
ana churches, representing over 300,000
petitronT8, were presented in the lower
house of Congre«« on the 17th, asking for
the early passant of the bill to provide for a political purposes, and says:
commlssion of inquiry concerning the alco
bollc liquor traffic which passed the Senat*
last session.
Lieut.-Com. Cashing died at Washington
on the 17th, In the insane asylum,of which he
had been an Inmate about two weeks.
A Wanhinjftoti telcifraia of the 18th /MJW
Atty.-CScn. Williams was beginning to rcceirc
returns regarding the troubles in Mississippi,
and ftfjuirn were report/*! to be in a deplorable
condition. It la said that 11 the city election
in Columbus on the 8th of December much
Intimidation was used and many assaults
wert made.
According to Washington dispatches of the
10th Irwin's testimony in regard to the dis
position of the $750,000 of Pacific Mall money
is to the effect that he spent It in Washington
to secure an additional sub«idy, but he re
fused to state to whom he had paid it. It
was declared that Irwin would be sent to jail
and kept there until lie would testify as to
who were the recipients of the money.
The Secretary of the Treasury
Bays
the esti­
mate of the Director of the Mint sh'ws a gain
in specie and bullion In the last two lineal
years of about $.'W,000,000, and the stock of
specie in the country is said to be al»out
$100,000,000. This, in connection with the
annual production of about (70,000,000 of
precious metals, affords eacouragement
that the stock of coin may, within
reasonable time and with favorable legisla
tion, be itccumula'ed to an extent sufllclent
to enable the resumption of 8|eeie payment
to be undertaken and maintained.
In his testimony before the Ways and
Means Committee, on the "1st, Kichard li.
Irwin stated that he "neither employed, nor
promised, nor agreed to pay, nor bad any un
derstanding with any person that lie should
pay money to any member or officer of this
Congress, or of the Forty-second Congress, or
any person subject to the Jurisdiction of this
House." Irwin refused to give the names of
the persons whom he did employ, and de
clined to state the largest sum paid to any
one person, but said lie had paid the whole
amount—-17/10,000—to other persons whom lie
employed.
8. Ji. At tell hat been confirmed bj the
Senate as Governor of Utah.
The Secretary of the Interior ha* received
from the Slate Department copies of official
letters announcing the acceptance by the
British Government of the Invitation of the
United States to participate in the Centen
nial. tM
A speciui to the London Morning Pint of
the 18th
says
that Bismarck, weary of Uie op­
position lie had encountered in the ilcichstag,
had tendered liN resignation
as
Chancellor ol
the Empire, which the Kmpcror refused to
receive. He afterward conferred with the
leaders of the Ultramontane party regarding
the future conduct of affairs in the Reichstag,
and an understanding wu* secured.
Late accounts of the famine in Asia Minor
•ay the prospect was appalling. Many were
dying and thousand* mora would die unless
help reached them.
Count von Arnlm baa been sentenced to
three month*1 imprisonment. A Merlin dis
patch of the 20th says loth the Government
and Count von Arnlm had appealed the cose
to a higher court.
It is reported that Bismarck has raeelved
from the police information df a fresh plot
against hi* life.
The London Morning Standard of the 21st
lias a dispatch from Spain r«jorUng the total
defeat and routing of the Republican Out).
Lope/. Doimuiquex, in Catalonia, by the Car
lists under Tristany, with heavy loss in killed
and wounded.
The iron works of the Groat Western Kail
way Company at Iinadlnr, England, wore
burned on the 10th. Four hundred persons
were thas thrown out of employment.
On the 17th the German brig Gustavo, from
New York, entered a harbor near San Sebas
tian. On Bearing shore she was Ilredupon
bv Carllht*, notwithstanding she hoisted the
German flag and put out hignals of distress.
The Carllsts •nbiequently plundered the
vessel.
During a furious itorinon the2lst lightning
struck a powder magazine in Scutari, Turkey.
A terrific explosion followed, overthrowing a
portion of the city walls, demolishing many
bouses and killing and wounding 'J00 persons.
The steamer Japan, of the Pacific Mall
Company's line, was burned 150 ifilles from
Hong Kong en the 17th. After two hours
spont In fruitless effort to get the fire uml
control, the steamer was abandoned, all hand*
being transferred to boats and rafts, all of
which with the exception of two boats nnd a
raft had reached the shore on the 90th. These
contained one cabin passenger, the surgeon,
and 400 Chinese.
In the Federal Council on the 'J'2d l'rince
Bismarck moved that an extradition treaty he
concluded with the United States, to replace
all similar treaties now existing.
The German men-of-war Albatross and Nan
tilus have been ordered to proceed te San
tander and demand satisfaction of the Car
lisle for their attack upou the brig Gustavo.
The East.
