HOME, THE SPIRITU LIST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1342, 15 September 1886, Page 3

HOME, THE SPIRITU LIST.

Mr Home, the noted spiritualist, died recently in Paris, the obsequies being observed at the Russian church, he having cn the occasion of his first marriage with a sister of the Cou> Tea Gregory Kouchehff, forsaken Scotch Calvinism for Greek Orthodoxy. His second wife, also a Russian and a woman of high birih. attended the coffin to the grave. Mr borne claimed to have inherited his gift from his m* ther, which he affirmed showed itself when he was a child in a remarkable way in Sc tlaud, and displayed itself in a greeter degree after a viiion in which sbe saw him seated at a table wi'h an emperor and empress, grand duke and grand duchess, and two angels, whom she thought m< a have symbolised his future wives. Sne had, he also said, the gift of second eight, which he also inherited. When Mr Home was »t the zenith of his fame he was a favourite a! ihe Tuilieribs, and courted by the mos' brilliant society of erery capital in Europe. He had raised tables to c( i ing> without touching sent sofas darn ing around rooms, made hands which ware not apparently attached to bodies play pianos, and evoked visages of the dead in the palaces of Naples, Rome, and Florence, and then scared the Emperor and Empress of the French with his spirit manifestations at tt e Tuilerios. The Crown Priicj of Prussia ard General Moltke were present at some of he latter, but the shrewd old wsrrior was not sat sfied with all that took place when he was by, and said he ought to have more to go upon, when the Empress tried to perauide hi n into accepting Mr Home’s claims The Empress in3 : stcd on adopting the medium’s smter, and placed her in a convent school. Mr Home was ruined by his great English lawsuit.