Philadelphia dispatch of the ttth
•ays a gentleman attending the spiritual
aeanceof Mr. Holmes and his wife, at which
the noted spirit Katie King wae wont to ap
pear, had traced the supposed Katie to a
boarding house, and, after long-continued
effort, persuaded her to confess the deception
ahe hud beeu practicing and to produce the
gauzy dresses she wore at the mani
festations. The production of a letter
with large qutiutitU'8 of JeVelry, etc.,
that had been presented to Katie at seances
Induced Robert Dale Owen and Dr. Childa,
two leading Spiritualists of that city, to pub
lah and repudiate the swindle.
The new mill dam recently constructed at
Haydensville, Ma^s., to take the place of the
reservoir which broke aad devastated that
valley last spring, gave way on the morning
of the ltflh, the nmliiug water sweeping
ever)thing before it It IB thought uo lives
Were lost
The Kev. W. R. Huntington, of Worcester,
Mass., his decliui the bishopric of fofl, to
which be waa loceutly elected.
a
£ui
The writ of hohta* carpus In the caae of Wm.
M. Tweed wow dismissed on the 2!id bv Judge
Barrett, and the prisoner wa* remanded to
ouatody. A writ of certiorari vu »Utoe»
quently panted toj Justice Lawrtsce.
West and South.
The Hon. John B. Hire, of Chicago, Mem
her of ijonxrewB from the First Illinois Dis
trict, died at Norfolk, Va., on the 17th, at the
residence of hla daughter, where he had been
visiting for hut health. lie waa bixty-flve
yearn of a«e,
The Mlftslaelppi Legislature met st Jackaon
on the 17th. In hla meBsa^E GOT. Amea
claims that the recent Vicksburj? troubles
were brought about by violent white roeu for
At this tno-
ment the Stute and county authorities are
successfully resisted, and the free action of
officials is impossible." He closes by request
ing the Legislature to take steps to arrest the
lm-urreetiori in Warren County and prevent
similar occurrences
A New Orleans dispatch of the iTth says
the Returning Board had decided apon re
turns from twenty-three parishes, besides the
First and Second Congressional Districts, and
would promulgate them. These give, in the
House: Radicals Conservatives 87.
The students of the #entral Boys' High
School in New Orleans appeared at
the Lower Girls' High School on
the 17th to compel the removal there
from of a number of colored pupils.
A committee of five entered the school and
stated the purpose of their visit, threatening
to use force if necessary. All the colored
girls present promptly and quietly left the
building, and the bojs returned to their own
school. It was believed the School Board
would establish an additional High School
for colored children, thus obviating further
trouble.
The Minnesota State Grange act at Man
katoon the 17th, about 400 members of the
Order being present. The address of Grand
Master l'arsons shows that 14^ Granges have
been organized in the State durliig the year,
making a total of over 50). The election of
filters for the ensuing year resulted in the
election of Seth Adams, of Wright County, for
Grand Master Ehenezer Ayers, Grand Lec
turer T. T. Paul, Smith, of St. Secretary
L. Hoyt,of St. Paul, Treasurer.
At Its recent session the Minnesota State
ftrwge resolved that the present State law
for the regulation of railroads Is expensive
and useless to the people and vexatious to the
roads, aad its repeal Is demanded and, iu
the name of '20,000 voters, the Grangers de
mand the passage of a law that shall guaran
tee cheap transportation for the productions
of the farm, especially wheat
The animal report of the Kansas State
Treasurer shows $ff»,000 In the Treasury and
no warrants outstanding. The permanent
school fund of the State Is over $1,000,000,
Some excitement has been caused in Mil
waukee by the reported discovery of gold
quartz iu the northern wilderness of the
State. Some specimens, It Is reported, had
yielded at the rate of $1,700 per ton.
At New Orleans, on the 18th, the boys of
the High School repeated their visit to the
Lower Girls'High School and forced the col
ored girls to leave. Their action produced
some excitement In the neighborhood of the
school.house, but no violence. The School
Board passed a resolution dismissing all the
public schools until after the holidays or un
til further notice.
A terrific boiler explosion U reported to
have occurred in the mill of J. B. Laird & Co.,
at Angclicu, Wis., on the 21st, killing six
men and wounding many others.
Forty nine Conservative members of the
Mississippi Legislature have issued an ad
dress protesting against the call of the Gov
ernor and Legislature for troops to be sent to
Warren County. They declare there had been
no violence there except what was occasioned
by a defense of the people of Vicksburg
against armed bodies of men, who were,
by the alleged connivance of the Govern
or, marching on that city for the pur
pose of bringing about a conflict of races.
The minority report of the legislative com
mittee on («v. Ames' message dunks the al
legations made in the message.
The Goteinor of Iowa has offered a reward
of $500 for the capture and conviction of each
of the ringleaders in the recent lynching at
l)es Moines of Howard, and |900 each for
the other parties concerned.
A New Orlcaus dispatch of the 22d says,
by action of the Returning Board in throw
ing out voles, the Conservative majority in
the House had been reduced to two, with
eleven parishes yet to canvasB, which had
elected eighteen Conservatives and ouc Repub
lican. The Committee of Seventy had Issued
an appeal calling the attention of
the people of the United States to al
leged additional wrongs and indigni
ties under which the race of free
people of that State were suffering.
They claim that the election had been fairly
carried by the Conservatives, and that the
Returning Board—four of the tlvo members
of which are Identified with and committed
to the Kellogg Government—would not fairly
promulgate the result, but had already
evinced a determination to defraud the peo
ple and defeat their will as expressed at the
i) CongreiiioaaL
IB on the 17th, IWRVfrer
passed—appropriating $8 i.OOO for the special dis
tribution of seed* to enable the Supreme Conn
of the District of Columbia to proceed with Its
jury business... The bill to provide for a belter
government of the District ol Columbia
was under consideration, and considera
ble dlscasHion ensued on HII amendment
offered Mr. Mortou that the proposed Hoard of
Commissioners (to consist ol thieu moinbeiM
should be electcd by the (jaalifled voter* of the
District instead of being ajipoluted by tlio Presi
dent, as
contemplated iu the bill Adjouriiud.
In the House, on the 17th, bills were
Introduced—to
establish the Judicial
trict
of Oklohama
ritory
makuie
esu
Adjourned
dis­
111 the
Indian Ter­
provision for
the
pay­
ment of the sinking fund The t.egislatlvu
Appropriation bill war lurtber eousiderud !u
CotnmUtttu ol the Whole, considerable dim usslos
belni bad on a proposition to increase the cler
ical lorce of the Bureau of Bdticatlou, which
inoposilion was rejected, ss was also a motion to
strike out the eutlre appropriation l'ur said bu-
In the Senate, on the 18th, no business
was
transacted, bat a motion was agroed to for a
recess
nntll oue o clock, ai\d to proceed tnsbody
to the house of Kepresentatlvt's at 1S:15 to tak«*
part
in
tb« cereinouy attendinc ths
at l^:K
joined iu the
reception
of
King KaUkantt. The H«uatorn wi-ro then pre­
sented
to the King In the Pretldeut's room,
and
ceremonies In the llouss
Adjourned to the tflst,
In the llouae, on the 18th, there was an
immense
crowd of spectators iu the galleries
were
and
corridors to witness the ceremonies on the oc
casion of the formal reception of King Kalnkaus.
aul Indies
admitteu to the
hall.
The King
was presented to the Speaker at l*:i by Heuator
Cstueron and ^peaKer lUslne responded
In a short wsicumiug address, to which
a replv of the King was read ..
were disposed of and tlM bill was re
ported to the Jfuuse aad poised, sn
uiiieii'im nt to abolish ths Capitol police
and pubstiiuts wutcbtneu Iw-log rij"cted. .Mr.
Kort, of lUinoia. announced the d» !»ih of hi« col
league, Mr itice. at Norfolk, Vs.. and a commit
tee of five was appointed to accompany the re
mains to Illinois .Adjoarii*:d to the81st.
In the Henate, on the 21st, numeronn
petitions were presented and referred, from
temperance organizations, ministers and others
In Pennsylvania and other States, asking Con
gre»p to prohibit the mar. a/act are and sale of all
alcoholic iiaaors in the Lf«trict of Columbia or
the Ternturiex A hill win reported from the
.Financ Committee to provide for the resump
tion of *p«?r.te payment. A bill was intro
duced and referred amending the act granting
j.en-dons to certain soldiers and sailors of the
war of lHl'i, and widows of deceased soldiers,
approved Keb. 14. lHU....The hill to provide a
bettor government for the District of Columbia
was further consider, d. and considerable dis
cussion ensued on the motion that the Board of
Commissioners be clected by the people, instead
ol being appointed by the President.... Ad
journed.
In the House, on the 21st, fleveral bills
were introduced, among which werer To protect
elections and prevent fraud ia Congressional
elections for the Improvement of the Mlsxissip
pi River between the mouths of the Missouri and
Ohio Hivers to divide Michigan into three jo
dicial districts for the improvement of the Sag
lni:w, I'ine and Hheboynan Kivers, Michigan to
restore the income tax A resolution was adopt
ed providing for a select committee to inn'iire
in'o the political affairs iu Aiaotuna, and as to
the line of the Federal so'idlers there, the Intimi
dation of voters, etc ..A motion to suspend
the rules and adopt a resolution declaring a ra:nst
the granting of subsidies in money, bonds. pub
IP- lands or by pledges oi public credit toaf-socla
tions. etc., engaged in private enterprises, was
rejected yea* M'J. uav* 75 not two-third*: voting
in the nftirnmtive A report was made from the
Wavs mid Means Cominictee that Kicliard O.
Irwin had refused to answer certain questions
put to him reacting the distribution by bini of
the irwujuo received from the Pacific Mail steam
ship Company to aid In the procuring
of additional subsidy Tor the China mail
service, and, the report of frwln's
examination having been read, an order was
adopted, without division, commanding the Ser
geant-ut-Arms to take Into custody Kichard B.
Trwlu, and bring him to the bar of the House to
Show canse why he nhotild not be punished for
contempt. ..A resolution was adopted 121 tolW
—for arecess from the ii'l to Jan. 5.... Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 22d, after some
debate on the District of Columbia bill, the bill
reported from the Finance Committee, provld
Inz for the resnmption of specie paymen's in
is .*,, was taken up and debated at considerable
length, and finally pas-cd by the following vote:
Yeas Allison, Anthouy, lioutwell, Carnenter,
Chandler. Clayton. Cra^ln, Kdinnnds, Kenton,
Kerry (Mich.). Vionagan, Krelinghuyten. Hamlin,
llarvev, Howe, lug'slls. I.ouan, M-irrill (Me
Morton, Onlesby, 1'alteraon, I'eaae, 1'iatt,
Jtainsey, Sanrent, rtchtirz. Scott. Sherman. Speu
cer, Washburn. West, WriLbt-:«. Nays- bokT,
Cooper, Davis, Dennis, (ioldthwaite. Hager. Ham
ilton (lex.), Johnson. Merrimon, Kansom,
Hpra^ue, bteveuson, Tli'irman. Tipton--14. Cam
eron. Morrill (Vt.)and 'Vindom al«o would have
voted tor the bill, aud were paired with Kelly,
McCreery and Norwood, who would have voted
against it....
Adjourned.
in the iioubc, on the 22d, resolutions
were adopted—calling for the reports of the sur
vey for the improvement of the Ifolston and Ten
nesHro Jllvers authorizing the Committee on
Wavs and Means to hold sessions In New York In
connection with the Pacific Mall Investigation
... .Tho Navy Appropriation bill (about $17.1*00,
OOo was debuted in Committee of the Whole, re
ported to the House and passed A bill was In
troduced and referred excluding Chinese immi
grants from the benefits of the .Naturalisation act
Adjourned.
Proclamation l»jr the President "Relat
ing to Affair* in MiHHittSfppi.
President Grant issued the following procla
mation ou the. 21st:
By Ih* Pn'tiUent of the Untied Ntatu of America
A Proclamation:
AVHKJIKAH. It, IH provided in the Constitution
of the United States that the United HtateB
sha!l protect every Hiate in the Union on appli
cation of the bcgiftlature, or Kxecutive when the
Legislature cannot be convened, against domes
tic violence aud
WIII.UEAS, It is provided by the laws of the
United States that in all c*-es of insur
rection or obstruction to the laws there
of It shall be lawful for the President
of the United States, on application of the Legis
lature of such Htate, or the Kxetutlve when the
Legislature cannot be convened, t. call forth the
Uillitiii of anv otlnn- Hlate or Mates or to employ
such part ot the land and naval force* as shall be
Judged necessary for suppressing such Insurrec
tion or of causing the lawa to be dnly executed
and
WIIKHEAS, The Legislature of the Htnte of Mis
sissippi, now in session, have represented to me
In concurrent resolution of that body thul sev
eral of the legally-elected officers of Warren
County, in said btate, are prevented from exe
cuting the dmie* of their respective offices by
foice and violence that the public buildings
aud records of said county have been taken poit
SCHSIOII of and are now held by law ICSH and un
authorized persons that many puaceahlu citizen*
of said county have been killed, and others been
compelled to abandon and remain sway from
their homes and lainiiies that illegal anil riot
ous Fui/ui s and Imprisonment have licen made
bv such lawless persons and, further, that a
larne number ol armed tneD from adjacent btatea
have invadud Mississippi to aid such lawloss per
sons, and are still ready to give them such aid
and
WUKRIAS, It is further represented, as afore
said, by sit Id Legislature, that the courts of said
County cannot be held, and thut the Governor of
said ntate has not HUlMcient force at his command
to execute the laws thereof in said county and
suppress said violence without causing aconllict
•t racer, and endangering life and property to an
ttlariniug extent and
Wni-.iiKAs. Huld Legislature, as aforesaid..have
made application to me for such part of the mili
tary force of the United stated as may be neces
sary and adequate to protect said State aud citi
gens thereof against the domestic violence here
inbulore. mentioned, aud to uuforce u due execu
tion of the laws aud
WIIKIIKAH. The laws of the United States re
?uire hut. w believer It way be necessary in the
iiilgment of the President to use the inllltflry
lorce for the purposes aforesaid, lie shall forth
with. by proclamation.command stich Insurgents
to disperse and retire peaccuhly to their abodes
within a limited time:
Now, the.reioru, 1, Ulysses S. Grant, President
of the I'nittd States, do hereby command such
disorderly uiul turoulent persona to disperse and
retire peaceably lo their respective abodes with
lu ttve days from the datB hereof, and that they
ndiaiu Irom forcible resistance to the laws, and
that thev submit themselves peaceably to the
lawful authorities of said couotv aud Htate.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United Mtates
to be aQixud.
.jjouetit the city of Washington this twenty-first
day of December, in the year of our Lord 1S74,
and of the independence of the United Htatea
the ninety-ninth. U. S, UtUKX.
Ilia New Flnanee Bill*
A Washington Associated Press tlis
putch gives tiit: following aa the lending
icaturea of the new Finuuce bill agreed
ujou by the henate Kepubllc&na in
CUUCUH on the ltith, and putted by the
Venule on the 22d:
Fir«t—9r*e banking to be open to atl indi
viduals aud associations without liiuliailou of
capital.
SfKH'il- •The retiring of an amount of greuu
backs ei|ltal toNipcr cent, of the amount of the
new National liana notes Issued until the green
back eiicttiution sball be reduced tot oo.UU ,U
after whkh no fuuLu i
redtn
m*m«
tiou of greenback* i»
to take pluce. It IH claimed that
by
this provis­
ion there w ill be neither i xpnnslon nor contrac
tion ol the currency, as about per cent, in now
reunited us
bauk
reserves.
7'A»r.—The withdiawal aud destruction of frac
tional i iirrcucy and the substitution of stiver coin,
the aritiiigemcnl to go Into effect us soon as prac
ticable under the uirection of the bectetary of
the Treasury, who is authorized to use any -ur
jilus money for supplyiug silver coin, aud, ii this
is not sufficient, to sell
The
requisite amount of
bonds ot the new series to obtain thetnuds lor
that purpose.
fourth -itemoving the coat for the eolnage of
gold at the sevural mint*.
Fifth Kosuinptton of specie payments to com
mence t»n me tirst day of January. 18.M.
I'be becrelary of the Treasury i« authorized to
use
itny
surplus specie
in
the I reaHiuy aud if
that I. not suttlrieut o -e 1 bonds in order to ob
tain gold lo puy treasury roles. Hut this last
provision does not, like the other*, go i nto inime
diasecDect. The Legal-Teudef act remains uu
disturbed.
—When a woman won't niarrf i&an
for liini-elfiilone, but wants hira to settle
ten or tiftueu thousand uollars ou her,
i
The heiiate bill tor the relief of certain smtlers
ou public lauds wiio suffered from grasshoppers
was passed The Legislative Appropriation bill
was further considered In Committee of the
Whole all the proposed amendment*
am
Acoonnt of the Katie King" Expos
ur« ia Philadelphia.
jfhat*' Katie King," a« presaged for
tfe last year at the Holmes' seatfees in
thin city, was a being of (leah and blood,
ban been ascertained beyond a doubt,
but who she was, how she waa secreted
in the houses, afterward introduced into
the cabinet, and so assisted as to leave
it without being detected, has as yet been
more or less a mystery. "Katie King,"
or, rather, the young woman who per
sonated her, is a widow with a child, and
a mother depending upon her for sup
port. Mr. and Mrs. Nelaon Holmes be
came acquainted with her at a boarding
houte, where they lived for some weeks
subsequent to their advent in Philadel
phia, About the time the Jiolmeses
took possession of No. 50 North Ninth
street Katie King" (for reasons herein
after to be stated we will not publish her
name) became unable to pay her board,
and was finally reduced to nuch an ex
tremity that she waa absolutely penni
le»H, and almost without clothing. Find
ing that thi« was the case, her host sold
what few effects she had left, and turned
the woman into the street. In this con
dition she was promised assistance by
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes provided she would
enact the part of a materialized spirit
in their cabinet seances. Although the
proposition waa revolting she waa forced
to accept it, or see her child and mother
sutler from hunger. The cabinet, which
had been placed in one corner of a
seoond-story front room, with one side
agaiiiBt a door which opened into a bed
chamber, was easily arranged so as to
admit oi ingress from the bedroom. The
boards were all fastened with screws,
and buttins were placed outside and in
aide about two feet from the floor. It
was an easy matter to take out one of
the boards and put in its place a dupli
cate so divided at the battins that the
point of juncture could not be seen.
The upper part of this board was firmly
secured, but the lower portion was loose
ly fastened with two screws, while the
other screw-heads were dummies."
VVhen it was thought a
strict examination
of the cabinet would be made the divided
board could be taken out and the origi
nal put back in its place. When the
Katie King seances first began the gentle
man who afterward became so promi
nently connected with them, Dr. Child,
of this city, was permitted to examine
every nook and corner of the house. As
he was for a time very skeptical on the
question of materialization, the investi
gations were very thoroughly conducted.
The visitors would then be congregated
in the front room with the cabinet, and
the door would be locked. Katie King"
would soon after enter the house from
the street, make her way to the bedroom,
assume her while dress, and with a small
screw-driver take off the lower portion of
the divided board. These preparations
could not be heard on account of the
singing and music-box noise, which was
continually kept up. To enter the cabi
net was then an easy task for Katie, and
with a stool she could reach the rather
high aperture. The disappearing and
reappearing part of the phenomenon was
accomplished by gradually lowering a
black cloth over herself, and at the same
time crouching back into the corner. The
semi darkness of the room, combined
with the complete blackness of the in
side of the cabinet, made this seeming
impossible feat very simple. The levita
tion manifestation, or the suspension of
her body in the air, was done by means
of the stool, covered with a black cloth.
As it was impossible to distinguish any
color but white within the cabinet, the
stool was, of course, invisible, and by
stepping upon it very deliberately and
gradually raising herself the young lady
was enabled to present the appearance
of being lil ted irom and suspended above
the floor. At the close of the Beance
there was always a delay of about
ten minutes between the time of the
last appearance of the alleged Hpirit
and the knocks, which signified
that no more were coming. During
this time Katio" would slip tnrough
the hole in the cabinet, screw on the
loosened board and make her escape.
Hud the cabinet been taken apart at such
a time the trick would have been dis
covered. it wa# taken to pieces after a
similar seance but by some means the
Holmeses suspected tnat this would be
done aud were prepared for it. A party
of ten gathered in the room on this oc
casion and Mrs. Holmes complained that
she was leeling so unwell that her nie
diumislic power waa very weak, conse
quently it would be necessary to hold a
dark seance first. This was consented
to the lights were extinguished, not
only in the room, but in the hall, and
the dark seance began. As the divided
board had been taken from the cabinet
it was impossible tor Katie to enter in
the usual manner aud she consequently
came in through the door. This she
could do under cover of the darkness,
and, as all hands were clasped, shesalely
crossed the room during the ringing of
bells and the twangiug of guitars and
other accompaniments of dark seances.
Once within the cabinet she had only to
arrange her while dress, put on a little
extra powder aud she was ready to be
gin. A lamp was then dimly lighted
and the usual manifestations were gone
through with. Had the seunce closed in
the ordinary manner Kalie would have
been found in the cabinet, but "John
King," through Mr. Holmes, stated that if
they would turn out the lights again for
a lew moments it might give him
strength lo do some extra materialuiug
The lights were accordingly extin
guished, thus euabling "Katie King" to
come out of the cabinet and leave the
room by the hall door. After "Katio"
itad made her escape John King" again
asked for light, aud for Bevcral moments
all waited paiiently for the maniiesia
tions pVomised. None came, however,
as Mr. King" explained that conditions
were not right, and so the light was
turned on and the seance closed.
The ten persons who had witnessed
the manifestations then took the cabinet
lo picccM, and, as the original board had
before been returned to its place, they of
course found uo trap nor trick of any
kind" lltid the investigators on thut
evening insisted otv"having but one dark
tcuuce they would never have signed the
certificate which was there drawn up,
for a the cabinet was on that evening
virtually without a trap, Katie King hav
ing entered it through the door, under
CtoVer of darkness, ahe could not have
made her escape except during the sec
ond darn seance, at the close of the even
ing's performance. This was almost the
only occasion on which a Holmes enter
tainment lnij.au uiui ended with a dark
aeance, ana the reason why this change
was made should at that time have been
more
closely
int«islH on li.iving the papers druwu ulwayw locked
,.H 'I'h,. I
.1,, i I ii
11 vu A imr.mriiitioii HIII lawyers, eooing tioves auapicion, W*e mediums tin ally consented
wdS^JSi -j£T
any business around that house. to have it remain open until the manifes-
W»m*
tat ion a first appeared. Under such cir
cumstances it became necesaaj-y to m.ke
it change in the manner of keeping
Katie'' out of sight. The bolster on
the bed was so arranged that Katie"
herself before the seance anda/ler it waa
concluded. The bedroom was many
times examined after the change, and the
bed was also inspected, but no one ever
thought of looking into the bolster to
find out what it was stuffed with. Katie
King, during last summer, when these
seances were being given at No. 50 North
Ninth street, boarded with Mrs. Holmes,
and was at first suspected by Dr. Child
but on several occasions he was request
ed by Mrs. Holmes to answer the violent
ringing of the door bell immediately fol
lowing the close of the seance. He al
ways found the suspected lady waiting
very impatiently to be let in, and slie
often complained that as she boarded
with Mrs. Holmes that lady had no right
te lock her out. The doctor's suspicions
were soon quieted by this ruse anu the
young lady was seldom afterward thought
of. During the heated term Mr. and Mrs.
Holmes left the city and traveled through
the West, where they were once exposed,
but as the account was nut clearly writ
ten the effect was not very damaging.
Upon the return of the mediums to Phil
adelphia in the fall Dr Child was sent
for by Mrs. Holmes and asked to aasist
them in finding a house. The
gladly complied with the request, as he
was anxious to have the cabinet placed
in a room where it could stand near solid
walls. He found one or two houses
where the front room would admit of
this arrangement, but Mrs. Holmes dis
covered some fault with them all and
finally decided upon the house at
North Tenth street. In the second-story
front room of this house the cabinet was
placed in such a position that it stood
about eighteen inches from a boarded-up
window. As already described in the
Pretm, this window was arranged in such
a way that with the sash taken out there
was room for a person to stand between
the boards on the inside and the shutters
on the outside. One of the boards was
apparently fastened by screws, but they
were only "dummies." In reality it
swung on pivots and was held in its place
by a stout button on the inside. A board
in the back of the cabinet was similarly
arranged. Before the seances began "Ka
tie King" took her position in the window
and fastened herself in. The space be
tween the cabinet and the wall was then
concealed by a door, which at first glance
appeared as part of the cabinet, a table
covered with musical instruments was
shoved up against it, and the guests, who
were always received in a down-stairs
room, were inviled to ascend. A dark
seance always opened the entertainment,
during which Katie would descend Irom
her perch and, making her way into the
cabinet, take a position in the
corner where
she could not be seen when the cabinet
door was opened. Mr. Holmes would
then enter the cabinet, and between the
two the usual manifestations were pro
duced. The numerous faces shown were
nothing but rubber masks, so made that
they could be blown up into different
sizes, and -it the same time produce dif
ferent appearances. Mr. Holmes could
conceal half a dozen such faces in his
inside pocket. At the Tenth street
house Mr. and Mrs. Holmes were sup
posed to live alone, having an old col
ored woman as an assistant. This
auntie" was quite dumb, and on sev
eral occasions forgot herself, and set the
table for three instead of two, as the
Holmeses usually partook of a light sup
per after the evening's performance. The
dark circles given at 825 North Tenth
street were often quite entertaining to
lovers of the mysterious and as they
performed almost all of the still-unex
plained tests given by the best mediums
it was less difficult for them to avert
suspicion than it would have been
had tliev confined themselves to
Katie King. Their mediumistic pow
ers are highly attested, and
those who are most familiar
with Spiritualism state that there iu no
deubt but that Mr. and Mrs. Holmes are
really excellent mediums, who have
been led by cupidity to mix a great deal
of trickery wiili their natural powers.
There waa published in the Loudon
'[liritwiliiit of Feb. 1, 1879, a record of a
sitting held with the Holmeses in Ijondon,
at which Mr. Luxmore, who reports the
seance, declares that the same "Katie
King" who materialized through Flor
ence Cook appeared through Air. and
Mrs. Holmes. Mr. Luxmore is a wealthy
gentleman,-living iu one of the fashion
able squares of lxmdon, antl it was at
his residence that many of the Florence
Cook seanccs were given. Some of the
best known Spiritualists seem to believe
from this that Mr. and Mrs. Holmes have
at
Homu
time presented the veritable
Katie King," and failing to reproduce
the manifestations were ied to employ it
confederate. How king the humbug
would have prospered if the Holmescd
and their misguided assistant had not
disagreed it is impossible to say
Katie's" conscience, however, began to
trouble her greatly when she learned
what an effect her performances had
created, and at last, feeling that she
could no longer practice the deception,
she left Mrs. llolmes to her own devices.
For several weeks no Katie appeared, as
the medium" found it a difficult task to
secure a young woman similar in feat
ures and form to the first confederate.
One young lady, whose appearance
pleased her, was asked to play the part
of Katie King but refused with horror.
She afterward related the circumstance
to a prominent Spiritualist, and the con*^
sequence has been a complete exposure
of the whole fraud.
Iiolli llobert Dale Owen and Dr. Child
feel deeply humiliated at having been
so deceived, and, more than that, lend
ing their influence to the suppoit of
what is now proved to be a trick, and are
doing all in their power to undo at least
part of the harm. The doctor has bought
from the publishers of his book on
John and Katie King" every vol
ume on hand, some $^00 worth, and
ha* ordered its publication to be
discontinued. Mr. Holmes, who has
been one of the chief actors in the cabi
lief seances, was at time the editor
of a ilaptist religious journal in Georgia,
From his doings here and information
w'hich has recently been recel.edcon
I eerning certain irregularities in London,
it is very evident that he has fallen from
?[race.
inquired into. It has been
stated that, lor a time, the door leading
from thw fruut room into the hall was
As this created much
nto »his business by poverty, is much to
be pitied, for she long felt the wicked
gness of deception on such a subject, and
is now sufiering all thepanga of remorse.
Even those whom bj her course she has
most deceived feel that the young w oman
is deserving of sympathy instead of con
detunation, and all steadfastly refuse to
divulge her name, giving a* a reason I
that the poor woman has already suffered
enough. The Holmes seances have not
yet closed, and the mediums still persist
in their assertion thai they will yet show
Katie ki&g' under the me*.
could creep into it, and in this she hid tify, there ia no reason why si,,.
it
conditions. If the spirit of tk!
"Katie oriK.
jvaue ivmg was really
through Florence Cook in tJ
Prof. Wallace and Dr. Crrv.t. 't
King
-nee Cook, In
and Dr. Crooks
appear again out even if
)n'
iIoT"uCfcnnot
the
should in time exhitrit
a
spirit it would not prove n,
Katie King" of last summer
was anything bnt flesh and blood T*:
evidence against them is so c«nv
1
that it cannot be disproved bv
testimony, which can only reiafe
past by analogy —PhitadMpki*
Utc. 10.
t!in
Heroism on the Ryfl
There is not a day passes without^
act of genuine heroism bein wrf,
by those engaged in running
the different railroads of the
Cou
doctor i equal number of men, engaged it,
business, more prudent, sober, thoieht
ful and vigilant in the performance of
their duties than locomotive-drivers tnd
train-conductors. It is a mistaken idea
that their familiarity with dantrw
renders them heedless of its
°n
Locomotive drivers and conductor11117
very often considered as men utterly
4rt
mindful of their own as well as ik(. i
Ua
of passengers, and from the critb-V'*
with which these people arc
one would judge that tliev are 7
class, a reckless set of dare-devils' rea/
to plunge into eternity, as indifierentb
they run into a depot. This ig
a
mistake—a misapprehension of ther^
character of the men allodefl to—h!
cause, as a class, it is hard to find
co»
sequences. Here is a case in point- At
•,he fall of a bridge on the NorthernOeiu
tral Railroad, near Cockeysville. jM,
week, there was a display of courage and
presence of mind in a moment of
great peril which evinced how consUat
is the vigilance of the locomotive engineer
At the scene referred to the engineer
Jack Purdy, discovered, when on the
bridge, that the structure was givinr
way. An ordinary man would have i^
stantly become panic-stricken, and prob
ably sprung from the locomotive to g»ve
his own life, leaving the engine to fall
back upon the passenger cars it
WM
drawing, to crush many people in the
water below. But Jack Purdy is no
ordinary man. He is eminently great in
his own business, and on this occasion
proved his capacity to comprehend and
conquer a great danger. Instantly he
understood the necessity of getting his
engine off the bridge belore it went down
and quick as thought be opened the
throttle-valve as wide as it could be
pulled, when the engine, like a goaded
steed, sprang forward, breaking from the
coupling by which the train was at
tached to it, the powerful machine being
thrown forward from the rail with a mo
mentum producing a shock nuflicient to
close the valve, and thus step the
locomotive, when it was out of
danger, as suddenly as it had been
started. But the moment of immi
nent peril was over. The brave engi
neer, firmly grasping his throttle-valve,
was found bleeding profusely from cut*
received by the crash, yet not seriously
wounded. He had saved the lives of
many people by this prompt act ol hero
ism and as he stood on his "foot-board"
his position was as noble as that ever oc
cupied by Farragut when lashed to the
top of a mast, Sheridan rolling back a
column of fire, or Sherman contending
with a storm of lead. We love to honor
brave men like Jack Purdy. Thejr are
on the rail every day and night, ridingin
the jaws of death, unmindful of them
selves so that thev insure the safety of
the lives intrusted to their care. We may
never see or speak to Jack Purdy, but
his act of bravery, in thus risking hi*
own life to rescue others from danger,
deserves this passing notice at our hands,
because we delight in doing honor to
brave men. There ought to be some pub
lic way of rewarding such men. The
people who can lavish thousands of
dollars on a prima donna for an evening'a
singing, or cast their gifts at the feet of
a great, actor, should ccrtainly be able to
do something fitly to reward valor like
that of John Purdy. 7"//w/W///wVf. P««.
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